[diebitter]

As a kid, I was mad on horror movies and funny movies. The old universal horrors were my favourite, and in the UK, BBC2 used to show a double bill of horror movies every saturday night that were kick-ass. The were usually one old one, followed by one new one, sometimes with a link. The old one was often an entire run of every universal horror film series in sequence, and the newer ones were sometimes a similar run of Hammer movies, sometimes more random

For example, you'd get over a series of weeks
Dracula (1931), The Horror of Dracula
Frankenstein (1931), The Curse of Frankenstein
Bride of Frankenstein, Brides of Dracula

and so on.

This is fantastic for a kid obsessed with horror movies.


Other times, during the Christmas holidays, the BBC would show entire seasons of movies every day in the mornings for kids.

One year, they had every Marx brothers movie on, one a day. That's how I first encountered the Marx brothers. Then they'd show all the Laurel and Hardy shorts/features in chronological order, 1 or 2 a day.

Another year, they did every Tarzan movie.

It was pretty kickass.