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Subject: Re: update, was: no, "MeTV", we do NOT want "Meet the Press". Bring back the Flintstones
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On May 20, 2024 at 10:20:00 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com>
wrote:

> shawn  <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 20 May 2024 20:19:36 -0700, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> In article <v2gue7$46s$1@reader1.panix.com>,
>>>  danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> 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