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FOX Channel is airing this!

posted 16 years ago by MystMoonstruck
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I'm watching it right now~and taping it, of course. Generally, when FOX shows a film, it's added to their lineup and will crop up at irregular intervals. So, if you get this cable channel, you might want to watch for it turning up again.

Prior to this movie, they aired "Moving Violation" from the Seventies, which stars Kay Lenz and Stephen McHattie. That's promising to me. Perhaps they will air more Seventies and even Sixties films. One can only hope! Naturally, I hope that this is a sign that more telefilms will be aired. There are so many wonderful TV movies that need to be shown regularly. So many people seem to recall them from childhood. Being born in 1951, I have a much more vivid memory and knowledge of many of these relatively obscure movies. I'd love to see "The Bermuda Depths", "Killdozer", "The Love War", "A Cold Night's Death", "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" and many others again!

MystMoonstruck

[–] 16 years ago

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[–] MystMoonstruck 16 years ago

"Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" marred many impressionable little minds, or so I've come to believe after visiting movie-identification sites. The little creatures plotting to get Kim Darby creeped out a lot of people! Then, there's "Don't Go to Sleep", with the tied-together shoelaces and the pizza cutter carving into the bannister on its way upstairs. *shiverrrrr*

As for "Where Have All the People Gone", it truly has the marks of a pilot for me, especially the ending. It might have been an interesting survival-type series: rebuilding society, finding a treatment/cure for those affected, dealing with animals to see if they can , facing the need to replenish supplies, learning new skills, etc. I was not in the least disappointed with it and plan to watch it again sometime today.

MystMoonstruck

[–] rndhyd 16 years ago

Nice of you to admit that you are a very weak person.

Why would you scream?

It's a fictional movie, as most are.

[–] SoTyred 16 years ago

I couldn't believe I missed it, as I am always scoping FMC for the not on DVD hard to find films. I have been looking for this for YEARS, and I was lucky my dad called me and said he recorded it. Just started watching it. Hope it's as good as I remember when I was just a lil nub in '75.

**Skin that Smokewagon and see what happens!** Tombstone

[–] mhoff002 16 years ago

I can't believe I missed it! I first watched this movie when I was like, 10 or 11, and haven't really thought of it since but earlier today I was thinking about it and couldn't remember the name and finally remembered it. I'm interested to see if it I will like it as much as I did over 15 years ago...

[–] junknspam 16 years ago

It is on FMC ON DEMAND this month on Directv & maybe on other providers too.
It says it is available until Jan. 31, 2009.
I liked it...never saw it back in 1974 when it originally aired.

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[–] cool_splash1 16 years ago

This was a great movie. It probably was a pilot as was many tv movies. Most were in a guise as a tv movie so that if ratings were high then a series could be made.

Anyways I hope the pilot isn't remade. After Jericho no way. No after the remake of Terry Nations Survivors that's a double no way.

[–] jimadam 16 years ago

And with Fox Movies, there's no stinking continuous on-screen logo and commercials like the Sci-Fi channel to ruin the movie watching experience.

But, you only see some of films released by Fox and none from the other studios.

[–] MystMoonstruck 16 years ago

Heads up! They're airing it from 3:45 to 5 a.m. (Central) Tuesday following "Mark of the Devil" and prior to "Dante's Inferno".

~~MystMoonstruck~~

"You quit the Air Force to count elephants?!"

[–] MystMoonstruck 16 years ago

It's going to be on from 3 to 4:30 a.m. Central Saturday, July 11, on Fox Movie Channel!

I switched over to see what's coming up and spotted "Daughter of the Mind", which will start at 3:30 a.m. Central. Then, I looked at what else was coming up and spotted an airing of "Where" tomorrow afternoon! So, if you need to catch it, here's a heads up!

[–] rndhyd 16 years ago

FNC doesn't air movies. Do you mean the Fox Network"?

Isn't this the kind of movie that you see only once? Unless you forget what happens.

[–] MystMoonstruck 16 years ago

The Fox Movie Channel is available in our area. It's grouped with Independent Film Channel and Turner Classic Movies. I guess I figured that FMC is available most places. They've been showing a wealth of movies, and they air many of them regularly.

~~MystMoonstruck~~

[–] rndhyd 16 years ago

Oh, "Fox Movie Channel". Is that like Cinemax or HBO, but I'm guessing with older & less popular movies?
I didn't know there is a FMC; I don't watch regular or cable TV.
As for "Fox Channel", I only new of "Fox News Channel".

[–] sirius0518 16 years ago

I stumbled across this on FOX movie channel today. What a fun surprise! - part of this movie (the dog attack at the grocery store) was filmed near the house I grew up in. I remember hanging around that market (Whizer's)in Agoura and watching the TV people work. I was about 13 years old :) I remember thinking George O'Hanlon Jr was super cute; and Peter Graves was a big star (from Mission Impossible). Ha, so watching this today was kind of like looking through a window into the past... the landscape, the buildings, the cars... the '70's :) and I remember so vividly those few summer days of watching a movie being filmed. I thought, "wow, maybe I could be part of this when I grow up..." That didn't happen (I'm a surgical nurse instead of a camera operator :) but it was a good time :)