NBC Monday Night at the Movies Open: "Rollercoaster"

[linusvanpelter]

Timothy Bottoms is one cute terrorist!

[nealadams70]

my uncle philburn thought it was great that more minorities were being placed into jeopardy in the movies...in 1959, only whites were being terrorized like this

[fyadcorp]

@nealadams70 lmao

[RPULTZ69]

couple of the scenes in the film were shot at Richmond's King's Dominion and used the Rebel Yell

[DirkNader]

I sooooooo remember this movie. WOW!!! I was kinda scared to ride coasters

[donjabroni]

Can't say I saw the movie back then, I was probably watching something on ABC most likely. Besides Diff'rent Strokes and Facts of Life, NBC really sucked back then. But I do remember the 79/80 NBC movie promo. It was very good.

[mikey42]

Good movie, "Rollercoaster." The band Sparks is in it, too.

[vinylrecord68]

I remember watching it...that very night...and I'm with you, imnotbuddha...30 years? Yikes!

[EwingOil]

OK, this is why NBC was in last place throughout the late 70s, early 80s

[imnotbuddha]

HOLY MACARONI! I remember this night. 30 years?  What the hell man? 30 years?

[BaileySEA]

@imnotbuddha

I remember this night too. I was 15 and just finished dinner and my dad was in the family room and this was starting.

[joker3092]

I've noticed something here,if anybody else has picked up on this,the voice of Timothy Bottoms is dubbed here,just for this opening preview,not the movie itself,listen very carefully at 0:40 sec. "you will only hear this once" and at 0:52 sec. "Harry,you know what happens when you don't follow directions"-it's not Bottoms voice,no way is it.apparently,someone though his voice was too weak or not tough sounding enough,so they dubbed it,but his regular voice is heard through out the movie!

[MrLogoman007]

You mean the guy on Punky Brewster who tried to separate Punky and Henry?

[dandiacal]

George Segal with a stache!

[wvben]

Did I see the captain from Monk?

[hibob418]

That's, "Rollercoaster," in Sensurround !!!

[TheKillerWithinNJ]

I used to watch this & Airport '77 over and over as a little kid on cable (HBO). When it disappeared from cable and saw it was being broadcast over regular TV, I had to watch it again. Hey, before VCR's you never knew when you would see your favorite movie again! -

As soon as I picked up a DVD player years later, Rollercoaster was one of my first purchases!

[crypticreign]

Wow! Where could you even find this movie today?

[SeanElGatoTelevision]

Encore Action runs this movie every so often...and it is on DVD.

[Cavillier1970]

@crypticreign Blockbuster. The company has Direct Access where they can mail you a movie for $3.99 and you have it for a week. I know cause I work for the compnay.

[Creepshow314]

@crypticreign Netflix instant play!

[tapthat2012]

love the graphics.

[wmbrown6]

The V/O here was Howard Reig - apparently after 1978-79, New York announcers were doing the opening bumpers, though the Burbank announcing staff (Don Stanley, Donald Rickles, Peggy Taylor and [possibly] Victor Bozeman) continued to do ad and closing bumpers.

[eyeh8cbs]

This is the greatest movie ever- the letterboxed laserdisc was one of the first LDs I ever bought. I've got the old DiscoVision one too but haven't had time to watch it to see how bad it looks.