Throughout the 70s, KBHK-TV 44 filled the weekend daytimes with genre films, comedy teams, and other light movie staples. The same packages aired for years, over and over, and were presented as regularly scheduled shows. The movies were never hosted, but were introduced by the familiar voice of KBHK-TV's usual announcer. (Anyone know that guy's name?)

The station was pretty careful about scheduling and identity for the shows. They'd hold to a given schedule for months - say, Tarzan at Noon, Abbott & Costello at 1:30 pm, and The Bowery Boys at 3:00 pm - then shuffle the deck, dropping Tarzan, and moving A&C and The Bowery Boys up to Noon, and running a horror film at 3:00 pm.

As I browse my TV Guides from those years, I'm finding more ads for the shows than I recall. It also looks like they made their schedule changes at roughly the same times as the usual network calendar events - the September new season, sweeps weeks, the January mid-season shuffle, the summer rerun season. This suggests to me that they either knew or suspected that the various series and packages had steady viewers who needed to be wooed and coddled in all the necessary ways. I wonder if they got letters from, say, Bowery Boys fans? Or if the sudden appearance of a new package was the result of requests from viewers?

Whatever the reasons, KBHK-TV eventually ran most of the familiar series movies of the 1930s to the 1950s, among them:

AIP horror and SF films - The same AIP-heavy package they ran Friday nights was run over and over again on Saturdays, sometimes at Noon, sometimes at 10:30 in the morning. I remember double features at some point, as well. I've completely forgotten the title they used for the show, but I remember it wasn't the same as the Friday evening show, even though the movies were identical.

Abbott and Costello - must have been hugely popular. In a batch of TV Guides from 1976, they are shown being run on Saturday afternoons at Noon or 1:30 pm, with another A&C film airing on Sunday mornings at 10:30. These were pretty heavily advertised, too, at a time when no other channel was taking out ads for their Saturday afternoon movies.

The Bowery Boys - They also ran Bowery Boys films on Saturday afteroons. I haven't seen any ads for these yet, but they were on for years and must have been popular. (I must confess that, although I've been a devoted Three Stooges fan since before I could account for why it was Curly sometimes and Shemp at other times, I have absolutely no taste for The Bowery Boys, and I don't think I ever sat through one of these all the way through.)