Spooky Goat update! That one episode of Ironside, and that other episode of Ironside!
8Followers of my spooky goat reign may recall a certain picture of a young Jodie Foster with Rod Serling as the grooviest warlock in San Francisco. It was from an episode of Ironside titled Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Murder. I couldn’t find the episode to post.
/image rod serling jodie foster ironside
I’ve been enjoying watching Ironside on the getTV digital station since last fall, but it only occurred to me a month ago that, if they didn’t change the schedule, eventually they’d show it. Long story short, they didn’t change the schedule and it’s going to be on Friday morning at 10 am central! So exciting if you enjoy the concept of prepubescent girls performing candle magic in an apartment house basement! Which I do!
While I was looking up the episode again, I found the whole damn series on archive.org, where I would swear I looked in October and found nothing, but it’s been up since at least last May? If you CAN’T WAIT, or don’t get getTV, you can watch the episode here:
https://archive.org/details/ironside-season-5/S5+E21+Bubble%2C+Bubble%2C+Toil+and+Murder.mp4
Sadly, the picture was clearly a promotional still and not a scene from the show.
ALSO: Just for kicks, or if you can’t get enough of slightly supernatural episodes of Ironside, here’s the season 7 episode where Ironside is lured to a haunted house where someone is trying to drive him insane… but why? It’s nothing like that one episode of Night Gallery with Leslie Nielsen, but it’s great in its own way.
https://archive.org/details/ironside-season7/Ironside+S07e06+House+Of+Terror.mkv
PS I can’t believe how much old tv is being shown, everywhere, all the time. There was a point in the early '90’s when cable was snatching up all the old shows and broadcast was starting to just show syndicated talk shows all day and infomercials all night, and I was genuinely heartbroken because it felt so very wrong, and I refused to get cable. If I had known that all I’d have to do is wait 20-30 years and things (in this one regard) would be BETTER THAN EVER, well, I would have been mad at having to wait.
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I don’t got getTV but I do get archive.org (and use it enough that I donate to it). Of course, though, I pay exorbitant fees to my cable company to get the bundle with TV, internet, and phone.
I’ve been a long-time Jodie Foster fan. So thanks for the heads-up and link.
@phendrick She’s so talented. Even here, she’s bringing so much intensity to the roll. She controls! She IS the power!
That’s freaky.
One older TV show that I would like to see again is Moonlighting (with Bruce Willis and Cybil Shepherd). Apparently (according to an article I read online somewhere), the issue preventing it being rebroadcast has something to do with copyrights and the licensing of music used on the show. Bummer.
@macromeh Otherwise known as the WKRP curse.
I finally get an old bunny ear antenna to get METV and you start talking about another station I can’t get.
That said, I’m watching Svengoolie regularly now. Creature from the Black Lagoon is one of my favorites. Thank you!
@sammydog01 One of the things I miss from my childhood is watching Creature Feature hosted by Dr. Paul Bearer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creature_Feature_(1973_TV_series)
While the Wikipedia entry is mostly correct at times Creature Feature was also shown on Sunday and there was the late Friday airing called the Friday Night Frights.
@yakkoTDI We had a creature feature with host Saturday afternoons and Gregory the Gravewalker Saturday nights. They were great.
https://theundergroundmultiplex.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/tugm-remembers-monster-movie-matinee-genius-creator-alan-milair/
@mossygreen I jiggled the bunny ears and found GET TV. So recommend away.
@sammydog01 Killer Klowns From Outer Space tonight! He showed it a bunch of times in the late '90’s/early '00’s, and I remember thinking I never want to see this movie again, but I’ve been missing it in the last year, so I’m pretty psyched! Do you ever watch Sventoonie afterwards?
@mossygreen I don’t usually- I’ve generally had enough silliness by the time it comes on, especially since I often start with some Three Stooges. I actually own Creature on Vudu but I love the little facts Sven gives out.
I was folding laundry and turned on TV- Tales from the Darkside. WITH DARREN MCGAVIN! I’ll try to remember Night Stalker tonight.
@sammydog01 Ah, well, it’s not for everyone. I love it way too much, but tonight’s episode was just so-so. Royal Wedding was an odd choice. Speaking of Darren McGavin, I unexpectedly saw him in something recently and had the same OH MY GOD IT’S DARREN MCGAVEN moment. I had to look it up, honestly couldn’t remember what I was watching except it was in black and white, turned out it was the Sventoonie episode where, for some reason, they were showing The Man With the Golden Arm. The actual movie parts weren’t that funny (the singing robot skit parts were funny), but it turns out he played the evil drug dealer who gets Sinatra back hooked on heroin. Between him and Kim Novak, it really made me want to watch the whole movie. He played personable evil really well.
@mossygreen Maybe I’ll try it next week. I’m pretty exited about watching Dennis Weaver get chased around the Midwest by a truck. It’s been a while since I’ve watched that.
I stayed up for Night Stalker and realized that’s the guy from Picket Fences. I haven’t even thought about that show in forever and found it on Amazon Prime. It’s on my watch list. Weird how that happens.
Darren McGavin is the best.
@sammydog01 I just love Dennis Weaver. Went through a heavy McCloud phase many years ago.
@mossygreen I thought there would be more flames. Good movie though. I didn’t realize Spielberg directed it.
@sammydog01 Fewer flames, more Dennis Weaver tears than expected. Such is life.