13 SHOWS I'LL PROBABLY NEVER GET AROUND TO WATCHING! (1964 - 2003)

 I've spent a lot of time over the years rooting around on the internet trying to find new and interesting movies and TV shows to present to you here. With the help of  Lord Litter in Germany, and The Internet Archive, I'm running out of hard drive space. A lot of the shows we've found are really bad VHS copies, and some I'm just not really interested in, so I'm deleting them to free up some space, but just for the Heck of it, I've saved the title cards, so for your entertainment, here's Tonight's bit of Wednesday Weirdness!

To start off with, "Alien Lover" was an episode of a 1975 TV show called "The Wide World Of Mystery."

 "Alien Nation" was a TV show that was on for one season in 1989-90.

 "Alien  Private Eye" was a movie that came out in 1989!

 Even though the 2007 film "Balls Of Fury" had Christopher Walken and Terry Crews in it, I've got better things to do!

 I'm kind of glad this psychopath film "Bits & Pieces" from 1985 is a horrible copy!

 "Encounter With The Unknown" was a trilogy from 1972 narrated by Rod Serling. This copy was almost unwatchable, and if I really want to watch it, I'll just watch it on Amazon.

 I'd actually like to see this 1964 film titled "For Those Who Think Young" starring James Darren and Pamela Tiffen. It even has Bob Denver performing a song called "Ho Daddy," but this was also a terrible copy! Sometimes that's what you get for free! This one can also be viewed on Amazon, so I might get around to that some day!

 The 1996 movie "Generation X" was about a group of young mutants! 

This copy was pretty mutated too, and basically not watchable!

 "Land Of  Doom" was a 1986 West German film about a post nuclear war society or the lack thereof!

 This 1990 film called "Quick Change" starred Bill Murray. There is no way I could sit through this one, the quality was so bad!

 This 1972 TV movie called "The People" had Kim Darby, Diane Varsi, and William Shatner in it, but this washed out VHS copy of a copy wasn't worth trying to view!

 The 2003 film "The Singing Detective" featured Robert Downey Jr. and Mil Gibson. I'll probably never try and find a good copy!

And last on this list of thirteen is a 1980 title that reminds me of what happens to me when I try and watch horrible copies of crappy movies, "The Sleep Of Death" creeps in!

So that's it. 

IF one of these is your favorite films, then let me know, and maybe I'll reconsider it!!

LAND OF THE LOST / Season 1 Episode 13 "Follow That Dinosaur" - 1974

Here's one for those Saturday morning kids of the seventies. In this wacky Sid & Marty Krofft episode, the Marshall's find half a diary of a former human resident of the Land of the Lost! And, the diary may hold the key to them returning to the real world, nut don't count on it, this is only the thirteenth episode of season one!

This was Wesley Eure's first acting role and he used the name 'Wesley' as a gimmick, something he regrets to this day. He took 21 years off between 1992 to 2013 but is back and already has three acting credits in 2020.

Kathy Coleman has second billing in the series as Holly, she quit Hollywood after Land Of The Lost but like Wesley, she's working again, but after 44 years away from show biz! Spencer Milligan plays the dad, he stepped away from from Hollywood in 1987 (played Jeb Hrmthmg in SLEEPER in 1973) and is back in 2020! What's up with these actors?

So, the family is woken up by old Grumpy, the trouble making T-Rex that loves to pick on them! But this time, Holly figures out that it's after some of a plant she calls 'dinosaur-nip' because dinosaurs seem to love it like cats do with cat-nip. The first time I heard Holly say it, I thought she said... 'Dino-Hemp!' So, after seeing how Grumpy tore the crap out of their curtain, Holly comes up with the idea of ridding their area of the plant and tossing it off a cliff.

It's off to the cliffs they go to dump the plants. Then while searching for something, Holly discovers what seems to be a person under some rocks. It's a dummy made by a human, and it has part of a diary in its pocket.

In the meantime, Grumpy and Big Alice (an Allosaurus) argue with each other across a ravine.

In the diary, it says where the entrance to the way home is, so the gang has to cross a narrow rock walkway over to Big Alice's side of the world...

Grumpy barely makes it across the walkway in pursuit of the three and falls flat on it's face!

As the two dinosaurs duke it out, the guys find the entrance... Oh and, Beware of Sleestak!

They find another segment of the diary and have to tippy-toe through some hibernating Sleestaks in order to get to the next place the diary says to go.

As dad, Will and Holly waste their time, Alice and Grumpy are in a painful, biting stalemate!!

Everything's cool until they find the bones of the guy who wrote the diary... Game over, pick up your marbles and head on home!

But of course the Sleestaks wake up just as our gang is leaving, making for a scary moment...

Dad, Holly and Will talk about the crazy day they've had just before they turn the lights out on this episode, so, good night ya'll... Here at The Dungeon!!..

THE FAT MAN - "Radio's Great Detective...Now The Screen's Super Sleuth" (1951)

 This week's Saturday Night Special is an interesting film on multiple levels, one being that it was directed by future horror gimmick-meister William Castle!

 The gimmick here is that the lead role is really a fat man, a character created by Dashiell Hammett, the author of "The Maltese Falcon."

"Let's see, who shall I kill today?"

The poor unsuspecting dentist is then murdered........

.....And unceremoniously dumped out the window!

All because of some stupid dental records!

So, now we have to backtrack to find out what's going on!

The joke was making chefs look like surgeons in the middle of some serious operation!

Jayne (Undercurrent) Meadows is Jane Adams. She worked for the Doctor when he was alive.

Jayne was married to the extremely funny Steve Allen and was older sister to actress Audrey (Alice Kramden) Meadows.

J. Scott Smart is "The Fat Man," Detective Brad Runyon. He played the role on radio for five years before they decided to make it into a movie.

"The Fat Man" has a great cast that includes Rock Hudson as Roy Clark, a down and out guy who needs some dental work real bad!

A couple days later, he's rolling in the dough, and a few more days after that, he comes up missing!

"The Fat Man's" rather strange partner is Clinton Sundberg as Bill Norton!

The stunning Julie London has the role of Pat Boyd, Roy Clark's future wife!

Actually my favorite part of the whole movie is this scene where "The Fat Man" asks Pat Boyd if she'd like to dance, and the big guy goes out and cuts a mean rug! He's pretty light on his feet!

It wasn't exactly love at first sight for Pat and Roy!

 

But they warm up to each other pretty fast, and the next thing you know......

.........They get married, and he disppears!

The million dollar caper includes heisting an armored car, and making off with the daily receipts from the track!

Sure guys you don't look the least bit suspicious!

The world famous clown Emmett Kelly plays a clown named Deets using a different makeup from his normal routine!

Yeah, it's a little slow in places, and at times, it feels real odd, and then you remember,

Oh, Yeah, William Castle!