Observation Deck: January 2021

Sunday, January 31, 2021

The Underwater City

https://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15878coll84/id/2452/rec/37

Said the Spider to the Fly

Spiders from the New York Public Library Digital Collections.

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?utf8=%E2%9C%93&keywords=spiders#

Saturday, January 30, 2021

Ghost Host Theatre

1984.

https://rottenink.wordpress.com/category/horror-hosts/ghost-host/

1987-88 ABC. This pilot just showed up on Youtube. I watched a couple of other episodes last year. Good show. I thought it was going to be terrible. Paul Winfield as the Mirror is the biggest name. First Snow was better. 20 episodes. One unaired.

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

Friday, January 29, 2021

Svengoolie: Earth vs. the Spider (1958)

Bert I. Gordon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_vs._the_Spider

https://trailersfromhell.com/the-spider/

https://scenesfromthemorgue.wordpress.com/2012/05/09/50-tons-of-creeping-black-horror-april-1959/

http://www.1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewse-g/earthvsthespider1958.htm

https://www.zomboscloset.com/zombos_closet_of_horror_b/2017/02/the-spider-1958-pressbook.html

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051570/

Thursday, January 28, 2021

Lights Out - Spider

Big damn spider.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lights_Out_(radio_show)

It was literally a nonsense song

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Where there's life...there's Bud

Scripto

1978.

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Bala Hissar

1879. Kabul.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bala_Hissar,_Kabul

Monday, January 25, 2021

Beyond Westworld

CBS 1980. 5 episodes. Two unaired.

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

Sunday, January 24, 2021

Invasion of the Star Creatures

https://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15878coll84/id/3225/rec/39

Illustrations of Exotic Entomology

1837. From the New York Public Library Digital Collections. I didn't see any Ents.

Myrmeleon Torridum.

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/illustrations-of-exotic-entomology-containing-upwards-of-six-hundred-and-fifty#/?tab=about

Goliathus Drurii.

Mother's Pizza

1988 Canadian UFOs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Pizza_Parlour_and_Spaghetti_House

McKinley Bridge

c1910.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2007662441/

Kingdom of the Spiders (1977)

Now on this-TV. Shatner. Spiders.

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

https://film.avclub.com/kingdom-of-the-spiders-1798164236

Trailers From Hell.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076271/

Kentucky & Indiana Bridge, Ohio River, Louisville

c1911.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2007662144/

Soylent Green (1973)

Directed by Richard Fleischer.

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

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/soylent-green-1973

https://thedissolve.com/features/laser-age/165-watching-as-the-world-winds-down/

https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2061/soylent-green#articles-reviews?articleId=406

https://scenesfromthemorgue.wordpress.com/2016/06/23/in-the-year-2022-you-are-what-you-eat-september-1973/

Saturday, January 23, 2021

Sci-Fi Theatre

1989 open.

Friday, January 22, 2021

Night Flight

Welcome to Night Flight. Your weekend open thread. Coast view, Kynance, Cornwall, England

https://www.loc.gov/item/2002696590/

Svengoolie: Man-Made Monster (1941)

Lon Chaney, Jr.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-Made_Monster

https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/82665/man-made-monster#articles-reviews?articleId=517035

https://thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=4397

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033879/

Thursday, January 21, 2021

X Minus One - A Pail of Air

Fritz Leiber.

http://www.oldtimeradioreview.com/x-minus-one---p.html

Eerie, Indiana

1991-92 NBC. 19 episodes. Cult appeal. One of the new shows I just found recently. Dick Miller in the one playing now. Joe Dante was creative consultant and directed five episodes. Bob Balaban directed three.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eerie,_Indiana

https://www.avclub.com/eerie-indiana-was-a-few-dimensions-ahead-of-its-time-1819833380

MTV Promo

New 1994 Frankenstein.

Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Life was easy when it was boring

Ozymandias

Levi's

1983.

A Dark Scottish Lake

Tuesday, January 19, 2021

H.P. Lovecraft in Red Hook, Brooklyn. HERE THERE BE MONSTERS!

https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2015/08/h-p-lovecrafts-very-bizarre-hatred-of-red-hook-brooklyn.html

Mr. Merlin

1981-82 CBS. Barnard Hughes. Wizard. Watching one of these now I just found. 22 episodes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Merlin

Coleco Telstar Arcade

New 1977. What the H?

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

https://www.ign.com/articles/this-is-the-strangest-video-game-console-of-all-time

Locusta the Poisoner

Taste this.

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

https://gizmodo.com/badass-historical-chemists-locusta-1734516314

“Locusta testing in Nero’s presence the poison prepared for Britannicus”, painting by Joseph-Noël Sylvestre, 1876

http://www.prisonersofeternity.co.uk/locusta-the-poisoner-of-rome/

The Aliens Are Coming

1980 NBC TV movie promo.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080348/

Interior of Colosseum, Rome

c1909.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2007663206/

Monday, January 18, 2021

Q.E.D.

CBS 1982. Sam Waterston. Steampunk. I've watched a few of these on Youtube. 6 episodes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q.E.D._(American_TV_series)

Sunday, January 17, 2021

Invasion of the Animal People

https://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15878coll84/id/3862/rec/41

Gallery of natural history, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences [Brooklyn Museum]

1905-15.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2016815428/

Vibes (1988)

Brand new on Youtube in the bookmark list. I've become a fan of this after watching it several times. Good cast. Written by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibes_(film)

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/vibes-1988

The Munsters

1980 promo.

Robber Barons Cave

We're going caving.

1923 header.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2012646087/

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

c1892. Stereograph showing inside of Mammoth Cave with 15 people eating.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2002706076/

The Andromeda Strain (1971)

Robert Wise one of my favorite directors. I read the book first, many years before I saw the movie. The Book Club edition was on the family bookshelf, and I liked to read thrillers late into the night. The first time I saw the movie was a similar late night experience. It's long and that adds to the suspense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andromeda_Strain_(film)

Trailers From Hell.

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-andromeda-strain-1971

https://trailersfromhell.com/the-andromeda-strain/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066769/

A study in natural history

This was in the first issue of Camera Work magazine. That's a pretty big deal. 1902-03. "Dugmore, A. Radclyffe (Arthur Radclyffe), 1870-1955, photographer."

https://www.loc.gov/item/2003663001/

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