Sound of Music on tv right now- Page 2

Posted: 12/31/07 at 11:43am

Blabber...?

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 12/31/07 at 11:44am

Mailbox format? Jane, I THINK you mean LETTER box format!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 12/31/07 at 11:44am

Mid-'70s, b12b.

[RetroBoy]

Posted: 12/31/07 at 12:11pm

The Sound of Music made it's TV debut in 1976.

[Jane2]

Posted: 12/31/07 at 12:13pm

"Mailbox format? Jane, I THINK you mean LETTER box format!"

LOL! Is that what I mean? I guess I do. Same thing, right?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 12/31/07 at 12:31pm

I prefer the rarely seen post office format.

[Jane2]

Posted: 12/31/07 at 12:34pm

HAHAHA, thanks!

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 12/31/07 at 12:35pm

I had The Sound of Music sent in an e-mail format once and I also had a Sound of Music LUNCH box.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 12/31/07 at 12:40pm

I'll never understand why people carry lunches in boxes and bags when they can just buy food at a restaurant.
Updated On: 12/31/07 at 12:40 PM

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/31/07 at 1:40pm

Oops! Yes, mid-'70s. Typo!

That "dark age" pre-VHS, as I mentioned.

It was quite an event when it aired for the first time.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 12/31/07 at 1:48pm

It was only pre-videotape for the poor people. The ones who work the fryolator at McDonalds.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 12/31/07 at 2:05pm

This musical always gave me the skeevies: singing Nazis, singing nuns and Christopher Plummer with a riding crop and a whistle.

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/31/07 at 3:13pm

Well, I bought the Sound of Music whenever it was first available on VHS in the '80s. I probably paid $30,000 for it, or something horrifying. GOD.

And I wasn't rich back then.

When I think of the $$$ I shelled out for stuff like that!

8-track tapes, cassette tapes, used vinyl...



And PJ, I must ask... "skeevies" or fantasies?

[Jane2]

Posted: 12/31/07 at 3:31pm

I wondered the same thing, Besty!

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 12/31/07 at 7:36pm

I'm not wondering about PalJoey, I'm sure of the answer!

The Sound of Music had its first television showing, on ABC, February 29th, 1976. It was sponsored exclusively by McDonald's, with limited commercials. The time slot was from 7pm to 10:36pm, and it was shown in its entirety. A Carl Reiner mini-Special ran immediately afterwards and the ratings were huge. So enormous, that NBC entered into a price-war with ABC, and won the exclusive rights to show the film, once a year, for the next 20 years, at $1.2 million a showing. Unfortunately, NBC edited the film by over 30 minutes, during each of their 20 showings. The film was eventually placed on the National Registry, and could no longer be edited. ABC won the re-bid, and can show the film twice a year. Once on ABC, and once on ABC-Family. They do not have to show it in widescreen, but they aren't allowed to edit the film, in any way.

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/31/07 at 9:02pm

JB2---Thanks for posting that! I remember what a big deal it was at the time. And the (highly unusual) lack of commercial interruption.