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Doug Krentzlin is a professional freelance writer, guest lecturer and actor living in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his cats, Buffy and Angel. Doug covers the classics of television, including comedies, dramas, mysteries, thrillers, horror, sci-fi, fantasy, animation and literary adaptations. He has also had articles published in the New York Post and Movie Maker Magazine. Doug can be reached here.

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SCTV: 'CCCP1'

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

According to Dave Thomas in his book SCTV: Behind the Scenes, when the cast and writers of SCTV set up shop at NBC, the network presented them with a...
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TV's 25 Scariest Episodes - #s18 & 17 - Kolchak Double Feature

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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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Joss Whedon's "Serenity"

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At the peril of being buried under an avalanche of angry geek mail, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that Joss Whedon’s Serenity...
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The Ray Bradbury Theater: "Tyrannosaurus Rex"

Once upon a time (Los Angeles in the 1930s, to be exact), there were two boys who were very close friends. They had two things in common: they were...
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The Twilight Zone: "The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine"

Given the unenviable task of coming up with between two to three dozen stories per season, it’s understandable that many television writers will...
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Confusing Movie Titles

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In 1936, Alfred Hitchcock made two movies. The first one was based on Somerset Maugham’s Ashenden stories and was titled Secret Agent. The...
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Classic Cinema: "W.C. Fields - 6 Short Films"

“[W.C. Fields’] ability to sense the crippling pettiness of daily life was nothing less than magical and his art was never purer than in...
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R.I.P. Budd Schulberg

Writer Budd Schulberg, who scripted two of the greatest movies ever made, passed away yesterday at age 95. The son of Hollywood mogul B.P. Schulberg,...
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Classic Cinema: "International House"

It couldn’t be more appropriate that International House (1933) features Cab Calloway and His Orchestra performing the song “Reefer...
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Film 101: What is the best movie theater in the D.C. Metro area?

For a native Washingtonian, this one’s a real no-brainer. As any local film connoisseur can tell you, the best place to see a movie in this area...
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