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Sweatingmonkeys t1_iwnrjrm wrote

I am with you totally! However, the first time I ever saw Rocky Horror Picture Show movie was on Prism and yes, by today’s standards I was way too young to have watched that movie, but it was pure joy for me! Still love it, so thank you PRISM!

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JasperDyne t1_iwnu394 wrote

Nothing like trying to watch nude scenes through the scrambled images coming through the switcher box when your parents weren’t subscribers

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zeddsded t1_iwnv8qp wrote

Still available at Bob’s Tavern in Andalusia

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doc_hoovie t1_iwo1vxy wrote

WWF Wrestling from the Spectrum!

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djjsear t1_iwo44s9 wrote

I grew up in Chester. My mom mom got Prism for free for keeping an eye on the cable guys van so no one would steal his truck or equipment. Got to watch rasslin and the flyers for free

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ddkelkey t1_iwo49gg wrote

I watched Alien on Prism and got the shit scared out of me

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ehm1217 t1_iwo5gpn wrote

Used to be able to run PRISM through the VCR tuner, fidlle with the tuner and unscramble it. Those were the days

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angry_old_dude t1_iwobrc0 wrote

Phillies baseball is what I remember. Harry Kalas, Whitey Ashburn, Chris Wheeler and Andy Musser.

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rhhkeely t1_iwocuqs wrote

So many purple squiggle titties

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Randbot t1_iwoi0ia wrote

Took me 20 years to put together it was called Prism because they showed events from the Spectrum.

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libananahammock t1_iwoi0j5 wrote

Replying to djjsear (#550,784)

My dad was a cable instillation guy back in the late 80s. I remember this story he used to tell about the time he was sent to Chester to do a job and ended up getting chased with a knife. Must have been disconnecting someone’s cable lol

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meohmy13 t1_iwok8bu wrote

It was only recently that I realized that they called the network “Prism” because it let you see The Spectrum

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SpauldingSmails18 t1_iwooh3k wrote

Late Saturday nights. Channel 5. My neighbor climbed the pole and hooked up the whole block. Legend.

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backslashdotcom t1_iwotjtj wrote

Channel 17 on Storer Cable in the Woodbury, NJ area. Added bonus: HBO was 21 and MTV was 13.

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Muppet_Rock t1_iwp5tio wrote

Good old channel 25 in NE Philly!

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DFHartzell t1_iwpfa8u wrote

Yea I loved watching all those black and gray fuzzy boobs and basketballs

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Googoots t1_iwpk4ra wrote

Replying to angry_old_dude (#551,193)

They were the best, but they weren’t on PRISM, so I was always disappointed when the game was on there. Bill Campbell announced the games on PRISM but I can’t remember who else did.

I was a kid at the time and I didn’t know that Bill used to be the regular play by play guy for the Phillies before Harry, Richie, and Andy. Those were the only announcers I knew at the time.

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Googoots t1_iwpk9vr wrote

PRISM =

Philadelphia Regional In home Sports and Movies

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BearPhilly t1_iwpr7pv wrote

Couple bars in the city still have Prism signs

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djjsear t1_iwptiic wrote

Replying to libananahammock (#551,559)

Cable guys would go in to the houses to do an install and come out to have an empty or missing truck. They used filters back then, these small cylinders (a little smaller then a roll of pennies). You would just screw them on to your cable line and they would give you different channels.

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willc9393 t1_iwq017l wrote

I loved the wrestling events from the Spectrum.

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Gelnhausenjim t1_iwqeumy wrote

Philadelphia Regional In-house Sports and Movies. PRISM

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fastcount123 t1_iwr2wm4 wrote

When we first got PRISM in '80-'81, they would run 24 hours on weekends. HBO back then was still going off the air late at night and return around mid-day so being about to watch films and stuff around the clock (if you wanted) on weekends was a thrill. Loved PRISM!

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WeekendJen t1_iwrbzdw wrote

Replying to ant_gargano (#555,903)

I watched this as a child (always had a tv in my room) and I thought it was some wierd fever dream until i googled what details i could remember a few years ago to find out that it was a real thing I watched and I remembered it pretty accurately.

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harmacist87 t1_iwukkhd wrote

To this day whenever there was a somewhat more obscure movie that my brother and friends saw a lot growing up that not many others have seen, we just say "must've been a Prism movie".

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