GCTV's "Television Classics With Jim Gallagher" Highlights Early Days Of Television

GCTV's "Television Classics With Jim Gallagher" Highlights Early Days Of Television

GRAFTON: Grafton Community Television continues to remember the early days of network television with its program "Television Classics With Jim Gallagher."

"Television Classics" is a series of half hour shows, produced by GCTV's Bob DeToma, featuring primarily black and white programs from the earliest days of commercial television in the late 1940's, 1950's and early 1960's. Gallagher introduces each program with detailed historical and sometimes whimsical information about who appeared in the program and when it ran on TV. The first episode of GCTV 's Television Classics was created in late August of 2013. Now in its fourth calendar year of production, at Episode 80 through 84, these "new" shows feature clips from the Green Hornet, Mr. Ed, McHale's Navy, Let's Make A Deal, Dennis The Menace and The Munsters.

Jim Gallagher first became involved with Grafton Community Television in September of 1980 and hosted the long running show "Grafton Update." In addition to his role on "Television Classics, Jim is a regular on GCTV 's "Ask The Geezers" show for the past six years.

"Television Classics With Jim Gallagher" airs on Friday evenings at 8:00 PM and on Sunday evenings at 8:00 PM on GCTV Charter Channel 191 / Verizon Channel 34. The program will also be available at the GCTV VOD link: http://graftontv.org/current/VoD.html .

Grafton Community Television provides programming on three distinct public access channels in the Town of Grafton over the Charter Communications and the Verizon cable systems. Schedules for Grafton Community Television Channels can be found at www.GraftonTV.org . Charter Channel 191/Verizon Channel 34 provides general interest programming, Charter Channel 192/Verizon Channel 33 broadcasts town government programming, and Charter Channel 194 /Verizon Channel 32 features school programming and high school sports events. The Grafton Community Television studios and offices are located at 296 Providence Road in South Grafton.