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  • The Miraculous Serum/Appointment on Mars

    Adapted by | Theodore SturgeonFrom a story by | Stnley G. WeinbaumDirector | Don MedfordAir Date | June 20, 1952 In Pittsburgh, a brilliant biochemist, Dr. Scott (Richard Derr) bursts in and says he needs a human subject for his test. He’s developed a serum that will cure almost anything. His boss. Dr. Bache (Louis

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  • Intruder (1989)

    Intruder (1989)

    Intruder (1989) has slipped by me all these years. I’m certain it wasn’t released theatrically in Kansas City; I kept a close eye on such things at the time. More unusual, I don’t even remember a VHS release, and I had been managing a chain of video stores for two years. Chances are, if I

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  • The Little Black Bag/All the Time in the World

    Teleplay | Cyril M. KornbluthDirector | Charles S. DubinAir Date | May 30, 1952 Dr. Arthur Fulbright (Joseph Anthony) was responsible for the death of a patient and can never forgive himself. He’s led his wife, Angie (Vicki Cummings) into near-poverty and she won’t let him forget it. As a desperate means to make a

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  • Madhouse (1981)

    Madhouse (1981)

    James Cameron once claimed that producer Ovidio G. Assonitis hired only American directors so that studios would finance his movies, then claimed they were incompetent so he could fire them and direct the movies himself. He’s entitled to that opinion; it happened to him with Piranha II: The Spawning (1982) and it also happened to

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  • The Golden Ingot/World of Water

    Teleplay | Max EhrlichStory | Fitz-James O’BrienAir Date | May 9, 1952 Prof. Vanya (Gene Lockhart) has been working for 15 years on an experiment to transform base metal into gold. His latest surefire tweak to the formula is a “secret catalyst” that he pours into the top of the oven after turning it on.

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  • The Mansion of Madness (1973)

    La mansion de la locura (1973) was a Mexican production; however, it was filmed in English, then dubbed into Spanish. This tells me that I picked the wrong version of the film to watch. Recently released on Blu-ray by Vinegar Syndrome, The Mansion of Madness is called Edgar Allan Poe’s The System of Doctor Tarr

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  • Time To Go/Red Dust

    Time To Go/Red Dust

    Writer | Mann RubinDirector | Don MedfordAir Date | April 18, 1952 As “Time to Go” opens, Natalie (Sylvia Sidney, whom I’ve never seen in any movie or TV show when she was young… or younger) barricades the front door with furniture and frantically tries to reach her husband, Michael (Ed Peck) on the telephone.

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  • A Page of Madness (1926)

    How Wikipedia can offer two complete paragraphs describing the plot for A Page of Madness (1926), I’ll never know. I don’t usually like to call attention to the fact that I’ll occasionally glance at Wikipedia for background information or trivia. In this case, though, had I not read the plot summary, I would have absolutely

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  • The Children’s Room/Flight Overdue

    Writer | Mel GoldbergStory | Raymond F. JonesDirector | Don MedfordAir Date | Feb. 29, 1952 “The Children’s Room” is a variation on an earlier episode of Tales of Tomorrow, “A Child is Crying.” That is to say, in the context of the series, it doesn’t feel original. We’ve seen episodes with similar themes, but

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  • The Classic Horrors Club Podcast EP 103: Hideous!

    You’re invited to a world premiere event as the vortex drops Jeff & Richard into a car at the Tascosa Drive-In in Amarillo, Texas, on August 29, 1958. The stars of “The Sun Demon” appear not only on screen, but also in person!! You will see… I mean, hear… a man change from man to

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