Mysterious Monsters Manifesting Maniacal Modern Malaise...Many Miles Away

Gemini Man

 

1976 NBC. 11 episodes. Only five aired.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_Man_(TV_series)

https://flashbak.com/sci-fi-tv-1976-womens-lib-space-invisible-agents-talking-chimps-42315/

Darth Vader has died

The original Darth Vader has died. Actor and bodybuilder Dave Prowse has passed away, aged 85. 

Those of us growing up in Seventies Britain knew Prowse as a safety conscious super-hero, The Green Cross Code Man, extolling the virtues of looking both ways before crossing the road. I like to think Tufty was operating a control room inside his head. He described the character as the best role he ever had.

However, it seems his acting career started in the 1967 spoof Casio Royale, where he played Frankenstein's Monster. He reprised that role in a couple of Hammer movies. On tv, he variously appeared in The Saint, Doctor Who,  Space: 1999 and others. I have to confess a soft spot for his brief appearance in the movie version of  Callan. His hired muscle character has a fatal encounter with the reluctant assassin.

Clancy Brown on The Movies That Made Me

 

Trailers From Hell podcast. Halloween episode and horror movies.

https://trailersfromhell.com/podcast/clancy-brown/

Star Trek

 

1982 WCIA promo.

Ancient Mounds

 

Mound builders.

https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-mound-builders.html

1908 header.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2013647011/

c1898.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2016799037/

Super Pong

 

1976. New from the Museum of Classic Chicago Television.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pong

Night Flight

 

Welcome to Night Flight. Your weekend open thread. Sands and revolving tower, Yarmouth.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2002708293/

Svengoolie: The Thing from Another World (1951)

 

Thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_from_Another_World

Trailers From Hell. 

https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2848/the-thing-from-another-world#articles-reviews?articleId=1082450

https://film.avclub.com/the-thing-from-another-world-the-thing-1798224399

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044121/

Sea Monsters

 Here there be monsters.

https://www.livescience.com/56002-ancient-sea-monster-jurassic-era-scotland.html

This was my book sale find.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-enchanting-sea-monsters-on-medieval-maps-1805646/?no-ist

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/the-amazing-hook-island-sea-monster-photos-revisited/

https://www.tor.com/2012/08/13/sea-monsters-a-z/

https://www.cracked.com/article_19967_10-real-sea-creatures-lifted-directly-from-your-nightmares.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_monster

SF Paperback Covers

 

Paperbacks vintage.

The MST3K Turkey Day Marathon

 

I'm already hungry.

X Minus One - A Gun for Dinosaur

 

1956. L. Sprague de Camp. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Gun_for_Dinosaur

Talking Turkey

 

And pie. Plus a number of food ads that are new.

https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/11/shrimp-mirliton.html

1977 NBC.

The Chap Book--Thanksgiving no. / Will H Bradley.

1895. Art Nouveau poster.

https://www.loc.gov/item/97507377/

Future Cop

 

1977 ABC. 1978 NBC. Sued by Harlan Ellison. 8 episodes. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Cop_(TV_series)

The Return of Doctor Who

 

Outside of time and space as we know it, plans were laid for a radio series chronicling the adventures of Doctor Who. Specifically, it would star Peter Cushing playin a version of The Doctor that fell somewhere between the character he played on the Silver Screen and William Hartnell's abrasive curmudgeon. Serious plans it seems, because Malcolm Hulke even got to script it.

Ultimately, production fell, but decades later some engaging folk have had a crack at the opening instalment, so you can judge it on its merits. 

1/2 Now released into the wild, the new re-recording of Journey Into Time, Malcolm Hulke's opening episode of the abandoned 1967 Peter Cushing/Dr Who radio series! https://t.co/WNxtXQOp0j pic.twitter.com/7K9souuL1Q

— Richard Bignell (@NothingLane) November 23, 2020

I rather enjoyed it. Try for yourself.

   

Skirrid

 

1979.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skirrid_(board_game)

We're on a mission from God

 

Do Spirits Return?

 

c1909 Houdini poster.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2014636902/

Pompeii

 

1890.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2001700922/

Beware the Langoliers

 

The Carpenters.... Space Encounters

 

1978 ABC. Ernie Anderson promo. In space.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Carpenters...Space_Encounters

Free Doctor Who Audio Story

 

Get a FREE Doctor Who audio adventure to celebrate #DoctorWhoDay. CLICK HERE: https://t.co/D5VHs3Cir6 to download The Companion Chronicles: Polly's Story. (Offer ends 23:59, UK time, 29 November.) pic.twitter.com/D2h9zEh6Jd

— Big Finish (@bigfinish) November 23, 2020

Just in time for Doctor Who Day, Big Finish have a free audio adventure up for grabs today. 

Keeping Up with Science

 

1936-39 WPA poster. Vintage science from the Library of Congress.

https://www.loc.gov/item/98518267/

Popular Science Magazine.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2016861924/

Electroman

 

1977.

https://flashbak.com/remembering-electroman-ideals-revolutionary-electronic-toy-sensation-of-1977-63014/

Panorama Yosemite

 

c1899.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2007660442/

No Strings Attached

 

Their capsule always reminds me of Fireball Junior.

The Eidophusikon

 

1781. A miniature mechanical theatre with sophisticated lighting and sound effects. Very early movie making.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidophusikon

https://picturegoing.com/?p=4354

Dr Loutherbourg’s Eidophusikon

 The stage on which the Eidophusikon was represented, was little more than six feet wide, and about eight feet in depth; yet such was the painter’s knowledge of effect and scientific arrangement, and the scenes which he described were so completely illusive, that the space appeared to recede for many miles, and his horizon seemed as palpably distant from the eye, as the extreme termination of the view would appear in nature.

https://vimeo.com/32698316

Recreation video.

Einstein

 

1979.

https://www.handheldmuseum.com/CastleToy/Einstein.htm

Goober and the Ghost Chasers

 

The Golden Horn (blogspot) has vintage Saturday morning cartoons every Saturday morning. The original Kinja tag was a little over 100 shows.

https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Cartoons

1973 ABC. Hanna-Barbera. 16 episodes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goober_and_the_Ghost_Chasers

Ships of the Line and Flying Saucers

 

Space ships.

Suspense - Donovan's Brain

 

Orson Welles.

https://www.escape-suspense.com/2007/10/suspense---dono.html

The Bone Wars

 

Look at the bones!

https://slate.com/business/2013/08/dinosaur-bone-wars-othniel-charles-marsh-edward-drinker-cope-and-their-forgotten-rival.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_Wars

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2015/04/15/battle-for-the-bone-wars-beasts/

The skull of a Torosaurus, c. 1914, collected by O.C. Marsh (Division of Vertebrate Paleontology, Yale Peabody Museum)ology, Yale Peabody Museum)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/scientific-daredevils-made-yales-peabody-museum-national-treasure-180958905/

The Addams Family

 1970 promo.

The Olmecs

 

Mysterious Meso-American mother culture.

https://www.ancient.eu/Olmec_Civilization/

A giant Olmec head discovered in 1946 gets a patch, San Lorenzo, Mexico.

PHOTOGRAPH BY RICHARD HEWITT STEWART, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

https://natgeofound.tumblr.com/post/47027183781/a-giant-olmec-head-discovered-in-1946-gets-a

https://www.crystalinks.com/olmec.html