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Primetime January 14 Star of the Month Miriam Hopkins Wise Girl (Miriam Hopkins, Ray Milland) (RKO, 1937) The Old Maid (Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins) (Warner Bros., 1939) Lady with Red Hair (Miriam Hopkins, Claude Rains) (Warner Bros., 1940) Old Acquaintance (Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins) (Warner Bros., 1943) And then a couple of random MGMs to round out the late night programming: Madame X (Gladys George, Warren William) (MGM, 1937) Mr. Buddwing (James Garner, Jean Simmons) (MGM, 1966)

Daytime January 14 Russian Lit Anna Karenina (Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson) (Dist. in the US by 20th Century Fox, 1948) The Great Sinner (Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner) (MGM, 1949) The Inspector General (Danny Kaye, Walter Slezak) (Warner Bros., 1949) The Brothers Karamazov (Yul Brynner, Maria Schell) (MGM, 1958) Le Notti Bianche (Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni) (Dist. in the US by United Motion Pictures Organization, 1961) Dr. Zhivago (Omar Sharif, Julie Christie) (MGM, 1965)

Primetime January 13 Whodunit Wednesdays? More murder mysteries, including a couple of funny ones. The Phantom of Crestwood (Ricardo Cortez, Karen Morley) (RKO, 1933) Before Midnight (Ralph Bellamy, June Collyer) (Columbia, 1934) Mystery House (Dick Purcell, Ann Sheridan) (Warner Bros., 1938) The Mystery of the 13th Guest (Dick Purcell, Helen Parrish) (Monogram, 1943) 10 Little Indians (Hugh O'Brian, Shirley Eaton) (Dist. in the US by Seven Arts, 1966) Murder by Death (Peter Falk, Alec Guiness) (Columbia, 1976) Clue (Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry) (Paramount, 1985)

Daytime January 13 "Kindertrauma". Looks like these are all films about children in some kind of danger from malevolent adults. Curse of the Cat People (Kent Smith, Simone Simon) (RKO, 1944) Night of the Hunter (Robert Mitchum, Shelly Winters) (United Artists, 1955) Seance on a Wet Afternoon (Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough) (Dist. in the US by Artixo Productions, 1964) The Nanny (Bette Davis, Wendy Craig) (Dist. in the US by 20th Century Fox, 1965) Bunny Lake is Missing (Kier Dullea, Carol Lynley) (Columbia, 1965) Picture Mommy Dead (Don Ameche, Martha Hyer) (Embassy, 1966) Our Mother's House (Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Leclere) (MGM, 1967)

January 12 The Studio System theme continues. Daytime is all RKO. Swing Time (Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers) (1936) Love Affair (Charles Boyer, Irene Dunne) (1939) Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten) (1941) The Set-Up (Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter) (1949) His Kind of Woman (Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell) (1951) And primetime is 20th Century Fox. Hooray! Connecticut Yankee (Will Rogers, Maureen O'Sullivan) (1931) The Little Princess (Shirley Temple, Richard Greene) (1939) The Mark of Zorro (Tyrone Power, Basil Rathbone) (1940) Down Argentine Way (Don Ameche, Betty Grable) (1940) The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison) (1947) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe) (1953)

Left off one movie above. I'm going to try to edit my post.

Primetime January 11 Produced by Alexander Korda. This must be a month-long theme. A Knight without Armor (Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat) (Dist. in the US by United Artists, 1937) The Divorce of Lady X (Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier) (Dist. in the US by United Artists, 1938) The Four Feathers (John Clements, Ralph Richardson) (Dist. in the US by United Artists, 1939) The Thief of Bagdad (Conrad Veidt, Sabu) (Dist. in the US by United Artists, 1940) The Jungle Book (Sabu, Joseph Calleia) (Dist. in the US by United Artists, 1942) Vacation from Marriage (Robert Donat, Deborah Kerr) (MGM, 1945) An Ideal Husband (Paulette Goddard, Michael Wilding) (Dist. in the US by 20th Century Fox, 1948)

I listened to the first 17 minutes of Nick Danger. I've got to start getting ready for the day. I'm still standing around in my pajamas! But I'll try to finish it and listen to this other one later on today.

I hadn't heard of Nick Danger, but I do have a sketch from Firesign Theater in my iTunes collection called "Temporarily Humboldt County", which condenses the entire history of Native Americans since the arrival of the Europeans into nine and a half minutes. Both funny and kinda sad.

Daytime January 11 Birthday Tribute to Rod Taylor Seven Seas to Calais (Rod Taylor, Keith Mitchell) (Dist. in US by MGM, 1962) 36 Hours (James Garner, Rod Taylor) (MGM, 1964) The Liquidator (Rod Taylor, Trevor Howard) (MGM, 1965) The Glass Bottom Boat (Doris Day, Rod Taylor) (MGM, 1966) Hotel (Rod Taylor, Catherine Spaak) (Warner Bros., 1967) Dark of the Sun (Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux) (MGM, 1968) Trader Horn (Rod Taylor, Anne Heywood) (MGM, 1973)

Primetime January 10 Anthony Hopkins Double Feature 84 Charing Cross Road (Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins) (Columbia, 1987) The Remains of the Day (Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson) (Columbia, 1993) Silent Sunday Night is The Dumb Girl of Portici (Anna Pavlova, Rupert Julian) (Universal, 1916) And another Almodovar double feature for TCM Imports. I guess this is going to be the entire month. Dark Habits (1983) and What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984) What have I, what have I ....

Daytime January 10 Totally random, as far as i can tell: Alice Adams (Katharine Hepburn, Fred MacMurray) (RKO, 1935) The Romance of Ruby Ridge (Van Johnson, Thomas Mitchell) (MGM, 1947) Then a rerun of last night's Noir Alley. Then: Theodora Goes Wild (Irene Dunne, Melvyn Douglas) (Columbia, 1936) The Hucksters (Clark Gable, Deborah Kerr) (MGM, 1947) All Fall Down (Eva Marie Saint, Warren Beatty) (MGM, 1962) Cabaret (Liza Minelli, Michael York) (ABC, 1972)

Primetime January 9 is a double feature: "Flight of the Innocent". Two Hitchcock classics with falsely accused people on the lam. Saboteur (Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings) (Universal, 1942) North by Northwest (Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint) (MGM, 1959) Then, it's Noir Alley: The Glass Key (Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake) (Paramount, 1942) Then a couple of random movies for the late night: The Glass Slipper (Leslie Caron, Michael Wilding) (MGM, 1955) It Happened at the World's Fair (Elvis Presley, Joan O'Brien) (MGM, 1963)

Daytime January 9 Another Saturday, and the movies are all over the place thematically. Family friendly fare in the morning, some darker stuff in the afternoon. Quite a bit of animation and shorts. Looks like there's going to be a Bulldog Drummond movie every Saturday in January. Here are all the features that are airing: King Kong (Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong) (RKO, 1933) Bulldog Drummond's Bride (John Howard, Heather Angel) (Paramount, 1939) The Big Heat (Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame) (Columbia, 1953) Killer Leopard (Johnny Sheffield, Beverly Garland) (Allied Artists, 1954) The Angel Wore Red (Ava Gardner, Dirk Bogarde) (MGM, 1960) Midnight Lace (Doris Day, Rex Harrison) (Universal, 1960) Family Plot (Karen Black, Bruce Dern) (Universal, 1976)

Primetime January 8 What a Character! Pat Hingle The Strange One (Ben Gazzara, Pat Hingle) (Columbia, 1957) Splendor in the Grass (Warren Beatty, Natalie Wood) (Warner Bros., 1961) Games (Simone Signoret, James Caan) (Universal,, 1967) Hang 'Em High! (Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens) (United Artists, 1968) There's an unscheduled spot at 4:15 am ET.

I first became aware there had once been a show called Jeopardy! from the Weird Al Yankovic song and video "I Lost on Jeopardy!" ("against a plumber and an architect both with a Ph. D", one of my favorite lyrics of all time). That preceded the Alex Trebek version by maybe a year, so I was on board from the beginning and watched it pretty much daily the first 10 years it was on the air. I liked how low-key it was, and of course Alex was always a class act, in command of the situation, cool and collected. I did occasionally smile when someone would get something wrong, and Alex would say "Soar-ree", matching my stereotype in my head of how Canadians pronounce that word (apologies to the Canadians on here. I'm a Texan, so I'm sure you would mock my accent if you ever heard it!). As I mentioned in another thread, I got to the point where I really don't watch TV anymore except for baseball and TCM, so Jeopardy! fell of my radar, although I would read and hear about Ken Jennings and the other super-contestants, and once it in a blue moon I would stumble across an episode and usually stick with it if I did. It was largely unchanged. The graphics were a little souped up. RIP Mr. Trebek. You will be missed.

After watching that video, I do vaguely remember someone telling me about the insanely hot coffee at McDonald's at that time.

Daytime January 8 Elvis Presley Birthday Tribute (also will be my mom's 87th birthday, which means she was born one year exactly before Elvis. I love you, Mom!) Jailhouse Rock (Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler) (MGM, 1957) Viva Las Vegas! (Elvis Presley, Ann-Margaret) (MGM, 1964) Girl Happy (Elvis Presley, Shelly Fabares) (MGM, 1965) Spinout (Elvis Presley, Shelly Fabares) (MGM, 1966) Double Trouble (Elvis Presley, Annette Day) (MGM, 1967) Stay Away, Joe (Elvis Presley, Burgess Meredith) (MGM, 1968) Charro! (Elvis Presley, Ina Balin) (National General, 1969) The Trouble with Girls (Elvis Presley, Marlyn Mason) (MGM, 1969)

Our stories are pretty similar! I was also staying with my relatives because of a family tragedy. I also voted differently than my relatives, but they are also reasonably civil toward people with different opinions.

Primetime January 7 Star of the Month Miriam Hopkins The Smiling Lieutenant (Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert) (Paramount, 1931) Trouble in Paradise (Herbert Marshall, Miriam Hopkins) (Paramount, 1932) Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Frederic March, Miriam Hopkins) (Paramount, 1932) Design for Living (Frederic March, Miriam Hopkins) (Paramount, 1933) Men are Not Gods (Miriam Hopkins, Gertrude Lawrence) (Dist. in the US by United Artists, 1937) And then I guess they ran out of Hopkins films from the '30s they could show, so they finish the night with a film tied to the last one above by having the theme of not writing an honest review of an actor's performance of a play for the sake of preserving a romantic relationship: Critic's Choice (Bob Hope, Lucille Ball) (Warner Bros., 1963)

Daytime January 7 Norma Shearer The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (Norma Shearer, Basil Rathbone) (MGM, 1929) Their Own Desire (Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery) (MGM, 1929) Let Us Be Gay (Norma Shearer, Rod La Rocque) (MGM, 1930) Riptide (Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery) (MGM, 1934) Idiot's Delight (Clark Gable, Norma Shearer) (MGM, 1939) Escape (Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor) (MGM, 1940)

I must confess in my early 20s, I did spill hot coffee all over myself while driving and after removing the lid so it would be easier to drink. Somehow it just didn't occur to me that such a thing might happen. And I consider myself reasonably intelligent, though perhaps with not a lot common sense, especially at that age. So, it would hardly surprise me if other people also do it. I didn't sue anybody.

I haven't seen as many Winters films as some of you, but in no particular order, here are 10 I have seen and enjoyed: A Place in the Sun The Night of the Hunter The Diary of Anne Frank Lolita A Patch of Blue Harper The Poseidon Adventure Let No Man Write My Epitaph A Double Life Phone Call from a Stranger

Ha ha, their hair was nowhere near that long in the film! Or even in 1967.

I almost never watch TV unless it's TCM or baseball. But I was staying with my brother and sister-in-law when this episode aired, and my sister-in-law was watching it. What a noisy, confusing game show that stretches out what only needs to take five minutes into half an hour or an hour (not sure how long it was. Seemed to be endless). Lots of drawing out contestants' decisions for the sake of heightening the drama. Anyway, I also knew the correct answer to the question and drew some astonished glances from my relatives. Very rare I seem to get to impress anybody!