ABC Sunday Night Movie - Raiders of the Lost Ark

[phillipedwards92]

definitely one of the greatest films of all time. george lucas and steven spielberg did a wonderful job on this movie.

[swatch71]

I'm surprised George Lucas isn't suing ABC so he can digitally change the title to "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark."

[1976REDRYDER]

THESE MOVIES ON TV WERE SO SPECIAL!!!! THANKS FOR POSTING

[Piebauld]

For all those who say they need to put this back into theatres -- they did. I saw the 25th Anniversary Edition of Raiders, recut to 70 mm and looking super good. It played in Chicago at the Music Box for one week to sold out seatings. But there was no fanfare, probably because nobody could trumpet "new surprises" like they did for Star Wars. The "oohs" and "aahs" were still there with a crowd, especially with parents brining their kids. Let's hope for a wide 30th Ann release!

[tomakalinus]

@Piebauld I can't speak for anyone else, but that's what I meant: I want a *wide* release this time. :)

[Retrofan]

@Piebauld I know that they had a re-release for films like Grease for its 20th, as well as other classics like Gone With The Wind and The Wizard of Oz. But if Raders had a 25th anniversary limited re-relase, as it was with Superman: The Movie in 2001 and Dirty Dancing in 2007, then I have to add my voice to the chorus and say....."DAMN RIGHT, THEY SHOULD!"

[videozfann]

The memories of seeing these big movies on tv as a kid.

Kickass intro promo on top of that, top notch.

[tomakalinus]

@jm113825 I never heard anything about an Indiana Jones theatrical re-release in 2001. Was it very limited? It certainly wasn't like the Special Editions, which were everywhere.

I certainly would have seen the movies on the big screen again, if I could have! (For Raiders, it would have been the 1st time in the theater for me!)

[VWVVWVVWV]

Awesome! Great grab!

[retrofann1]

This only amplifies this great movie and my fav in the franchise.

[tomakalinus]

@jm113825 Sorry, I'm not following the thread of discussion you're referring to. Who all did what in 2001? :)

[jayce79]

Now This way the day's of big T.V. , and exciting events. Man , I miss it.

[videozfann]

@jayce79 No doubt there.

[head909]

Love this promo. Shocked that Karen Allen got top billing in the intro; or at least that's my interpretation of her being mentioned before Mr. Ford.

[AngelofAnguish]

Unfortunately, for SOME reason, I (just) DON'T find this movie entertaining anymore. What would I rather watch instead? The original Jaws and/or Jaws 2.

[AHeartOfFireAndIce]

You wanna talk to god??? let's go see him together .....I got nothin better to do!!!!

[CodyZamboni]

When Raiders was in on network TV first time in 1986, all the gore fx left intact. No cutting. Awesome. Toht's face melting, and Beloq exploding. Cool. Never in history of network TV seen so much gore, up until that time. Only edit when Indy said Shit when the Nazi sub arrived. Dubbed it to say " oh no "

[30wonderwoman]

Reality tv sucks "BIG BALLS" today.  Please bring back the old school TV.

[Jua410]

that is a good song

[StefanoFan27]

does anyone have the abc sunday night movie promo of other indiana jones movies, like, the temple of doom, and the last crusade?.

[youngrebels75]

It'sa little bittersweet to see this now. Like everyone says, when we saw something like this or even the CBS bongo drums, back then, you knew something big and special was coming on! Kids talked about it on the bus on the way home from school what was coming on that night... now kids aren't surprised by anything. You could tell them the Justice League movie with all the stars and characters is coming out in February... no reaction but, "oh... hmm cool I guess."

[anubisamoun]

1986 I was 22 LOL ......smiles. How I got my nickname Jayhawkjaymes my sisters said Indiana Jones name was taken LOL. I miss the days of good TV. The 80's was one damn great decade.

[HBLINK]

I was 8 and this is great!!

[MisterEvasion]

Television was cosy in those days. Although Raiders had long been out on video by that time, many older folks never had the machines and thus this television premiere was something to look forward to.

Television as a medium even then was becoming oversaturated and less interesting for specials and movie prenieres.

[BrenGun1971]

Yes! I was 15 in 1986 and I still get tingles thinking about getting to watch that movie on a Sunday night!

[silverrhawk]

You knew something big was coming on.

Great memories!

[thx113875]

God I miss those days!

[JayhawkJaymes1]

I was 20 years old LOL damn those were the days to live even TV was fun to watch!!!

[olddocVenkman]

WOW!! Talk about nostalgia! This was the 1986-87 Season Premiere to the abc Sunday Night Movie (I think it was the 2nd Sun. in September). It wasn't the movie that stopped me cold, but, got my blood pumping instead. I got this bookmarked on my iphone. F**kin' awesome! FYI - "Ghostbusters" was the season premiere for the 87'-88' season.

[videozman1]

Damn, How cool in this?

[MrDemolitionMan]

This film should be on TV every day.

[grimbragreen]

I am remember I watch old tv with movie Indiana Jones on CTV same as ABC about in mid 1980's.

Now, no longer to watch movies on Sunday this year because many people have DVD players or blu-ray players.

[trainxing100]

but with DVD and blu ray we dont miss nothing cuz we can watch indy kick nazi ass when ever we want ^_^

[CrazedCreationz]

lovin this video!! leave me a comment

want to chat with singles Az

[Usul573]

heh, in Stereo where avaliable

I think my reciever can get Dolby Surround Pro Logic out of anything

[RDarth]

Why did he introduce Karen Allen first? I think Harrison is a little higher on the acting food chain.

[tvnutboy]

Alphabetical Order, perhaps?

[acceptthis01]

I remember a similar order in the theatrical trailer for Conan The Destroyer. There, Schwarzenegger was introduced last despite being top billed in the film.

[john6380]

Sometimes they put a very important person at the end in trailers and opening credits.

[joey75220]

"Remember, this is the film that stopped you COLD!" Loved Ernie Anderson (he has great vocals), but what the fuck does 'stopped you cold' mean?!?! That's some bullshit...

[NepperCat]

I remember watching Raiders on HBO practically every day as a kid.

[trainxing100]

thats cool! I just got an indy whip and im gonna crack grapple and pull with it everyday

[trainxing100]

I want to watch this on Abc

[hilarioph]

Yeah but it was digitals from

dvd. But this promo is a mono

version of this promo

[sonofdenny75]

They NEED to put this back in theatres!

[tomakalinus]

I know! The Star Wars movies got a re-release. Why not Indy? :)

[KiCreativeStudios]

@tomakalinus It's better that they don't re-release it. They would re-do all the effects at the end digitally and it just wouldn't look the same....

[FishfilmsInc]

@KiCreativeStudios the did with the DVD release in 2003, (or for the HD broadcast not sure which) they had one of the Desert Chase cliffs redone digitally

[AdobeExcel]

i so agree! i never watched the three original indy films on big screen before. my first harrison ford movie on big screen was kotcs.

[Xwingpilot]

About nearly 2 years ago, my high school did a fund raiser for our orchestra by playing movies at this music theater downtown, which USED to be a movie theater. And so they picked various movies LIKE Raiders of the Lost Ark. And The Star Wars Trilogy.

[JOHNSTAGS]

@sonofdenny75 I was lucky. I got to see a re-release back in '06 of the trilogy in New York City. What a blast!

[hulkwolf1971]

Too good for words.

[SidJustice1]

Even worse, I remember seeing it in theaters.

[hulkwolf1971]

Me too Sid and not a bad thing.

[eurasian73]

You're right about this being released on ABC in 1986. I had recorded this when it first aired on ABC and put down 1986 after recording it onto my VHS tape! Thanks for posting this!

[gundammon]

I think it's funny that Karen Allen gets top billing ahead of Ford

[cgsguy]

When the "Indiana Jones" films were on network television, ABC broadcast "Raiders" and "Temple of Doom" while CBS broadcast "Last Crusade"

[tomakalinus]

You're right. Good memory! :)

[baconisyummy1]

yes, opening night, 12:01 baby, probably will only get 3 hours of sleep!

[fanarchy]

tomakalinus...i love you. i had this on tape as a 10-year-old kid and used to watch it over and over again.

[jayhawkjaymes]

What a time to live :) It was truly the best of times.

[joshacid37]

I remember this *word-for-word*...This was my tape of Raiders for about 6 years. From replacing the usual ABC Movie music with the Raiders March, to naming Karen Allen before Harrison Ford (?! Alphabetical, maybe?), this is a complete nostalgia trip. Thanks for posting this!

[signboyy]

haha i remember this premier too i was 14. back then we would tape all the network premiers of movies on vhs instead of renting them. then every time you watch the movie you end up seeing the network premier intro. haha i get excited just seeing that network intro cause it means a really good movie is going to be on which we can tape on our vcr. ah the memories.

[cuppacker]

I remember this premiere!! I remember me and my dad was trying to figure out how to work the VCR when this came on. Thanks for posting!!

[teflonmagnet]

love this guy's voice-over...almost sounds like a bad maury povich impression. same guy did star trek tng voice-over.

[fanarchy]

TUH-NIGHT....reminds me of that one monster truck promoter from the simpson "You better be dead or in jail"

[nebraskame]

LMAO! Nice! :-D

[bigbill1991]

Now that is a movie intro that gives me chills.

[durhay]

Anyone have the promo for Empire Strikes Back on NBC, with the James Earl Jones vo of Darth Vader "intercepting the transmission?" Darth Vader breaks in and basically takes over the vo duties.

[tomakalinus]

Oh, wow! I never even heard of that. Sounds great. I have the original Star Wars from CBS, but my first copies of Empire and Jedi were from HBO. I'll check if there's anything interesting on them.

Thanks for pointing this out, though! I'll keep my eyes open. Let me know if you see that clip online.

[fanarchy]

watch?v=aK_6j6pBPVg

[tomakalinus]

That's another great one. Thanks for posting!

(Indy IV is out in less than 10 days!)

[fanarchy]

watch?v=aK_6j6pBPVg

[CitySon]

That montage with Ernie Anderson's voice & the Indiana Jones theme in the background; larger than life, man! God, I miss the 80's.

[tomakalinus]

Good point. This movie took 5 years to get to TV. Can you imagine that these days? Everything is out on video and DirectTV in 5 *months*! Back then, a TV premiere was a big deal, and a lot of fun.

[TheREALforeverone]

Now everythng feels so rushed.

[WarriorBoy]

Movies on cable channels such as TBS, USA, TNT, Comedy Central, etc. still take about 2-3 years to get to those networks, and I'm pretty sure that it's been about 5-6 months for video from theatre releases at least since '97.

[mdumas43073]

It would be hard to explain to today's youngsters just what a big deal it was to be able to watch big movies like this on TV back then. I was 13 years old in 1986, my family was still a couple years away from owning a VCR and about a decade away from getting cable, so I well remember how stoked my sibs and I were for this airing of a movie we'd loved in the theater.

Using John Williams' theme was a cool gimmick, although I'm still partial to the standard "Star Tunnel" music.

[axodo]

tv in the us was far better than today, many of the today's shows -with very few exceptions- are not so good and let me tell you, my favorite ones of today are ellen degeneres show and the tony danza show -the one on the morning-

[handsumbum]

THE NETWORK TELEVISION PREMIRE

[bigbill1991]

CLASSIC!

[tomakalinus]

You all might be interested to know that Karen Allen has signed on to reprise her role as Marion for Indiana Jones IV. Sweet!

[Ortzmet]

Thanks for this bit of info, I really hope they do make it!

[roon41]

I miss Ernie Anderson's unique,deep,thunderous delivery..you never hear much of that anymore since the ad agencies decided to stop trying to reach any viewer over 34..Now all the VO actors sound exactly the same,like they're barely 25,with that airy,raspy tone. UGHH! Thank god that Ken Nordine and Gary Owens

are still around

[pookie67]

agree 200%, there are no good VO actors anymore, all the great voices are gone. (Ernie Anderson, Percy Rodriguez, Tim McIntyre, etc) Today's VO's are pathetic.

It's over, I'm off this planet

[tomakalinus]

LOL! Good call. I never noticed that before. Either it's alphabetical, like you said, or maybe it's just the suspenseful build-up to the bigger name, so everyone will cheer when it's announced. Or something like that. Even when this aired, Karen Allen wasn't a bigger star than Harrison Ford. ;)

[smichelle65]

Karen Allen gets billed before Harrison Ford? I guess they're doing it alphabetically--it's still strange.

[padawan23]

The greatest adventure film in my book. This takes me back to a simpler time; a time when my father would have popped some popcorn for me and sat down to watch the sunday night movie with me. He passed in 2005. God bless ya dad; I miss you!!

[tomakalinus]

No problem. :) Yeah, someone asked me to post this. I knew I had a network airing, but had forgotten that it was the premiere until I watched it again. I had also forgotten that the usual ABC movie music had been replaced by John Williams' "Raiders March." Very cool!

[agent0005]

D'OH! Just noticed you already said that.

[agent0005]

Thanks so much for posting this! This is from about 1986-87 from the very first broadcast television premier, right?