USA Saturday Nightmares

Kind of an anthology series USA used to air in the 80s. It kind became my baby when I started working there. Started at 8p with and episode of Hitchhiker or Ray Bradbury Theater followed by Alfred Hitchcock Presents and a "b" or "c" horror movie. This one I'm especially fond of because of the movie "The Brood". What a classic! I was the writer/producer. Alan Kalter the VO.

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• usa
• hitchcock
• raybradbury
• saturday
• nightmares
• horror
• movie
• alankalter
• brood

[SSNorway97]

I couldn't agree more baddog, I watch these clips on many saturdays evening to remember the good 'ol days of when TV was good. TV has good stuff that is few & far between, & certainly its share of bads. Its unfortunate that this is all there remember, someone should have told us then to invest in blank VHS tapes and get our VCRs ready to record every waking moment of the likes of USA. What about the announcer, his voice was perfect for USA, anybody know his name; still alive?

[peounderpar]

The announcer's name is Alan Kalter. Just saw him last night. You may now know him as the announcer for The Late Show with David Letterman.

[DaveSkellington]

Christ, USA used to be such an awesome channel. The programming now is still high quality, but not my cup of tea like this used to be. This, Night Flight, Up All Night, Commander USA, Cartoon Express, and Forever Knight were all my shows back then. Is there any way I can get these promos/openers/bumpers on a DVD from you? I'd gladly pay for it.

[peounderpar]

Afraid this is all I got. Sorry.

[nfnelson]

It has been so long. I thought the classic open had some slower, scary music, and had some hand on a book with the old "Saturday Nightmares" logo on it. This and Sammy Terry on WTTV in Indianapolis scared the crap out of me in the 80's.

[peounderpar]

Yeah that was the earlier version that we used and then updated to this new look somewhere around 1987?

[baddog7676]

I think The Usa Network, should make a "USA Network Classic" channel, and play some of their older shows, like this, Commander USA, and Up All Night. They could also play shows like "Silk Stalkings", "Make Me Laugh" and "Night Flight"

God that would be AWESOME!

[msmithstud]

shit i miss USA SATURDAY NIGHTMARES, THE HITCHHIKER, USA UP ALL NIGHT. They usually showed THE EXORCIST I AND II, PORKY'S I, II, AND 3. I didn't go to bed til about 5 sunday morning.

[cheapcape]

@SSNorway97 Like the saying goes "You don't know what you've got until it's gone." Damn, I miss this era!

[cheapcape]

@primenemisis You are 100% correct!

[cheapcape]

@GialloHorror I fully agree. Thanks to big media giants NBC, we are stuck with junk programs that want us to never question authority and accept moronic predicaments as "reality". I so miss the days when independent companies owned these once awesome cable networks.

[GialloHorror]

When I was a kid (10-15 years old) I LOVED this man. I watched Saturday Nightmares almost every week. I still don't think I appreciated it as much as I could have.

Looking back on this now, I miss it so much. There's NOTHING on, on Saturday nights anymore. Just a bunch of shitty sitcoms and garbage reality TV or cartoons.

Not many networks even play movies anymore, let alone horror films.

I long for the days of when USA Network was king. I'd kill to have this back!

[primenemisis]

@cheapcape Your preaching to the choir my friend...unfortunately our memories of USA are just that. As with everything that was cool back then has to come to an end. No matter how much we say USA sucks now those corporate goons could care less because unbelievably USA is like 1 of the top rated cable channels right now. Just like every other channel i guess what gets rating is showing the same shit 40 times a day. originality and creativity has gone down the tubes since 2000. A shame,

[cheapcape]

@primenemisis NBC sucks major balls for butchering this once awesome cable network!

[cheapcape]

@cashpresley It sure was.

[2010thekingofkings]

Damn I remembered these, use to get me all excited and scared at the same time.Those were the days when I loved USA network.

[primenemisis]

@baddog7676 Yeah they also had tons of original movies that they showed and cartoon express and friday night fights plus they would be able to show some of the old wrestling shows becuase wwe (wwf back then) is still being shown on usa...theres a lifetime movie network that shows all these old lifetime movies so it would be cool for usa to show all their old movies and shows...but since they merged with NBC i bet they lost a lot of rights to those programs...but well always have the memories : /