The Addams Family on Nick At Night.
Sept 28, 2024 14:42:04 GMT
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Post by oxleymations on Sept 28, 2024 14:42:04 GMT
So I think I may have found something interesting, recently I bought some VHS tapes containing television recordings from the 90's and one of these tapes contains The Munsters vs. Addams Family marathon from 1996 where viewers could vote on which family they wanted to see and the winner would get a four hour marathon on election day.
I've tried looking for information about this online and have only come across a couple mentions of it from random forums and a single news article from the Baltimore sun newspaper from Halloween 1996.
From what I've found in my research, and from what I saw on the recording, each night of the marathon would have several episodes of The Munsters and The Addams Family back to back with each episode having either the same theme or a very similar theme(Herman gets amnesia in this episode/Gomez gets amnesia in this episode, etc.) and viewers would vote on which show they thought did it better.
Each commercial break would also have 'election coverage' featuring a news anchor named Doug Graves who would come in and give updates on the candidates and their rankings.
Also it was made quite clear that regardless of the winner of the 'election' The Addams Family would be going back over to TV-Land after all was said and done.
Also from my research it seems that The Munsters wound up winning the election.
I'm not sure how much of the whole marathon I've got but I have up to the final night of voting as there's an election update towards the end where Mr. Graves comes in and says that the voting has ended and tells the viewers to tune in on election Day to see the winner but unfortunately this tape doesn't include the winner's marathon.
The VCR I'm using doesn't have the greatest tracking so the vertical hold isn't great on the recording I made onto my computer but I can supply some screenshots as proof of my findings if need be, also I haven't gone through all the tapes yet so I'm not sure if I've got more of this marathon but I will update if I find any more.
I've tried looking for information about this online and have only come across a couple mentions of it from random forums and a single news article from the Baltimore sun newspaper from Halloween 1996.
From what I've found in my research, and from what I saw on the recording, each night of the marathon would have several episodes of The Munsters and The Addams Family back to back with each episode having either the same theme or a very similar theme(Herman gets amnesia in this episode/Gomez gets amnesia in this episode, etc.) and viewers would vote on which show they thought did it better.
Each commercial break would also have 'election coverage' featuring a news anchor named Doug Graves who would come in and give updates on the candidates and their rankings.
Also it was made quite clear that regardless of the winner of the 'election' The Addams Family would be going back over to TV-Land after all was said and done.
Also from my research it seems that The Munsters wound up winning the election.
I'm not sure how much of the whole marathon I've got but I have up to the final night of voting as there's an election update towards the end where Mr. Graves comes in and says that the voting has ended and tells the viewers to tune in on election Day to see the winner but unfortunately this tape doesn't include the winner's marathon.
The VCR I'm using doesn't have the greatest tracking so the vertical hold isn't great on the recording I made onto my computer but I can supply some screenshots as proof of my findings if need be, also I haven't gone through all the tapes yet so I'm not sure if I've got more of this marathon but I will update if I find any more.
