IT'S 4:30PM. DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR CHILDREN ARE?

If you were my mother and it was 1975, you'd know I was glued to the TV set watching the ABC 4:30 Movie. Airing right after Edge of Night on channel 7 in the New York metropolitan area, it was a widely popular program that aired teenage exploitation movies to big budget epics to B horror movies to TV Movies from the 50s, 60s, and 70s. I especially loved 4:30 Movie's theme weeks: Planet of the Apes Week, Beach Party Week, Elvis Presley Week, Horror Week, Troy Donahue Week, Gidget Week, etc. and would race home to watch them all.

I credit (or discredit?) this program for introducing me to the Sixties Starlets. They were all there----Carol Lynley, Pamela Tiffin, Diane McBain, Annette Funicello, Anjanette Comer, Shelley Fabares, Deborah Walley, Linda Harrison, etc.--dancing on the shores of Malibu, trying to snare Elvis on some tropical island or screaming in fright from a hideous thing in the attic or a mad man on the loose



The one down side to the ABC 4;30 Movie was that they had the nasty habit of shoe horning the movies into a 90 minute timeslot usually cutting them to shreds. If you were lucky they split the films into two parts. Even still I loved it and everytime I see the opening it sends me back to my youth.