MR. WIZARD - Don Herbert (1951 - 1972)

 Not to be confused with "The Wizard of Mars," or "The Wizard of Oz," "Mr. Wizard" was real, and he was also legit! So come on in, cause it's a Wizard Wednesday down in The Dungeon!

It's quite possible that "Mr. Wizard" was a witch or brujo. The first show aired in 1951, and was on the air in some shape or form until 1972. Stare at the words long enough, and it looks like Mr. Witchard, and he does things that are beyond human comprehension, kind of like David Blaine does today!

This episode was titled "Six Kinds Of Electricity," and aired in 1964. Mr. Wizard has got some electronic beats circa "Forbidden Planet" going on when his little pal Alan drops by!

That's right, a speaker, a measuring spoon, and a funnel is what's driving this crazy sound!

Mr. Wizard could take a dog turd, a paper clip saturated in sodium silicate, and some tin foil, and make a mini-nuclear power plant out of it, and every Saturday morning right around seven or eight, before or after "Sky King," or "Fury," I was glued to the TV watching this stuff!

This is a perfect example of the same stupid curiosity that keeps me going today! "Mr. Wizard" has built a Rube Goldberg device comprised of six electric sources all just to automatically adjust the volume control on this record player! If you don't know what a record is, then skip to part 13!

The thingamajig makes the whatchamacallit create static electricity which makes the balloon move, and allows the projector to cast light on the sensor on the right!

Which in turn fires up the bike tire generator.......

.......And you know, there absolutely had to be a mousetrap involved in this Gyro Gearloose contraption somewhere!

Oh, an ionic flambastic bionic transformameter, I get it!

 All I could think of was a twenty-two year old Lou Reed watching this show and getting inspired one Saturday morning!

As it turns out, there are many ways to create electricity, like chemicals.

Heat also works to make current!

Crystals can be manipulated to create a minor amount of electricity via the Piezoelectric method of power generation! (That's really krazy!)

So they literally fire up this automatic volume control adjuster to see if it works!

Those chemicals catching fire was part of the plan! Don't try this at home kids!

And after it goes through all the various sources of electricity, the volume on the record player does go down! For most people, a hand-worked volume control knob is good enough, but not for "Mr. Wizard!"

Here's a fact about Don Herbert that thousands of people wish they had in their biographies, he, along with Bill Murray was one of the guests on the first "Late Night With David Letterman" in 1982!

Alan didn't do much after this, but if you watch the movie "Little Big Man," he's playing the character of the adolescent Jack Crabb!

When you're full of despair, and you've got nobody else to turn to, you can always call out for help from Mr. Wizard, as Tooter Turtle used to do back in 1960!!

"The bottom just fell out of everything, Help Mr. Wizard!!"

THE OUTER LIMITS: The Bollero Shield / Season 1 Episode 20 - 1964

Today's classic story's about Richard Bellero, a dedicated scientist, he's working on experiments involving sending laser beams into outer space! But, his father believes he isn't capable of taking over the Bellero business empire. In the meantime, Richard's wife Judith has more than enough ambition for the two of them and Richard, through a freak accident, reels in a being from another dimension with his experiment. The being has a small device that can project a shield that no force can penetrate! Judith sees the alien and the shield-projecting device as a means to power and while Richard is away, she tricks the alien to deactivating his shield device, then, shoots the alien to prevent him from departing Earth, what a bitch! She removes the hand held device while failing to notice it was connected to a vein in the alien whose bodily fluid is the key to operating the device.

This episode stars Martin (ED WOOD) Landau as Richard Bellero, Sally (MASH) Kellerman as Judith Bellero, Chita (SAMMY AND COMPANY) Rivera as Mrs. Dame, Neil (BATMAN) Hamilton as Richard Bellero, Sr. and my favorite, John (ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE) Hoyt as the 'Bifrost' Alien!

Things are happening at the Bollaro estate, Richard and his father are working on an experiment that sends a laser beam into space to see its effects. But so far, pops thinks his son is on the wrong track for a successful outcome...

I like this machine, boy, what they could get away with in the sixties for scientific equipment that would actually work!

Here's Richard with wifey Judith. they are both disappointed at the results of the experiments so far. Judith is bent on success so that she can rub it in Richard's father's face, who she doesn't like very much!

Judith finds Richard's experimental laser ray gun and tests it on a bottle of wine, it disappears but within a few moments...

This creepy thing appears in the room with her... Like, help, Mr. Wizarrrd!!..

Judith tells Richard about the incident so he and Mrs. Dame go to the room with her to see the mysterious creature. The alien tells them all about what brought him there and shows them his device that can make a force field that cannot be penetrated!

While Richard is away, Judith shoots the alien and removes the shield device that was attached to the alien by a vein...

Judith shows the device to Richard's dad, she gloats as she explains what she has in her hand.

She activates the shield and has pops use the ray gun to see if it can penetrate it. The gun fails but when she tries to deactivate the shield, well, she remembers that she forgot to ask the alien how to do that!.. OOPS!!

Judith is trapped inside the shield, Richard and his dad try just about every way to get through and rescue her, axes, hammers, drills, torches, you get the picture! Anyway, Judith is starting to go bonkers thinking she'll never get out of the shield! I kept thinking... What if she needs to go potty!

They find the alien in the basement, he's barely alive, Richard gets him to help Judith get out of the shield. He's barely able to remove the shield before he keels over and dies...

With the shield gone, Judith has gone mad and thinks she's still trapped, a fitting end!! Check in again Wednesday when we continue down the dusty old Dungeon trail...

DR. JEKYLL Y EL HOMBRE LOBO - "Dr. Jekyll Vs. The Werewolf" (1972)

It's another Saturday night, and I ain't got nobody, so you're stuck with me and The Dungeon Saturday Night Special, "Dr. Jekyll Y El Hombre Lobo," also known as "Dr. Jekyll Vs. The Werewolf!"

"Dr. Jekyll Y El Hombre Lobo" is just one of the many wild monster movies of the 70's featuring Paul Naschy in every monster genre like "The Werewolf Vs. The Vampire Woman," "Hunchback Of The Morgue," "Horror Rises From The Tomb," "Vengeance Of The Zombies," and "The Mummy's Revenge!"

 I haven't watched a Paul Naschy film in a long time, because basically they all look the same to me, and now I finally figured it all out! Paul plays the character Waldemar Daninsky in at least 13 movies, and it's not even the same character, it's Paul! He also plays more than one character or monster in at least 16, that I counted, of his 121 credits, like in this movie, he's Waldemar Daninsky, The Werewolf, and Mr, Hyde! I just think he liked dressing up like monsters and feeling up good looking young actresses, and getting paid for it, because that's what most of these films amount to!

 Velcome to Transylvania!!

 Greetings! Now we kill your husband!!

Shirley (The Hassled Hooker, The Devil's Nightmare) Corrigan is the newly widowed Justine!

 Larry, Moe, and Curly here get the bright idea to rob a place where a werewolf hangs out!

These are the yoyos that viciously killed Justine's husband, so that coupled with the fact that they are just plain stoopid, makes you not care about them one bit. Bring on the monster, these greedy idiots deserve whatever happens to them!

Meet Waldermar Daninsky, he's a very nice guy most of the time, but watch out when the moon is full!

 This movie is so insane, it jumps all over the place, so Waldemar has saved Justine from those horrible men, and now they are in love, and decide to go to England to see her friend, a fellow named Dr. Jekyll, who she is sure will be able to cure Waldemar from his Lycanthropic disease, cause Dr. Jekyll has got some of his grandpappy's olde serums stashed in the basement!

 

 Unfortunately the lift going up to Dr. Jekyll's office breaks down, AND it's also a full moon again already, so, the cat's out of the bag, the genie's out of the bottle, and another woman is dead!

 So Waldemar Werewolf goes on a three woman killing spree, starting with the gal in the elevator!

 Dr. Jekyll and his evil assistant Sandra have big plans! Dr. Henry Jekyll was played by Jack Taylor, who was actually born in Oregon as George Brown Randall! Jack has had an incredible international career that includes "Succubus,""Neutrón Contra el Dr. Caronte," and "Conan The Barbarian!" Argentine born Mirta (Santo Versus Dr. Death) Miller is Sandra!

Here's the plan! Tie Waldemar up when it's the full moon, and when he turns into the werewolf, shoot him up with some of Dr. Jekyll's juice, and let the two of them have an internal struggle, and it works! The werewolf turns into Dr. Jekyll!  Wow! What a krazy roller coaster!

Sandra loses her shit, and kills the Doc, who was also her lover, because she was jealous of Justine, and then she tries to control Mr. Hyde, but that doesn't work for crap and he rapes and kills her instead! You know, regular stuff!

At this point, Paul, Mr. Hyde looks like a whacked out combination of Robin Williams and The Joker playing with an Etch-A-Sketch!

Mr. Hyde's killed like everybody he knows, so lookin' all rico suave now, it's time to go out clubbing, and meet some new birds!

At first I thought this was a Monster Club, and that guy on the left was another werewolf!

Dr. Jekyll's potion wears off during another full moon. Apparently back in 1972, they had full moons like every three of four days, but then I don't believe the word continuity was in Paul Naschy's vocabulary either!

Fr'instance, where, when, and why did Waldemar have time to go home and change sweaters? He's a freakin' werewolf, not a GQ model! Paul Naschy died in 2009 at the age of 75.
I'm pretty sure he's not resting in peace!