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With the recent release of the series Warrior we should look at the original series… Kung Fu and it’s many incarnations. Lets get this...
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With the recent release of the series Warrior we should look at the original series… Kung Fu and it’s many incarnations. Lets get this...
Who does not love a good cliffhanger? I mean the bulk of the “shared universe” franchises today keep you enthralled by teasing you of...
In 1987 pay cable was in a war with not only itself, but with the rise of First Run Syndication and VCR’s becoming integral...
Last time we looked a mostly lost and obscure spin-off from a hugely popular series… lets do that again. 21 Jumpstreet (note the title...
Night Of The Living Dead has long been regarded as a trailblazer in terms of the horror genre but also as an indicator to...
Remember when you watched a science fiction movie or read a story or saw a comic that was holding up a mirror to our...
Lets take a look at an oddball spin-off of a very important TV series… Since this is a spin-off you will need some background...
Everyone is familiar with the Jerry Bruckheimer produced shows (Cold Case, the CSI franchise etc..) that have dominated the ratings for decades now but...
1983 was a weird year for film. Conan The Barbarian and The Beastmaster had just broken the modern iteration of the Sword & Sorcery...
Lets look a piece of infotainment most people don’t remember at all, but I loved it so much in it’s day. Back in the...
Lets talk about two series that are only connected in the fact they were each unceremoniously cancelled after a mere 2 episodes had aired....
If you have ever been a fan of MST3K then you know that one of the best episodes of the entire series was their...
“All we know are the facts, ma’am.” Everyone out there, young or old, knows these words and the almost overly familiar theme song that...
This Death Slot will be a little different than the others. This time lets look at a TV show that was so influential that...
I have spoken about Tales From The Darkside many times in this column, so lets actually look at the series. This is going to...
The Twilight Zone became the rightful gold standard for anthology television series but it was hardly the only one as we all know. Some...
The Twilight Zone is one of the classics of television to the point that stories from the series have become so rooted into pop...
Lately in this column I have been talking about series that may be obscure to those of you younger than thirty and I have...
Baywatch was the number one show in the world in the 1990’s (only briefly being unseated by Renegade in 1995) and while most people...
The 1990’s were a strange time for television. First Run Syndication programs were in decline (although a huge rebound was due in just a...
Freakylinks was a half season FOX series from 2000 that has the unique distinction of being cancelled 3 times within 13 episodes and was...
Based on the EC Comics series, Tales From The Crypt was a monster success for not only HBO in 1989, but for the idea...
October 30th, 1938 was the date that changed the world. Orson Welles broadcast his now legendary radio invasion of Grover’s Mill, New Jersey… “shocking”...
It is Halloween and that means horror and what was the movie studio that made gothic horror cool again after the Universal Monsters faded...