MeTV Celebrates New Year With Vintage Pilot Marathon

By Michael Malone
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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First episodes of 'The Brady Bunch' and 'Gilligan's Island' among the pilots to be shown

MeTV hosts pilot marathon called The First!
(Image credit: MeTV)

MeTV rings in the new year with The First!, a marathon of pilot episodes from shows that include M*A*S*H, The Honeymooners and The Brady Bunch. The event happens Sunday, January 1 at 12 p.m. ET.

The First! begins with the Honeymooners pilot, "TV or Not TV", at 12 p.m. ET. Pilots from The Andy Griffith Show ("The New Housekeeper"), Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. ("Gomer Overcomes the Obstacle Course"), My Three Sons ("Chip Off the Old Block"), The Dick Van Dyke Show ("The Sick Boy and the Sitter"), Leave it to Beaver ("Beaver Gets Spelled"), Gilligan’s Island ("Two on a Raft"), The Brady Bunch ("The Honeymoon"), Mama’s Family ("Vint and the Kids Move In") and M*A*S*H ("Pilot") follow.

Part of Weigel Broadcasting, vintage-TV network MeTV is available on broadcast TV across 98% of the nation. ■

Michael Malone
Michael Malone

Michael Malone, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.