#culttelevision — Public Fediverse posts

So here I am, lighting my torch, metaphorically, and physically, for the thirty-second time, with a little reminder everyone that tonight in 1993, at 9 p.m. (but only in the USA) the first ever episode of The X Files was shown on television.

And hi to everyone "out there" who`s going to watch that episode, oddly just entitled "Pilot", all over again, tonight.

Its always worth doing, too......

#1990s #XFiles #XFilesDay #1993 #Television #CultTelevision

V is a two-part 1983 US alien invasion sci-fi TV mini-series. Flying saucers arrive on Earth. The aliens appear to be friendly. Appearances can be deceptive. The special effects have a very 80s arcade game look. Fairly entertaining.

My review: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2024/10/v-tv-miniseries-1983.html

#culttv #culttelevision #80stv #1980stv #80stelevision #1980stelevision #vintagetv #vintagetelevision #scifi #scifitv #scifitelevision #sciencefiction #alieninvasion #alieninvasions

V is a two-part 1983 US alien invasion sci-fi TV mini-series. Flying saucers arrive on Earth. The aliens appear to be friendly. Appearances can be deceptive. The special effects have a very 80s arcade game look. Fairly entertaining.

My review: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2024/10/v-tv-miniseries-1983.html

#culttv #culttelevision #80stv #1980stv #80stelevision #1980stelevision #vintagetv #vintagetelevision #scifi #scifitv #scifitelevision #sciencefiction #alieninvasion #alieninvasions

V is a two-part 1983 US alien invasion sci-fi TV mini-series. Flying saucers arrive on Earth. The aliens appear to be friendly. Appearances can be deceptive. The special effects have a very 80s arcade game look. Fairly entertaining.

My review: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2024/10/v-tv-miniseries-1983.html

#culttv #culttelevision #80stv #1980stv #80stelevision #1980stelevision #vintagetv #vintagetelevision #scifi #scifitv #scifitelevision #sciencefiction #alieninvasion #alieninvasions

V is a two-part 1983 US alien invasion sci-fi TV mini-series. Flying saucers arrive on Earth. The aliens appear to be friendly. Appearances can be deceptive. The special effects have a very 80s arcade game look. Fairly entertaining.

My review: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2024/10/v-tv-miniseries-1983.html

#culttv #culttelevision #80stv #1980stv #80stelevision #1980stelevision #vintagetv #vintagetelevision #scifi #scifitv #scifitelevision #sciencefiction #alieninvasion #alieninvasions

V is a two-part 1983 US alien invasion sci-fi TV mini-series. Flying saucers arrive on Earth. The aliens appear to be friendly. Appearances can be deceptive. The special effects have a very 80s arcade game look. Fairly entertaining.

My review: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2024/10/v-tv-miniseries-1983.html

#culttv #culttelevision #80stv #1980stv #80stelevision #1980stelevision #vintagetv #vintagetelevision #scifi #scifitv #scifitelevision #sciencefiction #alieninvasion #alieninvasions

Some episode reviews from season 2 of Perry Mason, a series that raised the bar in terms of complex plotting in 1950s U.S. TV and demonstrated the potential of the hour-long episodic TV drama. And that terrific cast! Always fun to revisit.

My review: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2020/01/perry-mason-season-2-part-2.html

#culttv #culttelevision #vintagetv #vintage television #PerryMason #RaymondBurr #ErleStanleyGardner #50stv #1950stv #50stelevision #1950stelevision

Some episode reviews from season 2 of Perry Mason, a series that raised the bar in terms of complex plotting in 1950s U.S. TV and demonstrated the potential of the hour-long episodic TV drama. And that terrific cast! Always fun to revisit.

My review: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2020/01/perry-mason-season-2-part-2.html

#culttv #culttelevision #vintagetv #vintage television #PerryMason #RaymondBurr #ErleStanleyGardner #50stv #1950stv #50stelevision #1950stelevision

Some episode reviews from season 2 of Perry Mason, a series that raised the bar in terms of complex plotting in 1950s U.S. TV and demonstrated the potential of the hour-long episodic TV drama. And that terrific cast! Always fun to revisit.

My review: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2020/01/perry-mason-season-2-part-2.html

#culttv #culttelevision #vintagetv #vintage television #PerryMason #RaymondBurr #ErleStanleyGardner #50stv #1950stv #50stelevision #1950stelevision

Some episode reviews from season 2 of Perry Mason, a series that raised the bar in terms of complex plotting in 1950s U.S. TV and demonstrated the potential of the hour-long episodic TV drama. And that terrific cast! Always fun to revisit.

My review: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2020/01/perry-mason-season-2-part-2.html

#culttv #culttelevision #vintagetv #vintage television #PerryMason #RaymondBurr #ErleStanleyGardner #50stv #1950stv #50stelevision #1950stelevision

Some episode reviews from season 2 of Perry Mason, a series that raised the bar in terms of complex plotting in 1950s U.S. TV and demonstrated the potential of the hour-long episodic TV drama. And that terrific cast! Always fun to revisit.

My review: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2020/01/perry-mason-season-2-part-2.html

#culttv #culttelevision #vintagetv #vintage television #PerryMason #RaymondBurr #ErleStanleyGardner #50stv #1950stv #50stelevision #1950stelevision

The 1967-68 UK TV series Man in a Suitcase takes the basic ITC action-adventure formula and adds a hardboiled flavour, real toughness, grittiness, plus seedy downmarket glamour. And more than a hint of film noir. The best of all the ITC series.

My review: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2016/02/man-in-suitcase-1967-68.html

#retrotv #vintagetv #vintagetelevision #60stv #1960stv #60stelevision #1960stelevision #culttv #culttelevision #ITC #spytv #spies #RichardBradford #BritishTV #Britishtelevision

Peter Leslie’s The Cornish Pixie Affair, from 1967, the fifth original novel based on the TV spy series The Girl from UNCLE starts with a murder in a circus (a setting that is used extremely well). Statuettes of pixies play a role. Enjoyable.

My review: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-girl-from-uncle-cornish-pixie-affair.html

#retrotv #vintagetv #vintagetelevision #scifi #scifitv #Lexx #60stv #1960stv #60stelevision #1960stelevision #culttv #culttelevision #GirlfromUNCLE #spytv #spies #PeterLeslie

Lexx is of course the greatest scifi TV series ever made. It takes the established conventions of TV scifi and thoroughly stomps them. Crazy, stylish, sexy, sleazy, goofy, dark, wildly inventive, with no regard for good taste.

My season 2 review: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2024/04/lexx-season-2-1998.html

#retrotv #vintagetv #vintagetelevision #scifi #scifitv #Lexx #90stv #1990stv #90stelevision #1990stelevision #culttv #culttelevision #scifitelevision

Five Red Herrings (1975), last and best of the superb BBC TV adaptations of Dorothy L. Sayers’ Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries starring Ian Carmichael (the definitive screen Lord Peter). Fine writing, great performances by the whole cast. Terrific.

My review: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2016/01/lord-peter-wimsey-five-red-herrings-1975.html

#70stv #1970stv #DorothyLSayers #Lord Peter Wimsey #1970stelevision #70stelevision #IanCarmichael #retrotv #retrotelevision #culttv #culttelevision #vintagetv #vintagetelevision

Three 1964 episodes of my favourite US anthology series, The Outer Limits. The Invisible Enemy has sand sharks on Mars. It's OK. Wolf 359 is excellent -scientists create a miniature world. I, Robot is quite good - a robot is tried for murder.

My reviews: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-outer-limits-three-season-2-episodes.html

#retrotv #retrotelevision #culttv #culttelevision #60stv #1960stv #classictv #classictelevision #vintagetv #vintagetelevision #scifi #scifitv #1960stelevision #60stelevision #OuterLimits

Rod Serling's The After Hours, still my all-time favourite episode of The Twilight Zone. Has that wonderful subtle sense of slowly increasing unease. Great performance by Anne Francis. I've seen it many times and I like it more each time.

My review: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-twilight-zone-after-hours.html

#retrotv #retrotelevision #culttv #culttelevision #60stv #1960stv #classictv #classictelevision #vintagetv #vintagetelevision #scifi #scifitv #1960stelevision #80stelevision #RodSerling #TwilightZone #AnneFrancis

Voyagers! (1982) is a kids' sci-fi time travel series that plays fast and loose with history and is nothing more than a light-hearted adventure series. But it's lively and highly enjoyable.

My review: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2020/08/voyagers-1982.html

#retrotv #retrotelevision #culttv #culttelevision #80stv #1980stv #classictv #classictelevision #vintagetv #vintagetelevision #scifi #scifitv #1980stelevision #80stelevision #timetravel

Stay Tuned is a Tara King episode of The Avengers, and it's a corker. Steed has a Groundhog Day experience (24 years before that film came out). Clever twisted story, with a fine fight scene between Linda Thorson and Kate O’Mara. TV bliss.

My review: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-avengers-stay-tuned.html

#retrotv #retrotelevision #culttv #culttelevision #60stv #1960stv #classictv #classic television #theavengers #LindaThorson #TaraKing #vintagetv #vintagetelevision

M Squad was a 1957-60 NBC US TV cop series starring Lee Marvin. Action-packed, hard-edged, with a film noir vibe. It dives right into the seamy side of life. Marvin oozes charisma. He's like a pressure cooker about to blow. Superb TV.

My review: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2020/02/m-squad-season-one-1957.html

#retrotv #retrotelevision #culttv #culttelevision #50stv #1950stv #classictv #classic television #LeeMarvin #copshow #copshows

The Green Hornet (1966-67) is a TV series which I personally much prefer to its contemporary Batman. Closer in feel to the original 40s serials. Hardboiled crime stories with some gadgets to add spice and just a touch of outrageous adventure.

My review: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-green-hornet-1966-67.html

#retrotv #retrotelevision #vintageTV #vintagetelevision #culttv #culttelevision #60stv #60stelevision #1960stv #1960stelevision #greenhornet

Melissa is a 6-episode 1964 BBC mini-series, part of the Francis Durbridge Presents series. Typical Durbridge which means it's fun. A struggling novelist suspected of murder has to question everything he thought he knew about his life.

My review: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2017/11/francis-durbridge-presents-melissa-1964.html

#culttv #culttelevision #retrotv #retrotelevision #vintagetv #vintagetelevision #60stv #1960stv #FrancisDurbridge

Uncle Silas, based on Sheridan le Fanu's novel, a 1968 episode of the UK Mystery and Imagination anthology TV series. Total gothic overload plus extraordinary delirious excessiveness. One of the most outrageous pieces of TV you will ever see.

My review: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2015/09/mystery-and-imagination-uncle-silas-1968.html

#culttv #culttelevision #retrotv #vintagetv #retrotelevision #vintagetelevision #SheridanleFanu #JosephSheridanleFanu #gothichorror #gothic

Callan Uncovered is a collection of the Callan short stories written by James Mitchell. Callan is the greatest TV spy series of all time. It worked better as a TV series but the short stories are subtly different and worthwhile if you're a fan.

My review: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2023/10/callan-uncovered.html

#culttv #culttelevision #JamesMitchell #spies #spyfiction

Venus Smith, the forgotten Avengers girl. She was Steed's partner in six 1963 episodes. Fascinatingly different from the other Avengers girls. She had zero combat skills but she was a useful agent. And quite charming.

Reviews of the Venus Smith episodes: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-avengers-venus-smith-episodes.html

#culttv #retrotv #vintagetv #60stv #1960stv #theavengers #culttelevision #spies #spytv #VenusSmith

The Interrogators, a great 1969 Tara King episode of The Avengers, written by Richard Harris and Brian Clemens. Christopher Lee guest stars. Starts with a British agent being interrogated by the bad guys, then the twists begin.

My review: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-avengers-interrogators.html

#LindaThorson #ChristopherLee #culttv #retrotv #vintagetv #60stv #1960stv #theavengers #culttelevision #spies #spytv

Lost in Space by Dave van Arnam and Ron Archer is as its name suggests a TV tie-in novel inspired by the classic TV series. It's not a bad sci-fi novel but it really doesn't have the feel of the TV series.

My review: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2023/06/lost-in-space-tv-tie-in-novel.html

#sciencefiction #scifi #TVtieinnovels #LostinSpace #culttv #retrotv #60stv #1960stv #culttelevision #scifitv

...the star of the U.S. #Gojira-cut #Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1956) - and pictured here as the wife / dog-murdering travelling salesman in Hitchcock's immortal #RearWindow (1954).

#RaymondBurr #BornOnThisDay #BOTD #OTD #ClassicTV #CultTelevision #GoldenAgeHollywood #FilmNoir #Kaiju

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Pictured here as one of TV's scariest monsters, the vampiric Vegas serial killer Janos Skorzeny, tracked by Kolchak in ABC's iconic #TheNightStalker (1972).

#BarryAtwater #BOTD #BornOnThisDay #OTD #CultTelevision #CultTV

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Remembering Yvonne Joyce Craig (1937-2015), the American actress and ballerina, born in Illinois #OnThisDay in 1937. A popular presence in cult TV shows of the 60s and 70s, notably as Barbara Gordon, a.k.a. Batgirl, in ABC's Batman (1967-68). Pictured here in a memorable guest spot as Orion slave girl Marta in the final season of Star Trek ('Whom Gods Destroy', 1969).

#YvonneCraig #Batgirl #Batman #BatmantTVSeries #StarTrek #CultTelevision #CultTV #60sTV

Immortalised as wise-cracking, monster-hunting reporter Carl #Kolchak in ABC's classic TV movie #TheNightStalker (1972), its 1973 sequel and the short-lived but beloved spinoff series (1974-75).

#BornOnThisDay #BOTD #OTD #CultTelevision #CultTV

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...and the brothel madam in Tobe Hooper's #EatenAlive (1976). Best remembered as the first and best screen #Morticia (and her sister Ophelia Frump) in ABC's #TheAddamsFamily (1964-66).

#CarolynJones #BornOnThisDay #BOTD #OTD #CultTV #CultTelevision #Gothic #ClassicHorror #ClassicScienceFiction #FilmNoir

#TheSpiralStaircase (1961), #TheVictim (1972) and in the title role of Paul Wendkos' excellent #TheLegendofLizzieBorden (1975).

#ElizabethMontgomery #BornOnThisDay #BOTD #OTD #CultTV #CultTelevision #ClassicTV

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