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Cable TV is stuck in the 80s too
Between the hours of 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. Eastern time on Monday, the pay channel world of cable was Stuck in the 80s. These were all on TV at the SAME time:
- Raising Arizona (1987)
- The Goonies (1985)
- Weird Science (1985)
- The Hand (1981)
- Dead Calm (1989)
- Back to the Future (1985)
- Excalibur (1981)
- Full Metal Jacket (1987)
- Midnight Run (1988)
- Dirty Dancing (1987)
- High Road to China (1983)
- The Hitcher (1986)
- Britannia Hospital (1982)
- Barbarosa (1982)
Fourteen movies to choose from, including two that I'd never heard (The Hand and Britannia Hospital) and two more that I never plan on seeing (The Goonies and High Road to China).
Which one would you pick to watch?
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Relive the '80s music, movies and culture with Tampa Bay Times entertainment news editor Steve Spears. A teen during the greatest decade ever, Steve is obsessed with everything from Duran Duran to Journey, John Hughes to John Cusack, and parachute pants to Reaganomics.
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