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If you have Turner Classic Movies in your cable or satellite lineup, they are running a Dino-marathon tomorrow starting at 8PM eastern (as always, check your local listings). They kick it off with the original 1956 Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, which pretty much began the whole monsters smashing Tokyo genre. They follow that with 1957’s Rodan, where a giant pterodactyl smashed up Tokyo, and then for something a bit different 1964’s Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, where Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra, and Ghidorah smash up each other and a lot of Tokyo. They round that out with 1970’s Godzilla Vs. Monster Zero in which aliens try to use Godzilla, Rodan, and Mothra to take over the Earth, during which process Tokyo gets smashed up. Next they present two films in which Tokyo suffers no damage: Dinosaurus! (cavemen vs. dinosaurs in modern times) and the Valley of Gwangi (cowboys vs. dinosaurs).