Bradys, Half Off

June 22nd, 2007

Sony has launched the Minisode Network, a new service airing abridged versions of classic 70′s an 80′s TV shows.

Here is a selection of the programs, which have been given new titles that better reflect the scaled-back subject matter.

  • One’s Company
  • Green Yardage
  • Anecdotes of Life
  • The Odd Single
  • The Eight Hundred and Fifty Dollar Man
  • Fantasy Landing Strip
  • Narcissistic Joanie
  • Who’s the Middle-Manager?
  • Space: 1973
  • Married … And Childless
  • The Wonder Month
  • Littler House on the Prairie
  • Charlie’s Angel
  • Above-Average Strangers
  • Knight Ambler
  • Starsky

Update: It Came From the Comments!

  • The Mary Tyler Show (Lung the Younger )
  • The Moderately OK Hulk (Jay)
  • Star Stroll – The Immediate Family (Mike)
  • Murder, She Summarized (LAN3)
  • The Stainless Steel Girls (Karen)
  • Peak (braine)

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32 comments.

  1. CHIP
    Charles Inaction
    The Duke of Hazzard
    The Moderately OK Hulk
    My One Son

    Posted by Jay on June 22nd, 2007.

  2. Mission: Not Worth It
    Walton
    Rockford Memo

    Posted by Brett on June 22nd, 2007.

  3. Miami Parking Enforcement
    The “A” Duo
    Happy Hours
    The & Tennille Show
    General Clinic
    47 Minutes

    Posted by Mister Man on June 22nd, 2007.

  4. Knoll Street Blues
    Monty Pythons Flying Sideshow
    The Love Dingy
    Gilligan

    Posted by Lung the Younger on June 23rd, 2007.

  5. See Ya, Kotter
    The Stainless Steel Girls
    Mid-Afternoon Court
    The Bachelor: Mike Brady

    Posted by Karen on June 23rd, 2007.

  6. Star Stroll – The Immediate Family
    Quantam Hop
    Airchihuahua
    Pee Wee’s Sandbox
    Alien County
    Highway to Purgatory

    Posted by Mike on June 23rd, 2007.

  7. Peak

    Posted by braine on June 23rd, 2007.

  8. Freak and Geek
    The One Love of Dobie Gillis
    Singling
    A Golden Girl
    Battlestar Planetica

    Posted by Chuck on June 23rd, 2007.

  9. The Dick Dyke Show.
    That Half Girl!
    Simon.
    Hardcastle.
    The Street of San Francisco.
    Murder, She Summarized.
    Matlock: A Drama Set Entirely in the Courtroom
    Hogan, a Hero.

    Posted by LAN3 on June 23rd, 2007.

  10. Daisy Steele (or perhaps Bic Steele)
    Plano
    B*O*I*L
    Lucy? I Met Her at a Party Once
    Man

    Posted by Brendan on June 23rd, 2007.

  11. Bonus round:

    Theater

    Posted by Brendan on June 23rd, 2007.

  12. Starfence SG-0
    The Inner Limits
    Moderately Okay Piece of Work Theatre.

    Posted by Jun on June 24th, 2007.

  13. That 70BC’s Show
    Doc Hu (shortened, AND outsourced!)

    Posted by Jun on June 24th, 2007.

  14. O.K. Days
    The Love Dingy
    Quantum Step
    Smaller Wonder
    That’s Not That Incredible

    Posted by Anonymous on June 24th, 2007.

  15. Honky Days
    Ken Burns: The Civil War (length 3 minutes)
    Single Dare
    The 100 Club
    20 Minutes with Matt Pinfield
    Beavis
    10 Minutes
    24 [seconds]
    Andy Richter Controls His Office
    Monty Python’s Land-based Amusement Facility
    Silk Socks
    And the City
    They’re All Cylons!
    Meet Tim Russert
    The State of Disunion Address
    Reno 411!
    Saturday Night Pre-tape
    Jerry Springer Presents White Trash Fighting
    Jerry Seinfeld saying “Who are these people?”
    Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer, and Jennifer Aniston’s Rack

    Posted by Osama bin Christ on June 24th, 2007.

  16. Starsky

    Posted by Sue on June 24th, 2007.

  17. Friend
    Closet: MD
    Bone
    Think about Rescuing Me
    3
    Lost in the backyard

    Posted by New Blue Shoe on June 24th, 2007.

  18. Passing Fancy Island
    The Propane Company
    Minnow
    Bakersfield Squares
    Sonny and Charo
    Soul Scooter

    Posted by Rebecca on June 24th, 2007.

  19. Reduced Fat CHiPs
    Laverne or Shirley
    Eh Times
    The Brady
    Flat-chested Buddies
    My One Dad
    Half Alf
    Smaller Wonder
    Greatest Canadian Hero

    Posted by Carmen on June 24th, 2007.

  20. Family Bolo Ties
    The A Pair
    The Serfs of Hazzard
    Okay Times

    Posted by Robert on June 24th, 2007.

  21. Five is Enough
    Bronze Spoons
    Remington Tin
    Mindy
    Empty House
    Hill Street Blue
    Monday Night Foot
    That’s Quotidian!

    Posted by LOD on June 24th, 2007.

  22. Quincy, G.E.D.
    BJ and the Cub.
    The McNeil-Lehrer Laugh-In
    The X-File
    Haw

    Posted by LAN3 on June 24th, 2007.

  23. H. Pufnstuf
    Love Original 13 Colonies Style
    Joker’s Mildly Excitable
    The Price is Adequate

    Posted by Katie on June 25th, 2007.

  24. The Infatuation Skiff
    Donny or Marie
    ABC’s Narrow Region of Sport
    NBC Fortnightly News

    Posted by junior on June 25th, 2007.

  25. Barney (Miller)
    Ball 3
    Little Shed on the Prairie
    Mary Hartman
    Speed Walk Racer
    Gilligan’s Pier
    KRP in Cincinnati
    Johnny Socko
    Above-Average Man
    Even Dog
    Benny Hillock
    The Charlie Brown Christmas Standard
    Star Embargoes

    Posted by Anon on June 25th, 2007.

  26. Just Fat Albert (He Ate the Cosby Kids)

    Posted by Anonymous on June 25th, 2007.

  27. The B-Team
    Half-Full House
    Transformer
    The Most Ordinary American Hero
    Evening Court
    WKRP in Hyde Park
    The Infatuation Boat
    Headbanger’s Gathering

    Posted by nic on June 25th, 2007.

  28. The Afternoon Zone??

    Posted by Wickwire on June 25th, 2007.

  29. Get Average
    Gummi Bear
    Smurf
    Fraggle Pebble
    1 Jump Street
    The Brady Boy
    Charles Second-in-Command
    Temporarily Relieved by the Bell

    Posted by Jen on June 26th, 2007.

  30. PeeWee’s Closet
    Daydream Beach
    Recess with Ferris
    Mr. Jefferson
    Mama
    Muppet Minutes

    Posted by Les on June 27th, 2007.

  31. Peak!

    Posted by Fred Ut on June 28th, 2007.

  32. Ensign Parker’s Navy
    Car 54, We’ve Located You
    The Addams Couple
    Baywatch (sans slo-mo)
    The Two Faces of Patty Duke (just cut out the shots where the cousins are together)

    Posted by LAN3 on June 29th, 2007.