HOLLYWOOD studio Warner Brothers said it plans to put thousands of episodes of old television classics online for free under a groundbreaking deal with America Online.

The two companies, part of the Time Warner group, said they would team up to launch a new broadband network in January called In2TV, allowing users to stream thousands of old episodes for free on AOL.com.

Billing the new service as the “world’s first internet-based TV archive,” they said In2TV would blaze a trail for TV over broadband, which is now available in more than half of all US households.

Along with Lynda Carter’s star-spangled corset-wearing “Wonder Woman” from the 1970s, other blasts from the past on In2TV will include “Falcon Crest”, “La Femme Nikita”, “Lois and Clark,” “Growing Pains” and John Travolta’s TV debut, “Welcome Back Kotter”.

In its first year the service will offer around 3,400 hours of programming from 4,800 episodes – or 300 episodes a month – taken from some 100 series of popular Warner Bros shows from the past, AOL spokeswoman Ruth Sarfaty AFP.

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Source: AustralianIT