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Post by reggie on Jun 20, 2014 18:32:34 GMT -5
Phantom Planet.
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Post by Mike Flugennock on Jun 20, 2014 23:37:30 GMT -5
Gorgo -- I used to look forward to this airing on Channel 9 in New York -- it used to be on the Four O'Clock movie. Anyone here old enough to remember when TV was virtually the only way to watch movies, and you would scour the TV Guide to see when the movies you loved were going to air? Sounds like we grew up in the same neck of the woods. I have many fond memories of CBS's Late Show and Late Late Show; WOR's Million Dollar Movie, Movie Nine, Big Preview, and Fright Night; ABC's 4:30 Movie; and WPIX's Science Fiction Film Festival, Chiller Theater, Channel 11 Film Festival, and Abbott and Costello movie every Sunday morning at 10:00 AM. But that's a whole 'nother thread we're getting into, ain't it? Way early in this thread, I mentioned how many movies which appeared on MST3K I first saw -- and loved -- on Washington DC's local Saturday late-late "Creature Feature" as a teenager in the '70s. Like many cities back then, DC local TV had a "late late show" on pretty much every channel, as well as a local "horror host" on Saturday nights. Thanks to Count Gore DeVol's "Creature Feature" on Channel 20, I became intimately familiar with the work of Corman, Gordon, Lippert, Ed Wood, Toho Studios and others. At 1am, after "Creature Feature", they'd follow it up with an old Sherlock Holmes flick, from the Universal Studios series of the '30s and '40s, with Basil Rathbone as Holmes. Channel 20 also had a "Chiller Theatre" on Saturday afternoons -- also hosted by Count Gore -- as well as a "Tarzan Theatre" on Sunday mornings, where I got to see four different series of Tarzan movies: the classic '30s and '40s series starring Buster Crabbe and Johnny Weissmuller, an obscure series from the early '30s which was cut together from serial chapters, a "reboot" from the mid/late '50s starring none other than Gordon "Bart Fargo" Scott as Tarzan, and episodes from the early/mid '60s Tarzan TV series. Channel 5 also had a late-late double feature -- usually dark melodramas or detective movies from the '30s, '40s or early '50s -- and in the late '70s or early '80s, Channel 5 was the first channel in DC to extend their Friday and Saturday night late-late movie shows to all-nighters. For a hardcore night owl like me, that was a pretty big deal.
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Post by Who Let Servo Drive on Jun 23, 2014 11:48:29 GMT -5
Tarzan theater! Now that's something we never had in the NY area in the 60s-70s! We did have certain traditions though, like Godzilla and King Kong Movies on Thanksgiving. Plus you could usually find a Bowery Boys movie or Abbott and Costello on Saturday morning.
I can only imagine what kids would make of Bowery Boys movies these days. It was sort of dated when I was watching it, in the late 60s to mid 70s, but it would seem like fossil movies today I guess.
I was just thinking a few days ago about watching Happy Days when I was a tween and teen, in the 70s. It was set 20 years before the time it was airing. That would be like watching a show about the 90s today! How weird is that -- the 90s seeming to kids today like the 50s were to us? This "getting old" business is most strange....
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Post by carolina on Jul 1, 2014 13:21:05 GMT -5
I am not ashamed to admit that I love I Accuse My Parents
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Post by TheNewMads on Jul 2, 2014 7:45:17 GMT -5
I actually had a little version of "Are you happy in your work" for voice and solo guitar I used to do. I am a Mary Beth Hughes fanboy.
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Post by TheNewMads on Jul 2, 2014 7:52:12 GMT -5
Sounds like we grew up in the same neck of the woods. I have many fond memories of CBS's Late Show and Late Late Show; WOR's Million Dollar Movie, Movie Nine, Big Preview, and Fright Night; ABC's 4:30 Movie; and WPIX's Science Fiction Film Festival, Chiller Theater, Channel 11 Film Festival, and Abbott and Costello movie every Sunday morning at 10:00 AM. But that's a whole 'nother thread we're getting into, ain't it? Way early in this thread, I mentioned how many movies which appeared on MST3K I first saw -- and loved -- on Washington DC's local Saturday late-late "Creature Feature" as a teenager in the '70s. Like many cities back then, DC local TV had a "late late show" on pretty much every channel, as well as a local "horror host" on Saturday nights. Thanks to Count Gore DeVol's "Creature Feature" on Channel 20, I became intimately familiar with the work of Corman, Gordon, Lippert, Ed Wood, Toho Studios and others. At 1am, after "Creature Feature", they'd follow it up with an old Sherlock Holmes flick, from the Universal Studios series of the '30s and '40s, with Basil Rathbone as Holmes. Channel 20 also had a "Chiller Theatre" on Saturday afternoons -- also hosted by Count Gore -- as well as a "Tarzan Theatre" on Sunday mornings, where I got to see four different series of Tarzan movies: the classic '30s and '40s series starring Buster Crabbe and Johnny Weissmuller, an obscure series from the early '30s which was cut together from serial chapters, a "reboot" from the mid/late '50s starring none other than Gordon "Bart Fargo" Scott as Tarzan, and episodes from the early/mid '60s Tarzan TV series. Channel 5 also had a late-late double feature -- usually dark melodramas or detective movies from the '30s, '40s or early '50s -- and in the late '70s or early '80s, Channel 5 was the first channel in DC to extend their Friday and Saturday night late-late movie shows to all-nighters. For a hardcore night owl like me, that was a pretty big deal. i grew up in DC too. do you remember there was also a Channel 45, a Channel 50 (WFTY, i think it was), and a Channel 56? You were in deep by the time you got to Channel 56, lots of weird, sketchy, obscure foreign movies and stuff. I think I caught uncut "Night of the Living dead" on 56 a time or two when I was staying up late trying not to get caught by my parents.
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Post by Who Let Servo Drive on Jul 2, 2014 10:22:29 GMT -5
I actually had a little version of "Are you happy in your work" for voice and solo guitar I used to do. I am a Mary Beth Hughes fanboy. My then-wife in the 90s thought MST was amusing but she wasn't a hard-core watcher. She'd be puttering about while I watched the show and would sometimes laugh when she overheard something. So I was very surprised when she spontaneously riffed that song while I was watching -- Mary Beth sings the title and my wife chimed in "if you sing this, you're a jerk." I laughed my head off! Later she noticed that the bots and Joel were recreating that scene on the SOL and she sat down to watch it, and was soon in hysterics.
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Post by Who Let Servo Drive on Jul 2, 2014 10:24:19 GMT -5
I am not ashamed to admit that I love I Accuse My Parents Tom's little ditty riffing on the title of the movie is one of my favorite things from the entire series.
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Post by Mike Flugennock on Jul 2, 2014 21:22:32 GMT -5
i grew up in DC too. do you remember there was also a Channel 45, a Channel 50 (WFTY, i think it was), and a Channel 56? You were in deep by the time you got to Channel 56, lots of weird, sketchy, obscure foreign movies and stuff. I think I caught uncut "Night of the Living dead" on 56 a time or two when I was staying up late trying not to get caught by my parents. I remember all three. Channel 45 (WBFF) was in Baltimore, as I recall, and really hard to pull in. Channel 56 (WNVC) was a public TV station (not a PBS affiliate, though) on the campus of NVCC in Fairfax, but their signal was still pretty sketchy a lot of the time; they also had a Saturday night horror host for a while -- also a guy who dressed as a vampire, with even cheaper production than Channel 20. In the early '90s, until they were bought up by Paramount Network and then Warner, Channel 50 (WFTY) was a classic cheap local UHF station along the lines of Channel 20 -- lots of reruns of old '50s and '60s TV shows, like Twelve O'Clock High and Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, crappy movies on Saturday matinees and a late late show, NWA wrestling on Saturday mornings and the obligatory cheaply-produced local public-affairs talk on Sunday mornings. I don't recall them having a horror host or any kind of late Saturday night horror movie show, though. Still, I really dug Channel 50 because they carried old episodes of a lot of my favorite shows from when I was a young boy in the mid '60s. Sadly, by the end of the '90s, local UHF was pretty much no fun anymore -- at least in DC -- as all the "major" local UHF stations had been bought by either Warners or UPN. What's interesting, though, is that Channel 56 is still on the air in Fairfax -- on DTV of course -- and is now a local OTA feed for Al Jazeera. Three and a half years ago, I watched the Egyptian revolution live on Channel 56. I still have Channel 56 "bookmarked" in the menu on my DTV box. I've found a couple of channels on OTA DTV that are pretty much all episodes of old shows from the '50s - '70s, but they have no locally-produced programming, and none of that cheesy cheap charm that local UHF used to have. They're more or less just TV nostalgia jukeboxes.
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Post by carolina on Jul 2, 2014 23:09:09 GMT -5
I am not ashamed to admit that I love I Accuse My Parents Tom's little ditty riffing on the title of the movie is one of my favorite things from the entire series. yes! I have let the DVD splash screen just sit for a while so I can hear that beautiful song
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Post by zetastrike on Jul 3, 2014 12:27:20 GMT -5
I'm a little embarrassed to admit that I kind of like The Final Sacrifice. I've never attempted to watch it without M&tB, but I don't think it would be too hard to do. Zap and Troy come off as a likable duo and I've found myself wondering if they got mixed up in any other adventures afterwords. That and why they didn't bring the grizzled old guy back to civilization with them after the cult was defeated. Or how the world reacts when this huge, forgotten ancient city rises up from the ground. I guess the fact that I even think of these things means the movie wasn't completely pointless.
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Post by mrsphyllistorgo on Jul 8, 2014 16:18:48 GMT -5
Man, I coulda sworn I already posted in this thread, but no!
Girl in Lover's Lane, definitely. Girl's Town, Teenage Crimewave--all the exploitation flicks. And I watch lots of the monster movies on Svenghoulie--he's running all the Creature from the Black Lagoon flicks this month!
Once again, Big has saved Danny from a heterosexual experience.
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Post by mrsphyllistorgo on Jul 8, 2014 16:20:02 GMT -5
Tom's little ditty riffing on the title of the movie is one of my favorite things from the entire series. yes! I have let the DVD splash screen just sit for a while so I can hear that beautiful song I honestly like all the songs in that movie! I find myself singing Love Came Between Us on the regular. All skate now, all skate.
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Post by mst3kyep on Jul 15, 2014 1:22:03 GMT -5
Of the B&W films I have most on straight DVD and have been a fan for decades before MST3K was born. Of the color ones not so much. Many are late 60s/70s films and just needed MST to make them watchable. My 1st experience with MST3K was when I was channel surfing and found ALIEN FROM LA. I had no freaking idea what I was looking at but was hooked immediately and delighted when I soon discovered this was a regular thing. The weird thing was Mike was my 1st exposure to MST and for many more. Then I saw my first Joel film and was confused so I looked it up on the then-primitive internet, which led me to AOL. Anyways, am getting off the track. Films like ROBOT MONSTER, BRIDE OF THE MONSTER and IT CONQUERED THE WORLD I always loved. Films like OUTLAW OF GOR I would never get into were it not for MST.
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Post by milospinstripe on Jul 15, 2014 3:36:23 GMT -5
I find myself watching I Accuse My Parent's quite often, not just because the riffing is good, I don't mind the movie too much either. I like how the main character dresses like a wise guy even before he gets involved in the world of organized crime. Also, his complicated haircut, and his father kind of reminds me of an alcoholic Walt Disney.
The Deadly Bee's isn't too bad either, but my opinion might be biased due to the fact that I watched this without "the boys" as a child, I think it came on TBS Creature Feature, something like that , a themed segment that came on Saturday's that featured old horror films. Its one of those episodes that I can watch over and over and not get sick of.
Finally, Girl in Gold Boots, while surely a horrendous movie, something about it draws me in. Maybe its the cast of oddballs: Critter, Buzz, the greasy haired mobsters, Arafat the suburban drug pusher, Bill Clinton as an unsuccessful biker thug, such a colorful group of talent in this movie.
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