From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu

One or two I might have saved until the new season begins, but three...

XABF21 (Werking Mom) airing 3, on 7/28/19 at 8 pm, had a new dedication: one to
Russi Taylor, who had died just a few days before, and was one of the first major also-starring cast members to go. She was the voice of Martin, Sherri and
Terri, and Uter,
among others. Before the Gracie Films logo, a quick IN LOVING MEMORY OF/RUSSI TAYLOR ran, with a stock image of Martin above it. I wouldn't be entirely surprised if another ran at the season premiere, much as the case was for Phil Hartman. (The funny
thing is that the first airing had a dedication to Stan Lee, and the second had
none. So three network airings with three different versions.)


XABF22 (Krusty the Clown) airing 3, on 9/1/19 at 8 pm, also added a dedication,
this time for TV legend Valerie Harper. (IN LOVING MEMORY OF/VALERIE HARPER, with an image from one of her several guest spots. I'm not sure which, unfortunately; her first
appearance was in LABF02 and this might be it.) In this case, though recent dedications have shortened the credits by a second to make room, the credits already ended with a very short theme sting between the final gag and the Gracie logo, so this was
swapped into the same time, although the text of the credits was sped up.


And this is not a new dedication, but a reinstatement, somehow! Last night's third airing of YABF01 (Daddicus Finch), 9/8, retained the premiere's dedication to Ricky Jay, even though the second airing dropped it. I have to wonder if that has anything at
all to do with the delay of the Fox comedy lineup after the football game. Even
though everything was a repeat, it all ran 32 minutes late instead of simply preempting anything, at least here on the east coast. I can't imagine how the network would have
any cause to pull up the wrong version *because* of the delay, but I don't know
how these things work. Does anyone know what happened in the west, where there was no delay (or any east coast areas that perhaps didn't have a delay)?

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