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June 15, 2:15 PM, Kansas City Confidential (1952). Not sure if this counts as Noir, but it is a good mystery from the period. John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster, Jack Elam, Lee Van Cleef, Neville Brand.

According to TCM schedule, this is on at 11:30, before Saturday night's Noir Alley presentation of Pickup on South Street at Midnight.

I think Strother Martin just fit a type that fell in line with the scripts.

Not saying, but within the past few years.

When you get to June 15th, The Falcon in Hollywood is on and I believe it features the RKO studio. That's Saturday at 10:08 AM.

10:08 AM, Saturday,June 15: The Falcon in Hollywood. Another good entry in the Falcon series and features dthe RKO studio unless I am mistaken.

My wife gave it 1, out of kindness and she is a big fan of SciFy, even bad SciFy.

My wife gave it 1, out of kindness and she is a big fan of SciFy, even bad SciFy.

I remember years ago when motels and hotels would advertise that they had HBO. That meant nothing to me as it seemed all they ever showed was sports.

The tape I heard in Vietnam definitely used the F word. Not sure where it came from, but doubt it was bootlegged at a live performance. Maybe it was a recording made at a live performance for sale the way they often do.

When is it on? Sorry. Just realized this is not one of the upcoming TCM movie threads. It is not on the TCM schedule.

I just watched The Grass is Greener (1960) with Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons. Looked it up on ImDB and has a 6.6 rating. Personally I think it is better than that. Actually should say re-watched as we purchased the DVD years ago and watch it every couple of years.

Kitten with a Whip is a movie I would like to see again. Think I saw it on TCM years and years ago. Entertaining, but not sure I would want to purchase it. Peter Brown plays the deputy on Lawman which is broadcast on Starz Western channel daily.

I purchased a CD set a while back, Vietnam: Songs From the Divided House, produced by the History Channel. Don't know if it came from a TV series or not. But, it has Fish Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin' To Die Rag, but Country Joe and the Fish. However, it is not the one where F is the same as used at Woodstock. It means F-I-S-H. So I guess there were two versions produced for distribution?

I agree that this would be good, but how will it get paid for? Unless I am mistaken TCM might be financially solvent, but not by much. You also have to subscribe to a higher cost tier to get it. I also imagine that the costs for broadcast rights to many TV shows may be higher than what TCM pays for old movies. Most old TV shows are cut for long commercial breaks. I find it interesting that some of the networks now schedule the 30 min shows for 40 or 45 minutes to get in all the commercials they want. Of course if we could eliminate pharmaceutical and attorney ads (as in the good old days), we might not have a problem.

On my Spectrum cable, I get at least half a dozen channels showing old TV shows primarily. Even more if I want to use the TV hooked to an antenna. I will say I have noticed a change since about 3 years ago. Many of them used to show old TV shows from the 50's and 60's and now they are showing ones from the 70's and 80's. I guess they are trying to appeal to different demographics and will probably move to 90's and 00's. GetTV seems to be focusing primarily on westerns, but I don't watch it anymore, so not sure. As for Murder She Wrote, it seems to be all over the place and sometimes for many hours at a time. TNT and TBS (other "Turner" networks) seem to be gravitating toward reality shows, much as the other networks have. Very sadly.

I think I alluded to that earlier re: make-up artists, photographers, etc. If you want proof, the next time you go to a medical or similar office pick up a People magazine and look at the candid shots. As for the classic beauties, I think both they, their managers and publicists and the studios made sure that the publicity pictures were first class.

The TCM site has a feature where if you click on the movie on the schedule, you go to a link where you can request a reminder via email.

What is your point? Are you saying TCM should show these type shows once per year? Or are you saying that TVLand only show series and no movies? Regardless, there are plenty of TV channels and networks showing old TV shows. Not to mention all the internet, smartphone and whatever connections out there. There is ONLY ONE network that shows classic movies. Fox Movies does show some from 3 AM till 3 PM, but not a great selection.

You are both correct about Martha Vickers, AKA MacVicar in some movies. While she was good in The Big Sleep, I particularly enjoyed her in The Falcon movies she was in. She could "sit in my lap" anytime, even if I am standing up.

NO!!! Turner Classic Movies is for MOVIES. Once you try to determine acceptable TV movies, it gets too confusing. Would also open up the flood gates for all those movies of the week, etc. the networks ran into the ground in the 60's through 80's. What about Hallmark movies? They must do a few hundred a year. Personally I like the TV movies that Andy Griffith made; Winter Kill (1974), Girl in the Empty Grave (1977) and Deadly Game (1977), which I have on DVD's. These were attempts at launching new series before he hit with Matlock. There are sufficient existing outlets for TV movies. Furthermore, as more movies move into the "classic" range, there are thousands of regular movies that TCM needs to show, while continuing to show the movies they now show. AND absolutely NOT to TV shows, to include the pilot "movies" for some. There are more than enough outlets for those now - and the number is growing.

Impact was mentioned in another thread; Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow (or something like that). I had responded thinking I was on the Noir Alley thread. When I realized I had posted an NA comment on another thread, I just copied it to NA.

Just watched this and had forgotten that it was sort of a promo for The Glass Bottom Boat, which followed. Of course, Nancy Bernard, 1966 Maid of Cotton didn't care. She got to go to MGM studios in Hollywood.

Wonder how many of these guest star shots were to revive a waning career or to promote an upcoming one. Now they go on TV to sell God awful products.

Welcome back. Had an interesting conversation with a friend recently. She said someone she knew stated that if her father had not belonged to a union, she would not have been able to to college. My reply was that neither my sister nor I would have gone to college if my father had not belonged to a union. Significant is that all of us were in the Deep South. A goodly number of the unions that existed 30+ years ago are now gone.