ABC Sunday Night Movie Open: "Star Trek the Motion Picture"

ABC's premiere on 2/20/83, preceded by a KOVR ID with Don Strickland.

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• 1983

[newedition2006]

RIP Majel Roddenberry, DeForest Kelley, and James Doohan

[eve6kicksass]

Be sure to post that Libya update when you can...lol...im already on the edge of my seat. :)

[cylonace]

ABC Sunday Night Movies,Saturday morning cartoons, Were the best from the mid 70s to mid 80s, God I miss those days.

[knoxvilleguy2]

Interesting times. Star Trek was only made into a movie because of the success of Star Wars & Close Encounters. If those hits hadn't been made & been so popular back then, Movie versions of other pop culture icons w / never have taken place. " Star Trek : Phase II " wouldn't have been recycled into ST: TMP, w / better sequels, & Superman wouldn't have become a big - budget movie, either. Christopher Reeve would've probably continued on soap operas & so - so movies.

[lcromy]

@eve6kicksass Here's your Libya update. GADOFFI'S DEAD!!! ha ha ha ha

[Ilovemovies917]

I missed how ABC looked like that back in the day. I hate today's ABC!

[thetwentyteens]

@eve6kicksass

Hahahaha!!! That was classic.

[RedHeadRedemption]

back in 83 a Television premiere of a movie was big news, today you've already seen in in the theatres once, twice on ilegal download and 4 times on Bluray and on-demand. How did those people not kill themselves?

[samsonguy10k]

@nadine2k101 Comics sold for under a dollar, then, as well. Good times.

[darthkurland]

@newedition2006 Don't forget Gene Roddenberry.

[theslabbxxx]

Wow...take me back.  the sunday night movie theme on abc. Those were the days. That theme music always made me want to stay up past my bedtime as a kid.

[DevSodDribble]

@RideMyBMW Exactly. Someone should go in an take the MF'er out, like we did with Bin Laden.

[nadine2k101]

this abc sunday night movie intro was used while 55 was the national interstate speed limit.

[nadine2k101]

even 28 years ago Libya had problems!!!

[erentheca]

"There is no comparison"

[RideMyBMW]

wait a minute,did the newscaster just say Libya updates? WTH? Its 30 years on and we´re still messin with that clown Gaddaf ?

[longmind]

@eve6kicksass interesting foreshadowing... probably have all the Libya you want right now, but I'll give you the update from 1983: Just before this aired, Reagan booted Libyan ambassadors out of the US when a terrorist plot was uncovered to kill US diplomats in Rome. Gadafi (then spelled Qaddafi) imposed a "line of death" around Libya that extended 100 miles from the coast. Internationally only 12 miles was recognized. The US shot down several Libyan jets that flew out beyond that 12 mile limit

[bigshu65]

@eve6kicksass

Suddenly, updates about Libya have become very relevant

[bryandamadman]

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNN­NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[KronnangDunn]

@collegeman1988 I bet you haven't seen 2001: A Space Odyssey...

[helipilot27]

THANK YOU so much for uploading this!! There are very few things that I remember with clarity when I was 10, but this IS one of them. I watched this on that night! I remember that night so well. Mom made Rice Krispy squares, and my brother and I saw Star Trek for the first time in our lives! I remember how cool that intro looked too. I also remember pleading with our parents to let us stay up late to see the end because of school the next morning...Thanks again!

[myerschrism]

Back in the day...love it!

[eyeh8nbc]

I remember this ran til midnight, instead of the usual 11 PM. My parents let me stay up and watch it anyways, but I got tired about an hour in. Don't remember what was on in the 7-9 slot that was important enough not to get pre-empted to run this earlier.

[eyeh8nbc]

@tsntana ABC also usually ran a demo of closed-captioning on the Caption 2 channel, and a schedule of all captioned shows on broadcast and cable on the Text 1 channel (which my new TV can't display.) ABC was the first network to support closed-captioning, I have a recording from 1980 where they're testing it out during a show.

[eyeh8nbc]

@newedition2006 And analog TV. (And bug-free pictures. And ABC on KOVR.)