What's on TV?

TV Listings Flashback #5: July 31, 1972

This edition of the TV Listings Flashback showcases the CBS evening lineup for Monday, July 31, 1972. Specifically, South Bend, Indiana affiliate WSBT-TV Channel 22. Let’s take a look:

WSBT-TV Channel 22 CBS lineup for July 31, 1972

  • 5:00 What’s My Line?
  • 5:30 CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
  • 6:00 Local news
  • 6:30 To Tell the Truth
  • 7:00 Gunsmoke
  • 8:00 Here’s Lucy
  • 8:30 The Doris Day Show
  • 9:00 Suspense Playhouse (Call to Danger with Peter Graves and James Gregory)
  • 10:00 Late local news
  • 10:30 The CBS Late Movie (The Glass Bottom Boat with Doris Day and Rod Taylor)
Now Playing GFS banner image

Now Playing #4: A 1971 Creature Double Feature!

Horror fans in the Bradenton, Florida area must’ve been thrilled when this double feature was released in 1971. Now showing at the Bradenton Village Theatre is Beast of the Yellow Night and Creature with the Blue Hand.

Beast of the Yellow Night and Creature with the Blue Hand newspaper ad

The main attraction was new for ’71 and was produced in the Philippines. Notably it was distributed by New World Pictures, started the year prior by Roger Corman. Creature with the Blue Hand, meanwhile, was originally released in West Germany in 1967 and was based on the 1925 novel The Blue Hand by Edgar Wallace. New World acquired the rights in 1971.

Return of the Jedi Stormtrooper helmet

Dig This Collection of Star Wars Masks and Helmets

Once more from the farthest reaches of the internet, I bring you cool Star Wars stuff. This time, it’s a gallery Star Wars masks and helmets used in the original trilogy. Most of these closeup pictures were taken within the last few years or so, so you have to expect some visible wear and tear. Still, they’re fascinating documents that went into the magic of the first three films.

Up first is a snowtrooper helmet from The Empire Strikes Back. Bet you never knew they had green eyepieces!

The Empire Strikes Back Snowtrooper helmet

Also from The Empire Strikes Back, here’s an original Ugnaught foam latex mask. You remember the Ugnaughts as the little pig people who worked in Cloud City and helped prep the carbonite machine for Han Solo.

The Empire Strikes Back Ugnaught mask

Here are three different angles of a regular ol’ Stormtrooper helmet, worn during the filming of Return of the Jedi by stuntman Billy Horrigan.

Return of the Jedi Stormtrooper helmet Return of the Jedi Stormtrooper helmet Return of the Jedi Stormtrooper helmet

Now here’s something you’ve probably never seen before, and that has since been wiped from existence by George Lucas. It’s the latex headpiece worn by Emperor Palpatine in The Empire Strikes Back. The Emperor was originally played by Elaine Baker, with Clive Revill providing the voice. They’ve since both been replaced in the DVD by Ian McDiarmid.

The Empire Strikes Back Emperor Palpatine headpiece

Up next is a pair of masks from the famous Cantina sequence in Star Wars: A New Hope. Here’s a mask for one of the aliens in the Cantina, known as Ellorrs Madak.

Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope Cantina alien mask - Ellorrs Madak

Here’s a mask for the creature known as M’iiyoom Onith, affectionately known by the crew as Yam Head.

Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope - M'iiyoom Onith mask

Do I even have to tell you who this is?

Star Wars Chewbacca mask (Peter Mayhew)

People found this post by searching for:

    "chewbacca mask", "chewbacca maske", "realistic Star Wars mask"
King of the Rocket Men publicity photo

Coming Soon to Saturday Serials — King of the Rocket Men!

I hadn’t intended to take a seven-month break from my Saturday Serials posts, but that’s just the way it happens sometimes. But inspiration has struck and so very soon I’ll be bringing another classic movie serial your way. This one was released eight years after the Batman serial I brought you last summer. It’s King of the Rocket Men, released in the summer of 1949 by Republic Pictures. It stars Tristram Coffin as Jeff King, aka Rocket Man. It also co-stars Mae Clarke as Glenda Thomas. Check out the pair from this period publicity still:

King of the Rocket Men publicity photo

So as you can see, ray guns and jet packs will be the order of the day with King of the Rocket Men. Join me here soon to get started on the action, won’t you? And in the meantime, you can catch up on all the chapters of the 1943 Batman serial here.

The Roaring Twenties

Vintage Movie Title Camera Art

Back in the day, before fancy computers and gizmos and whatnot, title graphics in movies were painted by hand. By real human beings. And somehow they managed to look fantastic. So now I present to you a gallery featuring a host of vintage title art graphics, most of which date from the 1950s and ’60s.

(Click for a larger version.)

RKO Pictures (1929 - 1957) movie camera title art

RKO Pictures (1929 – 1957)

Warner Bros. (1948 - 1967) movie title camera art

Warner Bros. (1948 – 1967)

Cinerama (1960s) movie title camera art

Cinerama (1960s)

Gidget Goes to Rome (1963) vintage movie title camera art

Gidget Goes to Rome (1963)

Carousel (1956) vintage movie title camera art

Carousel (1956)

MGM "The End" movie title art (1950s)

MGM (1950s)

Desperate Journey (1942) camera title art

Desperate Journey (1942)

The Big Steal title camera art

The Big Steal (1949)

Universal-International "The End" (1960s)

Universal-International (1960s)

The Roaring Twenties (1939) vintage movie title camera art

The Roaring Twenties (1939)

Warner Bros. "The End" (late 1950s) movie title camera art

Warner Bros. (late 1950s)

Twentieth Century Fox CinemaScope (c. 1950s) vintage camera title art

Twentieth Century Fox CinemaScope (c. 1950s)

The Searchers (1956) movie title camera art

The Searchers (1956)

20th Century Fox (c. 1960s) movie title camera art

20th Century Fox (c. 1960s)

20th Century Fox "The End" (c. 1950s) vintage movie title camera art

20th Century Fox (c. 1950s)

Crown International Pictures logo camera art

Crown International Pictures (1960s)

Technicolor/Panavision camera title art from Camelot (1967)

Technicolor/Panavision, from Camelot (1967)

Twentieth Century Fox CinemaScope "The End" (1960s) vintage movie title camera art

Twentieth Century Fox CinemaScope (1960s)

People found this post by searching for:

    "roaring twenties", "20th century fox", "the roaring 20s", "20th century fox cinemascope", "roaring 20s"
Vintage Wizard of Oz Cast Photo (1939)

The Wizard of Oz Vintage Cast Photos (1939)

To this day I still can’t get enough of the immortal 1939 feature film version of L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz — as opposed to the much scarier early 1900s stage version. So I was delighted when I stumbled across digital copies of these publicity stills from the production, taken in January and February 1939 and featuring all four of the main characters. These four shots are credited to still photographers Clarence Sinclair Bull and George Hommel.

Enjoy! (Click any photo for a larger version.)

Vintage Wizard of Oz Cast Photo (1939)

[l. to r.] The Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr), Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland), The Tin Man (Jack Haley), and The Scarecrow (Ray Bolger)

Vintage Wizard of Oz Cast Photo (1939)

The Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr)

Vintage Wizard of Oz Cast Photo (1939)

The Tin Man (Jack Haley)

Vintage Wizard of Oz Cast Photo (1939)

The Scarecrow (Ray Bolger)

People found this post by searching for:

    "tin man wizard of oz", "Youre the Worst losmovies com", "wizard of oz tin man", "tin man"
1960s Batman Batcycle sidecar/go-cart

Check Out This Sweet Batman Batcycle Go-Cart from the 1960s

One of the many cool devices used in the ’60s Batman TV show and feature film was the Batcycle. Since having Robin straddling Batman from behind would’ve been too much even for the Dynamic Duo he had his own sidecar, which could detach and drive on its own like a go-cart.

A few years ago the Batcycle sidecar/go-cart (built in 1966 by Richard “Korky” Korkes and Dan Dempski) went up for auction and sold for a whopping $30,000. Here are a few pictures of the go-cart at the time of the auction, and some vintage photos of Robin (Burt Ward) riding it on what looks like a film studio lot or location. You can also see the Batcopter in the background in one of the pictures.

1960s Batman Batcycle sidecar/go-cart
1960s Batman Batcycle sidecar/go-cart
1960s Batman Batcycle sidecar/go-cart 1960s Batman Batcycle sidecar/go-cart

For more auction finds, click here.

Live Fast, Die Young movie poster

10 Great Juvenile Delinquent/Teen Exploitation Movie Posters

Live Fast, Die Young movie poster

You shrieked in terror at my gallery of vintage ’80s horror movie posters… you gasped at my science fiction movie posters of the ’50s… now tremble at this gallery of movie posters featuring juvenile delinquent/teen exploitation films of the ’40s through the ’70s!

#1. Teen Age Thunder (1957)

Teen Age Thunder (1957) movie poster

#2. Switchblade Sisters (1975)

Switchblade Sisters (aka The Jezebels) (1975)

#3. Juvenile Jungle (1958)

Juvenile Jungle (1958)

#4. Live Fast, Die Young (1958)

Live Fast, Die Young (1958)

#5. Youth Runs Wild (1944)

Youth Runs Wild (1944)

#6. The Cool and the Crazy (1958)

The Cool and the Crazy (1958)

#7. Reform School Girl (1957)

Reform School Girl (1957)

#8. Riot in Juvenile Prison (1959)

Riot in Juvenile Prison (1959)

#9. Untamed Youth (1957)

Untamed Youth (1957)

#10. Girls Under 21 (1940)

Girls Under 21 (1940)

People found this post by searching for:

    "1teen net"