When cable television arrived in the 518 around 1973-4, WPIX's Sunday Morning Movie became a regular viewing destination at home with the folks.
Beginning in 1971, WPIX used the Sunday Morning Movie as a means of showcasing the collection of Abbott & Costello feature films. We've noted in the past how WPIX would lead into the movie with reruns of The Abbott & Costello Show or F-Troop on an alternating basis. At one point, the lead-in spot was filled with the Three Stooges after 'PIX reacquired rights to those classic shorts in the 80's.
It didn't matter how often we watched the same movies (i.e. "Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein"). It was a means to kill time until football in the fall or baseball in the spring & summer.
I don't even know if the tradition continues today, but it would be a good thing if it did.
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In Baltimore, Maryland, the 1 O' Clock Movie on WBFF Channel 45 was a staple for weekday afternoons for years. Of course, that was before channel 45 became a FOX affiliate in the 1990s.
WOR would have movies at 1, 4, and 8 pm weeknights, especially if there wasn't a Mets game during baseball season. WPIX also did nightly movies at 8 for years. Somewhere down the road, I'll tackle that subject.
The ultra happy bonus to the cartoons of Saturday mornings of the 70's/80's was when WPIX would have Godzilla films or WNYW would have Hammer horror films in the early afternoon
I think 'PIX shared the Godzilla library with WOR, then.
Locally in Seattle-Tacoma, KSTW TV and KCPQ TV(before they became a Fox station, and even in their early Fox days before the network aired primetime series 7 days a week) would typically air movies at 1:00 PM, 8:00 PM, and in KCPQ's case, 10:30 PM...
Of course, that was if KSTW wasn't airing Seattle Mariners, or Sonics games; or if KCPQ was not running Pac 10 football, or basketball, college bowl games, or Washington and Washington State football and basketball.
KCPQ actually had a Dialing For Dollars movie in the late 1980s through at least 1992 or so also; there are a few clips of those particular segments on YouTube as well...
Dialing For Dollars was in Albany for a while in the early 70's, then disappeared.
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