The Big Preview
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The Big Preview[1] was a movie venue that aired on New York City television station WOR-TV (Channel 9) beginning in the early 1960s and continuing into the early 1980s. It could be seen on Sundays (for a time, it also aired on Saturdays) starting somewhere between 5 and 6:30 PM and ran an eclectic mix of films. In addition, there was a Monday night edition of The Big Preview that ran from 1967 to 1968 at 9 PM.
Some movies that were shown were:
- A Lovely Way to Die
- Beware! The Blob
- Blacula
- Cat People (1942)
- Count Yorga, Vampire
- Day of the Wolves
- Destry
- Grave of the Vampire
- It Came from Beneath the Sea[2]
- King Kong Escapes
- King Kong vs. Godzilla
- Lisa and the Devil
- Macabre (1958)
- Monster on the Campus[3]
- P.J. (1968)
- Son of Frankenstein
- The Little Shop of Horrors
- The Man Who Haunted Himself
- The Unsuspected
