The USA Network weekend lineup was the best thing to come out of the latter half of the 1980s. I can say without reservation it did more to shape my psyche than my church, school, family, or peers. Starting at noon you had two horror movies as part of Commander USA's Groovie Movies.
While these tended more to the campy side, at 8 we had Saturday Nightmares with stronger stuff.
After the feature, there was an anthology show like Alfred Hitchcock Presents, the Hitchhiker, and Ray Bradbury Theater. Later still at 11 there were some psychotronic movies mixed in with music videos and shorts under the Night Flight banner.
This went on until 7 AM, though the example I looked at had the two movies repeated. Then it was time for a five hour cartoon block on the Cartoon Express.
Next, an hour of WWF Wrestling, then Kung Fu Theater
At times there was another Commander USA - from memory, these didn't have original host segments, only generic bumpers, like the Commander USA Rap.
In just over a 24 hour period on July 5th, 1988, you could have watched:
The Man and the Monster
Simon, King of Witches
Alone in the Dark
Terror of Tiny Town
Killers From Space
Black List
Barbarella
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