jeffkjoe

This belongs in the MOVIE forum.

Time for nostalgia:


Growing up in the 1970's, do you remember watching (and actually enjoying) movies on network TV? Before VCR's and cable were widespread?

STAR WARS was on CBS, JAWS was on ABC, THE SOUND OF MUSIC was on NBC....

Here are bits from:
THE ABC SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE:


Superman: The Movie - the extended cut (first aired ABC November 1982):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDirf...vie%20superman

Superman II - the extended cut (first aired ABC 1984):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrYp9...vie%20superman

Raiders of the Lost Ark (ABC premiere bumper):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZFFA...movie%20bumper

digitalfreaknyc

I included these on my "making of" DVD's at myspleen.

I had the superman 2 and 3 ones...as well as a few for the star wars and Indiana Jones movies.

jeffkjoe

Do you have a link to those movies?

Shannon Nutt

I have both the Superman II and Superman III extended cuts on VHS from TV airings. Wish I had that Superman: The Movie cut...I didn't have a VCR when it aired. There's a lot of stuff in that that didn't make the Donner DVD cut.

rw2516

ABC completely re-edited On Her Majesty's Secret Service starting the movie with Bond escaping from Piz Gloria and then showing the beginning of the film as a flashback. They also added a Bond narrative voiceover.

jeffkjoe

I like how NBC showed The Godfather and Godfather Part II in chronological order as The Godfather: The Complete Saga.

I also liked when CBS first showed STAR WARS in 1982, it was a big deal and they during commercial breaks, they'd show celebrity interviews where they recollected where they saw SW for the first time.

jeffkjoe

Funny how movies series were shown on TV:

Star Wars: CBS
Empire and Jedi: NBC
Star wars Episodes I and II: FOX

James Bond:
Dr. No to Living Daylights: ABC
Licence to Kill: FOX
Goldeneye: NBC
Tomorrow Never Dies: CBS

Lethal Weapon: NBC
Lethal Weapon 2: CBS
Lethal Weapon 3: ABC

Star Trek I-IV: ABC
Star Trek V: CBS
Star Trek VI: NBC
Star Trek Generations: FOX

Raiders and Temple of Doom: ABC
Last Crusade: CBS

Jaws 1-2: ABC
Jaws 3-D: CBS
Jaws 4: too shitty for network television. Only shown in syndication.

Superman I-III: ABC, all with extended scenes
Superman IV: too shitty for network television. Only syndication.

Rocky I-IV: CBS
Rocky V: same thing. Not ready for prime-time.

digitalfreaknyc

you mean the previews?

no. I've never put them up.

Alan Smithee

Ruining movies used to be the worst thing about network TV. Every year NBC ran "The Sound Of Music", they'd cut out a little more of it to make room for more commercials. Then of course they'd cut other movies that had any "objectionable" content. Home video put a welcome end to this crap. These intros are cool though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6s07_G1G9o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SmvO4R5M3g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YXgs3uadrU

cerulean

I watched The Sound of Music whenever it was on tv throughout my childhood and never realized there were scenes I had never seen until I watched the original cut on videotape in my 20s. It was a bit of a stunning revelation about a film I thought I knew backward and forward.

Conversely, I had recorded the extended tv cuts of Superman 1 and 2 and was used to watching those, so when I see the theatrical versions, it feels like there's a lot missing.

jeffkjoe

I know what you mean.

Whenever I watch the ending of SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE, I always expect Lex Luthor to ask Otis to "feed the babies" and Superman to burst through Luthor's ceiling to save Ms. Teschmacher from being thrown into the lion pit. Just as in was shown on ABC.

Mountain Biker

Those were great - thanks for the stroll down memory lane.

Matty-O

Oh hell yeah!!!!!

When Jaws 2 used to play on ABC they had the sequence with the shark attacking the helicopter pilot underwater(which is included in the deleted scenes on the DVD).

raven56706

those were awesome.... now see if the hbo bumper is there...

jeffkjoe

You ask for it, you got it:

The best movie intro ever, HBO Feature Presentation from the 1980's:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHRJe...20presentation

Alternate version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFsTt...20presentation

jeffkjoe

Another bumper from the last showing of Superman II on ABC in 1988:

...this time with an extended scene not on the DVD!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW-XP...abc%20superman

Matthew Chmiel

Oh man, that's bring tears to my eyes.

I remember this one from HBO as well. Not as good, but I remember seeing this more from "my generation."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyDDnrzg0Wo

jeffkjoe

Wow. Everything about that intro is so 80's: the neon cursive, the guitar solo, the pastels...

steak-too

I remember that the airing of Star Trek 2 on ABC was the version with extra scenes but not exactly the director's cut that is now on DVD.

jeffkjoe

I remember the first time ABC showed Superman: The Movie in November 1982, they did it in two parts: part I was on Sunday, part II was on Monday.

Sunday mostly dealt with Krypton all the way up to Superman's first night......and I remember they stopped Part I at the part RIGHT when Lois Lane lets go off the helicopter seatbelt and falls (with a "to be continued" feel)...

And I remember when ABC first showed Superman III, they had an alternate opening credits sequence - none of that slapstick street ballet, but rather with the traditional swooping typeface on a space backdrop.

jeffkjoe

That's right! Most of ABC's extended scenes dealt with Scotty's nephew, if I rememeber correctly?

Matthew Chmiel

Not as bad as the Cinemax opening...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3OGX8PUYeA

Cameron

thats great...i have been looking for this HBO bumper promo that had my mother in it for a long time....i need to start combing youtube for it

Zen Peckinpah

Found this through a search.

Although it is a bit silly to watch a movie on broadcast TV, I'm not alone in thinking that a premiere on network TV was huge back in the day. Plus, that same franchise/different network rule has so many other great inconsistencies...

Batman: CBS
Returns/Forever: NBC
Batman & Robin: CBS again

RoboCop: ABC
RoboCop 2: Fox
RoboCop 3: Syndicated

Die Hard: Fox
Die Hard 2: CBS
Die Hard with a Vengeance: Fox

Alien: ABC
Aliens: Can't remember...can someone back me up here?
Alien 3/Resurrection: Fox

The Terminator: NBC
T2: ABC
T3: CBS

Gremlins: NBC
Gremlins 2: ABC

Back to the Future: Can't remember...someone please back me up
BTTF Part II: ABC
BTTF Part III: NBC

Mondo Kane

I remember first seeing the trailer for Batman Returns during this showing.

ABC also had Disney movies on Sunday nights as well. Either it was made-for-tv stuff like Ask Max and B.R.A.T Patrol or it was some old theatrical films like Swiss Family Robinson<---Never saw this movie up til then, but when I would watch it in later years on different networks, I couldn't believe how much ABC edited out. It must've been like 45 minutes of footage!