Thankful was used to pirate HBO in my house, somehow the old analogue signal came in without us having to pay. ofc the cable company had no clue so it owned. Saw so many movies as a kid and shit I shouldn't have seen like Real Sex and Taxi Cab Confessions
My dad had a descrambler box in the early 80s. Skin-a-max wouldn't come along until much later with their one of a kind late night programming, but holy shit did I watch a lot of HBO in 1981. For a while, I think HBO had Star Wars on a constant loop. That and Chariots of Fire, which theme is burned into my memories like a cattle brand.