WILLIE WHOPPER in 'Stratos-Fear' / Celebrity Productions - 1933

It's time for a cartoon!.. Here's a fun little story about Willie Whopper, he goes to the dentist to have a tooth pulled and when he's given some gas, he floats off into space and ends up in another world where he battles several cool looking bad guys!

So, Willie's at the weirdo dentist's office to get a tooth pulled, when he gets some gas and the dentist is picking out his tools, well, Willie fills up with gas, crashes through the roof and heads into space!!

He just keeps on floating away from Earth and who knows where he'll end up?!..

Meanwhile, on a distant planet, these strange creatures are experimenting on animals...

Like this pig they turn into footballs and meat parts!

Then, the guy with the built-in telescope in his head spots something flying through space! The other monsters join in to catch a look at the strange object.

A meteor hits Willie in the gut and knocks the gas out of him! He then falls toward the planet!

Willie then gets to meet the head monster, and, he doesn't like what he sees!

When Willie tries to escape out a window, well, it's just a poster and bonks his head but good!

Then, here are these Wolvertonesque Goons that multiply right before your eyes. I love all the oddball creatures, I think they're the best part of the cartoon.

These two things are part of a band, again, great character designs!

This horn playing critter likes to blow bubbles (SpongeBob and Patrick) after having water shot into his horn by that rubber hose snake!

What's going on here! Why's there a sultry woman trying to put the make on our little hero?!

Actually, it's a diversion to get Willie to stop running away, but...

Now the head monster has Willie just where he wants him!.. Time to experiment!!!

Of course, Willie finally wakes up from his sleep and the dentist has his bad tooth pulled... Whatta Whopper! So, see's you all tomorrow with more Dungeon Cargo!!

THE RAY BRADBURY THEATER - "The Long Years" (Are You A Boy Clone Or A Girl Clone?) (1990)

Ever since I was a kid, I've loved the writing of the genius Ray Bradbury! His novel "Something Wicked This Way Comes," was the book that made me realize the difference between movies and books, and that your own imagination can be far greater than that of any actor, director, or cinematographer!

"The Long Years" is a prefect example of what I'm talking about, I do believe!

  "The Ray Bradbury Theater" ran for eight years from 1985 to 1992! "The Long Years" was from Season 4, episode 11, in the year 1990! I was trying to figure out why I wasn't more familiar with this show when I found out it was a Canadian production that aired only on HBO or the USA network, and later on the Sci-Fi Network.

I had the opportunity to get Ray Bradbury to sign a copy of "Fahrenheit 451" at a convention a few years ago, probably not long after this show was made, and he looked about like this! I have to say that he really wasn't very friendly, but it was a crappy venue and it was hot, so I never blamed him for being kind of grumpy!

Robert Culp is John Hathaway, the man left behind on a now deserted Mars, the planet!

Robert will always be remembered as Kelly Robinson in the classic 60's TV show "I Spy" with Bill Cosby before he was a creeper prevert! Robert was also in an unprecedented 3 episodes of "The Outer Limits!!!"

John Hathaway and his wife missed the last bus out of town, and have now waited some 20 years for another one to show up!

They now have two kids!

FINALLY!!! They've come to get us!

Two or four wheels aren't good enough on Mars, you got to have six if you really want to get around!!

No stranger to weirdness, George Touliatos as Captain Wilder can't believe that Mrs. Hathaway hasn't aged a bit in 20 years! It must be that good clean Martian air!!

Mars is a lonely town when you're the only surfer boy around!

Seriously, at that point, you might as well just give it away!

So, as it turns out, those aren't really John Hathaway's wife and children!

His real wife and children got sick and died many years previous!

He was all alone with nothing else to do, so he cloned himself a whole new family! So when Captain Wilder tells him there's not enough room on the ship for the whole family, John Hathaway has a massive heart attack and dies, and his family remains behind!

So, what else is there to do? His clone wife clones him, and they can all live happily ever after!

Not bad, but I'll bet you anything that the short story is better!

In the meantime, while you're contemplating that, here's something you need in your life

"Are You A Boy Clone Or A Girl Clone" by everybody's favourite poet, the right honourable Reverend Glen Armstrong! Dig In!

ALIEN MOVIE SPACECRAFT OF THE FIFTIES

Last Monday I posted the MOVIE SPACESHIPS OF THE FIFTIES, so, today I'm doing the ALIEN MOVIE SPACECRAFT OF THE FIFTIES! I have to admit, the Alien ships don't compare with those of Earth in coolness...

First up is THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL from 1951, another movie they played a lot on TV in the fifties. The Saucer and Gort were great, but, it comes across as a drama, which I hate.

THE MAN FROM PLANET X also came out in 1951, starring Dungeon Hero, Robert Clarke. The spaceship is just plain weird, I mean, how would you even describe the danged thing?

I absolutely love THE THING from 1951, it pushed all my precious sci-fi horror buttons! This is all you get to see of the saucer, frozen there in Arctic ice...

When I saw INVADERS FROM MARS from 1953 on TV in the fifties, it always freaked me out, a lot! Here's the nice Martian Saucer landing in the sand dunes outside David's house. Check out the British version when you get the chance!

Also from 1953, Universal's IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE kicked royal ass! Here's a classic shot of the alien spacecraft as it lies at the bottom of a ravine, covered in rocks and dirt.

PHANTOM FROM SPACE from 1953 remains one of my favorite fifties flicks, the special effects were above average for the time. The spaceship though, is nothing to write home about.

George Pal's THE WAR OF THE WORLDS in 1953 is a freakin' terrific movie, it delivers all the goods! And, the Martian war machines are probably the finest creations of the fifties, wow!

DEVIL GIRL FROM MARS came to Earth in 1954, love that title! Her saucer totally reminds me of the tops I had when I was a little monster.

KILLERS FROM SPACE from 1954 is another bad movie that I love, it's just fun to watch. Here, the aliens show Peter their space stations on a flat screen televiewer.

Also from 1954 came GOG, at the end of the movie, the mysterious alien spacecraft is revealed and is destroyed by missiles and jets.

In STRANGER FROM VENUS from 1954, he's picked up by these strange saucers. Another movie with too much drama, in other words, BOR-RING!!

Even though BEAST WITH A MILLION EYES from 1955 is a really weak flick, I have a bond with it. There's the Beast's spaceship blasting off into space.

Universal's THIS ISLAND EARTH from 1955 had this stylized saucer. For some reason, the saucer has an older look to it and is not one of my favorite designs. But, it's pretty cool.

Harryhausen's EARTH vs. THE FLYING SAUCERS hit the screen in 1956. The saucers were tasty morsels but also mighty war machines from another world!

In 1957, they reuse the saucer from EARTH vs. THE FLYING SAUCERS in THE 27th DAY, another movie with too much drama for my taste.

Another movie I love is INVASION OF THE SAUCER-MEN from 1957, Blaidell's BEMs are all time classics. He also made the gleaming saucer that lands in the woods.

Wow, I saw KRONOS at the theater in 1957 and it was a real thrill, it was so unique! It also had this beautiful saucer with Kronos inside that crashes into the ocean off the Mexican shoreline.

Here's the orb spacecraft that brought us THE ASTOUNDING SHE-MONSTER in 1957. Robert Clarke watches the craft crash into the forest there.

Toho brought us THE MYSTERIANS in 1957, the saucers have bright colors, unlike the majority of other alien spacecraft.

In THE STRANGE WORLD OF PLANET X aka COSMIC MONSTERS from 1957, the human looking alien leaves Earth in this WTF! saucer! I mean, damn, it looks like a freakin' kid's toy!!

And, let's remember those little ships from QUATERMASS 2 aka ENEMY FROM SPACE from 1957, with those slimy alien life forms in them, dropped onto Earth from a large asteroid always hidden in the shadow of the planet.

The alien invader in ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN from 1958 had this big round ball of a spacecraft, saw this one at the time too, it was wild 'n' weird!

The saucer was well secluded in the woods in I MARRIED A MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE from 1958. But at the end, they show a multitude of saucers leaving Earth. The monsters were awesome, loved the smokey mist that took the human bodies away and the monster faces flashing on the human transplants!

My dad took me to see THE LOST MISSILE in 1958, it was a great film for a 10 year old kid to absorb when it came out. The Missile was a menace from Hell.

ATOMIC SUBMARINE from 1959 is one of my very favorite fifties movies! The cyclops monster was great, and, the saucer was pretty damn creepy as it moved through the Arctic ocean!

In BATTLE IN OUTER SPACE from 1959, the alien saucers accompany the mother ship. The battle in space is a ton of fun!

John Carradine was THE COSMIC MAN in 1959, that little floating metal ball there is his means of transportation through the dimensions of space!

INVISIBLE INVADERS from 1959 had invisible spaceships, well, until John used his sonic gun to expose and destroy them!

Even though Ed Wood's PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE from 1959 is totally schlock, this mother ship is one of my very favorite saucers from the fifties. What a classic design!

Then, there's this spacecraft in TERROR IN THE MIDNIGHT SUN from 1959. Looks like pretty much a rip off of the ship in IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE with snow replacing the dirt!

And, let's not forget TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE from 1959, a wild little flick that has flesh dissolving ray guns and that weird earth boring spaceship!

There we have it, a list of the Alien Spacecraft of the fifties, check in Wednesday with more fun stuff, from... THE DUNGEON!!