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The 4:30 Movie is a television program that aired weekday afternoons on WABC-TV (Channel 7) in New York from 1968 to 1981. The program was mainly known for individual theme weeks devoted to theatrical feature films or made-for-TV movies starring a certain actor or actress, or to a particular genre, or to films that spawned sequels.
The 4:30 Movie is a 2024 American semi-autobiographical coming-of-age comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith. It stars Austin Zajur, Nicholas Cirillo, Reed Northrup, Siena Agudong, and Ken Jeong. The story is loosely based on Smith's experiences sneaking into movie theaters as a teenager and his earliest romantic endeavors. [4]
Despite its being a major player among the local movie shows for nearly 18 years, the program today is largely forgotten in relation to WABC-TV's better-known The 4:30 Movie. The Movie 4 title was also used at varying times until the 1970s by NBC 's two other owned-and-operated stations on channel 4, WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. and (to a ...
WABC-TV in New York City ran The 4:30 Movie weekdays from 1968 to 1981. Other ABC owned-and-operated stations also used the format at different times in the afternoon. Some local stations also telecast 'morning movies' in much the same format; these were often shown from 9:30 A.M. to 11:00 A.M., and like the afternoon films, would often be ...
The first was "The Big Show," later rechristened "The 4:30 Movie," a 90-minute lead into Al Primo's groundbreaking "Eyewitness News" at 6 and 11 pm. [16] Scott voiced these programs with an exciting, engaging style that kept viewers tuned into WABC from 4:30 to 7 pm, and the ABC network news and entertainment programming which followed.
Smith may talk about “The 4:30 Movie,” or most anything else, at his Higher Ground appearances. He went into his Q&A side hustle assuming the same 1,000 people would keep showing up.
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During the 1970s, ABC's local owned-and-operated stations (in a few of the nation's biggest cities; at the time, they all broadcast on channel 7) featured The 4:30 Movie on weekday afternoons (the actual time varied by city, but generally after ABC's morning/midday game shows and soap operas); it featured mainly major Hollywood theatrical ...