I think that there were also more old movies in the afternoons and weekends before cable.

Channel 7, the local ABC affiliate, would show movies from 3:00 to 4:30. They were always severely edited to fit in the time slot, or they would break it into two parts. The week of July 4th, they would always show 1776 over three days. Then in 1984, they started showing Jeopardy at 3:30 and added another half hour of local news starting at 4:00, so the movie went away.

And more tv movies on regular tv.

Yes! And not just the Hallmark Hall of Fame ones. Remember "Something for Joey" (which defines "tearjerker")? And so many other tv films, as well as all the miniseries.

Did anyone else watch Lace (and Lace II) the mini-series(es)?

Sophia, Hungarian peppers are usually a wax-type pepper of the sort you'd saute for peppers and onions or some kind of meat dish. I think there are some variations of hotness.

Does anyone now what Hungarian Peppers are and how you can cook them? I can google, but I am interested in if anyone has heard of them. My neighbor just gave me seven of them, and they are about to go bad, so I need to do something with them!

They're long and yellowish? You can use them pretty much wherever you'd use any hot pepper. They've got some kick, but they're not like fiery spicy.

Did anyone else watch Lace (and Lace II) the mini-series(es)?

WEECH WAN OF YOU BEECHES EES MY MOTHER?!?!?!

Yes, Hil- long and yellowish. There sure are a lot of them!

Thanks, Ginger!

WEECH WAN OF YOU BEECHES EES MY MOTHER?!?!?!

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I loves me some Scola.

I loved Lace! Even read the book, which is in a lot of ways even better.

Remember "Something for Joey" (which defines "tearjerker")? And so many other tv films, as well as all the miniseries.

And the one about Mary White, the newspaperman's daughter who fell from a horse! And one with Stephanie Zimbalist where she was in a school bus that got hit by a train and had to learn to walk again!

We can't forget The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, either.

So on my way home from the train station a kid (around 17) asked me to call the police. I asked him what was going on and he said (referring to the group of teens behind him): "They're hanging out... gangbanger stuff. I'm not a part of it."

Nothing was going on. WTF?

We had 4 over-the-air channels in Baton Rouge: Ch 2 (CBS), Ch 7(ABC), Ch 27 (PBS) and Ch 33 (NBC). My family never got cable, and we found out when the neighbor kid across the street started working for the cable company that they (the company) regularly checked to see if we were stealing cable because it was unthinkable that we should choose not to get it when it was available.

Here I can get one, an independent station and sadly NOT the one that does the yule log every year (I think that's KOFY 20).