Reruns don’t care about the time of year. It is true that popular Christmas specials are shown each Christmas but Christmas specials are also reshown as part of a continuing series. There were episodes of “What’s New, Scooby Doo?” which are constantly reshown as part of the series and are title “A Scooby Doo Christmas”, “A Scooby Doo Halloween” and “A Scooby Doo Valentine”.
“A Scooby Doo Valentine” is notable in that the bad guys were pretending to be Scooby and his friends. Scooby, Shaggy and Velma were chased by bad guys pretending to be them and also pretending to be Fred and Daphne. When they ran into the real Fred and Daphne, the real Fred asked them, “Have you seen the bad guys?” Shaggy replied, “Yes, we’ve seen the bad guys. We are the bad guys!”
A later series called “Be Cool, Scooby Doo” featured a Christmas special called “Scroogey Doo”. Velma was shown a false vision of her future by a pretend Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come. She saw elderly versions of her friends including Scooby who told Shaggy, “I’m five hundred and twenty-five in dog years.” This obviously meant that he was seventy-five in human years. She saw the false vision show her friends catching and unmasking a ghost who turned out to be Velma and exclaiming together, “Velma Dinkley!” The real Velma Dinkley cried out, “No! It’s not true!”
Rover, Rover, Rover, consider yourself lucky. The Wifetime, er I mean Lifetime channel, Hallmark Channel and others of the ilk are having their annual Christmas in July reruns………AGAIN!!!
I never was able to just sit and watch a show or movie when I was younger, so even now it’s difficult for me as I always seem to thing of something that I should do while watching ……….. every once in awhile I’ll see a scene that I never saw or remember seeing ……… :)
Yah. Television programs sometimes made up to 39 episodes a year and re-ran a few good episodes in the summer. Sometimes there were summer replacement programmes. The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour originally began as a summer replacement series for CBS in 1971 but had such high ratings that it was brought back in the fall with a permanent spot on the schedule; it lasted for three years, until Sonny and Cher’s separation in 1974 torpedoed the show.
For a few years in the 70s, Coke would run a series of ads that began, “We now interrupt this summer…” and “We now interrupt this winter….” Then they would show quick cut scenes of the opposite season’s activities (snow or water sports). Cute concept.
Calvinist1966 11 months ago
Reruns don’t care about the time of year. It is true that popular Christmas specials are shown each Christmas but Christmas specials are also reshown as part of a continuing series. There were episodes of “What’s New, Scooby Doo?” which are constantly reshown as part of the series and are title “A Scooby Doo Christmas”, “A Scooby Doo Halloween” and “A Scooby Doo Valentine”.
“A Scooby Doo Valentine” is notable in that the bad guys were pretending to be Scooby and his friends. Scooby, Shaggy and Velma were chased by bad guys pretending to be them and also pretending to be Fred and Daphne. When they ran into the real Fred and Daphne, the real Fred asked them, “Have you seen the bad guys?” Shaggy replied, “Yes, we’ve seen the bad guys. We are the bad guys!”
A later series called “Be Cool, Scooby Doo” featured a Christmas special called “Scroogey Doo”. Velma was shown a false vision of her future by a pretend Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come. She saw elderly versions of her friends including Scooby who told Shaggy, “I’m five hundred and twenty-five in dog years.” This obviously meant that he was seventy-five in human years. She saw the false vision show her friends catching and unmasking a ghost who turned out to be Velma and exclaiming together, “Velma Dinkley!” The real Velma Dinkley cried out, “No! It’s not true!”
markkahler52 11 months ago
I remember quite well, missing episodes during the regular season and having to wait for summer reruns! Ugh!!
Catfeet Premium Member 11 months ago
Same difference, really!
robertdkrebs Premium Member 11 months ago
Good boy Rover, you’re smaaart!
allangary 11 months ago
If I had watched only one episode of a TV show during the season, I would inevitably tune in to a repeat of that episode during the summer.
Daltongang Premium Member 11 months ago
Rover, Rover, Rover, consider yourself lucky. The Wifetime, er I mean Lifetime channel, Hallmark Channel and others of the ilk are having their annual Christmas in July reruns………AGAIN!!!
ladykat 11 months ago
Reruns…grrr.
g04922 11 months ago
LOL… Dogs are like toddler children, they take everything around them literally…
mymontana 11 months ago
Okay, Rover…you’ve got that right
WCraft Premium Member 11 months ago
Pop in a DVD or check the DVR…wait; it is the 1960s…
bwswolf 11 months ago
I never was able to just sit and watch a show or movie when I was younger, so even now it’s difficult for me as I always seem to thing of something that I should do while watching ……….. every once in awhile I’ll see a scene that I never saw or remember seeing ……… :)
Stephen Gilberg 11 months ago
Incidentally, I watched a winter-set movie last night. Glad I chose a hot day.
Teto85 Premium Member 11 months ago
Yah. Television programs sometimes made up to 39 episodes a year and re-ran a few good episodes in the summer. Sometimes there were summer replacement programmes. The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour originally began as a summer replacement series for CBS in 1971 but had such high ratings that it was brought back in the fall with a permanent spot on the schedule; it lasted for three years, until Sonny and Cher’s separation in 1974 torpedoed the show.
Ermine Notyours 11 months ago
For a few years in the 70s, Coke would run a series of ads that began, “We now interrupt this summer…” and “We now interrupt this winter….” Then they would show quick cut scenes of the opposite season’s activities (snow or water sports). Cute concept.