Sometime in the past year I stumbled upon a Yahoo group dedicated to the memories of growing up in Southern California anytime between 1950 and 1990. I'm a sucker for reading posts about Cal Worthington and his dog Spot or Homer and JR, the Millers Outpost cowboys, so I joined up.
There is not much traffic on the group. Every now and then someone will start a list of old supermarkets they remember and encourage people to add to it or someone might ask, "Do you guys remember Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour? I loved The Pig's Trough!" The vast majority of the messages are PARTICIPATION POLICIES which the group owner sends out daily reminding us not to advertise and that we must participate or we will be banned. He's quite the Moderator Nazi. Thankfully, my lack of participation has somehow eluded whatever Gestapo he employs.
Recently, a gentleman by the name of Benjamin Edge has posted what I consider to be the most unbelievable messages I have ever read on an internet group. I feel like it is my duty to share them with the world.
Here is the first one:
Hi,
When "The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour" originally aired on ABC (and with
a slight moniker change to "The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Show" starting
December 4, 1976), I think the segment breakdown was as follows:
Opening title (one per show, 50 sec)
Scooby-Doo intro (25 sec)
Scooby-Doo, segment 1 of 3 (7 min)
Dynomutt intro (25 sec)
Dynomutt, segment 1 of 2 (11 min)
Scooby-Doo, segment 2 of 3 (7 min)
Dynomutt, segment 2 of 2 (11 min)
Scooby-Doo, segment 3 of 3 (7 min)
Promo for next week's show (15 sec)
Closing title (one per show, 45 sec)
When it was retitled to "The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Show" beginning
December 4, 1976, the extra 30 min of the show were devoted to the
original 1969-71 CBS episodes of "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?".
Let me know whether or not the segment breakdown is correct (this one
could possibly be answered by Aaron Handy III).
Regards,
Ben Edge
Believe it or not, I think he tops himself with this one:
Hi,
When "The Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape/Mumbly Show" had aired on September 11 - November 27, 1976 ("Grape Ape" would leave the block after this date), this might have been the proper segment breakdown:
Main intro (one per show, 1 min)
"Tom & Jerry" segment intro (30 sec)
"Tom & Jerry" segment, 1/3 (7 min)
"Great Grape Ape" segment intro (30 sec)
"Great Grape Ape" segment, 1/2 (11 min)
"Mumbly" segment intro (30 sec)
"Mumbly" segment (7 min)
"Tom & Jerry" segment, 2/3 (7 min)
"Great Grape Ape" segment, 2/2 (11 min)
"Tom & Jerry" segment, 3/3 (7 min)
Promo for next week's show (15 sec)
Closing theme (one per show, 45 sec)
For the re-titled "T&J/Mumbly Show" (December 4, 1976 - September 3, 1977) study the same breakdown but leave out the Grape Ape references, cutting out about 30 min from the block (this was due to the fact that "The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour," the new block item for ABC in 1976-77, gained an extra 30 min by way of adding the 1969-71 CBS "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?" episodes to the block).
Regards,
Ben
Can someone help this poor guy? He obviously can't sleep at night until he gets confirmation that, yes, indeed--those are the correct segment breakdowns. I can't help him. I personally refuse to leave out the Grape Ape references when I study the breakdown. I can only hope that the great Aaron Handy the 3rd has bravely answered this call.
