{"id":1059,"date":"2017-02-15T08:42:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T08:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/cher-tv-shows\/"},"modified":"2023-02-20T08:18:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T15:18:25","slug":"cher-tv-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/2017\/02\/cher-tv-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Cher TV Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Marilyn-billy\"<\/a>We went away for Martin Luther King Day weekend and much drama ensued. First, we braved a Midwestern ice storm. Then, while we were gone, our landlord accidentally set off our house alarm and the police showed up. We came back Monday exhausted, (after a Chief\u2019s playoffs defeat), to find one of my favorite Sonny & Cher show episodes airing, the one with Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. which I love because they sing one of my childhood jams, "You Don't Have to Be a Star," and it\u2019s one of the few episodes I remember seeing when it originally aired. It also has an amazingly \"Rhett-scarlett\"<\/a>progressive satire of Gone with the Wind <\/em>where McCoo and Davis Jr. play Rhett and Scarlett. <\/p>\n

But it wasn\u2019t taping!! Oh, the horror. I have actually had obsessed fan dreams about this exact thing: I find Sonny & Cher shows in the TV Guide but I can\u2019t tape them, or  I find rare record albums in store bins but I can\u2019t get them to the checkout counter. What would Freud say? I don\u2019t have a clue but I was definitely experiencing missing a Cher show anxiety.<\/em> Then I realized GetTV was not categorizing each Cher series correctly and that\u2019s why the McCoo\/Davis Jr. show wasn\u2019t taping. Lucky for me and my obsession, GetTV has been airing reruns of the reruns and I caught the show a few weeks later.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019ve become a bit ambivalent about GetTV recently. First there have been the aforementioned DVR issues. There are three separate shows to track, understandably unavoidable, but when I set up a Comedy Hour series recording, DISH can\u2019t recognize all the future airings of Comedy Hours. And furthermore, and this is a persnickety, obsessed, scholarly issue, GetTV mis-titles some Comedy Hours as the later day S&C Shows and vice versa. Criminy!<\/p>\n

And then there are times of plenty and times of scarcity, like mid-January when GetTV aired as many as three new shows a Monday night. Then a month later you get no new shows and lots of reruns of reruns. They are keeping us on our toes, DVR-wise.<\/p>\n

In any case, there have been way too many shows in the new year for me to even research online. So that whole idea of keeping up in the blog isn\u2019t going to work, even with sketches of recaps. But I do want to address these shows in a blow-by-blow way and have decided that when GetTV has finished it\u2019s run of them, I\u2019ll start from the beginning and do recaps of every skit, song (with links if possible), and information on which channel aired what skits. And I'll include some scholarship that proceeds with the evolution of the show.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, to tide you over, here are a slew of show promos:<\/p>\n