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Post by dem bones on Jun 12, 2013 19:55:26 GMT
There comes a time in many a popular TV series' when the writers attempt a one-off horror/ supernatural/ weird episode .... McCloud Meets Dracula: The cowboy crime fighter gallops the streets of New York in pursuit of the King Vampire of the Undead. John Carradine special guests as retired horror superstar, Loren Belasco. Contains scenes which some viewers may find ludicrous and, yes, I would most dearly love to see it again. The Six Million Dollar Man: The Secret of Bigfoot Steve Awesome versus Sasquatch, although they soon patch up their differences and team up versus smarmy extraterrestrials who think their civilization is better than ours. Where do these little bags of shit from outer space get off, huh? A novelisation, credited to Mike Jahn, was published by Star. Murder She Wrote: Night Of The Tarantula. Jessica Fletcher gets mixed up in some voodoo malarkey. Only caught final moments featuring a mummy on the rampage. Charlie's Angels: Of Ghosts and Angels Tiffany has a nightmare/ premonition that plays out like a Gothic Romance. Sir C. Lee appears in Angel in Hiding (being all evil, as usual), but unsure if episode contains supernatural content. In The Sammy Davis Jr. Kidnap Caper, the comely trio foil a kidnapping attempt. That might not sound like much of a horror link, but mr. junior. once got himself heavily involved with the Satanist scene, and had a fine time of it trying to extricate himself (at least, that's the way he tells it in his auto-biog). Diagnosis Murder: The Bela Lugosi Blues: Dr. Mark Sloan and son Steve hunt killer suffering vampire delusions. Turns out Moriah Thomas is the real deal. Starsky & Hutch: The Vampire. Not seen it, but perhaps best left that way as I doubt it improves on how it plays in my head. Whitechapel: Case Three Often flirts with the "supernatural" only to rationalise the seemingly inexplicable events, but in series three, case three, the house where London After Midnight freak Calvin dismembered his family, is demonstrably proper haunted. Loosely - very loosely - based on alleged events at 50 Berkeley Square, "the Most Haunted House in London.' The Professionals: Discovered in A Graveyard. Doyle is shot by a Chinese girl and flits between this world and the next. Dreams that Cowley is still moaning at him even as he stands at his own graveside. Ken Blake novelised the episode in Professionals #15; You'll Be All Right (Sphere, 1982) Rosemary & Thyme: The Memory Of Water. The green fingered busy-bodies witness a suicide, only for said dead bloke to turn up alive and well shortly afterward. Not seen it, but have been told iit qualifies. The Two Ronnies; The Phantom Raspberry Blower Of Old London Town. Spike Milligan scripted piss take of the Ripper murders. "That was one of the few serials that we filmed around London and it was also one of the very few to involve shooting at night. I remember one very creepy night shoot in Highgate Cemetery, which is full of ornate graves and the graves of many people, notably Karl Marx. It felt like a bit of a desecration to be filming there, and I think we were all glad when morning cae." Ronnie Corbett, And It's Goodnight From Him (Michael Joseph, 2006) Murder In Suburbia: Witches. Ash and Scribbs versus a schoolgirl witch cult. 'Satanic' graffiti, Barbie voodoo dolls, and, well, a corpse in a cemetery. The Saint: Black Magic, cryptozoology, science fiction - when Simon Templar fancied a break from outwitting jewel smugglers, murderers, kidnappers and other run-of-the-mill types, he'd go for something a little more outre. Noteworthy examples include Sibao (voodoo), The Convenient Monster (Nessie), The House On Dragon's Rock (giant ant on the rampage), and The Man Who Gambled with Life (cryonic capers). May contain scenes of man dressed up in gorilla costumes. Midsome Murders: Another repeat offender. Witchcraft, Satanism, ghosts, bizarre rites and full on horror stories a plenty. Any more?
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Post by killercrab on Jun 13, 2013 16:39:15 GMT
Starsky & Hutch: The Vampire. Not seen it, but perhaps best left that way as I doubt it improves on how it plays in my head. >>
It's very good stars John Saxon.
The Champions : Shadow of the Panther - voodoo episode. The Night People - witchcraft episode.
Starsky @ Hutch : There's both a voodoo and devil worshipper episodes.
Strange Report : A Matter of Witchcraft.
KC
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Post by dem bones on Jun 13, 2013 19:52:26 GMT
Starsky & Hutch: The Vampire. Not seen it, but perhaps best left that way as I doubt it improves on how it plays in my head. >> It's very good stars John Saxon. The Champions : Shadow of the Panther - voodoo episode. The Night People - witchcraft episode. Starsky @ Hutch : There's both a voodoo and devil worshipper episodes. Strange Report : A Matter of Witchcraft. KC Thanks, mr. crab. Mustn't forget our old friends The Avengers versus, the Hellfire Club, Z. Z. Schnerk's camp snuff movie aggregate, a man-eating plant in suburbia, Jack the Ripper MK. II, Shaun Ryder & Co. Never thought to bother with Ken Blake's Professionals tie-ins, but am now on lookout for #5 Blind Run (Sphere, 1979), which includes his novelisation of the episode, In the Public Interest, wherein the police rid their town of "undesirable elements" (the usual suspects) by "persuading" them to leave town. Father Dowling Mysteries The Ghost Of A Chance Mystery: Since Carol's dad topped himself, his ghost appears in her room each night. Looks like Carol's heading straight back to the sanitarium - that's if she doesn't OD first. A genuine haunting, or is someone pulling a Let's Scare Jessica To Death on her? Fr. Frank and glam nun investigate.
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Post by killercrab on Jun 14, 2013 4:02:53 GMT
Couldn't help wondering if McMillan and wife ever faced a supernatural threat so I had a look. i came up with these two episodes :
Night of the Wizard ( phoney psychic) The Devil You Say ( involves Satanism and Halloween!)
KC
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Post by Michael Connolly on Jun 14, 2013 9:48:00 GMT
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Post by ripper on Jun 14, 2013 16:39:05 GMT
There was the ghost of Ivy Tilsley in Coronation Street. Knot's Landing, the US soap, featured a haunted house in an episode called, I think, The Three Sisters--may have been a multi-parter. One episode of Steptoe and Son had Albert trying to contact his dead wife via a medium.
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Post by dem bones on Jun 14, 2013 16:54:26 GMT
Thank you kindly, gents. Rip, i'm sure we had a thread for this on the old board, but i can't find it for the life of me. In a number of Michael Avallone's The Partridge Family paperbacks, the brood come up against ghosts and haunted houses every other adventure, but that doesn't seem to be the case with the original TV series. The Man From U.N.C.L.E.: The Batcave Affair. More bloody vampires, though from Stephen Jones' brief synopsis in The Illustrated Vampire Movie Guide (Titan, Jan. 1993), it bears little relation to .... David McDaniel - The Man From U.N.C.L.E. #6: The Vampire Affair (Ace, 1966) In a remote area of the Transylvanian Alps, an U.N.C.L.E. agent had been killed in mysterious circumstances. The man's footprints in the snow led up to the base of the tree where he had been killed, but there were no pursuing tracks, no clue at all as to what doom had overtaken him.
There were only the two small holes in the neck, and a complete absence of blood.
Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin didn't believe in vampires - but as they investigated their fellow-agent's death they were forced again and again to wonder if perhaps the old terrors of the region had more reality than the world would like to think ... "What have we to do with walking corpses?" Quite a bit, as it turns out. Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin are in a snowbound Transylvania, investigating the mysterious death of U.N.C.L.E. agent Carl Endros. When U.N.C.L.E. supremo Mr. Waverly received a telegram describing the dead man's wounds, he suspected somebody at the Budapest office was taking the piss, but turns out Endros was not the first to have his blood drained in those woods. Shortly after touching down, the pair save a stranger from an angry mob. He explains that his are a superstitious people and they've a down on him because of his family history: he is Count Zoltan Dracula. That night, back at the hotel, a huge bat tries to attack Napoleon and his temporary floozie, Hilda. Even Illya is fazed: Everything points to a REAL vampire. Shortly afterward, Napoleon, Illya and Hilda are lost in the woods after dark and surrounded by werewolves, when a mysterious figure appears from his cave and calls off his "pets." Napoleon meets Famous Monsters' Forrest J. Ackerman in a Brasov library and recruits him as a "vampire expert." Together these two save the luckless Zoltan from yet another bunch of curmudgeonly peasants. Solo describes the man who called off the werewolves. Ackerman reckons he sounds very much like the Voivode Tsepesh Stobolzny - but that can't be unless he's lived to reach 500 years of age! As you've maybe guessed, the vampire panic has been engineered by T.H.R.U.S.H. to scare the villagers away from their secret HQ, but still the doubts remain. Where did that mysterious Voivode disappear to, and who feasted on the blood of Carl Endros and fellow victims? When the agents return to the airport they find a strange note pinned to their car .... (Tarted up - not so's you'd notice - from Vault MK I)
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Post by ripper on Jun 14, 2013 17:14:26 GMT
Dem, I think you're right about a similar thread being on Vault Mk 1. There was a US children's series that the BBC used to show as late as the early 70s, but made in the late 50s or early 60s I would imagine and possibly with Alan Hale Jr. Can't remember the title but it was set in a house and various games/stories would be told. In one episode the house in which the programme was set was haunted by a ghost which would open doors and windows and run past Hale--if it was Hale. That particular episode scared me to death when I was a nipper.
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Post by dem bones on Jun 15, 2013 18:11:32 GMT
Dem, I think you're right about a similar thread being on Vault Mk 1. Here we are; Carry On Screaming" moments from nearly EIGHT YEARS ago. It's ... rudimentary. Gilligan's Islad: Up A Bat. Gilligan is bitten by bat, dreams he's a Transylvanian Count feasting on the blood of his fellow stowaways. And Then There Were None. As his colleagues vanish one by one, Gilligan dreams he's Dr. Jekyll, standing trial for a murder committed by his sadistic other self. The Bionic Woman: The Ghost Hunter. Girl with telekinetic abilities is haunted by dead mother. Big-hearted Jaime, fresh from tackling Bigfoot, becomes low-budget Carrie's new governess. Quantum Leap: Blood Moon. Sam time travels back to 1975 and the body of an artist who may or may not be willing to sacrifice wife in ritual to resurrect Countess Bathory. Murder She Wrote again. The Legacy Of Borbey House. Jessica Fletcher interferes when tragic 'vampire-hunter' is accused of murdering 'vampire.' Guest star's Roy Doltrice as the Van Helsing casualty.
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Post by ripper on Jun 16, 2013 9:42:38 GMT
I remember the McCloud episode when he met Dracula and vaguely the Bionic Woman one as well. I don't think I have ever seen any of the Gilligan's Island episodes. Just a thought, but I wonder if Banacek ever came up against anything purporting to be supernatural, though given that show's formula it would no doubt turn out to be faked.
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Post by dem bones on Jun 16, 2013 17:54:37 GMT
A brilliant resource for this kind of thing is Haunted TV, "a comprehensive database of British-made supernatural television Drama, Comedy and Documentaries from 1936 to the present day." Don't know about Banacek but, from their 1980-89 listing, it seems that, long before his arrival in cowshit country triggered a murder epidemic, John Nettles had already investigated supernatural phenomena as DS Jim Bergerac.
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Jun 18, 2013 16:35:31 GMT
The Six Million Dollar Man: The Secret of Bigfoot Steve Awesome versus Sasquatch, although they soon patch up their differences and team up versus smarmy extraterrestrials who think their civilization is better than ours. When I was five or six, I thought this was the best thing ever.
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Post by dem bones on Jun 18, 2013 18:53:22 GMT
The Six Million Dollar Man: The Secret of Bigfoot Steve Awesome versus Sasquatch, although they soon patch up their differences and team up versus smarmy extraterrestrials who think their civilization is better than ours. When I was five or six, I thought this was the best thing ever. Was trying to compile a Top Ten for Paperback Fanatic, gave up when I couldn't bring myself to drop Mike Khan's masterpiece of novelisation from the list (true). Not quite in the same league as friend Codex's startling Waltons vs. Poltergeist revelations, but ITV3 are re-running Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman just now. If the episode i sampled is typical, it's set in 1870's Colorado and concerns a glam Florence Nightingale dispensing pills, homilies, and niceness to a bunch of humble settlers with Stadium Rock hair sculptures. Anyway, Halloween allegedly features catalepsy, witchcraft allegations and a genuine ghost, while Halloween II, built around a Frankenstein theme, sounds so nauseating as to be unmissable. Let's hope ITV do the decent thing by us and bump them both up the schedule.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Jun 19, 2013 9:30:30 GMT
There was an episode of Cannon where the obese private detective Frank Cannon (played by the obese William Conrad) investigated what turned out to be a fake UFO sighting. However, at the very end of the story, an unexplained therefore real UFO was detected. That's all I can remember about it and an quick internet search has come up zero.
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Post by andydecker on Jun 19, 2013 16:29:37 GMT
There was an ep from Miami Vice called Missing Hours about an UFO. Written by sf writer Tom Disch. Terrible Vice ep, but it was like a blueprint for the later X-Files.
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