Archive for December, 2007



UFO (1970-1973)

I have some fond childhood memories of TV shows that lasted awhile. Obviously, no TV series survived longer than "Gunsmoke" which ran from 1955 to 1975 (20 years), but some didn't last long enough to make a lasting impression. UFO barely made a blip on the radar of my memories. Of course, I was only [...]

Mr. Roboto - Styx

Mr. Roboto was released as a single in 1983, from the album "Kilroy Was Here". It's a rock opera that inspired later songs, by many other bands. It was written by Dennis DeYoung and performed by Styx, with Dennis as the lead singer. I'll be featuring more from Styx later on.
Mr. Roboto made a significant [...]

Phantasm (1979)

This is one of the scariest films from the 1970s that I ever watched. It has a cult-like following and it inspired 3 sequels.
Angus Scrimm plays a tall funeral parlor director who also happens to be an alien from an alternate dimension. His mission is to take dead people from our dimension and reincarnate them [...]

Teen Wolf (1985)

Now here's a comedy you can really sink your teeth into. Michael J. Fox played a teenager entering puberty (hence starting to change to a werewolf on a regular basis), even though he was 22 or 23 when it was filmed. I wish I could have looked that way.
The story starts with Scott Howard wondering [...]