TAGTEAM - Rowdy Roddy Piper and Jesse "The Body" Ventura (1991)

Here's a real Saturday Night Special for you!

 A Tag Team match featuring "Rowdy" Roddy Piper and Jesse "The Body" Ventura vs. All The Bad Guys On The Streets!

"Tagteam" is an unsold 1991 pilot TV show that never made the light of day for various reasons!

My opinion is they should have made this a three man tag team, because "Tagteam" reminds me of an updated "Three Stooges" episode! That being said.......

Let's get bready to crumble!

We got a good crowd for tonight's match!

 Look at the depth of character these two guys have!

They can go from one mood to another just like that!
Snap!

This is a pretty crappy print I found, and it's hard enough to get good screen captures of action scenes, so I feel pretty good about shots like this!

This just might be one of the greatest shots of tag team wrasslin' ever! 

They play the whole thing legit, so the boys get fired because they won't throw the match!

And you probably thought that wrestlers have no morals, well you're wrong!

Roddy and Jesse have higher standards than that!

They are forced to go out into the real world to find work!

They are complete failures at being piano movers!

Here's a pensive portrait of Jesse Ventura!

Being attack dog dummies in a ladies self defense class didn't exactly work out for them either!

The pair get then involved in breaking up a grocery store robbery!

That's when they get the bright idea that they should become cops!

Next stop, the police academy!

Somehow the two stooges manage to graduate, and the next thing you know, they're legally throwing people out of windows!

Tabonga and I were raised on cartoons, wrasslin' and Three Stooges, so I actually kind of liked this show, even as silly as it is!

"Rowdy" Roddy Piper and Jesse "The Body" Ventura were always two of my favorite wrasslers, so I wish this show would have made it, but it's too late now.

Roddy Piper passed away in 2015 at the age of 61! Probably his best film was "They Live" from 1988!

Ex-Governor of Minnesota Jesse Ventura is still kickin' it, and went on to be in such classics covered on this site as "Predator," "The Running Man," and "Abraxas, Guardian Of The Universe!"

DRACULA MEETS THE WOLF MAN / Kerry Gammill: Monster Kid Home Movies - 1965

Welp, it's Friday again, time for more Monster Kid Home Movies... We have little Kerry Gammill with family and friends who make some fun junk from the sixties.

In this tale, Dracula has a run in with the Wolf Man. It starts with the Wolf Man seeking help from a friend to help him with his problem. So, the Wolf Man (Boy) gets locked in his room for the night...

Wouldn't you know it, Wolf Boy changes into a monster and breaks out of his room.

He attacks this guy and leaves a gash in his throat!.. What the Hell's going on?!

Then, little Dracula shows up...

The science guys are trying to figure out where Dracula is hiding. They climb climb the stairs to the attic and find proof that Drac is hanging out there!

Well, Wolf Boy kills Dracula, then he's hunted down and shot with a silver bullet by the science guys. He dies on a golf course, a fitting end to this tale!..

Now we have some makeup and action tests Kerry and his pals made in the same time frame...

Hey, lets see what it would look like if the Wolf Man jumps off something and battles Frankenstein!

Here's a test they did using their little battery powered bat on a string that flaps its wings.

Here's a makeup test of Dracula, the kids had some nice costumes... I think mom helped out! In fact, Eegah's mom was a master of costumes, she was helpful when we were some of those Monster Kids in the sixties.

This is some electricity charging up Frankie, made by scratching the film.

Another Dracula test.

Frankie doing some of his famous facial expressions...

We'll end with this pretty damn cool makeup of Lon Chaney from THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, really nice for a bunch of Monster Kids... Tune in tomorrow when we return for another round of cool junk, later!..

JOHN KLING'S ABENTEUER - "Deutscher Geheimagent" (1965-1970)

 Tonight's Wacky Wednesday edition is something I just found out about yesterday!

It was a German TV show that ran from 1965 to 1970 that was titled "John Klings's Abenteuer (Adventure)."

My good friend in Berlin Lord Litter told me about it and said it was a show that he was watching a lot of lately. He sent me a YouTube link of a trailer with some music and stills that you can check out, because honestly, you can search as much as you want, but you're not going to find out a lot about John Kling unless you're in Germany!

 John Kling was a popular German pulp magazine hero from 1924 to 1939 and then again from 1949 to 1954. It appears that there were many different authors. Because of these novels, 26 new John Kling adventures were broadcast in the sixties on German TV. 

Karl Heinz Zeitler wrote half of the TV episodes!

"Prost!!"

Hellmut Lange had the lead role as secret agent John Kling!

John Kling's sidekick was Uwe Friedrichsen as Jones Burthe!

Both Hellmut and Uwe worked almost strictly in German TV and movies, so they are not really familiar faces in North America.

Most of these pulps have terrific covers like this!

I couldn't find any DVD's available anywhere, so these shots come from the short trailer on YouTube!

Angenehme Fahrt!!

Check this out!!

Composer Gerhard Narholz went on to write music for "The Ren & Stimpy Show," and "SpongeBob SquarePants" and a lot lot of other cool stuff too!

I know, I was shocked too!

Over the course of 26 episodes, I think there's probably quite a lot of this......

.........And you know, secret agent stuff!

If the TV show was anywhere near as cool as these pulp covers, it must be pretty fun to watch!

I like this twin fire engines shot!

German Amazon has a 4 DVD set of "John Kling's Abenteuer" for sale for EUR 55,34....+ postage.

However much that it is.........but you're still going to need to know how to speak German!

IMDB is almost devoid of information too, but they do have this one very nice still!

So that's it for John Kling! You'd think in this day and age of information overload, we could at least get to see TV and movies from other countries a little easier! Unfortunately, even the information autobahn has still got a lot of unpaved kilometers!

At least we get to know about it, but too bad we don't get to see it!