[Link: Little Tibia and the Fibias perform The Mummy]

Last week, I finally got around to watching the restored DVD version of Rankin/Bass' stop-action Halloween classic, Mad Monster Party?, and was it ever great!

I never got a chance to see it when I was a youngster, because I was living in Denmark back in 1969, and believe it or not, the Danish government rated this innocent kiddie film, Forbudt For Børn (Forbidden for Children), so I got screwed out of a quintessential childhood cinematic experience by those prudish Danes. Thanks for nothing, you nation of butter-cookie eating wusses!

Featuring great characters designed by artist Jack Davis (of Mad Magazine fame), classic celebrity voice talent (Phyllis Diller and Boris Karloff), and a really nifty monster-jazz/lounge/garage-rock soundtrack, it's a mystery to me why it tanked on its initial release to theaters. Hopefully, with this DVD release, it will finally take its rightful place alongside other towering classics of the scary kiddie-film oeuvre.

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It's About Time was a '60s television comedy I would've rather left in a pile of forgotten memories from my youth, but Classic Television Showbiz yanked it out of my subconscious, and embedded its ear-wormy theme song in my brain. Now, I feel as if I must pollute the minds of my collective readership as well (it's only fair that you all suffer with me).

IAT had an incredibly thin premise: 2 astronauts stranded in time with a bunch of cavemen who talk like this:

"What Gronk say?"
"Him say, 'If Gronk become chief, nobody hunt sabertooth tiger."

As you can imagine, a half-hour of this is about 29 1/2 minutes too much. Nevertheless, I felt compelled to watch a couple of episodes due to the talented cast who were caught slumming in this Sherwood Schwartz steamer: Bob Denver, Joe E. Ross, and Imogene Coca, among others.

[Link: It's About Time]

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