Our weekly dose of the movies and whatnot that cappers have rated as their favorites to caption has moved to Monday nights at 8 PM eastern. So those of you swinging by on Wednesday nights – sorry, you’ll have to make due with our usual fare. Though we might toss on something special for the first week of the move (4/23).

Don’t forget that the programming for four star theater is decided by your votes – so when you see that ‘tag it & rate it’ notice, click it and rate the ‘cap’-ability of the material – anything that averages a rating of four or better gets a slot in four star theater, in addition to its usual slot in the rotation. And the stuff that comes in at two or lower will play less frequently in the regular rotation.

And don’t forget to tune in to Inventing Situations on Monday 4/28 @ 8PM for The Amazing Transparent Man, as featured in mst3k episode [623].

Don’t forget Tuesdays are still the days to get fresh grabs to caption here at IS. The first few have gone pretty well, despite the second and third happening on holidays where a lot of people might have been away from their computators.

This Tuesday between noon and midnight (eastern), we’ve got Bela Lugosi in color, our first episode of the Richard Deacon Show (known in syndication as the Dick Van Dyke show), Bela Lugosi (in glorious color), Popeye, and some sword and sandal nonsense with a hero who is not Hercules. He might be Sinbad for all I know. (The Spartans be different from the Athenians). And the usual bunch of fresh grabs from old shorts.

Of course, as I expected when I started this, real life has crept in and I may not get 12 hours of new grabs a week – would folks rather I made it 2PM – Midnight, Noon – 10PM, or just include more filler?

We’re starting 2008 with a double punch of goodness. On the first, we’re continuing our Tuesdays of newness. On the second, we’re introducing Four Star Theater at 8 PM – where we’ll be giving you a weekly blast of the top rated IS Playhouse grabs in the catalog, starting with the wigged out Seussian trailer for The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T and the Bonanza episode full of circussionists, The Abduction. I know what you’re asking. The answer is “last door on your left.” As to why Four Star Theater if the scale goes to five stars? Because there’s so little stuff with a five star rating, even rounding up. So, vote for more stuff and maybe we’ll upgrade to five star theater. Maybe even six. What’s more, I’m finally going to start showing one star and two star items less frequently.

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Don’t forget, you can check the schedule to see what’s coming in advance, though Tuesdays will be usually only be a week or so ahead, since it’s basically whatever I manage to grab in a given week (plus new grabs for shorts, which don’t show up on the schedule.) Because Wednesdays is stuff that’s already been grabbed, riffed and rated, that’ll be listed farther into the future.

I need somebody to search this movie for a detail. It’s something of a scavenger hunt race, but if we can find it, it’d bring great honor to the capper community. Well, maybe not that great. Contact me if you can do it. Thanks in advance. The task is listed after the jump, don’t read it if you’re spoiler averse.

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Just a small program note, in a shameless attempt to cash in on Hollywood’s endless creativity, we’ll be running grabs from Vincent Price in The Last Man on Earth to celebrate the release of yet another movie based on the same material. Saturday night, December 15th, 7:30 PM eastern. Same Bat-Station. Join us, won’t you?