Murder, She Wrote S4 E21: Dead Pan (1988)
Critique, controversy, and a whole lot of bad theater on the Great White Way. Season 4, Episode 21: Deadpan (May 1, 1988) Jessica Fletcher trades Cabot Cove for the rugged Canadian plains of Queensbridge, Saskatchewan, where cowpokes, bulls, and bad choices run wild. But when the local circuit “doctor” gets torched in his own trailer, […]
Tales from the Darkside S3 E16: Red Leader (1987)
Alex Hayes (Beverly Hills, 90210‘s Joe E. Tata) is a corrupt developer sitting atop an empire built on backstabbing, fraud and evicting elderly tenants in sub-zero weather. But karma doesn’t just knock on Alex’s door. It crawls right up through the floorboards via a jackhammer wielded by his recently deceased, ladder-plunged former business partner, Jacob […]
2026 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 1: Savages (1974)
1. HUNTING SEASON IS OPEN!: This season’s opener will have some kind of seeking, stalking, tracking or trapping, you know… hunting! Tally ho! If your only frame of reference for America’s favorite fictional small-town sheriff is Mayberry’s gentle, homespun wisdom, watching 1974’s Savages is like finding out Uncle Bee moonlights as a syndicate hitman. Months […]
CBS LATE MOVIE: Captain America II: Death Too Soon (1979)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Captain America II: Death Too Soon was on the CBS Late Movie on December 18, 1981. Airing on November 23 and 24, 1979 — the same nights that Salem’s Lot was also on CBS — with the new creative team of director Iván Nagy (perhaps better known as the boyfriend of Hollywood madam […]
Murder, She Wrote S4 E20: Showdown In Saskatchawan (1988)
Jessica’s niece is smitten with a rodeo rider and refuses to believe he could have committed a murder. Season 4, Episode 20: Showdown In Saskatchewan (April 10, 1988) Jessica Fletcher trades Cabot Cove for the rugged Canadian plains of Queensbridge, Saskatchewan, where cowpokes, bulls, and bad choices run wild. But when the local circuit “doctor” […]
CBS LATE MOVIE: No Other Love (1979)
EDITOR’S NOTE: No Other Love was on the CBS Late Movie on October 6, 1982 and November 1, 1983. Before The Other Sister, there was this movie, which has Richard Thomas (John-Boy from The Waltons* to some, Shad in Battle Beyond the Stars to me) and Julie Kavner (Marge Simpson!) as mentally challenged adults who want to get […]
Tales from the Darkside S3 E15: My Own Place (1987)
If you find a spacious New York apartment for $285 a month — even in 1987 — you aren’t getting a bargain. You’re probably getting a ticket to hell, baby. Sandy Darhaus (Perry Lang) is a yuppie investment banker with the kind of high-strung, large-ham energy that makes you root for the ghosts from minute […]
CBS LATE MOVIE: Death Stalk (1975)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Death Stalk was on the CBS Late Movie on November 22, 1976 and November 24, 1977. I write a lot about how old TV was the unknown. TV Guide could prepare you for a program, but sometimes movies blow your mind, and you’re in no way ready. This led to kindertrauma of the […]
CBS LATE MOVIE: The Darker Side of Terror (1979)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Darker Side of Terror was on the CBS Late Movie on January 16, 1981. What happens when you create the world’s first perfect human… and he turns out to be your wife’s perfect lover? The Darker Side of Terror — shot as Clone: The Man Who Gave Birth to Himself — was […]
CBS LATE MOVIE: The 500 Pound Jerk (1973)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The 500 Pound Jerk was on the CBS Late Movie on February 28 and November 14, 1975. When his breakfast cereal is found to have no nutritional value, an advertising man (James Franciscus) has three months to save the product or get lost. Around the same time, he has car trouble and, at […]
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