This was not only an event. This was something you'd look forward to all year! Especially if you didn't have cable and a VCR. This was one movie everyone got excited for. With Pizza and Brownies... Good times...
This ABC movie intro was so epic back in the day. I loved it every single time I heard it, it just gave me goosebumps. The Superman movie made it that much more incredible.
This was a two night event. My dad had an RCA VCR and he recorded both nights of this for me. It's amazing to think of how much has changed on TV in the last forty years. In 1982, we only had four television stations in the hills of Northwest Arkansas. We wouldn't get cable for another three years.
Ahhh...the memories! This movie aired in 2 parts, on Sunday and Monday nights. I remember my 3 siblings and I asking our parents if we could stay up pass our bedtime, on both nights, to watch this since both nights were school nights. Wonderful, amazing memories.
I definitely remember watching this on ABC when I was seven. It was the only reason I was allowed to stay up late both nights. But I had to go straight to bed afterwards. Next day it was all any of us could talk about at school.
So funny I just read this not five minutes after showing this video to my 10-year old son and telling him the same thing lol. I was nine at the time and remember BEGGING my mom to let me stay up because all the other kids would be talking about it the next day. And we did! I told my son this was when we didn’t have social media or on-demand. No pausing…no rewinding. If you missed it you were SOL 😂
holy shit. i have this broadcast on tape. It was aired over 2 nights because of the enormous amounts of extended footage and commercials, of course. ABC ended the first part when Lois fell from the helicopter. Some cliffhanger
Only twice ABC-TV had shown Superman-The Movie with the extra footage not shown in theaters. First half of it on a Sunday Night and the last half on a Monday Night in February, 1982. Then 9 months later the whole movie in its entirety with the extra footage and it didn't get to be shown like that on premium cable, which would make the movie's true running time for over 3 hours.
Took years before i saw the extended cuts (Superman III the most widely seen one globally though?) This was quite an event back in 1982. But is there also footage of the 1994 KCOP even longer cut of S:TM promo on youtube to be found somewhere's?!
Due to the following special presentation of the SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE, "TODAY'S F.B.I." will be seen at Ten, Nine Central and Mountain. So stay tuned and I'll see you right after the movie!
imagine. this used to be so exciting for a Sunday night. used to plan it all week. then on Sunday night the family all got in front of the TV and watched the ABC Sunday night movie ( ABC ruled Sunday night. CBS had Saturday night) family time. imagine that happening. Now, forget it. everyone has their face in social media or texting all day. What a time it was. Christmas, everything was so much more exciting. TV was better. Movies were better. Toys were better. Video games were allot more fun. Oh well. least we have the memories
Special Tonight! An ABC Network Premiere! "SUPERMAN"! Starring Christopher Reeve in the title role! With Marlon Brando! Glen Ford! Gene Hackman! Valerie Perrine! And Margot Kidder as Lois Lane! The Man of Steel! The world's first superhero!
Tonight's Special Presentation of "SUPERMAN", is brought to you by... ATARI! A family of electronic products that challenge you, teach you, touch your life. Discover Atari and discover how far you can go!
This was not only an event. This was something you'd look forward to all year! Especially if you didn't have cable and a VCR. This was one movie everyone got excited for. With Pizza and Brownies... Good times...
Dominoes of course
@@kascnef With twisty bread too!
Man, I remember the theater laughing hysterically at "...who's got YOU???"
This ABC movie intro was so epic back in the day. I loved it every single time I heard it, it just gave me goosebumps. The Superman movie made it that much more incredible.
This was a two night event. My dad had an RCA VCR and he recorded both nights of this for me.
It's amazing to think of how much has changed on TV in the last forty years. In 1982, we only had four television stations in the hills of Northwest Arkansas. We wouldn't get cable for another three years.
Ahhh...the memories! This movie aired in 2 parts, on Sunday and Monday nights. I remember my 3 siblings and I asking our parents if we could stay up pass our bedtime, on both nights, to watch this since both nights were school nights. Wonderful, amazing memories.
ABSOLUTELY A CLASSIC INTRO!!!
I used to watch this with my dad and I love the ABC intro. They need to bring it back. Reminds me of Japanese Dragon ball Z interludes.
I definitely remember watching this on ABC when I was seven. It was the only reason I was allowed to stay up late both nights. But I had to go straight to bed afterwards.
Next day it was all any of us could talk about at school.
So funny I just read this not five minutes after showing this video to my 10-year old son and telling him the same thing lol.
I was nine at the time and remember BEGGING my mom to let me stay up because all the other kids would be talking about it the next day. And we did!
I told my son this was when we didn’t have social media or on-demand. No pausing…no rewinding. If you missed it you were SOL 😂
holy shit. i have this broadcast on tape. It was aired over 2 nights because of the enormous amounts of extended footage and commercials, of course. ABC ended the first part when Lois fell from the helicopter. Some cliffhanger
Good old days of TV
Awesome, I remember that. Thanks for posting it!
wow awesome intros exciting music why they don't make stuff like this anymore?
Japan still does built into the anime.
The narrator sounds like Verne Lundquist
In This Clip, From 0:16 To 0:41, It Was ABC-TV's The ABC Sunday Night Movie Video Open From Sunday Night, February 7, 1982.
Yes it was. It was on the all the different cuts of the film.
“Say Jim, that’s a bad outfit!”
1:16 Does anyone else think this bad omen of things to come for video games?!
Only twice ABC-TV had shown Superman-The Movie with the extra footage not shown in theaters. First half of it on a Sunday Night and the last half on a Monday Night in February, 1982. Then 9 months later the whole movie in its entirety with the extra footage and it didn't get to be shown like that on premium cable, which would make the movie's true running time for over 3 hours.
Someone should redo this in 4K.
Totally remember that.
Please upload and I want to watch the movie Superman with commercials on ABC.
Superman: Up, Up, And Away!
In This Clip, From 0:00 To 0:03, It Was WTVW-TV's Superman Video ID For Sunday Night, February 7, 1982.
Took years before i saw the extended cuts (Superman III the most widely seen one globally though?) This was quite an event back in 1982. But is there also footage of the 1994 KCOP even longer cut of S:TM promo on youtube to be found somewhere's?!
Due to the following special presentation of the SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE,
"TODAY'S F.B.I." will be seen at Ten, Nine Central and Mountain.
So stay tuned and I'll see you right after the movie!
This is WTTW Channel Seven Evansville.
I may be mis-remembering this, but was this premier of Superman a Two-night event? Because of the film's length, they divided it into 2-nights.
Damn.
imagine. this used to be so exciting for a Sunday night. used to plan it all week. then on Sunday night the family all got in front of the TV and watched the ABC Sunday night movie ( ABC ruled Sunday night. CBS had Saturday night) family time. imagine that happening. Now, forget it. everyone has their face in social media or texting all day. What a time it was. Christmas, everything was so much more exciting. TV was better. Movies were better. Toys were better. Video games were allot more fun. Oh well. least we have the memories
WTVW CH 7 IS NOW THE CW
Special Tonight!
An ABC Network Premiere!
"SUPERMAN"!
Starring Christopher Reeve in the title role!
With Marlon Brando!
Glen Ford!
Gene Hackman!
Valerie Perrine!
And Margot Kidder as Lois Lane!
The Man of Steel!
The world's first superhero!
Tonight's Special Presentation of "SUPERMAN",
is brought to you by...
ATARI!
A family of electronic products that challenge you,
teach you,
touch your life.
Discover Atari and discover how far you can go!
Hackman has a still pic. :)
It's very likely I actually watched this, but I don't know it for a fact.