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No HBO airings

posted 8 years ago by bobbysox-67252
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Why was this or Day of the Dead shown on HBO back in the 80s?

[–] shango7200 8 years ago

Dawn was never shown on cable TV in the 1980s.

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[–] Will21st 8 years ago

really? When did it make it's first outings on Cable Tv in the US? Was it shown on Network?

[–] shango7200 8 years ago

To my knowledge - never shown on TV or cable. At least from the 1980s thru the 1990s. In America.

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[–] lianzantoro 8 years ago

I believe it was on Showtime around Halloween 1998. I think they showed Romero's Martin also.

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[–] speccyboy 8 years ago

BBC 2 sometimes shows this movie in the UK, along with "Day of the Dead".

[–] HalloweenNinja (32) 5 years ago

It was shown a few times on cable in the late 1990's and early 2000's in America, although I think most of these airings were on Showtime and The Movie Channel, so it's likely that HBO didn't get the rights to it.

I do know that TV edits of Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead exist and both of these edits were aired on Sci-Fi Channel and Fox in the early 2000's, presumably because of the Zack Snyder remake.

[–] Corky666 8 years ago

I saw it in 1999 on the Movie Channel on Halloween weekend

[–] ExTechOp (2770) 4 years ago

It had to have been shown on HBO at least once, because that's where I first saw it and first recorded it on the ol' Betamax.

Must've been a Romero tribute, because I also captured "Knightriders" on that same tape.

That tape got a LOT of viewing over the years.

[–] Enigmaticocean77 (2427) 9 months ago

Do you still have it?

[–] PaladinNJ (21510) 9 months ago

I think it was unrated. HBO had a policy of not showing unrated movies until they instituted the late night fare. Which they have now gotten rid of.