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Getting an eyeful (1938)

A 1938 comedy short from Educational Pictures, the studio that billed itself as the spice of the program.

Next Showing CH 11 BANTER: Today at 4:45 PM UTC

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Always kickin (1932)

A hopeful college kicker gets football tips from Olympic legend Jim Thorpe in this 1932 comedy short.

Next Showing CH 11 BANTER: Today at 5:03 PM UTC

Also scheduled on: 13:FIRST WORDS

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Dime a Dance (1937)

Life at a dime-a-dance hall in a 1937 musical comedy short.

Next Showing CH 11 BANTER: Today at 5:22 PM UTC

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His Girl Friday (1940)

Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell battle over a newspaper and a divorce. She wants a quiet life, and he has other plans. Howard Hawks directs.

Next Showing CH 11 BANTER: Today at 5:40 PM UTC • Today at 2:13 AM UTC

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My Favorite Brunette (1947)

A baby photographer covers for a private eye neighbor and gets in over his head. Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour star.

Next Showing CH 11 BANTER: Today at 7:12 PM UTC

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The Flying Deuces (1939)

Laurel and Hardy's first comedy without producer Hal Roach. They join the French Foreign Legion, because of course they do.

Next Showing CH 11 BANTER: Today at 8:39 PM UTC

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Penny Serenade (1941)

A touching romantic comedy-drama with Cary Grant and Irene Dunne. The record is thin, so this is just the stars and the tone.

Next Showing CH 11 BANTER: Today at 9:47 PM UTC

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Killer Diller (1948)

A 1948 musical variety show featuring the Nat King Cole Trio, the Clark Brothers and other comedy and music acts.

Next Showing CH 11 BANTER: Today at 11:46 PM UTC

Also scheduled on: 15:HOOFER, 62:HEADLINER

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Nothing Sacred (1937)

A hotshot reporter exploits a young woman's supposedly imminent death for a headline. Carole Lombard and Fredric March star.

Next Showing CH 11 BANTER: Today at 12:59 AM UTC

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The Ghost Train (1941)

Arthur Askey is trapped in a spooky train station on a stormy night. A British comedy-thriller from 1941.

Next Showing CH 11 BANTER: Tomorrow at 3:41 AM UTC

Also scheduled on: 35:SEANCE

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The Terror of Tiny Town (1938)

A comedy western with an all little-people cast, made in 1938. A famously odd curio, and a dated novelty for its time.

Next Showing CH 11 BANTER: Tomorrow at 5:03 AM UTC

Also scheduled on: 40:TUMBLEWEED

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Q Planes (1939)

A secret British aviation project is being sabotaged, so a supremely confident intelligence agent is sent in. Ralph Richardson stars.

Next Showing CH 11 BANTER: Tomorrow at 6:04 AM UTC

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His Girl Friday iPod (1940)

Cary Grant is the newspaper publisher, Rosalind Russell is the ex-wife and star reporter planning to quit. Howard Hawks' comedy has rapid-fire talk.

Next Showing CH 11 BANTER: Tomorrow at 7:22 AM UTC

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My Favorite Burnette iPod Version (1947)

Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour star in this comedy. A baby photographer minds a detective's office, with a mystery attached.

Next Showing CH 11 BANTER: Tomorrow at 8:54 AM UTC

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Earthworm Tractors (1936)

Joe E. Brown plays an old-fashioned tractor salesman in this 1936 comedy.

Next Showing CH 11 BANTER: Tomorrow at 10:21 AM UTC

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Trapped By Television 1936 (1936)

A young inventor needs money for his television system, and a gang of crooks wants to stop him. Sci-fi from the days when TV was still a dream.

Next Showing CH 11 BANTER: Tomorrow at 11:30 AM UTC

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Gasbags (1941)

The Crazy Gang tackle World War II from a fish and chip shop on a barrage balloon, and drift straight into Germany. Wartime farce, British style.

Next Showing CH 11 BANTER: Tomorrow at 12:34 PM UTC • Mon, Nov 2 at 9:45 AM UTC

Also scheduled on: 22:RACKET

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Panthers Claw, The (1942)

A 1942 comedy mystery from Producers Releasing Corporation. Bargain-basement chills, with some laughs along the way.

Next Showing CH 11 BANTER: Tomorrow at 1:48 PM UTC

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Topper Returns Carole Landis Joan Blondell (1941)

Hal Roach's 1941 ghost comedy with Carole Landis, Joan Blondell, Roland Young and Billie Burke. A murdered woman's spirit needs Topper's help.

Next Showing CH 11 BANTER: Tomorrow at 2:58 PM UTC

Also scheduled on: 35:SEANCE

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Bees in Paradise (1944)

A bomber crew lands on an island where warrior women hold all the power. Arthur Askey sings and clowns in this 1944 musical comedy.

Next Showing CH 11 BANTER: Tomorrow at 4:27 PM UTC

Also scheduled on: 15:HOOFER

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Scared Stiff (Treasure of Fear) (1945)

Jack Haley, the Tin Man of Oz, is a chess columnist who gets mixed up with hoodlums. A low-budget comedy-mystery.

Next Showing CH 11 BANTER: Tomorrow at 5:38 PM UTC

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Rhythm in the Clouds (1937)

A struggling songwriter fakes a letter to get into a rich composer's apartment while he's out of town. She's hungry, he's absent, and so on.

Next Showing CH 11 BANTER: Tomorrow at 6:43 PM UTC

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The Intruder 1933 (1933)

Is it a murder mystery, an adventure or a comedy? Shipwrecks, gorilla suits and Mischa Auer in a wacky 1933 oddity that's so bad it's good.

Next Showing CH 11 BANTER: Tomorrow at 7:36 PM UTC

Also scheduled on: 30:STOMP

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The Shadow Strikes * 1937 (1937)

Lamont Cranston, The Shadow, solves a whodunit after a lawyer's will gets complicated. Rod La Rocque stars. Margo Lane isn't here.

Next Showing CH 11 BANTER: Tomorrow at 8:29 PM UTC

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Hue and Cry (1947)

A gang of street boys uncovers a crook who sends robbery orders through a comic strip. Often called the first of the Ealing comedies.

Next Showing CH 11 BANTER: Tomorrow at 9:31 PM UTC

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Night Train To Munich (1940)

A cloak-and-dagger chase from Prague to Britain, paced like a runaway train. Carol Reed mixes comedy, romance and espionage.

Next Showing CH 11 BANTER: Tomorrow at 10:50 PM UTC

Also scheduled on: 24:DEAD DROP

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Road Show Carole Landis Adolphe Menjou Patsy Kelly (1940)

Carole Landis, Adolphe Menjou and Patsy Kelly join the circus in this 1940 Hal Roach comedy.

Next Showing CH 11 BANTER: Tomorrow at 12:25 AM UTC

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O-Kay for Sound (1937)

Out-of-work Crazy Gang members busk on London streets until a movie studio hires them. Marcel Varnel directs this 1937 British comedy.

Next Showing CH 11 BANTER: Tomorrow at 1:52 AM UTC

Also scheduled on: 22:RACKET

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Unfaithfully Yours (1948)

Preston Sturges' pitch-black comedy: a jealous conductor imagines three elaborate revenges during a concert. Rex Harrison conducts the mayhem.

Next Showing CH 11 BANTER: Tomorrow at 3:15 AM UTC

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The Dark Hour (1936)

A 1936 mystery with comedy, from Chesterfield Pictures. The screenplay is quite different from the Sinclair Gluck novel.

Next Showing CH 11 BANTER: Mon, Nov 2 at 5:00 AM UTC

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Baby Face Morgan (1942)

Fast-talking romantic 1930s-40s comedies that were never renewed.

Next Showing CH 11 BANTER: Mon, Nov 2 at 6:09 AM UTC

Also scheduled on: 22:RACKET

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Boy! What a Girl! (1946)

Fast-talking romantic 1930s-40s comedies that were never renewed.

Next Showing CH 11 BANTER: Mon, Nov 2 at 7:08 AM UTC

Also scheduled on: 15:HOOFER

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Boy! What a Girl! (1947)

Fast-talking romantic 1930s-40s comedies that were never renewed.

Next Showing CH 11 BANTER: Mon, Nov 2 at 8:17 AM UTC

Also scheduled on: 15:HOOFER

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Caldonia (1945)

Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five play Caldonia and more in this 1945 musical short about a bandleader chasing a Hollywood deal.

Next Showing CH 11 BANTER: Mon, Nov 2 at 9:26 AM UTC

Also scheduled on: 15:HOOFER, 90:HEPCAT

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Ghosts on the Loose (1943)

The East Side Kids fix up a haunted honeymoon house next door to Nazi spies, with a young Ava Gardner and Bela Lugosi.

Next Showing CH 11 BANTER: Mon, Nov 2 at 10:59 AM UTC

Also scheduled on: 16:HEARTH, 35:SEANCE

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Killer Dill (1947)

Fast-talking romantic 1930s-40s comedies that were never renewed.

Next Showing CH 11 BANTER: Mon, Nov 2 at 12:04 PM UTC

Also scheduled on: 22:RACKET

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King of the Zombies (1941)

Fast-talking romantic 1930s-40s comedies that were never renewed.

Next Showing CH 11 BANTER: Mon, Nov 2 at 1:16 PM UTC

Also scheduled on: 21:SLEUTH, 30:STOMP

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Paradise in Harlem (1939)

Fast-talking romantic 1930s-40s comedies that were never renewed.

Next Showing CH 11 BANTER: Airing Now (2:13 PM UTC) • Mon, Nov 2 at 2:23 PM UTC

Also scheduled on: 15:HOOFER, 22:RACKET

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Private Buckaroo (1942)

A crooner enlists, the Andrews Sisters sing, and Harry James brings the big band in this 1942 morale-boosting musical.

Next Showing CH 11 BANTER: Today at 3:38 PM UTC

Also scheduled on: 15:HOOFER

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