Any remember the Matinee at the Bijou PBS series?

• Aug 17, 2010

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I was pretty young when this was running, but I never missed an episode, even back at the time, I was in junior high when this was on and of course my friends couldn't understand why anyone would watch it:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matinee_at_the_Bijou
You tube has a modern variant of it, but it isn't the same: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=MatineeattheBijou4#p/u/4/1Bp2GZc-Iek

 

• Aug 17, 2010

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I had forgotten all about that! :eusa_clap I must have been 10 or 11. Between that and WPIX horror films and Phillies games, my Saturdays were pretty well booked ... at least in the winter months.

 

• Aug 17, 2010

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Who could forget the Bosko cartoons, the Hearst Metrotone Newsreels, "PREVUES of Coming Attractions," and Rudy Vallee singing the theme song? (It was the last recording of his career, in fact.)

 

• Aug 17, 2010

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I loved that series too. Classic presentation of classic material!

 

• Aug 17, 2010

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I looked forward to that series every week. Classic fare without overwhelming camp. I'd buy the DVD's if available for sure.
Tom D.

 

• Aug 18, 2010

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LizzieMaine said:

and Rudy Vallee singing the theme song? (It was the last recording of his career, in fact.)

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I didn't know that, nor that it was so late in his life when he recorded it. After all these years, the theme song still sticks in my head as well as the opening lines each week...

 

• Aug 18, 2010

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Wow... there's a show I haven't heard about in so many years. I was 7 when the series premiered in 1980. I never really watched the show but I remember seeing the opening theme song though I can't recall for the life of me how that song goes now.

 

• Aug 18, 2010

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I remember the show very well. I would tape it on my vcr. They had to edit down the run times of the "feature" to make it fit into the schedule.

Was it brought back with Debbie Reynolds as host? I thought I saw that somewhere...

 

• Oct 10, 2010

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I was a faithful viewer in the summer of 1984, just after serving in the armed
forces, and before returning to school.
I think it came on after the morning's Olympic "coverage"

 

• Oct 13, 2010

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remember that one! too bad pbs doesn't do more of that kind of stuff anymore!

 

• Oct 13, 2010

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yes. i'd watch Abbot and Costello on WPIX, then switch to PBS for Matinee.

*sigh*

 

• Oct 13, 2010

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First of all ... DANG ... you are kids!

Secondly, wasn't that the program that introduced many of us to Riders in the Sky?

Didn't they perform an intro segment, or was that another vintage movie program?

Just wondering,

Sam

 

• Jan 30, 2016

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Sam Craig said:

First of all ... DANG ... you are kids!

Secondly, wasn't that the program that introduced many of us to Riders in the Sky?

Didn't they perform an intro segment, or was that another vintage movie program?

Just wondering,

Sam

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Yes, that's right.
They filmed some actors getting out of a vintage auto, in front of a cinema in B&W.