Ahead of the Season 5 Finale, MeTV Gives ‘Collector’s Call’ an Early Season 6 Renewal
With a few more episodes yet to go in the show’s current fifth season, MeTV has given an early renewal to its fan-favorite original series Collector’s Call for Season 6. Slated to begin airing in 2025, the sixth season of Collector’s Call will feature 26 episodes.
Collector’s Call follows host Lisa Whelchel (The Facts of Life) as she explores the rarely seen private collections of the nation’s biggest collectors of pop culture and nostalgia memorabilia.
She also enlists the help of professional appraisers and experts to value what the prized collectibles are worth. These experts then try to tempt the collectors with a trade, offering a coveted item that could be the perfect addition to their collections. The collectors then face an agonizing choice of whether or not to make the trade and part with a beloved item.
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Just some of the props and costumes in Wally Wingert’s collection, as featured in the Sept. 8 episode of Collector’s Call
The series is currently airing all-new Season 5 episodes on MeTV, Sundays at 6:30pm ET/PT.
The remaining September episodes feature more extraordinary collections from fascinating personalities, including a Pearl Jam aficionado and a LEGO Master.
Collector’s Call Season 5 Episodes Airing in September 2024 (All Times ET/PT):
Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024, at 6:30pm: “Meet Wally Wingert — Props/Costumes” (Los Angeles)
Voice actor and puppeteer Wally Wingert has a joyful obsession with 1960s-’80s pop culture — so much so that has turned his Los Angeles home into what he calls Wallywood: a virtual museum of treasures, including Jack Lord’s Hawaii Five-O ensemble (complete with height-enhancing boots), the actual passport of Ed McMahon (Wally’s predecessor as The Tonight Show announcer), the very first licensed Kermit puppet (from before he was even a frog) and the iconic stage costume of comedy legend Andy Kaufman.
Lisa has invited Collector’s Call favorite Rob Klein to put a value on Wally’s entire collection, some of which is pictured below, and then to try to tempt him into a trade — an offer that comes down to a very small piece of colored resin with a very big ’60s TV connection.
Take a sneak peek at Wally’s episode with this exclusive preview clip where he introduces and talks about the first commercially available puppets based on Jim Henson’s Kermit and Rowlf the Dog:
Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024, at 6:30pm: “Meet Shon Abrahamson — Pearl Jam” (Arlington, Washington)
If you like Pearl Jam memorabilia, you won’t find a ‘Better Man’ than Shon Abrahamson. Shon fell in love with the grunge band in the 90’s and has been collecting ever since, even building a museum-like structure on his property to store all his one-of-a-kind memorabilia.
On this Collector’s Call episode, he’ll show off his Eddie Vedder-autographed guitar (pictured below), as well as a surfboard signed by the whole band, proving there is almost nothing related to Pearl Jam that Shon does not have or will not do to acquire it.
Featured in the episode is Eric Magnusson, an expert on the northwest music scene who can more than keep up with Shon’s grunge band knowledge. He’ll appraise the collection and offer a trade that only the most passionate of Pearl Jam fans could ponder.
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Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024, at 6:30pm: “Meet Chris Lee — LEGO” (Seattle)
The name Christopher Lee has become synonymous with LEGO. As a collector, builder and LEGO Masters champion, he pretty much knows about, built or has collected it all.
He has invited Collector’s Call to his home to check out his phenomenal collection, which includes the iconic Galaxy Explorer, his beloved Airport Shuttle and his truly one-of-a-kind Prototype Factory Bricks.
Expert Aaron Fike, who owns a few LEGO stores himself, will be tasked with trying to appraise Christopher’s collection and then come up with a LEGO trade worthy enough to convince the collector to “LEGO” of one his favorite collectibles.
Remind Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024, at 6:30pm: “Meet Berry Bell — Jukeboxes” (Elgin, Illinois)
When Berry Bell started his career as a disc jockey, he never imagined his love of music would lead him to collect dozens of jukeboxes. Now, he owns 32 of the original, highest-quality machines ever made. He will show Lisa everything from a 1956 Wurlitzer 2000, considered the holy grail of jukeboxes, and the first 200-play jukebox ever made, to a vast number of 45 records dating back decades.
Lisa is joined by jukebox appraiser and auctioneer Mike Boerschinger, who will determine the value of the entire collection and then offer to exchange one of the biggest and most beautiful jukeboxes he owns for one of Berry’s most treasured music machines.
Remind Season 5 of Collector’s Call will then continue for two more weeks into October, concluding with a Halloween episode:
Collector’s Call Season 5 Finale — Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024, at 6:30pm: “Meet Rudy Munis — Masks” (Lowell, Indiana)
Rudy Munis’s fascination with Halloween masks began when he was just a kid. As he got older, his interest in the masks grew. Today, he is the proud curator of a one-of-a-kind collection of vintage Halloween masks.
Rudy will show Lisa a zombie doll mask, masks from the Halloween movies and a Frankenstein mask. He is joined by movie props and costumes expert Mark Short, who will shock Rudy with the estimated value of his entire collection. Mark will also offer to trade his master mold of one of the most infamous horror movie characters in exchange for Rudy’s master mold of a science fiction icon.
Collector’s Call Season 6 Will Begin Airing on MeTV in 2025.
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