three hour tour

[Dave Monroe]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Heikki
Raudaskoski<hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi> wrote:
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> As Gilligan's Island seems to be so dear to OBA, it's a shame that the
> series is only available with the North American DVD region code...
> And you can never see reruns of it in Finland. I've got a multi-region
> DVD player, but for some reason it won't show all US imports. So it
> would be a bit risky to order whole seasons of the show.

Not yet among these ...

http://www.cbs.com/classics/

... but do note ST, H5-0 ...

> (When I lived in the US, the two TV programs I tried to follow as
> faithfully as possible were a) the reruns of GI, and b) Mister
> Rogers' Neighborhood. Grand stuff, both of them. But I could watch
> these shows only sporadically, my daughter being so young and all...
> Too young for Mr Rogers too.)

I visited the Neighborhood of Make Believe daily whilst hospitalized
(and then I got to watch cable teevee all day as well ...).  Fred
Rogers was most certainly among the most decent human beings ever to
grace this planet, and, certainly, teevee ...