Podcasts about Buck Rogers

Celluloid Heroes: Episode 4Film: Buck Rogers in the 25th CenturyThe late 1970s were a strange time for cinema as studios everywhere tried to capitalize on Star Wars' success. Re-releases of now banned Disney films, low-budget drive-in schlock, and multiple homages to that galaxy far-far away. What was old was new again, right down to the subject of this month's episode: the 1979 Canadian theatrical release of the TV pilot for Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.Follow Celluloid Heroes on INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/TheCelluloidHeroesPodFollow Brad Abraham at www.bradabraham.comShare your thoughts with us! Send your comments to contact@longboxcrusade.comThis podcast is a member of the LONGBOX CRUSADE NETWORK:Visit the WEBSITE: https://www.LongboxCrusade.comFollow on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/LongboxCrusadeFollow on INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/longboxcrusadeLike the FACEBOOK page: https://www.facebook.com/LongboxCrusadeSubscribe to the YOUTUBE Channel: https://goo.gl/4LkhovSubscribe on APPLE PODCASTS at:https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-longboxcrusade/id1118783510?mt=2Subscribe on SPOTIFY at:https://open.spotify.com/show/3Hl0nrO7z1KYaHSDug9hsg?si=ee431b760c8c4a21Celluloid Heroes SPOTIFY Single Feed at:https://open.spotify.com/show/5G4VxlMzO0yy7Rub7MPUzx?si=389277ae77a84dd0We appreciate you joining us for this episode of Celluloid Heroes and hope you enjoyed listening!#film #cinema #movies #genx #nostalgia #BuckRogers

The Career that Dripped with Horror: Remembered by John StanleyIn print for the first time: The detailed history of how horror hosts Bob Wilkins and John Stanley "rose from the dead" in 1999 and began making special appearances in the San Francisco Bay Area, attracting those who grew up watching them as well as a whole new generation of fans. You'll encounter such colorful characters as Will "The Thrill" Viharo, his wife Monica ("Tiki Goddess"), Erik Lobo, who rose up to become horror host Mr. Lobo, Bay Area producer Bob Johnson, Lord Blood-Rah, Miss Misery, Elvira, and countless others!CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH ...THE LEGACY OF STAR WARS : Meet Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Billy Dee Williams and Frank Oz.THE LEGENDS OF SUPERMAN: Meet Sarah Douglas (left) as villainous Ursa. Plus Supermen Christopher Reeve and Dean Cain; and the Loise Lane GangFANTASY AUTHORS SURPREME: Ray Bradbury, Robert "Psycho" Bloch and Steven King.AND MORE! Marvel legend Stan Lee, Batman Adam West and Robin Burt Ward, TV's Spider-man Nicholas Hammond!PLUS: Start Trek! Flash Gordon! Creature from the Black Lagoon! Alien! Buck Rogers! And Conan himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger!For 33 years John Stanley was an entertainment writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, covering the leading movie and TV personalities from the 1960s through the early 1990s. During that time, he was also host of "Creature Features," an extremely popular Saturday night series in the Bay Area that ran for 14 years. (His predecessor, Bob Wilkins, hosted from 1971-1978.) He has produced many DVDS featuring material from his "Creature Features" shows as well as a documentary about film noir expert Eddie MullerAnd now, "Creature Features" host John Stanley crashes You Tube with a channel featuring interviews with major stars of science-fiction and horror movies and series.THE YOUTUBE CHANNEL:  https.//www.youtube.com/@CreatureFeatures80AMAZONhttps://www.stanleybooks.net/ https://www.urlinkpublishing.com/http://www.bluefunkbroadcasting.com/root/twia/32725tba3.mp3 

Attention, space cadets and retro gamers! Prepare to blast off into a pixelated adventure as Play Comics takes on Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom. We're zooming through the 25th century faster than you can say “bidi-bidi-bidi,” exploring this cosmic classic that graced the Atari 2600, ColecoVision, Atari 5200, and Intellivision. Joining us on this retro romp is none other than Andy Larson, one of the amazing hosts of The Last Comic Shop podcast. Together, we'll navigate through space battles, questionable physics, and more bleeps and bloops than you can shake a joystick at. So strap in, adjust your antenna, and get ready to explore whether this game does justice to the Buck Rogers comics and serialized adventures. Will it be a direct hit or a galactic miss? Tune in to find out if Buck's digital escapades are as timeless as his 500-year nap! Learn such things as: How has Buck Rogers influenced some of your favorite modern science fiction? When is taking a giant nap a huge mistake? Do we really care that a lot of the actual science here is wrong? And so much more! You can Andy on BlueSky @lastcomicshoppodcast.com, Instagram @lastcomicshop, YouTube @lastcomicshop, his comic blog on Tumbler, and of course over on The Last Comic Shop Podcast. If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you're interested in. If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix. You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicscaston Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook. A big thanks to Spawnography and Talkin' Comix for the promos today. Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who swears that it's a relative flying that spaceship in the game, but doesn't have proof to back it up. Support Play Comics by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/playcomicsRead transcript

What if I told you that the man who flew above Disneyland's Tomorrowland in the 1960s wasn't on wires, but strapped to actual jet engines? The remarkable true story of the rocket belt at Disney parks is more fascinating—and bizarre—than you might imagine.Kelly and Pete explore the surprising origins of personal flight technology, beginning with Wendell Moore of Bell Aeronautics, who adapted stabilization jets from Chuck Yeager's sound barrier-breaking X-1 aircraft into a wearable rocket pack. Though limited to just 21 seconds of flight time and powered by 90% pure hydrogen peroxide, these devices captured worldwide imagination, appearing not just at Disneyland and Disney World, but at presidential demonstrations, the 1984 Olympics opening ceremony, and in James Bond's "Thunderball."The rocket belt's journey through entertainment history connects fascinating dots between science fiction and reality. From Buck Rogers' "jumping belt" of 1920s comics to Commando Cody's rocket adventures in 1950s film serials, America had been primed to embrace personal flight long before it became technically possible. When Disney showcased these devices above Tomorrowland, they were fulfilling dreams decades in the making.But this is just the beginning of a story that grows increasingly strange. As competing rocket belt designs emerge, the narrative takes unexpected turns involving lawn-mowing teenagers who became rocket men, alleged drug smuggling operations, baseball bat confrontations, stolen equipment, and the birth of troubling rivalries that will ultimately lead to truly startling consequences.This first installment of a two-part rocket belt saga lifts off from the Flight Circle of yesterday's Tomorrowland and soars through a landscape where Disney history intersects with one of technology's most persistently appealing—yet perpetually impractical—dreams. Join us next time as the story grows even more unbelievable.==================================================================Show Notes: Bill Suitor is his name, not Robert as Kelly says early on.Dr. Theopolis on Buck Rogers was voiced by Howard F. Flynn.It's actually unclear if Tommy Walker booked the Bell Rocketbelt team for the 1964 World's Fair. He did, however, book Suitor to fly the RocketBelt for the 1984 Olympic Games opening as well as the team's 1965 and 1967 appearances at Disneyland.Walker, by the way, also composed the six-note "Charge!" fanfare heard at American sporting events.Astronaut Charles Duke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_DukeKelly is playing fast and loose with the attraction naming. Rocket to the Moon (1955), Flight to the Moon (1967), Mission to Mars (1975).The Jetbelt guys actually could have launched from the location of the former Flying Saucers ride in 1967 because it had been converted to the Tomorrowland stage.Technical Debt at Disneyland article - https://boardwalktimes.net/the-cost-of-endless-magic-theme-parks-and-technical-debt-73a4bb29bb24Jaxxon!  https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Jaxxon_T._TumperakkiThanks for listening!We'd love it if you would give us a cheeky little review on your podcast platform of choice. They're really helpful.Come visit our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1511094196139406 or drop us a note to comments@lowdown-plus-up.com and let us know any questions or comments about how YOU would like to plus-something-up! We are a Boardwalk Times production.Boardwalk Times, https://boardwalktimes.net/Boardwalk Times store, https://boardwalktimes.store .

Interview by Kris PetersFeeder delivered two monster albums in a row, 2001's Echo Park and 2002's Comfort In Sound, establishing themselves as one of the UK's biggest and most loved rock acts. But that was merely the beginning. While most of their peers faded away, Feeder cemented their place as one of the most enduring acts in modern rock with over 20 million albums sold, multiple number 1 albums in the UK charts, and a legacy of unforgettable live performances.Always masters of marrying the light and the dark, illuminating the shadowy corners of their world to uncover something poignant and uplifting, their anthemic alt-rock songs packed with emotional depth and intensity have earned a devoted fan base around the globe.Feeder continue to cement their legacy with their latest release Black/Red, a double album, which is the final instalment of a trilogy of albums with and the final two parts to Torpedo.Equipped with an unrelenting barrage of rock anthems such as Buck Rogers, Feeling a Moment, Just a Day, Just the Way I'm Feeling, Come Back Around and High, Australian fans are set for an incredible treat when the Feeder juggernaut rolls across the country in April.When HEAVY spoke with frontman Grant Nicholas, he spoke more about Feeder's first Australian tour in 14 years, starting in April, after previous attempts were hindered by scheduling conflicts. He emphasized the band's dedication to creating timeless music rather than following trends and expressed excitement about the lively Australian crowds, which he compared to Scottish audiences. Nicholas discussed the challenge of developing a set list that balances new songs from their latest double album, Black/Red, with classic fan favourites, aiming for a performance that feels like a blend of a new album tour and a festival best-of set.He reflected on the significance of releasing a double album after 30 years in the industry, noting it as a major achievement, though he may not pursue another. Additionally, he shared insights into Feeder's formation in the early 1990s, highlighting their hard work and commitment to maintaining a unique identity amidst a competitive music scene, and invited fans to join them for what promises to be memorable shows.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/heavy-music-interviews--2687660/support.

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Send us a textI remember playing my first Call of Cthulhu game. It was at GenCon many years ago when GenCon was in Milwaukee and the Safehouse was the place to be.At the time all I knew was that Call of Cthulhu was a horror roleplaying game. The idea sounded cool and the game fit into my schedule so why not.I had a blast.It truly was a wonderful game that fundamentally changed many of my thoughts around table top roleplaying. It wasn't just swords and sorcery, there were other worlds out there to be explored.After the game I realized that Call of Cthulhu wasn't just a neat game. It was based on an entire world created by author H.P. Lovecraft. I had copies of “At the Mountains of Madness” and “The Shadow of Innsmouth” in my hands by the end of the week.I think that is where my love of games that come from Intellectual Properties or IPs came from.What's an IP you ask? Well simply put it is a creation of the mind typically found in inventions, literature, film, or any other medium that a person can apply for a patent, trademark, copyright, etc.While D&D was built on the backs of Tolkien's middle earth and Howard's Conan it wasn't specifically set in that world. Traveller leaned heavily into the old Sci-Fi serials like Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, and Dumarest of Terra, but it was its own thing. As far as I can tell Call of Cthulhu is the first roleplaying game truly built on an IP.But it wasn't the last.Star Wars, Star Trek, Middle Earth Role Playing, Marvel Superhero's, DC Adventures and James Bond 007 all followed quickly. Today as I glance at my gaming bookshelf, I notice a trend.Games based on IP's.From Aliens to Farscape, From the One Ring to Monster Hunter International, From Blade Runner to Star Trek, from Star Wars to The Expanse and from Conan to James Bond. I love the IPs.In this week's episode Mike, Christina and I are going to talk about Intellectual Property Games. We are going to talk about why they are so successful, why people like them, and some of our favorites. But specifically, we are going to talk about the what IP isn't a game right now, but should be.Before we go down that road, Christina, what's your current favorite game based on an IP?[Kick to Christina]Mike, this question probably makes your brain melt. You can't pick Star Wars and Middle Earth Roleplaying…you gotta choose, so which one is your current favorite.

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Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we conclude our series on Minecraft. We talk about our stories, multiplayer, and other topics, before turning to our takeaways. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: A few more hours of Minecraft Issues covered: the upcoming charity event, Tim not knowing where Site D is, milestones for Tim, an epic story of loss with Mors, having high stakes and risk, Brett makes a long deep dive into an enormous open cavern, the procedural elements of exploration, connected caverns, Lost Lake's skill and visiting his place, the causeway that takes you to Lost Lake, automating systems, never finding an emerald, ad campaigns from the 1950s, a game developer muses about his existence in the universe, terrain modeling and erosion, not being able to tell that something wasn't hand-modeled, changes in the algorithm over time, getting lost in narrow caverns, simple goals that are obvious needs for survival, the excellence of the second-to-second loop of mining and picking up, height modeling for terrain with height maps vs voxels, player goals and having the ability to make them as specific as you want, leaving off the limits in a block game, trading verisimilitude for expressivity, allowing the player to impact everything, simple creativity, continuing the server. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: Lost Lake, Trespasser, Phil Salvador, Video Game History Foundation,  mors_d, Buck Rogers, Disneyland, Star Trek, Burma Shave, Mad Men, Dwight Eisenhower, Fallout 3, Skyrim, Oblivion, mysterydip, Valheim, Lego, Ravenloft, Picross, Terraria, Final Fantasy VI, Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers, Mark Garcia.  Next time: End of year review! Links: Defeating Games for Charity Video Game History Foundation Interview with Phil Salvador  Twitch: timlongojr Discord DevGameClub@gmail.com

Grab your leg warmers and hairspray, it's time for a trip back to the 80s! Mike and Stephen from 2 Geeks and a Microphone are diving deep into their favorite sci-fi TV shows from the decade that brought us neon, synthesizers, and some seriously awesome television. Tune in to hear them geek out over Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers and more!

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Chimes. Targets. Bulbs. Bulk repairs. Buck Rogers revisited. Rectifiers. Stats. Thumb. Nip it. Next months game.Theclassicpinballpodcast1@gmail.com

We begin with a couple of items from Australia submitted by our friend Grant. Review and gameplay of Sterns 1980 pinball Nineball. Dave has his list. Lots of additional classic Sterns discussed. Quick take and gameplay on Buck Rogers. Merry Christmas. TheClassicPinball podcast1@gmail.com

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Even in the 25th century, the kids just want to bop

Show #1258 – “45th Anniversary Of Buck Rogers In The 25th Century”     The post Latest Show – “45th Anniversary Of Buck Rogers In The 25th Century” appeared first on A Movie, TV & Video Game Soundtrack Radio Program.

We had an impromptu convo about “The Greatest Space Characters” and it ended up NOT being “sTaR wArS vS. sTaR tReK” and more about why there will be rednecks in space and why can't the Green Lanterns finally be truly cool. Ed and Producer Bill get into a debate about whether most science fiction aliens are “human plus” or “human minus”. We pitch some amazing “fixes” for certain characters while also showing a surprising appreciation of original loner in space folks like Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers. This is one is a true trip into outer and inner spaaaaacce. Enjoy!  Follow us! Here's everybody's Twitter: https://twitter.com/NerdGoatPodcast (Our Twitter account) https://twitter.com/EdGreerDestroys https://twitter.com/dorkyswallow Please leave a 5 star review on your podcast app, it really helps! Subscribe and like our videos on YouTube and Please share our stuff.   Support our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/TheGreatestPod to get exclusive pods on subjects we can't tackle here and also physical art prints. Watch REBOOT IT, our YouTube Show where we update your favorite franchises alongside Fandom Producer Billy Business here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/REBOOTITSHOW https://www.youtube.com/@ronswallow   Buy Ron's album here: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=on+the+wing+of+a+dragon+ron+swallow&i=digital-music&crid=19V9JSITSY4QX&fbclid=IwAR1pNRvTsJXRfyPj0hu4MFINx6bUXy9KTdy7_3_UJZNB9Zr8j7fe8FUIiVA&sprefix=%2Cdigital-music%2C187&ref=nb_sb_ss_recent_1_0_recent https://music.apple.com/us/album/on-the-wings-of-a-dragon/1687418796

Buck Rogers 39-04-21 (008) Dr Huer's New Relativator Is Installed

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It's November the First and if the question is, “Can I start playing Last Christmas?'', the answer is, “Why did you stop?''.  Paulo is not afraid of Elon Musk's killbots, he has the best 80s robots - and  V.I.C.I. on his side.  Dori doesn't want to see an American Psycho remake, less Patrick Bateman and more Jason Bateman & The Dregs of Society. Paulo admits something about Robin Williams and The Hoff has made us want an electric car. BBC's "Last Christmas Unwrapped" (00:02:42)Remake of "American Psycho" (00:05:32)80s Robots Comparison (00:12:29) "Small Wonder" TV Show (00:14:11) Twiggy from "Buck Rogers" (00:16:28)Buck Rogers Discussion (00:17:10)Riptide and Its Robot (00:19:40)Johnny 5's Legacy (00:22:22)It's Your Move Overview (00:24:12)The Dregs of Humanity Episode (00:30:20)Discussion on "The Best of Times" (00:38:04)Journey Video Game Discussion (00:50:44)Rivals Show Introduction (00:56:00)David Hasselhoff and Electric Cars (01:00:15)Closing Remarks on the Episode (01:04:13) #Last Christmas, #Wham!, #40th anniversary, #pop culture, #holiday season, #nostalgia, #1980s, #music, #movies, #television specials, #Andrew Ridgeley, #BBC, #Last Christmas Unwrapped, #cultural phenomenon, #American Psycho, #Huey Lewis and the News, #Robocop, #Blade Runner, #Data, #Star Trek, #Johnny 5, #Journey video game, #arcade games, #Disney+, #Rivian, #electric cars, #David Hasselhoff, #KITT, #Christine, #retro music, #underdog story, #Robin Williams, #Kurt Russell, #nostalgia in media, #high school sports, #holiday spirit, #Christmas specials, #pop culture references, #80s robots, #iconic movies, #film recommendations, #quirky inventions, #social media trends.

ON THE MORNING of April 23, 1936, the city of Portland was proudly preparing to launch its new harbor-patrol and first-aid boat, the Jack Luihn. It was a big moment for the city. Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New York City was in town and had been invited to attend. Reporters were on hand, and photographers snapping pictures. And the boat's inventor was there — it was his moment of triumph. His wife stood ready with a bottle of champagne for the christening. The boat itself was a remarkably strange-looking thing. It looked almost as much like an airplane as a boat, like something out of a Buck Rogers comic. Nothing like it had ever plied the waters of Portland Harbor ... or, most likely, ever would again. THE JACK LUIHN was the brainchild of a Portland attorney, aviator, promoter, and inventor named Victor Wiegand Strode. Strode was a fascinating man. Looking over his life, his career is reminiscent of the early life of Howard Hughes — before he became insane, of course. And he really does give Thomas Slate, the Alsea-born inventor of all-metal steam-powered airships, some serious competition for the title of “The Nicola Tesla of Oregon.” For my money, he's best described as a real-life Tom Swift....(Portland Harbor, Multnomah County; 1920s, 1930s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/2407d-1209d.victor-strode-aerohydrocraft.html)

Remember when we talked about Batgirl: Year One? One of the authors listened and loved it! We talked with Scott Beatty about another comic he co-authored, Nightwing: Year One. Scott Beatty has written several hundred comic book stories for DC Comics and other publishers including CrossGen Entertainment, Dark Horse Comics, Dynamite Entertainment, and IDW Publishing. His most notable releases include Robin: Year One, Batgirl: Year One, Nightwing: Year One, Batman: Gotham Knights, Joker: Last Laugh, Gen13, Number of The Beast, Ruse, Buck Rogers, The Last Phantom, and many others.Get to know more about Scott here:X: @Scott_M_BeattyThreads: scottmbeattyInstagram: scottmbeattyWebsites:https://scottbeatty.blogspot.com/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Beattyhttps://www.amazon.com/stores/Scott-Beatty/author/B00JJDIS3K?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2&qid=1727738848&sr=1-2&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true

The Lot is many things. A small town full of secrets. A place where evil can fester. And it's a Stephen King property that has a few swings at the bat. Well, this week on Kill By Kill, we're the ones swinging the bat! That's right, we hate to do it, but we're driving a stake right through the heart of this 2022… wait, 2023… hold on… 2024 remake of ‘SALEM'S LOT - and we're not happy about it at all. Why does this movie feel like a speed run? Why does it refuse to show more than six people at a time? Why does Barlow look like the Space Vampire from that episode of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century? Folks, we're doing everything in our power not to be “those fans,” but this motion picture keeps dragging us back in. Remember how we raged at the 2011 remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street? Well, it's happening again. Make sure to listen til the end to hear about a couple of things we actually appreciate about the film and explain our many, many disappointments. We go in-depth with Uncle Steve's original novel and try to parse exactly what went so terribly wrong with this new version. It's a real journey. Don't worry, we're back to our chipper, fun lovin' selves next week. Part of the BLEAV Network. Get even more episodes exclusively on Patreon! Artwork by Josh Hollis: joshhollis.com Kill By Kill theme by Revenge Body. For the full-length version and more great music, head to revengebodymemphis.bandcamp.com today! Our linker.ee Click here to visit our TeePublic shop for killer merch! Join the conversation about any episode on the Facebook Group! Follow us on IG @killbykillpodcast!! Join us on Threads or even Bluesky Check out Gena's Substack called Gena Watches Things!! Check out the films we've covered & what might come soon on Letterboxd!

Ta2squid Podcast's Andreas “Dre” Bogota Jr. rejoins the show to discuss various factors that made BUCK ROGERS win over generations of TV viewers in this favorite moments sitdown.   Later, we get to talk about conventions & other related SciFi genre events (including interactions with co-star Erin Gray) so prepare to geek out with us!                       MAIN LINKS:  LinkTree: ⁠https://linktr.ee/JURSPodcast⁠ Facebook Page: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/JackedUpReviewShow/⁠ Facebook Group: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/groups/2452329545040913⁠ Twitter:⁠ https://twitter.com/JackedUpReview ⁠ Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/jacked_up_podcast/ ⁠ Blind Knowledge Podcast Network: ⁠https://www.blindknowledge.com/⁠       SHOW LINKS: YouTube: ⁠https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCIyMawFPgvOpOUhKcQo4eQQ⁠   iHeartRadio: ⁠https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-jacked-up-review-show-59422651/⁠   Podbean: ⁠https://jackedupreviewshow.podbean.com⁠   Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/7Eg8w0DNympD6SQXSj1X3M⁠   Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-jacked-up-review-show-podcast/id1494236218⁠   RadioPublic: ⁠https://radiopublic.com/the-jacked-up-review-show-We4VjE⁠   Overcast: ⁠https://overcast.fm/itunes1494236218/the-jacked-up-review-show-podcast⁠   Google Podcasts: ⁠https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9hNDYyOTdjL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz⁠   Anchor:  ⁠https://anchor.fm/s/a46297c/podcast/rss⁠   PocketCasts: ⁠https://pca.st/0ncd5qp4⁠   CastBox:  ⁠https://castbox.fm/channel/The-Jacked-Up-Review-Show-Podcast-id2591222⁠   Discord:  ⁠https://discord.com/channels/796154005914779678/796154006358851586⁠         #MovieReview #FilmTwitter #PodFamily #PodcastersOfInstagram #Movies #Film #Cinema #Music #Reviews #Retrospect #Podcasts #MutantFam #MutantFamily #actionmystery #bmovies #scifihorror #truecrime #historydramas #warmovies #podcastcollabs #hottakes #edgy #cultmovies #nsfw #HorrorFam #badass 

Ever heard a bin playing a saxophone? Ever heard Chris Moyles playing a harmonica? Well, I'm not comparing the two…but you're in for a treat…Hello and welcome to The Chris Moyles Show on Radio X podcast! It's episode 461 and a whole load of guests and giggles await you, my friend. The week began with both disappointment and celebration, when The £25k Box was unlocked at long last and oh my Buck Rogers, that was exciting. The week began good n' proper with a visit from William Hanson, the etiquette-expert, who taught Chris and the team that slurping on your super-noodles or demolishing a burger is NOT the polite way to go about things. Next, comedian and presenter Joel Dommett momentarily stepped aside from dad-duties to pop to the studio ahead of his 4th round of presenting the NTAs. Then, Blur legend Graham Coxon dropped by for the greatest achievement in his musical career: teaching Chris how to play the harmonica…prep your ears…you've been warned! Also, presenter and author Ross Kemp, who fears nothing and has interviewed the most dangerous gangs in the world, tells a chilling story about losing a toenail. Finally, best-selling author Richard Osman comes in, telling us about his brand new novel, ‘We Solve Murders, and the wonderful Leigh Francis chats about his brand new autobiography, ‘Leigh, Myself and I', and the little man at the end of his bed. So go on, hit play and get to it! You'll also hear about…Chris' new bin bandA very special Greggs deliveryPippa getting something stuckAlso this week, Chris and Tiff had to say goodbye to their lovely cat, Chewie. Chris was so grateful for all your texts of love and support and our thoughts are with them both. RIP Chewie

Buck Rogers 39-04-19 (007) Black Barney Is Under Control of Killer Kane

As with all episodes of this podcast there are spoilers ahead!For full detailed shownotes (without character limits) you can choose the episode on the watch page here.If you would like to watch the Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers film serials they are available on YouTube. (Warning: the serials are repetitive and there are three Flash Gordon serials and one Buck Rogers!) The 1980 Mike Hodges Flash Gordon film is available to rent or buy at an array of outlets including Apple TV. Although it was Buck Rogers that triggered an array of copies after the comic strip was published in 1929, it is Flash Gordon  (one of those copies) that went on to have a film serial made with a lavish budget by Universal Pictures in 1936. Buck Rogers has had a significant impact in popular culture but the trajectory of Flash Gordon has eclipsed it in many ways.This week's experts bring you all their knowledge about how this came to be.The ExpertsJay Telotte is Professor Emeritus of film and media studies at Georgia Tech. He has written/edited numerous books and articles about science fiction film.Mark Bould is a professor of Film and Literature at the University of West England, Bristol. He has also written/edited many books on science fiction cinema.Chapters00:00 Introduction to show and guests01:39 Why a Flash Gordon film serial?09:58 The full bill cinema experience in 193611:55 The origins of the misaligned Space Opera14:29 Star Wars, George Lucas and his 1930s influences16:08 Post Star Wars Space Opera19:55 Pushing beyond a space adventure to social commentary 21:48 Flash Gordon: The damsel, the hero and the good scientist27:34 Ming the Merciless: Asian stereotypes, representation and racism32:42 Aliens, post code reshoots and the sexual current37:25 The 1980 Flash Gordon: Mark gushes while Jay waits42:45 Jay's reaction45:06 The legacy49:45 Recommendations NEXT EPISODE!The next episode will be covering an array of films about ‘Mad Scientists' from the 1930s and early 40s. I will share some of the titles here but it will be a topical discussion. Boris Karloff who came to fame for playing the monster in Frankenstein (1931) plays the role of the mad scientist in multiple films during this period, many that stray away from the science fiction genre or have a strong crossover with horror film. Some of these are: The Man Who Changed his Mind (1936), The Invisible Ray (1936), Black Friday (1940) and The Man with Nine Lives (1940).Aside from those we also have the film Frankenstein (1931), The Invisible Man (1933), The Island of Lost Souls(1932) and both Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde films (1931 and 1941). Metropolis (1927) has the scientist Rotwang who is an excellent earlier example of this trope.You can check JustWatch to find where these films are available to buy, rent or stream in your region. I have found many on Apple TV and some are available on YouTube.  

On the seventh episode of the Fine and Tandy podcast, we check out SSI's Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday. We cover three bits of news: Boatfest 2024 Recap, Pickups and detailed the upcoming July 2024 SE Michigan Vintage Computer Club. On the next episode of Fine and Tandy, we will cover Lucasfilm Games' Loom. If you wish to submit feedback for our next episode, keep an eye out for a post on the Commodore Chronicles Discord server. Feedback can also be submitted to commodorechronicles@gmail.com. If you feel so lead to support the efforts of the Commodore Chronicles Family of Podcasts, including Fine and Tandy, 486 Deluxe and NES Advantage, you can do so at patreon.com/c64chronicles. Special thanks to the Fast Load Collective patron members Chris "RAM Truckin" Petzel, Jim "I'd Rather Be Fishing" Pones, Eric "High Praise" Nelson, "Where in the USA is" the BeardedSonOfNel, Mr. "Gift Sub" Krystof, Brian "Vampire Extraordinaire" Nagel and Bill "Slight Tap on Pedal" Bright.

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/AnalyticNotorious Mass Effect: Star Wars Outlaws Deep DiveAnalytic Dreamz delves into the depths of Star Wars Outlaws in this comprehensive segment.Unpacking the Adventure:Length: Discover the playtime for casual and completionist players, along with the design philosophy behind the targeted scope.Open World Awaits: Explore the details of the open-world structure, including the director, platform availability, and release date.Unleashing the Scoundrel:Meet Kay Vess: Learn about the protagonist, her trusty companion Nix, and the diverse gameplay activities you'll encounter.Mission Variety: Dive into details on the types of missions you'll embark on, from thrilling escapes to stealthy infiltrations.A Galaxy of Detail:Criminals' Paradise: Uncover the secrets of the crime-ridden planet Mirogana, its vibrant world, and its retro-futuristic aesthetic.Influences Unveiled: Explore the cinematic inspirations behind the game's visuals, referencing iconic films like Buck Rogers and Jurassic Park.Crafting a Lighter Touch:Family-Friendly Fun: Understand the design focus on a lighter tone, reminiscent of the original Star Wars trilogy.Relatable Hero: Learn about the approach to creating a relatable protagonist and the role of the companion, Nix, in gameplay.Behind the Scenes:Focus on Quality: Discover the development process, including the prioritization of manageable content and the interesting companion mechanic.A New Era of Exploration:Timeline Placement: Pinpoint the game's location within the Star Wars universe, nestled between "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi."Heist Hijinks: Unravel the narrative following Kay Vess and Nix on their thrilling heist adventure, encountering familiar faces along the way.A Galactic First: Explore the significance of Star Wars Outlaws as the first open-world Star Wars game.Join Analytic Dreamz for a deep dive into Star Wars Outlaws, exploring its gameplay, world, story, and unique position in the Star Wars universe.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/analytic-dreamz-notorious-mass-effect/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Whilst researching the Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers film serials of the 1930s I was delighted to find far too much information about the pulp and comic book origins of these heroes. So we are taking a detour to speak with people who really have their heads wrapped around this topic.For full shownotes for this episode without character limits you can visit here.We will be talking about Flash Gordon (and a little about Buck Rogers) in the next episode. Scroll down to get more information on where to watch the 1930s film serials.The ExpertsJulian Chambliss is a scholar and a professor at Michigan State University. He is the author of multiple books including Ages of Heroes, Eras of Men: Superheroes and the American Experience.Jess Nevins is an Author and research librarian who has annotated multiple comics and written the Encyclopedia of Golden Age Superheroes, The Encyclopedia of Pulp Heroes and The Evolution of the Costumed Avenger: The 4,000-Year History of the Superhero.Chapters00:00 Intro to the show and guests02:14 The origins of pulp fiction04:14 The western frontier and the American hero06:23 Superheroes in the pulps and ancient civilization09:42 WW1 and Hugo Gernsback's Amazing Stories11:21 Buck Rogers, race and rapid change15:13 From pulp to comic strip: Buck Rogers and Tarzan15:39 The success of Flash Gordon 16:55 Racial politics of Flash Gordon19:16 The true first superhero20:38 Phantom's international popularity21:38 The Great Depression, superpowers and The New Deal25:35 The Jewish influence28:44 Superman as the good immigrant32:25 Women: from pulps to comics35:55 The rediscovery of black creators40:44 Moral panic, senate hearings and the Comics Code Authority48:34 The future of the heroNEXT EPISODE!Next episode we will be focusing on the Flash Gordon (and Buck Rogers) film serials of the 1930s. You can check JustWatch to see where you can access them: https://www.justwatch.com/There are also available on YouTube including some strangely colourised versions.I would also highly recommend watching the 1980 version of Flash Gordon which is ridiculously good fun in my opinion. It is available to rent or buy in various places including on Amazon and again you can check on Just Watch where it may be streaming in your region. Send me a text message.

What happens when a legendary basketball coach imparts lessons that transcend the court and shape your entire life? This heartfelt episode is dedicated to Buck Rogers, whose concept of "grade 13" taught us about responsibility, maturity, and the grit needed to navigate life. We exchange personal stories that highlight his wisdom, such as the importance of waking up early and managing responsibilities, no matter how late you stayed out the night before—lessons that have guided many of us into becoming productive men.Navigating social interactions can be a minefield, filled with mixed signals and misunderstandings. We dive into a confusing encounter that illuminates the complexities of romantic and social interactions. From the pressures faced by women in the public eye, like Joy Taylor, to the importance of not overthinking every small gesture, we discuss how to better appreciate relationships for their true value. Join us as we explore these intricate dynamics and reflect on how societal norms shape our perceptions and behaviors.Atlanta's magnetic pull for young Black professionals and its status as the Black mecca provide a vibrant backdrop for this episode. We share personal anecdotes that highlight the cultural richness of barbecues and the social dynamics they encompass. As we discuss the evolving political landscape in Georgia and Vice President Kamala Harris's frequent visits, we also touch on high-profile relationships and public betrayals. To wrap it all up, we indulge in some nostalgic reflections on WCW wrestling and the financial logic behind sports contracts, making this episode a rich tapestry of personal stories, cultural insights, and thoughtful commentary.thumb and thumber Join Finn White and Quinn Ireland for a funny and random 20-minute podcast full of laughs.Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the Show.

As with all episodes of this podcast there are spoilers ahead!For full detailed shownotes (without character limits) you can choose the episode on the watch page here.I would love for you to join in by watching The Invisible Man here. You can follow what I'm researching and working on next on the podcast Instagram page @everyscififilm.Description:When HG Wells wrote The Invisible Man in 1897 he was in a world in which the telephone, the phonograph and even the invention of the radio brought the idea of disembodied voices to an increasing number of people. In the 1933 film director James Whale (who also directed Frankenstein) imbued the film with themes of mass communication more relevant to an age of radio broadcasts and film newsreels. Although it is a part of Universal Pictures classic monsters it often feels more like a comedy than a horror. The film was a great success with the special effects impressing moviegoers and critics. This week's wonderful experts break down the themes and history of the film. We also have a little discussion about Things to Come (1936) which is also based on an HG Wells story and touch upon the infamous War of the Worlds radio play (1938) which (apparently) led people to think aliens were invading. The ExpertsKeith Williams is a Reader in English at the University of Dundee with a special interest in the pre 1945 period and HG Wells. He is the author of the book H.G. Wells, Modernity and the Movies.Marc Longenecker is an Associate Professor of the Practice of Film Studies at Wesleyan University and wrote an article titled A Brief History of Invisibility on Screen.Chapters00:00 Introduction01:35 Invisibility on film and by HG Wells10:28 Humour, satire and prejudice14:26 A man walks into a pub15:28 Rags to riches: Whale, Wells and Rains20:12 The invisible actor22:02 Phonographs, radio and Hitler27:18 War of the Worlds (1938 radio drama)29:58 The special effects35:37 HG Wells Vs the movies39:27 Things to Come (1936)46:42 Legacy49:08 Conclusion51:32 RecommendationsNEXT EPISODE!No film to watch for next episode as we will be discussing the development of early pulp fiction magazines and comics and their relationship to science fiction. You can start catching up with the Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers film serials of the 1930s as I am working on an episode based on them.  You can check JustWatch to see where you can access them.You can also watch them on YouTube. There are also some colourised versions. There were three Flash Gordon serials and one Buck Rogers serial Flash Gordon (1936)Flash Gordon (1936. Colourised)Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938)Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940)Buck Rogers (1939)Send me a text message.

EPISODE CORRECTION: George Lucas attempted to make "Flash Gordon" not "Buck Rogers". It's much more normal if you didn't even notice. All May long we're discussing STAR WARS movies in chronological order and dictating absolute canon from here forth. Your thoughts? Meaningless. Our thoughts? They are now your new thoughts. One last ride with Star Wars before we emotionally retire it and watch only movies like “On Golden Pond” and “Bridges of Madison County”. You will believe you can love again. OK, so our month's theme of FORCED is riding on the bandwagon of that “May the 4th Be With You” stuff but don't say that phrase to us in person unless you want to elicit a “Manchurian Candidate” type response where we attack you. This episode is one of the few we are actually looking forward to as it is the one that started it all, “STAR WARS” by George Lucas from 1977 and starring Mark Hamill, Alec Guinness, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Peter Cushing. You pretty much already know a lot about it I'm sure. It's a strange trip to behold when carrying around prequel knowledge but you gotta revel in the fairly simple space adventure romp after watching five convoluted movies that are all reference films to the one we're finally discussing today. They didn't let George Lucas make Buck Rogers so he took some Kurosawa inspiration and whipped up a big allegory to the Vietnam War. People split so many hairs over this franchise but the core concept of it was all as simple as that. I would like to think I would do a little more if somebody was going to destroy my planet right in front of me. I would have throat chopped Tarkin and then turn around and knock out Darth Vader in one punch for real. Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought

Our first episode returning from paternity leave takes us back to 1983, and one of two sequel bombs Universal made with Jackie Gleason that year, Smokey and the Bandit Part 3. ----more----   TRANSCRIPT   From Los Angeles, California, the Entertainment Capital of the World, it's The 80s Movies Podcast. I am your host, Edward Havens. Thank you for listening today.   On this episode, we'll be covering one of the oddest Part 3 movies to ever be made.   Smokey and the Bandit 3.   But before we do, I owe you, loyal listener an apology and an explanation.   Originally, this episode was supposed to be about the movies of H.B. “Toby” Halicki, who brought car chase films back to life in the mid-70s with his smash hit Gone in 60 Seconds. Part of the reason I wanted to do this episode was to highlight a filmmaker who doesn't get much love from film aficionados anymore, and part because this was the movie that literally made me the person I became. My mom was dating Toby during the making of the movie, a spent a number of days on the set as a five year old, and I even got featured in a scene. And I thought it would be fun to get my mom to open up about a part of her life after my parents' divorce that I don't remember much of.   And it turned into the discussion that made me question everything I became. Much of which I will cover when I find the courage to revisit that topic, hopefully in time for the 50th anniversary this July.   So, for now, and to kind of stick with the car theme this episode was originally going to be about, we're going to do a quick take on one of the most bizarre, and most altered, movies to ever come out of Hollywood.   As you may remember, Smokey and the Bandit was a 1977 hit film from stuntman turned director Hal Needham. Needham and Burt Reynolds has become friends in the early 1960s, and Needham would end up living in Reynolds' pool house for nearly a dozen years in the 60s and 70s. Reynolds would talk director Robert Aldrich into hiring Needham to be the 2nd unit director and stunt coordinator for the car chase scene Aldrich's 1974 classic The Longest Yard, and Reynolds would hire Needham to be his 2nd Unit Director on his own 1976 directorial debut, Gator. While on the set of Gator, the two men would talk about the movie Needham wanted to make his own directorial debut on, a low-budget B movie about a cat and mouse chase between a bootlegger and a sheriff as they tried to outwit each other across several state lines.   As a friend, Reynolds would ask Needham to read the script. The “script” was a series of hand-written notes on a legal pad. He had come up with the idea during the making of Gator, when the Teamster transportation captain brought some Coors beer to the production team. And, believe it or not, in 1975, it was illegal to sell or transport Coors beer out of states West of the Mississippi River, because the beer was not pasteurized and needed constant refrigeration.   Reynolds would read the “script,” which, according to Reynolds' 1994 autobiography My Life, was one of the worst things he had ever read. But Reynolds promised his friend that if he could get a studio involved and get a proper budget and script for the film, he would make it.   Needham would hire a series of writers to try and flesh out the notes from the legal pad into a coherent screenplay, and with a verbal commitment from Reynolds to star in it, he would soon get Universal Studios to to agree to make Smokey and the Bandit, to the tune of $5.3m. After all, Reynolds was still one of the biggest box office stars at the time, and $5.3m was small potatoes at the time, especially when Universal was spending $6.7m on the Super Bowl assassin thriller Two-Minute Warning, $9m on a bio-pic of General Douglas MacArthur, and $22m on William Friedkin's Sorcerer, an English-language version of the 1950 French novel The Wages of Fear.   Reynolds would take the lead as The Bandit, the driver of the chase car meant to distract the authorities from what the truck driver is hauling.    Jerry Reed, a country and western star, would get cast as The Snowman, the truck driver who would be hauling the Coors beer from Texarkana TX to Atlanta. Reed has only co-starred in two movies before, both starring Burt Reynolds, and even if they have almost no scenes together in the final film, their rapport on screen is obvious.   Sally Field, a television star who needed a big movie on her resume, would take the role of Carrie, the runaway bride who joins the Bandit in his chase car. Field had just completed Sybil, the dramatic television movie about a woman with multiple personality disorder, which would break Field out of the sitcom world she had been stuck in for the past decade.   Richard Boone, the star of the long-time television Western Have Gun - Will Travel, would be considered as the sheriff, Buford T. Justice, in pursuit of the Bandit throughout the movie, but Reynolds wanted some who was a bit more crazy, a bit more dangerous, and a heck of a lot funnier. And who wouldn't think of comedy legend Jackie Gleason?   Shooting on the film would begin in Georgia on August 30th, 1976, but not before some pencil pusher from Universal Studios showed up two days before the start of production to inform Needham and Reynolds that they needed to cut $1m from the budget by any means necessary. And the guys did exactly that, reducing the number of shooting locations and speaking roles.   The film would finish shooting eights weeks later, on schedule and on budget… well, on reduced budget, and when it was released in May 1977, just six days before the initial release of Star Wars, it bombed.   For some reason, Universal Studios decided the best way to open a movie about a bunch of good old boys in the South was to give it a big push at the world famous Radio City Music Hall in the heart of Manhattan, along with an hour long Rockets stage spectacular between shows.   The Radio City Music Hall could accommodate 6,000 people per show. Tickets for the whole shebang, movie and stage show, were $5, when the average ticket price in Manhattan at the time was $3.50. And in its first six days, Smokey and the Bandit grossed $125,000, which sounds amazing, until your told the cost of running Radio City Music Hall for a week, stage show and all, was $186,000. And in its second week, the gross would fall to $102,000, and to $90,000 in week three. And Universal would be locked in to Radio City for several more weeks.   But it wouldn't all bad news.   Universal quickly realized its error in opening in New York first, and rushed to book the film into 381 theatres in the South, including 70 in the Charlotte region, 78 in and around Jacksonville, 97 theatres between Oklahoma City and Dallas, another 57 between Memphis and New Orleans, and 79 in Atlanta, near many of the locations the film was shot. And in its first seven days in just those five regions, the film would gross a cool $3.8m. Along with the $102k from Radio City, the film's $3.9m gross would be the second highest in the nation, behind Star Wars. And despite bigger weekends from new openers like The Deep, The Exorcist II and A Bridge Too Far, Smokey and the Bandit would keep going and going and going, sticking around in theatres for more than two years in some areas, grossing more than $126m.   Naturally, there would be a sequel. But here's the funny part. Smokey and the Bandit II, a Universal movie, would be shot back to back with Cannonball Run, produced by the Hong Kong film company Golden Harvest as a vehicle to break their star Jackie Chan into the American market, which would also star Burt Reynolds and be directed by Hal Needham.    Filming on Smokey and the Bandit II was supposed to start in August 1979, but would be delayed until January 1980, because the film Reynolds was working on in the late summer of 1979, Rough Cut, went way over schedule.   While the budget for the sequel would be $10m, more than double the cost of the original film, the overall production was not a very pleasant experience for most involved. Needham was feeling the pressure of trying to finish the film ahead of schedule so he'd have some kind of break before starting on Cannonball Run in May 1980, because several of the other actors, including Roger Moore, were already locked into other movies after shooting completed on that film.   Burt Reynolds and Sally Field had started dating during the making of Smokey and the Bandit in 1976, and both of them signed their contracts to appear in the sequel in 1979, but by the time shooting started in 1980, the pair had broken up, and they were forced to pretend to be in love and be side by side in the Bandit's Trans Am for a couple months.   One of the few things that would go right on the film was a complex chase scene that could only be shot one time, for the end of the sequence would be the destruction of a 64 year old rollercoaster in suburban Atlanta.   They got the shot.   Needham would get a few weeks between the end of shooting Smokey and the Bandit II and the start of Cannonball Run, but the production on the latter film would be put on hold a couple times for a few days each, as Needham would have to go back to Los Angeles to supervise the editing of the former film.   Smokey and the Bandit II would make its planned August 15th, 1980 release, and would have a spectacular opening weekend, $10.8m from 1196 theatres, but would soon drop off, barely grossing half of the first film's box office take. That would still be profitable, but Needham, Reynolds and Field all nixed the idea of teaming up for a third film. Reynolds had been wanting to distance himself from his good old boy 1970s persona, Field was now an Oscar winning dramatic actress, and Needham wanted to try something different. We'll talk about that movie, Megaforce, another time.   But despite losing the interest of the main principles of the first two movies, Universal was still keen on making a third film. The first mention would be a line item in the Los Angeles Times' Calendar section on August 28th, 1981, when, within an article about the number of sequels that were about to gear up, including Grease 2 and Star Wars 3, aka Return of the Jedi, that Universal was considering a third Smokey movie as a cable television movie. In May 1982, Variety noted that the reduced budget of the film, estimated at under $5m, would not accommodate Reynolds' asking price at that time, let alone the cost of the entire production, and that the studio was looking at Dukes of Hazzard star John Schneider as a possible replacement as The Bandit. In the end, it was decided that Jackie Gleason would return not only as Sheriff Buford T. Justice, but that he would also be, in several scenes, playing The Bandit as well.   Thus would begin the wild ride of the third film in the Smokey and the Bandit Cinematic Universe, Smokey IS the Bandit: Part 3.   It would take 11 different versions of the script written over the course of six months to get Gleason to sign off, because, somehow, he was given script approval before filming would begin.   Paul Williams and Pat McCormick would return for a third time as Little Enos and Big Enos, and the storyline would find the Burdette father and son making a bet with Sheriff Justice. Justice and his son Junior must deliver a big stuffed swordfish from Florida to a new seafood restaurant they are opening in Texas. If Justice can get the big stuffed swordfish from Point A to Point B in the time allotted, the Burdettes will give him $250,000, which Justice could use towards his impending retirement. If he doesn't, however, Justice will have to surrender his badge to the Burdettes, and he'd retire in disgrace.   Dick Lowry, who had been directed episodic television and TV movies for several years, including three episodes of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century and the TV movie adaptation of Kenny Rogers' hit song The Gambler, would make his feature directing debut on Smokey Is the Bandit Part 3.   Production on the film would begin in Florida on October 25, 1982, and lasted two months, ending two days after Christmas, mostly in Florida.   Lowry and his team would assemble the film over the course of the next three months, before Universal held its first test screening on the studio lot in March 1983.   To say the screening was a disaster would be an understatement.   The audience didn't understand what the hell was going on here. They wondered how Justice, as The Bandit, could bed a character credited only as Blonde Bombshell, who looks at him the way women in 1982 would have looked at Burt Reynolds. They wondered why a plot twist in the very last scene was presented, that Dusty was really Big Enos's daughter, when it affected nothing in the story before or after its reveal. But, mostly, they were confused as to how one actor could play both title characters at the same time. Like, is Justice seeing himself as The Bandit, seeing himself behind the wheel of the Bandit's signature black and gold Pontiac Trans Am, and a beautiful country music DJ played by Colleen Camp as his companion, all while actually driving his signature sheriff's car with his son Junior as his constant companion?   The studio had two choices…   One, pony up a few extra million dollars to rewrite the script, and try to lure Reynolds back to play The Bandit…   Or, two, bury the movie and take the tax write off.   The second choice was quickly ruled out, as a teaser trailer for the film had already been released to theatres several weeks earlier, and there seemed to be some interest in another Smokey and the Bandit movie, even though the trailer was just Gleason, as Justice, standing in a military-style uniform, standing in front of a large America flag, and giving a speech to the camera not unlike the one George C. Scott gave at the start of the 1970 Best Picture winner, Patton. You can find a link to the teaser trailer for Smokey is the Bandit Part 3 on our website, at The80sMoviePodcast.com.   So the studio goes down to Jupiter, FL, where Reynolds had been living for years, and made him a sizable offer to play The Bandit for literally a couple of scenes. Since Gleason as Bandit only had one line in the film, and since most of the shots of Gleason as Bandit were done with wide lenses to hide that it wasn't Gleason doing any of the driving during the number of scenes involving the Trans Am and stunts, they could probably get everything they needed with Reynolds in just a day or two.   Reynolds would say “no” to that offer, but, strangely, he would agree to come back to the film, as The Bandit, for an extended sequence towards the end of the film. We'll get to that in a moment.   So with Reynolds coming back, but not in the capacity they wanted him in, the next thought was to go to Jerry Reed, the country singer and actor who had played Bandit's partner, The Snowman, in the first two films. Reed was amiable to coming aboard, but he wanted to play The Bandit. Or, more specifically, Cledus pretending to be The Bandit.   The film's screenwriters, Stuart Birnbaum and David Dashev, were called back in to do yet another rewrite. They would have only three weeks, as there was only a short window in April for the production team to get back together to do the new scenes with Reed and Colleen Camp. Dusty would go from being a country radio station DJ to a car dealership employee who literally walks off the job and into Cledus as Bandit's Trans Am. Reed's role as Cledus as Bandit was greatly expanded, and Dusty's dialogue would be altered to reflect both her new career and her time in the car with Cledus.   The reshoots would only last a few weeks, and Lowry would have a final cut ready for the film's planned August 12th theatrical release.   It is often stated, on this podcast and other sources, that in the 1980s, August was mostly the dumping ground of the studio's dogs, hoping to get a little bit of ticket sales before Labor Day, when families look at going on a vacation before the kids go back to school.   And the weekend of August 12th through 14th in 1983 was certainly one way to prove this argument.   Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 would be the second highest grossing new release that weekend, which is surprising in part because it would have a smaller percentage of prints out in the market compared to its competition, 498 prints, almost exclusively in the southern US. The bad news is that the film would barely make it into the Top Ten that weekend. Cujo, the adaptation of the 1981 Stephen King novel, would be the highest grossing new opener that weekend, grossing $6.11m, barely missing the top spot, which was held for a third week by the Chevy Chase film Vacation, which had earned $6.16m. Risky Business, which was making its young lead actor Tom Cruise a movie star, would take third place, with $4.58m. Then there was Return of the Jedi, which had been out three months by this point, the Sylvester Stallone-directed Saturday Night Fever sequel Staying Alive, the Eddie Murphy/Dan Aykroyd comedy Trading Places, the god-awful Jaws 3-D, WarGames and Krull, which all had been out for three to eleven weeks by now, all grossing more than Smokey and the Bandit 3, with $1.73m in ticket sales.   Having it much worse was The Curse of the Pink Panther, Blake Edwards' attempt to reboot the Inspector Clouseau series with a new American character who may or may not have been the illegitimate son of Clouseau, which grossed an anemic $1.64m from 812 theatres. And then there was The Man Who Wasn't There, the 3-D comedy featuring Steve Guttenberg that was little more than a jumbled copy of Foul Play and North by Northwest that arrived too late in theatres to ride the now-dead stereoptic movie craze, which took in $1.38m from 980 theatres.   In its second week, Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 would only lose five screens, but lose 52% of its opening weekend audience, bringing in just $830k that weekend.   Week three would see the film lose nearly 300 screens, bringing in just $218k.   Week four was Labor Day weekend itself, with its extra day of ticket sales, and you'd think Universal would just cut and run since the film was not doing great with audiences or critics. Yet, they would expand the film back to 460 theatres, including 47 theatres in the greater Los Angeles metro area. The gambit worked a little bit, with the film bringing in $1.3m during the extended holiday weekend, bringing the film's four week total gross to $5.02m.   And it would slowly limp along for a few more weeks, mostly in dollar houses, but Universal would stop tracking it after its fifth weekend in theatres, giving the film a final box office total of $5,678,950.   Oh, I almost forgot about Burt Reynolds. Burt did film his scene, a four minute or so cameo towards the end of the film, where Justice finally catches up to Cledus as The Bandit, but in Justice's mind's eye, he sees Cledus as Burt as The Bandit, where Burt as The Bandit does nothing more than half-ass read off his lines while sitting behind the wheel of the Trans Am.   I watched the movie on Paramount Plus back in January, when I originally planned on recording this episode. But it's no longer available on Paramount Plus. Nor is it available on Peacock, which is owned and operated by Universal, and where the film was once available. In May 2024, the only way to see Smokey and the Bandit is on long out-of-print low quality DVDs and Blu-Rays. JustWatch.com says the film is available on Apple TVs Showtime channel, but I can't find any Showtime channel on Apple TV, nor can I find the movie doing a simple search on Apple TV. The first two are on Apple TV, as part of the AMC+ channel. It's all so darn complicated.   But like I said, I watched it for the first and probably last time earlier this year. And, truth be told, it's not a totally painful film. It's not a good film in any way, shape or form, but what little good there is in it, it's thanks to Colleen Camp, who was not only gorgeous but had an amazing sense of comic timing. Anyway who saw her as Yvette the Maid in the 1985 comedy Clue already knows that.    Like a handful of film buffs and historians, I am still wildly interested in seeing the original cut of the film after more than forty years. If Universal can put out three different versions of Orson Welles' Touch of Evil, including a preview cut that was taken away from Welles and re-edited without his consent, in the same set, certainly they can release both versions of Smokey and the Bandit Part 3. But let's face facts. Dick Lowry is no Orson Welles, and there is practically zero calls for this kind of special treatment for the film.   I just find it odd that in this day and age, the only thing that's escaped from the original version of the film after all this time is a single image of Gleason as The Bandit, which you can find on this episode's page at our website.   Thank you for joining us. We'll talk again soon.   Remember to visit this episode's page on our website, The80sMoviePodcast.com, for extra materials about Smokey and the Bandit Part 3, including links to Smokey and the Bandit fan sites that have their own wealth of materials relating to the movie, and a video on YouTube that shows about 20mins of deleted and alternate scenes used in the television version of the movie, which may include an additional shot from the original movie that shows Dusty riding in the back of Big Enos's red Cadillac convertible.   The 80s Movies Podcast has been researched, written, narrated and edited by Edward Havens for Idiosyncratic Entertainment.   Thank you again.   Good night.

In this one, Eddie and Jerry talk The Predator franchise, WWE doing Rugged Ronnie Garvin dirty, defend the amazing Starship song "We Built This City" and a lot more malinged songs from the 1980s, settle a battle between Twiki from Buck Rogers and Vicki from Small Wonder and so much more... enjoy!

Show notes provided by Jack Adrien Nearly forty-seven years ago and premiering in only forty-three theaters across the United States, George Lucas introduced the world to his epic space opera, Star Wars. And while the movie opened on Wednesday, May 25, 1977, Memorial Day weekend, the movie's catchphrase has thenceforth marked May 4 as National Star Wars Day. Inspired by the Buck Rogers science fiction comic strip and 12-part film serial from his youth, Lucas created his own enduring science fiction touchstones such as droids, the X-wing Starfighter, TIE Fighter, Millennium Falcon, and the Death Star. And while one should expect such futuristic technological wonders in a film of the genre, Lucas also found inspiration in Akira Kurosawa's samurai films, which led to the iconic lightsaber battles. In his review of the film, famed film critic Roger Ebert wrote "[t[he hardware is from Flash Gordon out of 2001, the chivalry is from Robin Hood, the heroes are from Westerns, and the villains are a cross between Nazis and sorcerers."  Beyond its groundbreaking special effects, Star Wars birthed the world's first tentpole intellectual property empire. Part of what made the first film, Star Wars, later renamed Star Wars: A New Hope, unique was the concept of “the Force” within Lucas's worldbuilding. The movie deconstructs the classic notions of good v. evil and instead establishes opposing ideological perspectives tapping into or manipulating a metaphysical and ubiquitous power as either the light side (i.e., Jedi) or the dark side (i.e., Sith, said onscreen in the first movie of the second trilogy, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, released almost 22 years to the day of Star Wars: A New Hope's release date). But the first trilogy left us fans with so many unanswered questions. Most notably, the three movies featured only five space wizards (i.e., three Jedi and two Sith) across the three-film, six and a quarter hour total runtime. In Star Wars: A New Hope, Princess Leia and Obi-Wan Kenobi referenced the Clone Wars, giving us a peek into Lucas's fully realized, lived-in universe. We fans wanted more. And between movies and trilogies, Star Wars Legends (formerly known as the Expanded Universe) filled that void with licensed and official background stories through books, comic books, video games, spin-off films, television series, toys, and other media. Join the Mint Condition crew as we share what the first Star Wars film meant to us when it was released, what the franchise has meant for the near past half century, and where we hope it will take us in the years ahead. And as always, we say to you and yours, “May the Force be with you.”

Tim and Jim strap on their revealing short shorts for a timely review of the original 1936 Flash Gordon Serial, "Planet in Peril!" We unpack all things parallel to Star Wars, knife fights with shark men, culturally inappropriate emperors, and planets in peril! Speaking of Planets in Peril, there's also an Earthquake in NY that happens mid-pod. Talk about production value! And Dune's deleted scenes, Cerveza Crystal, and more! Plus, we announce that we'll be participating in May the 4th's Pod-A-Thon to benefit the Make-A-Wish foundation! http://bit.ly/podathon24

Welcome to Kill By Kill's TV Terrors... in SPACE!! Patrick is still overseas, so we're unearthing a beloved Patreon episode covering one of the most ridiculous hours of television ever aired - Buck Rogers in the 25th Century's Space Vampire!! It's a desperate battle between people armed with laser guns and a sentient brussel sprout with Groucho Marx eyebrows!! Along the way, we talk robot romance, lost lingo, excess button work, B-plot boredom, and the most Lyrca ever featured on the show!! Set a course for adventure and vampiric veggies with us today!!   Artwork by Josh Hollis: joshhollis.com Kill By Kill theme by Revenge Body. For the full-length version and more great music, head to revengebodymemphis.bandcamp.com today! Our linker.ee Click here to visit our TeePublic shop for killer merch! Join the conversation about any episode on the Facebook Group! Follow us on IG @killbykillpodcast!! Join us on Threads or even Bluesky Check out Gena's Substack called Gena Watches Things!! Check out the films we've covered & what might come soon on Letterboxd! Get even more episodes exclusively on Patreon!

Jon talks about: How he gets his show titles and why you should pay attention to themThe Acolyte's confirmed Premier date on Disney+ Why you should listen to Marc Maron's interview with Dave Attell on the WTF podcast The Presidential Physical Fitness TestBeverages when you live with an 11 year oldThe Oscars and why he doesn't understand how Downey Jr. keeps beating Deniro even though he hasn't seen the movies, & his thoughts on Poor Things. And then it ends on how he sometimes sounds like that little robot from Buck Rogers. (go figure)Thank you to our sponsors:BlendJet 2 & Mondo Monster WearDonations thru the Official Listener Support App: Venmo @ JonDpodcom

The serial killer and the orphan sat down in the kitchen, and over a few pints of Ben & Jerrys, he explains to her the true nature of evil in the world. Death, the universe, and everything sinister are laid bare in this eye-opening tale that has been in the making for over 200 episodes.  guest voices: Chris Kaufmann, Kelly Kaufmann, Dan Jopling, Buck Rogers, and the lovely Jamie Lee Hensley Music by:Beat Mekanik with thumperand Lisa Hammer with cold dread, deep note, ethereal dread, graveyard picnic, high pitch, and night terror. Listen on PoduramaPlease subscribe through Buzzsprout, Stitcher, Spotify, Podchaser, or iTunesFind me on social media on Instagram Facebook and Twitter, or email me direct at AScaryHomeCompanion@gmail.comSupport our PATREON page! And check out the Redbubble merch shop. Support the show

Join Heidi and Ro on a special discussion and breakdown on some classic costumes of science fiction television of the 70's. What an era for costuming. We pick some stand out selections from Battlestar Galactica, Wonder Woman, The Bionic Woman, Space 1999, Buck Rogers and more. What iconic costumes do you remember from science fiction television of the 70's? Come join us and contribute to the conversation on an all new #ScarifLive Follow my friend Heidi on her her socials here: https://linktr.ee/costumeco or say hello on Twitter / X @CostumeCinemato And check out the Etsy shop for more of where our give away items came from. https://www.etsy.com/shop/YourWeirdAunt

Episode: 1092 The unrelenting search for Buck Rogers' rocket belt.  Today, let's fly without an airplane.

My guest has given us definitive behind-the-scenes books for Jaws, The Hulk, and Buck Rogers. Now, his latest book has taken off. Author Pat Jankiewicz is here to chat about his super 80s flashback – The Greatest American Hero Companion!Photo courtesy Pat & Steve JankiewiczBook images TM & copyright © Bear Manor Media Get these […]

2:25:34 – Frank in New Jersey and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Twiki for sale, missed the bus, Buck Rogers, Star Wars, shitty robots, heading into NYC, Doctor Who, Country Gate Players – It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, Birch beer, Mini Chiclets, food hall, vegan lunch, Travellers, Zuzu’s Petals, wild turkeys, Important […]

Inventor Victor Strode combined aircraft design with naval architecture to create an amazing, blinding fast speedboat that looked straight out of a Golden Age sci-fi comic ... but apparently the design didn't work as well scaled up to ambulance-boat size. (Portland Harbor, Multnomah County; 1930s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1209d-aerohydrocraft-buck-rogers-boat-looked-awesome-didnt-work-out.html)

March 24-30, 1979 This week Ken welcomes writer, podcaster, and lover of all things Mego, the man behind Plaid Stallions, Brian Heiler to the show. Ken and Brian discuss Canada, how long Ken has been following Brian's work, memorizing TV Guide as a kid, being the TV Oracle, late night horror and monster movies, Crestwood books, V, tourist traps, Hollywood Museum, Slim Goodbody, Mr. Rourke as devil or angel, Fantasy Island, toothless Animal House TV rip offs, fountain pens, how small pop culture used to be, being a smoker, Canada vs US buying cigarettes, loving cigarette machines even though you don't smoke, The Frozen Dead, The Last Man on Earth, Dracula '79, Cliff Hangers, Track and Field for women by Colgate, disco, Forever Night, Silk Stalkings, Steve Guttenberg, Merv Griffin, movie parodies, George Kennedy toys, Computer Dating, Rack Toys, Bruce Villanch's song writing career, Herve Valechez, Wendy Schaal, Susan Tyrell, Pyschotronic Films, Charlton Heston, marketing cases, Aydes weight loss product, made for TV Movies, SCTV, how Buddy Cole grew out of Johnny LaRue, Scott Thompson, The King of Kensington, Guy Big, Seeing Things, Canadian sitcoms, Friday the 13th the Series, Percy Rodriguez, The Starlost, Happy Days, Star Wars rip offs, Buck Rogers, Jason of Star Command, The Dark Secrets of Harvest Home, Rene Aborgenious, jiggle TV, Charlie's Angels, Vegas, monkeys on TV, Baby I'm Back, Delta House, Carter Country, pirate satellites, lessons in irony, Barnaby Jones, why Jack Kirby IS the King, 3-D comics, Barney Miller, Brian's cop dad who isn't a cop, Times Square, pen paling with James Gregory, Turnabout, body switching, Hello Larry, being forced to watch Dallas, and Mego. 

THIS VOYAGE, MARK A. ALTMAN (author, The Fifty Year Mission, showrunner, Pandora, writer/producer Agent X, The Librarians, writer/producer Free Enterprise), DAREN DOCHTERMAN (associate producer, Star Trek: The Motion Picture - Director's Edition, concept designer: Master & Commander, Westworld) and ASHLEY E. MILLER (showrunner; DOTA: Dragon's Blood, writer, X-Men: First Class, Thor) are joined by ROBERT WILONSKY (VP of Marketing and Publicity for Heritage Auctions) to talk about the incredible auction of The Greg Jein Collection taking place October 14 - 15th. This is a once-in-a-lifetime auction of the most magnificent #StarTrek collection ever assembled along with invaluable artifacts from BATMAN, BUCK ROGERS, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, STAR WARS and more. Don't miss this special episode and an opportunity to get a archival catalog from the auction.   SUBSCRIBE TODAY TO TREKSPERTS PLUS... and get every episode of INGLORIOUS TREKSPERTS and our new podcast, INGLORIOUS TREKSPERTS presents DECK 78 along with additional bonus content and surprises all season long. For more details, visit trekkspertsplus.com.  Join Mark A. Altman (Pandora, The Librarians) and Ashley E. Miller (Thor, X-Men: First Class, DOTA: Dragon's Fire) at NIGHTMARE WEEKEND in Richmond, VA this October. Visit galaxycon.com for details. Learn all that is learnable about Star Trek in Mark A. Altman & Edward Gross' THE FIFTY-YEAR MISSION, available in hardcover, paperback, digital and audio from St. Maritn's Press. And if you're a James Bond fan, don't miss NOBODY DOES IT BETTER, in hardcover, paperback, digital and audio from Forge Books. And don't miss SECRETS OF THE FORCE, the definitive unauthorized, uncensored oral history of STAR WARS, now available in hardcover, digital and audio!!  Follow Inglorious Treksperts at @inglorioustrek on Twitter, Facebook, Blue Sky and at @inglorioustreksperts on Instagram and Threads. And now follow the Treksperts Briefing Room at @trekspertsBR, an entirely separate Twitter & Instagram feed. Email us at trekspertsplus@gmail.com "Mark A. Altman is the world's foremost Trekspert" - Los Angeles Times #StarTrek #TOS #TAS #TNG #DS9 #VOY #ENT #DISCO #PICARD #LLAP #comics #IDW #Marvel #DC #GoldKey #Discovery #DeepSpaceNine #STTMP #StarWars  #CaptainPike #StrangeNewWorlds #55YearTour  #casting #ST55 #StarTrek55 #TheCage #StrangeNewWorlds #SNW #Voyager #Janeway #Enterprise #TheSearchForSpock #StarTrekIII #BSG #TMP #Trekkies #Alien #Aliens #DavidFincher #BestofTrek #EnterpriseIncidents #IDW #comics #DS9 #DeepSpaceNine #TerryFarrell #NanaVisitor #PicardSeason3 #StarTrekPicard #Picard #Borg #PicardSeason3 #StarTrekPicard #M5 #TrueFoodKitchen #Andor #PIcardSeason3 #trekspertsplus.com #GregJein #HeritageAuctions

Our guests ran into a scheduling conflict so we're replaying our November 30, 2022 talk with the amazing Amanda Wyss from Fast Times, Better Off Dead, Nightmare on Elm Street, Powwow Highway, Silverado, and so many other memorable roles. She's also appeared in shows like Buck Rogers, Cheers, St. Elsewhere, Murder She Wrote, CSI, Diagnosis Murder, and Dexter. You can follow Amanda on Twitter @_amandawyss and on Instagram @amandawyss. Meantime, please help support this show by subscribing to our bonus content at Bobcescashow.com. Music by Sammi Garett.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.