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I was speaking with Vincent today. We both love the song "Nikki" and I said that most people know it as the theme from "The Movie of the Week". That's when Vincent said, "Yeah, it was on at 4:30 in the afternoon." I said, "No, it was on during Prime Time hours, once a week, at either 8 or 9:00pm."

From www.retrocrush.com/scary/49.html :

"In 1975, an ABC Movie of The Week called TRILOGY OF TERROR aired featuring 3 different short horror themed stories."

This suggests it was not in the afternoon.

And this other site says

http://www.caucus.org/archives/94win_whocreated.html
...one of the advantages I was emphasizing about Movie of the Week was that going on the air at 8:30 would give the series a half-hour jump on TV's two-hour movies, which aired at 9:00 PM.

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i remember it as the theme for tuesday night at the movies... in fact they didn't use it on other nights... anyone else remember it that way? i used to go to abc just to hear the theme and then watch something else (i was a mere child i might add)

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Bonjour Steve;

I am almost sure, ABC Channel 7 @ 04:30 PM (New York City) ran the theme song Nikki, for the movie.

But what people are saying, it was later in the evening.

It's something that I would not forget, since Nikki is still in my top 5!

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Steve;

I think you are right! It was the 04:30 movie, not the Movie of the week!

Merci!

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Here is a link (http://home.earthlink.net/~kfp/) to audio and video sound clips of the Ch. 7 New York 4:30 movie! You can hear the theme used for that, Vincent. And yes, "Nikki" was used for the ABC evening movies.

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Steve_1965 & Fool Killer;

Thanks for clearing this up!

Hey, 'An Enormous BB Fan', you were right!

vincent.cole wrote:Steve_1965 & Fool Killer;

Thanks for clearing this up!

Hey, 'An Enormous BB Fan', you were right!

Well, Vincent, when we had this dicussion, I was scratching my head because we get the same channels and I couldn't believe I wouldn't have known that Nikki was the theme of the 4:30 movie, especially when I was 100% sure that it was theme of the Movie of the Week during primetime. But I believed you remembered correctly too. So, with your permission, I wanted input from our friends here.

The only thing I can think of is that you were so young then!!!

Bonjour 'An Enormous BB Fan';

Yes, 'Long Ago Tomorrow!'

Helcio Mazzuco, thanks for posting the click of B J Thomas singing this song!