Picto-Sked returns for its final installment of TCM’s Summer Under the Stars, 2016. Back to our usual programming after this one, but I just couldn’t skip Karloff!
Twenty-four hours of Boris Karloff movies begin on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) Friday morning at 6:00 ET. There are seventeen Karloff movies playing during the 2016 Summer Under the Stars celebration, and fifteen of those were released between 1931-1947.
It’s nice to see that TCM gained rights to play several of Karloff’s key Universal titles. In fact, they dominate prime Karloff hours between 8:00 PM and 1:45 AM when TCM plays the killer quartet of Frankenstein (1931), Bride of Frankenstein (1935), The Mummy (1932), and The Black Cat (1934).
Note: Today’s Boris Karloff TCM Summer Under the Stars TCM mini-site is here.
Today’s TCM US schedule follows and under that you’ll find one vintage newspaper advertisement for each of the seventeen (17!) movies on today’s schedule. Also included are a few old movie card images to add splashes of color and clarity to the otherwise black and white page. Enjoy!
Boris Karloff TCM Summer Under the Stars
US schedule, all times Eastern, August 26-27, 2016
- 6:00 am – Lured (1947)
- 7:45 am – The Lost Patrol (1934)
- 9:00 am – Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)
- 10:15 am – The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)
- 11:45 am – The Fatal Hour (1940)
- 1:00 pm – British Intelligence (1940)
- 2:15 pm – The Walking Dead (1936)
- 3:30 pm – The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)
- 4:45 pm – The Terror (1963)
- 6:15 pm – Black Sabbath (1964)
- 8:00 pm – Frankenstein (1931)
- 9:30 pm – Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
- 11:00 pm – The Mummy (1932)
- 12:30 am – The Black Cat (1934)
- 1:45 am – The Body Snatcher (1945)
- 3:15 am – Isle of the Dead (1945)
- 4:30 am – Bedlam (1946)
6:00 am – Lured (1947)
Above clipped from the Buffalo Courier-Express (NY), 21 October 1947, page 15.
7:45 am – The Lost Patrol (1934)
Above clipped from the Spartanburg Herald-Journal (SC), 3 June 1934, page 16.
9:00 am – Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947))
Above clipped from the Toledo Blade (OH), 19 November 1947, page 37.
10:15 am – The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)
Above clipped from the Reading Eagle (PA), 11 November 1932, page 25.
Related Reading: “She Came from Montana” – Myrna Loy as Covered by Newspapers of the 1920s
11:45 am – The Fatal Hour (1940)
Above clipped from the Berkeley Daily Gazette (CA), 5 October 1940, page 16.
1:00 pm – British Intelligence (1940)
Above clipped from the Spokane Daily Chronicle (WA), 27 February 1940, page 13.
2:15 pm – The Walking Dead (1936)
Above clipped from the Afro American (MD), 2 May 1936, page 10.
Related Reading: The Walking Dead (1936) – Lindbergh Heart Resurrects Boris Karloff
3:30 pm – The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)
Above clipped from the Kentucky New Era, 16 February 1940, page 6.
4:45 pm – The Terror (1963)
Above clipped from the Syracuse Post-Standard (NY), 29 September 1963, page 14.
6:15 pm – Black Sabbath (1964)
Above clipped from the Spokane Daily Chronicle (WA), 22 July 1964, page 8.
8:00 pm – Frankenstein (1931)
Above clipped from the Pittsburgh Press (PA), 10 December 1931, page 34.
9:30 pm – Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Above clipped from the Rochester and Beaver Daily Times (PA), 9 May 1935, page 7.
11:00 pm – The Mummy (1932)
Above clipped from the Deseret News (UT), 28 January 1933, page 6.
Related Reading: Moments of Horror as Boris Karloff Stars as The Mummy (1932)
If The Mummy makes you want more Zita Johann, and I really hope it does, do take time to check out The Sin of Nora Moran (1933).
12:30 am – The Black Cat (1934)
Above clipped from the Prescott Evening Courier (AZ), 30 May 1934, page 8.
1:45 am – The Body Snatcher (1945)
Above clipped from the Spokane Daily Chronicle (WA), 5 October 1945, page 10.
3:15 am – Isle of the Dead (1945)
Above clipped from the Montreal Gazette, 24 January 1946, page 3.
4:30 am – Bedlam (1946)
Above clipped from the Toledo Blade (OH), 3 September 1946, page 30.
The text schedule once more:
Boris Karloff TCM Summer Under the Stars
US schedule, all times Eastern, August 26-27, 2016
- 6:00 am – Lured (1947)
- 7:45 am – The Lost Patrol (1934)
- 9:00 am – Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)
- 10:15 am – The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)
- 11:45 am – The Fatal Hour (1940)
- 1:00 pm – British Intelligence (1940)
- 2:15 pm – The Walking Dead (1936)
- 3:30 pm – The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)
- 4:45 pm – The Terror (1963)
- 6:15 pm – Black Sabbath (1964)
- 8:00 pm – Frankenstein (1931)
- 9:30 pm – Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
- 11:00 pm – The Mummy (1932)
- 12:30 am – The Black Cat (1934)
- 1:45 am – The Body Snatcher (1945)
- 3:15 am – Isle of the Dead (1945)
- 4:30 am – Bedlam (1946)
And with that, it’s mothballs for Picto-Sked, probably until Summer Under the Stars, 2017.
All past Picto-Skeds are accessible through this LINK. The television schedules that they represent may be over and done with, but the old newspaper ads continue to illustrate their main purpose: a look at how films were presented to the average moviegoer in their own time (Tough to top The Fatal Hour’s “Frankenstein Was a Sissy!” I’ll be tuning in to that one!).
I hope you’ve enjoyed these and look forward to their return. Next post up should be a review of some sort, whether it be that Fay Wray book review that I still plan, or a movie review after I catch something I can’t resist sitting down to write about. Till then, thanks for making it to the bottom of the post!
You’ll find more Boris Karloff related articles in the site archives.
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