Sam Pancake Presents the Monday Afternoon Movie

Mar 31 2025 100 ep. 87 mins 531

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Actor and comedian Sam Pancake sits down with friends famous and funny to discuss the surreal, silly and nonetheless star-studded made-for-TV movies of the 1970s. It's a loving look at baffling not-quite-feature-length flicks that often aren't on DVD and have largely been lost to time.

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FIVE DESPERATE WOMEN With Sarah Burns

Mar 31 2025 112 mins

The Monday Afternoon Movie hiatus is officially over! Sam Pancake is back to recap and analyze your favorite made for TV movies and specials, in a way that only he can. He continues his march into 70's and 80's TV movie madess with Five Desperate Women, a 1971 ABC Movie of the Week starring Robert Conrad & Joan Hackett. To help Sam break down the plot for us, he's bringing back a

THE HOUSE WITHOUT A CHRISTMAS TREE with Lauren Graham

Dec 23 2024 75 mins

What better Christmas present could Monday Afternoon Movie offer you than a holiday special with special guest Lauren Graham? Not only is she one of the titular Gilmore Girls, she’s also a bona fide Christmas movie star in her own right as a result of starring in both Bad Santa and appearing in this year’s The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. And she’s also Sam’s IRL bestie, an

THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY with Patty Schemel

Dec 16 2024 87 mins

We don’t like to brag on this podcast — we don’t, we swear! — but presented for your holiday delight is possibly the best union of guest and subject matter we’ve done so far: kickass drummer Patty Schemel and the 1968 made-for-TV Christmas classic, The Little Drummer Boy. Yes, this is a non-scary episode of the podcast, unless you find the Rankin/Bass stop-motion animatio

GHOSTWATCH with Roz Hernandez

Oct 28 2024 66 mins

Welcome to a special Halloween edition of Monday Afternoon Movie, in which we discuss not a hilarious made-for-TV gem that is enjoyable on a camp level but instead a TV movie that is actually scary. We speak of GHOSTWATCH, a 1992 BBC broadcast that took many an at-home viewer by surprise when it first aired. To say too much would ruin a first-time viewing experience, so Sam — joi

THE NIGHT STRANGLER with Jack Plotnick

Sep 30 2024 98 mins

A hero returns just when we need him most! Is it Darren McGavin’s Carl Kolchak? No! It’s Sam Pancake, here to discuss the second of the Kolchak movies in which a host of crabby white men go on and on in the face of supernatural peril. This time, Sam is joined by professional funny-acting person Jack Plotnick, to discuss the highs and lows of the made-for-TV horror subgenre. Get

LOOK WHAT'S HAPPENED TO ROSEMARY'S BABY with Stacie Ponder

Aug 26 2024 116 mins

You might think that if anyone was going to follow up the iconic film Rosemary's Baby with further tales of the plucky Woodhouse family, they would do so with the skill and thoughtfulness that made the original so celebrated. Well, you woulnd't be correct, because the 1976 ABC TV movie LOOK WHAT'S HAPPENED TO ROSEMARY'S BABY tosses out the prestiga of the original for the wackadoo

SCREAM, PRETTY PEGGY with Andrew Hopf

Aug 01 2024 107 mins

Have you ever been watching reruns of That Girl and felt like Ted Bessell seemed too villainous to be playing Marlo Thomas’s boyfriend? If yes, then we’ve got the movie for you. Originally airing in 1973, SCREAM, PRETTY PEGGY has Bessell starring opposite Bette Davis and Sian Barbara Allen in a thriller that sure wants to earn the adjective “Hitchcockian.” Sam is joined by

NIGHT TERROR with Carrie Aizley and Christen Sussin

Jul 01 2024 99 mins

Also known as Night Drive, this 1974 made-for-TV thriller stars none other than Valerie Harper as a lady motorist pursued by a psychopath. Is it a distaff Duel or an even scarier Crossroads? Here to answer that question are two of Sam's comedy chums, performers Carrie Aizley and Christen Sussin. Sam Pancake's X (Formerly known as Twitter)

FALLEN ANGEL with Margaret Cho

May 27 2024 103 mins

Warning: This episode (and this TV film) concerns child pornography and might be upsetting for some listeners. What’s this? A return to the “teen trauma” wave of TV movies? YES! And it’s all thanks to this week’s guest, Margaret Cho, who made the suggestion that Sam look into this real doozy of a telefilm. FALLEN ANGEL stars Melinda Dillon as the mother of a tween who run

REVENGE! with Peaches Christ

Apr 29 2024 99 mins

Will Shelley Winters finally have her revenge on Sam Pancake and the Monday Afternoon Movie? Now that we're back to the horror genre, Sam has invited iconic filmmaker and confirmed cult leader Peaches Christ into the fold to talk about REVENGE!, the 1971 ABC movie of the week starring Sam's nemesis, Dame Shelley Winters, Bradford Dillman, and Stuart Whitman. In what very much f