By M&C Smallscreen Feb 20, 2008, 18:17 GMT
Matching cool retro television from the seventies and eighties with today's new delivery methods, NBCU is taking their treasure trove of juicy TV nuggets such as the "A-Team", "Miami Vice" and even "Night Gallery" and ramping up their online viewing menu offerings.
Don Johnson - Miami Vice Stars, Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas, Private Photo Shoot - Ft. Lauderdale, FL - Ft. Lauderdale, FL © Peter Langone / PR Photos
NBC Digital Entertainment and NBC Universal Cable Entertainment today announced plans for streaming vintage television content on their entertainment websites. Iconic American series like The Original “Battlestar Galatica,” “Miami Vice,” “Night Gallery,” “Kojak” and “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour” are among many that will be available online.
Full episode streaming of classic, fan-favorite series will be offered on NBC.com, SCIFI.com, ChillerTV.com and SleuthChannel.com beginning this month.
“NBC Universal has a tremendous library of quality content and we are very excited to re-introduce these classic shows to a new web audience,” said Vivi Zigler, Executive Vice President, NBC Digital Entertainment.
"These are the kinds of titles we get requests for all the time at the network, and now we're able to give our viewers a new way to watch their favorite classic shows and share them with their friends,” said Craig Engler, Senior Vice President, SCIFI.com.
“Fans of Chiller and Sleuth are going to have a great time re-discovering classics like ‘Night Gallery’ and ‘Kojak,’” said Dan Harrison, Senior Vice President, Emerging Networks, NBC Universal Cable. “These are timeless series that are going to find entirely new audiences on the web. This platform is another great extension of our new digital brands, Sleuth and Chiller, which extend from television into on-line and now on-demand video.”
A full list of streaming vintage series follows:
NBC.com
“A-Team”
“Emergency”
“Night Gallery”
“The Alfred Hitchcock Hour”
“Miami Vice”
“Battlestar Galactica” (1978)
“Buck Rogers”
SCIFI.com
“Tek War”
ChillerTV.com
“Swamp Thing”
“Tremors”
“Crow”
SleuthChannel.com
“Kojak”
“Simon & Simon”
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ThorwaldFeb 20th, 2008 - 19:59:07
Hitchcock hour! Yes!
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