Wpix saturday afternoon movie

Movies on saturday and sunday afternoon were programming staples for the local indies when their was no sports to air. One is from the saturday afternoon movie, sunday morning movie and others. Pix11 news brings you breaking and developing news, weather, traffic and sports coverage from new york city and across the state on wpix tv and. Microsoft does not recommend using ie as your default browser. Two of our local indies strutting their stuff in tv guide. Wpix the eight oclock movie close and next slide 1979. After a 26year absence on wpix, chiller theatre returned on saturday, october 25, 2008 at 8 p. The list starts when the showcase replaced film theater of. Wb11 sunday afternoon movie bumpers 19982001 youtube. Wpix saturday afternoon movie bumpers 1996 youtube. Wpix saturday action news wbill biery 1979 by tvarkgreg. Perhaps the most fondly remembered movie showcase program in the new york metropolitan area, wortv channel 9s million dollar movie was a staple of the stations schedule for over three decades.

Next year, channel 4 would expand its evening news to a multihour broadcast, eliminating movie 4. Lets catch the saturday afternoon movie, solid gold, and maybe a rerun like i dream of jeannie. June 18, 2016 ahh, lazy saturdays watching 11 alive in the early 1980s. Check out todays tv schedule for wpix new york superstation and take a look at what is scheduled for the next 2 weeks. Old memories of the new yorks movie station, wb channel 11. Weeknights or weekends, the million dollar movie entertained countless viewers with its varied mix of feature films. Celeste posted 14 years 3 months ago youd think that wpix would keep some of these shows on at a decent time but nope. Wpix archives ahh, lazy saturdays watching 11 alive in. As a kid growing up in upstate new york, it didnt get any better than a big bowl of jiffy pop and the old blackandwhite sylvania tuned to a classic space epic on the wpix saturday afternoon movie.

Whats more, we have a tv pixxx pal clue, as well as the magic word of the day. They moved them to an attrocious hour at night, well at least the moved the jeffersons to an attrocious hour at night, what they did with the. Since its inception in 1948, wpix s studios and offices have been located in the daily news building on east 42nd street also known as 11 wpix plaza in midtown manhattan. Wpix saturday afternoon movie retro junk commercial. List of movie umbrella titles in north america jump to navigation jump to search. Best movie, sundays great movie, sunday movie showcase, saturday afternoon movie and, of course. Some features on this website, like video and images, might not work properly.

For many kids living in the new york citylong island area in the mid1970s through the early 1980s, wpix s channel 11 chiller theatre was a welcome addition to the saturday night lineup with a plethora of horrorscifi films ranging from aip classics black sabbath, panic in year zero. Wpixtv station id and saturday action news open 1979. On wpix, a random saturday mightve been stuffed with eight syndicated shows. List of movie umbrella titles in north america wikipedia. That was until the cw came it and messed everything up. Super classic wpix channel 11 new york from 1970s to 1990. As good as the big networks were on weeknights, they could be absolutely wretched during the weekend. I remember titles like the beast under the stairs, or some such thing.

Wcbstv aired the late show the entire span of years on which this blog focuses, 195179. Wpix yankees promo, saturday afternoon movie open duration. This was taken during the summer or close to the summer of 96. This was both the opening and closing for the 4 oclock movie, apparently dating to around the 197778 season. And it started me thinking about how modern technology has ended how i watch tv, and more specifically, movies i will never see again.

Abc sunday night movie with news promo 1990 wpix saturday afternoon movie 1990 walt disney world 25th anniversary 1990 wnewtv promo 40 years of fine tuning 1980 disney channel 1990 tandy color computer 3 1987 radio shack christmas 1980 wnywtv preemption. Would you like to receive local news notifications on your desktop. Super classic wpix channel 11 new york from 1970s to 1990s admdavidk. This clip from a 1980 afternoon of kid shows has a commercial explaining the tv pixxx game concept. Creature features was a generic title for a genre of horror tv format shows broadcast on local u. New york news weather sports and traffic pix11 wpixtv. Following are the films shown in the saturday edition of the late show. Wpix saturday afternoon movie close by tapthatt2012. The more popular episodes were monster week, planet of the. The wpix program showed very much the same classic horror and science fiction movies as the pittsburgh station did.

Scifi afternoon movie monster zero godzilla movie 1977 woc. Wuhftv 8 oclock movie presentation 1990 sunday movie wuhftv 1990 abc sunday night movie with news promo 1990 wpix saturday afternoon movie 1990 disney channel 1990 cinema 4 bumper 1990 vault disney 1990 nickelodeon spongebob squarepants 1990 nickelodeon. The interrogator from the carol burnett show full sketch duration. So, i had cracked a joke from spies like us recently. The show opened with creepy organ music and sounds of howling wind as the camera followed a path through a scalemodel cemetery, to a bridge and path leading to a haunted mansion on a hill with dry ice. The carol burnett show official recommended for you. The channel 7 movie showcases received new graphics, as had channel 2s.

Next, an ad from wnewtv dated 82969 for a special presentation of. Wpix tv promo and sunday afternoon movie open 1979. The saturday afternoon movie was consist of movie packages with favorite films as well as some disney movies since it was originally aired on one of the three networks abc, nbc and cbs from many years ago before it moved to syndication as part of the buena vista tv package. Wpix saturday afternoon movie ad break 1980 youtube. Wpixtv and wnewtv tv guide ads old time ny area tv. Before then they always had the saturday afternoon movies with the wpix intro.

Channel 11 film festival wpix tv channel 11 to me, the channel 11 film festival has always been a perplexing movie showcase program. A december 1980 commercial break during the saturday afternoon movie, featuring a variety of ads for toys and games. Nwcn northwest cable news open, stations open, and belo station id. The movies broadcast on these various shows were generally classic and cult horror movies of the 1930s to 1950s, the horror and sciencefiction films of the 1950s, british horror films of the 1960s, and the japanese giant monster. Tv schedule for wpix new york superstation tv passport. The opening, with its vertical lines moving zigzag, evidently borrowed heavily from the opening for the 197578 caper drama switch which starred robert wagner and eddie albert. Wpix sunday afternoon movie, 197685 wpix 11 new york.

I remember seeing the old wpix s marquee graphics from every movie package when i was in kindergarden. Monster movie matinee aired on saturday afternoons on wsyr channel 3, syracuse, from 1964 1980. The saturday afternoon movie 1970s1990s the kntv monday night movie 1970s1980s the last picture show. Movie intro holiday movie growing up 1970s tv logos music youtube movies. Test pattern early test pattern, 1948 currently, a modified version with a. The fans and new converts greatly anticipate a groundswell of support for more. It occupied its original postnews timeslot on saturdays for the three decades. Many people who i have conversed with and who were of viewing age during its run seem split on it. The program was mainly known for individual theme weeks devoted to theatrical feature films or madefortv movies starring a certain actor or actress, or to a particular genre, or to films that spawned sequels. First, we have an ad from wpix tv dated 11170 for the hurricane. Wpix, virtual and vhf digital channel 11, is a cwaffiliated television station licensed to new york, new york, united states. For us kids growing up in the 70s and early 80s, the 4. This is classic wpix, another gem we are sharing with you on our birthday. Msts1 wabc7 ny repro saturday night movie by msts1.