TERMINAL CITY RICOCHET - "Don't Touch That Dial" (1990)

Ludicrous, ridiculous, and yet somehow, 29 years later, more pertinent than ever, tonight's Saturday Night Special is a 1990 flick called "Terminal City Ricochet."

Some things just don't change. Government has been a scary joke for quite a while now!

Just like this blog, "Free Cheap Bargains" are plentiful!

What's your favorite flavour of Pie in the Sky?
 Apple, peach, lemon, grape?

The concept of a "Mass Murder Magazine" is really sick, but the headline of "Rock Star Kills Audience" is pretty funny!

What can I tell you about a movie like this? 

Well, it was made in Canada, and "The Terminal City Richochets" were a real hockey team, and I think that about wraps it up!

Remember, "The Firesign Theatre" said it best!

"The Future is Now!"

From beginning to end, the movie is obsessed with space junk falling from the sky!

Peter Breck is mesmerizing as Mayor Ross Gilmore, a man of dreams, and other people's nightmares.

I could be wrong, but it looked like Peter was having fun with this role.

Peter was in everything from "The Crawling Hand," to 112 episodes of "The Big Valley."

Some of the sight gags are pretty funny!

"Terminal City Ricochet" also has a terrific soundtrack with real bands like D.O.A., The Beatnigs, Jello Biafra, Nomeansno, The Grooveaholics, etc. performing or just providing the music. This guy reminds me too much of "The Cat In The Hat."

Eric Reed Boucher aka Jello Biafra himself has the role of wormdog Bruce Coddle.

So just let it out! Let it all out!

What a campaign! 

It goes on way too long, but it has to, so you can try and take in everything that's going on here!

What a charismatic guy! C'Mon, you know you'd vote for him too!

And that's just the way it is!

Here's D.O.A. with the song from the ending credits called "Behind The Smile."

WOODY WOODPECKER / Woodpecker From Mars - 1956

Heute wir gots a cool little cartoon I used to watch on The Woody Woodpecker Show back in the day, when Eegah!! and I were just little guys in the third grade! Load that one in your pipe!! Anyway, Woody's a guest on the Captain Zoom Show, where he walks off with a space helmet and space gun as souvenirs. He pretends to be from Mars which causes a pile of trouble, and is then captured by the military. He's sent to an atomic laboratory for testing and convinces the scientists that he's a real Martian, so they put him in a rocket and send him 'back' to Mars!!

On the set, Captain Zoom shows Woody all of the interesting things about his space ship and the groovy things it can do. After the Captain let's Woody put on a space helmet and use his space gun, well...

Woody takes off on a scooter, shooting sparks from his gun!

After he causes a taxi to crash, the hub cap pops off of the tire and it spins away, scooping Woody up and into the air!

Well, the citizens are in a panic and something has to be done!!..

The Mayor goes on TV to tell the people... Whatever you do, DON'T PANIC!!

After Woody lands, the crowd surrounds him. He shoots some sparks from his gun and the people scatter like flies.

And of course, the military shows up and they take him away.

Woody's taken to the atomic science lab, where, he goes through some medical tests.

While a doctor views one of Woody's feathers, the little prankster puts a water hose on the viewer and turns it on full blast!

The doc gets an atomic shock and then Woody pulls the lever when he's in the Atom Smasher!

There's only one solution to the problem and they put him in an express rocket to Mars!

Woody crash lands on the red planet where he's surrounded by green Martians, and wouldn't you know it...

He's swept away by Martian military police and taken to their atomic lab for more tests!.. Okay, tune in tomorrow where we'll bring you more, from, The Dungeon!!..

JOHN KLINGS ABENTEUER - "Nachtexpress" (1965)

Back in April I was introduced to the German TV show "John Klings's Abenteuer" but there wasn't really any way to watch one of the shows only a few months ago!

So, pull up a seat, cause it's time for Wünderbar Wednesday in The Dungeon!

Shhh..........

Don't tell anybody but now there are a bunch of high quality episodes streaming on YouTube, and even though they are in German with no sub-titles, I can enjoy them with my limited knowledge of the German language, and the help of Lord Litter in Berlin, who was able to supply me with a enough of a synopsis that I could kinda know what the Hell is going on!

 I'm telling you, somebody's going to make a fortune some day, and all they have to do is provide voice overs or sub-titles, because there are shows like this that people in the U.S. know nothing about, but I'm sure they'd like to if they just knew!

 "Nachtexpress" was episode one of the "John Klings's Abenteuer"show.

John Kling and Jones Burthe have got this very important package to deliver from Turkey to Udine in Northern Italy, and they're going to have to get on the night train to get it there safely, hence the title "Nachtexpress!"

"All aboard, all aboard for the Night Train!"

 This punk has got a camera that looks like a camera but is actually a high powered gun!

Lore Calvies is Daniela! 

Daniela is in every third or fourth scene, and she's always checking her makeup!

Lore was Frau Kling in the German TV series "Die Pulvermänner" which roughly translates to "The Powder People." I don't know about you, but I think there's something fishy going on here!

The bad guys want the soil sample in that package really bad, and it seems like everybody on the train is against John and Jones. Knockout drops is one way to get things started!

 He should be asleep by now, so we'll just quietly drill a hole in the door without anybody noticing as long as you don't look too crazy back there!

 I will now just insert this piece of 5/16" clear vinyl tubing into the hole, and fill the compartment with lethal gas of unknown origin!

That package is as good as ours!

 Hey man, WTF!?

 Jeez, John, are you all right??

 Dieser scheiss ist vermasselt!

I think I'll just smoke my 19th cigarette in this 30 minute episode!

 When Daniela isn't checking her makeup, she's making krazy eyes at somebody!

 John and Jones have just about had it with these bozos!

 It's pretty much non-stop excitement!

 Dammit, I forgot the punchline!

 Daniela, looking good as ever, has one more chance to check her makeup!

 The trick was all those jerks spent all that time trying to get the package, when John Kling had sent the one real one through the good old fashioned mail system, so all that poisoning, hole drilling, gassing, and knife throwing was for naught!

This isn't the book about the "Nightexpress" but it does have a train on the cover!

             

Anyway, if you don't believe me, go check it out for yourself!