Sam Pancake Presents the Monday Afternoon Movie

 This week on Monday Afternoon Movie , Sam Pancake is joined by the hilarious Michael Cyril Creighton. Michael is an award-winning actor, writer, and comedian best known for playing the lovable Howard Morris on Only Murders in the Building . Raised on Long Island and based in New York, he first gained attention with his Writers Guild Award-winning web series Jack in a Box before appearing in accla...

Note to isteners: this episode covers topics of sexual assualt and abuse. Discretion is advised.  Joining Sam Pancake today is Katie O'Brien, an actress, writer, producer, and showrunner. With her comedy group, The Katydids, she co-created, wrote, executive-produced, and starred in TV Land's hit comedy Teachers, which ran for three seasons and fifty episodes. She went on to write and co-executive...

Due to the success of the MONDAY AFTERNOON MOVIE Patreon Bonus Series SAM & SARAH WATCH A BONKERS MOVIES, Sam Pancake and Sarah Burns are coming out from behind the MAM Paywall and launching a new scary funny weekly podcast in the same vein as SASWABM called "OH, THE HORROR! with Sam & Sarah" that starts on Friday June 5! They will cover a different theatrically released horror movie every week, f...

Our April Monday Afternoon Movie is taking us on a trip to the early 1990's and it sure is loaded with some big, dangerous names.   Joining Sam Pancake today is fellow creator and podcast host, Stuart Ross . Stuart hosts Another Gay Podcast, and runs the Gay Horror Club. Directed by Tobe Hooper and inspired by a story by Cornell Woolrich , I'm Dangerous Tonight (1990) is a supernatural horror thri...

Another bonus episode of Sam and Sarah watch a Bonkers Movie for all of you Monday Afternooners! If you've never had the pleasure of watching the 1976 film The Food of the Gods, Sam and Sarah will be happy to walk you through the madness of this Canadian tale of oversized out of control critters. When a weird suggestive looking bubbling goo comes out of the ground, Mr. and Mrs. Skinner consider it...

It's a rare treat for the main podcast feed: A watch-along movie adventure! Heads up, there's a showdown at the ol' spooky corral coming your way. We're headed to the old west with this one, so put on your chaps and spurs and let  Sam Pancake is take you along for the ride.  Black Noon (1971), directed by Bernard L. Kowalski and starring Roy Thinnes , Yvette Mimieux , Ray Milland , Lynn Loring , a...

Your ol' pal Sam Pancake has started a brand new show for you to take into your earballs: Sam and Sarah Watch a BONKERS Movie. This time, he's bringing along a co-host: actor Sarah Burns ! The chemistry in these Patreon-only recordings was too hot to be contained there, so he's bringing it to the main feed for you to enjoy. The film selection rules are a little looser in this one, so Sam and Sarah...

Just when you thought that Sam had covered all the troubled teen and young adult made-for-TV dramas, he comes at you with this ace up his sleeve about the dangers of gambling. Don't ask him to actually play any casino games though, as the only Kings and Queens he knows are the ones in drag. Joining Sam Pancake today is Tipper Newton, an actor, filmmaker, and musician. She is best known for her rol...

Welcome to 2026! The Monday Afternoon Movie's latest season continues. Our featured film today stars a couple of legendary icons of the screen, big and small. It's also completely wacky and an all over the place bargain bin James Bond clone.  The 1972 film, starring Bette Davis and Robert Wagner , centers on Madame Sin, a wealthy, brilliant, and deeply manipulative woman who runs a private organiz...

Do you hear the bells and festive music? Feel that cold weather nipping at your toes? Smell the gingerbread and peppermint? I guess that means only one thing: Meika, cue up the Ed Asner clips because the yearly Sam Pancake Holiday Special is upon us once more and we're all out of Paul Lynde specials to cover. Today's episode takes us on a sentimental and heartwarming journey through ABC's 1977 Han...

The time has come for our yearly Thanksgiving harvest, only this year, Sam Pancake has deciede to share with you all the dark secret of the corn. It's going to be a shuckin' good time. To help unfold that secret is actor, comedian, and content creator Daniel Vincent Gordh (Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Matt and Dan) THE DARK SECRET OF HARVEST HOME is a 1978 tv mini series produced by Universal Television...

The Halloween episode has arrived and we come bearing Debbie Reynolds and a little bit of Disney Channel magic. In a Monday Afternoon Movie first, Sam and his guest will cover all 4 movies of the series in one action packed epsiode! HALLOWEENTOWN, starring Kimberly J. Brown  and Debbie Reynolds, follows Marnie and her siblings as they learn from their Grandma Aggie all about the wonders, dangers,...

Today's Monday Afternoon movie involves overalls, Stacy Keach, backwoods Tennessee children, willow switches, and rattlers!  ALL THE KIND STRANGERS is a 1974 ABC Move of the Week starring Stacy Keach and Samantha Eggar . When photojournalist Jimmy sees a young boy carrying a heavy load back to his house, Jimmy offers to take him home. What he finds when gets there is a family of children with no c...

The mystique and intrigue of the Ouija board is on full display this Monday afternoon. What will its' connection to the spirit world reveal to Mr. Pancake and his guest? More importantly, who, or what, is Dick Pizza?  DEADLY MESSAGES is a 1985 ABC made-for-TV horror film starring Kathleen Beller and Michael Brandon . When main character Laura finds a Ouija board, her roommate decides to use it beh...

Aaaaa-rooooooOOOOOOO! Werewolf-philes and lycanthrope enthusiasts unite as today's Monday Afternoon Movie is all about your favorite furry moon loving creatures of the night.  MOON OF THE WOLF is a 1972 ABC Movie of the Week starring David Janssen, Barbara Rush, and Geoffrey Lewis , father of the lovely Juliette Lewis . Fun fact: The director, Daniel Petrie , is probably best known for his work on...

Eye! Knife! Raven! Doll! Coffin! Sam is back for your monthly Monday Afternoon adventure. Today's wild movie? Sweet, Sweet Rachel , a 1971 TV movie starring Pat Hingle , Louise Latham , and Alex Dreier . When a murderer strikes using psychic power as a weapon, an expert on paranormal and ESP abilities uses his knowledge to try andtrack down the killer. Juicy subplot: Will Sam's voice make it to th...

Let the prison tropes begin! Sam Pancake has a hot caged piece of heat for you with this episode. The movie? WOMEN IN CHAINS , the 1972 American television film directed by Bernard L. Kowalski . Originally released for ABC's Movie of the Week, the film stars Ida Lupino , Jessica Walter & Belinda Montgomery .  Sam's guest today is Pete Zias : actor, commedian, and alum of The Groundlings Sunday Com...

Let the Ritual of Evil begin! This month's episode of Monday Afternoon Movie brings back  super podcast guest Stacie Ponder to dissect the classic RITUAL OF EVIL, a 1970 American made-for-television drama directed by Robert Day and starring Louis Jourdan. It was made as a sequel to Fear No Evil (1969) Want to show your support for Sam & The Monday Afternoon Movie? Make sure to follow on the offici...

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 actor & comedian ...

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, and they're joining force...

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 animation slightly unsettling, an...

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 — joined by returning g...

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 even more Monday A...

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 kookiness that y...

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 Andrew Hopf to discuss w...