THE OUTER LIMITS: Moonstone / Season 1 Episode 24 - 1963

Today's tale is all about a lunar expedition exploring the moon's surface, they accidentally discover a large spherical object they call a Moonstone. The General on the Moon Base is at odds with the Major over an old grudge. Then, the crew becomes involved in an intergalactic conflict when intelligent life forms from the planet Grippia are discovered inside the sphere, what are refugees from their tyrannical leaders who have learned about their discovery, and are on the way to get them, unless the humans can find a way to help...

This episode stars Ruth (THE BIG CLOCK) Roman as Professor Diana Brice, Alex (THE CLONES) Nicol as General Lee Stocker, Tim (BLACK JACK) O'Connor as Major Clint Anderson, Curt (THE MAN) Conway as Dr. Philip Mendl and Hari (THE LOST MISSILE) Rhodes as Lt. Ernie Travers.

Everything's cool on the Moon until a weird orb from space is detected, it ends up crashing down on the lunar surface...

Before it crashes though, we get a peek at the things inside the orb. What the!!..

Some of the crew go out searching for the orb. One guy falls into a hole in the sand and recovers the orb, so, they take it back to the base.

Time to figure out what in the Hell's going on with this damn thing!

Major Anderson gets caught in an equipment explosion, possible killing him. The creatures in the orb expose themselves and one emits a ray that heals the Major! What do you know, they're friendly little monsters!!

Well, the little critters can communicate too, they tell the Earthlings about their plight to escape the evil leaders on their planet.

The bad guys show up, they want to take the good guys back to their planet and extract their knowledge to use against their enemies.

The Earthlings refuse to hand the orb over, so, the aliens destroy equipment in the lab!

The good guys have a plan, in order to get the Earthlings off the hook, they turn themselves in to the bad guys, then, blow themselves up, preventing any extraction of their knowledge!

The bad guys leave the Moon and go back to their planet from where they came! So, there you have it, another wild episode from... The Outer Limits!! Tune in Wednesday when Eegah!! brings us more precious Dungeon Cargo!..

SAN FRANCISCO ROCK: A NIGHT AT THE FAMILY DOG - Ralph J. Gleason - (1970)

It's high time for a Seventies San Francisco Saturday Night Special in The Dungeon! Tonight's feature is a TV movie shot by San Francisco television station KQED, that was made by critic Ralph Gleason of Rolling Stone fame in 1970. It's not as fancy and polished as "Monterey Pop," but is still a pretty cool piece of musical history!

This show features the talents of three of the bay area's finest, Santana, The Grateful Dead, and Jefferson Airplane! The Family Dog was a production company run by a man named Chet Helms. When you see all those hippie psychedelic posters with The Doors, and Captain Beefheart, and 13th Floor Elevators mixed in with the local bands like Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Country Joe and the Fish, and Big Brother and the Holding Company (who Chet also managed) in the line up, Chet was the guy responsible. He was known as the Father of The Summer Of Love!

A 23 year old Carlos Santana is one of the highlights of the show!

The rest of the band was Mike Carrabello, Dave Brown, Jose Chepito Areas, Michael Shrieve, and Gregg Rolie! They perform "Incident at Neshabur," and the classic "Soul Sacrifice."

Next up were The Grateful Dead! Even though The Dead never had any major hit songs, each and every remaining member is worth 30 or 40 million dollars!

The original Grateful Dead were more of a blues affair that was founded and led by front man Ron "Pigpen McKernan, and did some covers like "Hard To Handle," and it's really good to see them perform here!

The Grateful Dead were in a state of metamorphosis! The band was moving into an area of psychedelic noodling that would become their signature sound, and the days of "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" were being left behind!

And so was Pigpen! Pigpen was a drinker, and didn't take psychedelic drugs, and went from being the front man to being a backup player on tambourine and congas on most songs. He played some keyboard, but the music went beyond the whiskey haze he was comfortable with! Three years later, Pigpen would join the infamous 27 Club! It was the end of the original Grateful Dead! The rest is history! The other two songs they perform here are "I Know You Rider," and "China Cat Sunflower."

Next up was The Jefferson Airplane!

Gracie Slick looks extremely stoned throughout this entire performance, and if you asked her, and she could remember, I'm sure she would agree!

The dancers always crack me up for three reasons or another!

Most folks probably don't know that Jack Casady is one of the most talented bass players on the planet! It's his tone that sets him apart from all the others, and what a rich tone it is! Rich enough that it goes all the way back to the sounds of Little Anthony and the Imperials! Jack is currently still playing with Hot Tuna and on tour! You can check it all out on his website!

Now this is classic shit! During an instrumental break, Paul Kantner decides to smoke a cigarette! Just walking that fine line between irrelevant and irreverent!! That's the path I choose!

Grace is too loaded to realize she's blocking the shot or just doesn't care, but then they were just keeping it real! Oddly enough, art and reality can exist on the same stage!

Jorma Kaukonen has long been one of my favorite guitarists, but "After Bathing At Baxters" I think Jefferson Airplane's trip peaked. Jorma and Jack formed the great band called Hot Shit, I mean Hot Tuna, and with the addition of papa John Creach on violin, they smoked it! Here's the link to Hot Tuna's website and tour dates, because you're going to want to see them if they come anywhere near your town!

I've always like the vocal styling of lead singer Marty Balin, and his solo album called "Bodacious" is just as good as the first Hot Tuna album!

 Two records that should be in everybody's collections

When Jefferson Airplane became Jefferson Starship, I tuned out forever! It's really funny how those things happen! This concert ends with what they call a super jam, with all three bands up on stange!

This concept has since been labeled as a Clusterfuck, and rightfully so, because when you get that many people on one stage, and you really didn't rehearse, it's just pretty much a wall of something between noise and music, but not even really in a good way!

There's really no fair comparison, because "Montery Pop" was a film about a filmed music festival, and this is a show about music, or, if "Montery Pop" would have been filmed in this more simpler form, it would have been a lot better! It's a San Francisco musical historian's dream, a night to remember!

THE TELL-TALE HEART / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Short - 1941

Today we gots a great little short for you... It's a story by Edgar Allan Poe - A young man is being dominated, insulted, and mistreated by the older man whose lodgings he shares. Finally one night, he enters the older man's room and kills him, afterwards though, the young man grows increasingly nervous and he becomes convinced that he can still hear the dead man's heart beating!

It stars Joseph (MR. MOTO TAKES A VACATION) Schildkraut as the Young Man, Roman (THE HITLER GANG) Bohnen as the Old Man, Oscar (THE BRUTE MAN) O'Shea as the First Deputy Sheriff and Will (SLEEPY LAGOON) Wright as the Second Deputy Sheriff.

It starts with the young man weaving on a loom. He seems unhappy to see the old man return for the evening. The first thing the old man does is slap him. I personally wanted to kick the old jackass in the nuts!

The young man is totally depressed over the way he's being treated...

Before the old man goes to bed that night, he lays into the young man one last time. Later, the young man pays the old SOB a little visit.

He shines a light on the old man, then, attacks and strangles him!

After he has put the old man under the floor boards, he starts hearing a beating heart! He stops the clock but still hears the beating.

The next morning, two sheriffs show up looking for the old man, who was supposed to be at an auction today, they're there checking to see if he was ill or something...

Inside the house, the young man is acting extremely nervous. One sheriff is tapping on the table (which sounds like a heart beat) and the young man stops him!

Oh no, he still hears that damn heart beat!..

The young man is losing it, he kneels over the old man, the sheriffs put two and two together, and ...

They locate the old man under the floor!

Finally, the heart beats stop and the young man is relieved and ready to leave with the sheriffs! Tune in tomorrow for something cool from Eegah!!