Well, Dixon, the first & biggest surprise was that TVLand didn't even include
all 166 TAGS episodes in its online voting. All it included were the episodes
they had already scheduled to run for their 50 Days of Andy. So, for instance,
the all-time highest voted episode by fans for 50 years - "Three Wishes for
Opie" - wasn't even on their ballot. And did you catch what they ran on
Saturday afternoon? The absolute bottom-of-the-barrel color episodes, which no
living TAGS fan would even think of voting for.
Once I realized that TVLand had also added an additional 3-minute commercial
break, meaning that each half-hour episode contained only 15 minutes of
programming butchered by their egregious editing, I only popped in a few times
when I saw that a particularly favorite episode was coming on. I believe "Mr.
McBeeVee" was either their #3 or #4.
HistoryBuff
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Dixonhayes
Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:53:06 -0700
Anyone catch any of the TV Land Viewers' Choice marathon? They showed the Top
50 episodes as voted online by fans, and showed them in order of most votes.
#1 was a bit of a surprise for me: "Hot Rod Otis." Evidently a lot of Otis
fans out there. #2 was "The Pickle Story," which I honestly thought would get
#1.
Didn't catch #3 (had to run an errand), forgot #4, but #5 was "Barney's First
Car." Anyone else see any surprises along the way?
Dixon
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