RaquelVixen

> {quote:title=bbbobbb wrote:}{quote}Two more for tomorrow (11Sep11): > > If I Forget You at 11:26AM > > > > > > and > > > > > > Glimpses Of Morocco and Algiers at 4:50PM > Just for clarification, the times you posted are for Pacific Daylight Time. Found *only* on the weekly schedule it shows If I Forget You (1940) to be shown at 2:26 PM EDT and Glimpses of Morocco and Algiers (1951) at 7:50 PM EDT. Also, it begs the inevitable, is it *unscheduled* if it is posted in advance? Food for thought.

On Tuesday, August 30, 2:21 PM EDT, "Old Natchez on the Mississippi" (1939), a FitzPatrick TravelTalk, prior to the airing of Show Boat (1951). Keep em comin' TCM Elves. May I take this opportunity to formally request "Grand Canyon, Pride of Creation" (1943) from the FitzPatrick canon for future viewing pleasure? Much obliged.

Am I the only one who caught the phantom short aired on Saturday, Aug. 6 at 5:47 AM EDT? It followed Destination Tokyo ( 1943). Its title was "Floral Japan" (1937) and it's a TravelTalks from James A. FitzPatrick. I anticipated such a short but I was hoping it would be the lesser screened "Cherry Blossom Time In Japan" (1936). Are you reading this, TCM elves?

After the airing of George Washington Slept Here (1942) at 9:33 AM EDT on July 31, for the fourth time this summer season, My Country 'Tis of Thee (1950) ran as an unscheduled short.

It's more of a promotional featurette promoting their month long Arab Images on Film series. It's produced by TCM and it's to promote those upcoming films in the series. It's rather akin to their "Word of Mouth" productions in which current film stars discuss some aspect of a film or actor from the past. That movie will then be scheduled to air.

Did anybody else catch the unscheduled short that ran before Land Of The Pharaohs (1955) last night? It was a FitzPatrick TravelTalks consisting of "Ancient Egypt" (1938). I thought they would run something considering the amount of time before 9:45 PM EDT.

Actually, Desert Killer (1952) is a short that is becoming a semi-regular on the unscheduled bill of fare. It ran back on June 19, and two weeks prior to that, it ran again as a phantom in the night.

My warm, close personal friends tell me that a phantom short reared its head on Saturday. July 9, at 7:20 AM EDT. The FitzPatrick TravelTalks short, Glimpses of Peru (1937) ran after the feature film, Kentucky Kernels (1935). Curiously, this is the second time that an unscheduled TravelTalks followed Kentucky Kernels. Glimpses of Kentucky (1941) had the honor the first time. Must be something in the water in that Blue Grass State movie.

Lest we forget, *24* Hour Alert (1955) ran recently, albeit unscheduled, on June 14 at 5:15 PM. Such much repetition! Thank you, Cuddles. I wonder if anyone realized a short that was on the schedule never made it to the light of day. Looking at London (1946), a FitzPatrick TravelTalks, was scheduled for Tuesday, July 5, at 12:34 PM EDT, but the length of the previous film, Madeleine (1950), made it impossbile for this short to start at this time. Instead TCM ran some filler. So we can chalk this one up to an error in scheduling.

Here's a couple more phantom shorts to add to the mix: On Friday, June 24 at 4:40 AM EDT, after Creature From the Haunted Sea (1961), we were entertained to another unscheduled airing of "My Country 'Tis of Thee" (1950). Then later on that morning after It Happened One Night (1934) at approximately 9:50 AM the Hollywood-Hist-o-Rama:Robert Taylor (1962) short was inserted before the top of the hour.

June 8 update: At 12:18 PM EDT after Montana (1950) we were treated to another phantom short. The title is "Desert Killer" (1952) and this short also received an Oscar nomination.

Starting at 7:48 PM EDT, a phantom short struck again. This one is "Gadgets Galore" (1955), another Oscar nominated short.

I'm really disappointed I missed "Grandad of Races" (1950). Color shorts of Italy are rare indeed. I thought of a way I could view it though. I have a Netflix free month trial subscription and if I rent "The West Point Story" (1941), it is contained as a bonus feature on that disk. This way I won't have to wait for TCM to air it again, if they ever do.

On Sunday, June 5, at 7:48 PM EDT, after the airing of the Ambassador's Daughter (1956) we were once again treated to an unlisted short. It was titled "Crashing the Water Barrier" (1956), and it's a technicolor feast about the son of race car driver Sir Malcolm Campbell's attempt to break the water speed record. TCM is similarly attempting the break the world's record for the number of unlisted shorts aired in one calendar year. The current world record holder: TCM, of course.

On Saturday the 28th after the airing of Ensign Pulver (1964) at approximately 7:49 PM EDT, there was a phantom airing of a TravelTalks short. This one was Floral Japan (1937) which preceded the 8 PM airing of Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)

After High Sierra (1941) at 5:47 PM EDT, the Phantom struck again with an unlisted airing of the short, So You Want to Be a Detective (1948). We sure could use a detective to figure out when the Phantom will strike again!

I think I will journey to my kitchen for a cuppa java to comfort myself from the loss of not seeing theTravelTalks short, Java Journey (1939) on Sunday morning last because it was given the Phantom treatment. Can anyone stop this Phantom from striking again?

The PHANTOM STRIKES AGAIN ! As a colleague just pointed out, after the feature Cairo (1942) aired, the TravelTalks short, Cairo "City of Contrast" (1938) was slipped in at 1:42 PM EDT like a thief in the night. The audacity ! the treachery ! Maybe this necessitates a call to.............Batman?

For the sake of completeness, I harken back to Friday, May 13, at 11:40 PM in which the short, "The Voice that Thriled the World" (1943) was given the Phantom short treatment. That darn Phantom sure gets around.

In revisiting Saturday April 30's faux pas, the weekly schedule had listed two shorts that were supposed to air betweeen 11:00 AM and 12 Noon EDT. The first was "For the Common Defense" (1942) at 22 minutes followed by "The Perfect Tribute (1935) at 20 minutes. Why they were scuttled in lieu of the Buck Rogers fare is anybody's guess but it elicits more head scratching courtesy of our friends at Turner Classic Movies.

Here's one that escaped the schedule makers. On April 28, at approx. 7:48 PM EDT, after the airing of The Big Country (1958), the M-G-M TravelTalks short, "Rocky Mountain Grandeur" (1937) saw the light of day.

There appears to be an unscheduled block of at least 25 minutes after the airing of Gettysburg (1993) and before the start of the The Red Badge of Courage (1951) at 3:00 AM EDT on April 26. I hope we don't get the umpteenth airing of the MGM Parade of "The Pirate".. Snooze

Is responding to one's own post rather like talking to oneself? To be or not to be....................that is the question..... I think I'll have an omelette with my Hamlet.

The plethora of unlisted shorts continues unabated. I'm not under the impression it is the oversight or carelessness on the part of some TCM staffers, as many have argued, but I believe it is an overt attempt by TCM to keep viewers glued to their screens during the time between feature films. The unlisted shorts are too endemic to be anything but a desire to keep people tuned attentively. Smart on their part.

Perhaps the scheduler or the editor is the same person who thought March only included 30 days because the TCM Monthly Schedule for March 2011 ended on March 30. What happened to March 31? Go figure! Edited by: RaquelVixen on Mar 31, 2011 2:48 PM