Monday, December 14th, 2009
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle is the only Sherlock Holmes story that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle set during the Christmas season. Although the bulk...
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A lot of people want their holiday entertainment to be all sweetness and light with emphasis on sentimentality, but us mystery aficionados like to...
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When Jeremy Brett made his debut as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s immortal detective Sherlock Holmes in Granada Television’s The Adventures of...
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Producer/director Dan Curtis and writer Richard Matheson hit pay dirt in 1972 when their made-for-TV production of The Night Stalker became a ratings...
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The 1972 made-for-TV movie The Night Stalker was the first collaboration between producer/director Dan Curtis and writer Richard Matheson, one of the...
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One of the reasons that American-International Pictures (known affectionately as AIP) thrived during the 1960s and 70s while other studios (like MGM)...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles is the most famous and oft-filmed of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, but, truth be told, most...
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Unless you’re a fan of the original Twilight Zone, you’ve probably never heard of Douglas Hayes. Hayes was a television director and...
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Dan Curtis is a name you're going to be seeing a lot of in my blog this month. Curtis, bless his heart, was television's Master of Gothic Horror in...
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There have been countless stage and film adaptations of Robert Lewis Stevenson’s novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (usually...
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