Talk:The Big Picture (American TV series)

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After The Big Picture left ABC in 1959, it was repeated by local TV stations across the country, usually prior to sign-off on weekends (either on Saturdays or Sundays). One such station was WPIX, Channel 11 in New York City. I noticed reading Les Brown's book Encyclopedia of Television dealing with the decade-long WPIX license challenge (1969–1979) that, in one example of the news faking detailed in the book that formed the basis for this challenge by Forum Communications, Inc., "footage from old military training films" (or words to that effect as in Mr. Brown's tome) were seen on the screen with the words "Via Satellite" displayed. Would any New Yorker reading this entry and/or discussion page who was around during that period know whether or not such footage would have originated from The Big Picture and, therefore, would the show have played a part, however indirectly, in the station's very nearly losing its license, and the years of litigation that followed - not to mention channel 11's news division becoming the bad joke of the industry up until the late 1970s? –Wbwn 18:28, 26 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Episodes ?

How many episodes were there of this series ? - Thanks, --Mwknacker (talk) 15:01, 30 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]