when my family first got cable TV in Oct. '81 i used to watch the Knicks/Nets games on this station! they even showed some of their playoff games that season(81-82).
Thank you so much for posting this. At almost 4 pm, trapped in 2012, this video just about made the hoidays complete. Bliess you, seriously. It isn't everyday that one gets to feel 10 again. Thank you so, so very much.
Just for the hell of it I looked up what WWOR was running today and tomorrow at the times they should be running the King King and Godzilla movies. Freaking Divorce Court and Law and Oder reruns!! What a load of shit! Not that it matters much anyways since our cable company no longer carries WWOR and it's no longer an independent superstation. It's just another nameless faceless used to be good station in a sea of crap that thinks infomercials are actual entertaining programming!!
@MOSUGOJI The only thing on WWOR worth watching nowadays is Family Feud, which they previously carried during the Dawson and Combs years. At least WPIX still gives us Odd Couple and Honeymooners.
Wow ,WOR certainly has fallen far if that is all they show now worth watching. I haven't seen either WOR or WPIX in years since Time Warner cable dumped all of the superstations except for TBS and WGN America. Neither of which are any good anymore either. TV in general just plan sucks nowdays. I remember when cable tv used to be awesome. Now it's pretty much all BS all the time on 100+ channels.
Back in the day, WNYW, W(W)OR, and WPIX used to compete against each other on Thanksgiving by airing quality classics, 9 had this, 11 had March of the Wooden Soldiers and whatever else, I'm sure 5 had some holiday stuff as well. 11 went back to showing March, while 5 and 9 just show their regular schedules on Thanksgiving. If FOX wants to be competitive against Tribune, they need to bring traditional shows back to 5 and 9 for Thanksgiving and Christmas like 11 has done.
Thanks for posting this! I took all of these commercials and edited them and King Kong together. Now all I have to do is start the DVD at 1 pm on Thanksgiving and I'm back in time! Now if I only had the bumpers for Son of Kong and Mighty Joe Young...
Apart from the first "King Kong" promo which was voiced by Phil Tonken, the V/O on duty at Thanksgiving 1981's "Holiday Movie Special" was Art Helmer.
Great to see those clips back again! I just want to say one thing, I used to watched it since I was a kid when "King Kong" was on the "Holiday Movie Special". I missed those good old days of the start of the holiday season and some Thanksgiving dinner.
In addition to that, this is probably James Rolfe favorite film, James Rolfe which is the guy wo inspired the AVGN did a review of this classic masterpiece from the "Holiday Movie Special" as aired on WOR-TV.
If you haven't seen his review of "King Kong", it's in the 7th installment of "Cinemassacre's Monster Madness 3". Go check out his review on his channel "JamesNintendoNerd" or "cinemassacre". This would be a lot of fun.
Ah, Thanksgiving memories in NYC. I remember showings of "The Incredible Mr. Limpet" and "A Man Called Flintstone" on some 70s Thanksgiving mornings. Then in 1988, WOR had an afternoon marathon of Superman to celebrate his 50th anniversary, with special guests Noel Neill and Jack Larsen.
I've got a bad tape of the marathon somewhere in a box.
Allow me to thank you again for all these great memories in the videos you upload. I'd rather watch these than any of those bad homemade videos that people put up.
"The Incredible Mr. Limpet" and "A Man Called Flintstone" were shown on abc-tv channel 7's The 4:30 Movie all Thanksgiving Week - along with the Judy Garland animated film "Gay Purr-ee", the Adam West "Batman" movie, and the Cathy Lee Crosby "Wonder Woman" TV-Movie.
Yep! James Rolfe, the guy who inspired the AVGN did covered all the Godzilla films last year on his "Godzillathon" special except for "King Kong" where he reviewed that film last month during "Monster Madness 3".
About a month and a half ago, James reviewed all the Godzilla games for the NES, SNES, Game Boy, Xbox and PS2. The first two "Godzilla" games for the NES are horrible. Very bad game. And so does the other ones.
This Godzilla games was from one of his shows called the "Angry Video Game Nerd", and it was funny with a lot of swearing. AVGN is the Man of the Hour.
I watched it on GameTrailers about a month and a half ago.
I love the AVGN! Saw the Godzilla game reviews a while back, and I found it funny that Toho themselves actually published the earlier games (NES/GB/SNES)
I saw somewhere that James was a NJ native (Clifton I believe) so no doubt his first exposure to King Kong was on one of the annual presentations on WOR-TV.
OH, and lest I forget that on the Simpsons DVD for "Treehouse of Horror III" where the parody "Homer Kong" appeared, on the commentary track, one of the writers recalls seeing King Kong every year "on Channel 9!" and also made a reference to "The 4:30 Movie" on the previous story (Clown Without Pity)
EVERY Thanksgiving was King Kong Time! As we smelled the food cooking and listened to the too-Chinese guy scream "All hand on deck, everybody on deck!".
when my family first got cable TV in Oct. '81 i used to watch the Knicks/Nets games on this station! they even showed some of their playoff games that season(81-82).
elwin38 1 month ago
Thank you so much for posting this. At almost 4 pm, trapped in 2012, this video just about made the hoidays complete. Bliess you, seriously. It isn't everyday that one gets to feel 10 again. Thank you so, so very much.
wasteland70 1 month ago
Just for the hell of it I looked up what WWOR was running today and tomorrow at the times they should be running the King King and Godzilla movies. Freaking Divorce Court and Law and Oder reruns!! What a load of shit! Not that it matters much anyways since our cable company no longer carries WWOR and it's no longer an independent superstation. It's just another nameless faceless used to be good station in a sea of crap that thinks infomercials are actual entertaining programming!!
MOSUGOJI 3 months ago
@MOSUGOJI The only thing on WWOR worth watching nowadays is Family Feud, which they previously carried during the Dawson and Combs years. At least WPIX still gives us Odd Couple and Honeymooners.
johnissoevil 1 month ago
@johnissoevil
Wow ,WOR certainly has fallen far if that is all they show now worth watching. I haven't seen either WOR or WPIX in years since Time Warner cable dumped all of the superstations except for TBS and WGN America. Neither of which are any good anymore either. TV in general just plan sucks nowdays. I remember when cable tv used to be awesome. Now it's pretty much all BS all the time on 100+ channels.
MOSUGOJI 1 month ago
Back in the day, WNYW, W(W)OR, and WPIX used to compete against each other on Thanksgiving by airing quality classics, 9 had this, 11 had March of the Wooden Soldiers and whatever else, I'm sure 5 had some holiday stuff as well. 11 went back to showing March, while 5 and 9 just show their regular schedules on Thanksgiving. If FOX wants to be competitive against Tribune, they need to bring traditional shows back to 5 and 9 for Thanksgiving and Christmas like 11 has done.
johnissoevil 3 months ago
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johnissoevil 3 months ago
Great video! You need to throw the "Broadway show of Evita" commercial in there too...that and Playland
wareagle7298 3 months ago
what year was this?
gothsoul82 4 months ago
@gothsoul82 81-82
tapthatt2012 4 months ago
@tapthatt2012 sweet thanks!
gothsoul82 4 months ago
Thanks for posting this! I took all of these commercials and edited them and King Kong together. Now all I have to do is start the DVD at 1 pm on Thanksgiving and I'm back in time! Now if I only had the bumpers for Son of Kong and Mighty Joe Young...
ssosmcin 1 year ago
@ssosmcin wish i had them too. enjoy and have agood one!!!
tapthatt2012 1 year ago
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WLDSAVE 3 months ago
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@ssosmcinTHANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENT .IT MADE ME SMILE.I DO THE SAME THING. AND DONT FORGET MARCH OF THE WOODEN SOLIDERS @ 9AM
WLDSAVE 3 months ago
Apart from the first "King Kong" promo which was voiced by Phil Tonken, the V/O on duty at Thanksgiving 1981's "Holiday Movie Special" was Art Helmer.
wmbrown6 1 year ago
Great to see those clips back again! I just want to say one thing, I used to watched it since I was a kid when "King Kong" was on the "Holiday Movie Special". I missed those good old days of the start of the holiday season and some Thanksgiving dinner.
In addition to that, this is probably James Rolfe favorite film, James Rolfe which is the guy wo inspired the AVGN did a review of this classic masterpiece from the "Holiday Movie Special" as aired on WOR-TV.
HomeoftheGoodGuys 2 years ago
If you haven't seen his review of "King Kong", it's in the 7th installment of "Cinemassacre's Monster Madness 3". Go check out his review on his channel "JamesNintendoNerd" or "cinemassacre". This would be a lot of fun.
HomeoftheGoodGuys 2 years ago
Ah, Thanksgiving memories in NYC. I remember showings of "The Incredible Mr. Limpet" and "A Man Called Flintstone" on some 70s Thanksgiving mornings. Then in 1988, WOR had an afternoon marathon of Superman to celebrate his 50th anniversary, with special guests Noel Neill and Jack Larsen.
RoyKnable 2 years ago 2
i think i have a tape of those superman shows and some promos for the marathon. had 1 posted on my last cjannel
tapthatt2012 2 years ago
I've got a bad tape of the marathon somewhere in a box.
Allow me to thank you again for all these great memories in the videos you upload. I'd rather watch these than any of those bad homemade videos that people put up.
RoyKnable 2 years ago
@RoyKnable
"The Incredible Mr. Limpet" and "A Man Called Flintstone" were shown on abc-tv channel 7's The 4:30 Movie all Thanksgiving Week - along with the Judy Garland animated film "Gay Purr-ee", the Adam West "Batman" movie, and the Cathy Lee Crosby "Wonder Woman" TV-Movie.
BrooklynChivalry 5 months ago
@ 8:30 --- Today's classic WOR-TV HOLIDAY MOVIE SPECIAL is being brought to you by TAPTHAT
TRKoneAD2 2 years ago 2
Thank You for posting this video Tap!
This brings back happy Thanksgiving memories from my childhood!
timmymylad 2 years ago
One of my favorite videos reposted! Thank you Tap! King Kong and Godzilla films was what Channel 9 was all about!!!!!
DanZero77 2 years ago
Yep! James Rolfe, the guy who inspired the AVGN did covered all the Godzilla films last year on his "Godzillathon" special except for "King Kong" where he reviewed that film last month during "Monster Madness 3".
About a month and a half ago, James reviewed all the Godzilla games for the NES, SNES, Game Boy, Xbox and PS2. The first two "Godzilla" games for the NES are horrible. Very bad game. And so does the other ones.
HomeoftheGoodGuys 2 years ago
This Godzilla games was from one of his shows called the "Angry Video Game Nerd", and it was funny with a lot of swearing. AVGN is the Man of the Hour.
I watched it on GameTrailers about a month and a half ago.
HomeoftheGoodGuys 2 years ago
I love the AVGN! Saw the Godzilla game reviews a while back, and I found it funny that Toho themselves actually published the earlier games (NES/GB/SNES)
I saw somewhere that James was a NJ native (Clifton I believe) so no doubt his first exposure to King Kong was on one of the annual presentations on WOR-TV.
DanZero77 2 years ago
OH, and lest I forget that on the Simpsons DVD for "Treehouse of Horror III" where the parody "Homer Kong" appeared, on the commentary track, one of the writers recalls seeing King Kong every year "on Channel 9!" and also made a reference to "The 4:30 Movie" on the previous story (Clown Without Pity)
DanZero77 2 years ago
Tap, that is OLD SCHOOL NYC TV! Grew up on it myself. And Old School is WAY COOL!
NEPatriot 2 years ago 2
we would watch this every thanksgiving
i still watch it every holiday
tapthatt2012 2 years ago 2
EVERY Thanksgiving was King Kong Time! As we smelled the food cooking and listened to the too-Chinese guy scream "All hand on deck, everybody on deck!".
dyinglikeflies 2 years ago
As always, you are the man!!
RolloSmokes 2 years ago