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When you were a kid, and watched TV after school, was it cartoons on WNEW and WPIX, or the 4:30 Movie?
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I usually watched mostly channel 5 for cartoons and 11 for rerun sitcoms.
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We got WPIX, WNEW, and WWOR, and all were routinely watched by me after school (and before sometimes LOL) for cartoons and sitcom reruns such as Gilligan, Brady Bunch, etc. I also went thru a big Adam-12 phase which I think was on WWOR.Comment
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When I was growin' round up here it was mostly cartoons on WNEW and WPIX. So we would watch Warner Brothers Cartoons, and Hanna Barberra stuff, which we never knew was syndicated. They would play re-runs like Wacky Races, Dastradly & Mutley, Yippie, Yappie and Yahoo-eee, Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Fantastic Voyage, Battle of the Planets, Star Blazers, Flintstones, Magilla Gorilla, and also The Magic Garden, New Zoo Review and Joya's fun school. Sometimes I would watch Sesame Street or The Electric Company on PBS. The 4:30 Movie we watched only when there was an event film like Planet Of The Apes, Fantastic Voyage, Omega Man and stuff like that. WPIX used to show Star Trek at dinnertime on weeknights and then moved it to Saturdays. When video games became the rage they played a game on WPIX where you had to say PIX into the phone and the game would fire on the flying saucers and you would win something.
WWOR used to show horror and sci-fi films Saturday mornings and sometimes Sunday afternoons. They mostly showed low-budget stuff like Blackula and the Thing With 2 Heads. They often re-ran a good one called Baron Blood. Then about 1979 or so they started running Doctor Who with Tom Baker. WPIX Saturdays, would show stuff on Chiller Theatre, and the show's gimmick was a badly animated hand reaching up out of a pool of blood and that gave me nightmares for a long time. WPIX would always show Abbot & Costello films except for Jack In The Beanstalk and A&C in Africa. Not sure why those 2 A&C films always wound up on WNEW Channel 5 for some reason.
If you were lucky, the editor at WWOR wasn't too good and left in a shot in Attack of the Moonbeast where the monster ripped a guys arm off. Once there was a Linda Blair horror film where she was running topless and they left it in. That editor must've lost their job after that!Last edited by johnmiic; Sep 25, '08, 2:18 PM.Comment
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My earliest memories of middle school afternoons were rushing home to watch Commander Tom and Ultraman. There was also the Electric Company.
I actually saw Family guy did a bit on the opening of Electric Company in their "Walmart" episode. That brought back alot of memories.Last edited by Seeker; Sep 25, '08, 4:25 PM.Lo there do I see my Father.
Lo there do I see my Mother and my Sisters and my Brothers.
Lo there do I see the line of my people back to the begining.
Lo they do call me.
They bid me take my place among them.
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in the Massachusetts area we had channels 25,38 and 56 for our afterschool cartoons
i remember watching Battle of the Planets and Monkees reruns in the summer on 56, Voltron on 36 and Starblazers and Force Five on channel 25Looking for Infinite Heroes Robin and Catwoman
And Super Powers BatmanComment
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Actually our cable company offered PIX and WOR when they first came here. I really can't remember what was on them though. Not sure when they stopped. 25 WFXT, 38 WSBK, and 56 WLVI were the Boston main stations. They showed all the after school stuff. 56 had Dale Dormann who was a popular radio personality a while back. He hosted the kids cartoons M-F from like 2pm-6pm. I think he still is doing a show on AM radio. Banana Splits was one. I loved that show. Everybody sing. Tra la la, Tra la la la... One banana, two banana, three banana four... Four bananas make a bunch and so do many more... Flipping like a pancake Popping like a cork... Fleagle, Bingo,Drooper and Snork(y)... Tra la la ... Tra la la la ... Tra la la .. La la la la..... Man those were good timesIt's not a doll it's an action figure.Comment
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More for New Yorkers than Easy Coasters, although some people in Connecticut and New Jersey shared TV stations With New York and Boston/Philadelphia.
In Philly, we could sometimes see WPIX, but for us it was Ch.17, 29 or 48. They all ran kids programming after school, generally cartoons from 2 or 3 until 5 and then syndicated reruns like Brady Bunch, Batman or the Monkees until about 7pm. Aaahhh, I'm getting nostalgic just thinking about it.WANTED - Solid-Boxed WGSH's, C.8 or better.Comment
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I didn't watch WPIX or WOR too much in the afternoons. They had on Yankees and Mets games on during baseball season.Comment
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I usually got home and watched both WPIX and WNEW. I was picky about my cartoons. I remember my sister driving me nuts cause she watched a soap opera called the edge of night on ABC before the 4:30 movie which we both watched. My Faves were Monster week,Elvis week, POTA week and a few others.
Loved when Pix would give Batman and Superman Back to back.
I also liked watching WOR that's how i got hooked on The Avengers,UFO and The Untouchables. Plus they ruled the day after Thanksgiving with their Godzilla Marathon........Great memories.Comment
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Homework, WPIX, and then ABC for the "Million Dollar Movie" if it was POTA week, Godzilla week, Johnny Soko week, or any other Sci-Fi week. But if it wasn't one of the theme weeks that I liked, I was outside playing running bases or riding my bike.ScottComment
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I honestly don't know the station call letters in Washington D.C. but it was channel 3 for PBS, and channel 20 I believe which was a local station with Captain 20 where most of the good afternoon cartoons were watched every day."The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith."
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Before there was a two hour news block (5-7)
Before Oprah
Before Phil Donhue (your saying WHO ?)
Channel 7 in New York used to show a MOVIE from 4:30-6:00 every Monday-Friday.
YouTube - ABC 4:30 MOVIE
You may ask, how can they shove a 2 hour+ movie into a 90 minute slot with commercials ?
Two words: extreme editing.
These were always themed:
Godzilla week
Planet of the Apes week
etc.
Everything stopped on my block for the themed weeks we kids were into. Often, we would even gather in a common living room to watch the Blob or Mothra together.
Outside play would resume at 6:00 when the boring news came on (sorry, Wee67)
Sometimes, as in the case of the original 1968 Planet of the Apes, they would show it over Monday and Tuesday. We watched these so many times (every single time they were on), that I know the PRECISE spot part 1 ended. The best was the Channel 7 Announcer guy recapping part 1.
The 4:30 Movie
The 4:30 MovieLast edited by mars396; Sep 30, '08, 1:13 PM.Comment
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4:30 Movie - especially if POTA was airing or a movie like The Blob.
My town had a whistle that went off every afternoon at 4:30 pm.
It served as a reminder for all the kids to run home.Comment
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