On Jul 1, 7:36 am, Bob in Jersey <[email protected]> wrote: > Dave Sikula, to K.M. Richards: > > > > > > But CBN did run it as part of their late night B&W comedy block in the > > > early- to mid-80s, along with Burns & Allen, Jack Benny, You Bet Your > > > Life, Bachelor Father, and The Life of Riley. > > > CBN ran You Bet Your Life? Wasn't Groucho too racy for them? Or did > > they cut out the double entendres and make it a fifteen-minute show? > > Note: he said "late-night". As in, after the 11:00 "700 Club."
This is true. The late night block ran from midnight to 5:30am Eastern, and apparently at that hour CBN didn't figure the double entendres were a problem. I'm guessing it was a combination of the late hour, Groucho's iconic status, and the fact that his remarks were essentially harmless (after all, the original airings were in the 50s, so nothing really objectionable could have been in there). The 700 Club only ran twice a day back then, at 10:00am and 6:00pm Eastern. This was back in the day when the "CBN Satellite Network" existed primarily to distribute the program, which tended to run in the morning on the stations they bought time on. The rest of the programming day was old movies and game shows, to get a secondary audience via cable; they offered the channel free of charge provided the "Club" was not pre-empted in any way. (Although I know a couple of systems that cheated on that point.) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
