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Roy’s Sci-Fi: Christmas Carol, Star Trek, Wonka

We’ll be taking off this weekend, since Roy is involved with Country Gate Players’ virtual performances of “The Christmas Carol Murders,” Saturday at 8 pm & Sunday at 2 pm. These Zoomed entertainments are free, but registration is required, at billscurato.com.

Before you misattribute your Seasonal Affective Disorder to “Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi” separation anxiety, here’s the video of last Sunday’s show, all about “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” (1979). Just a few minutes should be enough to cure you of any romantic delusions.

We’ll be back next Friday, to take a bite out of “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” (1971), and next Sunday, to choose-up sides for “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians” (1964).

You’ll want to be on the winning team. Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner livestreams on Facebook most Fridays & Sundays at 7pm EST.

https://www.facebook.com/roystiedyescificorner

December 11, 2020
Star Trek Halloween Spock’s Catspaw

Even Mr. Spock could be catty in this one.

Last night, we celebrated Roy’s 50th episode with a discussion of the classic “Star Trek” Halloween episode “Catspaw,” and some Johnnie Walker Red.

On Friday, we’ll be joined by special guest (and Roy’s wife) Shari Bethman-Bjellquist, as we make a meal of “Soylent Green” (1972); and then on Sunday, Roy and I will be back in the saddle for one of my personal Halloween favorites, “The Devil Rides Out” (1968), starring the great Christopher Lee.

Get ready for some serious hooves-on-hooves action. Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner live-streams on Facebook every Friday and Sunday at 7 pm EDT!

October 19, 2020
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?”

October 18, 2020
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/

October 17, 2020
Star Trek Open Mic Night & Sci-Fi Talk

If your idea of a good time is having two middle-aged nerds ruin a 42-year-old movie for you, this just might be the ticket. If not, I recommend you watch “Capricorn One.”

Tomorrow night, Roy will celebrate his 40th episode, and the 54th anniversary of “Star Trek: The Original Series,” by providing an open mic – or an open Zoom – for anyone who wishes to step up and share his or her favorite “Star Trek” memories, with perhaps a few additional surprises along the way. To register, send a Facebook message to Roy by 3:00 on Sunday afternoon.

Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner is live-streamed on Facebook every Friday and Sunday evening at 7:00 EDT.

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

Next Friday, I’ll be back for Gerry Anderson’s “Journey to the Far Side of the Sun!”

September 5, 2020

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