Saturday (February 3rd) at 8 on TV-1. Wonder if they're doing this, in part, because he's performimg at the SuperBowl on Sunday?

Can we stickify this??

psychodelicide said:

that's awesome. i've been waiting to see this for 23 years.

suomynona said:

Wow, really, you've never seen Purple Rain?

psychodelicide said:

you're correct. i have it on japanese laserdisc. it was the first dvd i ever bought. i have it on the special edition 2-dvd set. i've just been waiting for it to come on tv. i'm just too lazy to go to the movie theater or load it into my ld/dvd combo player.

thanks again to the op.

The org ate my response. What I meant to say was enjoy the movie. I know I will.
[Edited 2/2/07 20:25pm]

Cool newz! Even tho I have both editions on dvd,I still watch it when it airs on tv! I'm a Prince addict,and proud of it!

sexxydancer said:

Yeah, it's always fun to watch Purple Rain on TV. I have a bigger screen TV, so it's pretty cool.

psychodelicide said:

Thanx 4 the info!

sexxydancer said:

No problem.

They played it several years on VH1 on Prince's birthday before the station turned to bullshit.

vainandy said:

Really? Dang, how did I miss that?

vainandy said:

Your kidding right ? They still Play Purple Rain, they played it about two mounths ago, along with Grease.

And I love VH1, I like it now, then it was before when I was younger lol.

I remember one year, probably around 1994 or so, they really did it up the week of Prince's birthday. They played "Purple Rain" one night, they had a "Timeline" Prince episode, they had a "Pop Up Video" Prince episode, they played several Prince music videos throughout the week, and on that Saturday they had something brand new with Prince "taking over VH1" and playing his new videos, the NPG's new videos, and Mayte's video. Afterwards, they had a Prince special called "Love 4 One Another" with some more new videos. It was a great week.

Every blue mooon I see them play "Movies That Rock" but 99% of the time these days, all they play are those damn reality shows.

I remembered when seeing Purple Rain on Vh1 back in '96, they shown bits of Purple Rain premiere too. THey shown Eddie Murphy, Pee-Wee Herman, Apples, Sheila E, Wendy and Lisa, Big Chuck, and of course Prince himself.

vainandy said:

Daaaaamn, how did I miss all that???? That would have made my week too.

Negritaluvyu said:

Haven't seen Purple Rain on VH-1 in ages. When they do show it, they seem to show it at some oddball time (like 3 or 4 in the morning).

vainandy said:

They seem to play "The Jacksons" movie a lot too.

ladygirl99 said:

Awesome!

psychodelicide said:

They was playing that movie a lot back in the mid 90s when I used to watch the channel. The mini series continues to do extremely well with the network.

My favorite movie,but I've seen it 50 million times on tv and dvd and still loving it

I saw that about three or four years ago on the 1984 episode of "I Love The 80s".

ladygirl99 said:

I didn't watch VH-1 back then as much as I do now, which is probably how I missed the Prince stuff.

nurse said:

Me too, it's a great movie! I'm excited that it's going to be on VH-1.

vainandy said:

Loved those, "I Love the 80's" series. Brought back a lot of great memories.

VH1 used to be the main channel I used to watch. They were great in the mid 90s with shows like "The Big 80s", "8 Track Flashback", old "American Bandstand" episodes, old "Solid Gold" episodes, old "Cher" episodes, "Movies That Rock", and "Behind The Music".

vainandy said:

Wow, how times have changed. Now, like you said, it's mostly reality TV shows.

Except they played the hell out of it over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over.....

vainandy said:

Yeah, they did.