THE LONE GUNMEN - Episode One - "Pilot" (2001)

Now that Halloween is over, we can get back to more different stuff, and tonight's Saturday Night Special Feature is just that! Different!!

I don't know where I've been half my life, but I sure have missed out on a lot of cool TV shows over the years like "The Lone Gunmen!" Thank The Lord I have a friend in Germany to help  get me up to date on things like this!

"The Lone Gunmen" is the brainchild of the creators of "Breaking Bad," Vince Gilligan, and John Shiban, with the help of Chris Carter, and is a spinoff of "The X-Files," so you know it's got a good chance of being good. I think it was just way ahead of it's time! This is a show about three hackers trying to inform the world about the way things really are, just like the headline of their publication indicates!

As you can imagine, these stories are a bit tongue in cheek, and that's what makes them so good!

This show starts with a big computer corporation announcement of the new latest and greatest chip they've created!

One of  "The Lone Gunmen" is creating a diversion by being a heckler!

The guy with the ponytail is Dean Haglund as Richard 'Ringo' Langly." The other two Gunmen are Bruce Harwood as John Fitzgerald Byers, and Tom Braidwood as Melvin Frohike who is exactly one day older than me! All three of them were the same characters on numerous
"X-Files" episodes!

The reason for the diversion is they have an elaborate plan to get their hands on that new chip!

There's the culprit!

Because this was an early show about computers, you get a lot of shots like this!

Ka-Fn-Blooie!

There's not a lot of violence, because this show is more story than action!

This is a great shot!

She's a pretty good shot herself!

 Zuleikha Robinson is Yves Adele Harlow! How's that for a mouthful?

And of course the guys drive a vintage VW bus!

They finally get to have a good headline!!

"The Lone Gunmen" is a pretty good show from what I've seen so far, and now I'm looking forward to watching the rest of the episodes! Too bad it was only on for one season!!

BEANY AND CECIL / The Rat Race For Space - 1962

Here's a fun cartoon for a Friday, this time Cecil gets involved with the race for space and tries to help Little Ace in his effort to go into space!

Here's Little Ace getting ready to be shot into space...

Three... Two... One... Squeeeeze!!

Of course, the capsule comes down right on Cecil's head!

Cecil learns that Little Act wants his mommy, so...

Cecil goes out looking for her! Robert had balls, he uses Mickey Mouse to help Cecil search out Ace's mom.

Cecil comes across these cool cat bats playing beatnik music. He asks if they've seen said mommy and they answer his question with a baseball bat...

Then, Cecil finds this amorous moose instead of a Mommy Mouse!

Well, Mommy Mouse is blasting off into space this time, but, him and Ace get there too late. Good news is that the capsule comes down and hits Cecil in the head yet again!

Ace and his mom celebrate the cosmic event with a photo...

When Cecil joins in, Mommy Mouse shoots him with an exploding marshmallow! Hey, tune in tomorrow when Eegah!! joins in on the fun!!

TRICK OR TREATS - "When Halloween Night Stopped Being Fun!" (1982)

So this is it, the night we've all been waiting for, and I think "Trick Or Treats" from 1982 is not that bad of a film to commemorate the event, and finish off our 2018 Halloween Countdown!

The basic plot here is pretty simple! It's a story about a babysitter being terrorized in jest on Halloween by a kid who is an amateur magician while his parents are in Las Vegas for the night! The side story is that the kid's Father is a maniac who has escaped from the asylum and come home to kill his wife!

 I liked "Trick Or Treats" because it's a cauldron of Pop Cult Culture and performers! To start off, these two attendants from the local insane asylum are retired NFL quarterback Dan Pastorini who played with the Houston Oilers, the Oakland Raiders, the Los Angeles Rams, and the Philadelphia Eagles! A damn fine quarterback, Dan had a 50.9% pass completion record! Dan was also married five times, his last wife being buxom blonde bombshell June Wilkinson! The other attendant is retired NFL linebacker Tim Rossovich who also played for Houston, Philadelphia, and San Diego!

 The parents of the bratty kid are Carrie (Diary Of A Mad Housewife) Snodgress and David (Death Race 2000) Carradine!!

 These two bums are Jason (Escape From Alcatraz) Ronard, and Paul (Eating Raoul) Bartel!

Need more? Steve (The Stunt Man) Railsback is the babysitter's boyfriend! Steve, Carrie, and David all have fairly small parts, but theirs are the names prominently displayed on the poster!

The real stars of "Trick Or Treats" are Jacqueline (Drive-In Massacre) Giroux who was actually married to Steve Railsback for 8 years in real life!

Chris Graver was the son of the director and writer of "Trick Or Treats," Gary Graver. After five credits, Chris decided to spend the rest of his career on the other side of the camera!

With over 250 credits under his belt, Peter (Conjuring Orson) Jason is one of the hardest working guys in modern show business! (Possibly part of the reason he did such a good job as Orson Welles is that Orson was the 'magical advisor' on "Trick Or Treats!"

The scenes of all the trick or treaters are great!!

Give us candy or I'll shoot you!!

These drunken adult trick or treaters were my favorite!

 Little Tor is pretty bizarre peering through the window!

She pleads with him to stop, but that's not going to happen!

Meanwhile, the unsuspecting parents are having a good time in Las Vegas!

"Trick Or Treats" is pretty funny, and plays like if Disney had made a horror movie.....

..... that is until the big butcher knife comes out!

 Great album cover, and of course, it's Volume 13!

 She's tired, and she finally has to tell the kid the fable about "The Little Boy Who Cried Wof," but it doesn't have any real effect on the little shit!

 There are basically only two really violent scenes, no bad language, or real nudity, just deperation and despair!

 I would have let me kids watch "Trick Or Treats" long before I would let them watch anything like "Bride Of Chucky," or any number of slasher movies, so .....
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