| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | CLASSIC MOVIES $1000: In this silent film, Charlie Chaplin is a starving prospector who boiled & ate his own boot, which was actually black licorice The Gold Rush |
| #8534, aired 2021-12-16 | CLASSIC MOVIES $1000: This Kurosawa film about a crime told from multiple points of view is credited with introducing Japanese cinema to the Western world Rashomon |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | DOGGONE CINEMA $1600: A Golden Retriever plays basketball & helps a boy rebound from a loss in this film Air Bud |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | LETTER PERFECT CINEMA $1000: Peter Lorre is marked with this letter in a 1931 Fritz Lang classic M |
| #7791, aired 2018-06-25 | GONE A YEAR ALREADY $800: He brought great cinema & great class to viewers for 23 years as a host on Turner Classic Movies Robert Osborne |
| #6378, aired 2012-05-16 | POLITICAL CINEMA $1,000 (Daily Double): This 1939 Jimmy Stewart classic premiered here at Constitution Hall
"It's just the blood and bone and sinew of this democracy that some great men handed down to the human race, that's all!" Mr. Smith Goes to Washington |
| #6273, aired 2011-12-21 | CLASSIC CINEMA $400: For this 1948 film Laurence Olivier dyed his brown hair blond to look more Danish Hamlet |
| #6273, aired 2011-12-21 | CLASSIC CINEMA $800: "His whole life was a million-to-one shot" was the tagline for this 1976 Best Picture winner Rocky |
| #6273, aired 2011-12-21 | CLASSIC CINEMA $1200: In a 1942 film Greer Garson as this heroic title Mrs. dodged bombs during the Blitz Mrs. Miniver |
| #6273, aired 2011-12-21 | CLASSIC CINEMA $2000: A 1961 Gregory Peck film was shot on Rhodes, but it's about destroying guns on this other Aegean island Navarone |
| #6273, aired 2011-12-21 | CLASSIC CINEMA $5,000 (Daily Double): Originally planned for Charles Laughton & Elsa Lanchester in the 1930s, it was later made with Bogart & Hepburn The African Queen |
| #5554, aired 2008-10-30 | 1930s CINEMA $2000: Cecil Kellaway played the impresario in "Intermezzo" & Mr. Earnshaw (Cathy's father) in this 1939 classic Wuthering Heights |
| #5154, aired 2007-01-25 | RUSSIAN CINEMA $1600: This man directed the classic Russian films "Alexander Nevsky" & "Ivan the Terrible" Sergei Eisenstein |
| #5109, aired 2006-11-23 | '60s CINEMA $400: Jack Lemmon has his ups & downs with elevator operator Shirley MacLaine in this Billy Wilder classic The Apartment |
| #4984, aired 2006-04-20 | CLASSIC CINEMA OF THE '40s $400: Alfred Hitchcock's first American film was this 1940 classic based on a Daphne du Maurier novel Rebecca |
| #4984, aired 2006-04-20 | CLASSIC CINEMA OF THE '40s $800: This animated Disney film that featured a forest fire was the No. 1 box-office draw of 1942 Bambi |
| #4984, aired 2006-04-20 | CLASSIC CINEMA OF THE '40s $1200: This 1940 "Story" starring Cary Grant & Katharine Hepburn was remade as the musical "High Society" in 1956 The Philadelphia Story |
| #4984, aired 2006-04-20 | CLASSIC CINEMA OF THE '40s $1600: Claire Trevor won a 1948 Oscar for her role as a gangster's girlfriend in this Bogart flick set on an island Key Largo |
| #4984, aired 2006-04-20 | CLASSIC CINEMA OF THE '40s $2,000 (Daily Double): Marine Ira Hayes, who helped raise the American flag on Mount Suribachi, had a cameo in this 1949 John Wayne film The Sands of Iwo Jima |
| #4801, aired 2005-06-20 | BLACK & WHITE CINEMA $600: It's the 1925 black & white classic of Soviet cinema seen here (The Battleship) Potemkin |
| #4596, aired 2004-09-06 | SPIRITED CINEMA $2000: Rex Harrison is a curmudgeonly sea captain's ghost haunting Gene Tierney's cottage in this 1947 classic The Ghost and Mrs. Muir |
| #4562, aired 2004-06-08 | TV-PODGE $400: Moon Unit Zappa & Wallace Langham co-starred on the TV series "Fast Times", based on this classic of teen cinema Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
| #3831, aired 2001-04-09 | WHAT'S AT THE $2 CINEMA? $300: His sex education in "Eyes Wide Shut" was continued from the teen classic "Losin' It" Tom Cruise |
| #3708, aired 2000-10-18 | THE CINEMA: 50 YEARS AGO $1000: Judy Holliday reprised her stage role as Billie Dawn in this George Cukor-directed comedy classic Born Yesterday |
| #3659, aired 2000-06-29 | CLASSIC CINEMA $100: 1942:
"Major Strasser has been shot. Round up the usual suspects." Casablanca |
| #3659, aired 2000-06-29 | CLASSIC CINEMA $200: 1939:
"I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!" Gone With the Wind |
| #3659, aired 2000-06-29 | CLASSIC CINEMA $300: 1927:
"Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain't heard nothin' yet!" The Jazz Singer |
| #3659, aired 2000-06-29 | CLASSIC CINEMA $400: 1939:
"The moors and I wiil never change. Don't you, Cathy" Wuthering Heights |
| #3659, aired 2000-06-29 | CLASSIC CINEMA $500: 1931:
"Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make." Dracula |
| #3589, aired 2000-03-23 | SMALL-TOWN CINEMA $400: Small-town lawyer Jimmy Stewart matches wits with prosecutor George C. Scott in this 1959 courtroom classic Anatomy of a Murder |
| #3579, aired 2000-03-09 | CLASSIC CINEMA $200: 30 years before "Blair Witch", this Hopper-Fonda biker film was the little movie that shook up Hollywood Easy Rider |
| #3579, aired 2000-03-09 | CLASSIC CINEMA $400: In the judgment of the Academy, Maximilian Schell was 1961's Best Actor for this film Judgment at Nuremberg |
| #3579, aired 2000-03-09 | CLASSIC CINEMA $600: Katharine Hepburn appeared in this 1937 theatrical drama & in a later film that added "Canteen" to the title Stage Door |
| #3579, aired 2000-03-09 | CLASSIC CINEMA $800: This steamy Gregory Peck-Jennifer Jones film was nicknamed "Lust in the Dust" Duel in the Sun |
| #3579, aired 2000-03-09 | CLASSIC CINEMA $1000: This Fritz Lang film portrayed a futuristic city as a hell of scientific progress & human despair Metropolis |
| #3564, aired 2000-02-17 | CLASSIC TEEN CINEMA $200: In this James Dean film, Buzz dies when his leather jacket catches on his car door handle Rebel Without a Cause |
| #3564, aired 2000-02-17 | CLASSIC TEEN CINEMA $400: Title of a 1963 Frankie & Annette movie; the sequel added "Muscle" before it Party |
| #3564, aired 2000-02-17 | CLASSIC TEEN CINEMA $600: Dude! His performance as Jeff Spicoli was, like, a highlight of "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" Sean Penn |
| #3564, aired 2000-02-17 | CLASSIC TEEN CINEMA $800: (Hi, I'm Wallace Langham) I played a weenie in this John Hughes film in which 2 kids create Kelly LeBrock Weird Science |
| #3564, aired 2000-02-17 | CLASSIC TEEN CINEMA $1000: Honoring a rock idol of 1959, it's the school John Travolta attends in "Grease" Rydell High |
| #3355, aired 1999-03-19 | CLASSIC CINEMA QUOTES $100: 1961:
"Fat man, you shoot a great game of pool" The Hustler |
| #3355, aired 1999-03-19 | CLASSIC CINEMA QUOTES $200: 1950:
"I am big. It's the pictures that got small" Sunset Boulevard |
| #3355, aired 1999-03-19 | CLASSIC CINEMA QUOTES $300: 1981:
"Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?" Raiders of the Lost Ark |
| #3355, aired 1999-03-19 | CLASSIC CINEMA QUOTES $500: 1974:
"She's my sister. She's my daughter. My sister. My daughter... she's my sister and my daughter!" Chinatown |
| #3355, aired 1999-03-19 | CLASSIC CINEMA QUOTES $600 (Daily Double): 1941:
"I think it would be fun to run a newspaper" Citizen Kane |
| #3335, aired 1999-02-19 | CLOWN CINEMA $400: Much to his humiliation, this title critter of a 1941 animated classic is forced to join the clown act Dumbo |
| #3218, aired 1998-09-09 | CLASSIC CINEMA $100: In 1935 this little girl starred in "Our Little Girl", "The Little Colonel" & "The Littlest Rebel" Shirley Temple |
| #3218, aired 1998-09-09 | CLASSIC CINEMA $200: The windbreaker & t-shirt look he popularized in "Rebel Without A Cause" is still fashionable 43 years later James Dean |
| #3218, aired 1998-09-09 | CLASSIC CINEMA $300: He starred as Professor Boyd in "Bedtime for Bonzo" but didn't do the sequel, "Bonzo Goes to College" Ronald Reagan |
| #3218, aired 1998-09-09 | CLASSIC CINEMA $400 (Daily Double): This actress seen here emerged as a comic star in 1934's "Twentieth Century" Carole Lombard |
| #3218, aired 1998-09-09 | CLASSIC CINEMA $500: This husband of Jessica Tandy made his screen debut in 1943 in Hitchcock's classic "Shadow Of A Doubt" Hume Cronyn |
| #1, aired 1998-05-03 | SAN FRAN CINEMA $1000: This actress really brought down the house singing the following in a classic film
"San Francisco / Open your golden gate / You'll let no stranger..." Jeanette McDonald |
| #3117, aired 1998-03-03 | WORLD CINEMA $1000: Simone Signoret plots the death of her schoolmaster lover in this 1955 French classic Diabolique |
| #3060, aired 1997-12-12 | SOME MORE SIMIAN CINEMA $500: 1968 classic with the ad line "Somewhere in the universe, there must be something better than man!" Planet of the Apes |
| #3022, aired 1997-10-21 | MARTIAN CINEMA $400: In a 1964 classic this holiday figure "Conquers the Martians" Santa Claus |
| #3022, aired 1997-10-21 | MARTIAN CINEMA $1000: Jimmy Hunt, who played the boy in this 1953 classic, was the police chief in the 1986 remake Invaders From Mars |
| #2727, aired 1996-06-11 | SIMIAN CINEMA $300: Some of the flying monkeys in this 1939 classic were actors in costumes & some were 6" rubber miniatures The Wizard of Oz |
| #2670, aired 1996-03-22 | "WORLD" CINEMA $400: Gene Barry meets Martians in this 1953 H.G. Wells sci-fi classic "War Of The Worlds" |
| #2155, aired 1994-01-07 | CLASSIC CINEMA $100: In "Casablanca" it's the song Bogart is referring to when he says, "If she can stand it, I can!" "As Time Goes By" |
| #2155, aired 1994-01-07 | CLASSIC CINEMA $200: She asked Cary Grant, "Why don't you come up sometime and see me? I'm home every evening" Mae West |
| #2155, aired 1994-01-07 | CLASSIC CINEMA $300: Bette Davis played a deranged ex-child star in this 1962 film that co-starred Joan Crawford What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? |
| #2155, aired 1994-01-07 | CLASSIC CINEMA $400: Jeffrey Hunter played this, his most famous role, in the 1961 film "King of Kings" Jesus |
| #2155, aired 1994-01-07 | CLASSIC CINEMA $500: Laurence Olivier dyed his hair blond for this role, which won him an Oscar as the "Best Actor" of 1948 Hamlet |
| #1024, aired 1989-02-02 | CLASSIC CINEMA $200: The Marx Brothers Meet the Met, so to speak A Night at the Opera |
| #1024, aired 1989-02-02 | CLASSIC CINEMA $400: Cecil B. DeMille's famous Biblical "Exodus", made silently in 1923 & colorfully in 1956 The Ten Commandments |
| #1024, aired 1989-02-02 | CLASSIC CINEMA $600: "It Happened One Night"; they became the 1st co-stars to win Best Actor & Actress Oscars Clark Gable & Claudette Colbert |
| #1024, aired 1989-02-02 | CLASSIC CINEMA $800: In this 1941 flick, Bogey gives Greenstreet the bird-- a fake one The Maltese Falcon |
| #1024, aired 1989-02-02 | CLASSIC CINEMA $1,300 (Daily Double): "High Society", starring Kelly, Crosby & Sinatra, was based on this film with Hepburn, Grant & Stewart The Philadelphia Story |
| #759, aired 1987-12-17 | CLASSIC CINEMA $200: Though it takes place at Christmastime, this 1947 Edmund Gwenn film was released in June Miracle on 34th Street |
| #759, aired 1987-12-17 | CLASSIC CINEMA $400: In 1915 film, "Birth of a Nation", Joseph Henabery played this president Abraham Lincoln |
| #759, aired 1987-12-17 | CLASSIC CINEMA $600: In '40s films, the "Portrait of Jennie" was of Jennifer Jones & "The Picture of Dorian Gray" was of him Hurd Hatfield |
| #759, aired 1987-12-17 | CLASSIC CINEMA $800: Willie Nelson's "Honeysuckle Rose" was based in part on this 1939 film, Ingrid Bergman's 1st Amer. vehicle Intermezzo |
| #759, aired 1987-12-17 | CLASSIC CINEMA $1000: Object in title of a late 1940's DeSica film, it's stolen from a poor Italian a bicycle |
| #632, aired 1987-05-12 | CLASSIC CINEMA $200: Versions of it have starred Neil Diamond, Danny Thomas & Al Jolson The Jazz Singer |
| #632, aired 1987-05-12 | CLASSIC CINEMA $400: 1945's "The Bells of St. Mary's" was the sequel to this 1944 film Going My Way |
| #632, aired 1987-05-12 | CLASSIC CINEMA $800: In "Kind Hearts & Coronets", he played 8 roles, including Lady Agatha Alec Guinness |
| #632, aired 1987-05-12 | CLASSIC CINEMA $1,000 (Daily Double): In "Night of the Hunter", Robert Mitchum has these 2 4-letter words tattooed on his fingers love & hate |
| #632, aired 1987-05-12 | CLASSIC CINEMA $1000: Among the films he's directed are 1948's "Oliver Twist" & "A Passage to India" David Lean |
| #166, aired 1985-04-29 | CLASSIC CINEMA $200: Originally planned for Laughton & Lanchester, this film finally featured Bogart & Hepburn The African Queen |
| #166, aired 1985-04-29 | CLASSIC CINEMA $400: Its title character is a lusty lad who sucks bones with Mrs. Waters in a sexy supper scene Tom Jones |
| #166, aired 1985-04-29 | CLASSIC CINEMA $800: "It is like writing history with lightning," Wilson said of this first film shown in the White House Birth of a Nation |
| #166, aired 1985-04-29 | CLASSIC CINEMA $1000: Louis B. Mayer offered RKO $842,000 to destroy this controversial '41 picture before its release Citizen Kane |
| #166, aired 1985-04-29 | CLASSIC CINEMA $1,800 (Daily Double): This 1939 classic ran 3 hours & 42 minutes, longer than any before it Gone with the Wind |
| #148, aired 1985-04-03 | CLASSIC CINEMA $200: 1939 Steinbeck classic in which George tells Lenny about the rabbits Of Mice and Men |
| #148, aired 1985-04-03 | CLASSIC CINEMA $400: Before winning Best Actress for "Mildred Pierce", she was labeled box office poison Joan Crawford |
| #148, aired 1985-04-03 | CLASSIC CINEMA $600: First called "Night Bus", this '34 film drove away with Best Picture, acting, Director & Writing Oscars It Happened One Night |
| #148, aired 1985-04-03 | CLASSIC CINEMA $800: Later a TV star, this actor self-destructed as a barrack's spy in "Stalag 17" Peter Graves |
| #148, aired 1985-04-03 | CLASSIC CINEMA $1000: In '57, this English star cross-examined the "Witness for the Prosecution" Charles Lawton |
| #106, aired 1985-02-04 | CLASSIC CINEMA $200: Film in which Brando "could'a been a contender" On The Waterfront |
| #106, aired 1985-02-04 | CLASSIC CINEMA $400: Kind of accident that caused deaths of both Scarlett O'Hara's father & daughter riding a horse and falling off |
| #106, aired 1985-02-04 | CLASSIC CINEMA $600: Sydney Greenstreet was 61 when he appeared in this, his 1st movie The Maltese Falcon |
| #6, aired 1984-09-17 | CLASSIC CINEMA $200: In this epic, an angry Scarlett sees Rhett Gone with the Wind |
| #6, aired 1984-09-17 | CLASSIC CINEMA $400: Supposed to have starred Ronald Reagan & Anne Sheridan instead of Bogie & Bergman Casablanca |
| #6, aired 1984-09-17 | CLASSIC CINEMA $600: Chaplin finds fascism funny The Great Dictator |
| #6, aired 1984-09-17 | CLASSIC CINEMA $800: Hitchcock tells Cary Grant where to go North by Northwest |
| #6, aired 1984-09-17 | CLASSIC CINEMA $1000: Often acclaimed as the best American film ever, but lost Oscar in '41 to "How Green Was My Valley" Citizen Kane |
