tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post2157583387445615372..comments2024-03-28T14:49:36.133-04:00Comments on John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Cult Movies and Classic TV: Cult-TV Flashback: The Sixth Sense (1972)John Kenneth Muirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15629979615332893780noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post-70608853673808778162017-03-04T03:49:32.471-05:002017-03-04T03:49:32.471-05:00The problems with The Sixth Sense in syndication w...The problems with The Sixth Sense in syndication were even worse than you described, John. Not only was Sixth Sense edited with a chainsaw and aired in wrecked fashion for its own syndication run with Serling's misleading Night Gallery-ish intros, but later on in the mid 1980's onward, those hacked-up Sixth Sense episodes were actually smashed together with actual cut-down episodes of Night Gallery and aired as Night Gallery, rendering BOTH shows completely insensible! So you'd tune into what purported to be an episode of Night Gallery, and after about 10 minutes it would cut away to some random scenes from a Sixth Sense episode, and back and forth between completely unrelated scenes from both shows until it jumped to an ending that might be from either show, or sometimes both. The first time I saw one of these, I was startled by Gary Collins suddenly popping up in the middle of Night Gallery with a completely different storyline, setting, and guest star. I recognized it as The Sixth Sense and thought an error had been made by the local station cueing up the wrong reel or something. Then he disappeared without warning and we were back to Night Gallery. Return from commercial, there's Collins again. You talk about weird! After a couple more viewings it was obvious what had happened. It was the most atrocious and insensible treatment of TWO good TV properties in the history of television! <br /><br />I think at least some of the full episodes of The Sixth Sense must actually exist because a few have turned up complete on Youtube. "Can a Dead Man Strike from Beyond the Grave?" is still there, and I've seen "With This Ring" and "The House that Cried Murder" there not too long back. So it ought to be possible for a DVD release to be compiled of at least a good portion if not all of the show. Sherinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post-79654069192341488832017-03-03T11:29:55.115-05:002017-03-03T11:29:55.115-05:00John, interesting review of The Sixth Sense. The N...John, interesting review of The Sixth Sense. The Night Gallery has been released on DVD. Hopefully, The Sixth Sense will be released uncut too. I have seen the butchered The Sixth Sense episodes as Night Gallery episodes for syndicate, too bad.<br /><br />SGBSGBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07137406272001346149noreply@blogger.com