THE SATURDAY AFTERNOON MOVIE! This music and animation for a generation of WPIX viewers defined the care-free pleasures of watching TV on Saturday afternoons. It will take you back. We'll have other movie opens from the 1975-85 era this weekend, so check back. Thanks to a good friend of the WPIX Archives for contributing this. | WPIX Archives

48K views · 1K reactions | Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m. for much of the 1970s and into 1980s meant this: the Sunday Afternoon Movie, with this classic open featuring the spirals. And who can forget that music? What are your memories of Sunday TV on WPIX? | WPIX Archives | Facebook

If you grew up with Channel 11 (lucky you!) you'll remember this swirling animation and music we'd use for the Sunday Afternoon Movie. On this particular afternoon in 1982, we were showing "Gamera vs Monster X," but you never knew what movie might turn up! (This is after we 'd already brought you the "Three Stooges" and an Abbott and Costello flick in the morning, of course!) | WPIX Archives