The Paley Center for Media Announces the Return of PaleyPresents Weekend Screenings in Los Angeles

Around the World in 80 Minutes
September 27 & 28; 12:10 pm
There’s more than one way to globe trot, as we demonstrate in this showcase of exceptional children’s programming from around the world.
Screenings: The Story of Piloo Looking for His Mother; Open a Door II: “The Boy, the Slum and the Pan’s Lids;” Round the Twist: “Next Time Around;” Humdrum; Knyacki; An Unexpected Student; Kaboodle: “The Cure;” Chunga Chui (Leopard Beware); The Girl and the Coconut Horn.

Superheroes
October 4 & 5, 11 & 12; 12:10pm
October skies mean Comic Con in Gotham City, so what better time to present these superhero screenings from our collection of family programming.
Screenings: Superman: “The Mummy Strikes;” Superfriends: “The Final Challenge;”
The Fairly Oddparents; “The Crimson Chin Meets Mighty Mom and Dyno Dad;” X-Men: “Days of Future Past, Parts 1-2.”

Halloween
October 18 & 19, 25 & 26; 12:10pm
There are tricks and treats a-plenty as the Paley Center celebrates Halloween with a grab bag of episodes and specials celebrating every ghoul’s favorite holiday. Our family programming revolves around the mischief and witchery of October 31st.
Screenings: Garfield’s Halloween Adventure; The Addams Family; Soul Man; Tales from the Darkside.

Featured Programming:

Bewitched Marathon
September 27 & 28; 2:00pm
The Paley Center asked Bewitched expert Herbie J Pilato—author of Bewitched Forever and Twitch Upon A Star: The Bewitched Life and Career of Elizabeth Montgomery and two additional books about show, and founder and executive director of the Classic TV Preservation Society—to select his seven favorite Bewitched episodes for this marathon screening commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the show’s premiere.

Screenings: Episode 17: “A Is for Aardvark;” Episode 81: “Twitch or Treat;” Episode 101: “The Crone of Cawdor;” Episode 118: “Allergic to Macedonian Dodo Birds;” Episode 119: “Samantha’s Thanksgiving to Remember;” Episode 183: “You’re So Agreeable;” Episode 213: “Sisters at Heart.”

Superhero Classics
October 4 & 5, 11 & 12; 2:00pm
Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman . . . the “big three” of DC comics, enduring, iconic creations that defined a medium and a genre which, eight decades hence, rules at the box office and drives much of contemporary pop culture. These characters are the classics, and we present their classic television representations: the endearingly cornball Adventures of Superman from the fifties, the sixties Pop Art camp sensation Batman, and the earnest (if awkwardly titled) New Original Wonder Woman of the seventies. Look, up in the sky—holy nostalgia, Batman! That pretty lady’s in an invisible plane!

Screenings: The Adventures of Superman: “Superman on Earth” and “The Perils of Superman;” Batman: “The Purr-fect Crime” and “Better Luck Next Time;” The New, Original Wonder Woman.

IN LOS ANGELES ONLY
‘70s Spin-Off-Palooza
October 18 & 19; 2:00pm
The Paley Center presents a weekend salute to classic 1970s spin-offs and the original series.

Screenings: 2:00: All in the Family: “Cousin Maude’s Visit;” 2:30: Maude: “Maude Meets Florida;” 3:00: The Jeffersons: “A Friend in Need;” 3:30: Rhoda: “Joe;” 4:00: Lou Grant: “Cophouse.”

TV Trick or Treat
October 25 & 26
There are tricks and treats aplenty as the Paley Center celebrates Halloween with a grab bag of episodes and specials celebrating every ghoul’s favorite holiday. Buffy Summers and Dr. Horrible invite you to join them in raising some spirits in song. Then, we present the Halloween episode of the cult classic series Freaks and Geeks.
Screenings: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: “Once More with Feeling;” Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog; Freaks and Geeks: “Tricks and Treats.”