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NBC Saturday Nigh at the Movies

posted 15 years ago by Bud_Brewster
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I saw this wonderful movie on “NBC Saturday Night at the Movies” in the 1960s. Many of the 20th Century Fox movies they showed during those first few seasons are still personal favorites of mine. Does anybody else have fond memories of this network series and the movies they presented each Saturday night?

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[–] rvita 15 years ago

Absolutely, I was about 12 or 13...having movies on at prime time was something new...I saw this movie on this show in '62' or '63' around Christmas time..I started to appreciate movies at this time..there were a lot of MM, Tyrone Power, Richard Widmark, Susan Hayward films...I couldn't watch the late show because of school, so I got to watch movies on Saturday nites...loved it..

Had a big crush on Darryl Hickman after this film...I remember it like it was yesterday...after while "Saturday Night at the Movies" proved to be so popular that they extended it to Sunday and Wednesday nights....Saturday was the best though, no school....could stay up as long as I wanted..

[–] vpilutis 13 years ago

I saw it as well back then, B&W.
What a different this time in color.
I recall very little of the film, the one thing that I did recall was the bit with the camera, being a photographer myself.

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[–] Bilwick1 11 years ago

Yes, I remember "Saturday Night at the Movies" very well. As I recall, it was kind of a big deal, at least in its first season. Movies on television were nothing new (in the Greater NYC area we had, for example, "Million Dollar Movie" on local Channel 9/WOR-TV, where they showed the same movie once a night Mon-Fri then multiple showings on Saturday and Sunday), but they were mainly older movies, and more often than not B movies. I bellieve "Saturday Night at the Movies" was the first major-network, prime-time showing of A-list movies from the [relatively] recent past. I well remember how much I enjoyed DESTINATION GOBI when it was on "Saturday Night at the Movies." I was thinking of this today when the new Movies! channel showed it. It's funny how, although I haven't seen it in decades, some parts came back to me: for example, Ross Bagdasarian ("Dave Seville" of Chimpunk fame) being in the cast. And in the climax when the heroes started to set sail in that delapidated old junk, I thought: "Wasn't there an old-fashioned field-piece type cannon on that boat?" And sure enough, there was!

[–] vpilutis 11 years ago

It was twice a night during the week as I recall.
One thing I hated often the films were still cut and they almost never had opening credits on MDM unless the film was a short one and they had the credits at the end.

I recall how The Big Circus started with the scene of Hank going into the bank
not the scenes with Vincent Price and the parade, which I didn't get to see till years later when I think it was TBS or TNT had it sadly a very bad print.
These days I have the DVD from WB.

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[–] awrobel 7 years ago

I do recall watching the movies on Saturday Night only, the best of 20th Century Fox. Became well acquainted with their stars and directors. Some great films, many that were memory. Million Dollar Movie was also big in our house. A film would play all week Mon-Sat and then twice on Sun. The theme was especially memorable and it wasn't till I finally saw Gone With the Wind years later that the musiic was the Theme from Tara. Great memories of a sheltered childhood.