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Anyone else remember that freaky made-for-TV movie, "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark"? (At least that's what I think it was called --- I only saw it once.) That movie gave me the chills when I was a little kid. Of course, if I saw it now, I probably wouldn't think much of it, but it stuck in the back of my mind... Same goes for the Karen Black TV movie, "Trilogy of Terror". That little Zuni Fetish Doll (or whatever it was called) that chases her around her apartment with a knife was creepy beyond description.
And Dark Night of the Scarecrow!
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Jan 11, 2017 - 9:08 PM
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Octoberman
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Anyone else remember that freaky made-for-TV movie, "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark"? (At least that's what I think it was called --- I only saw it once.) That movie gave me the chills when I was a little kid. Of course, if I saw it now, I probably wouldn't think much of it, but it stuck in the back of my mind... Same goes for the Karen Black TV movie, "Trilogy of Terror". That little Zuni Fetish Doll (or whatever it was called) that chases her around her apartment with a knife was creepy beyond description.
I just wanted to add that I saw your post, mate.
I didn't want you to think that you weren't heard.
There's a bunch of us here that cherish that movie (as well as "Trilogy Of Terror"), but there already were a couple of pre-existing threads about it.
In fact, the first time I saw this thread, those movies occurred to me, too. 
If you saw it at just the right age, your were scarred for life!
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Jan 11, 2017 - 11:58 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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And any idea what was the last regularly scheduled theatrical film that aired during one of these slots?
Since 2006, ABC has technically scheduled a Saturday Night Movie, to replace its Fall programming of college football games, after the football season has ended. But week to week, those hours are just as likely to be filled by repeats of series shows rather than movies. And sometimes the slot is filled by recurring programming brought in at mid-season. In recent years that has included NBA basketball games. ABC has also occasionally scheduled Saturday night movies in the spring (when it has the annual showing of THE TEN COMMANDMENTS) and summer.
As to the last time that one of the three major U.S. networks programmed a regularly scheduled movie night into its new Fall season, you have to go back to 2005. This was the last year that CBS offered its CBS Sunday Movie, and the last year that ABC started the Fall with the ABC Saturday Movie of the Week rather than college football. By 2005, the CBS series was primarily made up of made-for-television films. But the ABC series was almost exclusively theatrical films.
As it turns out, the 2005-06 season of the ABC series was its longest, because in earlier years it shared its time slot with "The Wonderful World of Disney," which also often ran movies. One of the theatrical films shown most recently on the abbreviated ABC Saturday Movie of the Week was TOY STORY (1995) on May 21, 2016. As for the 2005-2006 last full season of the series (39 weeks), it started off with ARMAGEDDON (1998) on September 17, 2005 and ended with PEARL HARBOR (2001) on August 26, 2006.
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