Tuesday, October 26, 2010
The Cult-TV Faces of: The Investigator
award-winning creator of Enter The House Between and author of 32 books including Horror Films FAQ (2013), Horror Films of the 1990s (2011), Horror Films of the 1980s (2007), TV Year (2007), The Rock and Roll Film Encyclopedia (2007), Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair (2006),, Best in Show: The Films of Christopher Guest and Company (2004), The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi (2004), An Askew View: The Films of Kevin Smith (2002), The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film & Television (2004), Exploring Space:1999 (1997), An Analytical Guide to TV's Battlestar Galactica (1998), Terror Television (2001), Space:1999 - The Forsaken (2003) and Horror Films of the 1970s (2002).
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50 Years Ago: The Island at the Top of the World (1974)
Fifty years ago, I was five years old, and at that tender young age I dreamed of "lost worlds of fantasy," as I call them as a cri...
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Last year at around this time (or a month earlier, perhaps), I posted galleries of cinematic and TV spaceships from the 1970s, 1980s, 1... -
The robots of the 1950s cinema were generally imposing, huge, terrifying, and of humanoid build. If you encountered these metal men,...
whew... here we go... i better get a prize for most...
ReplyDelete1.) sixth sense tv series.. after night gallery
2.) classic kolchak
3.) arrghh.. pass// nancy drew?
4.) hardy boys
5.) dark shadows?
6.) pass....
7.) moonlighting! it's dave and maddie doin their best!
8.) twin peaks... cooper yeah
9.) shari b... beyond reality
10.) mulder x-file
11.) scully x-file
12.) eric close... in dark skies
13.) debra messing in prey
14.) lance! millennium
15.) klea! millennium
16.) doggett
17.) reyes
18.) 2005 carl kolchak
19.) veronica mars
20.) dresden files
21.) fringe...
i'm tired...
Nicholas,
ReplyDeleteNo wonder you're tired, you ran the table -- you got all but three of the cult-tv investigators! Very impressive!
The one that are left are
#5 (not Dark Shadows) and # 6. You did get number 3, that's Pamela Sue Martin as Nancy Drew.
best,
JKM
#6 Sapphire & Steel?
ReplyDelete#5 ????
SteveW: Nice job, buddy! You nailed # 6. That's Sapphire & Steel indeed (a great show, by the way...).
ReplyDeleteNow, # 5 is extremely obscure, I will readily admit. Here's three hints. It's from the 1970s; it's British, and it involves the supernatural!
best,
John
#5 Blake's 7!!??? I thought I recognized that actor....
ReplyDeleteWell, no, I guess that can't be it. Sci-fi, not supernatural.
ReplyDeleteHi Steve! A great guess, but no, it's not Blake's 7. :)
ReplyDeletebest,
JKM
Huh, the only supernatural ones I can think of from that era are anthology shows like "Thriller" (the Brian Clemens version, not the Boris Karloff one) and "Hammer's House of Horror." That actor looks like he could have stepped out of either series, but that's as close I can get. He's a definite '70s British TV "type"--i.e., mounds of hair and chiseled features.
ReplyDeleteSteveW: Wow, you know your British shows, all right! But it's not either of those either.
ReplyDeleteLet me offer this clue, you should "factor" something else in...
best,
John
Hah! Well, then it must be "The Omega Factor"--not a show I've seen, but one I've heard good things about! Great quiz...
ReplyDeleteSteveW - you got it! "The Omega Factor" it is; a very interesting, cerebral (if glacially-paced) genre treat!
ReplyDeleteGreat job!
best,
John