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Weekend of
July 4th
(B&W) 1965
Zelda, Bird, and Theo serve up a science fiction gem this holiday weekend starring Marilyn Hanold, James Karen, and Lou Cuttell (famous from appearances on “Seinfeld”). Filmed in Florida and Puerto Rico, the film tells the story of a damaged android robot who fights alien invaders. Despite the title, neither Dr. Frankenstein or the monster make an appearance! But with a robot built with human pieces named Frank, what could go wrong? Well, seems that all the women on Mars died in an atomic war except for one whacked out Princess. She and her 60’s “Mini Me” make it to our planet and try to steal all the women to continue the Martian race! Will they succeed?
Weekend of
July 11th
(Color) 1968
This whacked out made for TV flick is sending the world a message, Mars Needs Women! So do other earthlings! This sci fi was produced, written, and directed by self-proclaimed schlock artist Larry Buchanan. Tommy Kirk and Yvonne Craig star. Will this space age Tinder mission work? Zelda, Bird, and Theo swipe right. Catch this classic before we retire the title for awhile.
Weekend of
July 18th
(Color) 1959
Have you ever thought teenagers were from another planet? Well you’re right! A flying saucer arrives on Earth, searching for planets suitable to raise Gargons, lobster-like monsters. The chaos begins when alien Thor vaporizes a dog named Sparky with a ray gun and figures out the earthlings are intelligent, but must be eliminated. The beatniks say this brings a whole new meaning to turning the lobster loose! Blast off with this low budget campy drive in classic!
Weekend of
July 25th NEW
(B&W) 1954
The beatniks have heard of “Devil Dogs” and are now ready to meet the “Devil Girl” in this science fiction classic directed by David MacDonald and starring Patricia Laffan, Hugh Mc Dermott, and Hazel Court. A female alien is sent from Mars to acquire human males to replace their declining male population. When negotiation, then intimidation, fails she must use force to obtain co-operation from a remote Scottish village where she has landed her crippled flying saucer.
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Off Beat Cinema on Retro Television airs Friday at 4am & 3pm Eastern/Pacific and streams at www.getafteritmedia.com
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An Off Beat Celebration of America’s 250th Saturday at 4pm on WBBZ-TV 5
“Off Beat Cinema America 250 Special Celebrates Classic American Commercials!”
The beatniks from the long running nationally syndicated movie show “Off Beat Cinema” are proud to present an America 250 Special celebrating the brands that shaped a nation.
Watch as “Theo” ( Jeff Roberts ), “Spectra” ( Nia Marcolini ), “Lana” ( Allie Brady ), and “Bird” ( Tony Billoni ) do a deep dive into television history to ask the age old questions “Where’s The Beef,” to who won the “Cola Wars!?”
This hour long retrospective brings back memorable messaging that defined our culture from the 60’s through the 80’s. How many will you remember? The beatnik banter sets it all up, as well as sharing some important background.
This “Off Beat Cinema” special was the brainchild of Get After It Media Co-President and COO Otto Padron, in collaboration with program creator and writer James Gillan, as an America 250 media special.
Watch Saturday July 4th at 4pm on WBBZ-TV 5 in Buffalo.
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ABOUT OBC
Off Beat Cinema is a two-hour hosted movie show that airs on television stations throughout North America on the retroTV Network along with a series of independent stations. Off Beat Cinema promises to show you “the movies that must be shown” – the good, the bad and the foreign (in their original languages, of course!)
Off Beat Cinema began on October 31, 1993 as a diversion from the flood of late night infomercials that seemed to consume the available airwaves of television’s last cool frontier: late night! Once a hip haven for insomniacs, second shifters, beatniks and kids who would sneak back to the TV when their parents were solidly in dreamland, late night television had become a vast wasteland of hucksters hawking everything from cooling systems to spray-on hair in a can.
The show is filmed in the Hungry Ear Coffee House, a whacked-out poetry basement located somewhere in downtown Buffalo, NY. The Hungry Ear Coffee House is a mad pad, Dad… and the kind of place where Boris Karloff could sit with Ed Wood and discuss the transcendence of the ego and how that applies to Moe Howard getting a cream pie in the face. A comfortable pad where former Beatle Pete Best could sit with the Goo Goo Dolls and discuss the merits of 3D giant insect fear films. I think you get the picture.
