# Do you have any fond memories of late night B movies on television? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 22, 2013, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-fond-memories-of-late-night-b-movies-on-television/664197 "2013-07-22T15:25:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-fond-memories-of-late-night-b-movies-on-television/664197/61 "2013-07-25T00:23:22Z")
I saw plenty of late night SF/Horror, but my fondest memories are for the CBS prime time movies- not B movies but A-minus perhaps- run a couple of years after they’d had their in-theater runs. _ **The Valley of Gwangi, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, The Andromeda Strain, Five Million Years to Earth, Soylent Green, The Omega Man, Silent Running** _ and many others. ---
**Author:** ![Buffalo\_Bilious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e99b99/32.png) [@Buffalo\_Bilious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buffalo_Bilious)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-fond-memories-of-late-night-b-movies-on-television/664197/62 "2013-07-25T00:44:18Z")
As others have mentioned, in Detroit during the early 70s it was the Ghoul on at midnight on Saturday night. It wasn’t about the movie though, it was about waiting for the breaks when the Ghoul might decide to blow up a pile of kielbasa with an M-80, right in the studio. Or something similarly counter-culture/half illegal, which us 10-year-olds would do our best to replicate after school on Monday. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2013, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-fond-memories-of-late-night-b-movies-on-television/664197/63 "2013-07-26T03:14:41Z")
Oh yes! Late night, Saturday Afternoons and the 4:30 movie on ABC where all prime spots for Sci fi and Horror. Watching that stuff and reading about it is how my love for that kind of stuff (and reading) grew. ---
**Author:** ![dada2fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ccd318/32.png) [@dada2fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dada2fish)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2013, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-fond-memories-of-late-night-b-movies-on-television/664197/64 "2013-07-28T04:58:17Z")
I’m a Detroiter here too, Buffalo Bilious and one memory that sticks in my mind of The Ghoul is when he picked his nose and wiped it on the camera lens. My teenage brother laughing hysterically while I watched in horror. Also remember the Chiller movies on saturday afternoons that showed the freaky 70’s effects with the musical interlude of Led Zep’s Whole Lotta Love. I also remember while the parents were on vacation, we had a bunch of people over and watched a B-movie called The Creeping Terror which turned into a comedy for us since we were all on acid. The good old days. ---
**Author:** ![tomcar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tomcar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomcar)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2013, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-fond-memories-of-late-night-b-movies-on-television/664197/65 "2013-07-28T05:28:27Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Early years in the DC area during the 60s we had something on at night (Creature Feature?) where I saw Ghidrah the 3 Headed Monster, Creature from the Black Lagoon, and few of the weaker monster flicks. We also had Jungle Theater there on Saturday afternoons that had Tarzan movies, and I saw one Bomba movie and one Jungle Jim movie on that also. > > Outside Philadelphia in the 70s there was various late night programming that initially included Dr. Shock in one of his horror movie shows, but then he soon moved to Saturday afternoon and took the bizarre twist of using his real life baby daughter as his mascot instead of some Igorish character. Around Halloween the classic monster movies like the original Frankenstein and Dracula were shown, and I saw the real King Kong for the first time there as well. The cheap monster movie sequels like Frankenstein or the Wolfman meet anybody played a lot. > > Moving to New York was a blessing for a movie lover before the gods graced us with cable. They had more channels and more late night programming. There was a Sunday late late movie on one channel that showed anything inexpensive to air, including some lost treasures like Prisoner of Zenda with Ronald Coleman, but also some movies I’ve never seen or heard of since, and one that I’m sure was just some project from one of the film schools, but it was filmed right around where we lived. > > Later with cable came USA’s Night Flight. They ran the same shows over again a lot, but there was intersting stuff on there until it devolved into some kind of nonsense with Ronda Shear. When I think of late night tv, I think of Night Flight and Snub TV. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2013, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-fond-memories-of-late-night-b-movies-on-television/664197/66 "2013-07-28T14:57:35Z")
In Buffalo, NY in the early 80s there was a show called “the Cat’s Pajamas” with the requisite staple of weird flicks - Barbarella, the Shining, Pink Floyd’s the Wall, the Song Remains the Same. I have very distinct memories of watching [La Planete Sauvage](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Planet) and [Eraserhead](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eraserhead) - with no advance knowledge of either of those films. I was seriously traumatized by watching the latter film, yet unable to look away. Also, anybody remember a late night video show called either “Night Flight” or “Night Tracks”? I remember it was considered the ‘cool’ video show that aired videos from metal bands or things like Robert Fripp & 50 acoustic guitarists performing King Crimson instrumentals…all the stuff that MTV was too lame and timid to show. I have one particular memory about watching one late night movie that may need some explaining: around the early-mid 80s in Buffalo, there was a short-lived late night movie series called “Randee’s Pajama Party.” The host - Randee - was a vapid, bubbly, chirpy bimbo with teased out 80s hair who was totally the wrong personality type to be hosting a late night movie show. (She seemed more like the host of a morning local daytime talk show.) Anyway, I happened to discover that “Randee’s Pajama Party” was going to air a movie called [Making Love](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_Love), about schmaltzy film about a guy coming out as gay. The young’uns out there who’ve grown up in a world where gay marriage is a national movement and every sitcom is required to have a gay character probably can’t understand what it was like to be a young gay teenager in early 80s (or earlier) in suburban America. Apart from an occasional “fag” joke, or news report how all homosexuals have AIDS, there was no mention of homosexuality, and certainly NOTHING you could relate to or identiy with. The seedy mag store that your older brothers get straight porn mags from doesn’t even storck gay porn mags. So, when you learn that the stupid late night show is going to show a movie that is reputed to be even timidly pro-gay (and show two good looking actors KISS!), that became a major event for you - something to sneakily stay up and watch while nobody else was around. Anyway, the movie was…OK. The kissing scene was pretty brief, but gratifying. But my experience of watching it was marred because of the host - Randee - and her condescending, insulting attitude toward the movie. Of course, there were half a dozen commercial breaks per hour and intro/outro comments from Randee. She made it absolutely clear that she was uncomfortable with the subject matter, kept apologizing to the audience for showing the film at all, and after they showed the one kissing scene between two men, she practically gagged on camera and actually said “I thought that scene should’ve been cut!” I kept wanting to scream at the TV “Look you stupid bitch! Who do you think is bothering to watch you shitty show but fags?” Happily, the Randee’s Pajama Party show was cancelled a few months later, and to my knowledge 'Randee" never did anything else in her career. And that was fine with me! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2013, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-fond-memories-of-late-night-b-movies-on-television/664197/67 "2013-07-28T15:22:50Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > Also, anybody remember a late night video show called either “Night Flight” or “Night Tracks”? I remember it was considered the ‘cool’ video show that aired videos from metal bands or things like Robert Fripp & 50 acoustic guitarists performing King Crimson instrumentals…all the stuff that MTV was too lame and timid to show. :smack: Should’ve read the post _directly before my own]_ before I posted this! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2013, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-fond-memories-of-late-night-b-movies-on-television/664197/68 "2013-07-28T19:34:58Z")
I occasionally catch old monster flicks on Saturday night on Sevgooli, which is run on METV (which is associated with the local station WCIU). I get to see the old classics (like _the Wolfman_, last night), but i have to endure “Horror Host” Svengooli. Dear Og, I never missed MST3K so badly as when watching him. Except when watching other horror hosts, beside whom Svengooli is Laurence Olivier. We’ve taken to simply muting the TV when the host segments come on. By the way, some of the MST3K gang --the RiffTrax guys, are going to be doing a live" riffing of \*Strship Troopers" on August 15, broadcast to theaters around the US. ---
**Author:** ![agnesnitt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d78d45/32.png) [@agnesnitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/agnesnitt)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2013, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-fond-memories-of-late-night-b-movies-on-television/664197/69 "2013-07-28T20:19:59Z")
The Andromeda Strain was an “A” movie, so I won’t post my love of that movie. The TV versions are badly cut up by the way. Classic B or even C movie, “Monolith Monsters”. I seem to be the only one to remember this. Q was fun too. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2013, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-fond-memories-of-late-night-b-movies-on-television/664197/70 "2013-07-28T21:46:05Z")
> [@agnesnitt](#): > > Classic B or even C movie, “Monolith Monsters”. I seem to be the only one to remember this. I love Monolith Monsters. It might be the first movie in this broad genre I saw. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2013, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-fond-memories-of-late-night-b-movies-on-television/664197/71 "2013-07-28T21:56:09Z")
Haven’t read the whole thread, but in the 1980s, the USA Network had a weekend-night program called “Night Flight”. It featured a lot of music that MTV wouldn’t play, bizarre short films, and even weirder independent features. The two I most remember were “Urgh! A Music War” and “I Was A Zombie For The FBI”. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2013, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-fond-memories-of-late-night-b-movies-on-television/664197/72 "2013-07-28T21:58:41Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > I have one particular memory about watching one late night movie that may need some explaining: around the early-mid 80s in Buffalo, there was a short-lived late night movie series called “Randee’s Pajama Party.” The host - Randee - was a vapid, bubbly, chirpy bimbo with teased out 80s hair who was totally the wrong personality type to be hosting a late night movie show. (She seemed more like the host of a morning local daytime talk show.) Anyway, I happened to discover that “Randee’s Pajama Party” was going to air a movie called [Making Love](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_Love), about schmaltzy film about a guy coming out as gay. That movie was beyond atrocious. ETA: Google didn’t give me anything for “Randee’s…” but “Randi’s…” had multiple hits. > **[The Cat's Pajamas on WGRZ TV2, Buffalo NY](https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Cats-Pajamas-on-WGRZ-TV2-Buffalo-NY/261226060590942?v=info)** > > The Cat's Pajamas on WGRZ TV2, Buffalo NY. 269 likes · 2 talking about this. "The Cat's Pajamas" was an all-night TV show on Buffalo's WGRZ, which ran old movies and TV Shows, hosted by Barry Lillis.... ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2013, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-fond-memories-of-late-night-b-movies-on-television/664197/73 "2013-07-28T23:15:12Z")
“The Ghost and Mr. Chicken” starring Don Knots. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2013, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-fond-memories-of-late-night-b-movies-on-television/664197/74 "2013-07-28T23:29:33Z")
Another vote for Gilbert Gottfried and Rhonda Sheer introducing me to the world of B movies. 4 movies a week. On the one hand, I saw all the Bikini Ski Schools…years before I was probably old enough to see them. OTOH, I saw some insanely bizarre B movies. I think one of the strangest ones was [Motorama](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whD9mudTmJ8). I saw it on Up All Night and then many many years later when I was in college I tried to find it again (by posting here I think) because I liked it and wanted my roommate to watch it. It wasn’t as good and was about 10 times stranger then remembered. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2013, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-fond-memories-of-late-night-b-movies-on-television/664197/75 "2013-07-28T23:35:15Z")
ETA, according to the thread where I was trying to find the name of Motorama, I was also watching [Zapped Again](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJmr0_pPT1g). Totally forgot about that movie. Watching the trailer for Zapped, I never saw that, but I saw the sequel (Zapped Again) a handful of times. ---
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> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > I was fortunate enough to grow up with the original Creature Feature hosted by Bob Wilkins. Me too! KTVU (“Capt. Sum Tin Wong” fame), channel 2. Bob was awesome! Whole lot of good movies, classics like\* Night of the Living Dead, Creature from the Black Lagoon\*, and some stinkers, too. _(Village of the Giants)_ > [@jasg](#): > > Not any specific movies, but I grew up with Chiller Theater and Chilly Billy Cardille… Was it _ **THE** _ Chilly Billy? (who was in Night of the Living Dead) How cool was _that?_ ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2013, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-fond-memories-of-late-night-b-movies-on-television/664197/77 "2013-07-28T23:53:12Z")
I remember _THEM!_ Those giant ants… And the old Tarzan movies! Johnny Weissmuller. And the Sherlock Homes films, starring Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce. And that old Captain America serial that the UHF channel in Milwaukee re-edited into a film. And the Hope/Crosby Road flicks. And Abbot & Costello. And my beloved Godzilla films. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-fond-memories-of-late-night-b-movies-on-television/664197/78 "2013-07-29T00:01:47Z")
I was flipping through channels and ended up watching [The City of the Dead](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053719/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl), a horror movie from the 1960s. I was expecting it to be cheesy, but it was incredible. A woman enters a mysterious city of witches who get together once a year to make human sacrifices. Spooky and atmospheric. ---
**Author:** ![Magicicada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c67d28/32.png) [@Magicicada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magicicada)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-fond-memories-of-late-night-b-movies-on-television/664197/79 "2013-07-29T00:44:37Z")
Ok, I’m going to try this again. ---
**Author:** ![Magicicada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c67d28/32.png) [@Magicicada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magicicada)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-fond-memories-of-late-night-b-movies-on-television/664197/80 "2013-07-29T00:49:24Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Most of my B-movie watching came on Saturday afternoons, but I must have seen “Gargoyles” with Cornell Wilde at least 10 times. Also featuring a very young and pretty Scott Glenn as one of the ruffians on motorbikes! I saw this movie way too many times. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-fond-memories-of-late-night-b-movies-on-television/664197.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-fond-memories-of-late-night-b-movies-on-television/664197.md?page=5)