Coming Saturday! A double feature with runaway robots, demented dolls, and plenty of goo! Join us (from 5pm) or don’t!
17:00 – Space Ghost S01E08
17:35 – Adventures of Aquaman S01E09 The Ice Dragon, S01E10 The Deadly Drillers
17:50 – Ultraman ep07 – The Blue Stone of Baraj
18:20 – Pee-wee’s Playhouse S01E08 Ants in Your Pants
18:50 – Cry Wolfe S01E10 Black Widower
19:15 – Runaway (1984)
Tom Selleck (“Friends”) and Gene Simmons (“KISS Meets The Phantom of the Park”) face off (well, moustache-and-tongue off*) in this techno-thriller from Michael Crichton; helped by Kirstie Alley, Cynthia Rhodes, G.W. Bailey and the slightly less annoying kid from Flight of The Navigator (Joey Cramer).
In the near future, a police officer specializes in malfunctioning robots. When a robot turns out to have been programmed to kill, he begins to uncover a homicidal plot to create killer robots… and his son becomes a target.
21:00 – Jon Benjamin Has a Van S01E10 – Smoking
21:20 – Dolls (1987)
Directed by Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator), written by Ed Naha, and starring Stephen Lee, Guy Rolfe, Hilary Mason, Ian Patrick Williams, with Bunty Bailey and featuring stop-motion animation by David W. Allen.
Six very pleasant people seek shelter during a storm in the mansion of an elderly puppetmaker and his wife, only to find that the various puppets and dolls in the home contain a dark secret.
22:45 – Aqua Something You Know Whatever, S09E03 – Shirt Herpes
23:00 – The Venture Bros. Season 2 Episode 8 – Fallen Arches
Jealous of his much-hated landlord, Doctor Orpheus is seeking an arch nemesis; accordingly, the Guild sends a bunch of costumed idiots over to the Venture compound to interview for the position. WHAT COULD GO WRONG?
23:25 – The Venture Bros. Season 2 Episode 9 – Guess Who’s Coming to State Dinner
Jonas Venture Sr.’s space station Gargantua-1 crashes to earth leaving just one survivor: upright and uptight astroman Bud Manstrong. Invited to the White House along with his mother, he finds himself competing with Dr Venture for the attentions of the commander-in-chief. Meanwhile, the boys solve a mystery!
23:50 – Space Ghost Coast To Coast S01E09 – Self Help
00:05 – He And She, Episode 8 – The Background Man
00:35 – The Norm Show S02E04 – Norm vs. Death
01:05 – Getting On with James Urbaniak, Ep. 9 “Cross Check” by Brie Williams and James Urbaniak
01:20 – Our Mr. Sun (1956)
A late extra from the Bell Labs/AT&T series directed by Frank Capra, with the latter trying to stick religion where it doesn’t belong. Marcel LaFollette, Research Associate at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, has described them as “specials that combined clever story lines, sophisticated animation, veteran character actors, films of natural phenomena, interviews with scientists, and precise explanation of scientific and technical concepts—all in the pursuit of better public understanding of science.”
02:20 – Fin
(Additional warning: contains Tom Selleck, Gene Simmons without makeup, William Blake, Sonic Youth and KMFDM)
*not to mislead the reader, it is in fact his co-star Cynthia Rhodes the mustachioed hero relentlessly snogs at the end of the movie, in a sequence that must surely be reminiscent of having your face swept with a broom while someone uses an angle grinder a few feet above you