Sunday, October 31, 2021

Mr. Monk Goes Home Again

 


Second episode of Monk tonight on Me-TV is a Halloween ep. John Turturro.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0650602/



Welchade ad, 1972

 


Also new. Marathon beverage.

Mr. P's Pizza

At Safeway 1984. Halloween marathon munchies. This is new.  

Halloween Marathon

 


Started with Planet of the Vampires Blu-ray. Now The Addams Family DVD. Going at least until Monk starts on Me-TV. Maybe one or two more after.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_the_Vampires

Halloween roller skating carnival Bring your skates : Prizes will be awarded for costumes / / M. Weitzman.


1936 WPA poster. Poster announcing roller skating carnival in Central Park, New York City, showing a boy and a girl skating.

https://www.loc.gov/item/98518524/

Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Big Halloween Show! Horror-Man Traps Super-Sleuth! (October, 1950)

 


https://scenesfromthemorgue.wordpress.com/tag/halloween/

It Creeps! It Crawls! It Strikes Without Warning! (October, 1958)

Retro TV: 1970’s Woolworth / Woolco Halloween Commercial

 


[Trademark registration by Procter & Gamble for Water Witch Soap brand Soap for Laundry and General Purposes]

 


1890 Apr. 22.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2020711739/

KSTW Midnight Mystery bumpers 1985

 


The ghost rock

 


1919. Photograph shows Ghost Rock at the Garden of the Gods, Colorado.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2004676590/

KSTW Terror Week promo 1985

 

The Bachelor of Arts [for] March

 


1896. Poster shows an illustration of an old witch and black cat riding on a broomstick by moonlight over a town.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2015646620/

Colony Wine

 


1978.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Swiss_Colony

Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Pumpkin Contest

 


Bar Wars V: The Final Judgement is a Halloween episode and Woody is in a pumpkin carving contest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack-o%27-lantern

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/12865/whats-origin-jack-o-lanterns





Flo

 


CBS 1980-81. Alice spinoff. Geoffrey Lewis. Mickey Jones. 29 episodes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flo


Bolla Valpolicella

 


1978 wine.

Magnum, P.I. - Fragments

 


Season five, episode six. Spooky. First aired November 1, 1984. Samantha Eggar, Kenneth Mars. Psychic visions. Directed by David Hemmings.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0639655/

http://magnum-mania.com/Episodes/Season5/Fragments.html

Shrunken Head Apple Sculpture

 


Vincent Price.

https://flashbak.com/this-could-be-your-head-the-shrunken-head-apple-sculpture-kit-1975-365952/

Monday, October 18, 2021

Mark Harris on Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

 


https://www.gilbertpodcast.com/mark-harris/

New York Times bestselling author, journalist and entertainment historian Mark Harris joins Gilbert and Frank for a fascinating and informative conversation about his critically-acclaimed Mike Nichols biography (“Mike Nichols: A Life”), as well as his thoroughly-researched books, “Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War” and “Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood”). Also: Mel Blanc teams with Dr. Seuss, Bob Dylan is considered for “Bonnie and Clyde,” John Ford films the Battle of Midway and Rex Harrison insults the Emperor of Ethiopia. PLUS: “Bogart Slept Here”! “The Day of the Dolphin”! The brilliance of Elaine May! The disaster of “Doctor Dolittle”! The Three Stooges take on the Fuhrer! And Mark writes an Emmy-winning Netflix docuseries!

Normal Life

 


CBS 1990. Zappa. 14 episodes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_Life_(TV_series)

Monday, October 11, 2021

Dino Stamatopoulos on Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

 


https://soundcloud.com/gilbertgottfried/dino-stamatopoulos

Emmy-winning writer, producer, musician and monster kid Dino Stamatopoulos (“Mr. Show,” “TV Funhouse,” “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”) joins Gilbert and Frank for a darkly funny conversation about savage chimps, cross-dressing puppets, bad horror movie tropes, the spectacular failure of "The Dana Carvey Show" and the creation of his wildly original Adult Swim series, "Moral Orel" and "Mary Shelley's Frankenhole." Also: Ken Jeong climbs into a Godzilla suit, Robert Smigel sends up Bozo the Clown, Gilbert pulls off a shameless Halloween scam and Dino hangs with the legendary Forrest Ackerman. PLUS: Iggy Pop! Zeppo Marx! “The Ambiguously Gay Duo"! "I Walked with a Zombie"! In praise of Scott Adsit (and Charlie Kaufman)! And Dino's character fakes his own death on "Community"!

Sunday, October 10, 2021

ABC Spooky Special Halloween promos! (1990)

 

Susie Lake, Lake Tahoe

 


c1910.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2007660547/

Kate and Allie Halloween promo from October 1986!

 


Halloween party at State Normal School, Kearney, Nebraska

 


1908.

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?ammem/psbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(p10015))

ABC Comedy Hour Promo Slide 1972

 


Marantz Stereo System Commercial (1979)

 

Nasty Boys

 

NBC 1990. 13 episodes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasty_Boys_(TV_series)


Saturday, October 9, 2021

Heavy Metal (1981)

 


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Metal_(film)


https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Heavy-Metal-Blu-ray/17917/

Buffalo Smoking Tobacco

 


1868.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2001697729/

Tombstone

 


Frozen pizza.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tombstone_(pizza)

22 carats

 


https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-d88e-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Arsenic and Old Lace

 


Halloween-themed title cards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenic_and_Old_Lace_(film)

https://crimereads.com/arsenic-and-old-lace/





Cocoa & Fruity Pebbles

 


1978 Flintstones magic. And coin holder.

Friday, October 8, 2021

[Kids wearing masks for Halloween]

 


[October 1964]

Rizzuto, Angelo, 1906-1967, photographer

https://www.loc.gov/item/2021636510/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Rizzuto

Every day at 2 p.m. between May 1952 and June 1964, Rizzuto would venture out with a camera to record images for what was to be a vast encyclopedic kaleidoscope of Manhattan, a book to be called Little Old New York.

Rizzuto photographed New York's inhabitants and ended every roll of film with a portrait of himself. His images include cityscapes, compassionate photographs of children and confrontational pictures of angry women, along with anguished self-portraits.

Before he died, knowing that he would not live to see his intention realized, Rizzuto bequeathed 60,000 photographs and $50,000 to the Library of Congress, where they languished until photo historian Michael Lesy discovered and compiled them into book form entitled Angel’s World: The New York Photographs of Angelo Rizzuto.

ABC The Hound Of The Baskervilles Promo Slide 2/72

 


October's "bright blue weather" A good time to read!

 


1936-40. Poster for the WPA Statewide Library Project, showing a boy reading a book, surrounded by a bat, ghost, witch, and other images of Halloween.

https://www.loc.gov/item/98509532/

ABC Dying Room Only Promo Slide 9/18/73

 


Halloween

 


c1917. Three boys on porch steps cutting faces in pumpkins.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2002707190/