This Saturday, Sunday and Monday (June 5-7, 2004), the TV Land cable channel is running a marathon of all 64 episodes of the Addams Family tv series (one of my all-time favorites). If you're going to be taping, I see by their posted schedule that it is not a straight run through the sequence (they are repeating favored episodes in prime time). Presuming they stick with it (and I haven't made any errors -- double-check my work), here's the skinny on taping the complete episodes in order...
Saturday - 6:00am (eastern time) to 5:00pm [11 hours]
..........Episodes 1 to 22
Late Saturday to Sunday - 1:00am to 5:00pm [16 hours]
..........Episodes 23 to 54
Late Sunday to Monday - 1:00am to 6:00am [5 hours]
..........Episodes 55 to 64
32 hours total -- four T-160 tapes would handle it. I'd rather not bother... you know they're going to be festooned with superimposed logos and scenes will be cut to fit in a 21st century quantity of commercials, but it's the Addams Family -- and there are no DVDs. I would much rather have DVDs, but there's still no sign of them... not even on any upcoming release schedules (and I've been watching for a few years). I mean, what's the deal? Considering all the crap tv series that they've been stamping out on shiny discs, where the hell is the Addams Family?!?
Posted by M.Ace at 03:05 PM, June 03, 2004.