GODZILLA vs. THE COSMIC MONSTER: WNYW TV (December 1987)

 

It's the weekend, and you are home by yourself.  Why? Because your parents have gone shopping for the whole day, and they refuse to drag you along anymore because they can't abide your adolescent, contrarian attitude, and are much happier without you....which took them long enough to figure out.  

So anyway, it's time to get your favorite drink mix and make a whole pitcher.  It's time to find a full bag of chips--one that nobody's gotten into yet--and take both downstairs to the TV, to camp out in front of it for the WHOLE DAY.  A glorious entire day of vintage television.

Between the syndicated sitcoms and cartoons comes the afternoon movie! What's on today?

What the--!? JACKPOT! AWESOME!!!

What we have here is a videotape of an original broadcast from the month of December, 1987, from WNYW, channel 5, New York, with the original commercials! May God bless whoever recorded it, because it has survived for us to enjoy today.

As if the movie isn't enough, the ads are amazing.  As you would expect, December meant Christmas ads, so there are some beauties, such as the following:

The NES was down to 80 bucks that  Christmas!

And of course, everything here is VHS quality.  There is a tiny imperfection at the very beginning, where a few frames were lost, so you will have about one second of blue screen when the film starts, due to the very, very start of the tape getting chewed up.  The taper missed some of the original Cinema Shares logo as the film was beginning (which was something that happened back in the VCR days; trying to quickly find a tape, slap it in, and get recording as fast as possible), so I was able to completely restore the correct Cinema Shares logo from YouTube (thanks to the always-awesome H-Man's channel) seamlessly.  

Not only is this a huge treat, but it's kind of like a working time machine.  I do realize they still technically show movies on TV today...but it's not the same.  Not the same at all! Enjoy!

LINK:  GODZILLA vs THE COSMIC MONSTER (WNYW 1987)

P.S. - The Toys R Us ad just about choked me up.

Turns out, Geoffrey is one of the very first people
you meet in heaven, who knew?