It’s Friday afternoon! Nearly time for another Classic Ross Amico double feature.

First, at 6:00 EDT, all that glitters is not gold, as we listen to music from movies inspired by novels set during the Gilded Age (post-Civil War to around the start of World War I), including selections from “The Heiress” (Aaron Copland), after Henry James, “The Age of Innocence” (Elmer Bernstein), after Edith Wharton, “The Magnificent Ambersons” (Bernard Herrmann), after Booth Tarkington, and “Mr. Skeffington” (Franz Waxman), after Elizabeth von Arnim. That’s on “Picture Perfect,” on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

Then, at 7:00 EDT, Daniel Day Lewis is conspicuously absent, as we depart the Age of Gold for the Red Planet and Ray Bradbury’s “The Martian Chronicles.” Rock Hudson leads an all-star cast in this NBC miniseries, produced in 1979, through the magic of no-budget special effects and quasi-disco interludes. There’s plenty of talent on-hand, both in front of and behind the cameras, but somehow it all just doesn’t hang together. That’s my opinion, anyway. Roy Bjellquist and I will talk about it tonight, live-streamed on Facebook, on the next Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner:

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We come in peace! (Sorry about the chicken pox.)