Nr1Humanoid
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Sept 4, 2021 13:48:48 GMT -5
What movies did you watch again and again and again and again, thanks to HBO?
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Post by saneiac on Sept 4, 2021 14:26:27 GMT -5
Sometime in the early-80s they turned on HBO to our house for one of those One Month Free promotions, and then just forgot to turn it off again. Ever. That first month had Star Wars - A New Hope playing. I might have watched it every day that month.
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Post by Feyrhausen on Sept 4, 2021 14:27:28 GMT -5
Hey Beastmasters On.
I would have bolder the first letter of each word but I’m on mobile.
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hassanchop
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Post by hassanchop on Sept 4, 2021 14:48:07 GMT -5
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Post by Triangle Lancer on Sept 4, 2021 16:43:17 GMT -5
Moving Violations
Police Academy 4
The 'Burbs
The Money Pit
Overboard
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Post by agent817 on Sept 4, 2021 18:04:41 GMT -5
Close, but you got to have the full version. |
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Post by MiLB Fan on Sept 4, 2021 18:24:15 GMT -5
Close, but you got to have the full version. Ooooh, that takes me back. My parents taped the Sesame Street movie Follow That Bird off HBO way back when, and I distinctly remember the part of the intro starting around the 47-second mark. I recently rediscovered the movie on HBO Max. |
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Post by bibboid on Sept 5, 2021 16:44:36 GMT -5
When we first got HBO it only ran from about 5pm to 3am. The channel was pretty much dead air otherwise…but…about an hour or so before their day started they would start testing their signal. They would run promos and previews for shows. That is where I first saw the “How We Made The Opening Credits” feature. And one day I got to watch the entire Elton John concert from Central Park (the one where he wore the Donald Duck costume.
As far as movies and shows I watched, there was always Beastmaster, The Apple Dumpling Gang was on a lot, Fraggle Rock was fun.
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Post by Feyrhausen on Sept 5, 2021 16:47:19 GMT -5
Close, but you got to have the full version. Ooooh, that takes me back. My parents taped the Sesame Street movie Follow That Bird off HBO way back when, and I distinctly remember the part of the intro starting around the 47-second mark. I recently rediscovered the movie on HBO Max. That movie was depressing. The 80s had all these movies with kids separated from their parents/families. Journey of Natty Gann, Empire of the Sun, even Sesame Street. |
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Post by James Fabiano on Sept 5, 2021 17:28:43 GMT -5
Body Slam!!
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hassanchop
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Post by hassanchop on Sept 6, 2021 12:07:55 GMT -5
Anyone watch this in HBO that time?
Interesting trivia three of the first episodes were based on EC Comics chapters Tales From The Crypt, Vault Of Horror and Shock SuspensStories, and even more two of those episodes would be remade to Tales From The Crypt a decade later, specifically Came The Dawn and Split Personality.
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Sept 6, 2021 13:08:19 GMT -5
Anyone watch this in HBO that time? Interesting trivia three of the first episodes were based on EC Comics chapters Tales From The Crypt, Vault Of Horror and Shock SuspensStories, and even more two of those episodes would be remade to Tales From The Crypt a decade later, specifically Came The Dawn and Split Personality. I never knew that! I always thought this was some b series and would change the channel when the intro would hit. I was like 10 but still. |
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Post by Feyrhausen on Sept 6, 2021 15:38:36 GMT -5
Anyone watch this in HBO that time? Interesting trivia three of the first episodes were based on EC Comics chapters Tales From The Crypt, Vault Of Horror and Shock SuspensStories, and even more two of those episodes would be remade to Tales From The Crypt a decade later, specifically Came The Dawn and Split Personality. I watched it on USA. Hour block with Swamp Thing. |
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Post by James Fabiano on Sept 6, 2021 21:25:35 GMT -5
Things I usually watched in this time period....
The Tom Sawyer and Little Women anime dubs
Babar
Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia Brown
Fraggle Rock
Ghost of Faffner Hall
Braingames
Movies:
Besides the aforementioned Body Slam, I always seemed to see:
Supergirl and Superman IV (yep...)
A Christmas Story (this is where the obsession began)
They also seemed to carry a lot of what appeared to be former Afterschool Special or TV movies. "So What If I'm Gay" with Scott Baio. There was this one with a man with Down's syndrome who wanted to work in radio, that I keep forgetting the name of. I know they had cutaways where he talked with a Kermit the Frog puppet.
The Worst Witch
THE DAMN PEANUT BUTTER SOLUTION (which I saw ads for everywhere, but I think I actually only saw half-3/4ths of the movie)
Grease (or did my sister always watching our VHS from HBO make it feel like that?)
Bye Bye Birdie
Specials:
All the Berenstain Bears ones
LYLE, LYLE CROCODILE: THE DAMN MUSICAL. ("Doooooooooooooooooon't leave me noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow...")
I Want That, or whatever the series about advertising was.
Paddington Bear Goes To School/PB's Birthday
All the Madeline specials
The Making of Fraggle Rock
Shorts:
Hug Me (the one about the porcupine who wanted hugs)
Bug Jam (something to do with a fly/bug playing guitar)
The Ant and the Girl
Myra
Dog Brain
The animation about how the dog was invented ("What do THEY know?")
Was Sports Cartoon ever on HBO?
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Post by prettynami on Sept 6, 2021 22:59:27 GMT -5
HBO should definitely bring back the old feature presentation intro.
Things I remember from HBO back in the day: Many many playing of Super Snooper, the short making of things they would show between movies (In particular I remember the batwing crash sequence from Batman 89 and the Bus Jump and train crash from Speed), Real Sex having to be on when you awkwardly switch past the channel with your parents walking through (The Helicopter, difficulty level 4 - requires very dexterous partner), and the boxing (Man I miss boxing on HBO).
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Nr1Humanoid
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Sept 8, 2021 6:11:46 GMT -5
HBO should definitely bring back the old feature presentation intro. Things I remember from HBO back in the day: Many many playing of Super Snooper, the short making of things they would show between movies (In particular I remember the batwing crash sequence from Batman 89 and the Bus Jump and train crash from Speed), Real Sex having to be on when you awkwardly switch past the channel with your parents walking through (The Helicopter, difficulty level 4 - requires very dexterous partner), and the boxing (Man I miss boxing on HBO). That Super Snooper theme sticks with you, man. |
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Post by Push R Truth on Sept 8, 2021 6:14:22 GMT -5
Anything with boobies
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Post by mattperiolat on Sept 8, 2021 10:08:22 GMT -5
That was Skinnamax (Friday nights after 11 PM in the early 90) for me. I do have some very vague memories of some of that on HBO or Showtime in the lat 80s though. I could write a dissertation on sexual awakening in a sheltered household in the 90s, come to think, but this is a family forum. |
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Post by salz4life on Sept 8, 2021 10:51:13 GMT -5
That was Skinnamax (Friday nights after 11 PM in the early 90) for me. I do have some very vague memories of some of that on HBO or Showtime in the lat 80s though. I could write a dissertation on sexual awakening in a sheltered household in the 90s, come to think, but this is a family forum. Cinemax Friday After Dark!!!! LOL |
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Sept 8, 2021 14:07:41 GMT -5
Close, but you got to have the full version. I prefer the real video >_> |
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