Thursday, December 17th, 2009
OK, boils and ghouls, just one more foray into murder and mayhem before we hunker down to (slightly) more traditional fare for the rest of our holiday...
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Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
John Collier’s 1939 short story Back for Christmas has been adapted many times for both radio and television. The story’s protagonist has...
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Sunday, December 13th, 2009
One of the many reasons that the WB Network is no longer with us is that the suits running the joint seemed determined to outdo the suits at Fox for...
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When the seminal British series The Avengers debuted in 1960 as a straight-forward police procedural, no one would have guessed that, in just a few...
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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
It’s a dark and stormy night. A creepy old mansion sits atop a hill (“somewhere in Maryland”) surrounded by thunder and fog. Who...
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Although it’s not nearly as well known as the latter-day series starring Jeremy Brett, the British Sherlock Holmes television series that ran...
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Fans of The X-Files fall into two categories: those who prefer the episodes connected to the alien conspiracy and those who prefer the self-contained...
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With the collapse of the studio system, the death of the censorship code and the advent of color television, Hollywood went through a lot of odd...
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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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“There is nothing funny about a clown at midnight” -- Lon Chaney, Sr. Good ol’ Lon knew exactly what he was talking...
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