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Fox movie channel showing occaisional episodes

posted 15 years ago by phasedin
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On 7/7/2009 at 4:30am EST the Fox movie channel is showing the "Mark Of The Devil" episode. I see no further episodes scheduled for at least 2 weeks from this writing (7/4/2009). However, I also caught another episode they aired "The Sweet Scent Of Death" on 6/23/09. I didn't catch that it was part of this series until I was watching it on TIVO some days after recording it and I caught the Hammer Studios credit at the very end of the credits. It seems the American version of these films replaced all references to Hammer films in the beginning credits-simply replacing them with a cheap looking logo that simply states "Fox Mystery Theatre".
So fans if you have a DVR and can look up programming in advance, I'd recommend doing so-you may be able to record these in low-definition at least from the Fox movie channel if nothing else..although they don't seem to be scheduled with any regularity

[–] lunatictyme 15 years ago

Thanks for the tip. Sorry I missed those broadcasts, as I do get Fox Movie Channel myself. How was the picture quality of the prints they aired? I have copies from the out-of-print DVD set released briefly in the U.K. some years back, and the picture on those was only decent (stable, but full of artifacts). I'll keep my fingers crossed that FMC will air more in the future.

[–] phasedin 14 years ago

Sorry I didn't get notification of your post.
Well the 2 episodes that the FOX movie channel broadcast had no artifacts at all but looked like a fairly grainy made for TV movie from the 70's (or early 80's). There's no HD channel right now for FMC, so that doesn't help the issue at all..