Anyone from Northern Wisconsin/Upper Michigan who remembers "TJ and the ANT?"

  • Goofball
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    • 2 years 8 months ago
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    		 From 1977-1982, WLUK in Green Bay ran a show called "TJ and the ANT" (short for Television Jockey and the All Night Theater). It would start at about 10 or 11 PM on Friday night and would run movies until about 8 AM Saturday morning.
    The movies were often crappy B films, horror/SCI-FI, Charlie Chan, and the occasional classic. In between the movies there would be Looney Tunes cartoons and amateur shorts.
    The host, TJ (Doug Heim), ran the show by himself from the control room with a camera pointed at him. He would occasionally have local guests come on the show.
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  • Goofball
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    • 2 years 7 months ago
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    		 So nobody remembers that show? It was a clear example of how much better free TV back then could be than today's pay TV.
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  • AZPACMAN
    • 2 years 4 months ago
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    		 I used to love that show! I only made it to 1:00 A.M.
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  • octoberghoul
    • 10 months 1 day ago
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    		 That was a great show. I remember it well. I think I was in junior high then and we used to have Friday night sleep-overs and see if we could make it all night long. Just TJ at his board. Before home video, shows like this were the only places you could see fun 1950's B movies.
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  • kstahmer
    • 2 months 13 days ago
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    		 Definitely remember that show!

    It began at 10:30 PM (or later, depending on circumstance) Friday on Channel 11 Green Bay, which was ABC at that time (now it’s Fox). Had a theme song (Well its Friday night …), snippets of which I remember even today. Doug Heim was TJ (Television Jockey). ANT was All Night Theatre (The show’s original title was TJ and the All Night Theatre). It ran until about 8:00 AM Saturday. On several occasions, I watched the entire show.

    One night Heim announced at about 3:00 AM, completely unexpectedly, the TV execs, in their infinite wisdom, had cancelled his show.

    That was it. No more TJ. No more ANT.
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