Captain’s log: stardate 3614.9 Wolf in the Fold first graced screens on 22 December, 1967. The episode was penned by Psycho’s Robert Bloch, and it’s obvious. This was one of the first episodes of television to scare me. I remember watching this story, and being completely freaked out by one scene but I was totally…
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Star Trek: The Original Series (1967) -The Doomsday Machine and Catspaw
Captain’s log: stardate unknow The Doomsday Machine sent me on many adventures when I was a child. Written by Norman Spinrad, this episode had an original airdate of 20 October, 1967. Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and the stalwart crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise encounter terror in space. They arrive in a destroyed planetary system, and discover…
Star Trek: The Original Series (1966) – What Are Little Girls Made Of? and Miri
Captain’s Log: Stardate 2712.4 There are two things that have always stayed with me for this episode when I was growing up, the big scary Ruk (Ted Cassidy) and the appealing, Andrea (Sherry Jackson). Written by Robert Bloch (who also penned Psycho), although Gene Roddenberry touched it up while it was shooting, the original airdate…
Hitchcock (2012) – Sacha Gervasi
Good evening. I love movies. I love movies about making movies. I also quite love Hitchcock movies. So this one seems like a winner all around, and I was not disappointed. Featuring a script by John J. McLaughlin working from the book “Alfred Hitchcock and The Making of Psycho” by Stephen Rebello, Gervasi, marking his first…
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