THE HORROR AT 37,000 Feet - An All-Star TV Movie (1973)

Lynyrd Skynyrd hit #27 on the Billboard charts in 1975 with "Saturday Night Special," but two years earlier there was a TV movie called "The Horror At 37,000 Feet!" Combine the two, and you end up here!

For a TV movie, I'm giving "The Horror At 37,000 Feet" 37 and a half stars because for starters, it was able to keep my attention, which is a major ordeal these daze, and number two, it has a killer cast that would be fun to watch no matter what they were doing!

Just to get started, you've got the amzing Chuck (The Rifleman) Connors as the Captain of this doomed flight!

Who else is on the Who's Who list of passengers on this journey to Hell? How about the incredible Paul (Catfish In Black Bean Sauce) Winfield?

Then there's Roy (The Invaders) Thinnes and Jane Merrow as this happy couple! Among a lot of other things, Jane was a chorus girl in the Herbert Lom version of "The Phantom Of The Opera!"

And Yes......The Shat is back! His significant guitar strummin' other is Lynn (Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun) Loring!

The lovable Buddy Ebsen is a lot grumpier on this flight than he ever was as Jed Clampett!

France (Battle For The Planet Of The Apes) Nuyen just really wants to get home!

H.M. Wynant was in "The Twilight Zone" episode titled "The Howling Man," and is the Co-pilot, and Russell (The Professor on Gilligan's Island) Johnson is the Co-Co-pilot!

The creepy little girl is Mia (Ladies And Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains) Bendixsen!

Darling Darleen Carr as one of the stewardesses in the white plastic go-go boots and short skirts is the frosting on the cake! Darleen was also the voice of the girl in Disney's 1967 "The Jungle Book!"

As you can see the roster of talent here is first string and top shelf, like here in the background are Will (Sugarfoot) Hutchins and Tammy (Can't Stop The Music) Grimes! 
I just love this fustercluck of horror shot!

 There is some scary going on too!!

Okay, we've got a big scary mess on our hands, so what are we going to do about it Bill?

 

In The End, the pizza is burnt........

.......and The Shat just has to go!!

Anything else you want to know you can figure out for yourself, because you can watch it at your leisure for free on YouTube right here:

"The Horror At 37,000 Feet"
Have a Nice Day!!

POPEYE THE SAILOR In "Ghosks Is The Bunk" / Fleischer Studios - 1939

Time for a Popeye cartoon, here's a great little episode that goes like this... Olive reads a ghost story to Popeye and Bluto, Popeye gets scared so Bluto leaves Olive's house and rigs a haunted hotel. Bluto lures them there with a phone call and has a bunch of creepy surprises set up and ready to go.

Olive, Popeye and Bluto are having a quiet evening at home, Olive reads ghost stories to the boys and at one scary part, Popeye ducks under the couch! Olive and Bluto can't stop laughing at the silly sailor, so, Bluto comes up with a wild idea.

He grabs his box of tricks and heads off to a haunted hotel!..

After Bluto gets everything set up, he calls Olive's house and leaves a dire message and tells them to hurry over to the haunted place.

After Popeye fails to push the door open, he gets a running start, and of course, the door opens and he crashes into a desk and gets his head stuck! Then, Olive comes in, the door slams shut and she tries to open it to no avail.

Bluto has an invisible bell hop rigged up, he puts a rock in the glove and whacks Popeye a goodern after he takes a swing at the thing!!

There's the old escalator stairs that flatten out, so, Popeye and Olive slide down to the bottom after trying like Hell to get to the top!

Popeye and Olive hear some laughing and discover Bluto behind the stairs, pulling his tricks. Then, Popeye pulls the same trick on Bluto, who then gets creeped out himself!

Popeye spots a bucket of invisible paint and gets a swell idea!...

Bluto thinks a ghost is after him, he grabs the invisible fighter and slams him to the ground.

Popeye pulls out his trusty can of spinach and sends Bluto home with his tail between his legs!

Popeye grabs some paint remover and douses himself, becoming visible. Olive plays a trick by hitting him while she's still invisible, but, Popeye smacks her good and after he uses the paint remover on her, she chases him home! Tomorrow is Saturday, look for something special, over!

FAR OUT SPACE NUTS - Sid & Marty Krofft (1975)

I toyed with the idea of doing the second segment of the new "Twin Peaks" tonight, but then I remembered I had this, which is so much better! I will say something good about the new "Twin Peaks" though, and that's that the band that played at the end of the last episode I watched was excellent, and I had never heard of them before, so thanx for that anyway David! You restored my faith a little bit! Their name is The Cactus Blossoms, and they're the closest thing you're going to find to The Everly Brothers today!

Even though it was originally a Saturday morning kid's show, I think "Far Out Space Nuts" also qualifies as a pretty good candidate for a Dungeon Wacky Wednesday!

It's all in your mind, and the reality is that everything else is a figment of your imagination!

So, if you don't like something, then that's tough, because it's all your fault anyway!
Actually, now that I think about it, the new "Twin Peaks" might be wickedly disguised, but actually based on "Far Out Space Nuts!" Yeah, it's all starting to make sense now!

The stars of the show are two losers played by Chuck McCann and Bob Denver! Chuck McCann was also a co-writer on the show! Chuck is still working today, and has a long, long history of doing cartoon voices for decades now. Some of his voices are of main characters like Ben Grimm, The Thing, but a vast amount of Chuck's career was doing all the other voices of incidental characters you might hear! Wind him up, and let him go! I think Bob Denver was getting tired after doing 144 episodes of "Dobie Gillis" and another 99 episodes of "Gilligan's Island" at this point!

One inch shy of being four feet tall, Patty Maloney kept busy for years, not only acting, but doing voice over for stuff like the voice of Darla in the 1982 "Little Rascals" cartoon series!

(Seriously though, the Honk character is extremely annoying!)

This was the pilot episode of "Far Out Space Nuts!" It starts off with two dim witted maintenance workers getting launched into space instead of going to lunch like they expected!

Here's where they ended up! You have to admit, some of this stuff looks pretty good!

Mr. Clean Green Screen!

I love the spray painted tumbleweed alien plant life!

Pretty rough for Saturday morning! The boys are put into solitary confinement!

For being a Saturday morning kid's TV show, the sexual implications of G.A.L. are not too subtle!!

What the Hell kind of krazy Muppet monster is this?

Be gone Earth men, and be safe and diligent as you traverse the universe!

I'm totally convinced now that this was David Lynch's favourite TV show!
And do check out The Cactus Blossoms!
If you like good music, you will not be disappointed!