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Will be on TCM in 2008

posted 17 years ago by iloveperth
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Turner Classic Movies has a habit of releasing their schedules way in advance and "Skidoo" is scheduled to be shown January 4, 2008 as part of their "TCM Underground" series.

It's to be paired up with another LSD movie called, "The Love-In's".

Of course, everything is subject to change (and TCM has a habit of changing their schedules as the months tick by), but for anyone who has been dying to see this movie (like myself) this is very good news indeed. I'm dying to see if this is has horrible as all the reviews say it is!

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[–] ajlposh 17 years ago

It's on YouTube.

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[–] ironkitten58 16 years ago

Yes, it's official. Just received my TCM guide for January 2008 and they will be showing this in the widescreen format!!

[–] holt-lover 16 years ago

Strange- it says on the TCM website its showing on 1/4/08 but i cant find it on the channel guide- hope its not some regional showing

[–] joeshoe89 16 years ago

So far this is still listed on their schedule and on TV Guide. I just hope they don't kill it like they did Jubilee in December. That movie would have been too R rated for TCM. Skidoo should have dvrs and dvd recorders everywhere going like crazy. Now if they'd only show The Phynx.

[–] holt-lover 16 years ago

OK- looks like its back on for Jan. 5th at 1 a.m. I'm setting my Tivo to record early and to keep recording after its scheduled to end just in case it gets moved back 15 min or something like that.

[–] dalbrech 16 years ago

Skidoo deserves it reputation.
Is is a terrible movie, but has a certain fascination that makes you keep watching...like a really bad auto wreck.

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[–] mazinz 16 years ago

the film is on now but sadly it is pan/scan

[–] holt-lover 16 years ago

yeah, i was hoping it would be wide screen and dvd quality but i guess the studio hasn't remastered it- this must be the tv distribution version- still its better than the fuzzy one i found on the internet- great movie

[–] irishmobsterjohn 16 years ago

Listen... its Groucho and Gleason... its skidoo... lets just be happy its on t.v. !

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[–] isamguy0 16 years ago

haha, it's on now
he's tripping in jail
i'm glad i saw this movie from way before my time

[–] FilmWiz 16 years ago

I know people out thre taped this movie...

Anyway i can get a copy?

Thanks

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[–] iloveperth 16 years ago

Regarding a letterboxed version of "Skidoo":

This was a post made by a staffer at TCM during the week (and yes, he's legit! He posts regularly and he's a pretty nice fellow to boot):

"bad news - I'm sorry to say that it won't be in letterbox; we tried and we thought we'd be able to get a letterboxed version, and based on the initial cost estimates we were willing to pay to create a letterbox transfer, but the cost ended up being several times that amount and we couldn't do it."

Apparently someone saw this stinker before hand and realized that they'd rather blow the TCM budget on a halfway decent movie. Which I don't blame them for. I was hoping to see this movie and instead, I was just bored silly by the nonsense.

But I have to admit, the widescreen format would have helped greatly during the split screen sequence where Gleason talks about his past jobs.

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[–] cpc505 16 years ago

I ended up watching this Fri (Jan 4) night, due to insomnia. A film this bad doesn't help. Incredible! It deserves every bad review and rating that it gets. Even if the rest of the film was OK (it wasn't) Carol Channing's song at the end was the pits.
What were they thinking? Anytime I see a movie like this, Caddyshack 2, Jaws 3D, Carpool, etc. I just try to imagine - what were they thinking?
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[–] eye3 16 years ago

It just goes to show, you CAN blame a lot of what's wrong today on the '60s!

[–] gary_frankel 16 years ago

I didnt see that this was going to be on - does anyone know if TCM will be repeating it? I'm sort of surprised that they even got the rights to show it once....

Thanx

[–] mattryan13 16 years ago

One of my all time favourites. I would love to be able to replace my grainy old worn out vhs of this.

Does anyone know if a copy of this screening has been uploaded to the net yet??

Cheers.

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[–] iloveperth 16 years ago

Oh good, someone else who sat through "The Love Ins"! That ending was absolutely hilarious. James MacArthur shoots the cult leader and then just turns himself in! I guess I'm way too involved in the classics, because I wanted some kind of sensical ending. Everyone seeing what a jerk the cult leader was or something. Not him sighing, "I just turned him into a martyr" and then "The End". Lame.

I think the problem with both movies is that you're forced to watch the characters acid trips. Watching Gleason see mathematics and then the heads of all the cast members floating around, Fred Clark seeing the dancing garbage cans or Susan Oliver think she's Alice in Wonderland is not amusing. It's just flat out boring. I couldn't wait for those scenes to end. Perhaps that's what Hollywood people thought acid trips were like.

I kind of wish TCM could have gotten the rights to show "The Big Cube" with Lana Turner instead of "The Love Ins". It's a better camp counterpart with "Skidoo" and the story was actually much more entertaining.

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