Movies you most associate with "Cable Movie Channel Repeats"?

Cafe Society
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Basically if you had TNT, TBS, Showtime, Spike, or some other cable channel that mostly played a lot of movies to fill time, if whenever you switched to one of those stations and a certain movie was seemingly ALWAYS on?

For me TNT in the late 90s was the “Tremors Station” since literally me and my dad would go to his auto mechanic every Sunday for a summer in the late 90s to try to fix his broken down truck, and in the lobby of the waiting area was a TV that was always on TNT and ALWAYS playing Tremors (or rarely, Tremors 2) at some point at around 10 - 11 am. So I’ve seen the movie Tremors about a dozen times solely from those TNT experiences.

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Back in the early days of cable, Red Dawn. I can’t recall the channel, but it might be the only movie they had rights to.

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Airheads was once in constant rotation on Comedy Central. (Now the only place to find it streaming is the Internet Archive.)

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That sounds like TNT too since most of my Red Dawn viewings were via 10pm on cable TV

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When I was a kid (in the early '80s), the Canadian movie channel Superchannel would periodically have a free preview weekend. There are some movies that are indelibly linked with those free previews for me:

  • Yellowbeard
  • Cheech & Chong’s The Corsican Brothers
  • The Toy (with Richard Pryor and Jackie Gleason)
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In recent years:

  • The Mummy / The Mummy Returns (the Brendan Fraser versions)
  • Pretty much all of the Star Wars movies
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All day Harry Potter.

Ironman 1-2-3…
Deadpool 1 & 2.

Endless loops of super hero movies.

Lonesome Dove mini-series and Return to Lonesome Dove.
I think theres a few more in LD world.

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Back in the day, HBO stood for Hey! Beastmaster’s On.

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1983, The Movie Channel.

I wasn’t the only one that noticed: a comedian once had “The cable watcher’s prayer”: Dear Lord, don’t let it be Beastmaster again!

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Independence Day, Day After Tomorrow.

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The Shawshank Redemption.

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This. I swear TNT/TBS/AMC are the Day After Tomorrow stations.

TNT is also morphing into the Aquaman/Justice League/Suicide Squad channel.

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And one more: An American Werewolf in London. I looked forward to the free previews on Superchannel, but American Werewolf seemed to be the only thing on.

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This. I have the movie memorized thanks to AMC. On in the background for years and years.

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FX is nothing but Marvel and DC movies these days, with an occasional showing of a Kong movie thrown in.

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Office Space

I think its re-runs on Comedy Central is how it got the attention it deserved.

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Many posters are talking in the past tense. IMHO, it’s only gotten worse.

Harry Potter and the Whatever
Air Force One
Twister (it seems to have faded away, then returned in 2025)

Lately I’ve noticed a lot of the bad movies that used to be on SyFy have moved down a step to Comet. They actually had a Sharknado afternoon a couple of Saturdays ago.

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American treasure.

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“Road House”, the Patrick Swayze movie.

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I don’t know, it may just be me, but I’ve noticed there’s been a bunch of disaster, apocalyptic type movies on lately.
I’m watching Greenland right now.

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