The 4:30 Movie (1970)

Country

United States

How it feels

It was a weekday afternoon TV show that played movies, often grouping them by actor or genre for a week. It would sometimes stretch long films across several days.

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What happens

The 4:30 Movie is a television program that aired weekday afternoons on WABC-TV (Channel 7) in New York from 1968 to 1981. The program was mainly known for individual theme weeks devoted to theatrical feature films or made-for-TV movies starring a certain actor or actress, or to a particular genre, or to films that spawned sequels. The more popular episodes were "Monster Week," "Planet of the Apes Week" and "Vincent Price Week." Some films, such as Ben-Hur and How the West Was Won, were of such length that an entire week was devoted to running the whole movie. Other films that ran longer than the program's 90-minute length were often divided into two parts and shown over two days. Often, The 4:30 Movie would rebroadcast installments of the nationally telecast ABC Movie of the Week. Variations of The 4:30 Movie were aired on other stations around the United States, most notably those also owned and operated by WABC-TV's parent network, ABC. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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