1980 WKBD Detroit: Bill Kennedy at the Movies Open 

Watching Bill Kennedy at the Movies was one of the high points of being sick and not going to school.

Please, please Channel 50 create a Bill Kennedy at the Movies RU-vid channel and upload all his old shows! I love his story telling and historical information of all the stars before, during and after the show and the stars that came to visit his studio. I used to watch him after morning kindergarten and lunch on Dad's La-Z-boy where he knew I would fall asleep for an afternoon nap w/o protest. Never under-estimate the brilliance of a shift working Dad!

Rita Bell, Bill Kennedy, and the 4:30 Movie each weekday. With Sir Graves and The Ghoul on weekends. A far away time.

I was bill’s paperboy ,I delivered the Detroit News to him everyday .He was a great guy .Invited me into his mansion to look at all his signed celebrity autographs and memorabilia.

One of the greatest movies hosts ever. Loved his commentaries and the movies he showed!!!!!!!!!

I remember watching Bill Kennedy while being home sick from school. He really got me into many old movies that I still watch to this day! God Bless him

Bill Kennedy was a living breathing IMDB.

HIS VOICE WAS GOLDEN. I REMEMBER WATCHING HIS OLD MOVIES. I LOVE DETROIT AND CHANNEL 50.

Boy, now this is a memory! LOL! Bill Kennedy Show. Started watching it on Channel 9 CKLW Windsor and then Channel 50 later on.

Detroit, use to be a great town in those days. My Dad was a remote director for WJBK Chanel 2 for 30 plus years.

I moved from Detroit about 26 years ago. I LOVED Bill Kennedy. Just good inside information about movies in the great time of movies. I am sorry, but today is just too much trash. My opinion. RIP Bill.

In the 1950's every Sunday afternoon at 1 pm, my Pop and I would watch old movies on channel 9. I was five years old when it began and have loved old movies ever since. I miss my Dad, and Bill Kennedy. Thanks for the memories!

My God, what memories. Bill Kennedy lived across the street from my grandparents in G.P. Shores. I used to go over to his house and swim in his pool with his daughters. This is exactly how I remember him looking. He would answer the front door wearing a smoking jacket and an ascot, cigarette in hand. Always welcomed me into his home.

detroit got educated about movies from our bill kennedy rip

We really lost something when we " gained" more channels. This was good television.

I Watched SOOO many movies with this man, whenever I had a SICK DAY from school! And he gave you the INSIDE JAB, about the movie, BETTER than anyone today! THANK YOU BILL KENNEDY!

Bring back good memories.....his tv show started at 1PM in Flint and ran till 3....great movies....on Channel 50 from Detroit

My mom watched this adorable old man every day at 1:00 on channel 50. I have many good memories of watching him and a lot of good movies on his show.

I remember watching Bill back in the 80's on a small TV.

OMG! I remember watching this all the time. Thanks for posting.

His VOICE was the opening and closing for the Adventures of Superman tv show!

I remember watching him as a kid in the 80s

Good 'ol Bill. I was in college in Detroit in the late 70's when I discovered him. I was already a fan of classic movies and Bill was the perfect conduit to a daily dose of films from the 30s and 40s. He was a character and made you laugh. I loved his anecdotes about being in the film industry during the 40s. I was watching Mr Skeffington, in which Bill plays one of Betty Davis's admirers. Seeing him brought back memories of Detroit and I wondered if RU-vid had any of Bill's movie intro's. Sure enough, here he is. He would have been the perfect host for TCM.

Never missed a show.

I love his voice. Takes me back to watching TV when I was home sick from school.

bill was such a ham!!!we loved him in detroit.

Classic! Truly brings back memories!

I miss this show!

I miss those years, but what a great time to live in SE Michigan. Thank you sir.

My Dad was often mistaken for Bill Kennedy. In the early Seventies we were at Cedar Point in line for the water ride and the young girl working the line yelled OMG it's Bill Kennedy. She ran over to the booth and came back with a pen and paper and asked for his autograph. Dad asked her for her name and he signed a sweet note to her. She teared up and hugged him and said she had watched him her whole life. He was a bookkeeper. When we got off the ride Dad yelled her name and said See ya in the movies. She had the sweetest star struck smile. I miss my Dad and Bill Kennedy.

I have great memories of watching Bill at the movies after school with my mom. That was a big factor in my developing love of and appreciation for good cinema.

Thank you for posting this! Have been trying to remember his name from my youth! I grew up in Michigan and all I could remember was this nice guy that sat behind a desk hosting movies. Oh, what a relief!

I remember writing to Bill Kennedy, hen I was 6, or 7, he never resounded back with a letter, but I asked him to play a Bettis Davis movie and he did.

wow such great memories of this man. We watched all the time

When I was a kid we had two channels and a third became available channel 50 out of Detroit which expanded my world considerably with Bill Kennedy and Saturday night with "The Ghoul and Froggy"

My Mother and Father watched him every day on Channel 50 while he was getting ready for work. My sister and I walked to School and came for lunch when the Weather was good . It was so nice to see him on the TV .

Whenever my family came home from church, the first thing I did was to turn on the TV and watch Bill Kennedy (after changing from my church clothes). I miss that local flavor.

The best of Detroit TV.

Legend.

Bill Kennedy was the greatest.

I loved this music

This brings back memories of when Detroit television was great! I even skipped school a couple of times when Kennedy was showing a particularly great film. I should probably be embarrassed to admit that, but I regret nothing!

As a kid I had two options in the summer. Go outside, get some fresh air and exercise, or sit in the basement and watch TV. I, of course, chose TV. I had no particular attachment to old movies, but Bill Kennedy was the only thing on and I sure as.... well I wasn't going to waste my life playing outside when there was a TV around, so I watched old movies and listened to Bill Kennedy. Fast forward 40 years and my love of old movies is a direct product of Bill's show. I love the fact that I was exposed to these films at such a young age. Thanks Bill! And thanks TelevisionDetroit for posting this.

If you wrote to him asking for a stars photo he would send it to you.

My father Richard McCloskey who worked on the T.V. side of C.K.L.W. use to bring Bill Kennedy to the house around the time when Bill had i think it was a White Ford Thunderbird hardtop with a small circular window and i remember riding in the back seat of that car. Anyone out there remember that car?

Man. The nostalgia and longing associated with this clip has me in my feelings. I miss parts of this optimistic world

Bill Kennedy, Bob Talbert, Sonny Elliot, The Ghoul, Sir Graves, Rita Bell, JP McCarthy, Ernie Harrell and Paul Carey, Bill Bonds, Amyre Macupson, Al Ackerman….and many others-I’m sure I’m missing some. I sure feel privileged to have lived through that era.

Local tv was great. Lots of much happier times then unlike today garbage.

I remember watching bill Kennedy as a young teenager, wow

The Cary Grant movie: "Destination Tokyo" features him as the diving officer. It made me do a double take.If I was home sick from school,his show was the high point of my day.I've tried to get DVD's of my favorites and without his commentary,it's not the same.

The classic arm wave introduction...

Remember him well at CKLW, when I grew up in Detroit. I remember him doing the commercials for Bonbuilt home improvement. He started out Leonard Box built his home for 3,000.00 and saved money, of course he stole most of the material. You can save money without being a thief by using bonbuilt . He was every bit as entertaining as Arthur Godfrey.

He was the shit when I was young...RIP Bill

I used to watch him during summer break 😊

Thank you for this but I remember when he was on channel CKLW for a least a decade (Channel 9 Windsor, Ont) but when Canada could no longer have independent channels and had to comply to the England's new law. He set the bar for me when I watch TCM hosts. Fab of a guy and ahead of his time.

I remember him! I was 10. I’m watching this movie now on Amazom.

This brings back some really great memories of my childhood and teenage years!!! Lord knows I wish I could go back in time for those days!!! The world now is a place that I don't want to live in!!! I hate the world now and I prefer the old world better!!! My opinion!!!

Bill Kennedy mentions the movie was from 36 years ago... now it's 76 years ago!!

Sounds like my grandparents tv

A local station talking about 'school snow days' back in the day in the D-Bill K@ the Movies! And the movies were so so, (being a kid)😊. Still, people loved it-a 1pm tradition. The movie was secondary to his overall appealing personality.

Remember the the concert trailers during Bill Kennedy at the Movies

4:16 we had a version of Bill Kennedy at the movies in Cleveland, 8 p.m. every Sunday night seemed like he ran those movies for years it was good to watch with some of his inside information see a Bill Kennedy wherever you are?

Always used to watch Bill. Hey, TelevisionDetroit....is there any chance you can come up with the opening for Scream Theater, which used to show at 11:30 PM on WXYZ (Channel 7) around the same time as this Bill Kennedy clip? I would kill to see it again!!

What a character. I recall watching him as a bad guy on an episode of Sky King.

BK was one hip,groovy,far out cat ! I really dug him dadio !!!

His opening theme "Just In Time", doe's anyone know anything about the particular recording. I used to watch Bill Kennedy a lot as a child, and have always loved the recording.

Filmfax brought me here...

I was in second grade playing sick and just wanted to watch woody woodpecker afterwards

The closing of the Beverly Hillbillies at the beginning

The theme song is ,”Just In Time”, but which orchestra plays this version which is the theme of this long running gem?

Love the Classic Movies Bill Kennedy Showtime Mary Morgan million dollar movie

I remember watching this at my grandparents house with my two cousins loved this show along with Family Affair favorite good old days miss my grandparents and cousin they have been gone for many yrs and goes those were the day and also watching Bozo now you can't even think about talking about clowns

I remember watching this on Bill Kennedy they died with their boots on and he talked about it good movie

The Beverly Hillbillies at the beginning. Is it the ending of the episode "Jed Inherits A Castle" that explains the special guest star Paul Lynde in the credits?

Faster than a speeding bullet!

Did Bill Kennedy do the opening for The Adventures Of Superman?

Does anyone know whose version of “Just in Time” this is? For a while, BK used Count Basie’s version, but this is a different orchestra.

It's kind of sad. I was only 8yo when he retired, and I probably didn't like him because I think old people scared me or something. Now I watch and he was kind of funny and witty. Wish I had gotten to at least see the intros of more of his movie presentations more often, you know?

Does anyone knows what music is playing?

my father Marvin markowitz used to go the show sometimes and talk about being a wrestler and such...do you know where the copy of those shows are thankyou

Great video,,,I'm wondering if you have the complete tape,,,I have tapes of Bill in 1990 and 1983

what was his theme music?

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