BACKGROUND PROMPT

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It's the 14th of the month, and that's the date we put aside to think about all those amazing minor characters, places, organisations and general backdrop that make Eerie so compellingly watchable.

This month's theme is:

EERIE POSTAL SERVICE

Keep an eye on the upcoming episodes of the 20th Century Geek podcast

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Tim Burton, the Howling, Monsters, and of course Eerie, Indiana.

Brian Welk: A History of Creepy Small Towns on TV, From ‘Twin Peaks’ to ‘Riverdale’ (Photos)

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"Eerie, Indiana" proceeded the small-town oddities of "X-Files" and "Buffy" and was a ratings bomb. But the show was a mysterious, underrated gem about a teen who collected evidence of strange goings-on in an Indiana town where no one seemed to notice or mind.

AskReddit: What is a forgotten TV show that you still remember?

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kirase7in: Eerie Indiana was an amazing show, shame it was cancelled after only a few episodes. It did get a reboot though but it was not as good as the original.

fullarr: I was just telling my coworker about this today. Eerie

AskReddit: What do you think is the most underrated tv show?

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FuzzyElf47: Eerie, Indiana. It was like a tongue-in-cheek X-Files for kids before the X-Files was even a thing.

MaybeNotABear: Loved the books as a kid, had no idea it was a show.

trainmaster247: Love that show even as a kid born in 2001

Adubadubadub asks the big questions...

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Where's the Eerie Indiana reboot?

— ADUB (@adubadubadub) August 14, 2018

r/horror: Opinions on Bobcat's Misfits and Monsters?

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blazinbobby: It's a low budget anthology show by Bobcat Goldthwait on TRUtv, with a mix of comedy and horror. Personally I'm on the fence with the show, it's a bit of cheeky fun and it's only a half hour show.

What are your thoughts on this show?

SkyCouchButtington: I think it's fun, it's campy and weird, reminds me of Eerie Indiana

New Eerie, Indiana fanfiction from Prospero's Pal

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Escape! Prologue to much longer story currently in the works. Completed work will deal with events leading up to this point. Rated T for a few adult words. Marshall and Dash have a high flying escape from mortal danger!

9 of the scariest kids' TV shows that still give us nightmares

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For the discerning horror fan there are plenty of quality series on the box right now: American Horror Story, Stranger Things, The Terror, Channel Zero, the list goes on...

But no matter how unsettling these adult-oriented shows might aim to be, they can never quite match the trauma inflicted by a childhood favourite. Somehow, a spooky kids' TV show can dig deep into a young mind and leave a psychological scar like nothing else.

What we're trying to say is... we still have nightmares about the Demon Headmaster.

It's one thing to be unintentionally creepy – like the horrifying Noseybonk from '70s series Jigsaw – but the following shows all set out with the express purpose of leaving children traumatised, and more than succeeded. Brrrr.

2: Eerie, Indiana

Something of a tonal precursor to Stranger Things, this early '90s series starred Hocus Pocus actor Omri Katz as Marshall Teller, a teenager whose family moves to desolate Eerie, Indiana (population: 16,661).

Tongue-in-cheek but still terrifying, the show saw Marshall and best pal Simon Holmes (Justin Shenkarow) embark on unnerving adventures involving werewolves, hauntings and a classmate who dies in a gruesome accident, with his spirit being transferred to a classmate via a heart transplant.

Chock full of references to scary movies from The Fly to The Wolf Man, Eerie, Indiana had a strong horror pedigree of its own, with Joe Dante (Gremlins, The Howling) serving as a creative consultant and also directing several episodes.

CliffSide - Pilot

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Been meaning to post this for a few days now but one of the youtubers I follow regularly was sent this cartoon pilot to review called CliffSide(see it here), and since it takes a lot (oh boy a lot) of inspiration from Gravity Falls, which in turn took a lot of inspiration from Eerie I thought it might be of interest to you good folk. It's set in the wild west, and three kids face off against the 'forces of weirdness'. I'm not particularly drawn to comedies, but I enjoyed this a lot. It's very funny.