If you think the football players getting ready for the Big Game are strong, wait until you check out the Italian "Hercules" when he goes agains the MOON MEN! TONIGHT at Midnight on "Off Beat Cinema" on WBBZ-TV Buffalo! Originally known for playing the Biblical strongman Samson, and standing in for Steve Reeves on the set of Hercules Unchained, Sergio Ciani took the stage name of 'Alan Steel' when he stepped into the heroic role in the early 1960s. What followed was a string of films that took Hercules from one century to the next, dispatching foes as he went. As the Italian sword-and-sandal genre was overtaken by the 'spaghetti western,' Ciani traded his muscles for a mustache, appearing in over two dozen films by the end of his acting career in the late 1970s. Even so, his adventures as Hercules remain his most famous.

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Find out more about the great work of the SPCA Sunday morning at 11a.m. on "The Talk Of The Town" when Phil Arno and Kim Piazza introduce you to Gina Browning of The SPCA!

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WE'RE HALFWAY THERE! Thanks to a very generous matching-gift grant from the Petco Foundation, every donation (up to $20,000!) made to our Yelp for Help Fund will be doubled until February 6, 2015! The Yelp for Help Fund assists the homeless pets that come to the SPCA that need extra medical care and treatments before they can be adopted into their new homes.

Even a small gift can make a huge difference! Please make your gift online http://goo.gl/WIh3Xw or call 716.629.3536.

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A hometown winner is headed to the Big Game! John Di Sciullo introduces you to Susan Zydel of Hamburg, winner of the Independent Health Foundation Buffalo Bills Healthy Challenge!

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ACC College Basketball is LIVE on WBBZ-TV, Your Hometown MeTV Station! Watch NC State at Virginia Tech in HD Saturday at Noon on Channel 67.1 over-the-air; Time Warner Cable 5 ( HD 1230); FiOS 5; Dish 5; DirecTV67

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Buffalo News sports columnist Jerry Sulilvan reports from the site of the Super Bowl in Arizona. What was "Media Day" like? Who will Jerry and Bucky Gleason pick to win? Plus, Keith McShea offers up some high school sports picks on the next edition of "The Bucky and Sully Show" TONIGHT LIVE at 6:30p.m. on WBBZ-TV, Your Hometown MeTV Station Channel 67.1 over-the-air; Time Warner Cable 5 ( HD 1230 everywhere); FiOS 5; Dish 5; DirecTV67

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The new production of "The Graduate" at Alleyway Theatre; the SPCA fundraising project for a new facility; and the legacy of Buffalo music legend Lance Diamond continue to be subjects that are the "Talk Of The Town" - which is why Phil Arno and Kim Piazza welcome actress Constance Caldwell, Gina Browning with a cute furry friend; and Goo Goo Doll Robby Takac TONIGHT at 6:30p.m. ( Sunday 11a.m.) on WBBZ-TV, Your Hometown MeTV Station! Watch on Channel 67.1 over-the-air; Time Warner Cable 5 ( HD 1230 everywhere); FiOS 5; Dish 5; DirecTV67

Step right up and order a brew when the team from the Tap House Pub and Grill on Chippewa St. in Buffalo match wits with the Erie County SPCA on tonight's encore presentation of "Bragging Rights!' Don Vidler from Vidler's 5 & 10 is guest scorekeeper. Warm up for the fun TONIGHT at 6:30p.m. on WBBZ-TV, Your Hometown MeTV Station! Channel 67.1 over-the-air; Time Warner Cable 5 ( HD 1230 everywhere); FiOS 5; Dish 5; DirecTV67

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Who won the new heating system from Reimer Heating & Air? The Sugg family of Grand Island! Bills star RB Fred Jackson visited David Sugg and his family recently to participate in the installation they won as part of "The Fred Jackson Show" on WBBZ-TV, Your Hometown MeTV Station! Watch for the fun on ALL SPORTS WNY Tues. at 6:30p.m. & Wed. at 9a.m. on Channel 67.1; TWC 5 ( HD 1230 everywhere); FiOS 5; Dish 5; DirecTV67

Bob Koshinski is joined by Jay Skurski from The Buffalo News with their Big Game picks, and review of the changes at the Buffalo BIlls - watch ALL SPORTS WNY TONIGHT at 6:30p.m. ( Wed. 9a.m.) EXCLUSIVELY on WBBZ-TV, Your Hometown MeTV Station Channel 67.1 over-the-air; Time Warner Cable 5 ( HD 1230 everywhere); FiOS 5; Dish 5; DirecTV67

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DON’T GET ME STARTED would have surmised that if became coach of the Buffalo Bills, I would make sure that I would surround myself with some winners rather than guys who lost 12 out of 16 games last

WBBZ-TV is proud to support our friend Constance Mae Caldwell and the cast of "The Graduate" at the Alleyway Theatre in Buffalo. Catch Connie as "Zelda" every Saturday night at midnight on Off Beat Cinema

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Now appearing at the Alleyway Theatre as Mrs. Robinson, the cougar to define all cougars in The Graduate, Constance Caldwell has had an eclectic stage career.

Buffalo News sports columnist Jerry Sullivan is on his way to the "Big Game!" Watch as he reports LIVE from Arizona with Bucky Gleason on "The Bucky and Sully Show" with special guest, sports reporter Jay Skurski. WBBZ-TV has you COVERED as the biggest sporting event of the year approaches! Watch Your Hometown MeTV Station TONIGHT LIVE at 6:30p.m. on Channel 67.1 over-the-air; Time Warner Cable 5 ( HD 1230 everywhere);FiOS 5; Dish 5; DirecTV67

"Bragging Rights" the hometown TV game show is coming back! Enjoy an encore presentation Sunday morning at 10:30a.m.; then go to http://www.wbbz.tv and sign up YOUR team to play! We are taping new shows now that will begin in February EXCLUSIVELY on WBBZ-TV!

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The talk of the town is WBBZ-TV's new show, "Talk of the Town" with Kim Piazza and Phil Arno! What did YOU think of the recent State of the Union? Plus, who won the Independent Health Foundation Buffalo Bills Wellness Challenge? Find out Sunday morning at 11a.m. on WBBZ-TV

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Reaction to President Obama's State of The Union is the "Talk of The Town!" Watch when Phil Arno and Kim Piazza introduce you to political strategists Vic Martucci and Kristy Mazurek to discuss, debate, and break it all down. Plus, who won the Independent Health and Buffalo Bills Health and Wellness Challenge?
Find out TONIGHT at 6:30p.m. ( encore Sunday 11a.m.) on WBBZ-TV, Your Hometown MeTV Station! Channel 67.1; over-the-air; Channel 5 on Time Warner ( HD 1230 everywhere); FiOS; Dish; and Channel 67 on DirecTV

Jerry Sullivan is getting ready for the BIG GAME! Plus, will Tom Brady ever shake "Deflate-Gate?" Watch "The Bucky & Sully Show" Sunday 11:30a.m. WBBZ-TV

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From the controversy surrounding the New England Patriots, to the teams getting ready for the big game - get ready for hometown sports talk you won't see anywhere else - with Buffalo News sports columnists Bucky Gleason, Jerry Sullivan, and special guest Vic Carucci TONIGHT at 6:30p.m. on WBBZ-TV, Your Hometown MeTV Station! Watch Channel 67.1 over-the-air; Time Warner Cable 5 ( HD 1230 everywhere); FiOS 5; Dish 5; DirecTV67

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Our hometown expert on frightful fun Jeffrey Roberts shares some inside information about tonight's DOUBLE FEATURE!

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Rondo Hatton spent most of 20 years in numerous Hollywood bit parts before Universal Studios decided to promote him to... well, not exactly featured player or even character actor, but simply to himself. An imposing, slow talking, slow moving bear of a man on screen whose striking features were the result adult onset acromegaly, Rondo only had to step in front of the camera to dominate a scene through his larger than life presence. Tonight Svengoolie (syndicated nationally on the Me-TV network) features Rondo in his penultimate film HOUSE OF HORRORS, released by Universal in 1946. Rondo could play sympathetic just as effectively as menace, and he gets to do both here as sculptor Martin Kosleck's latest subject.

Rondo died at just 51 the same year HOUSE OF HORRORS premiered, his acromegaly finally overtaking his heart, but his image proved more durable. He could not have known that decades later he would be lionized in comic books, action figures, fan-based awards and more, better known now in the 21st century than in the 1940s. The disease which had caused him so much misery ultimately also gave him a sort of immortality. And so "the Creeper" finally got his Hollywood happy ending.

Some tv markets (particularly those here in the Miami of the east) will follow Sven with the mad pad, dad of Off Beat Cinema, this week revisiting the world's greatest horror beatnik comedy A BUCKET OF BLOOD (1959), featuring the great Dick Miller in what I think is his best role: starving artist Walter Paisley. Considering it was shot in a week, the film still shines with moments of dark (and fairly grisly) humor and a few good jolts too. Look fast for PETTICOAT JUNCTON's Bobbi Jo Bradley (beautiful Lori Saunders) in an unbilled bit as a beatnik coffeehouse waitress. "Life is an obscure hobo bumming a ride on the omnibus of art..."

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It's a Saturday night DOUBLE FEATURE of FUN on WBBZ-TV. First, Svengoolie takes us to the "House of Horrors" at 10p.m.; then beatniks Maxwell, Bird, and Zelda cue up the Corman classic, "Bucket of Blood!" It's a battle of beatnik artistic supremacy at Midnight on Your Hometown MeTV Station Channel 67.1 over-the-air; Time Warner Cable 5 ( HD 1230 everywhere); FiOS 5; Dish 5; DirecTV67