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That's probably as good as any other Isaac Send a noteboard - 14/03/2012 12:32:16 PM
Pretty sure Battle of the Planets somehow acquainted me with nostalgia in the early '80s (even though its original US run had not yet finished.) Either that, or summers spent watching fifty year old and/or B movies all night with my dad after I had read long enough for my mom to fall asleep. One of the nice things about living in a city as big as Houston was that there were multiple independent stations even in the early '80s and they did not just turn to snow at 2AM (most stations STILL do in Ausin.) White Heat and Invasion of the Bee Girls (usually) beat Charlie Rose on Nightwatch, and DEFINITELY beat Ag Day. :P


There was admittedly pretty limited selection back then, in terms of shows and movies, as you say, you got to pick between 4 channels, though we also got a canadian one in, up along the lakes you usually had decent reception of one or two TV and Radio channels from Hockey-land, Channel 10 IIRC. So the big three, PBS, and that, an absolute Smörgåsbord of options but we had cable, adding a whopping seven or eight more and Nick at Nite, which my older sister and I used to sneak down to watch at 2 AM after Johnny Carson was over. I can't remember the saturday morning cartoon line up as well as the Saturday/Sunday afternoon 'awful movie showing' which IIRC was hosted by Big Chuck and Lil' John, local Cleveland celebs. I'm sure everybody had the equivalent, 'now burn away your afternoon with this matinée showing of crappy colorized 50's and 60's movies with alien robots composed of cardboard boxes spray painted silver' - the alternative usually being Dr. Who reruns on PBS. And the endless, endless reruns of old Looney Tunes, I think I've seen very single episode a hundred times... the bad ones too, Speedy Gonzalez still flew back then.

I remember invasion of the bee girls, but the memory seems more of a recent flavor so I probably watched it some time mid-90's or later, sort of thing they'd have had on USA up-all-night, though the plot of those are always pretty generic, be the chicks aliens, vamps, or zombies so its pretty easy to fill in the mental blanks. I'm like 3rd generation geek so I got raised on a lot TV weekend afternoon matinée crap

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