A collection of podcasts exploring the culture in pop culture. Our shows range from the general (flagship show The Chronic Rift) to the specific (The Batcave Podcast). We look at literature (Dead Kitchen Radio), movies (The Weekly Podioplex), family (Generations Geek), gaming (The Cardboard Jungle), and more.
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Episode 16, The Smaug Report
Science fiction writer Scott Pearson (Star Trek Myriad Universes: Shattered Light) and his daughter talk about The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug with fellow Chronic Rift Network podcaster Kevin Lauderdale (It Has Come to My Attention) and his daughter Elizabeth—it’s Generations Geek squared! Double-length episode.
Segments
Intro :30
Part 1 and 2 Double Feature 1:00
Part 1 vs. Part 2 3:30
Where’s Bilbo? 6:20
The Book vs. the Movie vs. the LOTR movies 10:18
Tauriel and the Love Triangle 10:58
Rushing Through Middle-earth 13:48
3D and High Frame Rate 15:00
Bard and the Master of Laketown 22:13
Connections in Middle-earth 24:25
Too Many Movies? 25:30
The Hobbit is Supposed to be First 28:25
The Hobbit Animated 30:30
Bree in The Hobbit? 32:50
Geek Culture Popularity 34:34
The Accessibility of CGI vs. Old Movies 37:00
Chased by Orcs Over and Over Again 40:25
Favorite Scenes 44:24
Least Favorite Scenes 47:33
What Will Happen in Part 3? 50:55
Benedict Cumberbatch, Smaug, and Sauron 52:07
Excited About Part 3? 55:25
Kili and Erebor 58:00
Legolas and Tauriel 58:41
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You know? Scott really needs to get Joe the Cook to fix that broken window in the kitchen. You never know what might creep into the Diner in its off hours.
In this special episode, we don’t go to “a galaxy far, far away,” nor do we explore “the final frontier.” Instead we go to the “dawn of the third age of mankind,” just in time for the 20th anniversary of one of the most important shows in SciFi history.
"This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations. The year is Christmas, 2013. The name of the place is Babylon 5…"
If you want to learn more on the show, the definitive source would be The Lurker’s Guide at http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/. This is one of the world’s oldest fan sites, going back at least to 1993.
To reach Raul from www.thechristiangeek.net, you can email him at raul@thechristiangeek.net or Tweet him at @rytechgeek. He can also be found on Facebook as Raul Ybarra.
You can em–mail Jim at arrowood@gmail.com and also find him at Jim’s SciFi blog, http://jimsscifi.blogspot.com. He is also on Facebook and can be Tweeted at @JimArrowood2.
Babylon 5 is an American space opera television series created by writer and producer J. Michael Straczynski, under the Babylonian Productions label, in association with Straczynski’s Synthetic Worlds Ltd. and Warner Bros. Domestic Television. After the successful airing of a backdoor pilot movie, Warner Bros. commissioned the series as part of the second-year schedule of programs provided by its Prime Time Entertainment Network (PTEN). The pilot episode was broadcast on February 22, 1993 in the US. The first season premiered in the US on January 26, 1994, and ran for the intended five seasons. Describing it as having “always been conceived as, fundamentally, a five-year story, a novel for television,” Straczynski wrote 92 of the 110 episodes, and served as executive producer, along with Douglas Netter.
Set between the years 2258 and 2281, it depicts a future where Earth has sovereign states, and a unifying Earthgov. Colonies within the solar system, and beyond, make up the Earth Alliance, and contact has been made with other spacefaring races. The ensemble cast portray alien ambassadorial staff and humans assigned to the five-mile-long Babylon 5 space station, a centre for trade and diplomacy. Described as “one of the most complex programs on television,” the various story arcs drew upon the prophesies, religious zealotry, racial tensions, social pressures, and political rivalries which existed within each of their cultures, to create a contextual framework for the motivations and consequences of the protagonists’ actions. With a strong emphasis on character development set against a backdrop of conflicting ideologies on multiple levels, Straczynski wanted “to take an adult approach to SF, and attempt to do for television SF what Hill Street Blues did for cop shows.”
Generally viewed as having “launched the new era of television CGI visual effects,” it received multiple awards during its initial run, including two consecutive Hugo Awards for best dramatic presentation, and continues to regularly feature prominently in various polls and listings highlighting top-rated science fiction series. Not appearing on American television since 2003, it continues to be shown in international markets such as Fox in the UK, the TV4-ScifFi Channel in Sweden, and the FBC TV channel in Fiji. Initially written by Straczynski, DC began publishing Babylon 5 comics in 1994, with stories that closely tied in with events depicted in the show, with events in the comics eventually being referenced onscreen in the actual television series. The franchise continued to expand into short stories, RPG games, and novels, with the Technomage trilogy of books being the last to be published in 2001, shortly after the spin-off television series,Crusade, was cancelled.
All rights except for a possible movie are controlled by Warner (movie rights are retained by Straczynski).
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In a special holiday “Satellite” episode just in time for Christmas Day, the G2V’s own Scott Alan Woodard presents a dramatic reading of his story “All Snug in Their Beds” originally published in the 2007 DOCTOR WHO anthology published by Big Finish, SHORT TRIPS: THE GHOSTS OF CHRISTMAS!
Featuring music by Matt Jessop, Rat Soufflé, and Singing Bell.
From Scott: “Despite a few ropey impressions and accents, I think it came out rather well considering I did it all in one night (a bit like the antics of that portly, red suited gentleman). I hope you all enjoy it and thanks again for supporting The G2V Podcast!”
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Keith recorded a special holiday episode of Dead Kitchen Radio in which he does a reading of one of his favorite holiday works, Dylan Thomas's "A Child's Christmas in Wales."
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Twas the night before Christmas and all through the Lucky Shot studios, all was in readiness for the holiday coolios? It's best to leave the poetry to the experts. But the podcasting you can leave to John and the Rift Network. It's Christmas once again and John sits down to take a moment to breathe and reflect on the year passed. There's the annual reading of "Twas the Night Before Christmas" and some holiday music to make your day merry and bright. And to all a good night. (See, we can rhyme if we want to, we can leave your friends behind.)
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The Hobbit takes continues to dominate the box office, but 'tis the season for movie releases that offer a challenge for the top box office slot. There are only a few DVD releases for those last minute Christmas shoppers, but Chronic Rift showrunner, John S. Drew offers a movie suggestion for the holiday season - Scrooged. All this and more on a Christmasy Weekly Podioplex.
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Ronni and Hicks find there are stranger things in the woods than the walking dead. An abandoned helicopter provides clues to the scope and scale of the zombie uprising. Gray and Derrik face a dark future wounded and under siege. The United Nations finds itself under fire from an unexpected source.
The cast features Keith R A DeCandido as Todd Rage, Stacy Dooks as Gray, D J Breau as Derrik, Lee Sandsas Dogberry, Mark Zaricor as Joe, Rebecca Rinas as Ronni, Ryan Smith as Hicks D T Kelly as Helms, Ayoub Khoteas McInnes, and Michael Stokes as Grant.
HG World is produced by 3015 North Studios. Written and produced by Jay Smith with production assistance by Martha Linbo-Terhaar Carole Stokes, Michael Stokes and Pam Smith. www.goodmorningsurvivors.com
Sound effects courtesy of www.freesound.org. Jonathan Coulton appears courtesy of the Creative Commons license. Please visit him and his goodness at www.jonathancoulton.com. For more about HG World, visit www.goodmorningsurvivors.com.
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Guest host Kevin Lauderdale (It Has Come to My Attention, Mighty Movie's Temple of Bad) brings to your attention an assortment of old time radio Christmas comedy, commercials, and songs.
Episode Extracts, December 21, 2013
7:38 "The Jack Benny Show", Armed Forced Radio and Television Service special, December 1957
34:25 Don Wilson Jell-O ad, "The Jack Benny Show", December 17, 1939
35:26 Rexall ad, "The Phil Harris / Alice Faye Show", December 19, 1948
36:28 "The Bob Hope Show", Armed Forced Radio and Television Service special, December 1957
51:17 Bing Crosby Chesterfield cigarettes ad, "The Bing Crosby Show", December 20, 1950
53:35 Bing Crosby war-time rationing PSA, "The Kraft Music Hall (The Bing Crosby Show)", December 16, 1943
54:45 "The Jack Benny Show", December 20, 1953
1:01:47 Phil Harris sings "Jingle Bells", "The Phil Harris / Alice Faye Show", December 19, 1948
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We’re gonna put a SPELL on you with a look at the astonishing antics ofAMERICAN HORROR STORY: COVEN! Scott and Arnold discuss the diabolical deeds of the first nine episodes, the heart- and head-stopping mid-season finale (SPOILER WARNING: the guys talk about everything up to and including that episode), and what might be in store for us as we reach the final four (only four, say it isn’t so!) episodes in January. If you’re a horror fan and you aren’t already following this series, you NEED to be watching this show!
ALSO: Scott and Arnold suggest some really last-minute holiday gift ideas!
The Hobbit takes the top spot at the box office, but there are a number of major releases opening this weekend to offer strong competition. Plus, there are a number of TV on DVD releases as well. In addition, Dan Persons of the Cinefantastique Podcast joins in the fun by explaining why It's a Wonderful Life is a wonderful holiday film.
Welcome to the SciFi Rewind: Star Wars Holiday Special!
We are sorry to put you through this, but in this episode we are rewinding the infamous Star Wars: Holiday Special complete with commercials... Hear us dissect the TV Special, share trivia, groans many times, and go on tangents. Happy Holidays to you!
Dirk Maggs is renowned for his numerous audio dramas with such credits as Superman: Doomsday, Spider-Man, Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to his credit. Jay Smith (HG World) got the opportunity to sit down and talk with Maggs via Skype over a year ago. Jay offered the interview to The Chronic Rift and it's an excellent discussion on audio drama production today, the good and the bad. We want to thank Jay for sharing this interview with us and for hosting this episode.
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Dirk Maggs' BBC Career included stints as a producer in BBC Television and a Senior Producer in BBC Radio Light Entertainment. He has won national and international awards including Sonys, Talkies and Audies. Dirk was among the first ever nominees for the Directors Guild Award for Outstanding Achievement in his field.
Dirk was responsible for writing and directing the hugely successful 2003-5 radio renaissance of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - its late author Douglas Adams having specifically asked him to produce the conclusion to the saga in its original medium. In 2012 Dirk adapted the entire five-novel Hitchhiker’s epic into a stage show featuring the original cast which delighted thousands of theatregoers.
In Spring 2013 Dirkadapted, co-directed (with Heather Larmour) and sound designed Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere for BBC Radio 4/4 Extra, a critically acclaimed production with an all-star cast including Benedict Cumberbatch and James McAvoy.
Dirk's Television work includes Bob The Builder and The Animated Mr Bean, in Film The Magic Roundabout Movie. For BBC Radio, Dirk created epic 'audio movies' featuring Superman, Batman, Spider-Man and Judge Dredd.
Dirk's Voice Directing for Games has included Revolution Software's Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon and Broken Sword: The Angel Of Death.
Dirk has directed many outstanding artists, including James McAvoy, Benedict Cumberbatch, Christopher Lee, Leslie Nielsen, Christian Slater, Rowan Atkinson, Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Joanna Lumley, Jonathan Pryce, Juliet Stevenson, Jim Broadbent, Maureen Lipman, Johnny Vegas, Ricky Tomlinson, Harry Enfield, Jim Carter, Steve Coogan, Alison Steadman and Spike Milligan.
Dirk has been elected an Honorary Fellow of the University of Winchester for his work in the dramatic arts and is a Guest Lecturer at the Universities of Westminster, Bournemouth and Winchester. He has also been involved with creative Native American projects at Native Voices at the Autry Center in Los Angeles, California and Native American Public Television in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Disney rules the roost at the box office, but will it be a short-lived victory as there is a new installment of The Hobbit trilogy premiering this weekend. Plus, there's plenty of TV on DVD releases this week, including "The Day of the Doctor" Doctor Who 50th anniversary special.
Steve is injured on a mission and in need of bionic surgery. While recovering he spots a woman who looks like Jaime. But Jaime's dead. Steve watched her die on the operating table. What kind of sick game is Oscar and Rudy playing on him?!?
The good news - Jaime is alive.
The bad news - Jaime doesn't remember Steve or any part of her life before she came back to life.
To make matters worse, the young doctor who came up with the revolutionary technique that allowed Rudy and his team to save Jaime is falling for her and she for him. Can Steve keep it all together and finally be reunited with his childhood sweetheart?
TO BE CONTINUED...
Stay tuned as part two of this look at the third season premiere of The Six Million Dollar Man will be released in less than two weeks.
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James Sherrard is a first generation fan of The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman.A collector of all things Bionic as a child, his interest in the shows was reignited when the first Bionic reunion movie was produced in 1987.The following year he met stars Lindsay Wagner and Richard Anderson for the first time through Lindsay Wagner’s Official Fan Club.In 1998, James reworked the Bionic Woman episode guide booklet that he had produced for the club into The Bionic Woman Files website…the longest running Bionic Woman site on the web!Over the years, James has contributed his Bionic knowledge to various books, articles, websites, and television productions.He has also amassed an amazing collection of Bionic memorabilia, from common toys to one-of-a-kind production items.Most recently, James has contributed to the 2010 DVD releases of The Bionic Woman Season One and The Six Million Dollar Man: The Complete Collection.James resides in New York where he is employed by a non-profit organization.
From Betsy Dodd's page:
Growing up in a one-TV household, I had 3 brothers who surrounded me in age—who often teased me for being a “sissy”—and who usually controlled the voting majority for which channel to watch. Back in the 70s, our whirling TV dial was pretty much destroyed because we fought over it so often. One night while the substitute pliers were pointed to their choice of The Six Million Dollar Man(again), suddenly there was OMG ...cue angelic chorus... Jaime Sommers, the world’s first Bionic Woman. Yes!!! Score one for us sissies! I was totally hooked. And the love story between Jaime and Steve was the best. Ever. But then they killed her the following week.
Why did I idolize Jaime Sommers so much? Just as the final season was being released on DVD in the fall of 2011, I stumbled onto some internet bionic fan forums and started posting these offbeat episode reviews. I’m not sure, but when some members encouraged me to go start my own blog, I think it may have been the equivalent of being politely shunned by the Bionic Amish community— puritans of the franchise. (Really, I’m kidding. They’re all fun people and super nice. And they even let me use electricity to sign onto the internet.) Once about ten years ago, I belonged to an online fan “cult” that was framed in a similar style of farcical humor about The X-Files, so to me, this is all a completely normal approach to a television drama.
These days, I am a freelance copywriter, graphic designer and video editor living in Tennessee. No, I am not a blonde, but I am threatening to become one soon if these little gray hairs don’t stop surfacing. I must confess I also did not actually keep a diary in the 70s, but wish now that I had, so I could remember the real reason why I missed so many episodes of my favorite 70s show. For now, I’m blaming my brothers. For everything.
Clay and Debby are back in the car and on the road again. This time around, they talk about Wurstfest, a ten day celebration of all things sausage in Texas. (There's such a great joke there, but we'll be good.) Listen in as they share their experiences at the best Wurstfest ever.
Ah, the romance of the outlaw -- dashing and fearless, living a life of danger and adventure. Except when they're greedy sociopaths leaving a trail of corpses in their wake.
NARCO CULTURA looks into the world of the Mexican drug cartels and how it has spawned a culture that romanticizes and celebrates the bloody exploits of the men behind it. Photojournalist and filmmaker Shaul Schwarz -- leveraging his experience working in such conflict zones as Haiti and the Gaza Strip -- focuses in both on the real-life horror witnessed by Richi Soto, a crime scene investigator in Juarez, Mexico, who has to deal with the terror, corruption, and intimidation spawned by the cartels, and on the cultural impact via the viewpoint of Edgar Quintero, a Los Angeles narcocorrido songwriter and singer, who's acquiring a growing fandom for his odes celebrating the cartels' violent lifestyle.
I was able to sit down with Schwarz for an in-depth glimpse into the motivations for this project and risks encountered in actually bringing it to the screen. Click on the player to hear the show.
WEBSITE LINK: http://narcoculture.com/
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We continue our series of recorded panels from this year's Dragon Con with one that Keith participated in. From the American Sci-Fi Classics track, this panel took a look at the genre movies and television of 1983. If you would like to learn more about Dragon Con, check out the link below in these show notes.
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As part of the 50th anniversary celebration of Doctor Who, Keith weighs in with one of his contributions to the Time Lord's universe in the form of prose. He reads from Decalog 3, a short story collection from Virgin publishing that also features a story from current show runner, Steven Moffat. Keith's story is "UNITed we Stand".
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Tonight’s Diners: Scott,Miles, M, Dayton, and John
Welcome to the Diner
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The Gatecast
Trekcast Podcast
Cyborgs: A Bionic Podcast
Welcome to our Holiday Special!
We are counting down our top Christmas gifts.... so if you have some extra cash...well, hey, we'd love to help you out with that. Especially Dayton. He's always hustling for cash.....he'll do anything. I mean ANYTHING...even come on the SciFi Diner podcast....
Dayton's List:
1. Officially licensed street legal 1966 Batmobile
2. Death Star wall blocks
3. Larry Nemecek's "Stellar Cartography"
4. Original Art Edition of Heavy Metal
5. Star Wars Original Trilogy Score
John's List:
1. Original Voyager Console Prop w/Okudagram included
2. Firefly The Game
3. Enterprise Ring Ship Hand-Made Artisan Replica
4. Quantum Mechanix Star Trek TNG Communicator Pin
5. Star Trek The Next Generation Season 5 on Blu Ray
M's List:
1. Rogan
2. 3D Printer for Fashion
3. Stovetop Vacuum Coffee Maker
4. Livescribe 3 Smartpen Standard Edition for Tablets and Smartphones
5. PS4
Mile's List:
1. A New Kindle
2. The Ladies of Firefly poster set from Think Geek
3. Amazon Gift Cards
4. Star Trek The Next Generation pajama set
5. Star Trek Into Darkness on Blu Ray (From Target)
The Hunger Games satisfied more hungry movie goers this past Thanksgiving weekend making it once again, the number one movie at the box office. It's another lean week for movie and DVD releases, plus there's only one real news item that dominated Hollywood this week. Michael Falkner has it all on an all new The Weekly Podioplex.
We're gearing up to review the third season of The Six Million Dollar Man and the first season of The Bionic Woman. But before we do that, we need to take one last look at the second season of Six Mill. John and Paul sit down to look back at their reviews of the past season. They talk about how their views on certain episodes changed and discuss some things they realized after recording certain episodes. In addition, they review the special features of the second season DVD release, discuss listener feedback, present a new Bionic Impression Theater, and give you an example of when they have to deal with "Skype Hell." It's all there and more on this Declassified episode.
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In this special “Satellite” interview episode, The G2V Guys welcome Paul and Storm, the musical comedy duo that has taken the geek world by storm (ha, because one of them is…never mind…) and cast a Paul across the fan universe (because the other one…but that doesn’t even mean the right thing, so…forget it…)! Anyway, they’re awesome, they’re funny, they’ve opened for Jonathan (PORTAL, PORTAL 2, LEFT 4 DEAD 2) Coulton, they’ve worked with the likes of Wil Wheaton and Neil Gaiman, George R.R. Martin smashed their guitar (he had a reason, see below in the show links), Paul’s dogs only threaten to end the episode prematurely (but they MUST be obeyed), and they’re drumming up support via Kickstarter for their fifth album, BALL PIT!
Science fiction writer Scott Pearson (Star Trek Myriad Universes: Shattered Light) and his daughter talk about Gravity with astronaut Thomas D. Jones to learn what the movie got right and wrong about working in orbit. Plus, an afterword on the Doctor Who fiftieth anniversary special, “The Day of the Doctor,” in 3-D. Double-length episode!
Segments
Intro :30
A Little About Gravity1:00
The Other Side of Gravity: The Short Film “Aningaaq” 4:00
The Thomas D. Jones Interview: Gravity vs. Reality 6:10
“The Day of the Doctor” 44:00
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The Zombie uprising reaches Wishwell, PA as Hicks and Ronni try to make their way into downtown Wishwell while Gray tries to escape town with Caitlin. Unfortunately for both parties, the way is blocked by the flesh-eating undead remains of the townfolk.
The Cast: Keith R A DeCandido as Todd Rage, Stacy Dooks as Gray, M Sieiro Garcia as Caitlin, D J Breau as Derrik, Mark Zaricor as Deputy Dale, Ginny Swann as Colleen, Rebecca Rinas as Ronni, Ryan Smith as Hicks, D T Kelly as Neighbor. With Eugie Foster, Tracy Evans, Mike Stokes and Cheryl Malcom.
HG World is produced by 3015 North Studios. This episode was written and directed by Jay Smith with production assistance by Martha Linbo-Terhaar, Carole Stokes, Michael Stokes, and Pam Smith.
Sound effects courtesy of www.freesound.org. Jonathan Coulton appears courtesy of the Creative Commons license. Please visit him and his goodness at www.jonathancoulton.com. For more about HG World, visit www.goodmorningsurvivors.com.
On this listener feedback show, listeners discuss the following: The Superman Blu-ray, Marvel: Agents of S.H.I,E.L.D., Atlantis, Doctor Who's 50th Anniversary Special, Ender's Game, Thor: The Dark World, Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Almost Human, and more.
Be sure to check out Lola Lariscy's book Trudie Lem: Spaceship Captain, Earth Detective. It's about one heck of a crazy, contrary and just plain foul spaceship captain and her co-pilot/minder, Aurora.
In Part 2 of our celebration of DOCTOR WHO‘s 50th anniversary, we take a look at the big events of the weekend itself, from the airing of the special adventure “The Day of the Doctor” to AN ADVENTURE IN SPACE AND TIME, the Mark Gatiss-scripted drama that takes a nostalgic look back at the beginning of it all. Scott and Arnold discuss the celebration of a television institution, focus on the many “beautiful” touches that made it such an unbridled joy, and also provide some feedback on Big Finish’s own 50th anniversary special, “The Light at the End,” and the classic Doctor romp, “The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot!” Also, check the show links below for some of the many ways that Scott and Arnold seemed to take over the Internet on the 50th anniversary weekend!
SPECIAL NOTE: This episode features a remix of the DOCTOR WHO theme by “Gwylock1″!
The 20th anniversary DOCTOR WHO TECHNICAL MANUAL published in 1983
CONTEST TIME! Listeners (or readers of this very post) can win a copy of the 1983 DOCTOR WHO TECHNICAL MANUAL simply by writing in to the podcast e-mail address with your tale about how you first discovered the Doctor! Get in touch, share your story, and we’ll not only share some of them in the next episode but choose one to receive this special 20th anniversary collectible!
It's a lean week in terms of DVD releases, but that doesn't mean there isn't a jam-packed episode of The Weekly Podioplex. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire took the number one spot at the box office this past weekend and earned the distinction of being the highest opening weekened movie of November ever. Plus, there is news of Marvel properties and a Tolkien biopic in the works. Michael Falkner has it all for a Happy Thanksgiving.
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the British science fiction television series, Doctor Who. While most modern day fans have become so thanks to the reboot of the series in 2005, there are a legion of fans who love all the incarnations of the Doctor, including his first. In celebration of the anniversary, the Spotlight series will take a monthly look at each of the Doctors. We begin where it all began in a little salvage yard on Totters Lane with two teachers attempting to find out the secret of their unusual student. There, they meet the grandfather of the girl, a doctor, played by William Hartnell. He whisk them away through time and space in a time machine in the shape of a British police box. And thus the 50 year adventure begins. John sits down with The G2V Podcast's Arnold T. Blumburg and Scott Alan Woodard to discuss the man and his legacy to the series. They offer suggestions on episodes to watch and also look at how this first incarnation of the Doctor took some time and development to become the Doctor that everyone knows and loves today.
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From Wikipedia:
Hartnell's performance in This Sporting Life was noted by Verity Lambert, the producer who was setting up a new science-fiction television series for the BBC, Doctor Who. Lambert offered him the title role. Although Hartnell was initially uncertain about accepting a part in what was pitched to him as a children's series, in part due to his success in films[9], Lambert and director Waris Hussein convinced him to take the part, and it became the character for which he gained the highest profile and is now most remembered. Hartnell later revealed that he took the role because it led him away from the gruff, military parts in which he had become typecast, and, having two grandchildren of his own, he came to relish particularly the attention and affection that playing the character brought him from children.
Doctor Who earned Hartnell a regular salary of £315 per episode by 1966 (in the era of 48 weeks per year production on the series), equivalent to £4,050 a week in modern terms.Throughout his tenure as the Doctor, William Hartnell wore a wig when playing the part, as the character had long hair.
Hartnell's deteriorating health (he suffered from arteriosclerosis, which began to affect his ability to say his lines), as well as poor relations with the new production team on the series after the departure of Verity Lambert, ultimately led him to leave Doctor Who in 1966.
When he left Doctor Who, the producer of the show came up with a unique idea: since the Doctor is an alien, he can transform himself physically, thereby renewing himself. William Hartnell himself suggested that Patrick Troughton should be cast as the new Doctor, stating that "There's only one man in England who can take over, and that's Patrick Troughton". In the fourth episode of the serial The Tenth Planet, the First Doctor regenerated into Troughton's Second Doctor.
Mighty Movie Podcast host Dan Persons joins the Rift crew while Krissy is out at a convention. He fills us in on his Kickstarter campaign to develop a video interview series for Cinefantastique Online. In addition, we cover NaNoWriMo, Gravity, the new fall TV season, the next Star Wars movie, and the rock star status of Neil deGrasse Tyson and Michio Kaku. Download the episode, take a listen, and chime in with your thoughts on what we discussed here.
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Interview: SciFi Diner Podcast Ep. 189 - Our Interview with Greg Evigan (TekWar, BJ and the Bear, and The Six Million Dollar Man )
Trivia: New Trivia this week! Win Neil Grayston
TV News: Here's not one, not two, but THREE trailers for The Day of the Doctor, Almost Human premieres
Movie News: Watch RoboCop take out a room full of drones in ass-kicking new trailer, Rumored Scarlet Witch actress confirms she IS in Avengers 2: Age of Ultron, Mark your calendar: Star Wars Episode VII release date officially confirmed!
TWIST: IDW Publishing's Latest Star Trek Comics
SciFi 5 in 5: Top 5 SciFi books M should read, but just can't get through; the top 5 books she pushed through and loved.
Trivia:
Trivia this week! Who said this quote and from what movie?
Question: "Does thinking you're the last sane man on earth make you crazy? Because if it does, maybe I am."
Prize: A signed Neil Grayston print
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Jim's SciFi Blog
Trek News and Views
Greg Evigan
Currently Greg has just completed 22 episodes of a new situation comedy called "Big Sound." "Big Sound" is a management firm in which Greg's character Bill Sutton, takes on the nerve-racking responsibility of handling clients in the music business. The satirical humor of the show is derived from the fanatical, opulent, and often eccentric behavior of artists, agents, lawyers, publicists, etc., surrounding the clients and the business.
After completing the episodes of "Big Sound" Greg went back to Los Angeles but only for a short stop before he traveled back up to Saskatooon, Canada to perform a role in the independent feature, "Sweet Revenge" AKA Die! Die! Die! (The USA Video title)
Straight from that project Greg was offered the role of a high school teacher who is raising a daughter on his own after the untimely death of his wife. Dealing with the high spirits of his daughter losing her mother and blaming herself, Greg's character has to deal with the "Spirit" that has been living in their home.
Greg is now waiting to hear if a network for series production will pick up a two-hour movie that he filmed in Toronto, June of 2001. The name of the show is "Isabelle Rocks." Greg's character "Steve" is a private investigator who gets roped into precarious situations when he lets his feelings for Isabelle overrun his better judgement. A romantic comedy for the producer Fred Silverman could have a shot for a mid-season replacement.
Last on the work list so far this year is "Reba," where Greg is "Bill the Plumber." This could be a reoccurring role for the show, which is on the WB Network on Friday nights.
Greg is an actor, singer, song writer and musician, known around the world best from his character portrayals of B.J. McKay on the hit television series "B.J. and the Bear"and Joey Harris in "My Two Dads." Although Greg has been successful in both drama and comedy, he actually started out his career in music, performing in local Jersey Bands.
At age 17, he got his first job as a singer in the original Broadway production of "Jesus Christ Superstar." Two years later he continued his stay on the Broadway stage in the leading role of Danny Zuko in the original production of "Grease".
After two back to back hit shows on Broadway, it was music and television producer Don Kirschner who brought Greg to California to meet Norman Lear. (Producer of "All In the Family") The show was called "A Year At The Top" In which Greg co-stared and recorded an album with Paul Shaffer, the notorious bandleader of "Late Night with David Letterman." Greg and Paul Shaffer supplied original music for the show. They were signed to "Casablanca Records" and recorded an album together as none other than,"Greg & Paul."
Greg has also sung the theme songs for many of the TV series that he has appeared in, such as the B.J. & The Bear theme. He co-wrote and sang the theme for the hit series "My Two Dads," called "You Can Count On Me." Greg again sang a duet with Sheryl Crowe for the series theme song for "P.S. I Luv U" in which he co-starred with Connie Selleca.
During the My Two Dads years, Evigan landed his first leading roles in feature films. He starred as Lieutenant Heinaman in "Stripped To Kill" a Roger Corman film with actress Kay Lenz; in the underwater adventure thriller, "Deep Star Six" as Kevin McBride, and in "Private Road" as Brad with actor George Kennedy. "Private Road" gave Greg his first crack at musical supervisor on a film.
An ABC movie of the week project titled "One Of Her Own" attracted critical attention for Greg in the role of Charlie Lloyd, a police officer who rapes his female rookie partner (Lori Loughlin). "He (Evigan) uses his former heartthrob twinkle to turn his cop-on-the-skids into a devilish, misogynistic knucklehead. Evigan's Lloyd is a torturous presence," said Adam Sandler of Daily Variety.
Other movies made for television include "Lies Before Kisses," with Jacqueline Smith;"The Lady Forgets" with Donna Mills; "Deadly Family Secrets" with Gigi Rice and"Colombo" with Peter Falk.
From 1993 to 1995, Greg completed four two-hour television movies based on William Shatner's novels, "TekWars." Set in the year 2034, Evigan starred as Jake Cardigan, an ex-cop-turned-private-eye detective. After the four two-hour movies, Greg went on to complete eighteen one-hour episodes of TekWar which debuted in January1994 for the USA Network.
The two-year residence in Canada enabled Evigan and his family to receive "Landed Immigrant Status," valuable for future projects as producer as well as actor.
Upon his return to Los Angeles Greg was approached to play a role in the Aaron Spelling series "Melrose Place" he accepted the role of Dan Hathaway. Greg completed 13 episodes of the show and Aaron Spelling immediately cast him in his new pilot presentation of "Pacific Palisades" which was sold to the Fox Network. In the thirteen shows that were produced Greg played Robert Russo, architect/adulterer whose business and marriage is on the rocks.
Some of the other more recent projects Greg has starred in were the ABC movie "Nobody Lives Forever." Greg's character, Rick Barrish is caught in a love/murder triangle with his female cop partner and a long-lost girl friend (co-staring Brenda Bakke and Kevin Dobson).
Also aired in the spring of '99, a UPN Made for television movie called "Survivor".
A reoccurring role on the hit NBC series "Veronica's Closet" with Kirsti Alley. Greg once shared the spotlight with Kirsti on a Series that never really got off the ground for more than 13 episodes in the mid-eighties called "Masquerade."
The movie for the Fox Family Channel called "Earth Quake in New York" was shot in Toronto. Suffering the loss of their youngest son in the big quake of '94 in Los Angeles, Greg's character John Rykker moves his family back to New York. Trying to escape the threat, as well as the memories of that horrible experience only to be faced with more of the same when a magnitude 8.2 hits New York City.
During the sweeps week in spring of '99 six episodes of "Family Rules" a UPN/ Jim Hensen production was aired. In this comedy series Greg's character Nate Harrison is a college basketball coach who is raising four daughters on his own.
An independent feature film "The Pawn." Greg stars as Ray Harland a New York cop who is lured back to his home town by his father and brother to help them flush out the Russian Mafia, only to find that his own family is in on the take. Co-starring with actors, Sydney Penny, Tony Lo Bianco and Robert Stewart. The film was released to video by Aurora, under the Action Thriller category.
Greg has also finished an independent film called "Mel" co-staring with Ernest Borgnine and Julie Hagerty. The film has aired on HBO and is available through, North by Northwest Entertainment.
Evigan has produced and sang on his "pop" album, "Slow Down" featuring ten of his original songs now available to you through this web site.
He plays the piano, drums, and saxophone, and writes in a variety of different styles of music. He is now mixing a new CD, with more original pieces, recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios in London. The Modern Classical album features Evigan at the piano.
You can order Greg's first CD "Slow Down," by clicking here or on the CD icon on the left and sending a check or money order to the address listed. If you are using a credit card to order go to Amazon.com's "Slow Down" Purchase Page.
To keep up-to-date on Greg's career and upcoming shows; www.evigan.com
Thor 2 continues to dominate at the box office, but there is another franchise waiting in the wings to challenge the God of Thunder this coming weekend. In addition, there's new TV on DVD releases this week that include a classic Doctor Who title that is just in time to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the series. Plus, Kevin Bachelder of the Tuning in to Sci-Fi podcast stops by to offer his thoughts on a favorite movie, Night of the Comet, which is getting a Blu-ray release this week. There's all this and more, brought to you by Michael Falkner and The Weekly Podioplex.
Believe it or not, Scott and Arnold survived the zombie attacks featured in our previous episode…but just barely! This time around, our celebration of the 50th anniversary ofDOCTOR WHO begins with a look at fandom – how it not only supported the series during those dark “wilderness” years but how it also helped bring your G2V hosts together and allowed them both to contribute professionally to the universe of our favorite TV series! We focus on the fun, the fantasy, and the fandom with a look at our hero – the Doctor – on screen, in print, and on audio!
The comedy team of Etta Devine and Gabriel Diani already have a bit of notoriety attached to them: Their Kickstarter campaign for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Robotic Edition) — which proposed to publish an edition of the Mark Twain classic with all occurrences of the N-word replaced with the word “robot” — attracted no little attention and enough supporters to not only push them to their goal, but well beyond. With that success under their belt, they’ve embarked on a less unorthodox, but hopefully just as entertaining, Kickstarter campaign for a new end-of-the-world comedy, DIANI & DEVINE MEET THE APOCALYPSE. With a solid technical crew and a cast that includes DEEP SPACE NINE’s Armin Shimerman, BUFFY’s Harry Groener, and LEGEND OF KORRA’s Janet Varney, the project is already well-positioned to bring some mirth to unrestrained devastation, disease, and despair.
So since my sponsors for this ep are presently running a Kickstarter for their cool, RFID-blocking jacket, the Shield, and since I, myself, am running my own Kickstarter, I thought it would be worthwhile to reach out to Etta and Gabe to talk about the film, its inspirations and challenges, and also to get their thoughts on crowdfunding a creative project. Click on the player to hear the discussion.
Rejoice! You have something to be thankful for this Thanksgiving holiday season. Clay and Debby are back with an all new episode. In it, they're in the car again (a surprisingly useful studio space) and talking about Thanksgiving. There are preparations to be made in terms of menu, family expectations, and finally Black Friday shopping. Can Debby get a word in edgewise with the ADD prone Clay?
Dragnet returns to Presenting the Transcription Feature as Jack Webb once again patrols the streets of Los Angeles in a quest for law and order. This week, Joe Friday looks into the beating of a woman who has recently joined "The Big Church". In addition, there are episodes of The Adventures of Superman and The Avengers.
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November 2, 2013 0:29 - Whispers RadioPromo 4:34 - The Adventures of Superman - "Pillar of Fire at Graves End", part 2 - August 7, 1940 17:59 - Dragnet - "Daddy's Girl" - November 2, 1950 49:39 - The Avengers - "The Morning After", part 2
As we’ve previously noted, in the sixties, the revolution wasn’t televised, and film wasn’t always an accurate conduit for measuring the temper of the times. BLACKENSTEIN was meant to ride the then-burgeoning wave of (duh) blaxsploitation films, reaching out to African-American audiences with a story that provided all the elements of popular cinema, yet spoke to their condition with characters who could navigate the dangerous streets of urban America and weren’t afraid of taking the struggle to the Man. Instead, what triple-threat producer/writer/special effects artist Frank R. Saletri delivered was a tale that had little to do with the classic story of the doctor who tampered in God’s domain, but was brimming with bad science, wooden acting, and exceedingly bizarre music cues. Oh, well; at least the camerawork is ambitious.
The Temple of Bad team of Andrea Lipinski, Kevin Lauderdale, Orenthal V. Hawkins, and Dan Persons tuck their afro-picks in their back pockets and sit down to discuss this wayward attempt to knock off Sam Arkoff’s more successful (and arguably better) BLACULA. Their take-away: Not even the funniest talking-dog joke in the world could save this weird, incoherent mess from being the sole credit for most its participants.
In tonight’s show, listeners discuss the following: Almost Human, Peter Pan Begins, The Art versus the Artist (Ender's Game Versus Orson Scott Card), Thor, Witches of Eastwick, Supernatural, Sleepy Hollow, Walking Dead, Arrow, and more.
A rash of kidnappings appears to have Gotham City's Police Department stumped. All the victims appear to have one thing in common, they wear hats. That alone points to the machinations of The Mad Hatter. But what is his scheme? Why take the people as well as their hats? What do they have in common?
Joining John to figure out The Mad Hatter's scheme is life-long Batman fan, Linda-Ali Cruz.
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Linda-Ali Cruz is a self-proclaimed GeekGirl whose love of superheroes has inspired her to teach her sons to appreciate the fantastic, in particular, the Caped Crusader and his pantheon of villains.
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Ender's Game had a short run at the box office, having been knocked aside for Thor 2. The box office figures were very impressive and bode well for the holiday movie season. Michael Falkner's got the full story, plus new DVD releases and Disney news on this week's Weekly Podioplex.
Our Critical Assignment series takes a look at a panel on the 40th anniversary of the premiere of The Six Million Dollar Man on ABC. In this panel, John moderates with Cyborgs pal and bionic merchandising guru Matt Hankinson, RevCast host and DragonCon American Sci-Fi Classics Track moderator Gary Mitchel, and writer and Earth Station One Podcast host Bobby Nash, a discussion on the pilot movie, Lee Major's acting chops in the series, the merchandising of the series, plus a whole lot more. The panel took place at this year's DragonCon in Atlanta.
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This past August, John, Michael, and Keith attended Dragon Con in Atlanta, Georgia. For four days, the three participated in a series of panels with fans and pros alike. They recorded these panels and we present them to you as Roundtable episodes. We begin this year's panel collection with Michael Falkner. The Snack Counter: Medium or Large - The Genre Movies of 2013 was part of the American Science Fiction and Fantasy Track of programming at Dragon Con. In the panel, Michael and several others from various media outlets discussed the summer movie season of 2013, the good and the bad. If you would like to learn more about Dragon Con, check out the link below in these show notes.
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It's back to the border for John Sayles, who in films like LONE STAR has explored the distinctive tensions that brew in the towns that neighbor to Mexico. Now he's applying that worldview to the mystery thriller in GO FOR SISTERS, the story of a parole officer (LisaGay Hamilton) whose son may be in big trouble with human traffickers, and who, in order to track him down in Tijuana, recruits the help of a reformed drug addict (Yolanda Ross) and a not-so-reformed, and nearly blind, former LA cop (Edward James Olmos). Not exactly the kind of trip that they'll be tweeting snapshots from.
As expected, in our interview, Sayles demonstrates an intimate command of the issues that gives GO FOR SISTERS' thrills a real-world legitimacy. Meanwhile, Ross discusses what life is like on a Sayles indie project -- bottom line: look elsewhere for duplex dressing trailers. Click on the player to hear the show.
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The appeal of British science fiction television is examined in the Roundtable segment of this classic episode from 1993. In addition, the debate between comics creators Peter David and Todd McFarlane and other news is covered and Orenthal Hawkins discusses which is the better show on Sunday nights, SeaQuest or Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.
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Trivia: This episode was recorded at Science Fiction, Mysteries, & More, a bookstore in southern Manhattan. A number of episodes from this point on were recorded there as a cost cutting measure.
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Interview: Neil Grayston (Smallville and Eureka)
Trivia: New Trivia this week! Win Neil Grayston
TV News: The Walking Dead gets 'anti-climactic' S5 renewal (what else did you expect?); CBS ORDERS PILOT SCRIPT FOR CHARMED REBOOT; SHIELD is the biggest disappointment; Almost Human premiere date changed
Movie News: X Men: Days of Future Past Trailer; Captain America: The Winter Soldier trailer; Harrison Ford on the Ender's Game controversy
TWIST: Life After Trek Episode 25 Featuring Star Trek author Larry Nemecek; a documentary About Star Trek’s Original Orion Slave Girl, Susan Oliver, Being Developed
SciFi 5 in 5: Great Douglas Fargo quotes from Eureka
Trivia:
Trivia this week! Who said this quote and from what movie?
Question: "Does thinking you're the last sane man on earth make you crazy? Because if it does, maybe I am."
Neil Grayston began acting in high school in Port Moody, British Columbia. After graduation, he began his professional career by guest-starring on numerous Vancouver-shot television series, including the critically acclaimed teen series Edgemont Road.
Grayston played a recurring role as Alec, "the mouth-breather", on the series Wonderfalls. He was nominated for a Leo Award for his role as Martin, the stoic sous-chef, in the award-winning comedy series Godiva's. His guest-starring credits include turns on Smallville, The Dead Zone and Supernatural. He currently resides in New Westminster, British Columbia, with his girlfriend and several fish.
Ender's Game was number one at the box office this past weekend. The ticket sales weren't all that impressive. Can the God of Thunder knock the movie from its top spot when Thor 2 premeires this weekend? All this and more is brought to you by Michael Falkner on this week's Weekly Podioplex.
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In our final Halloween-themed installment for 2013, The G2V Podcast welcomes a special guest – an internationally recognized zombie expert that co-authored ZOMBIEMANIA: 80 MOVIES TO DIE FOR (with a revised edition titled ZOMBIEMANIA RISES: 100 MOVIES TO DIE FOR on the way, cataloguing about 1,000 films!), teaches a course at theUniversity of Baltimore called “Zombies in Popular Media,” contributed to volumes like TRIUMPH OF THE WALKING DEAD, BRAAAIIINNNSSS!: FROM ACADEMICS TO ZOMBIES, and THE UNDEAD AND THEOLOGY, and lectures on “Zombies: Monsters with Meaning” at symposia, conventions, and festivals. Who is it? None other than G2V co-host Arnold T. Blumberg!
Scott and Arnold look back at the history of zombies in pop culture, where they started, where they shambled (and occasionally ran) in the years that followed until they infected every medium and genre, and what this whole undying zombie craze might actually mean.
We also have a special contest this episode! Midnight Syndicate has graciously provided us with a copy of their phenomenal new album that pays tribute to the Universal and Hammer legacy, Monsters of Legend! We’re giving a copy away to the listener who can answer the following trivia question (also presented in the episode). E-mail, post on our Facebook page or in the comments below, send your answer through the post-apocalyptic wilderness, and if you get it right, the CD will be yours!
This movie was the first to introduce the idea that zombies specifically want to eat brains: A) Night of the Living Dead B) Dawn of the Dead C) Nightmare City D) The Return of the Living Dead E) Re-Animator
Good luck!
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The following introduction was intended for the premiere episode of HG World on The Chronic Rift Network. In it, creator Jay Smith and producer Stacy Dooks discuss the show and what listeners can expect in the months ahead. Stay tuned as episode two will premiere later this month.
Science fiction writer Scott Pearson (Star Trek Myriad Universes: Shattered Light) and his daughter present a spoiler-filled overview of many versions of Robin Hood in the movies and on TV, from the 1938 Errol Flynn movie The Adventures of Robin Hood to the 2006–2009 BBC television series Robin Hood, with many stops in between. Plus, a guest appearance from writer Una McCormack to vote for her favorite Robin. Double-length episode!
Segments
Intro :30
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) 1:10
Rabbit Hood (1949) 6:30
Personal Tales of Sherwood 7:50
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955–1959) 10:55
Robin Hood Daffy (1958) 17:40
Robin Hood (1973) 18:10
Robin of Sherwood (1984–1986) 19:10
Time Bandits (1981) plus the Three Robin Hoods of 1991 29:00
Robin Hood (2006–2009) 32:20
Robin Hood Round-up 41:25
Two Listener Faves 43:55
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The War of the Worlds is an episode of the American radio drama anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on October 30, 1938, and aired over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. Directed and narrated by actor and future filmmaker Orson Welles, the episode was an adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds(1898).
The first two thirds of the 62-minute broadcast were presented as a series of simulated news bulletins, which suggested to many listeners that an actual alien invasion by Martians was currently in progress. Compounding the issue was the fact that the Mercury Theatre on the Air was a sustaining show (it ran without commercial breaks), adding to the program's realism. Although there were sensationalist accounts in the press about a supposed panic in response to the broadcast, the precise extent of listener response has been debated.
In the days following the adaptation, however, there was widespread outrage and panic by certain listeners, who had believed the events described in the program were real. The program's news-bulletin format was described as cruelly deceptive by some newspapers and public figures, leading to an outcry against the perpetrators of the broadcast. Despite these complaints—or perhaps in part because of them—the episode secured Welles' fame as a dramatist.
To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the broadcast of this program, John shares the original broadcast as well as tells you about the BBC production of Independence Day UK, a tie-in audio drama to the blockbuster movie done in the style of The War of the World. Check out Kevin Lauderdale's more detailed look at the original production on his It Has Come to My Attention.
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In tonight’s show, listeners discuss the following: Star Trek Continues, Star Trek Phase II, a potential Ant Man movie, Gravity, Marvel: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Walking Dead, Witches of Eastwood (really? Lifetime has a fantasy show?), Supernatural, Arrow, Revolution, The Shadow Rising (Wheel of Time), and more.
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Our Critical Assignment series concludes with the big bionic panel of DragonCon 2013. Lee Majors and Lindsay Wagner both appeared on stage for the first time in many years to talk about their work on the bionic series. The panel took place on Sunday, August 31 and John got to host this extravaganza. Plus, Paul talks with The Bionic Blonde herself, Betsy Dodd, on how she developed the bionic reunion video that was shown to the audience prior to the duo taking the stage.
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October means that we dip in once again to the CBS Radio Mystery Theater. This year, we look at the final year of EG Marshall's turn as host of the long running anthology series.Plus, we conclude the current stories for Superman and The Avengers and premiere new stories.
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October 26, 2013 0:29 - The Weekly Podioplex Promo 4:35 - The Adventures of Superman - "Pillar of Fire at Graves End", part 1 - August 5, 1940 16:25 - CBS Radio Mystery Theater - "Daddy's Girl" - October 26, 1981 1:01:32 - The Avengers - "The Morning After", part 1
We are honored to have the first exclusive interview with Toby Froud (LABYRINTH, Stripey Pajama Productions) all about his exciting new project, LESSONS LEARNED, a Kickstarter-funded practical puppet production! Go behind the scenes as the G2V Guys find out the genesis of this tale, some details on the construction of the characters, sets, and props, the many helping hands contributing to the creation of an all-new world of fantasy and adventure, and how this will continue the fine “Froudian” tradition!
The entire show is turned over to movie critic David Nahmod as he interviews actor Roy Thinnes. They discuss The Invaders, Dark Shadows, General Hospital, Mystery Science Theater 3000, and working with Gerry Anderson.
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Trivia: The interview was conducted at the studios of One Life to Live in New York.
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King Boris' visit to the United States is interrupted by an exploding bouquet of flowers that hide a riddle inside, the calling card of the Riddler. What is his scheme? Can Batman and Robin figure it out before an international incident can occur?
Joining John to figure out the Riddler's clues is author, musician, and podcaster Keith R.A. DeCandido.
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Keith R.A. DeCandido is a writer, editor, musician, podcaster, curator, voice actor, and probably some other stuff, too, but he can't remember due to lack of sleep. In 2009, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers, which means he never needs to achieve anything ever again.
He has written tie-in fiction in prose and comics form for more than twenty different universes ranging from TV shows (Star Trek,Farscape, Supernatural, Leverage, and many more) to movies (Cars, Serenity, Resident Evil, Kung Fu Panda), to games (World of Warcraft, Dungeons & Dragons, StarCraft, Command and Conquer) to comic books (Spider-Man, X-Men, Hulk, Silver Surfer). He is the author of the acclaimed Precinct series of fantasy police procedurals including Dragon Precinct, Unicorn Precinct, and Goblin Precinct, with 2013 seeing the release of Gryphon Precinct and Tales from Dragon Precinct, as well as a comic book and audios of all four novels.
Other recent work includes writing the monthly Farscape comic book with series creator Rockne S. O'Bannon; the SCPD novel The Case of the Claw, a novel about cops in a city filled with superheroes; the Leverage novel The Zoo Job; the comic book miniseries The Fallen; the short-story collection Ragnarok and Roll: Tales of Cassie Zukav, Weirdness Magnet, urban fantasy stories taking place in Key West; and short stories in the anthologies Apocalypse 13, Bad-Ass Faeries: It's Elemental, Defending the Future: Best Laid Plans, Liar Liar,More Tales of Zorro, Star Trek: Seven Deadly Sins, and Tales from the House Band Vols. 1 & 2. He has also contributed to several shard worlds: Steven Savile's Viral (the novella -30-), Aaron Rosenberg & David Niall Wilson's The Scattered Earth (the novel Guilt in Innocence), and Jonathan Maberry's V-Wars (the story "The Ballad of Big Charlie").
Keith is also a longtime editor. He was the supervising editor of the Marvel novels published by Penguin Putnam from 1994-2000 and the monthly series of Star Trek eBook originals published by Simon & Schuster from 2000-2008. His anthology credits range fromImaginings and Liar Liar to the Doctor Who: Short Trips anthology The Quality of Leadership to the Star Trek anthologies New Frontier: No Limits, Tales from the Captain's Table, and Tales of the Dominion War. Currently he edits for clients both personal and corporate via KRADitorial.
Keith is a musician, once the percussionist for the Don't Quit Your Day Job Players (musical guests of Dragon*Con in 1998), currently the percussionist of sometime D*C filk guests the Boogie Knights. His work can be heard on the DQYDJP CDs TKB and Blues Spoken Here and the BK CDs Many a Sleepless Knight and Wasted Days, Wasted Knights.
Of late, Keith has become a serious podcaster -- he's part of the staff of The Chronic Rift, a pop-culture podcast, and has his own 'cast, Dead Kitchen Radio. He also provides voices for the audio dramas The Dome, Gypsy Cove, and the Parsec Award-winning HG World.
On top of all this, Keith is a black belt in Kenshikai karate and a devoted fan of the New York Yankees (in fact, he co-edited the 2013 Yankees Annual for Lindy's Magazines). He lives in New York City with a couple of humans and several animals. Find out less as his cheerfully retro web site of DeCandido.net, which provides links to his Facebook page, his Twitter feed, his blog, his podcasts, and many and varied other things that probably sound cooler than they actually are.
Interview: Raul Aguirre Jr. (Animator: Hand animator) Man Vs. Art
Trivia: Who won a signed Amanda Tapping print?
TV News: Walking Dead Wakes Up Huge Ratings; Marvel: Agents of Shield Gets Full Season; Arrow Teases; Screen Shot of Black Canary w/ Arrow; Breaking Bad’s Big Fan;
Movie News: Ant Man Movie News; R.U.R. News,
TWIST: Who said what? UNCONFIRMED RUMOR: Orci talked to CBS about Trek TV Show
Raul Aguirre Jr. was born in East L.A. but grew up on the mean streets of Hacienda Heights California. Back when he was 3 heads tall Raul picked up a crayon and did his version of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel only instead of biblical figures, his featured Popeye battling Mighty Mouse While Dinosaurs in Spaceships carpet bombed the Legion of Doom. Unfortunately he chose to create his first masterpiece on his mother's living room wall. The combination of laughter and horror on his mother's face left an indelible mark on the lad. He learned Art is Powerful! From that moment on Raul decided he wanted to become an artist.
For the next 30 years Raul embarked on a lone quest for artistic mastery with an unwavering Quixote-like madness and dedication.
His influence has wound its way tentacle-like into every nook and cranny of pop culture. In a vast and mysterious ocean of entertainment, his stories have inspired and influenced entire waves of film, television, comics, games, and so much more. This way may lead to madness, but Scott and Arnold devote this installment of their month-long Halloween exploration by diving deep into the legacy of the one, the only H.P. Lovecraft! And to do it right, Arnold travelled all the way from Baltimore MD to Portland OR, just in time to join Scott for a Lovecraft film festival featuring a 35mm print of Re-Animator!
We also have a special contest this episode! Midnight Syndicate has graciously provided us with a copy of one of their albums, The 13th Hour, which we’re giving away to the listener who can answer the following trivia question (also presented in the episode). E-mail, post on our Facebook page, beam your answer into our addled minds, and if you get it right, the CD will be yours!
Lovecraft’s novella, At the Mountains of Madness, was published by what pulp magazine? A) Amazing Stories B) Argosy All-Story Weekly C) Weird Tales D) Astounding Stories E) Startling Stories
And stay tuned for the next episode, when we’ll be featuring another Midnight Syndicate album giveaway!
…but be warned, The G2V Podcast can not be held responsible if listening to this episode alters your physical form or renders you utterly insane!
The War of the Worlds is an episode of the American radio drama anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on October 30, 1938, and aired over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. Directed and narrated by actor and future filmmaker Orson Welles, the episode was an adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1898).
The first two thirds of the 60-minute broadcast were presented as a series of simulated news bulletins, which suggested to many listeners that an actual alien invasion by Martians was currently in progress. Compounding the issue was the fact that the Mercury Theatre on the Air was a sustaining show (it ran without commercial breaks), adding to the program's realism. Although there were sensationalist accounts in the press about a supposed panic in response to the broadcast, the precise extent of listener response has been debated.
In the days following the adaptation, however, there was widespread outrage and panic by certain listeners, who had believed the events described in the program were real. The program's news-bulletin format was described as cruelly deceptive by some newspapers and public figures, leading to an outcry against the perpetrators of the broadcast. Despite these complaints--or perhaps in part because of them--the episode secured Welles' fame as a dramatist.
Kevin Lauderdale returns with an all new episode. There have been many other productions of Welles' infamous broadcast since then and Kevin wants to bring a few of them, including the Jeff Wayne musical, to your attention.
Gravity makes it three weeks in a row at the top of the box office. Perhaps a Bad Grandpa or a Counselor have what it takes to take it down. There's all this and more, brought to you by Michael Falkner on this week's Weekly Podioplex.
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October means that we dip in once again to the CBS Radio Mystery Theater. This year, we look at the final year of EG Marshall's turn as host of the long running anthology series.Plus, we conclude the current stories for Superman and The Avengers and premiere new stories.
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October 19, 2013 0:29 - Teenage Wasteland Podcast Promo 4:30 - The Adventures of Superman - "Lighthouse Point Smugglers", part 6 - August 3, 1940 15:40 - CBS Radio Mystery Theater - "The Equalizer" - October 19, 1981 58:25 - The Avengers - "From Venus with Love", part 6
October means that we dip in once again to the CBS Radio Mystery Theater. This year, we look at the final year of EG Marshall's turn as host of the long running anthology series.Plus, we conclude the current stories for Superman and The Avengers and premiere new stories.
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October 12, 2013 0:29 - Twisted Geeks Podcast Promo 4:35 - The Adventures of Superman - "Lighthouse Point Smugglers", part 5 - July 31, 1940 15:35 - CBS Radio Mystery Theater - "The 500 Carats" - October 12, 1981 59:55 - The Avengers - "From Venus with Love", part 5
To list the films and filmmakers David V. Picker has been involved with in his careers as president of United Artists, Paramount, and Columbia borders on giving a comprehensive history of the medium in the latter half of the twentieth century. A HARD DAY'S NIGHT, PERSONA, THE JERK, MIDNIGHT COWBOY, TOM JONES, LAST TANGO IN PARIS, LENNY, the James Bond franchise; auteurs such as Ingmar Bergman, Bernardo Bertolucci, Mike Nichols, John Huston, Woody Allen, and on and on (and on) -- Picker, through a lifelong embrace of adventurous filmmaking, has had a hand in more than a few standout titles. (Also LEONARD PART 6 -- we're not dealing with gods here.)
Picker has now put his experience in the industry into handy print form in the new book, Musts, Maybes, and Nevers: A Book About the Movies, where he recalls his adventures, good and bad, getting classics and not-quite-classics to the screen, and provides numerous anecdotes of his encounters with the artists and insiders who made it happen. I was able to spend some time with Picker to talk about the industry as it was and as it is, and what it was like capturing all that on the page.
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The Chronic Rift Network is thrilled and proud to present Jay Smith's HG World from the very beginning. If you've never listened to this zombie apocalypse serial before, this is a perfect time to jump on board. This first episode has been remastered and features an all new introduction by series creator, Jay Smith.
The zombie apocalypse has reached the remote parts of
northeastern Pennsylvania and local high school students Gray (Stacy Dooks), Caitlin (M Sieiro Garcia), Derrik (DJ Breau), Hicks (Ryan Smith) and Ronni (Rebecca Rinas) are stuck for something to do. They meet at the Wishwell Community Center where Pastor Douglas Dawkins (Mark Zaricor) is petitioning the local seniors to come with him to higher ground where they can ride out the metaphorical storm. Gray decides a house party is the best way to handle the situation and enlists his friends to loot the local Pump’n Go convenience store for supplies. From there, the world changes.
Features Bryan Lincoln as Carl with Scott Pigg and Tanja Milojevic, Keith DeCandido, Veronica Giguere, Eric Avedissian, Glenn Hascall, Caith Donovan, Jeremy Pinkham and Teresa Queen.
The episode was written and directed by Jay Smith Show running and Voice Direction by Bryan Lincoln Editing by Bryan Lincoln Sound FX and Sound Design by Michael L Stokes Engineered, Mixed and Mastered by Michael L Stokes Musical Direction by Michael L Stokes and Jay Smith featuring original music by Michael L Stokes, Kevin MacLeod and Jonathan Coulton used courtesy of the Creative Commons License.
HG World is a production of 3015 North Studios, with content used with permission under the Creative Commons License. For more information on this production, visit us online at www.goodmorningsurvivors.com.
In this listener feedback show, M., Scott, and Miles discuss the following listener feedback: Marvel's Agents of Shield; the Z*Con fundraiser; the Dune Saga Podcast; Gravity; Riddick; Under the Dome; BBC's Atlantis; The Butlerain Jihad; New York Comicon; Star Trek Continues; Star Trek Phase II; Ender's Game; The Walking Dead; Colin's dreamy accent; Once Upon a Time in Wonderland; The Tomorrow People; and Arrow. Honorary mentions: Jim's SciFi Blog and Colin's Trek News and Views.In this listener feedback show, M., Scott, and Miles discuss the following listener feedback: Marvel's Agents of Shield; the Z*Con fundraiser; the Dune Saga Podcast; Gravity; Riddick; Under the Dome; BBC's Atlantis; The Butlerain Jihad; New York Comicon; Star Trek Continues; Star Trek Phase II; Ender's Game; The Walking Dead; Colin's dreamy accent; Once Upon a Time in Wonderland; The Tomorrow People; and Arrow. Honorary mentions: Jim's SciFi Blog and Colin's Trek News and Views.
Gravity continues to hold the top spot at the box office. But more importantly, who do you prefer, Jeannie or Samantha Stevens from Bewitched. Now you can let the world know as both shows are getting a complete series release on DVD. There's all this and more, brought to you by Michael Falkner on this week's Weekly Podioplex.
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In their second weekly episode in October to celebrate Halloween, Scott and Arnold take a fond look back at one of the greatest sustained periods of horror movie magic with a chat about the Universal Studios horror movies of the 1920s-1940s and the many monsters that populated their memorable pantheon.
To help them out, the guys welcome author Steven Warren Hill of the two-volume guide to classic horror cinema from 1920-1951, Silver Scream!
Steven Warren Hill, author of SILVER SCREAM
SPECIAL NOTE: We’d like to thank well-known Halloween music and gothic horror fantasy soundtrack composers and performers, Midnight Syndicate, for allowing us to incorporate music from their phenomenal new album that also pays tribute to the Universal legacy,Monsters of Legend.
We also want to draw your attention to the group’s new Kickstarter campaign to enable them to perform live; it has a goal of at least $40,000 by Sunday, November 10, 11:30pm EST. Check out the details here or via the banner link on the right on our site. Thanks again, guys!
TECHNICAL NOTE: We continue to work out the technical kinks, but this one is odd. This was our first three-way (please, don’t) conversation (recorded prior to our interview with Stephen Graves in the preceding “Satellite” episode), but not entirely for that reason, Scott’s audio fell about a second behind Arnold’s and Steve’s. This results in a weird recurring delay in which it seems that Arnold and Steve are stepping on Scott’s comments or leaving him as the last to react to something in the conversation, resulting in creepy delayed laughter from Scott. Trust us – the guys aren’t being rude to him, neither is Scott demonically possessed. Although we do think “Scott’s Laugh” may become a new CreepyPasta worthy of the SCP Foundation:
SCP-3370: Scott’s Laugh
ITEM #: SCP-3370 – SCOTT’S LAUGH
OBJECT CLASS: KETER
SPECIAL CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES: Since this is a sound – possibly independent of any actual recording technology or physical media – containment is a difficult if not impossible task, with the most effort concentrated instead on raising awareness and exercising extreme caution.
DESCRIPTION: This is the ghostly delayed laughter of G2V Podcast producer and co-host Scott Alan Woodard, who slipped out of phase one day and kept laughing out of sync with reality. Sometimes people say they can hear his laugh – always delayed by an awkward amount of time – on YouTube videos, their own iPhones, and even old CDs. Some even report continuing to hear the laugh long after they’ve shut off any recording or device, as if the sound has infected them or taken up residence inside their auditory canal. Others wake in the middle of the night to utter silence, but if they wait a moment…
“HAHAHAHAHA!”
In all documented cases, the laugh causes dementia and eventually death.
The Gotham City Police Department have an unusual criminal on their hands. For three years in a row, the April Fool's Bandit has been robbing banks of exactly $100,000, leaving behind millions more in the vault. The identity of this mysterious bandit is unknown and Commissioner Gordon has called in Batman and Robin to investigate.
Joining John to discover the identity of this mysterious bandit (if the title of the episode didn't tip you off) is Mighty Movie Podcast's host Dan Persons.
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In his twenty plus years as writer and film journalist, Dan Persons has interviewed the likes of Paul Verhoeven, Wes Craven, Stuart Gordon, Satoshi Kon and John Kricfalusi; published the well-received novella, "A Game of the Apocalypse", in The Ultimate Silver Surfer, edited by The Chronic Rift's own Keith R.A. Decandido; and been an occasional, and somewhat peculiar, guest on the public access incarnation of the Rift. He presently is the host of Mighty Movies Temple of Bad, Mighty Movie Podcast, and The Cinefantastique Podcast when he isn't haunting the dining room of his local Popeye's.
Our Critical Assignment series continues with another bionic Q&A panel hosted by John. This time around, we present Lee Majors' appearance at DragonCon 2013. The panel took place on Saturday, August 30 and it was John's first time meeting Lee and he relates what the experience was like. Plus, Paul fills us in on the making of the the career restrospective that was shown to the audience prior to Lee's taking the stage.
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Most DOCTOR WHO fans know the tragic story of the “missing episodes” – individual installments and occasionally entire stories from the early days of the show, wiped or junked by the BBC sometimes only shortly after they were aired, never to be seen again. Most of the losses centered around the First Doctor (William Hartnell) and Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton) eras, but as the decades have passed there have been a number of surprising and very welcome recoveries. Missing episodes have been found and returned to the BBC from all over the globe, and as of 2013 there were 106 episodes still missing…until now.
This October – and appropriately enough in the show’s 50th anniversary year – the largest haul of recovered episodes in the last 25 years or more has been announced: nine episodes that restore one Second Doctor story and nearly complete another.
Now available on iTunes as digital downloads (find the link below) and soon to appear on DVD at the end of this year and the beginning of 2014, the six-episode Second Doctor story “The Enemy of the World” is complete for the first time since its airing in 1967-1968, and the subsequent tale “The Web of Fear” is now lacking only its third episode. Both stories are treasures beyond imagining for fans to either revisit or see for the very first time.
Scott and Arnold are two of those fans, and they’re joined in this very special “Satellite” episode by Stephen Graves, online deputy editor of Stuff.tv and co-host of The Naked Scarf podcast. Stephen was fortunate enough to attend the BBC’s press conference on Thursday, October 10, 2013 that announced the recovery of the episodes and gave those in attendance the chance to watch two of them alongside stars Frazer Hines and Deborah Watling, who appear as the Doctor’s companions Jamie and Victoria in both adventures.
Join the guys as they celebrate the “new” episodes and speculate on what the future may hold for the ongoing “missing episode” hunt!
The Rift Crew is back with an all new In Review episode. In this episode we talk about Pacific Rim, Harry Potter, Riddick, Burn Notice, DC Comics and naked Harley Quinn, Voyager I, and the loss of the sense of wonder when it comes to science. All this and more for the low, low price of nothing. Download the episode, take a listen, and chime in with your thoughts on what we discussed here.
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Segment One: Bringing it to the Table
4:45 - Keith loves his new restaurant haunt, Sauce.
7:15 - Krissy wants to know why Pacific Rim didn't get the love at the box office she felt it deserved.
20:36 - Mike is excited by the news of a new Harry Potter inspired movie scripted by J.K. Rowling.
1:05:20 - We take a look at the mess DC Comics has made with their request for a naked Harley Quinn contemplating suicide, Voyager I and what happened to our sense for science, and the passing of Ray Dolby.
Michael Falkner reports on the Gravity of the situation at the box office with the weekly tally. Plus, there's a bionic boatload of new TV on DVD releases this week that includes the fourth season release of The Six Million Dollar Man. It's all there, plus a whole lot more on an all new The Weekly Podioplex.
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Movie News: Wonder Woman Trailer; The Batman and Superman Movie just MIGHT have Wonder Woman, Hear Khan’s Voice as Smaug, Jurassic Park 4 gets Its Star, Z*Con: Your Con Will Be Infested
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Who said this and in what movie? ”You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember: All I’m offering is the truth. Nothing more.”
Prize: Signed Amanda Tapping Print
You will have until the end of OCTOBER 15 to send us your answers. Please include the code word mentioned in the first 15 minutes of the show. Send your answer with your mailing address to scifidinerpodcast@gmail.com, call us at 18885084343, or DM us on Twitter at @scifidiner. Make sure you include your e-mail with all entries! Only one entry per person. The SciFi Diner is not responsible for any injuries occurring if you secretly decide to go all shiny and dress in a browncoat and walk into your local bar.
Scott and Arnold kick off a month-long tribute to the greatest holiday of them all – Halloween – with a tribute to a film maker whose name is synonymous with that festival: John Carpenter! The guys have selected five films to discuss in this feature-length episode – HALLOWEEN, THE FOG,THE THING, PRINCE OF DARKNESS, IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS – three of which comprise the director’s self-titled “Apocalypse Trilogy.” Join us as we start a month of horror and mayhem with a Master of the Macabre, the Prince of Darkness himself!
October means that we dip in once again to the CBS Radio Mystery Theater. This year, we look at the final year of EG Marshall's turn as host of the long running anthology series.Plus, we conclude the current stories for Superman and The Avengers and premiere new stories.
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October 4, 2013 0:29 - The Regis Jack Experience Netcast Promo 3:46 - The Adventures of Superman - "Lighthouse Point Smugglers", part 4 - July 29, 1940 16:45 - CBS Radio Mystery Theater - "The Solid Gold Zarf" - October 4, 1981 1:01:34 - The Avengers - "From Venus with Love", part 4
What if they declared a cultural revolution and nobody came? That's pretty much the situation with CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC, the movie that was supposed enshrine disco as the musical trend of the eighties and instead wound up being the genre's epitaph, not to mention destroying the careers of close to anyone involved with it. Purportedly a fictionalized version of the formation of the music group Village People -- if by fictionalized you mean completely divorced from reality and by music group you mean guys who can sing and dance while dressed up as Christopher Street stereotypes -- and an opening volley in the ongoing political actualization of the homosexual community, even if no one in the film can gather the nerve to utter the word "g*y," the film founders under the multiple curses of a director, Nancy "Ida Morgenstern" Walker, making her feature film debut despite the fact that she had never done a musical, stars -- including Steve Guttenberg, Valerie Perrine, and Bruce Jenner -- with no particular talent for singing or dancing, and a script -- for which producer Allan Carr took partial credit -- that barely knows the definition of the words "musical" and "comedy" individually, much less put together.
Hell bent on completing the set they started with SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND and continued with XANADU, the loyal devotees of the Temple of Bad, Andrea Lipinski, Kevin Lauderdale, and Dan Persons, join in with their special guest, multimediumrare.com's Orenthal V. Hawkins, to delve into arguably the most benighted of the fin de 70's musicals. So put on your dancing shoes, gently insert your earplugs, and remember: YOU CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC. Because the indifference of 1980's America has already done the job for you.
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In this listener feedback show, M., Scott, and Raul discuss the following listener feedback: The New Gotham Series, Marvel’s: Agents of Shield; The Dune Book Series; The Wheel of Time book series; The Blacklist; Olympus Has Fallen; Man of Steel Versus Falling Skies; Star Trek Into Darkness; World War Z; Jurassic World; Stargate; Independence Day 2; Robocop reboot; Once Upon a Time season 3; Big Bang Theory; Revolution; and Sleep Hollow.
Cloudy 2 takes the top box office spot, but will the new movie releases this weekend topple it? Michael Falkner reveals it all on a newThe Weekly Podioplex.
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Taking a break for the summer allowed John to go out on special missions for the podcast. These "Critical Assignments" took him to far-off exotic locales where he met up with other agents of the OSI. In this episode, John travels to Atlanta, Georgia for DragonCon 2013. There, he met actress Lindsay Wagner and hosted a Q&A panel on Friday, August 29. He captured the audio of the panel and we're sharing it with you on the podcast. John relates what it was like meeting Lindsay and Paul talks with Betsy Dodd, The Bionic Blonde, about the creation of a special introductory career video seen before Lindsay took the stage.
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As the new television season begins, there's a boatload of new TV on DVD releases available. Michael Falkner reveals it all on a new The Weekly Podioplex.
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Ice on the streets of Gotham in July? It sounds like the calling card of the cool, cruel Mr. Freeze. He wants revenge on Batman for trapping him forever in the icy grip of his cold empty world, but first he will play with him "like cat with mouse". The question is, why is he doing that?
Joining John to try and answer this question is Hey Kids Comics's host Andrew Leyland.
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Andrew Leyland - Born. Reads comics. Watches bad TV. Somehow found a woman that puts up with him and had three kids. Puts out a weekly comics podcast called "Hey Kids, Comics!" With his eldest son every Thursday on TwoTrueFreaks.com.
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TV News: Everything you need to know about Whedon’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., When are our favorite sci fi shows coming back?, Information on the new Flash show; Walking Dead Spin Off
Movie News:Divergent trailer; Jurassic World; Robocop reboot trailer; Stargate reboot
TWIST: NSA director modeled top secret war room to look like the bridge of Star Trek’s Enterprise
SciFi 5 in 5: The top 5 weirdest inventions predicted in Science Fiction
Trivia
Who said this and in what movie? ”You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember: All I’m offering is the truth. Nothing more.”
Prize: Signed Amanda Tapping Print
You will have until the end of OCTOBER 15 to send us your answers. Please include the code word mentioned in the first 15 minutes of the show. Send your answer with your mailing address to scifidinerpodcast@gmail.com, call us at 18885084343, or DM us on Twitter at @scifidiner. Make sure you include your e-mail with all entries! Only one entry per person. The SciFi Diner is not responsible for any injuries occurring if you secretly decide to go all shiny and dress in a browncoat and walk into your local bar.
The film that Cinefantastique founder Fred Clarke called, “The CITIZEN KANE of horror,” is back, newly remastered and in an edition that its director has dubbed the “final cut.” In THE WICKER MAN, a devoutly religious Scottish policeman (Edward Woodward) travels to an island-bound agricultural community to investigate the disappearance of a young girl. What he finds is a society reverted back to its pagan traditions, a challenge to his faith via the island’s lord (Christopher Lee), temptation in the form Britt Ekland, and a mystery that suggests the missing child may have fallen victim to the island’s curdled superstitions.
Happy to commemorate the impending rediscovery of a horror classic, Cinefantastique Online’s Steve Biodrowski, Lawrence French, and Dan Persons welcome theofantastique.com’s John Morehead in a discussion that examines the film in the context of the time it was made, weighs its impact now, and explores the tortured distribution history that’s led to confusion about what cut could be deemed the official one. Plus: What’s coming to theaters next week.
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The fourth season of The Chronic Rift public access show premieres with a Roundtable discussion of Arthur C. Clarke's 2001 series with our own Dan Persons and fan Al Cacioppo. Keith reviews The Safest Place by Steve Ditko and David Nahmod is back as the Pollitcally Incorrect Critic.
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Trivia: The fourth and final season of the public access show opens with the best animated opening we ever had from Midguard Graphics.
John talks with author Kevin G. Summers about the writing process and how he came to be involved with Kindle Worlds, the shared worlds project from Amazon.
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Kevin G. Summers was born in Washington, D.C. in 1974 and grew up in the Virginia suburbs. His interest in writing began at an early age. When he was a small child, his mother brought him along to her master-level writing classes at George Mason University, where Kevin sat in on lectures by John Irving, John Gardener and Susan Shreve.
Kevin is the author of the critically-acclaimed short story ISOLATION WARD 4, as well as several other stories set in the Star Trek universe. His short story THE BELL CURSE was the very first tale published in The World of Kurt Vonnegut under the Kindle Worlds imprint.
Kevin raises heritage hogs on his family farm and teaches writing at various colleges and libraries in Northern Virginia. He lives in an 100-year old farmhouse in Amissville, Virginia with his beautiful wife Rachel and their children Morwen, Ingrid and Roland.
And you thought stop-motion figures taking swift kicks to the crotch defined the work of Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, the people behind Adult Swim’s ROBOT CHICKEN and TITAN MAXIMUM. Not quite, Chuck-o — the studio is turning out an increasing variety of shows, including its most recent, FRIENDSHIP ALL-STARS OF FRIENDSHIP, a web series that tracks the genial relationships between such BFFs as John Lasseter and Luis Guzmán, and Batmen Michael Keaton and George Clooney.
The most high-profile face behind Stoopid Buddy is Seth Green, but joining him in piloting the company are Matthew Senreich, Eric Towner, and John Harvatine IV. I got to speak with Matt, Eric and Harv (as his friends call him) to discuss FRIENDSHIP’s sunny worldview, the pressures of Emmy season, and the Freudian implications of show titles.
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There's a new movie at the top of the box office and a metric ton of new TV on DVD releases this week that includes a long awaitedDoctor Who story. Michael Falkner reveals it all on a newThe Weekly Podioplex.
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It had a great lead actor, an interesting take on the Western genre, and was produced when Westerns were king on television. So why did Frontier Gentleman only last a little less than a year? It's the featured presentation this month and that and more will be discussed. Plus, we continue the current stories for Superman and The Avengers.
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September 14, 2013 0:29 - The Revcast Roundtable Promo 3:50 - The Adventures of Superman - "Lighthouse Point Smugglers", part 4 - July 27, 1940 15:55 - Frontier Gentleman - "A Horse for Kendall" - September 14, 1958 41:03 - The Avengers - "From Venus with Love", part 4
Oh yeah, kid, you’ve got a bad case of sequelitis right there. Technically polished with occasional striking moments, INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 picks up the story of the Lambert family — Patrick Wilson as daddy Josh, Rose Byrne as mother Renai, plus kids including Ty Simpkins as the psychically tuned-in Dalton — immediately after their disastrous sojourn in the netherworld in the first film, and then pretty much repeats the beats with some painful expository writing and awkward retconning to explain why the story didn’t just stop while it was ahead.
Cinefantastique Online’s Steve Biodrowski, Lawrence French, and Dan Persons have no shortage of opinions on how things went wrong (or in some cases, right) with INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2, and sit down to talk about how supposedly scary spirits wind up looking silly instead, why it may not be a good idea to take inspiration for your Big Reveal from MOMMY DEAREST, and, once again, why the police in horror movies are so dumb.
Plus: What’s coming to theaters next week.
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After a summer hiatus, Cyborgs: A Bionic Podcast returns with all new episodes. First up, John and Paul sit down for their next Case File. They interview actor Rick Lenz (SMDM: "The Return of The Bionic Woman" and BW: "Welcome Home, Jaime", and "The Vega Influence") about his career and his memoir, North of Hollywood.
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Hal Erickson of All Movie Guide says Rick Lenz “has steadfastly avoided pigeonholing as a ‘type,’ playing gunslingers, victims, villains, patient husbands, insensitive fools, intellectuals and even a wimpy murder-mystery fanatic in the (Hallmark) remake of Hitchcock’s Shadow Of A Doubt.”
One of the workingest actors of the late-20th century, Lenz has starred in movies with Peter Sellers, Walter Matthau, Lauren Bacall and Elizabeth Taylor. He was Goldie Hawn's boyfriend in Cactus Flower, Melvin's lawyer in Melvin And Howard and the obsequious journalist in John Wayne’s The Shootist.
On television, he has guest-starred in recurring roles on The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Murder, She Wrote, The Practice, Dynasty and more. He was superspy Benjamin Baxter on Fox’s The New Adventures Of Beans Baxter, Eddie Albert’s law partner on a few episodes of Green Acres, and starred with Richard Boone as Police Chief Oliver Stamp on Hec Ramsey in the NBC Mystery Movie rotation.
On various stages, including Broadway, Lenz has starred opposite Jill Clayburgh, Marcia Mason, Tyne Daly, Blythe Danner, Alan Alda and Paul Sorvino. He jumped on the other side of theatrical production and became a successful playwright with his Off-Broadway production Swung in 1979. He followed with Clean As A Whistle (also Off-Broadway) and The Epic Of Buster Friend, which began at the American Shakespeare Theatre, moved to the Lucille Lortell Theatre and was subsequently produced by PBS. Furthermore, his play So Long, Mr. Broadway was published by Dramatists Play Service and West Coast Plays, and he won Los Angeles Dramalogue Awards for playwriting for both Familiar Places and Last Class. In 2002, Sharon Gless and the late John Ritter performed Lenz’ Felony Audition at the Playwright’s Kitchen Ensemble.
All of the actor/playwright’s experiences are recounted in his new gut-wrenchingly honest memoir North of Hollywood (Feb. 15, 2012, Chromodroid Press). The book is a start to his budding career as an author, planning also the debut of his first novel in 2013 called Redeeming Norma Jean.
Originally from Michigan and having acted across the country, Lenz lives in North Hollywood with his wife. They are parents to three children, and have recently become proud grandparents.
The Summer of the Rift concludes as we feature this interview with author Orson Scott Card from Lunacon 1993. Also, Keith reviews The Underworlder Letters by Nathaniel Torres and The 1,001 Nights with Bacchus by Eddie Campbell. Plus, Dan Persons and David Namod talk about the Festival of Horror and Science Fiction at the Film Forum in New York City.
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Trivia: You'll note Keith is looking unusually thin in this episode. It was at this time Keith realized something was wrong when he saw himself in the video. He had developed a thyroid condition that was affecting his health.
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A guy who's been in every film from COOL HAND LUKE, REPO MAN, ALIEN and PARIS, TEXAS, and worked with everyone from John Huston, David Lynch, Tom Hanks and Johnny Depp has to have some stories to tell. And in HARRY DEAN STANTON: PARTLY FICTION, director Sophie Huber has found a way to get the famously reserved actor to reveal himself, through the medium of song. Both a career retrospect and an unusual performance film, PARTLY FICTION both follows Harry through his favorite haunts and in encounters with colleagues that include David Lynch, Kris Kristofferson, and Debbie Harry, and sits him down with a simple, guitar accompaniment to demonstrate his unique reads on such songs as Everybody's Talkin'.
I was able to meet up with Harry and Huber to talk about the film and about Harry's career, in possibly one of the most unique interviews I've conducted. Click on the player to hear the show.
It had a great lead actor, an interesting take on the Western genre, and was produced when Westerns were king on television. So why didFrontier Gentleman only last a little less than a year? It's the featured presentation this month and that and more will be discussed. Plus, we continue the current stories for Superman andThe Avengers.
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September 7, 2013 0:29 - The Retroist Podcast Promo 3:36 - The Adventures of Superman - "Lighthouse Point Smugglers", part 3 - July 25, 1940 18:10 - Frontier Gentleman - "The Last of Belle Siddons" - September 7, 1958 43:00 - The Avengers - "From Venus with Love", part 3
Anthony & Paul welcome Bryan Fischer to the show to discuss game design, publishing and graphic design in games. Then they talk about some of their favorite boardgame podcasts.
We're playing catchup as we never completed the episodes for August. Stay tuned for the rest of the week as we have two more to go there before hitting our September episodes starting on Saturday.
August 31, 2013 0:29 - PSA for iTunes reviews 3:48 - The Adventures of Superman - "Lighthouse Point Smugglers", part 1 - July 23, 1940 15:33 - Theater Five - "The Scream" - August 31, 1964 36:25 - The Avengers - "From Venus with Love", part 1
We're playing catchup as we never completed the episodes for August. Stay tuned for the rest of the week as we have two more to go there before hitting our September episodes starting on Saturday.
August 24, 2013 0:29 - The Righteous Dude Dudecast Promo 3:47 - The Adventures of Superman - "Happyland Amusement Park", part 6 - July 18, 1940 15:07 - Theater Five - "Caller at Midnight" - August 24, 1964 35:07 - The Avengers - "Too Many Oles", part 6
It was a very quiet weekend at the box office and even the number one film wasn't much of a winner. Will the new movie releases this coming weekend help to elevate sales? Michael Falkner has all the release news, plus his take on the release of Star Trek Into Darkness on DVD and the special features offered in the release on a new The Weekly Podioplex.
The Joker "springs" himself from jail in time to exact revenge on the curators of a museum exhibit on comedy legends. He's upset that he wasn't included in the exhibit. But Batman's on the scene to stop him with the aid of his trusty utility belt. The Joker swears never to fall for the gimmicks of the belt by fighting fire with fire and creating his own. The belt proves to be a match for the Dynamic Duo as the city of Gotham begins to lose faith in them as they fall for the pranks from the Joker's utility belt.
Joining John for the first appearance of The Joker is Geek Radio Daily's Billy Flynn.
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The Wonderful Billy Flynn brings the funny each week on Geek Radio Daily! His daytime alter ego is mild-mannered (well, that part is a stretch) radio station personality at WLEE in Virginia. He actually gets paid to sit on his butt and run his mouth! His “edumacation” is from UNC-Wilmington, the Columbia School of Broadcasting, and University of Phoenix. When he is not gracing the podcasting airways with his comedic stylings, you can find Billy Flynn on Xbox Live (flynn71), rockin’ out on Guitar Hero or Rock Band, watching movies, reading comics, working out, or posting on the forums at geekradiodaily.com (ding!).
We're playing catchup as we never completed the episodes for August. Stay tuned for the rest of the week as we have two more to go there before hitting our September episodes starting on Saturday.
August 10, 2013 0:29 - Epic Podcast Promo 5:01 - The Adventures of Superman - "Happyland Amusement Park", part 5 - July 16, 1940 16:08 - Theater Five - "The Fun Party" - August 17, 1964 37:44 - The Avengers - "Too Many Oles", part 5
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October 26, 2013
