Touch and Go/Night, Mother/Blue Velvet/Where the River Runs Black

Name: Touch and Go/Night, Mother/Blue Velvet/Where the River Runs Black
Released: 1986-09-20

TV Flash files “Touch and Go/Night, Mother/Blue Velvet/Where the River Runs Black” as a desk essential hour — At the Movies (1982–1990) on Syndication, season 1, episode 1, aired 1986-09-20, 30 min.

From the desk

How this hour is filed

This leaf is S01E01: listed hour 1 of 616 in the At the Movies guide, first listed hour of season 1. It aired 1986-09-20 (30 min). No earlier hour is listed in this guide. Next is “Peggy Sue Got Married/That's Life/Crocodile Dundee/The Name of the Rose” (S01E02). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

Essential hour

Essential hour: “Touch and Go/Night, Mother/Blue Velvet/Where the River Runs Black”. Touch and Go/Night, Mother/Blue Velvet/Where the River Runs Black is a 1986 balcony slate: Siskel and Ebert teaching America it was allowed to disagree on camera.

No original recap on file. TV Flash does not invent plots for missing hours. Title, airdate, and the hour filing above are the magazine record for this leaf.

Viewer FAQ

Where does Touch and Go/Night, Mother/Blue Velvet/Where the River Runs Black sit in the At the Movies guide?

S01E01 is listed hour 1 of 616 — first listed hour of season 1, season 1 episode 1.

When did At the Movies S01E01 air?

Touch and Go/Night, Mother/Blue Velvet/Where the River Runs Black aired 1986-09-20 and is listed at 30 minutes.

Is this the same as Sneak Previews?

Related Chicago-critics lineage; this syndicated 1982–1990 run (under various official titles) is the thumbs-as-shorthand era people mean by At the Movies. Balcony, barbs, mass criticism.

In the series

Why this series still plays

Filed by Lana Reyes · Red Carpet Reality · Show package

Two thumbs up: Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert turn newspaper rivalry into appointment film talk — balcony seats, clipped verdicts, and fights that were half the entertainment. Syndication made serious criticism mass. The argument as format: two Chicago men teaching America it was allowed to have taste, and to disagree on camera.

The balcony is the silhouette. Syndicated 1982–1990 under various official titles: Chicago critics debate new releases with clips, barbs, and binary thumb verdicts — two thumbs up, newspaper rivals as appointment film talk. At the Movies is Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert as celebrity critics: balcony seats, clipped verdicts, fights that were half the entertainment. The thumbs system became cultural shorthand. Serious criticism made mass. The argument as format. *Balcony as civic furniture, a thumb as the accessory…

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Filed against

Gene Siskel as Host/critic
Gene Siskel turned newspaper rivalry into appointment film talk on At the Movies — balcony seats, clipped verdicts, and fights that were half the entertainment. Two thumbs as a national grammar. TV Flash files him as 1980s syndication…
Roger Ebert as Host/critic
Roger Ebert turned At the Movies into appointment film talk with Gene Siskel — two thumbs up, balcony seats, clipped verdicts, fights that were half the entertainment. Newspaper rivalry as syndication. TV Flash files him as 1980s…

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