LEAVE IT TO BEAVER - Season 5, Episode 35 - "Sweatshirt Monsters" (1962)

 

Here's a little something I had cooked up for the Halloween Countdown before I got sidetracked by all those cartoons! Somewhere along the line, I missed the episode of "Leave It To Beaver" when he went to the moon!

Welcome to Weirdsville Wednesday down in The Dungeon and every 60's monster kid's favourite episode of "Leave It To Beaver," Season 5, Episode 35 that was titled  "Sweatshirt Monsters!"

Here's the gang from left to right, Mark (The Alfred Hitchcock Hour) Murray as Alan, Richard Correll, who has directed a whole slew of popular kid's TV shows over the last 25 years as Richard, Stanley (The Lost Missile) Fafara as Whitey, and of course Jerry Mathers as The Beaver!!!

The boys have saved up all their money and can't wait to buy one of these cool Monster Sweatshirts! The sweatshirts were done by some studio artist trying to imitate the style of the airbrush master of all time, Big Daddy Roth!

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 Beaver wants the one with three eyeballs!

Richard wants the one with the fangs...

.....And Whitey wants the one with the blood!!!

The boys all vow to be rebellious, and wear their new monster sweatshirts to school the next day!

But that's just not the way it works out! First Beaver gets told along with all the other boys that he can't wear the shirt to school, but he made a vow, so he wears it under his other shirt, that he takes off after he leaves the house!

Once he gets to school, he finds out he's the only one out of four that stayed true to his word, and his reward is he gets sent to the Principal's office, where they call his house and his Dad has to come and pick him up, and then he gets confined to his room for the whole weekend!  And you punks today think you got it bad!

For another take on this whole subject in colour, go check out This Post at the Neato Coolville blog from about a year ago! F.Y.I - If you have a Netflix account, all six seasons of "Leave It To Beaver" stream there endlessly!

ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN / Woolner Brothers Pictures - 1958

Your Xmas Present is early this year, here's a Dungeon Redo of the classic schlock flick starring Allison (THE DISEMBODIED) Hayes as rich bitch booze hound Nancy Archer, who gets turned into the big old gal... I got to see this one in 1958 and thought the special effects were really lousy. This Mexican lobby card looked better than the other posters I came across, so, here ya' go.

Eegah!! sent over a sound clip from the bar scene for our earjoyment, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button located there by our attacking 5 foot woman, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula!.. Here's a taste of... ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN!

Here's the scene at the beginning where Nancy almost runs into the round glowing UFO that's parked in the middle of road!

There's no title card for this one, it would take four still captures and definitely look stupid.

Nancy has walked to town and is in a tizzy over the encounter. The deputy, Charlie, has come into the bar to warn her husband, handsome Harry, who's living it up with his girlfriend, Honey. William (THE SHE-CREATURE) Hudson plays a perfect Harry and Yvette (ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES) Vickers is pure Honey!!

Back home, Nancy needs a stiff drink to get her mind off the adventure she just had.

Back at the bar, Honey is waiting for Harry to arrive, so, she cuts a rug with Charlie while she waits for him. Charlie is getting into it in the second still. Then, Harry arrives and doesn't like what he sees, you can see Charlie slipping silently out of the scene. Frank (THE CREATURE WALKS AMONG US) Chase is another actor perfect for his part and was a writer for TV.

Nancy has Harry drive through the hills, hoping to see the UFO and prove that she was not seeing things. Harry bolts and drives back to their house, leaving Nancy there! What a guy!!

This big guy from space is what spooked Harry...

Later, after Nancy is found in the back yard, she has become a giant in her bedroom, foiling Harry's plan to kill her with a lethal injection! I guess her legs must be sticking through a hole in the wall?

I'll never pass up a chance to show a classic fifties 45 rpm record player by a booze bottle!

Here are the two doctors trying to make Nancy comfortable in a pretty awkward scene.

Looks like the big space guy had to walk, his UFO's probably just out of gas or something!

Jess, the butler, and the Sheriff find the spaceship in the country and go inside to check it out. But, guess who shows up?!!

Here's a good look at our big old space jockey in his odd, medieval looking garb.

Nancy has crashed through the roof of the house so the doctor calls the Sheriff's office!

Nancy's mad as Hell and goes out looking for her cheating hubby!

She finds Harry with Honey at the bar and caves the roof in, crushing Honey dead!

Then, Nancy grabs Harry and walks around holding him, threatening to drop him, but, she gets near an electrical transformer and is electrified, killing her and her lesser half! Game over, man!

We're back on Wednesday with more Xmas treats for you and yours!

I PIANETI CONTRO DI NOI - Armando Trovajoli - "Planets Against Us" (1962)

What better to follow Black Friday with than Cyborg Saturday! Welcome to the paranoia wing of The Dungeon, and tonight's super special space opera, "I Pianeti Contro Di Noi!" The little bit of Spacey Music you'll hear was created by Maestro Armando (Werewolf In A Girl's Dormitory, How Funny Can Sex Be?) Trovajoli, a master of many styles with over 200 musical credits in a magnificent career that just ended last year!

In English, this film has been known as "Planets Around Us," "The Man With The Yellow Eyes," "The Monster With The Green Eyes," "Hands Of A Killer," and the version I sought out and finally found, "Planets Against Us!"

No, it's not Buddy Holly, it's a man called Bronco as played by Michel ("Succubus," "Run, Psycho, Run," "Sadist Erotica," "Kiss Me, Monster") Lemoine, and his perfectly coiffed 1960's jelly roll!

Unfortunately, he did have the same fate as Buddy Holly! Flying high in April, shot down by a flying saucer in May!

Actually, he wasn't Bronco yet! Before he died, he was the son of a famous scientist! Now, there's a guy who looks just like him named Bronco, who always seems to be around every time there's some kind of major scientific mishap or rocket launching disaster! Nothing to worry about, the Feds are all over this!

An artiste by the name of Audrey Bradbury captures a pretty good likeness of Mr. Bronco, but he doesn't like it, because he didn't give her permission! This combination act of kindness and mystery make Audrey fall head over heels in love with Bronco, although he is unable to reciprocate!!! Audrey is played by Jany (79 A.D., FX18) Clair!

Of course, to find a good lookin ' dude like Bronco, you have to interrogate all the whores in town! And yes, the gal in the middle that looks like somebody's Grandma is a hooker too!

Back at Audrey's studio, Bronco finds a painting of somebody he'd really like to meet, the daughter of a scientist working on a special gas that his people would like to get their mitts on!

It might not look real high-tech, but this camera was capable of doing things back in 1963, that we still can't do today!

Not only does the camera wirelessly transmit the video back to the scientists big screen TV, they're able to somehow miraculously get footage of the people in the car while they're driving it! Pretty wild, huh, especially since the guy with the camera is not laying on the hood!

Audrey tries to put the make on Bronco, but when he touches her, this is what happens to her!

After all the special effects, I guess they didn't have enough money in the budget to buy an iron, so somebody could get the wrinkles out of this guy's lab coat!

After obtaining an X-Ray of Bronco, the Earth Geniuses conclude that he's a robot!

That's when we finally get to see what's going on! Bronco is just one of many robots that the aliens have made, all using the same body mold! That's how he was able to be in so many places at the same time!! That's why he's so cold hearted!

Here's a couple of good shots of the mold machine, and the cyborg factory in action!

One of the special agents finally catches up to Bronco and zaps him with some kind of ray gun before having the life burned out of him! Bronco is damaged, but manages to return to the mothership!

In The End, it all comes down to one thing, it's all your fault!! Mind the man's words, they're out there, and they're going to get you! Have a nice day!!