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Television is built around Naked City (137 hour-long episodes), Alfred Hitchcock Presents (90), Lock Up (65), Mr. and Mrs. North (57), Man Against Crime (55), Dragnet (45), Decoy (39), Interpol Calling (39), the 1954 Sherlock Holmes series (32), Follow That Man (24), Ellery Queen (23), and smaller stacks of Gang Busters and The Lawless Years. Naked City is scheduled one episode per night so the 137-episode shelf is not exhausted in a few weeks.
Shotgun Slade is a western-detective series already assigned to Cactus and is not added to the Sleuth core. Character-based serials (The Shadow, The Spider, Green Hornet, Dick Tracy) follow the same internally controlled exhibition rule described above.
Component Units Hours
Hollywood musical feature films 130 173.6
Singing-cowboy / Western musical features 50 54.0
Animated musical shorts (song cartoons, Screen Songs, Color Classics, Betty Boop musicals, selected Warner song titles) 169 20.0
Live-action music shorts and revues 16 4.3
Television music-variety (The Old American Barn Dance, Colgate Comedy Hour music hours) 15 episodes 9.6
Working pool 380 261.5
Repeat-free cycle at eight hours per day: 33 days (4.7 weeks).
Better as a daily 2-hour Music Hall block: about 19 weeks before a title repeats.
What the library actually supports
The master list is 2,532 feature titles, almost all with a file on disk.
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What the numbers say
Era
1930s (1,130) and 1940s (773) are the spine. 1950s add 365; 1960s 157. Pre-1930 and post-1970 are seasoning, not the brand.
Look
B&W is the house look (about 2,177 titles). Color is a specialty night, not the default.
Length
Typical picture is a 70–75 minute programmer — built for two-hour blocks with wraparounds.
Rights working mix
About 2,100 coded Public Domain / PD-verified / commonly treated PD. About 280 coded Copyrighted / In Copyright. A small Check Needed stack (foreign 1934–35 Chinese/Soviet/UK, a few mid-Monogram and PRC titles) stays off-air until CCE/URAA is cleared.
Component Units Hours
Comedy feature films 353 444.3
Sitcom and comedy-variety episodes (14 series) 382 166.4
Working pool 610.7
Repeat-free cycle at eight hours per day: 76 days (10.9 weeks).
Features include straight comedy, comedy-drama, romantic comedy, musical comedy, East Side Kids pictures, and family/Shirley Temple titles. Comedy-mystery features (approximately 49) overlap thematically with Sleuth and are rotated so the two services do not play the same title in the same week.
Television is substantially larger than the three-series set used in an earlier summary. The library holds Mister Ed (76), My Little Margie (74), Life of Riley (56), The Honeymooners (40), I Married Joan (24), Petticoat Junction (21), The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (18), Life With Elizabeth (13), The Colgate Comedy Hour (10 hour-long variety episodes), and smaller stacks of Jack Benny, Gildersleeve, Fibber McGee and Molly, and Ozzie and Harriet. None of these holdings is represented as a complete network run. The Amos ’n’ Andy Show (27 episodes) is in the library and is held out of the core schedule pending a separate programming decision.
Television on this service is incomplete series as held in the library, not full network runs. The largest stacks are Shotgun Slade (81 half-hours), 26 Men (67), Judge Roy Bean (45), The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (36), and Law of the Plainsman (30). Hour-long episodes are limited: Bonanza (24) and The Monroes (10). Those 34 hours are scheduled as premium placements, not as a five-night strip, and are not represented as complete series.
Chapter serials (including The Miracle Rider, Flaming Frontiers, Overland Mail, Riders of Death Valley, and related titles) are scheduled one chapter per day. At that rate the serial shelf lasts approximately 11 months before a chapter repeats. Certain serials involving live characters (Lone Ranger, Zorro, Red Ryder) are reserved for internally controlled exhibition unless separately licensed.
Popeye runtimes in an earlier workbook extract were incorrectly listed at 75 minutes; actual theatrical length is six to eight minutes (with a small number of two-reel specials). Our Gang shorts run approximately 11–20 minutes and account for the largest share of minutes on this channel. There are no comedy cliffhanger serials in the library; “comedy serials” in earlier descriptions referred to Our Gang short subjects.
Superman shorts and selected Warner cartoons are scheduled for owned-library play. Character rights are not assumed to travel with the print. East Side Kids features (~21 titles) may appear as an occasional Saturday live-action hour and are not mixed into cartoon reels.
Swashbucklers and non-western adventure 119 155.0
War films 50 71.3
Sci-fi B-movies 151 189.2
Thrillers, espionage, and action 140 173.3
Feature working pool 460 588.8
Repeat-free cycle at eight hours per day: 74 days (10.5 weeks).
What You’ll Find:
• Swashbucklers — Errol Flynn-style sword fights, pirate adventures, and romantic heroism
• War Films — Gripping tales of courage, sacrifice, and battlefield drama
• Sci-Fi B-Movies — Retro rockets, alien invasions, mad scientists, and atomic-age wonders
• Thrillers & Action — Chases, mysteries, espionage, and edge-of-your-seat suspense
From desert oases and jungle expeditions to outer space and wartime trenches, every film in the Vault delivers maximum adventure with timeless charm. Expect daring stunts, unforgettable villains, heroic triumphs, and that classic Hollywood polish — all without modern CGI.
Perfect for fans of old-school action who love to cheer for the good guys, feel the rush of adventure, and escape into stories built on pure cinematic energy.
Component Units Hours
Feature films 232 288.3
Television (sci-fi and vintage-horror anthologies and series) 354 episodes 188.7
Sci-fi / horror-fantasy serial chapters (17 serials) 215 61.9
Working pool 538.9
Repeat-free cycle at eight hours per day: 67 days (9.6 weeks).
Features split into straight science fiction (94 titles), sci-fi horror and creature pictures (51), and vintage gothic/horror (77). Television pillars are Tales of Tomorrow (86), Thriller (78 hour-long episodes), One Step Beyond (64), Lights Out (34), Out of the Unknown (30), The Invisible Man (27), Captain Z-Ro (20), The Veil (11), and Inner Sanctum (4). Alfred Hitchcock Presents is assigned to Sleuth, not to this service.
Serials include the Flash Gordon cycle, Buck Rogers, The Phantom Creeps, The Phantom Empire, Undersea Kingdom, and related titles, scheduled one chapter per day. Several of these properties involve characters that remain under trademark; they are planned for internally controlled exhibition unless separately licensed. Mid-1960s and later horror/sci-fi titles in the feature stack are treated as in-house play pending a title-by-title renewal check before any outside license.
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