'WAY OUT ~ The Croaker / Talent Associates - 1961

It's the last installment for this way out TV series with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. Today's weird story is about a mischievous boy, played by very young Richard Thomas, who allows his neighbor's pets to escape, then earns a reward for returning the animals, a sweet deal if you can swing it! Anyway, he meets a strange new neighbor, Mr. Rana, who has an affinity for frogs and even has a frog pond in his house! Neighbors start disappearing but more frogs are appearing, and so, the boy makes a deal with Mr. Rana to catch flies for his amphibians.

Eegah!! sent over a soundclip from this wild episode for our earjoyment, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button there by the atomic frog maze, NOW, Rufus The Gnat! Here's a little taste of... THE CROAKER!

Blogger is up to its old tricks by tinting and fading the black and white photos we post, trying to make us look stupid, I guess..

Host Roald Dahl introduces the tale as he puffs away on an L&M, as heard in the soundclip.

Breck had become a new sponsor, so, let's go behind the scenes to the artist's studio where this gal is being turned into the latest 'Breck Girl' and could be found on the back cover of numerous magazines.

John McGiver plays Mr. Rana, he catches young Jeremy Keeler in his house and is furious, but, by the time Jeremy leaves, they have a business deal, he will catch fresh flies for the old weirdo for 25 cents a jar!

Fred and Cora Tench catch Jeremy in their house and he tells them that Mr. Rana has a frog farm next door!

Fred is looking for any chance to get away from nagging Cora, so, he goes next door to chat with his new neighbor. Mr. Rana has a special brew he puts into his drinks, and, before long, Fred starts croaking!

Cora calls the cops to report a missing husband and dog. Police Sgt. McGoogin tries to piece together who Cora's talking about, hubby or the dog! There seems to be all-out war of the sexes in this episode, earlier, Fred told Cora that she looked like their dog!

Fred comes home in the form of a frog and freaks Cora the eff'ing out!! I swear, it looks like they were having a hoot taping this one, Madeleine Sherwood nails this comedic scene, she totally hates frogs!!

She runs out of the house and goes next door for help, and, runs into Mr. Rana. He finally calms her down and slips her a froggie!

Soon, Cora starts croaking like a frog and joins the other neighbors.

Roald sums up the damage and has an L&M as he does so.

Light 'em if you got 'em!.. Tune in tomorrow when Eegah!! unveils another surprise from his bag of rare tricks!!

AGENTE SEGRETO 777 - INVITO AD UCCIDERE - "Secret Agent 777 - A Ticket To Die" (1966)

This weeks Super Spy Secret Agent feature is what you might call different, so let's get this crazy 7 train rolling with three times more sevens for your money and something that's usually a good thing to see on a slot machine, the cousin of the beast, 777!

It's titled "Agente Segreto 777 - Invito Ad Uccidere" and was released in English as "Secret Agent 777 - A Ticket To Die!" Do you think that the fact that The Beatles had a massive number one hit a year earlier with "Ticket To Ride" had anything to do with it?

This is Tiziano Cortini as Lewis Jordan, Agente 777! Tiziano also acted using the pseudonym Lewis Jordan in most of his credited roles! 777's life is a mess! After 14 years as a spy, he has been drummed out of the ranks because for being medically unfit, and he needs money! He knows that there's a secret formula floating around out there, and he figures if he has it, he can sell it to the highest bidder! There's only one problem, the formula is divided into 3 parts, and he's not quite sure where they all are, but he's got some leads!

He knows the first piece of the puzzle is in this "Van Gogh-like" artiste's studio, so he quickly goes there and shoots the guy and retrieves what he is looking for!

777 is kind of a loose cannon, sure, he's only killing bad guys, but he's being pretty rogue about it, and it's upsetting a lot of the people around him! They must have had some money to burn on this movie, because they destroyed a couple of cars in fiery blazes!

Pretty cool Volkswagen Bus ambulance, but I'm not too sure about the colour of that paint job!!

This is Claudie (Flashman, Crossplot) Lange as Elsie, 777's main squeeze! She seems to have a set of birthmark buttons on her breast that he needs to put in the code in order to enter, or something like that!

Part of the reason 777 needs money is because of his high standard of living! He dwells at the "Excelsior Palace!"  I don't know if I'd call it a palace, but it's a pretty fancy pad!

This guy is spying on 777, and off screen there's an Asian guy spying on this guy!

777 enlists the help of an old buddy, but while the guy is talking to 777 from a phone booth, this giant claws comes down and scoops up the telephone booth he's in and unceremoniously drops it back on the cement where the guy is pronounced dead on the scene!

The secret agent guy bosses tell one of 777's old pals to check up on what he's doing, because they don't trust him. On the left is Umberto (Mr. X) Raho as agent Linus Jericho, but in the English version, his name is Clyde! 777 challenges Clyde to a very intoxicating version of the game normally known as Checkers!

Just like everything else in this movie, they don't exactly explain the rules, but as far as I  can tell, it's like Beer Pong without the ping pong ball! Now that would be a good reference point! Needless to say, Clyde gets exceptionally fucked up, and 777 has to put him to bed, and then he hangs with him, they're that good of friends!

Here's one thing you'll never see James Bond do, pop a pill!! It turns out that maybe part of 777's health problems are connected to the fact that he's a speed freak! Can you spell Benzedrine?

So let's get this straight! 777 is a cold-blooded desperate killing machine with no job, no money, and a drug habit, what a prefect 1966 role model!

Do not throw a knife at the dude, that really pisses him off, just like throwing peanuts to a monkey in a zoo, and then it turns around and pisses on you, only this time it is lethal!

Clyde is told by the boss that it's necessary to take 777 out, and even though Clyde protests a little, the bottom line is that he's a company man, and he'll do whatever he's told to do whether it means killing his best friend or not!

Here they are, two pieces of the secret formula puzzle that when put together contain secrets that will bring world powers to their knees!

Hélène (My Friend, Dr. Jekyll) Chanel as Jeanne Cartier, 777's supposed partner shows her true colours!

Lucky for triple seven, Clyde loved him more than Jeanne Cartier!

Honestly, I don't know, "Agente Segreto 777 - Invito Ad Uccidere" is an unrelentless tough and gritty movie! Compared to 007, I guess # 777 was quite a bit down the line! I'll bet there's a lot of other cool untold stories from  Agents 13, 69, and 666 etc. that will never be told! What a shame! Once again, where can you get it? Cult Action Films is the only place I know of!

EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG / Firesign Theatre - 1975

It's time to take The Golden Hind to Hellmouth, CA, with Tabonga!.. Then, we're going to get our facts straightened out by some sun baked conspiracy theories brought to us by that desert news hound.. Happy Harry Cox!

Dogs flew space ships!.. The Aztecs invented the vacation!.. Your brain is not the boss!.. Everything you know is wrong!

Eegah!! sent over a great little soundclip from this thing, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button there by the giant atomic-powered fried egg, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula! Here's our audio offering for... EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG!

Here's the fun little album Eegah!! and I both had, the movie is just a lip-synched version of the original album recording! The cinematographer, Allen Daviau, went on to be the director of photography on E.T. and THE COLOR PURPLE.

Here's Happy Harry Cox, happily reporting the facts as he knows 'em from his trailer in the California desert. Philip Austin is Happy, there's his address in case you want to inform or warn him of something that has you confused or confounded.

I'd give anything to hear some Gas Music from Jupiter!

I swear, Hellmouth looks like parts of Bakersfield, if we ever do our next Dungeon Flick called BUG EXTERMINATORS: 2062, we have a place similar to this picked out for our location!

I really dig this shot of seventies clutter!

Happy interviews Sheriff Luger Axehandle pertaining to an incident that has just happened! David Ossman is Sheriff Axehandle.

Eegah!! loves this commercial, having been a real beer connoisseur hisself!

The local TV weatherman shows us where it's going to be over 130 degrees in the shade!

This stuntman is going to have to survive a stunt involving that insane hill at top left!

Now, it's time to take a trip on The Golden Hind, where we listen to commentary by Buzz and Bunny Crumbhunger and watch home movies from their recent vacation...

Hare are a couple of interesting shots from the Crumbhunger's exotic journey!

Love this, the dude writing on the blackboard gets gassed but good!

Here's the back of Peter Bergman's head, unfortunately, the only member of The Firesign Theatre that is no longer with us.

The conspiracy is brought into the light of day, giant flying fried egg saucers are revealed at last!! See you again on Wednesday when Eegah!! will pull post number 1,800 out of his hat!!