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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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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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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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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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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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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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Writer | Mel GoldbergStory | Henry KuttnerDirector | Charles S. DubinAir Date | Feb. 8, 1952 These days, if someone told me they had what I need, I’d think either I was being set up for a scam, they’d be peddling something I absolutely did not need, or they wouldn’t want to know what it…
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Friday night I reclined in my chair and pushed “Play” to start streaming Tales That Witness Madness (1973) on Amazon Prime. Although the temperature has warmed in Minneapolis and I’ve stopped wearing additional clothing when I watch TV, the movie (a first time watch) fell over me like a warm blanket… like a was experiencing…
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Writer | Max Ehrlich, Gail Ingram, Harry IngramBased on | the novel by Jules VerneDirector | Don MedfordAir Date | Jan. 25, 1952 and Feb. 1, 1952 The first episode of the one and only two-episode story on Tales of Tomorrow, an adaptation of the Jules Verne novel, Twenty Thousand Under the Sea, is missing.…
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It seems like I’ve always known the story of Dorian Gray. I never paid it much attention, though, until I watched Penny Dreadful on Showtime and was a bit smitten by Reeve Carney. I’m certain that’s what caused me to finally watch the classic film for the first time, which I did a few years…
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