wpix sunday morning movie open

[greenwichlirr]

11:30, and I'd be planted right in front of the tube getting ready to watch the weekly A&C film (albeit HEAVILLY butchered for time!). Then I'd head outside and spent the day doing nothing of any importance at all with my friends. Damn. Growing up sure does suck sometimes...

[IDiggSocialMedia]

I remember see this intro most every Sunday when Abbot and Costello aired! Beautiful tune!!! Glad I found it and thank you!

This TV network airs alot of Abbot and Costello films now and you don't have to pay for cable or satelitte to get it!

[dustincrops]

I meant, NOT 400-500 channels... Haha

[dustincrops]

I meant, NOT 400-500 channels...haha

[dustincrops]

I grew up in Brooklyn NY and remember watching Abbott and Costello movies before or after going to church. I have such cool memories of WPIX and the other channels; when there was only 8 channels, 400-500. Haha. Good times, good times...

[oldschoolbx1970]

Thanks for posting this on here. By the way Tap That 2012,do you have the other Sunday Morning Movie intro with a song called Hot Butter by Popcorn?

[tapthatt2012]

@oldschoolbx1970 all these years of searching have come up empty.

[oldschoolbx1970]

@tapthatt2012 Damn,that really,really sucks. But thanks anyway.

[david2uzday2000]

I always felt that WPIX should have renamed this slot "the Abbott and Costello theater". In all of the years having breakfast with my Dad in front of the TV after coming home from church, I can never remember any other movies. So many good memories! A much more innocent time.

[cnmmnc8852]

@david2uzday2000 You know, my memories in NJ were of this bumper and watching it, mid morning GETTING ready to go into church. Because I remember watching the 'Hour of Power' earlier on channel 5 and then switching onto channel 9 or 11, getting my tie on straight, and going to church. I remember very 'vanilla' movies but they were kind of breezily entertaining. Yeah there were a bit of Abbott & Costello movies but the bumper always reminded me of early spring, maybe because of the color scheme.

[johnkun77]

Didn't they show a Courageous Cat cartoon after the movie? Maybe before??

[KiCreativeStudio]

AH Then Abbot and Costello meet Frankenstein would come on after!! =)

[trains74]

I MISS WPIX 11 !!! LOVE ALL THE WAY FROM CHICAGO !!!

[HomeoftheGoodGuys]

Remember when I was watching one of the Cinemassacre's "Madness Madness" videos with AVGN where they showed a clip from a movie that it was on, it was "Abbott & Costello Meets Frankenstein". That movie was on WPIX-TV when it was part of the "Sunday Morning Movie".

[fromthesidelines]

'wm' is right!

[EDDSMITTY1]

Yes..this is the only name that I ever had for YT. I'm loving all the retro stuff, especially the NYC broadcast tv stuff..little thing like this clip takes me back!

[EDDSMITTY1]

You're welcome, bro! I actually got to speak to you a couple of years back about some old school popping and breakdance vids you posted. You have a brother that has the same name as I do:"Eddie", and I'm from Brooklyn. Remember now?

[tapthatt2012]

@EDDSMITTY1 i remember-- do you use the same name?

[brickchruch]

@mrzip8 there was a time when wonderama came on saturdays , the kids were on the blue team or the gold team but on sundays it was called the Sonny Fox show but there were no games or teams just Sunny talking to the kids

[MaryAnneRosato]

This really brings back memories of growing up in NY from the 70s thru the late 80s when I left. Actually makes me a little sad...

[joeygc1972]

As a kid of the 70's, seeing a clip like this is great, but it also saddens me by putting me in mind of the huge contrast of the times then and the times now. Ah, the simplicity of those days! I felt it slipping away starting in the mid-80's and suddenly those days were just a dream of long ago. Was it all 30 plus years ago?!!

[Shawnster65]

@joeygc1972 @joeygc1972 Yeah I'm afraid it WAS 30 some years ago..I myself just turned 46 today and I often look back on the past with a heavy heart, knowing it won't be again.

I myself dearly miss WNEW 5's Creature Features on Saturday, as well as WPIX 11 and Chiller Theatre. Not to mention all those great old Aurora monster kits we grew up with.

[brickchruch]

I wish i could find a better audio of this

[xevious2501]

Something eerily scary about seeing and hearing the old footage. Knowing just how old youve become and how many people from back then are now gone.

[wdm1219]

You read my mind, and my heart too xevious2501. My sentiments EXACTLY...

[Shawnster65]

@xevious2501 I agree..it's hard to put a finger on what it is, exactly. Just as we have survived to see and hear the people, places and things that came before us, so will we too be remembered by someone far, far in the future, who will look back on us and think the same way. The circle of life, I guess.

[Shawnster65]

I remember many lazy afternoons in the summer, watching monster movies or A&C (depending on whether it was Saturday or Sunday) and having friends over to share in the chills and the laughs.

Mom was in the kitchen doing something, dad was mowing the lawn outside, and there was an endless supply of monsters and laughs to be found on any given channel.

The memories are priceless--friends, family, monsters and comedy and everything inbetween.

The America we used to know, not like today.

[tapthatt2012]

yes indeed my friend.

[Shawnster65]

Hey, 'Tap! So good to hear from ya'!

I'm feeling a bit better here today, but not out of the woods yet. But knowing that I got my old friends at Youtube and our old movies to keep us happy is the best holiday gift of all, no doubt about that ;-)

[hhsgrad1988]

@Shawnster65 I remember too. The Sunday mornings my grandfather would be up watching Abbott & Costello, and during the holidays March of the Wooden Soldiers. But I couldn't stay, because my aunt was always draging me to church LOL! What happened to television like that?

[Shawnster65]

@hhsgrad1988 Oh yeah, Stan and Ollie's greatest movie. WPIX 11, every Christmas. As far as old shows go, I dearly miss Chiller on Saturday nights, and most everything else from that day. If only they sold live Sea Monkeys and X-Ray Glasses from the back cover of the old comic books again!

[hhsgrad1988]

@Shawnster65 Sorry it took so long for a reply, but I have been reminising about those 70's Sunday morning TV shows, and their commercials. Forget Gimbels, and Macy's, I got good clothes from Two Guys and TSS, and K-Tel had the best music selections!PIXPIXPIXPIXPIXPIX!

[Shawnster65]

@hhsgrad1988 PIXPIXPIX! I remember that..the old Space Battle game contest for Intellivision. Good call! And the other stuff..Gimbel's, Macy's and all those commercials. I remember all that very well!

[1400deadwood]

@hhsgrad1988

TSS on Linden Blvd? I used to get clothes there back in the day & go way back to Klein's on 14th St in Manhattan. That was a long time ago. :)

[d4seasons]

@1400deadwood oh wow. you're in the same group w/ me. i still have some auto supplies that i've prchased from TSS & EJ KORVETTE from the 1980's. damn. those great retailers are gone history.****

[mrzip8]

@Shawnster65 On sunday it was wonderama on channel 5 than A&C on PIX I think at 10:30. We only had 11 or 12 channels but there was so much good stuff on tv back then.

[Shawnster65]

@mrzip8 I remember it all, bud. :-) The cool thing was that for only so many channels, there was so much stuff goin' on! It was an added bonus for me, because we got UHF stations clear as a bell due to living high up on a hill, and having a rotary antenna to boot. Whether it was WNEW 5 Creature Features, or WPHL 17 and Dr. Shock, we got it all. Great days indeed!

[brickchruch]

classicphile check out the old colt 45 commercial

[brickchruch]

tap do you have picture for a sunday afternoon

[brickchruch]

Great tv or turn to channel five and watch the bowrey boys untill time for the nfl today on cbs

[unclejulis]

I cant believe how may people this tiny opening brings memorirs of sundys watching A&C and how nice it was this were realy simple back then. Good memories thaks for posting. this this theme sometimes pops up at me during the day mabye just remenising.

[classicphile]

I too am amazed. Who knew that these promos, bumpers, openings, etc would bring up old nostalgic memories? When I watched them at the time, I didnt think anything of them. Many is the time I couldnt wait for them to end so that the movie/tv show would begin. Now I look at them again after all these decades, and they bring me back to when I was a little kid, sitting in front of the living room 25 inch color tv set, watching my favorite movies and classic tv shows. Ah, memories.

[1952kid]

Such a calm and relaxing tune, makes me remember how it was, lay on the floor and watch an afternoon movie.

[Shawnster65]

We all know that the Sunday Morning movie was usually an Abbott and Costello jaunt.

It was usually 11 or 12 noon and the movie would run about 2 hours. At least that's how I remember most of them.

[classicphile]

Yep, an Abbott and costello film. It usually started at 11:30am (sometimes 11am)and ran for an hour and a half to 2 hours. I also recall that opposite it, on channel 5 (WNEW), was usually a Tarzan film which began at 11am. I always prefered to watch the Abbott and Costello films. Even though I had seen each A&C film dozens of times over and even though there were many more Tarzan films than there were Abbott and Costello movies.

[Monstermack40]

Yes Shawnster, I remember that Like Yesterday. It was Abbott and Costello. The Movie started 11:30 and it was 90 minutes. 12:00 on channell 5 was the eastside kids comedy hour. I can't believe I remember that. The Music before the movie started was called hot butter popcorn.

[Shawnster65]

I remember that "hot buttered popcorn" song, in fact it played on the radio a few more times than I care to remember and I wound up hating it.

Weird, how many years (decades) ago that was for me, but then the rest of us who remembered it aren't gettin' any younger either, are we?

[fronio89]

Tap was the S.M.M intro theme from a song ? Or was it a jingle for WPIX ?

[tapthatt2012]

not sure, but sounds more like part of a song. i'll ask around.

[wmbrown6]

@fronio89 - It was a snippet of a KPM production piece from 1974, "Light and Happy," written by Sam Fonteyn. (Dolphin Productions, which produced this opening/closing, used a lot of British stock music for the opens/closes they crafted for WPIX and other stations.)

[fronio89]

@wmbrown6 Thank you for sharing that information. WPIX jingles are priceless. and the feelings they evoke are priceless.

[cnmmnc8852]

@wmbrown6 Re: SMM music "It was a snippet of a KPM production piece from 1974, "Light and Happy," written by Sam Fonteyn.  (Dolphin Productions, which produced this opening/closing, used a lot of British stock music for the opens/closes they crafted for WPIX and other stations.)"

Amazing! I am totally floored at the knowledge out there...Have to take off my hat to ya.

I still think we should have a secret handshake for us guys, or a codeword, you know, "Avocado-Green" or something. ;-)

[fromthesidelines]

This served as both an opening AND closing title, every Sunday morning from 11:30am-1pm(nyt) [this information is provided for those of you who never saw it].

[1975tooto]

I still whistle this tune today,and always have since its first day on wpix!

[brickchruch]

Yes one of the best theams

[EarlSnohomish]

The home of Abbott and Costello.

Thanks for the repost, Tap!

[tapthatt2012]

have to repost the "standards"

[MSTS1]

Yes.