Wor channel 9 Godzilla commercial holiday movie special 1981

Here is a commercial advertising the triple Godzilla feature for WOR Channel 9's "holiday movie special". This came directly from my 1981 betamax tape--enjoy

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[htsasele]

Did he say "Jack Palance stars in 'Godzilla vs. the Cosmic Monster'"? What the fuck, where did that come from? Or did he mean to say Jack Palance hosts 'Godzilla vs. the Cosmic Monster'?

[mazinz2]

@htsasele this was discussed before, we can call it a station blooper, though I can see Palance telling Megalon to go and destroy the city

[Tarantulisimo]

Godzilla movies were the Xmas Special & King Kong/MJY movies were the Thankgiving special, right? Or was it the other way around?

[mazinz2]

@Tarantulisimo, both would air during the Thanksgiving holiday (Kong on Thursday and Godzilla on Friday). They probably did show stuff round Christmas time and if they did it was not a yearly tradition with the station

[tapthatt2012]

happy holidays!!!! no  james bond marathons for me-----GODZILLA ALL THE WAY!!

[mazinz2]

@tapthatt2012 You got that right! Currently as I am typing this message the Godzila vs the Cosmic monster film is playing (my discs)

[bmovies60]

Now I know that having our favorite movies on DVD is a WONDERFUL convenience (I own HUNDREDS of movies and tv shows on DVD). You can watch them when you want, without commercial interruptions, and the viewing image is sharper than seeing them on the tv or movie screen. BUT a small part of me misses seeing these movies the way I did as a kid in the 1970s-80s: During the holidays, on a local tv station (WOR, WNEW, WPIX, etc) with commercials, on the rabbit eared antenna tv (no cable back then!)

[alnessang]

I remember Gozilla movies airing on tv in NYC sometime during Thanksgiving break '81.

[MOSUGOJI]

Just for the hell of it I looked up what WWOR was running today and tomorrow at the times they should be running the King King and Godzilla movies. Freaking Divorce Court and Law and Oder reruns!! What a load of shit! Not that it matters much anyways since our cable company no longer carries WWOR and it's no longer an independent superstation. It's just another nameless faceless used to be good station in a sea of crap that thinks infomercials are actual entertaining programming!!

[Kepley100]

Oh boy, next week is Thanksgiving, and I can't wait to pop in my KING KONG Blu-Ray (along with my SON OF KONG and MIGHTY JOE YOUNG DVDs)! On Tuesday, GODZILLA VS MEGALON is finally coming out on DVD and Blu-Ray (courtesy of Media Blasters), just in time for the Thanksgiving weekend! (BTW, I pre-ordered the GODZILLA VS MEGALON Blu-Ray on Amazon.) It was amazing discovering WOR-TV's HOLIDAY MOVIE SPECIALS three years ago and recreating them with the DVDs!

[Tarantulisimo]

@EarlSnohomish Do U remember if WOR did anything similar around Christmas-Time? And I was some1 would post some of those WOR employees' family Season's Greetings promos from back then....

[Tarantulisimo]

@tapthatt2012 Do U know this announcer's name? And did U ever locate the "Spaced Out Films" intro? "Spaced Out Films" was the name they changed Saturday morning's "Chiller Theater" 2 around '77-'78. And keep those commercial blocks coming!!!!

[Tarantulisimo]

@mazinz2 Does any1 know the name of this announcer?

[Metaldog67]

@htsasele lol!

[terrondt]

@bmovies60 i have many of these movies on dvd also but i agree with u. i loved watching these movies on thanksgiving afternoon into the evening as child in the late 1970's and early 80's. east turky dinner with trimmings and run to the tv to watch the godzilla flicks.