Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2024 07:24:05 +0000 From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: update, was: no, "MeTV", we do NOT want "Meet the Press". Bring back the Flintstones References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=fixed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Usenapp/0.92.2/l for MacOS Message-ID: Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2024 07:24:05 +0000 Lines: 91 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-WW8seOAPSVjcu3oiVOoU8Aotrx41dOf6uZ/WhbLgCjx0MwADMt0AbaUQsW/TMssFUZEPQsiGmy+uoP3!igxJsE4KR76TPav+fEm0a5pEH3QpKmFnvSKHMAVRsJjKCCI7jlrPfuE0zl4SK0OzzXV8whghz0bC X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 4498 X-Original-Lines: 88 On May 20, 2024 at 10:20:00 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" wrote: > shawn wrote: >> On Mon, 20 May 2024 20:19:36 -0700, BTR1701 wrote: >> >>> In article , >>> danny burstein wrote: >>> >>>> [update at end: Summary: The Flintstones are back] >>>> >>>> >[snip] >>>> >>>> >>Your MeTV station must be one of those that pre-empts certain >>>> >>programming for other stuff sometimes. >>>> >>>> >>They get into the weeds in all of this at >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeTV >>>> >>>> >fortunately, unlike our EVIL NBC BLUE NETWORK affiliate here which >>>> >only shows a half hour of World News Now, the MeTV carrier >>>> >broadcasts the full line without fail (modulo special stuff >>>> >like tornado warnings, etc.). >>>> >>>> >So this, starting next week, is brand new. >>>> >>>> >I'll be sending letters in the morning... >>>> >>>> >thaNKS again >>>> >>>> Well, I had Tweeted at them, and wrote a letter. >>>> >>>> Don't know if it was me (although I'll take credit!) >>>> but I just looked at next Sunday's - 26-May-2024, and >>>> it still has the interloper instead of Fred and Barney, >>>> >>>> HOWEVER... >>>> >>>> The schedule (on the xFinity page) for two weeks forward >>>> (Sunday, 02-June-2024) is back to three episodes of >>>> The Flintstones. >>>> >>>> *whew* >>>> >>>> Now if we could only get them to restore the proper >>>> intro/outro for season one, as opposed to using the >>>> clips from the later seasons. That's right, they're >>>> showing Bam Bam and Pebbles in Season One... >>>> >>>> (Getting them to restore the five minutes they've >>>> clipped to shovel in more commercials is, of course, >>>> a near hopeless cause. As is gettin them to air >>>> the episodes they've cancelled out 'cuz PC) >>> >>> I wish I could find the original sheet music for THE FLINTSTONES, >>> particularly the closing credit score. That's some good stuff. >> >> So none of these work? >> https://musescore.com/song/the_flintstones_theme-1579587 >> >> https://www.alfred.com/meet-the-flintstones-score/p/00-PR-0002333/ > > I found > > https://musicnotesbox.com/hoyt-curtin-meet-the-flintstones-75139/ > > but that's the (second) opening theme, for piano. > > I thought all the Hoyt Curtin compositions were collected on a Web site > but I'm not spotting it now. > > I've posted that video that the Hoyt Curtin superfan made toward the end > of Curtin's life. > > This has close to an hour's worth of cues from The Flintstones and > begins with "Rise and Shine", the original theme. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHlYYyM2Gjw > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0CkgCwjchs > > I still love the story that the Jonny Quest theme was written to get > back at his trombone-playing friends who told him his music was too > easy to play. Here's a classical pianist playing along to a Tom & Jerry cartoon where Tom is a classical pianist trying to get through a performance while Jerry sabotages him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=791Vlc5B4zw