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07/06/2025

WEEKEND SCHEDULE FOR CHANNEL 192

Saturday 5/7

5:30AM- TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE (1959)
7AM - Space Ghost
7:15 - Space Ghost #2
8AM - Tantasqua Graduation 6/1/25
9:45AM - Memorial Day Parade 2025
10:30 - Red Green #7
11:30AM - Memorial Day Parade 2025
12:30PM - Tantasqua Graduation 6/1/25
2:30PM - Memorial Day Parade 2025
3:30PM - MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939) -
James Stewart
6PM - Sturbridge Historical Society -
Sturbridge Bicentennial 1938
7:14PM - Red Green #3
8PM - Drive In Theater - INVADERS FROM MARS (1953)
9:30PM - GRAND DUEL (1972) - Lee Van Cleef

Sunday 6/8

5:30PM - SON OF DRACULA (1943) - Lon Chaney Jr.
7AM - Thomas The Tank Engine
8:30AM - Thunderbirds Are Go #1
9:12AM - Thunderbirds Are Go #2
10AM - Memorial Day Parade 2025
10:33AM - Tantasqua Graduation 6/1/25
12:30PM - Rod Serling: PATTERNS (1956) - Van Heflin,
Everett Sloane
1:53PM - Rod Serling: The Time Element - Desilu Playhouse (1958)
2:48PM - Rod Serling: Submitted For Your Approval -
American Masters
4:30PM - Memorial Day Parade 2025
5:03PM - Sturbridge Historical Society - Sturbridge Films 1938-1952
6PM - Sturbridge Historical Society - Sturbridge Bicentennial 1938
7:14PM - Red Green #7
8PM - Bette Davis Ayes - ALL THIS, AND HEAVEN TOO (1940)
Bette Davis, Charles Boyer
10:30PM - Concerts on The Common - Stop N’ Holler 2024

07/06/2025

WEEKEND SCHEDULE FOR
CHANNEL 191-

Saturday 6/7, Sunday 6/8

7AM - Planning Board 5/12/25
7:11AM - Planning Board 5/21/25
7:30AM - Select Board 6/2/25
9AM - Planning Board 5/21/25
9:30AM - Select Board 6/2/25
11AM - Conservation Commission 6/5/25
1:30PM - Conservation Commission 6/5/25
4PM - Finance Committee 5/13/25
4:30PM - Planning Board 5/12/25
4:41PM - Planning Board 5/21/25
5PM - Conservation Commission 6/5/25
7:30PM - Town Meeting 2025

Coming to "Drive-In Theater" Saturday, June 6 at 8PM on Channel 192 - INVADERS FROM MARS (1953).One of the most vivid, r...
05/06/2025

Coming to "Drive-In Theater" Saturday, June 6 at 8PM on Channel 192 - INVADERS FROM MARS (1953).

One of the most vivid, resonant and well-remembered science fiction films from the 1950s plays the Drive-In. Thirteen-year-old David MacLean (Jimmy Hunt) awakens to a crash of thunder in the early morning and looks through his bedroom window to see a UFO landing and burying itself beneath the sand pit beyond his back yard. His beloved dad, an important aeronautical engineer at the local top-secret missile base, goes out to investigate in slippers and bathrobe; but returns much later as a changed man, brutal and bullying, with, if you look closely enough, an odd metallic scar on the back of his neck. Dad compels David's mom to visit the back yard with him..... It suddenly becomes clear to David that his parents have both been taken over by Something in the sand pit. But now he has to get some adult, any adult, to believe him.

Very imaginatively directed despite its low budget by William Cameron Menzies of GONE WITH THE WIND and THIEF OF BAGDAD fame, the movie has strong visual power; a furious pace; genuine, textbook paranoid atmosphere; and a unique feel for the secretive and nightmarish anxieties of adolescence that shatter the security of home, which adults, even one's parents, cannot be trusted to understand.

The octopoid Supreme Intelligence of Mars sits in its crystalline globe and coldly plots the domination of Earth in INVADERS FROM MARS.

Coming to Friday Night Noir, tomorrow June 6 at 10PM on Channel 192- THE BLUE GARDENIA (1953).Norah Larkin (Anne Baxter)...
05/06/2025

Coming to Friday Night Noir, tomorrow June 6 at 10PM on Channel 192- THE BLUE GARDENIA (1953).

Norah Larkin (Anne Baxter) is a telephone switchboard operator who gets permanently disconnected from her soldier fiancé fighting in Korea when he sends her a Dear Norah letter on her birthday. Emotionally devastated, she agrees to go out on a blind date with notorious pinup calendar artist and lounge lizard Harry Prebble (Raymond Burr).

Harry gets Norah bombed on Polynesian cocktails, then takes her back to his apartment and tries to force himself on her. Woozy Norah grabs a fireplace poker, then blacks out. The next morning she wakes up back in her own apartment with a splitting hangover and no knowledge of what happened.... except that the world is now a better place because Harry's no longer living in it.
She inevitably becomes the prime suspect in his murder.

A nifty supporting cast also includes Richard Conte as a sympathetic newspaper columnist, Ann Sothern as one of Norah's roommates, and George Reeves as a police captain in charge of the murder investigation.

Film noir master Fritz Lang is at the director's helm, and although the picture isn't quite up to the standards of his previous classics SCARLET STREET and THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW, it's still a completely entertaining way to spend a Friday evening.

04/06/2025

Sturbridge commemorates Memorial Day 2025 with the annual town parade, Monday, May 26.

03/06/2025

Sturbridge Select Board meeting, June 2, 2025.

03/06/2025

Congratulations and best wishes to the Tantasqua Regional High School Class of 2025!

30/05/2025

WEEKEND SCHEDULE FOR CHANNEL 192

Saturday 5/31

5AM- BRIDE OF THE GORILLA (1953)- Raymond Burr
6:30AM - Desk Yoga
7AM - AM Yoga
7:30AM - McGee and Me
8AM - McGee and Me
8:30AM - Animal Atlas
9AM - Animal Atlas
10AM - Burgess Elementary School Memorial Day 2025 assembly
11AM - Sturbridge Senior Center - Gourmet Grannies and Friends
11:30AM - Sturbridge Senior Center - Gourmet Grannies
12PM - Gardening Rhythms
12:30PM - Gardening Rhythms
1PM - Burgess Elementary School Memorial Day 2025 assembly
1:42PM - 2024 Team Excellence & Merit Award -
Sturbridge Public Safety
2PM - Concert - Claflin Hill Symphony Orchestra
3:30PM - Physician Focus - Understanding Depression
4PM- Physician Focus - Weight Loss Surgery
4:30PM - Essential Nature Vol. 1
5PM - Essential Nature - Inspiration
5:30PM - Sherlock Holmes - The Case of Lady Beryl
6PM - Sherlock Holmes - The Case of the Belligerent Ghost
6:30PM - Mr and Mrs North - The Ungrateful Killer
7PM - Mr and Mrs North - Hot Mink
8PM - Drive In Theater - GARGOYLES (1972)
9:30PM - HORSE FEATHERS (1932)- The Marx Brothers
11PM - Slapstick - 100 Funniest Moments

Sunday 6/1

5AM - THE DEVIL BAT (1940)- Bela Lugosi
6:30AM - Desk Yoga
7AM - AM Yoga
7:30AM - McGee and Me
8AM - McGee and Me
8:30AM - Beatrix Potter
9AM - Beatrix Potter
9:30AM - Beatrix Potter
10AM - Burgess Elementary School Memorial Day 2025 assembly
11AM - Sturbridge Historical Society - 5/25 -
Sturbridge Bicentennial 1938
12:30PM - 2024 Team Excellence & Merit Award-
Sturbridge Public Safety
1PM - Burgess Elementary School Memorial Day 2025 assembly
2PM- MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE (1947) -
Cary Grant
4PM - Under Quabbin, Search for the Lost Towns - Documentary
5PM - Our Precious Water
5:30PM - Concerts on the Common - 215th Army Band 2024 Pt 1
6:15PM - Concerts on the Common - 215th Army Band 2024 Pt 2
7:30PM - Concerts on the Common - Bad News Jazz and Blues 2024
8:30PM - Bette Davis Ayes - THE PETRIFIED FOREST (1935)
Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart
11PM - Alfred Hitchcock Presents

30/05/2025

WEEKEND SCHEDULE FOR CHANNEL 191

Saturday 5/31, Sunday 6/1

7AM - Conservation Commission 5/15/25
11AM - Finance Committee 5/13/25
11:30AM - Select Board - 5/19/25
1:30PM - Conservation Commission 5/15/25
5:30PM - Select Board - 5/19/25
7:30PM - Finance Committee - 5/13/25
8PM - Planning Board - 5/12/25
8:30PM - Select Board 5/19/25

Coming to Drive-In Theater this Saturday, May 31 at 8PM on Channel 192: GARGOYLES (1972).The early 1970s were a fleeting...
29/05/2025

Coming to Drive-In Theater this Saturday, May 31 at 8PM on Channel 192: GARGOYLES (1972).

The early 1970s were a fleeting golden age of made-for-TV movies, and GARGOYLES is one of its most fondly-remembered ventures into horror fantasy. As Vic Perrin somberly explains in the prologue, gargoyles are the Devil’s spawn; products of Satan’s exile, who prefer, as does he, to rule in Hell rather than serve in Heaven. Every six hundred years they reemerge to do battle with humankind for possession of the Earth. In the long intervals between attacks, the human race subconsciously remembers its great enemy with stone effigies on the battlements of its most famous cathedrals, which look down in mockery on the puny humans passing below, wrapped up in their trivial worldly problems. Now, in 1972, the gargoyles are stirring in their eggs once again, in the American southwest. Can Cornel Wilde, his daughter Jennifer Salt, and a gang of bikers led by an extremely young Scott Glenn stop them and save the world?

The film is a prime example of the cheap made-for-TV esthetic of the time. It is directed with only sporadic skill, filmed with just workmanlike competence, and the special effects are crude. And yet, in storytelling power it has *something.* The locations - a ramshackle roadside curio shop where the owner hawks the skeleton of an alleged monster to Wilde’s skeptical anthropologist; a seedy motel run by a randy old proprietress (Grayson Hall) who hits on every man who comes down the road; and the rugged sun-parched terrain that surrounds all - are very arresting, in the grandest tradition of previous horror movies set in the same desert. Science fictional giant ants and tarantulas used to crawl out of these wastelands. Now it’s a supernatural menace - flying imps of Satan. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

The acting honors go to hefty former football player Bernie Casey as the patriarch of the latest gargoyle brood. 1972 was a big year for blaxploitation horror, and in the history of that genre, GARGOYLES deserves to be mentioned right along with BLACULA and BLACKENSTEIN. Casey, acting beneath a ton of Emmy-winning makeup, manages to bring sympathetic dignity to the villainy of this fallen angel. John Milton might even have approved.

Former LA Ram and San Francisco 49er Bernie Casey studies Satan’s playbook in GARGOYLES (1972).

Coming to Film Noir Friday, tomorrow May 30 at 10PM on Channel 192 - DIABOLIQUE (1955).Film noir is a genre that was fir...
29/05/2025

Coming to Film Noir Friday, tomorrow May 30 at 10PM on Channel 192 - DIABOLIQUE (1955).

Film noir is a genre that was first defined by the French, and DIABOLIQUE is proof that they could also create it as well as anybody. It took the arthouse audiences of the world by storm when it premiered in 1955, and won kudos both in France and abroad, including the New York Film Critics Circle Award for the Best Foreign Film of the year.

Writer-director Henri-Georges Clouzot conjures up a unique and offhandedly eerie quality of suspense in this horror-tinged mystery about a fatal triangle at a small, rundown boys’ boarding school in the suburbs of Paris. Headmaster Michel Delassalle (Paul Meurisse) is a real nasty piece of work, disliked by both the bratty students and the lackluster staff. (Amusingly, the faculty seems to have only four teachers.) He’s also not a big hit with either his sickly wife Christina (Véra Clouzot, H-G’s wife) who owns the school, or his mistress, teacher Nicole (Simone Signoret). When we meet Nicole she’s wearing a pair of sunglasses, thanks to Michel’s fist at 3 o’clock that morning. He’s so cruel to both of them that they collaborate on an ingenious plan to murder him. After getting him doped and drowning him in a bathtub, they dump his body into the school’s murky swimming pool late one night. The next morning, while everybody else on the campus is starting to wonder where he’s gone off to, they cast surreptitious glances at the dank water, waiting for the cadaver to rise to the surface. However, there’s a slight problem. When the pool is finally drained, Michel isn’t there. Then the local dry cleaner shows up to deliver a completed cleaning job - the liquor-stained suit Michel was wearing when he died…

Nicole is hard-boiled, worldly and dominant; Christina vulnerable, religious and recessive. And she’s got a weak heart. Their relationship is the core of the film and it continually fascinates. Misogynistic Michel is one of the most odious male chauvinist cochons in movies, and his arrogant charisma is so strong that even when he has gone off into the unknown, the viewer keeps peering around the corners of the movie trying to catch him; as when his ghostly image seems to be lurking in the background of a class photo that sends both Nicole and Christina into deep shock. There are also great images here - the two women putt-putting around the countryside in a dinky little pickup truck with Michel’s body in a dripping wicker trunk in the back; silent moonlit school hallways in the dead of night, and a startling climax that still has the power to drop your jaw.

Véra Clouzot doesn’t like what she sees in DIABOLIQUE (1955). The original French-language print has been dubbed into English very neatly, so American audiences don’t have to worry about reading subtitles.

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