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3 years 3 months ago
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The biggest thing I miss about USA Network (and early cable networks in general) was all the obscure, low-budget, off-beat stuff they would play as others have pointed out. Also USA Up All Night.
My favorite thing about USA Network in the 1980s and early 1990s though, were those horror shorts they used to air when shows or special events would end before the top of the hour and there would be some time to fill before the next show started. There were a bunch of creepy ones, I particularly remember "The Contraption" (where a man is building something, but you can't quite figure out what it is, then he suddenly puts his head down on it, releases a lever and it kills him, and the camera pans back to reveal it's a giant mousetrap) and "The Dummy" (which must have been the inspiration for the movie "Child's Play" . There was a nifty little student film too, where a man gets a typed letter to come to a job interview, only to find out that the typewriter (and some film stock) is trying to kill him and after it does, it types a letter to invite the next job candidate.
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