ALIEN NATION - "The Night Of The Screams" (1989)

 

Season one, Episode six from the 1989 TV show "Alien Nation," is the best of both worlds, it's science fiction and they did incorporate Halloween into the story too, and that's what brings us to this day six of this year's Countdown To Halloween on a Milky Way Wednesday in The Dungeon!

Gary (Robot Jox) Graham) is wise-cracking Detective Matthew Sikes. Gary's had a busy career, and has quite a few projects currently in production too.

 

Detective Sikes' partner is Detective George Francisco as played by Eric (Invaders From Mars) Pierpoint!

These two are a good match. They were both born in 1950 about five months apart. Gary has a total of 106 acting credits, Eric has 92, and they are both still working today!

 

Well, that's a different looking spare tire!

This couple are at a used car dealer, and when they look in the trunk, this Alien body with one hand is what they find! 

There's a serial killer on the loose, and he's only picking on the newcomers!

Okay folks, we'll just close this trunk lid and pretend like we didn't see that!!

This episode titled "The Night Of The Screams" aired on Halloween night 1989, and that's where the Halloween tie-in comes into place. Michele (Airwolf) Scarabelli is George Francisco's wife Susan, and their daughter Emily Francisco is played by Lauren Woodland! Lauren has been on the daytime soap opera, "The Young and The Restless" for 21 years or 387 episodes as Brittany Hodges

I despise soap operas, but that's remarkable any way you look at it!!

In this scene, Susan is not really happy to be mutilating an innocent vegetable just to participate in some ancient pagan ritual.

 

The bodies keep piling up, and they all are missing hands!

Emily wants to be popular with the other kids, so she practices bobbing for apples!

Misconceptions, stereotypes, prejudices, fear, and hatred, it's all here, only it's presented in a different form!

You gotta admit, these guys make a good lookin' team!

Looks ominous enough, but this is just an innocent trick or treater!

Thanks again to Lord Litter in Berlin for unearthing this one for me!

I'll be back on Saturday with even more thrilling chills as The Countdown continues!

SOME TABONGA LAFFS FOR HALLOWEEN COUNTDOWN 2022

Here are some Tabonga Laffs for you today, here at The Dungeon! Hope you get a few chuckles out of them and make Tabonga a happy old hunk of wood...

There you go, have a Happy Halloween Countdown 2022 from the Dungeon Gang!

THE PAUL LYNDE HALLOWEEN SPECIAL (1976)

 

Let's get this month long Countdown to Halloween off to a good start, with some really scary stuff on this candy corny Saturday Night Special!

Wait a minute, what holiday is this anyway? There's so many any more!

"The Paul Lynde Halloween Special" aired 46 years ago, smells like moldy cheese and is just as tasty!

There's one thing about Paul Lynde! He was one of a kind!

Paul's housekeeper is played by none other than Margaret Hamilton, who everybody in the world will recognize as the The Wicked Witch of the West from "The Wizard Of Oz."

Paul has all the scariest people of 1976 on his show like Donny and Marie Osmond."

Witchiepoo was played by Billie Hayes who made a career out of playing characters and doing voice overs for characters like Weenie the Genie, Granny Whammy, Mother Mae-Eye, and Granny Applecheeks!

 

Everybody's favorite little guy Billy Barty joins the cast as a guy named Gallows!

Even the scariest person in the world Betty White attends the ceremonies as Miss Halloween.

Even Paul can't believe it!

Another interesting but less than scary moment involves a trucker skit with Tim Conway!

Roz (Pinky Tuscadero) Kelly adds a little spice to the proceedings. 

 

Witchiepoo is so evil, she thinks "The Exorcist" is funny!

The musical entertainment is presented by KISS. I had no idea that Paul Stanley could levitate!

Super scary Florence Henderson shows up as herself!

Now that we've got this party started, drop in and see what some of the other "Countdown To Halloween" folks have going on! You might even scare yourself!!

MONSTER KID HOME MOVIES / "The Gentle Old Madman" - 1974

I bought the MONSTER KID HOME MOVIES collection a few years back, which consisted of 30 different movies by a number of contributors, well, this is the last one in the set. It's actually a 37 minute movie with sound submitted to the Kodak Teen-Age Movie competition by Alan Upchurch, who received an honorable mention for his little horror film.  

It's called "The Gentle Old Madman" which has a nice title card, but unfortunately is not centered very well as you can see.

Alan plays Carl Kolchak (!!) who is talking with the newspaper editor about the recent murders (with an ax) of a number of young women in the city. Carl has lunch while he's there!

Kolchak goes out to find some leads, when, he comes across yet another ax murder.

Carl gets the skinny from a witness.

In the meantime, the murderer is running loose after breaking out of a mental hospital and killing a number of women. His name is Arthur Grimsdyke, played by Mark Upchurch

Arthur goes to the cemetery and places a red Poppy at his late wife's tombstone.

Kolchak befriends the guy in the basement of the library to assist him in collecting clues about the murders. They come up with a name, Arthur Grimsdyke, ax murderer, recently escaped from a mental hospital, nowhere to be found!

Then, on a high rise, Arthur sees a girl come out a door and he pulls out his ax, but gets distracted and the girl runs away.

On the ground floor, Kolchak notices the commotion above and takes the elevator to the top of the building.

Kolchak makes it to the top only to find Arthur with his ax in hand.

There's a scuffle and one of the two falls to the ground, which one?!

It's Arthur of course...

A small crowd check out the dead old man and his ax... Wha Hoppen?

Kolchak shows up for the old man's last rites, then...

He leaves the cemetery, later.

Then, a mysterious old woman places a red Poppy at his grave.

That's actually a nice little twist ending, but they really need to work on their centering!