Can't wait to check this show out, thanks RA.

This could probably never happen because of pesky distribution rights but would love to have a channel or streaming platform celebrate the month of October and Halloween with a toothsome marathon of nothing but every vampire movie ever made, shown chronologically, all the versions of Dracula from Nosferatu to Gary Oldman, The Vampire Hunters, The Lost Boys, both versions of Stephen King's Salem's Lot, Anne Rice's flick with the dreadful miscasting of Tom Cruise as Lestat, and on and on, although they'd better give the Twilight series a miss.

You're right. I always wanted to see Dark Shadows but Channel 7 refused to show it. As a result, it was never really on my radar. But I heard from some in the States that it was pretty good. By the time it did make it to air here, it had been on so long, the thread of the story was already lost.

I don't think WKBW ever showed Turn-On, either. That was the infamous show by the creator of Laugh-In that was cancelled 15 minutes into its debut episode, after many ABC affiliates refused to show it and some viewers flooded the switchboards of those who did with angry complaints. Talk about one and done. Or in this case, half of one!

mace wrote:

I think ABC threatened to pull their affilliation from WKBW if they didn't start to air Dark Shadows. The network was not pleased that for years ch 7 would substitute a late movie for their talk show competition to Johnny Carson. For some reason, ch 7 also never ran American Bandstand on Saturdays.

Hahaha, I remember that WKBW didn't run American Bandstand, and it really bugged me.  I would see promos for the show but it never was on channel 7. This was odd since WKBW radio was in it's prime as a top 40 station.  I had to watch CKCO's Canadian Bandstand instead which I think was on around the same time on the weekend.  Did you know the first host of Canadian Bandstand in 1958 was Wally Crouter?  Also CB was mixing in videos of songs (what was available) with the kids dancing in the early 70's.  A few CTV affiliates picked up CB which had a good run from 1958 to 1974, all produced at CKCO.  

 Didn't WGR bail early on the Monkees as well?  I seem to remember that the show was dropped on channel 2 weeks before the series ended.  Near the end the show had gone downhill and became sort of weird with little effort from the performers or producers.  Almost seemed as though they were bored doing the series and just wanted to fulfill their contract.  I remember that CTV completed the series but I am sure that WGR dropped it weeks earlier. 

WGR didn't carry the Tomorrow Show, at least not for its final few seasons, and didn't carry Late Night with David Letterman for the first few months.