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Schedule for 10/2/21 to 10/8/21 (Central Time) SATURDAY 10/2/21 TIME TITLE GENRE 5:00am Fractured Flickers (1963) Comedy Hans Conried and celebrity guests present dubbed over silent picture film clips. Featuring: Hans Conried, , Hans Conried, 5:30am Hopalong Cassidy: Bar 20 Justice (1938) Western Featuring: William Boyd, George Hayes 7:00am Night Owls (1930) Comedy Stan and Ollie help a police officer. Featuring: Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel 7:00am "The Real Winning Edge" features three young achievers per episode who have overcome obstacles in their lives through perseverance and making right choices. 7:25am The Live Ghost (1934) Comedy Stanley and Oliver join a crew on a ship that may be haunted. Featuring: Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel 7:50am Our Wife (1931) Comedy Ollie's married is thwarted by his future father-in-law. Featuring: Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel 8:20am See description above 8:30am Blondie's Lucky Day (1946) Comedy Dagwood is fired. So he goes into competition with his boss. His partner, a beautiful lady architect, falls in love with the son of Mr. Dithers' biggest client. Featuring: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake 10:10am Batman: The Movie (1966) Adventure The world's most notorious criminal minds team up to conquer Gotham City and it's up to the Caped Crusaders to defeat the nefarious foes and restore order. Featuring: Adam West, Burt Ward 12:25pm You'll Find Out (1940) Comedy-Sports Kay Kyser and his band fight to save a young girl trapped in a haunted mansion. Featuring: Kay Kyser, Peter Lorre 2:30pm The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (1947) Drama In 1900, a young widow finds her seaside cottage is haunted...and forms a unique relationship with the ghost. Featuring: Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison 4:45pm Young Frankenstein (1974) Comedy Neurosurgeon Victor Frankenstein has spent his life distancing himself from the legend of his monster-creating grandfather. But when he inherits Frankenstein Castle, the good doctor is drawn into the family business of reanimating the dead. Featuring: Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Cloris Leachman 7:00pm The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) Thriller Dr. Victor Frankenstein recounts the events that lead to his greatest creation and his worst nightmare. Featuring: Peter Cushing, Hazel Court 8:50pm Horror of Dracula (1958) Thriller A vampire hunter seeks to destroy Dracula at all costs -- even his own life. Featuring: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee 10:35pm Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1969) Thriller SATURDAY 10/2/21 TIME TITLE GENRE Dracula plots revenge against the priest who barred him from his castle. Featuring: Christopher Lee, Veronica Carlson 12:35am House That Dripped Blood (1971) Thriller A Scotland Yard investigator reviews cases involving a strange rental home. Featuring: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee 2:45am Bedazzled (1968) Comedy A hapless loser sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for seven wishes, but he still has trouble winning over the girl of his dreams. Raquel Welch stars. Featuring: Peter Cook, SUNDAY 10/3/21 TIME TITLE GENRE 5:00am Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965) Comedy An air race from London to Paris is threatened by sabotage. Featuring: Stuart Whitman, James Fox, Robert Morley, Terry-Thomas, Sarah Miles 8:00am Dog Tale Classics (2105) "Dog Tales" showcases dogs and dog lovers of all types, providing valuable information about canine health, training, grooming and overall dog care. 8:30am Dog Tale Classics (2015) See description above 9:00am Getting Green (2006) E/I 9:30am Getting Green (2006) E/I See description above 10:00am Made in Hollywood: Teen Edition (2014) Family Interviews with & Acting Career Advice from Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster, Kate Hudson, Angela Bassett, Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Aniston, Samuel Jackson + more, plus Career Information so teens can pursue careers working as Professional Actors in Hollywood. 10:30am Made in Hollywood: Teen Edition (2014) Family See description above 11:00am The Haunting (1963) Thriller A scientist travels to Hill House to study the paranormal activities inside the mansion's walls. Featuring: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom 1:25pm Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) Drama An elderly spinster, suspected of her fiancé's murder 37 years earlier, becomes increasingly unstable with the arrival of her long-lost cousin. Family secrets are revealed—with fatal consequences. Featuring: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten 4:20pm The Bride (1985) Thriller The Frankenstein legend becomes a fabulous love story. Featuring: Jennifer Beals, Sting, Anthony Higgins, Clancy Brown, David Rappaport, Geraldine Page, Cary Elwes 7:00pm The Dark Corner (1946) Film-Noir After being framed by his ex-partner and serving two years in prison, private investigator Bradford Galt has relocated from San Francisco to New York for a fresh start. But when the ex-partner turns up murdered, Bradford and his new love interest find themselves hunted by both the NYPD and the New York criminal underworld. Featuring: Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb, Mark Stevens, William Bendix, Mark Stevens, Kurt Kreuger, Cathy Downs, Reed Hadley, Constance Collier, Eddie Heywood 9:10pm Kiss of Death (1947) Film-Noir With a shadowy past behind him, an ex-con wants to start a new life with his children and new wife—but a past betrayal threatens to ruin everything. Featuring: Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray 11:20pm Illegal (1955) Film-Noir A former district attorney's life spirals when the mob enlists his help and someone close to him is endangered. Featuring: Edward G. Robinson, Nina Foch 1:15am Three Strangers (1946) Film-Noir A winning lottery ticket brings three strangers together and breaks them apart. Featuring: Peter Lorre, Geraldine Fitzgerald 3:15am Murder is My Beat (1955) Film-Noir A singer turns to a detective for help when she's accused of murdering a man that's still alive. Featuring: Paul Langton, Barbara Payton MONDAY 10/4/21 TIME TITLE GENRE 5:00am "The Real Winning Edge" features three young achievers per episode who have overcome obstacles in their lives through perseverance and making right choices. 5:10am Fantastic Voyage (1966) Adventure Featuring: Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch 7:20am Them! (1954) Sci-Fi Scientists investigate when strange and mysterious attacks by unknown creatures endanger civilization. Featuring: James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn 9:25am Confessions of an Opium Eater (Souls for Sale) (1962) Crime An American traveler discovers a criminal ring in Chinatown. Featuring: Vincent Price, Linda Ho 11:20am The Last Man on Earth (1964) Thriller After a terrible plague kills many, a man must survive in a world dominated by night creatures. Featuring: Vincent Price, Franca Bettoia 1:20pm House of Wax (1953) Thriller A wax artist becomes a murderous being intent on finishing his museum. Featuring: Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy 3:15pm House on Haunted Hill (1959) Thriller A millionaire offers ten thousand dollars to five people who agree to be locked in a large, spooky, rented house overnight with him and his wife. Featuring: Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart 5:00pm The Fly (1958) Sci-Fi A scientist has invented a matter transporter device and decides to test it on himself. But when a housefly enters the machine, his atoms are mixed with those of the insect, resulting in the monstrous transformation of his head and left arm. Featuring: David Hedison, Patricia Owens 7:00pm Return of the Fly (1959) Sci-Fi This sequel to Kurt Neumann's The Fly (1958) follows Francois and Philippe Delambre, brother and son of Andre Delambre, who died as a result of his experiments with a matter-transmitting device in The Fly. It is now a dozen years later and Phillipe has just laid his mother to rest. She spent the final years of her life traumatized, having witnessed Andre's horrible death. Phillipe convinces Francois to tell him what happened and of the device that destroyed his parents' happy life together. Philippe vows to perfect the matter transmitter, so that all of the heartache and sacrifice by his parents will not have been in vain. He hires a friend, Alan Hind, to help. Phillipe is unaware that Alan has shady business connections and a dark secret in his own past. Alan conspires to steal the secret of the device, but first he must get rid of a detective who has come to arrest him for an earlier crime, and then eliminate Philippe, who doesn't know what Alan has done, only that he's hiding something. Through Alan's conniving the same disaster that befell Philippe's father now occurs to him: his body parts are transposed with those of a house-fly. The human-sized fly goes on a rampage, trying to catch Alan and get revenge for what has happened to him using what faculties he has. Featuring: Vincent Price, Brett Halsey, David Frankham, John Sutton, Dan Seymour, Danielle De Metz 8:45pm The Omega Man (1971) Sci-Fi The only human survivor of a biological war confronts the zombie-like cult that attacks him. Featuring: Charlton Heston, Rosalind Cash 10:55pm The Mummy (1959) Thriller British archaeologists open a tomb and unleash a deadly force. Featuring: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee 12:50am The Mephisto Waltz (1971) Thriller An ailing and elderly satanist transfers his soul into the body of a young journalist through an occult ritual. It isn't long before the young man's wife realizes something strange is afoot, leading her to seek the truth—and make horrifying discovers. Featuring: Alan Alda, Jacqueline Bisset, Barbara Parkins 3:10am Devil Doll (1964) Thriller MONDAY 10/4/21 TIME TITLE GENRE A hypnotist goes after a woman's money with the use of a ventriloquist dummy.
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