“Would you believe…”
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the much-anticipated ONE HUNDREDTH EPISODE celebration of Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner will be postponed until this SUNDAY EVENING AT 7:00 EDT. Thank you for your understanding!
“Missed it by that much…”
Tonight, it’s a tribute to endurance and “cama-der-oddity,” as we celebrate the 100th episode of Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner.
What began during the pandemic as a lifeline to sanity and community, has become a weekly institution, with classic sci-fi movie and television fans joining us from around the globe – the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Australia, and (most notoriously) Hell, Norway – to weigh in on subjects ranging from “The War of the Worlds” to “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.”
Did you know: I was not actually Roy’s first cohost? Tune in for lots more trivia, hosannas, and audience participation. Highlights will be shared, prizes will be awarded, and my annual birthday card to Roy will be posted.
Put on your monkey suit, get all dolled up, and join us in the comments section. It will be 100 toasts to Roy, when we livestream on Facebook, this Friday evening at 7:00 EDT!
“Tomorrow is the Fourth of July, and we WILL be open for business!”
With all respect to Murray Hamilton, we’ll be doing no such thing. We hope you’ll be satisfied with this archived conversation, as Roy and I jawbone about “Jaws.”
Next week we’ll mark the 100th episode of Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner. Still got a ways to go before we catch The Grateful Dead. It’s customary for Roy to throw open the show on these occasions to audience participation. Details pending, but no doubt it will be a festive one. Hope to see you there, as we livestream on Facebook, next Friday evening at 7:00 EDT!
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Until then, have a happy and safe Independence Day! The beaches are open, and people are having a wonderful time.
A clean shave, a clean shirt, and sparkling repartee made for another enjoyable evening with Roy, despite the questionable value of our subject matter, the time-hopping espionage yarn “Dimension 5” (1966) – and the fact that a three-inch spider crawled into sight just as we were about to go live. The spider is now living outdoors, and the episode is now living in our archive, so definitely check it out, even if I can’t recommend the movie (streaming free on YouTube, if you really want to groan).
Next week, we’ll try to make amends with a conversation about one of the most perfectly constructed blockbusters ever made – further highlighting the ineptitude of “Dimension 5” – Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws” (1975). A seafaring trinity of Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, and Richard Dreyfuss take on Bruce the shark, after he puts the bite on a New England beach community.
Part suspense thriller and part swashbuckling adventure, what does it all have to do with science fiction? Well, I guess Dreyfuss’ Hooper does get to play around with some high-tech equipment as the team’s marine biologist. But who cares?
What can be more “Fourth of July” than a trip to the beach? Leave your shark repellent in the comments section, as we be swimmin’ with bow-legged women, on the next Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner. There’ll be tourists on the menu, when we livestream on Facebook, next Friday evening at 7:00 EDT!
Is “Dimension 5” (1966) actually a Christmas movie?
Unless the United States withdraws all its troops from Southeast Asia, a foreign crime ring is set to detonate a hydrogen bomb in Los Angeles on December 25.
Justin Power (Jeffrey Hunter), of Espionage Inc., is teamed with Chinese agent Ki Ti “Kitty” Tso (France Nuyen) to take on the nefarious Big Buddha (Harold “Oddjob” Sakata, the closest to James Bond this film is ever going to get).
Oh yeah, there’s also a little matter of time travel. Very little, it turns out, since “Dimension 5” has probably the most bafflingly underutilized piece of advantageous gadgetry in sci-fi history.
Made on a TV budget and with rudimentary technique, the film is of principal interest for providing employment for a veritable farm team of future “Star Trek” guest stars. No less than five cast members appeared on the original, classic “Trek” – one of them was in three different episodes! – and a sixth appeared on “Star Trek: The Next Generation.”
To be perfectly honest, I kind of wish I could time-hop out of this one. Sadly, that kind of technology is unavailable. I’ll risk dementia in our discussion of “Dimension 5,” on the next Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner. Leave your marbles in the comments section, as we livestream on Facebook, this Friday evening at 7:00 EDT!
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PLEASE NOTE: If you plan to subject yourself to the film in preparation for Friday’s show, it appears currently to be available for streaming in the U.S. only on YouTube. It’s your call. The film may be free, but it’s also 90 minutes of your life you’ll never see again, without a time-belt.
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