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I’ve never seen The Screaming Skull (1958) and didn’t realize it was an adaptation of the short story by F. Marion Crawford. Of course, now that I’ve seen the 1973 version from “The Classic Ghosts” that I knew was an adaptation, I’ll have to watch it. I’m curious if it shares the same flaws, although…
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We’ve mentioned The Wide World of Mystery several times as we’ve discussed the TV movies The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr.Hyde, The Invasion of Carol Enders, and The Werewolf of Woodstock. Also buried within the first year of ABC’s efforts to counter program Johnny Carson’s The Tonight Show was a set of five…
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When have you ever heard Flash Gordon say, “I’ll be in my office taking care of some work?” I’m no expert on the character, but the statement seems odd to me coming from the famous space adventurer. Such is the case in an episode of the 1954-55 series, Flash Gordon, called, “Akim the Terrible.” Syndicated…
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Howling II (1985) is a direct sequel to Joe Dante’s 1981 werewolf film, The Howling. When last we saw television news reporter Karen White (Dee Wallace), she was turning into a pretty white werewolf on screen. Howling II opens at her funeral. Among the mourners are her brother, Ben (Reb Brown), a reporter assigned to…
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It’s a shame that no episodes exist for the series Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers (1953-54), because it sounds like it had potential to be one of the best of the early 1950’s television space operas. It certainly had one of the best casts if future success is an indicator. Cliff Robertson played the…
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Edward Mann is credited as one of the writers for a favorite classic horror film, Island of Terror (1966.) His nine-film career went downhill from there. He not only co-wrote Cauldron of Blood (1968), but also “co-directed” it. I use quotation marks because, while I can find no information about the making of the movie,…
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An anomaly among the numerous television space adventures of the early 1950s was a short-lived series you may have expected to be the biggest. After all, by 1950, Buck Rogers was a familiar and popular character in a newspaper comic strip that had been running since 1929. (It continued its run until July, 1967.) He…
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Crucible of Horror (1971) opens on a dreary day with drops of rainwater hanging from bare tree limbs. A man snips a dead flower from a plant in front of the house. This is the kind of movie I love to watch in a movie theater on a day as dreary as the one depicted.…
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The descriptions of early sci-fi television series are getting repetitive. We’ll learn next week about a show that was cancelled due to copyright infringement, but there’s little difference in the ones we’ve discussed so far, so I’m surprised it didn’t happen sooner. I suppose the thing to remember is that some of these shows began…
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It’s kind of sad that one of the four movies IMDb says Brian Clemens is “known for,” Highlander II: The Quickening (1991), is listed, but Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974) is not. The latter even has an average rating that’s two point higher than the former. Oh, well, the 1960s British television show The Avengers…
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