Original upload date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 03:23:23 GMT
Here are some vintage HBO promos from December 1981 (in fact, New Year's Eve 1981) during their transition to being a 24-hour network. Here's the lineup:
1. Next On for the "Candid" Candid Camera
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2. Richard Pryor in concert
3. Back Roads with Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones
4. HBO bumper promoting their new 24-hour schedule starting in January (didn't it start on December 28?)
5. HBO Special intro
6. A different HBO bumper
7. Next On for Two Against the Arctic (part 1)
8. More Richard Pryor
9. The Outsider with Craig Wasson
10. More Back Roads
11. Intermission Special intro (it was a piece about ballet with a bunch of classical music, so I kept it out)
12. Superman: The Movie
13. the 1981 Bodybuilding Championships
14. HBO Weekend with Nine to Five, the World's Greatest Athlete, and Back Roads
15. HBO holiday wreath bumper
16. Pay-TV warning
17. HBO's unique opening for Two Against the Arctic
18. Another HBO bumper
19. Next On for the Nude Bomb with Maxwell Smart, er, Don Adams
20. Remember When: the Image Makers
21. Snowball Express with Dean Jones and Harry Morgan
22. Dionne Warwick in concert
23. Intermission Video Jukebox intro (before Hall & Oates' Private Eyes)
24. Another Intermission Special intro (it also has classical music)
25. Little Miss Marker with Walter Matthau and Julie Andrews
26. Another HBO Weekend promo
27. Another HBO holiday wreath bumper
28. HBO Feature Movie intro (Theater 1)
29. Ratings bumper (PG)
Enjoy!
