Before the vcr.Before dvds,video stores ,dvrs and cable.Having to wait for the movie of the week to see your favorite movie after it left the theater.Those were the days.
Shoot this ABC theme song used to make me cry like a big old baby when I heard it ... thank you for posting it, I thought I was crazy for a minute there
Remember when these movies used to be a major event? I remember having neighbors come over to watch because we had the first color TV in my neighborhood ... we went all out with food and snacks and I don't know if my parents charged but those were the good old days
Candace Wharton my parents had cocktail nights around anything but I would not trade my childhood for anything.my beautiful mother always sitting around our pool with a Martini and we had good times.R.I.P. Marianne Bayer you lived to be 76 you smoking everyday old woman.
Those cartoons are very creative, especially the election one. I can't imagine those TV-movies were all that hugely acclaimed...I know the Burton/Taylor one was hated all around (and the director wasn't thrilled either). Interesting to see some of the shows in their last seasons. Some didn't even last to January.
Periodically, ABC would set aside some time after a prime-time movie (which would purposefully have to be run short) to play these previews, usually done at the end of the prime-time lineup and just before the local news.
yeah Case was right and it was also sometimes on Sunday in mid-September at 7p before the ABC Sunday Night Movie feature or series premiere of a new series
Armpit Studios Slit scan, I think it originated with 2001: A Spade Odyssey (1968). ABC used it quite a bit soon thereafter, such as with its movie of the week opening (and this).
toplonghorn Their other animation ABC used earlier or later (probably earlier) was slitscan. But I believe supremetaco is right about this being Scanimate. It has the same look as many other Scanimate samples.
For the life of me, outside my siblings I have never found anyone else in person that even REMEMBERS that beautiful song. But it hit me like few others, and I still hum it occasionally to this day.
Sure does bring back memories! I was 9 years old!✌️
Before the vcr.Before dvds,video stores ,dvrs and cable.Having to wait for the movie of the week to see your favorite movie after it left the theater.Those were the days.
Shoot this ABC theme song used to make me cry like a big old baby when I heard it ... thank you for posting it, I thought I was crazy for a minute there
Why did it make you cry? '~'
Remember when these movies used to be a major event? I remember having neighbors come over to watch because we had the first color TV in my neighborhood ... we went all out with food and snacks and I don't know if my parents charged but those were the good old days
Candace Wharton my parents had cocktail nights around anything but I would not trade my childhood for anything.my beautiful mother always sitting around our pool with a Martini and we had good times.R.I.P. Marianne Bayer you lived to be 76 you smoking everyday old woman.
They did 😅
This was when television was worth watching, Not the garbage of today.
yes
Definitely
TV has never been the same since they canceled Muffin the Mule in 1955.
Those cartoons are very creative, especially the election one.
I can't imagine those TV-movies were all that hugely acclaimed...I know the Burton/Taylor one was hated all around (and the director wasn't thrilled either).
Interesting to see some of the shows in their last seasons. Some didn't even last to January.
Periodically, ABC would set aside some time after a prime-time movie (which would purposefully have to be run short) to play these previews, usually done at the end of the prime-time lineup and just before the local news.
THAT'S when I remember seeing them. I knew I had watched these as a kid, but had no idea where they would be placed in the program schedule.
I thought these promos were for the potential ad buys where the networks would preview their programs.
Most of these old ABC Movies of the Week are available on CZcams for free.
The ABC MOVIE OF THE WEEK theme music is NIKKI written by Burt Bacharach.
My mom's favorite show was owen Marshall
Doctor Doolitlle was a box office bust that somehow wound up on ABC's Sunday Night Movie.
yeah Case was right and it was also sometimes on Sunday in mid-September at 7p before the ABC Sunday Night Movie feature or series premiere of a new series
5:13 reminds me of Alley-Oop!
Partridge family room 222 Fri night block....memories
Oh yeah ❤
7:27 the promo for the movie of the week "Haunts of the Very Rich".
Guess I missed all these
ABC 1972....
did these Fall Previews air on TV back then or were they meant for ABC affiliates?
zibbyzubb all ABC stations whether owned and operated by the network or an affiliate being that they are owned by third party.
70s tv was good Legendary classic s And Classic Stars
NOT AT THE TIME BUT LATER ON ED ANSNER BE CAME EMMY AWARD WINNER. FOR MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW, AND LOU GRANT RIP ED ANSNER
Does anyone know what technology was used to create those great line graphics? Like the opening ABC logos zooming at us?
Armpit Studios Scanimate, probably.
Armpit Studios Slit scan, I think it originated with 2001: A Spade Odyssey (1968). ABC used it quite a bit soon thereafter, such as with its movie of the week opening (and this).
toplonghorn Their other animation ABC used earlier or later (probably earlier) was slitscan. But I believe supremetaco is right about this being Scanimate. It has the same look as many other Scanimate samples.
Armpit Studios You are correct, this is a different technology than the slit scan ABC used otherwise. I now realize the difference.
0:09 The ABC Stargate
Times were uh simpler
Love Two CBS Stars being on ABC🤣🙂
Alberto Juantorena, post Olympic glory ?
Good, but not as good as the 1971 fall prom.
For the life of me, outside my siblings I have never found anyone else in person that even REMEMBERS that beautiful song. But it hit me like few others, and I still hum it occasionally to this day.
Beautiful Oh Mr.Grant Oh Phyllis 🤣😆
Good shows tooo
2:12 🤨
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