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  • Star Trek Catspaw 50th Episode Celebration

    Star Trek Catspaw 50th Episode Celebration

    Trekker treat!

    Roy Bjellquist and I will celebrate the 50th episode of “Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner” – and round out an all-television weekend (which began on Friday with an exhaustive discussion of the cult series “Kolchak: The Night Stalker”) – with a conversation about the classic “Star Trek” Halloween episode, “Catspaw.”

    In this seventh installment of “Star Trek” Season Two, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy beam down to a mysterious planet wreathed in fog, to encounter witches, a haunted castle, a black cat, a warlock, a “transmuter,” and a couple of very unsettling puppets. Robert Bloch, author of “Psycho,” adapted the teleplay from his 1957 story “Broomstick Ride.” He also happens to give Spock some pretty good one-liners.

    Set phasers for 50! I hope you’ll be able to join us in raising a glass of Romulan ale to the 50th episode of Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner, live-streamed on Facebook, this Sunday evening at 7:00 EDT.

    https://www.facebook.com/roystiedyescificorner/

    “Bones… Is that you?”

  • Halloween Music Crossword Puzzle

    Halloween Music Crossword Puzzle

    “Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”

    So remarks Bram Stoker’s Dracula (in reference to howling wolves). Sink your teeth into this week’s Classic Ross Amico crossword, shrouded in musical presentiments of Halloween. Go bats over 50 clues about the supernatural in music.

    To fill out the puzzle, follow the link and select “solve online” at the bottom of the page. You’ll then be able to type directly into the squares. Once you feel you’ve exhausted the puzzle, you’ll find the solutions by clicking on “Answer Key PDF.”

    Test your knowledge – and your fortitude – against bump-in-the-night classics here:

    https://www.armoredpenguin.com/crossword/Data/2020.10/1811/18113156.205.html

  • Lost Worlds Movie Music on WWFM

    Lost Worlds Movie Music on WWFM

    As the days grow shorter, it’s easy to get lost. Be sure then to have your radio, tablet, or phone handy, so as not to miss a heart-pounding second of “Picture Perfect” and music from movies about lost worlds.

    Thrill to selections from “King Kong” (Max Steiner), “Journey to the Center of the Earth” (Bernard Herrmann), “One Million Years B.C.” (Mario Nascimbene), and “Jurassic Park” (John Williams).

    Tie a string around your finger for “Lands That Time Forgot.” It will be a show to remember, this Saturday evening at 6:00 EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

  • Kolchak Night Stalker Music Trek

    Consider that night stalked! Simon Oakland, who played Tony Vincenzo, Kolchak’s long-suffering editor, was also a concert violinist, and composer Jerry Fielding, while blacklisted, filled his time, pleasantly enough, jamming with a young Johnny Williams. Even in the realm of the unexplained and the supernatural, music makes the world go ‘round.

    Here’s Roy Bjellquist and my leisurely ramble through sinister after-dark Chicago, a nostalgic exploration of “Kolchak: The Night Stalker” (1974-75).

    Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner is live-streamed on Facebook every Friday and Sunday at 7 pm EDT. Tomorrow night, we’ll revisit the classic “Star Trek” Halloween episode “Catspaw.” Energize!

    https://www.facebook.com/roystiedyescificorner/

  • Kolchak The Night Stalker Revisited

    Kolchak The Night Stalker Revisited

    Uh oh. It’s looks like Kolchak’s in for it again.

    Over the course of 20 weekly installments, intrepid reporter Carl Kolchak pounded the sewers and back-alleys of after-dark Chicago, in search of the unutterable truths that would keep his stories off the wire. The supernatural. The extraterrestrial. The experimental. The redacted.

    Darren McGavin donned the trademark raffia hat, rumpled linen suit, and white sneakers, in “Kolchak: The Night Stalker” (1974-75). Armed only with a Rollei 16 millimeter camera, a Sony recorder, and a rudimentary knowledge of the monster-of-the-week, Kolchak always did what he had to do, though how he managed to hang on to his job and stay out of jail is anyone’s guess.

    Roy Bjellquist and I will reminisce about this short-lived, much-loved television series on the next Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner. We’ll be melting buttons into silver bullets, sewing salt into zombies’ mouths, and watching for your comments, as we live-stream on Facebook, this Friday evening at 7:00 EDT!

    https://www.facebook.com/roystiedyescificorner/

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