Ha, so true. It was Just one of The Guys, Mannequin, Gleaming the Cube and the night ended with a couple episodes of The Hitchhiker.

I watched it the first time on HBO also.I believe it was 87 when i seen it and they did play it a lot but they played movies over and over back in the day.

I grew up in the 80s and definitely remember the frequent broadcasts. Just One of the Guys, Kidco, Cloak & Dagger - some movies were just like that. I loved them though, and I never tire of things I love. I wish HBO would bring
back
these lost gems, to be honest.

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I remember in the early to mid-90's, HBO played this film almost every Sunday. Keep in mind, the major PAY-TV networks didn't feature R-rated films until after 8PM during this time and they had to pad about 12 HRS of PG & PG-13 rated films.

Oh, hell yes, they played this movie a lot. My left hand remembers it well.
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I remember in the 90's, they would play this about four times a week on HBO. Then Cinemax close to the end of the 90's. Then Comedy Central, up until like the mid-2000s.

I have a better recollection of Dirty Dancing playing very often on HBO. No matter what part it was at when I turned to the station, I always sat and watched it to the end.

Yes, if you come to think of it back then cable would pay for the exclusive broadcasting rights, and also they wasn't a vast library of movies to chose from so depending on what movie they had they would give it a heavy play time. It's a different time when after a movie's theatrical release, 6 months later it hits vhs, then about a year cable, then about a year and half to 2 years on broadcast tv.
Also consider there weren't dvds back then to show deleted or additional scenes most times films were shown on tv with additional or alternate cuts from their original version.

Your exactly right Back not long after it came out, like within a year or two it was played constantly on HBO. Seeing it again now it's like not much time has passed as I saw it so many times then. It was on multiple times per week over a couple of years back then. I'm sure it had to do with how much it cost HBO to get the rights to broadcast it. Pay cable was still in it's relative early days back then and they probably didn't have a huge library to pick from. Just like they always played Smokey and the Bandit on Showtime constantly in the early 80's.

I wish HBO would play it again, instead of having to watch the chopped up version on VH1 Classic.

Yes, the golden age of cable tv. HBO, played alot of these hidden 80s gems and gave it life.
If anyone remembers Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon, it wasn't a box office hit, but got serious playback on HBO and it gained a cult following.
If I recall they replayed this movie alot during the early to mid 90s.

Yeah, I remember it being on constantly around that time.
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I loved the fact it was on all time when I was a teenager-I had a MAD crush on Clayton Rohner!

HBO always plays the same movies. Last month they had the movie Edge of Darkness on every freaking day. I just signed up for Netflix and realize how pointless HBO is now. I have like 12 different HBO channels and they play the same few movies over and over and over. HBO used to play this movie all the time but now they never play it at all.
I don't know why there are 12 different HBO channels, they all pretty much play the same movies. If I was in charge of HBO I'd put different movies on all the time, it seems like everyone has a DVR or a Tivo so repeating movies 100 times in a month is a even more pointless now a days.

I never had cable.
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Yeah Cobra saw a lot of play too back then I used to watch it a lot when I would come across it.

I think the Sylvester Stallone bomb "Cobra" takes the cake.

I vaguely recall it playing on HBO. I never even knew the title of the movie until today, but I recalled the general plot of the film, probably do to it being shown regularly.

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Yep i remember seeing this all the time on HBO
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Haha now that I think about it I know what you're talking about. This was one of those random movies that me and my sister loved to watch when we would see it on TV when we were young. Early-mid 90s this would be on HBO a lot kind of a weird movie to play so often especially now since they don't play it at all anymore. Only channel i see this on now is comedy central