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TALES FROM THE CRYPT – SEINFELD – TAPE 1934
Over to Sky One for a packed tape, starting with Tales from the Crypt and an episode called Spoiled. Danny Elfman’s theme is very familiar, but I think it was from the compilation CD of Elfman music.
It’s another of the seemingly endless anthology series that proliferated in the late 80s and early 90s. I can list about ten of them just off the top of my head, and that would only cover a fraction of them. And yet, it’s not a format that’s perennially popular. I don’t see tons of new ones on Netflix or HBO – Black Mirror feels like an exception, but in the 90s it would just have been one of many.
This one was a bit more high profile than some, having a glittering array of Executive Producers – Richard Donner, David Giler, Walter Hill, Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis.
This episode features Faye Grant, off of V, as Janet, a woman who’s very bored with her home life.
Her heroine is Fuschia Monroe, played by Anita Morris, who was great in Ruthless People.
The next episode is Mournin’ Mess. It features Vincent Schiavelli and John Astin.
The next episode is Undertaking Palor. There’s a couple of familiar faces. Jason Marsden was in Eerie Indiana.
Over to Sky One for a packed tape, starting with Tales from the Crypt and an episode called Spoiled. Danny Elfman’s theme is very familiar, but I think it was from the compilation CD of Elfman music.
It’s another of the seemingly endless anthology series that proliferated in the late 80s and early 90s. I can list about ten of them just off the top of my head, and that would only cover a fraction of them. And yet, it’s not a format that’s perennially popular. I don’t see tons of new ones on Netflix or HBO – Black Mirror feels like an exception, but in the 90s it would just have been one of many.
This one was a bit more high profile than some, having a glittering array of Executive Producers – Richard Donner, David Giler, Walter Hill, Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis.
This episode features Faye Grant, off of V, as Janet, a woman who’s very bored with her home life.
Her heroine is Fuschia Monroe, played by Anita Morris, who was great in Ruthless People.
The next episode is Mournin’ Mess. It features Vincent Schiavelli and John Astin.
The next episode is Undertaking Palor. There’s a couple of familiar faces. Jason Marsden was in Eerie Indiana.
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A mixture here, starting with Eerie, Indiana and an episode called No Brain, No Pain.
Marshall and Simon find a homeless man and decide to help him. He seems to only speak in the lyrics of My Sharona by The Knack, but they don’t recognise it because they’re just kids.
He’s being pursued by a woman who says he’s the smartest man in the world.
The boys find his machine, the Brainalyzer, and when they activate it, Simon’s mind is taken over by the man’s mind, and Simon’s mind is stored on the 8-track Knack album.
It’s a nice episode, with some good lines. “Some say he’s the last liberal left in town.” “What’s a liberal?” “I’ll tell you when you’re older.”
After this, recording continues with the start of Channel 4 News. It leads with the resignation speech of Michael Mates, who condemned the Serious Fraud office for its handling of the Asil Nadir case.
Recording switches to another Eerie, Indiana. It’s Zombies in PJs. It’s about Credit and Taxes, and Rene Auberjonois plays an advertising agent called ‘The Donald’ who wants to handle the ads and promotion for John Astin’s World of Stuff.
His subliminal advertising makes everyone want to buy stuff from the World of Stuff, on E-Z Credit, and they’re all sleepwalking to buy stuff.
This is such a fun series.
After this, back to BBC2 for Quantum Leap and an episode called Ghost Ship. Sam is flying a flying boat to Bermuda.
Marshall and Simon find a homeless man and decide to help him. He seems to only speak in the lyrics of My Sharona by The Knack, but they don’t recognise it because they’re just kids.
He’s being pursued by a woman who says he’s the smartest man in the world.
The boys find his machine, the Brainalyzer, and when they activate it, Simon’s mind is taken over by the man’s mind, and Simon’s mind is stored on the 8-track Knack album.
It’s a nice episode, with some good lines. “Some say he’s the last liberal left in town.” “What’s a liberal?” “I’ll tell you when you’re older.”
After this, recording continues with the start of Channel 4 News. It leads with the resignation speech of Michael Mates, who condemned the Serious Fraud office for its handling of the Asil Nadir case.
Recording switches to another Eerie, Indiana. It’s Zombies in PJs. It’s about Credit and Taxes, and Rene Auberjonois plays an advertising agent called ‘The Donald’ who wants to handle the ads and promotion for John Astin’s World of Stuff.
His subliminal advertising makes everyone want to buy stuff from the World of Stuff, on E-Z Credit, and they’re all sleepwalking to buy stuff.
This is such a fun series.
After this, back to BBC2 for Quantum Leap and an episode called Ghost Ship. Sam is flying a flying boat to Bermuda.
VHISTORY EERIE INDIANA – TAPE 1430
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Here’s some more episodes of Eerie Indiana.
In The Retainer, Marshall is trepidatious about visiting the dentist. Not suprising when his dentist is Vincent Schiavelli.
His friend Steve has a massive retainer that lets him talk to dogs.
They learn of a conspiracy among the town’s dogs.
The next episode is The ATM with the Heart of Gold. Marshall’s dad has created a friendly computerised teller, slightly reminiscent of Max Headroom.
Gregory Itzin plays the town mayor. He really is the go-to actor for untrustworthy elected officials, isn’t he?
Marshall’s friend Simon starts getting money from the ATM, because he’s nice to Mr Wilson.
In the next episode, The Losers, Marshall’s dad loses an important presentation. The search leads to some strange places, and an appearance by Joe Dante regular Dick Miller. Not surprising, since this episode is directed by Joe Dante.
Another Dante regular is Henry Gibson, who works in the Bureau of Lost.
Next, it’s America’s Scariest Home Video. It’s Halloween, which can’t be good in Eerie. Marshall’s younger brother is stuck in the TV, and the Mummy has got out, only it’s the actor who played the Mummy years ago.
Next it’s Just Say No Fun.
I’ve just noticed their school is BF Skinner High School – named after the behaviourist who invented the theory of operant conditioning, and the Skinner Box, an experiment where doves were trained to collect food from a dispenser. The dispenser would randomly deliver seed in response to buttons the doves would peck, but it was always random. However, the doves would develop momre and more complex, repeated behaviours in the apparent belief that what they were doing was key to the seeds being given.
Simon is given new glasses, and suddenly he’s boring and just wants to do schoolwork.
There’s a tiny bit of the end credits of Mork and Mindy before the next episode.
Then, an episode Heart on a Chain. A new girl, Melanie, joins Marshall’s class. She has a life-threatening heart problem, and is waiting for a transplant. And all the boys in class fall in love with her. She’s played bu Danielle Harris, possibly familiar to you as Bruce Willis’ daughter in The Last Boy Scout.
Marshall gets love advice from Elvis, who lives on his paper route.
It has a sad ending.
This is the last episode here. After this, recording continues with the start of Channel 4 News. The conflict between Bosnia and Serbia is the top story. I think their spell checking fell down slightly here.
In The Retainer, Marshall is trepidatious about visiting the dentist. Not suprising when his dentist is Vincent Schiavelli.
His friend Steve has a massive retainer that lets him talk to dogs.
They learn of a conspiracy among the town’s dogs.
The next episode is The ATM with the Heart of Gold. Marshall’s dad has created a friendly computerised teller, slightly reminiscent of Max Headroom.
Gregory Itzin plays the town mayor. He really is the go-to actor for untrustworthy elected officials, isn’t he?
Marshall’s friend Simon starts getting money from the ATM, because he’s nice to Mr Wilson.
In the next episode, The Losers, Marshall’s dad loses an important presentation. The search leads to some strange places, and an appearance by Joe Dante regular Dick Miller. Not surprising, since this episode is directed by Joe Dante.
Another Dante regular is Henry Gibson, who works in the Bureau of Lost.
Next, it’s America’s Scariest Home Video. It’s Halloween, which can’t be good in Eerie. Marshall’s younger brother is stuck in the TV, and the Mummy has got out, only it’s the actor who played the Mummy years ago.
Next it’s Just Say No Fun.
I’ve just noticed their school is BF Skinner High School – named after the behaviourist who invented the theory of operant conditioning, and the Skinner Box, an experiment where doves were trained to collect food from a dispenser. The dispenser would randomly deliver seed in response to buttons the doves would peck, but it was always random. However, the doves would develop momre and more complex, repeated behaviours in the apparent belief that what they were doing was key to the seeds being given.
Simon is given new glasses, and suddenly he’s boring and just wants to do schoolwork.
There’s a tiny bit of the end credits of Mork and Mindy before the next episode.
Then, an episode Heart on a Chain. A new girl, Melanie, joins Marshall’s class. She has a life-threatening heart problem, and is waiting for a transplant. And all the boys in class fall in love with her. She’s played bu Danielle Harris, possibly familiar to you as Bruce Willis’ daughter in The Last Boy Scout.
Marshall gets love advice from Elvis, who lives on his paper route.
It has a sad ending.
This is the last episode here. After this, recording continues with the start of Channel 4 News. The conflict between Bosnia and Serbia is the top story. I think their spell checking fell down slightly here.
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(you can see their first Eerie, Indiana review here)
Here’s a few more episodes of Eerie Indiana. In The Loyal Order of Corn, Marshall’s dad joins the Loyal Order of Corn, one of those American groups like the Moose Lodge or the Shriners.
The ‘Kernel’ of the group is Sean’s dad, John Astin.
Another familiar face, from a recent Star Trek TNG episode, is Ray Walston.
In Reality Takes a Holiday, Marshall finds a script for the episode he’s currently in.
Then things get really weird. Suddenly someone yells ‘CUT’ and there’s Joe Dante on set directing the action.
Worse is when he discovers his character is going to be killed off.
The next episode is The Broken Record. A young boy with an abusive father starts listening to the Pit Bull Surfers, and undergoes a transformation.
Weirdly, Marshall doesn’t seem very supportive. “They’re just a band, your father is your life.”
But the programme does manage a reconciliation between father and son.
This was the last episode in the series.
Here’s a few more episodes of Eerie Indiana. In The Loyal Order of Corn, Marshall’s dad joins the Loyal Order of Corn, one of those American groups like the Moose Lodge or the Shriners.
The ‘Kernel’ of the group is Sean’s dad, John Astin.
Another familiar face, from a recent Star Trek TNG episode, is Ray Walston.
In Reality Takes a Holiday, Marshall finds a script for the episode he’s currently in.
Then things get really weird. Suddenly someone yells ‘CUT’ and there’s Joe Dante on set directing the action.
Worse is when he discovers his character is going to be killed off.
The next episode is The Broken Record. A young boy with an abusive father starts listening to the Pit Bull Surfers, and undergoes a transformation.
Weirdly, Marshall doesn’t seem very supportive. “They’re just a band, your father is your life.”
But the programme does manage a reconciliation between father and son.
This was the last episode in the series.