February 25, 2010

BROTHERS UNDER THE "COBBLES"??



From the 'Doomsday' box episode of the '60s Outer Limits. Actually called 'turdy' in the http address.













Caramel corn lava guy from the old Trek's
'Savage Curtain' episode,(w/ Abe Lincoln).

"Spock...help me..Spock..."

February 24, 2010

He's like a genie with no legs !! Mine is still in a box I haven't looked into
in about 25 years, even tho' it's been only two feet away from me every day,
(behind a fan).

WHAM-O was like a lab, spewing out clever enuff, scienterrific ideas, but in
a sort of crappy way. They weren't big on colors and fancy packaging.
They also came up with the Superball. (Think Flubber).

Their TV ad for this had kids trying to pull a Volkswagen, which we also had,
with about three of them. Of course we tried it, to little effect.

'Monsty' was stronger than yer average kid's magnet of the day. But,
certainly not as strong as the sorts of magnets you can get now from supply
catalogs or geek stores. Whaddaya expect from a genie with no legs?

February 23, 2010

The Martian/s from Twilight Zone's dumbbell 'Mr. Dingle' episode.
Didn't see the series as a kid, but finally saw most of them in
the early '90s. This one might've made a better text story, by say,
Fredric Brown. As it was, I prefer to view it as the aliens' story,
than tolerate the mix of the hammy Burgess Meredith and the over-
intense Don Rickles. James Westerfield, the bartender, is always good.

According to the date on this likely test shot, Douglas Spencer,
the Martian on the right, was only months away from an early death
at age fifty from diabetes. He was also most visible in "This Island
Earth", "The Thing from Another World" as 'Scotty' the reporter, and
in the sanitarium section of "The Lost Weekend".

Left side Martian, about ten years younger, was Michael Fox. He made
it to age 75, working all the way to the end in small parts, often
very small, in just about every TV show from the fifties onward.
And sometimes movies. 'Baby Jane'. Here he is missing his radar dish.
Perhaps they mainly put it on for filming, so it wouldn't fall off.

I think they worked well together here. Fox comes out the more
chipper. But Spencer had a nice believability you don't always see
in more famous actors. The costume had no legs, so they had to be
wheeled in somehow.

Now that I know a bit about their deaths, I'll be picturing viewer's
left Martian soon having to drag around viewer's right Martian. And
in that thin atmosphere...




Here is another Dingle, one I'd never heard of, a little before my time.
A "weather elf" puppet. No relation to the above, but I like the painting.

February 22, 2010

Hey? Why ain't these guys on TV no more? They're fast enuff and
sadistic---they should fit right in.