Sneak Previews – 1981
The Jazz Singer, A Change of Seasons, Seems Like Old Times, Resurrection
The Best Movies of 1980
The Worst Movies of 1980
Low-Budget, Independent Films
Scanners, Altered States, The Green Room, The Mirror Crack’d
Melvin and Howard, Hangar 18, The Incredible Shrinking Woman, Fort Apache the Bronx, The Devil and Max Devlin
Eyewitness, Tess, The Competition, The Dogs of War
Falling In Love Again, My Bloody Valentine, Sunday Lovers, The Last Metro
American Pop, Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen, The Day After Trinity, La Cage Aux Folles II, Tribute
If We Picked the Oscars
Galaxina, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Back Roads, All Night Long, Private Eyes
Rockshow, Omen III: The Final Conflict, Thief, The Trials of Alger Hiss
The Life and Death of the Black Movie
Heaven’s Gate, Modern Romance, Napoleon (1927), Excalibur, Nighthawks
Caveman, The Howling, Breaker Morant, Hardly Working, Mon oncle d’Amerique
Windwalker, Tell Me a Riddle, Friday the 13th Part 2, Lion of the Desert
This is Elvis, Bustin’ Loose, Atlantic City, The Four Seasons
Outland, Death Hunt, Take This Job and Shove It, The Legend of the Lone Ranger
History of the World Part 1, High Risk, Clash of the Titans, Nice Dreams
Cutter’s Way, City of Women, I Sent a Letter to My Love, Raiders of the Lost Ark
Superman II, Eyes of a Stranger, Stripes, The Cannonball Run
For Your Eyes Only, S.O.B., The Great Muppet Caper, Dragonslayer
More Guilty Pleasures
Escape from New York, Gates of Heaven, On the Right Track, The Fox and the Hound, Force: Five
Arthur, Blow Out, Endless Love, Zorro the Gay Blade
Eye of the Needle, Wolfen, From Mao to Mozart, Tarzan the Ape Man, 1981, (incomplete, sadly)
Under the Rainbow, Condorman, Lulu, Victory
Take 2: Going to the Movies, The Black Marble
Body Heat, Continental Divide, Mommie Dearest, Only When I Laugh, First Monday in October
So Fine, Gallipoli, Cattle Annie and Little Britches, True Confessions, Rich and Famous
I Was a Teenage Movie – Hollywood in 1981
Chariots of Fire, Stevie, Southern Comfort, All the Marbles
Shock Treatment
Halloween II, Priest of Love, Chanel Solitaire, The Watcher in the Woods
Time Bandits, The Woman Next Door, Man of Iron, The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper
Buried Treasures
Rollover, Quartet, My Dinner with Andre, Reds
Pixote, Ragtime, Buddy Buddy, Absence of Malice
Heartbeeps, Cinderella, Taps, Taxi Zum Klo
Sneak Previews-1981 Episodes (as found in the Trib listings, except where noted)
01/01/81 8:00 Thursday (The Jazz Singer, etc.)
01/08/81 8:00 Thursday (Best Movies of 1980)
01/15/81 8:00 Thursday (Worst Movies of 1980)
01/29/81 8:00 Thursday (Take 2: Independent Films)
02/05/81 8:00 Thursday (Altered States, etc.)
02/12/81 8:00 Thursday (The Incredible Shrinking Woman, etc.)
02/19/81 8:00 Thursday (The Competition, etc.)
02/26/81 8:00 Thursday (Sunday Lovers, etc.)
03/12/81 8:05 Thursday (Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen, etc.)
03/19/81 8:00 Thursday (Academy Award Predictions)
03/26/81 8:00 Thursday (All Night Long, etc.)
04/09/81 8:00 Thursday (Thief, etc.)
04/25/81 6:30 Saturday (Take 2: Live and Death of the Black Movie)
04/30/81 8:00 Thursday (Excalibur, etc.)
05/07/81 8:00 Thursday (The Howling, etc.)
05/14/81 8:00 Thursday (Lion of the Desert, etc.)
06/04/81 8:00 Thursday (This Is Elvis, etc.)
06/11/81 8:00 Thursday (Outland, etc.)
06/18/81 8:00 Thursday (History of the World Part One, etc.)
06/25/81 8:00 Thursday (Raiders of the Lost Ark, etc.)
07/02/81 8:00 Thursday (No movies listed in Trib, but must be Superman II, etc.)
07/09/81 8:00 Thursday (For Your Eyes Only, etc.)
07/16/81 8:00 Thursday (Take 2: More Guilty Pleasures)
07/23/81 8:00 Thursday (From Sun-Times; Gates of Heaven, etc.)
07/30/81 8:00 Thursday (Arthur, etc.)
08/06/81 PARTIAL 8:00 Thursday (Tarzan and Wolfen complete, part of Eye of the Needle, missing From Mao to Mozart and dogs of the week)
08/13/81 8:00 Thursday (Under the Rainbow, etc.)
08/27/81 8:00 Thursday (Take 2: Going to a Movie with Siskel and Ebert–Version 2)
10/01/81 401 SEASON PREMIER 7:00 Thursday (Continental Divide, etc.)
10/08/81 MISSING 7:00 Thursday (The French Lieutenant’s Woman, Prince of the City, Paternity)
10/15/81 403 7:00 Thursday (True Confessions, etc.)
10/22/81 7:00 Thursday (Take 2: I Was a Teenage Movie based on 10/15 preview, as no details in Trib)
10/29/81 405 7:00 Thursday (Chariots of Fire, etc.)
11/05/81 MISSING 7:00 Thursday (Looker)
11/12/81 407 7:00 Thursday (Halloween II, etc.)
11/19/81 408 7:00 Thursday (Time Bandits, etc.; description not in Trib, but based on 11/12 preview and episode # it would have aired here)
11/26/81 MISSING 7:00 Thursday (Tattoo and Raggedy Man; description not in Trib, but based on 11/19 preview it would have aired here)
12/03/81 410 7:00 Thursday (Take 2: Buried Treasures)
12/10/81 7:00 Thursday (My Dinner with Andre, etc.)
12/17/81 412 7:00 Thursday (Absence of Malice, etc.)
12/24/81 MISSING 7:00 Thursday (Sharkey’s Machine, Ghost Story, Neighbors, Pennies from Heaven)
12/31/81 7:00 Thursday (Heartbeeps, etc.)
I listed episode numbers when known–they really came in handy toward the end of 1981 when the Trib info was a bit sparse.