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It boggles my mind that P & G did not bother to save their shows to save money reusing videotapes, but Colgate Palmolive saved all of their episodes of The Doctors as evidenced by the episodes now airing on Retro TV.  Someone at P&G was not thinking down the line.  

 

It also boggles my mind that the P & G shows are currently not being streamed on Hulu, Netflix, or Amazon Prime or being broadcast on a channel like MeTV, Antenna TV, or Retro TV.  There has to be a reason these programs are not available somewhere?!? 🤔

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An executive in December 1976, when Somerset was cancelled, would have had amazing psychic abilities to be able to predict that a low rated six year soap opera would have any worth beyond the tape upon which it was produced.

 

Can you imagine trying to tell a P&G ad exec 42 years ago to save videotape because one day everything is going to be digitally shared across a network of tubes and cables?  I would suggest that the same people who approved the story of an old woman dressing as a clown to scare her niece were understandably not great at predicting the future.

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