The Griswalds Say, "Hi!"

As summer vacation season gets underway, we got the family together for an updated family portrait!

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The BOO Tube
Local TV Horror Hosts – most of us had ‘em. In New York and northern Jersey, it was Zacherley (aka John Zacherle). In L.A., it was Vampira. Milwaukee had Dr. Cadaverino and Tampa had Dr.…
Halloween Movie Ideas - Take 2
GORGON (1964) We were born too late to experience the great Universal horror films in first run theaters. Instead, we watched them on our local TV station’s “Shock-Horror-Monster-Chiller-Nightmare Theater.” You remember. Those late night weekend…
Halloween Movie Ideas
I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE I Walked with a Zombie may be the best movie with the dumbest title in motion picture history. Cranked out by the b-movie horror unit at RKO pictures in 1943,…
Now Playing at the Boomtown Drive-In: "I Married a Monster from Outer Space"
Just like I Walked with a Zombie, behind the incredibly silly title lurks a pretty decent little B-movie. I Married a Monster from Outer Space was made by Paramount Pictures in 1958. Directed by Gene…
The TV That Time Forgot: Hazel (1961-66)
Hazel was a very popular sit-com that ran for 5 seasons (4 in full color), producing 154 shows, that was also quite popular in syndication. The show was based on a popular one panel cartoon…
The TV That Time Forgot: Annie Oakley
There was a time when Westerns dominated television programming so thoroughly that it was tough (with no home video, no streaming, and just 3 networks if you lived in a city big enough to have…