
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
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- Year:
- 2004
- 120 min
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I think I ever saw...
was "Throne of Blood,"
on the Z Channel.
Fellini film, "I Vitteloni."
There was a picture called
"Spider's Stratagem."
Sam Peckinpah's
"The Wild Bunch."
The "Straw Dogs"...
"Bring Me the Head
of Alfredo Garcia."
"City Lights."
- "Rear Window."
- "Midnight Cowboy."
- "Ikiru."
- "Song Remains the Same."
"Johnny Guitar."
- "The Onion Field."
- "Los Olvidados."
"The Man Who Fell to Earth."
Every film that Marlon Brando
was ever in.
- Z Channel.
- Z Channel.
- Z Channel.
- Our salvation.
Uncharted territory.
Like tom-toms in the jungle.
- Jerry Harvey.
- Jerry Harvey.
- Programmer.
- Obsessive programmer.
Dark and negative.
- Maverick.
- Nurturing.
Skating that line between
insanity and genius.
What do you think the secret of
the Z Channel's success is?
I don't know.
If I told you,
then it wouldn't be a secret.
My father says there's
only right and wrong.
Good and evil.
Nothing in between.
It isn't that simple, is it?
No, it isn't.
It should be, but it isn't.
KNX News time, 6:06.
The bodies of Z Channel
programmer Jerry Harvey...
and his wife Deri Rudulph were
discovered Saturday Night...
and killed Rudulph...
his wife of two years...
before turning the gun
on himself.
The motive is unknown.
Harvey had been chief programmer
at Z Channel...
which is known
throughout Los Angeles...
for its eclectic and innovative
programming.
Both Harvey and Rudulph
were 39 years old.
So it was back in 1974...
and I had just started
selling cable television...
and the Z Channel
had just started.
So we came up here
to the Hollywood hills.
And it was really great...
because these people
had terrible reception.
They couldn't see anything
on their television...
and not only were we offering
good reception...
we gave them movies...
uncut and no commercials...
in their bedroom,
wherever they wanted it.
They ate it up.
It was very, very successful.
It was amazing.
I had friends over
all the time...
because they showed
two movies a night...
as I recall.
And they were uncut,
uninterrupted.
It was this phenomenon
no one had ever seen.
Theta, the Z Channel, was the
only one in the major cities.
In other words...
New York did not have it
at the time.
Los Angeles was
the first one to do that.
That this actually existed,
you could see this stuff...
was incredible.
So I was like,
"We've got to get this!"
I was living in El Segundo
at the time.
And my mom called up, and, no,
Z Channel wasn't in our area.
Not only was Theta in that area
along the foothills...
but it was who was in the homes
along the foothills...
ran the movie industry.
They were films
for the whole family...
but I thought slanted to adults
a little bit.
And those were the films
I tried to get.
"Chinatown" was on a lot
in those days.
They used to run it a lot.
And that was one of
my favorite movies.
3 or 4 times a week...
at certain points.
I publicized the shows
that we were doing...
in the Hollywood trade papers,
"Variety" and "Reporter"...
and gradually,
word began to spread.
I think it's interesting, too,
to note that in that time...
it's hard to remember this.
I told my kids about it,
and they don't believe me...
but there was a time when there
was no Blockbuster stores.
There was no videocassettes.
None of that existed.
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