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  1. I used the 22-minute After School Special "THE HALLOWEEN THAT ALMOST WASN'T" starring Judd Hirsch and Mariette Hartley as a classroom Halloween treat every year during my career, following its release in 1979. Kids loved it. #halloween #publicschool #publicschools #publicschoolteacher #teacher #teachers #schoolteaching #halloweenparty #halloweentreat #juddhirsch #mariettehartley #television #classictelevision #tv #classictv #vintagetv #vintagetelevision #1970s #prestigetelevision #teaching

  2. 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: cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/20

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

  3. Johnny Staccato (1959) a stylish gritty jazz-fuelled film noir-inflected PI TV series with John Cassavetes as a piano player/private eye. Similar to Peter Gunn but better - more neurotic, edgy and noirish.

    My review: cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/20

    #Noirvember #filmnoir #culttv #JohnCassavetes #PeterGunn #50stv #1950stv #retrotv #privateeyes #classictelevision #vintagetv #classictv

  4. Hi-Jack, an episode of the 1950-51 Dick Tracy TV series. I'm a bit of a Dick Tracy fan and the series did star Ralph Byrd, the definitive screen Dick Tracy. Alas the plot is too conventional and it all looks a bit stodgy. A curiosity more than anything else.

    My review: cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/20

    #culttv #retrotv #vintagetv #1950stv #50stv #DickTracy

  5. Rod Serling's The Sixteen-Millimetre Shrine, one of my favourite Twilight Zone episodes (1959). A faded movie star (played superbly by Ida Lupino) lives in the past, the past when she was a star.

    A wonderful bitter-sweet story. With a terrific twist ending which was copied by a certain well-known film director some years later.

    My review: cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/20

    #RodSerling #TwilightZone #IdaLupino #retrotv #culttv #vintagetv #scifitv #scifi #sciencefiction #50stv #horrortv