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TVLand is having a special "Movie-of-the-Week" week next week. One of the teleflicks they'll be airing is "The Day After," the 1983 disaster movie about a nuclear strike on the US. I still remember John Lithgow's character with a few other survivors in a school gymnasium/fallout shelter, sadly and continuously calling out on the HAM radio, "This is Lawrence, Kansas. Is anyone out there. Anybody at all?" and not getting a response.

I've tried to win this on Ebay a few times, but I kept getting outbid. HA! Pays to be patient, I guess.

I'm not sure who decided what flicks to show...there's no real theme to their selection. But I'll probably record a couple of them. I have "Boy In The Plastic Bubble" on DVD already (happened upon a cheap $1 copy during Christmas). It's been a few years since I've seen "Sybil" and I adore Sally Field.

Here's the schedule for the other shows. I believe all times are Eastern.

Monday, June 27th
8 p.m. Brian's Song
10 p.m. Bill

Tuesday, June 28th
8 p.m Boy in the Plastic Bubble
10:30 p.m. Execution of Private Slovik

Wednesday, June 29th
8 p.m. An Early Frost
10:30 p.m. Taking of Flight 847

Thursday, June 30th
8 p.m. The Day After

Friday, July 1st
8 p.m. Sybil

Saturday, July 2nd
8 p.m. Helter Skelter

24-Hour Marathon
July 3rd
8 p.m. Brian's Song
10 p.m. Bill

July 4th
12:30 a.m. Execution of Private Slovik
3:30 a.m. The Day After
6 a.m. Sybil
10:30 a.m. An Early Frost
1 p.m. Helter Skelter
5:30 p.m. Boy in the Plastic Bubble

TV lands answer for Ronald Reagan. They never did give up trying to convince US that Regan would get US nuked. Liberals were wrong again.....MGC

Shawn! Thanks so much for posting this schedule. You have to join TV Guide to see TV listings now, just another password for me to forget....grrrr. Went to TV Land's website the other night but I couldn't find much.

Boy in the Plastic Bubble - that has John Travolta doesn't it?

Sybil is gripping, so sad that I'm not sure I can watch that again. All I remember is the kitchen scene with her as a young child and well, I just don't think I could get thru it again.

I would like to see this Day After movie. I think I missed it first time around.

One movie we really want to find is called Over The Edge. Made in 1979 by Johnathan Kaplan. It's one of those teen movies that keeps popping up, that is listed among other popular teen movies but this one apparently is quite good. It's no longer available at Blockbuster or at Amazon. But I keep checking. I was hoping it might be on this TV Land list but it doesn't quite fit the genre/era of what they're airing.

And Brian's Song - superb movie, highly recommend it. Major tear jerker.

Mary

GalvestonDuck wrote:TVLand is having a special "Movie-of-the-Week" week next week. One of the teleflicks they'll be airing is "The Day After," the 1983 disaster movie about a nuclear strike on the US. I still remember John Lithgow's character with a few other survivors in a school gymnasium/fallout shelter, sadly and continuously calling out on the HAM radio, "This is Lawrence, Kansas. Is anyone out there. Anybody at all?" and not getting a response.

I've tried to win this on Ebay a few times, but I kept getting outbid. HA! Pays to be patient, I guess.

I'm not sure who decided what flicks to show...there's no real theme to their selection. But I'll probably record a couple of them. I have "Boy In The Plastic Bubble" on DVD already (happened upon a cheap $1 copy during Christmas). It's been a few years since I've seen "Sybil" and I adore Sally Field.

Here's the schedule for the other shows. I believe all times are Eastern.

Monday, June 27th
8 p.m. Brian's Song
10 p.m. Bill

Tuesday, June 28th
8 p.m Boy in the Plastic Bubble
10:30 p.m. Execution of Private Slovik

Wednesday, June 29th
8 p.m. An Early Frost
10:30 p.m. Taking of Flight 847

Thursday, June 30th
8 p.m. The Day After

Friday, July 1st
8 p.m. Sybil

Saturday, July 2nd
8 p.m. Helter Skelter

24-Hour Marathon
July 3rd
8 p.m. Brian's Song
10 p.m. Bill

July 4th
12:30 a.m. Execution of Private Slovik
3:30 a.m. The Day After
6 a.m. Sybil
10:30 a.m. An Early Frost
1 p.m. Helter Skelter
5:30 p.m. Boy in the Plastic Bubble

I just bought The Day After last week. Saw the DVD in the bin at Walmart.

I've always wanted to see this!!! I heard Topeka is in it a little. Yay! Thanks for the update.

MGC - easy now.

Mary -- yup, BITPB has Travolta and his g/f Diana Hyland, who was 17 years older than he was. She was later cast in the role of Joan Bradford on "Eight Is Enough." She died a short time later from breast cancer and earned a posthumous Emmy for BITPB. And, of course, we know how her death was written into the storyline for EIE.

Shawn - you know your TV trivia, that's for sure. I went to IMDB for more info on the Bubble movie. I think this is when Travolta and Hyland began their romance. His heart was broken when she died. Their age difference is almost the same as Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore.

I'm looking forward to these movies and did you also see where they're going to air a few episodes of Patty Duke over the weekend? TV Land is digging out a lot of old TV sitcoms, dusting them off and airing them. I'm surprised I didn't see a My Three Sons listed. I would have loved to see that show again. Make Room For Daddy was one I saw (Andy Griffith guest stars as Andy Taylor). Rhoda, Wings, etc. are also listed. Many run past midnight. Just pull up the entire TV Land schedule on your DVR if you can. Heck tape TV Land only for a week! My husband would have a major fit if I did that!!! LOL

Mary

I just bought The Day After last week. Saw the DVD in the bin at Walmart.

How funny, I saw it at wally world as well and bought it a few weeks ago!

Maybe I need to check that Wal-mart bin!

I might find that Over The Edge movie! I need new vacuum bags for my Eureka vac, can't find them anywhere but Wal-mart, so a Wally World trip might be in order today.

Mary

*BUMP*

Tonight begins TV Land's movies week!

I watched "The Day After" yesterday. I rented it from NetFlix.

Miss Mary, they do not have "Over The Edge"

The Day After gave me nightmares for years after I saw it. I was 12 when I saw it back in 83. I don't think I want to see it again.

Don't know if anyone here remembers a movie about a mentally-handicapped man named Bill Sakter who had been institutionalized for much of his life...but the 1981 movie called Bill (starring Mickey Rooney) is now airing on TV Land as part of their movie special classics week.

Eric

I'm a little late getting back here (just got in and had to boot up the machine), but "The Day After" is showing now...just started.

Did anyone watch "The Taking of Flight 847" yesterday? That was unsettling -- watching the Hezbollah terrorists bust into the cockpit (which was locked, even back then) and then pistol-whipping one of the copilots over and over. The only problem I had with the movie was that so much of it was in German (the conversations between Uli, the purser, and the one terrorist). No subtitles, so how were we supposed to figure out what all they were saying? I got most of it, but nevertheless, I didn't like having to strain my ears to catch the few words of German that sounded like English or to tune it out and just get the context based on their actions.

Okay, back to the movie!

If you saw "The Day After", did you "connect" with any of the characters? I connected with Jason Robards. His need to go home was something I felt deeply.

I liked the movie tonight. Finally got to watch what would happen, especially this close to home, since Lawrence is a short drive down the "freeway" as they called it in the video.

The most shocking image to me was Allen Fieldhouse just filled with bodies... I hope that day never comes.

Watched the day after again after many years. It is still chilling. My daughter--born in 1981--did not like it and could not understand the fear the movie evoked back when it was made (and still does to those of us that lived through the cold war and nuclear threat.

bevgo wrote:Watched the day after again after many years. It is still chilling. My daughter--born in 1981--did not like it and could not understand the fear the movie evoked back when it was made (and still does to those of us that lived through the cold war and nuclear threat.

Brings back many memories, many of them unpleasant, but not so unpleasant I can't let them go. My children, in their 20's don't really understand it either.

I'm so amazed that after 20 years, certain scenes stuck with me and felt as familiar as if I'd just seen it last week. And they weren't all particulary "important" scenes either. My first sense of familiarity was when Denise was running around chasing her younger sister, Jolene. Then when Danny, the younger brother, asked the doctor, "When can I see my sister again?" since he couldn't see due to the flashburns. And the part where Steven Guttenburg's character was chasing Denise outside the family's home with the dead animals in the field -- "You can't see it. You can't smell it. And you can't taste it. But it's here! And it going through me and it's going through you. Right to your cells!" And of course, the final scene where Jason Robards character says, "Get out of my house!"

Ever see a movie that you haven't seen in years, and somehow you still remember certain scenes and lines and can repeat them as if you've seen it a gazillion times? Of course, the line that always stuck with me that I didn't even need to see the movie to recall it -- "This is Lawrence, Kansas. Is anyone there? Anybody at all?" Still chilling.

I suppose I still need to get the DVD to add TDA to my disaster flicks because I feel pretty certain TVLand edited last night's broadcast -- either for content or length (the second is most likely). It was obvious because during the blast scene, there was one part when John Cullum's character (the farm dad) was running towards the house with his son Danny in his arms and saying, "I got ya, son, I got ya." And yet, during one of the breaks, when the commentators were speaking, they showed a scene where Danny was running in a field, with his back towards the blast, and then he turned and looked. A bright red glow covered his face so we could understand how he got the flashburns to his eyes. Then his father appears and grabs him, which was probably followed by the scene where he was running inside with him. Furthermore, I could have sworn that the blast scene was much more detailed (and frighteningly so) -- wasn't there one shot of a woman just as she got radiated and blasted, frozen in fear, changing from flesh and blood to bone, in an almost X-ray type image? And then the same thing for a horse? I mean, they were quick images, but I remember that vividly.

So, I have to wonder what else they cut, even if it wasn't crucial to the movie. Nevertheless, I appreciated being able to see it again. So real and scary. And yet, like it said at the end, what was depicted was likely "less severe that what would actually occur."

Oh yeah...wait! I had seen it twice before last night...but just a few months after the original broadcast. We watched it in school to compare it to the book, "Alas, Babylon." I said back then and I'd say it now -- in the event of something that catastrophic, I think I might prefer to be at ground zero than outside the blast and have to die slowly from the radiation effects.

Definitely some scenes left out of the movie, I guess for length or maybe to make it "family acceptable". I remember those scenes too Duckie.