THE OUTER LIMITS - "The Invisible Enemy" (1964)

You might wonder what this "Outer Limits" episode has to do with Halloween, besides being scary!

The answer is that this 7th episode from season two titled "The Invisible Enemy" was broadcast for the first time on Halloween night, October 31, 1964, and I think it was the first time I ever wanted to stay home and watch TV instead of going out trick or treating!

You just can't go wrong starting off with going to Mars! That concept still works some 52 years later!

Here's the crew!!!

The always, and I mean always, entertaining Adam West  has the lead role of Major Charles 'Chuck' Merritt! "Robinson Crusoe On Mars" also starring Adam, had just come out about four months earlier, so the timing was just right!

1964 Mars looks pretty groovy!

This shot just strikes me as being very strange!

"The Twilight Zone" was one of the greatest TV series of all time, but it was "The Outer Limits" that gave you real monsters each week! This particular monster had a bad case of post nasal drip!

Robert DoQui in his very first role as Lieutenant Frank Johnson, went on to have an awesome career in films like "Willie Dynamite" and the whole "RoboCop" series!

I'm coming to get you boy!!

No, you ain't!!!

C'mon Major, let's get the fuck outta here!

Here's a great shot of Rudy Solari as Captain Jack Buckley, the guy who saves the day!

A staple of 60's TV, Rudy had the distinction of being in two "Outer Limits" episodes, this one, and also "Production And Decay Of Strange Particles!!" (What a great title!)

The creature munched the other two crew members, and while not really invisible, it was well hidden under some Martian sand! This creature was not hungry or territorial, it was just mean, and as it turns out, he's got lots of relatives ready to meet and greet any other space explorers Earth wants to send their way!

We don't like your welcome wagon, Sayonara Motherfucker!!

Damn Adam, since you survived that ordeal, now you can go on and have an amazing career as 

BATMAN!!

TABONGA! HALLOWEEN HUMOR!

Here are some Tabonga! Halloween jokes to have some laffs with, because, this month is all about fun for us! I'll let the jokes speak for themselves, enjoy!!

So, there you go, a nice pile of twisted Halloween Humor just for you! Be back Wednesday when we continue down the old dusty Halloween Countdown trail...

MY THREE SONS - "The Ghost Next Door" Season 03, Episode 06 (1962)

Tonight's Saturday Night Halloween Special is an episode of "My Three Sons," circa 1962!

This is a great shot of the original cast with from left to right, William (Fred) Frawley as Grandpa Bub, Tim (Spin) Considine as Mike Douglas, Stanley ( X-15, Attack Of The 60 Foot Centerfold) Livingston as Chip Douglas, Fred (The Shaggy Dog, The Absent Minded Professor) MacMurray as Dad Steve Douglas, and  Don (He was actually a musician, and was in a 60's band called Yellow Balloon) Grady as Robbie Douglas!!!

"My Three Sons" was on for 12 seasons! This episode called "The Ghost Next Door" was from season 03, episode 06 that aired on October 25, 1962!!!
The theme song was written by the hyper talented Frank De Vol, who was credited a lot of the time strictly as DeVol, and who, among a hoard of other things, composed the music for the two killer classics, "What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?," and "Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte!"

The house next door to the Douglas house has been vacant for 10 years, when suddenly this woman shows up! When she bends over, Bub immediately takes a fancy to her, but once you start talking to her, you can't shut her up!

Well, you can see why Bub was so hot to trot! 

Loie (The Reluctant Astronaut) Bridge has the role of new neighbor Abbie Pearson!

After the introductions, and Abbie won't shut up, Mike and Robbie have other things they immediately need to do!

Chip is over at his pal Sudsy's house getting ready to go out Trick or Treating!

Olive (The Hearse) Dunbar has the reoccurring role of Sudsy's Mom, Mrs. Ruth Pfeiffer!!

Ricky Allen as Sudsy is a strange little guy to and try and find information about! I can't find his birth date anywhere, and although he only looks about 10 or 12 here at best, IMDB has him in TV shows going back to 1957, so he must have been acting since he was 5 or 6, and then after 39 episodes of "My Three Sons," he retired from acting forever!

The boys look like a couple of Martians in these Halloween costumes!

Chip and Sudsy try to sneak up and scare Steve, but since they had already announced their presence in the room, it turns out kind of anticlimactic!

TRICK OR TREAT!!!

Chip and Sudsy don't know that Mrs. Pearson moved in next door, and since the house has been vacant since Chip was born, they freak out when they see a light moving around!

It was Olive Dunbar who was in the TV series "Big John, Little John" as Bertha Bottomly, but I think it would have been a more appropriate role for Loie Bridge!

Chip and Sudsy make a pact, and decide to go check it out for themselves!

What they see shakes them down to their boots! 

It's a witch with horns!!!

Exit, stage left!!!!

HALLOWEEN BAG O' 8mm HORROR MOVIE BOX ART EYE CANDY!

For a nice early bag o' candy, eye candy, I gots a batch of 13 very cool 8mm movie box art to chew on! Happy Halloween to all, and to all... Almond Joy!

What's fun about 8mm box art is that there's usually a kitsch factor going on. With FRANKENSTEIN CONQUERS THE WORLD, he rolled the seven wonders of the world into one!

Here, the MYSTERIOUS DR. SATAN tries to conquer the world with a death-dealing robot...

I used to have two 8mm movies we liked to watch, TARANTULA! was one of them. And, it destroys everything in its path!!

With this title, DOOM OF DRACULA, they changed the name for the mini movie. Obviously, it was taken from HOUSE OF DRACULA.

In TROG, from a million years back, horror explodes into today!.. With Joan Crawford.

Hammer's HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN uses great colors in this example of box art, nice!

I'm not sure of which movie KING KONG BATTLES THE MONSTERS comes from, I guess you'd have to buy this title to know from where it came!

This HOUSE OF WAX either uses the wrong art, or, the movie is actually NIGHTMARE IN WAX starring Cameron Mitchell... Roll the dice!

Edgar Allen Poe's MASTER OF HORROR is a fine example of kitschy art, bold and brash!

RODAN The Flying Monster was the other 8mm movie I used to have. Both titles I had are lost, left at an ex-girlfiend's house in the late sixties...

SHADOW OF THE WEREWOLF wins the Kitsch Award for this batch of box art! Again, I have no idea which movie this really is. My guess is that it's one of the many Euro flicks starring Paul Naschy.

THE TRIAL OF FRANKENSTEIN is, of course, a mini flicker taken from THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN.

THE WOMAN IN THE COFFIN is my favorite piece of box art in this pile. What the Hell movie is this from?!! Great titillating artwork!!

So, we're back tomorrow where we'll continue with our HALLOWEEN COUNTDOWN!!