
Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater — Season 1989
About this season
Host Joe Bob Briggs hosts B-grade flicks on the movie channel, giving background information about each one.
Episodes (62)
1. Lady Chatterley's Lover (1981)
Aired 7 January 1989 • 114 min
After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs.

2. Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964)
Aired 14 January 1989 • 97 min
Six people are lured into a small Deep South town for a Centennial celebration where the residents proceed to kill them one by one as revenge for the town's destruction during the Civil War.
3. Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974)
Aired 21 January 1989 • 101 min
A master swordsman and former soldier and his hunchbacked assistant hunt vampires.
4. Savage Streets (1984)
Aired 28 January 1989 • 102 min
A teenage vigilante seeks revenge on a group of violent thugs who raped her handicapped sister and killed her best friend.
5. The Video Dead (1987)
Aired 4 February 1989 • 100 min
A family takes delivery of a new television set, unaware that it is the gateway by which killer zombies enter the world.
6. She-Devils on Wheels (1968)
Aired 11 February 1989 • 92 min
An all-female motorcycle gang, called 'The Maneaters' hold motorcycle races, as well as terrorize the residents of a small Florida town, and clash off against an all-male rival gang of hot-riders.
7. The World Is Full of Married Men (1979)
Aired 18 February 1989 • 112 min
David Cooper works in advertising but spends more time on his love life despite the fact that he is married. When his wife Linda discovers his girlfriends, she decides to find get revenge by having an affair.
8. Separate Vacations (1986)
Aired 25 February 1989 • 101 min
A young architect finds himself in a situation that he never had to deal with before--now that he is successful (and married), sexy young women are throwing themselves at him. He and his wife take separate vacations to follow their urges.
9. Rage of Honor (1987)
Aired 4 March 1989 • 102 min
Tanaka, a DEA agent, and his partner Ray are after a bunch of drug dealers. But they are betrayed by an insider and Ray is killed. Tanaka follows the culprit, a sadistic drug lord, down to Argentina.
10. Programmed to Kill (1987)
Aired 11 March 1989 • 101 min
A middle eastern female terrorist is captured by the CIA in Greece, after an attack on a marketplace. Transported back to the USA, the terrorist undergoes an operation where she is transformed into a cybernetic killing machine. Now the CIA have a secret weapon to send back to the Middle East, but how long can they control her?
11. Steele Justice (1987)
Aired 18 March 1989 • 105 min
Steele is ex-cop and Vietnam vet who is determined to bring down Kwan, former South Vietnamese general and now rich and powerful drug lord.
12. The Wizard of Gore (1970)
Aired 25 March 1989 • 105 min
A TV talk-show hostess and her boyfriend investigate a shady magician who has the ability to hypnotize and control the thoughts of people in order to stage gory on-stage illusions using his powers of mind bending.
13. The Challenge (1982)
Aired 1 April 1989 • 119 min
A down-and-out American boxer becomes involved in a feud between two Japanese brothers.
14. Bolero (1984)
Aired 8 April 1989 • 115 min
Set in the 1920s, a young woman sets out to lose her virginity. Her mission leads her to a Moroccan sheikh and a Spanish bullfighter.
15. Blood Feast (1963)
Aired 15 April 1989 • 77 min
An Egyptian caterer kills various women in suburban Miami to use their body parts to revive a dormant Egyptian goddess while an inept police detective tries to track him down.
16. Nana (1983)
Aired 22 April 1989
A beautiful and willful prostitute puts her appearance and body to use to become the toast of the town.
17. Scarecrows (1988)
Aired 29 April 1989 • 93 min
Criminals hijack a plane and force the pilot and his daughter to fly them to Mexico. However, an unexpected landing finds them in a cemetery inhabited by killer scarecrows.
18. Lethal Obsession (1987)
Aired 6 May 1989 • 107 min
Several known criminals already have been murdered by a professional killer, leaving no trace but the "ace" game card. The police suspects a new mob is trying to take over the district. The investigating police officer Jan is victimized by a bomb himself, when he's at his girlfriend Daniela's father's Italian restaurant. Although paralyzed and suspended from work, the tuff cop continues to investigate and takes revenge on the gangsters who did this to him.
19. Meatballs Part II (1984)
Aired 13 May 1989 • 97 min
Second in the series of Meatball movies. A group of kids attempt to save a summer camp that's a financial failure.
20. Double Exposure (1982)
Aired 20 May 1989 • 105 min
A photographer plagued by horrific nightmares in which he kills the young female models he shoots is shocked to discover that there is a serial killer in his city who is targeting attractive women.
21. Terror Squad (1988)
Aired 27 May 1989 • 103 min
A squad of Libyan terrorists infiltrate the city of Kokomo, Indiana, and take over a nuclear power plant. A counter-terrorist expert must stop them before they blow it up.
22. The Order of the Black Eagle (1987)
Aired 3 June 1989 • 103 min
A James Bondish spy and his female assistant infiltrate a group of South American Nazis who have kept Hitler alive until they take over the... using the ultimate weapon
23. She’s 19 and Ready (1979)
Aired 10 June 1989 • 99 min
A young woman, just turning 19, is ready for anything, including fullfilling her dreams and fantasies. But two young men, Klaus and Stephen, are after her with their raging hormones to lead the way. The young lady learns to grow up fast, though, when strange occurences and new people enter her life, including more and more men.
24. Captain Midnight (1942)
Aired 17 June 1989 • 115 min
Secret Service Major Steel (Joseph W. Girard), is one of the few men in America aware of the fact that Captain Albright (Dave O'Brien) is also Captain Midnight, daring masked aviator dedicated to fighting gangsters and enemies of America. When murderous bombing attacks are made on West Coast munitions plants, Steel sends for Albright and asks him to track down the mysterious Ivan Shark (James Craven), the foreign agent mastermind behind the attacks.
25. Lady on the Bus (A Dama do Lotação) (1978)
Aired 24 June 1989 • 106 min
After being raised together since they were children, Solange (Sonia Braga) and Carlos (Nuno Leal Maia) get married in a traditional wedding. In the wedding night, the virgin Solange refuses to make love and is raped by her husband. Trying to prove to herself that she is not frigid, every day Solange gets a bus and has sex with strangers, with Carlos's best friend, with her father-in-law, but not with her beloved husband.
26. A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)
Aired 1 July 1989 • 104 min
Freddy Krueger returns once again to terrorize the dreams of the remaining Dream Warriors, as well as those of a young woman who may be able to defeat him for good.
27. Candy Stripe Nurses (1974)
Aired 8 July 1989 • 87 min
Three high school girls work as volunteer candy stripe nurses at Oakwood Hospital.
28. Braddock: Missing in Action III (1988)
Aired 15 July 1989 • 113 min
Braddock mounts a one-man assault to free his wife and son who are still being held in a Vietnam prison camp.
30. Maniac Cop (1988)
Aired 29 July 1989 • 95 min
A killer dressed in a police uniform begins murdering innocent people on the streets of New York City.
31. The Brain (1988)
Aired 5 August 1989 • 104 min
A psychologist with an increasingly popular TV show brainwashes his audiences using a giant living brain. A mischievous high school student is sent to the psychologist's institute, and becomes determined to expose him.
32. Julia (1974)
Aired 12 August 1989 • 93 min
Pauli is a sexually frustrated young man who's surrounded by sexually liberated women who will not give him the time of day. He meets a beautiful virgin woman, Andrea, who strongly resists his charms, which compounds his frustrations.
33. Unmasking the Idol (1986)
Aired 19 August 1989 • 115 min
Duncan Jax is facing his most challenging mission ever, to save the world from evil terrorists!

34. Dirty Laundry (1987)
Aired 25 August 1989 • 77 min
A young man and his girlfriend unwittingly come into possession of a bag containing one million dollars belonging to a drug-smuggling ring. The mobsters try to catch the couple and retrieve their money.

35. Tiffany Jones (1973)
Aired 25 August 1989 • 93 min
Light-hearted and occasionally unclothed adaptation of a British comic strip in the over-the-top, on-beyond-Bond spy fantasy vein.
36. Julia (1974)
Aired 25 August 1989 • 107 min
Pauli is a sexually frustrated young man who's surrounded by sexually liberated women who will not give him the time of day. He meets a beautiful virgin woman, Andrea, who strongly resists his charms, which compounds his frustrations.
37. Glitch! (1988)
Aired 26 August 1989 • 97 min
Two thieves rob a large fancy house when the owner is away. But when a visitor mistakes them for the owner, and they find out about a casting party mis-scheduled for that day, they decide to stick around for the fun. There's only one small problem, a little glitch in their plan. The real owners owe some bad dudes a lot of money, and they show up to collect.
38. Destroyer (1988)
Aired 2 September 1989 • 105 min
A prison riot breaks out at the moment of a serial murderer's execution by electrocution, 18 months later, a team of filmmakers converge on the prison to film a women-in-prison exploitation flick.
39. Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974)
Aired 9 September 1989 • 103 min
A master swordsman and former soldier and his hunchbacked assistant hunt vampires.
40. Picasso Trigger (1988)
Aired 16 September 1989 • 103 min
After his brother got eliminated in Hard Ticket to Hawaii (1987), a crime lord triggers a ruthless hunt against all agents responsible, and the remaining agents will have to avenge their fallen comrades.
41. The Inheritance (1976)
Aired 23 September 1989 • 99 min
Rome, 1880. Gregorio has decided to close his bakery, the family business. Then he tells his sons Pippo, Mario and daughter Teta that they will have to fend for themselves. But newly married Irene, Pippo's wife, a beautiful, calculating and ambitious young woman, wants to take over the inheritance. Acting on intelligence, weighing every step and its consequences, she manages to convince the brothers that they must prevent at all costs that his father falls in love again to avoid the risk of losing their inheritance.
42. Rage of Honor (1987)
Aired 30 September 1989 • 280 min
Tanaka, a DEA agent, and his partner Ray are after a bunch of drug dealers. But they are betrayed by an insider and Ray is killed. Tanaka follows the culprit, a sadistic drug lord, down to Argentina.
43. Waxwork (1988)
Aired 7 October 1989 • 106 min
A wax museum owner uses his horror exhibits to unleash evil on the world.
44. Hairspray (1988)
Aired 14 October 1989 • 104 min
A 'pleasantly plump' teenager teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.
45. Slumber Party Massacre II (1987)
Aired 21 October 1989 • 87 min
Courtney Bates, the younger sister of Valerie, and her friends go to a condo for a weekend getaway, but Courtney can't get rid of the haunting feeling that a supernatural rockabilly driller killer is coming to murder them all.

46. Shame (1988)
Aired 28 October 1989
Asta Cadell, a lawyer traveling through the Australian Outback on holiday, stops in a small Western Australian town after her motorcycle breaks down and shacks up with Tim Curtis, the local mechanic, while fixing it. She then becomes involved in helping Curtis' teenage daughter, Lizzie, who has been recently date-raped by Danny Fiske, the son of a wealthy, well-known citizen and his gang. Asta persuades Lizzie to press charges against Danny, but the local population becomes determined to keep the incident a secret at any cost and soon Asta and the Curtis family's lives are in danger.
47. In Dangerous Company (1988)
Aired 3 November 1989 • 95 min
A beautiful woman seduces and tricks a hitman in order to save her own skin.
48. Hard Ticket to Hawaii (1987)
Aired 3 November 1989 • 104 min
In Hawaii, an undercover DEA agent and her civilian friend stumble upon a drug trafficking operation, and have to enlist the help of all their colleagues/friends to go after the vicious drug kingpin.
49. Acapulco Gold (1976)
Aired 3 November 1989 • 93 min
See former child evangelist MARJOE GORTNER as an ordinary Joe who gets involved in a dangerous DRUG SMUGGLING scheme in beautiful HAWAII!
50. Rabid (1977)
Aired 4 November 1989 • 100 min
A young woman develops a taste for human blood after experimental plastic surgery, and her victims turn into blood-thirsty zombies, leading into a city-wide epidemic.
51. They Live (1988)
Aired 10 November 1989 • 98 min
They influence our decisions without us knowing it. They numb our senses without us feeling it. They control our lives without us realizing it. They live.
52. Fiona (1979)
Aired 10 November 1989 • 104 min
Heavily fictionalized 'autobiography' of 70s sex superstar Fiona Richmond.
53. Bloodspell (The Boy from Hell) (1988)
Aired 11 November 1989
A teenage boy is hidden at an orphanage by his mother to protect him against his father, who wants to use the boys body to be reborn.
54. Fairy Tales (1978)
Aired 18 November 1989 • 113 min
On his twenty-first birthday, the Prince goes on a quest that takes him across the land searching for the one woman that gets him sexually excited, Princess Sleeping Beauty.

55. Flesh + Blood (1985)
Aired 25 November 1989
In medieval Europe, a young girl from a noble family is obsessed with her captors - commoners.
56. Bloodsport (1988)
Aired 2 December 1989
"Bloodsport" follows Frank Dux, an American martial artist serving in the military, who decides to leave the army to compete in a martial arts tournament in Hong Kong where fights to the death can occur.
57. The Rejuvenator (1988)
Aired 9 December 1989
A rich actress who has gotten too old for leading roles employs a scientist who is working on a formula for eternal youth. The formula involves withdrawing certain fluids from the human brain. She takes the serum, but its unforeseen side effects turn her into a murderous monster.
58. Montenegro (1981)
Aired 16 December 1989
A bored wealthy housewife on the verge of insanity cuts loose with some lively Yugoslavian immigrants who delight in their bohemian lifestyle.
59. Empire State (1987)
Aired 23 December 1989
In London's yuppie-dominated docklands of the 1980s Paul tries to make a deal with an American businessman However, he underestimates the clout of his old boss, a powerful Eastender.
60. Terminal Entry (1987)
Aired 29 December 1989
The USA are attacked by a large group of well organized terrorists who communicate through a computer network via satellite. A bunch of high schooler kids has hacked the password and gained access. They believe it's a game and unknowingly cause terror acts all over the country. An anti-terror force fights against the terrorists.
61. Maniac Cop (1988)
Aired 29 December 1989
A killer dressed in a police uniform begins murdering innocent people on the streets of New York City.
62. The Rejuvenator (1988)
Aired 29 December 1989
A rich actress who has gotten too old for leading roles employs a scientist who is working on a formula for eternal youth. The formula involves withdrawing certain fluids from the human brain. She takes the serum, but its unforeseen side effects turn her into a murderous monster.
63. Call Me (1988)
Aired 29 December 1989
A journalist agrees to meet an obscene caller at a bar, and ends up witnessing a murder.