Rugratskid
2016-01-19T01:44:07Z
Fantastic list! I always had a feeling that Wikipedia was wrong, and that the 80s syndicated episodes I had were actually correct. I saw a CBS network copy of #21 ages ago, and it matches up perfectly to your list!

I also have 9 episodes on DVD from the 80s (aired on a FOX syndicate I think FOX-25), some 80s syndicated episodes in horrid quality/incomplete, nd a handful of episodes from Nickelodeon (which only have 1 musical segment, instead of 2). I ALSO have a lot of single segments, so any episodes marked as (components) means I have all the bits from that episode, but separated. So, I have:

#1 (2015 DVD)

#2 (FOX)

#3 (Nick; The Magic Mountain is cut, a segment I lack from my Alvin Show collection in any form)

#4 (2015 DVD)

#5 (Nick; The Little Dog is cut, which I only have in a shortened, sing-along form)

#6 (FOX)

#7 (Nick; The Pidgin English Hula is cut, a segment I lack from my Alvin Show collection in any form)

#8 (Nick; Stuck in Arabia is cut, a segment I lack from my Alvin Show collection in any form)

#9 (FOX)

#10 (2015 DVD)

#11 (Nick; Alvin for President is cut, but I have that segment; First Aid is missing around 20 - 30 seconds)

#12 (FOX)

#13 (FOX)

#14 (FOX)

#15 (FOX; SUPER BAD QUALITY, but I have all of it minus Clyde in better quality)

#17 (FOX)

#19 (FOX; REALLY BAD QUALITY; can't remember if this one is incomplete or not)

#20 (FOX)

#22 (components... sorta; The Band Played On is a shortened, sing-along version)

There's also some episodes I have in components, OTHER THAN CLYDE; those are..

#18

#19

#21 (Whistle While You Work is in black and white)

#23

I do have some other segments, but this is most of what I have. If allowed, I'll share what I have, as soon as I get a new computer. Hopefully, SOMEONE has some stuff I don't and perhaps, one day, either by Badgasarian or the fans, will have the entire series.











Mark The Shark
2016-01-21T01:10:42Z
Thanks for your info as well!

A few other footnotes to mention...

NBC aired reruns of The Alvin Show for several months in 1979. It was listed as Alvin And The Chipmunks (this was four years before a different series with that title was produced). What I recall is that it would start with an NBC "Saturday Morning Fever" bumper such as these:



Then right into the show opening, which was always clipped by a few seconds (I think in order to skip the full-screen "The Alvin Show" title card, since they were promoting this as "Alvin And The Chipmunks" -- however, the words "The Alvin Show" were still visible on one of the studio monitors). The "Saturday Morning Fever" bumper would end and then it would go right into "(th)is is The Alvin Show, The Alvin Show" -- there were bumpers going into and out of commercial breaks, which would be a still frame from one of the shows and an announcer's voice sped up Chipmunk-like saying "Alvin And The Chipmunks will begin after these messages," "Alvin And The Chipmunks will continue after these messages," "And now more fun and laughs with Alvin And The Chipmunks," etc. I don't recall seeing any of (what I listed as) the "cold openings" or "outros." And the closing credits were presented as freeze-frames, as if they were slides, probably to shorten the closing sequence. The final "Bagdasarian" logo at the end was the last freeze-frame, while the instrumental theme song was finishing up.

I wish I had a videotape of one of these showings, since that was really the first time I got to see the show. I had been a big Chipmunks fan from very, very early childhood (we had a lot of the records), and I have a vague recollection of the cartoons being shown on a local station (Channel 9) very early on Sunday mornings when I was less than three years old, but they were just filler cartoons (not in the format of "The Alvin Show").

When WGN ran the show again in 1983-84, it was again listed as "Alvin And The Chipmunks," but this time it was in the half-hour show format. WGN's showings edited out the "outros," and on some of the shows when the closing credits began, I'd hear a loud crashing sound, which I later learned (when WGBO-Channel 66 picked up the show) was the tail end of the "ready for closeup, dolly in" segment.

TBS ran the show on Sunday mornings in the late 1980s, from 16mm. The shows were mixed and matched. I remember one show starting with Clyde Crashcup as the first cartoon.

Just some TV viewing memories.
Rugratskid
2016-01-27T23:10:39Z
I sadly never got to see "The Alvin Show" on TV... by the time I was born, it was off TV altogether. I was introduced to the show through 2 sing-along videotapes released in the 90s and fell in love with them. Later, I saw quite a bit of the show on the internet and was a big fan of it. I've been collecting any bits of The Alvin Show I can find since 2011. Glad to find another fan of the original Chipmunks.
Rugratskid
2016-08-10T12:02:46Z
Found a black and white copy of show #3 on Dailymotion:

http://www.dailymotion.c...-show-november-1-1961_tv 

https://mega.nz/# !tYAiGD4D!KTDv6jTeonU_nYEeWmUOOLZL4qc-GMTh0_s1MGE6dFw
wiley207
2016-08-16T14:09:51Z
Pretty cool to see how "The Alvin Show" originally aired on prime-time TV back in 1961. As I believe I said, the show was produced in color but telecast in black-and-white, because CBS did not begin broadcasting in color until 1965.
Those Jell-O and Post commercials were cool, too!
rodineisilveira
2016-08-22T20:37:49Z
Mark Christiansen did a brilliant recreation of Alvin and David Seville on his blog.
Enjoy to see it, clicking on the following link http://markscartoonart.com 


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