Monday, April 15, 2013

The Cult-TV Faces of: The Show (or Movie) within a Show

Identified by Chadzilla: The Twilight Zone: "It's a Good Life."


Identified by Sirrus: Tales from the Darkside: "Distant Signals."

Identified by Carl: Dr. Who: "Vengeance on Varos."

Not Identified: Twin Peaks: "Invitation to Love."

Not Identified: She-Wolf of London: "Beyond the Beyond."

Identified by Carl: The Simpsons.

Identified by Dr. Howard Margolin: The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space.


Identified by Terri Wilson: Millennium: "Jose Chung's Doomsday Defense."

Identified by Chadzilla: Angel: "Birthday."

Identified by SGB: The X-Files: "Hollywood A.D."

Identified by Carl: Futurama.

Identified by SGB: Star Trek Voyager: "Bride of Chaotica."

Identified by SGB: Stargate-SG1, the crew of Wormhole-X-treme.

Not Identified: Veronica Mars: "I am God."

Identified by SGB: Supernatural.

Identified by Dr. Howard Margolin: Smallville: "Action."

13 comments:

  1. Good morning John,
    3 Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos
    6 The Simpsons
    11 Futurama

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    1. Hi Carl,

      Great identifications to get us started this Monday morning. You know your shows-within-shows well...all ids correct!

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  2. Anonymous9:10 AM

    Hi John,

    5 Star Trek Voyager
    6 Simpsons
    10 X-Files
    11 Futurama
    12 Star Trek Voyager
    13 Stargate SG-1
    15 Supernatural

    SGB

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    1. SGB:

      You never disappoint! Brilliant job on all identifications, and all are 100% correct!

      best,
      John

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    2. Hi SGB,

      Well, I made a mistake there! :)

      Actually #5 looks like Voyager, but it is not! It looks so close (and has the name Voyager on the ship bridge...) that If forgot. It's from a different series of a few years earlier...

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  3. #8. "Millennium" episode "Jose Chung's Doomsday Defense"

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    1. Hi Terri!

      Awesome, yep that's Millennium's selfosophy episode!

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  4. Anonymous11:48 AM

    I believe number one is The Twilight Zone. I know number nine is Angel.

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    1. Hi Chadzilla,

      Yes! Great job on both of those identifications.

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  5. I think #2 is the Distant Signals episode of Tales from the Darkside.

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    1. Hi Sirrus,

      You got it! "Distant Signals" stars Darren McGavin, and the episode is from Tales of the Darkside. Great job!

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  6. 7. The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space (1995 TV movie)
    16. Warrior Angel from "Smallville."

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    1. Nice Howard! #2 more off the list!

      Excellent!

      best,
      John

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