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All episodes Season 2 S02E01 1987-09-19 30 min 1980s Syndication

At the Movies

Fatal Attraction/The Principal/Orphans/Amazon Women on the Moon/In the Mood

TV Flash files “Fatal Attraction/The Principal/Orphans/Amazon Women on the Moon/In the Mood” as a desk essential hour — At the Movies (1982–1990) on Syndication, season 2, episode 1, aired 1987-09-19, 30 min.

From the desk

How this hour is filed

This leaf is S02E01: listed hour 45 of 616 in the At the Movies guide, first listed hour of season 2. It aired 1987-09-19 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “The Big Easy/The Fourth Protocol/No Way Out/Tampopo” (S01E44). Next is “The Princess Bride/China Girl/The Big Town/The Pick-Up Artist/I've Heard the Mermaids Sing” (S02E02). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

Essential hour

Essential hour: “Fatal Attraction/The Principal/Orphans/Amazon Women on the Moon/In the Mood”. Fatal Attraction/The Principal/Orphans/Amazon Women on the Moon/In the Mood is season two's clipped-verdict week: newspaper rivalry as appointment film talk, thumbs already the format.

At the Movies still
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 Fatal Attraction/The Principal/Orphans/Amazon Women on the Moon/In the Mood sit in the At the Movies guide?

S02E01 is listed hour 45 of 616 — first listed hour of season 2, season 2 episode 1.

When did At the Movies S02E01 air?

Fatal Attraction/The Principal/Orphans/Amazon Women on the Moon/In the Mood aired 1987-09-19 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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