WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.680 --> 00:00:12.199 Astounding Tales of the Public Domain with Father Malone. Enhanced audio performances from the 2 00:00:12.279 --> 00:00:19.399 Golden Age of science Fiction, featuring tales by Brave Radberry, Miriam Alan d 3 00:00:19.559 --> 00:00:24.960 Ford, Robert E. Howard, Paul Anderson, H. P. Lovecraft, 4 00:00:25.199 --> 00:00:32.000 and Moore. Hear it twice monthly at weirding Way Media. Astounding Tales 5 00:00:32.079 --> 00:00:52.799 of the Public Domain with Father Malone, weir Way Media, Redially Hate Pigny, 6 00:00:53.520 --> 00:01:00.280 Light and shot Realism, Surrealism, Impressionism, dr storage and interestedly on 7 00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:06.439 blow a pred of lunch towards the bisire. And this place is nothing if 8 00:01:06.439 --> 00:01:11.159 it isn't a bizarre There's no admission, no requirement of membership, only a 9 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:15.959 stronger the plighting belief and depart at the top of the stairs or the things 10 00:01:15.959 --> 00:01:21.239 that go pop at the night, the names the place you to commit. 11 00:01:21.319 --> 00:01:30.280 You're actually dentically out of the ranks. The night got Welcome back, our 12 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:36.200 lovers to midnight Viewing of the Night Gallery podcast. I'm Father Malone and with 13 00:01:36.400 --> 00:01:41.239 me here in the gallery are the projection books Mike White, Very Tasty and 14 00:01:41.599 --> 00:01:46.640 the Culture Cast Chris Dash You my fingers are green, let me plant them 15 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:51.640 and see what happens. And we are discussing Season two, episode fifteen, 16 00:01:52.040 --> 00:01:56.599 which aired on January the fifth, nineteen seventy two. It was broken into 17 00:01:56.840 --> 00:02:00.640 three segments. Those are Green Fingers, the Few Funeral, and the tune 18 00:02:00.840 --> 00:02:08.039 in Dan's Cafe for the Whiticulturist amongst you, Here's a dandy, a lady 19 00:02:08.120 --> 00:02:13.840 who plants things and then steps back and watches them grow roses, rhododendron, 20 00:02:13.960 --> 00:02:17.360 tulips, and things never before to be fun coming out of the ground. 21 00:02:19.120 --> 00:02:27.240 Just put in the subject of this painting has green fingers. Green Fingers was 22 00:02:27.280 --> 00:02:30.639 written by Rod Serling, based on a short story by RC Cook, and 23 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:36.479 directed by mister John Badham. This one stars Elsa Lanchester Spry as always, 24 00:02:36.919 --> 00:02:40.000 Cameron Mitchell, and Michael Bell. Before we continue, I've been all this 25 00:02:40.120 --> 00:02:44.719 season attempting to point out a spotlight on some of our lesser known celebrated members 26 00:02:44.759 --> 00:02:47.599 of the Night Gallery family. But he's this is the only episode he appears 27 00:02:47.639 --> 00:02:51.240 in. But in this case, I'm cold Bell. This is his only 28 00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:53.639 Night Gallery performance, as I said, But ultimately as an actor, I'm 29 00:02:53.639 --> 00:02:57.919 not even going to discuss him seeing him at all. As a voice actor, 30 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:01.280 he has over four hundred credits Oh yeah. As soon as he started 31 00:03:01.360 --> 00:03:05.400 talking, I was like, Oh, it's the cat Man from Cuss Meets 32 00:03:05.439 --> 00:03:08.159 The Phantom of the Park. Absolutely, it's Duke from g I Joe. 33 00:03:08.599 --> 00:03:15.159 It's his voice is so recognized. The only other time I've ever seen Michael 34 00:03:15.240 --> 00:03:19.680 Bell and I had the same reaction. He's in the pilot for Star Trek 35 00:03:19.719 --> 00:03:23.159 the Next Generation Encounter at far point, he's the alien who's torturing the other 36 00:03:23.240 --> 00:03:27.560 aliens and they come and set him free, and like he spoke at one 37 00:03:27.599 --> 00:03:29.520 point time, I was like, Oh my god, that's the voice. 38 00:03:29.840 --> 00:03:32.199 That's that guy. Who's that guy? So I've been following him ever since, 39 00:03:32.520 --> 00:03:38.520 But like I said, his credits are just completely insane. For like 40 00:03:38.840 --> 00:03:45.680 four hundred voice roles in everything. A true voice actor who has appeared in 41 00:03:45.919 --> 00:03:53.639 literally everything from commercials to cartoons of every variety, features and Saturday Morning and 42 00:03:53.120 --> 00:03:58.159 Lame and retro and anything. Anyway, I just wanted to point him out 43 00:03:58.199 --> 00:04:00.960 because I kind of adore the guy. Anyway. This story is about Elsa 44 00:04:01.039 --> 00:04:08.360 Lanchester is a lonely spinster who's really good with gardening, and she's refusing the 45 00:04:08.439 --> 00:04:13.039 advances of a real estate mogul. What'd you think of this one, Chris. 46 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:15.800 I think the story that they're telling is fun. I think it's a 47 00:04:15.959 --> 00:04:19.600 little long. I like Elsa Lanchester a lot. I mean, obviously, 48 00:04:19.879 --> 00:04:24.360 I'm a huge fan of the Bride of Frankenstein, as I'm sure we all 49 00:04:24.519 --> 00:04:28.680 are, and to see her in this in a speaking role, which is 50 00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:32.279 now the second time I've seen her in anything outside of Brida Frankenstein, is 51 00:04:32.519 --> 00:04:36.639 interesting and refreshing because she ain't in that movie a lot, folks. I 52 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:40.879 know, if you haven't seen it, you might think she's in Brida Frankenstein 53 00:04:40.920 --> 00:04:44.959 a lot, but she's not at all. Frankly, she's in the beginning 54 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:46.839 and essentially at the end of the movie. When I have to call you 55 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:51.199 a liar, Chris, you saw Elsa Lancaster in Murder by Death. She 56 00:04:51.600 --> 00:04:56.759 was the Miss Marple one who is pushing around. That's what it was. 57 00:04:58.319 --> 00:05:00.439 That's what it was. Because I was trying to think to myself, I 58 00:05:00.519 --> 00:05:04.839 was like, I feel like I had seen her earlier then Bride of Frankenstein, 59 00:05:04.959 --> 00:05:09.879 in something where she looked like this, and she does in Colombo. 60 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:13.240 Look, Okay, that's what it was. Okay, but still, I 61 00:05:13.319 --> 00:05:16.839 mean, she's great here and she plays that character perfectly, per perfectly. 62 00:05:17.399 --> 00:05:21.120 Cameron Mitchell, on the other hand, I'm what kind of accent is he 63 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:28.399 doing? Tycoon? Oh, okay, a tycoon accent, don't you know. 64 00:05:29.720 --> 00:05:32.639 I'm a man of industry that checks out. I speak only with a 65 00:05:32.759 --> 00:05:44.680 cigar in my mouth. Yeah, yeah, out of that guy. You 66 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:46.800 watch your ass. Yeah he wants that. I mean, this is a 67 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:51.879 tale as old as time, this whole thing of a wealthy tycoon wants to 68 00:05:53.079 --> 00:05:56.720 take the land from an old lady who won't sell it to him. He 69 00:05:56.759 --> 00:06:00.279 owns all the parcels all around, but she won't say all out. And 70 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:08.519 then he hires someone to maybe murder her, but or just cut off her 71 00:06:08.639 --> 00:06:12.600 fingers, and then her fingers go in the ground. She dies a fucking 72 00:06:12.959 --> 00:06:16.240 shock, right or something like. I was surprised when she died and just 73 00:06:16.439 --> 00:06:20.720 how quick it was, But not to worry, because everything she plants grows, 74 00:06:21.480 --> 00:06:26.959 so she grows a new person out of her fingers, which then led 75 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:31.839 me to a whole mental conversation thinking about Wolverine. If you cut off Wolverine's 76 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:36.839 fingers, does he grow a whole new wolverine or does he grow new fingers 77 00:06:38.120 --> 00:06:41.600 or both? I think the answer is both. WHOA. So he's like 78 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:46.680 cloning himself all the time. He must have like one of those prestige machines 79 00:06:46.920 --> 00:06:50.120 to kill all these extra ones, I think. I think in Wolverines case, 80 00:06:50.240 --> 00:06:54.160 it has to be a substantial portion of him to grow back. It 81 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:58.199 can't just be a finger. I'm trying to remember, like with Marvel zombies, 82 00:06:58.240 --> 00:07:00.720 because I think they cut off his head, but then I think the 83 00:07:00.879 --> 00:07:04.800 head grows back, not the head grows a new hymn? Is that the 84 00:07:04.920 --> 00:07:10.079 axe that killed me? How could he ever be a zombie? Yeah? 85 00:07:10.279 --> 00:07:15.319 That is strange, right, And I mean, yeah, Galactus is a 86 00:07:15.399 --> 00:07:19.279 zombie at one point two. I mean hewing close to the rules of the 87 00:07:19.399 --> 00:07:24.839 universe. Don't seem to matter when when the Z word comes a knocke yeah, 88 00:07:24.839 --> 00:07:27.439 because he's the same with this, like it's a little much that she's 89 00:07:27.480 --> 00:07:30.560 just I thought it was going a different direction, And when another one of 90 00:07:30.720 --> 00:07:32.360 when it goes where it goes, I was like, Okay, sure, 91 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:35.600 which way did you think it was going to go? I didn't expect it 92 00:07:35.680 --> 00:07:39.959 to go this way again, Like you know that he's going to get his 93 00:07:40.040 --> 00:07:42.680 come up, and but I didn't expect that she was just gonna die. 94 00:07:42.959 --> 00:07:46.319 Yeah, Like she gets her fingers cut off. He doesn't get shot in 95 00:07:46.360 --> 00:07:48.120 the head. Well, and she just kind of loses her mind too, 96 00:07:48.199 --> 00:07:53.199 and she's like my fingers, my fingers, and she's just bleeding all over 97 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:57.560 the place. Like we've complained several times. Probably, I mean we've done 98 00:07:57.600 --> 00:08:03.360 what fifteen episodes now or this is the so probably fourteen times you've heard me 99 00:08:03.480 --> 00:08:07.279 say, boy, I saw that ending coming a mile away. I didn't 100 00:08:07.319 --> 00:08:11.639 see this one right on. Well, it is a really good short story, 101 00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:16.079 and this teleplay by Stiling, he was a little too close to the 102 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:20.639 short story to the point where you know, we get another Sterling Bottle episode 103 00:08:20.680 --> 00:08:24.360 here. He wants everything to take place at this one location. It's economical 104 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:31.959 and makes sense. However, when Michael Bell and Cameron Mitchell get out of 105 00:08:31.039 --> 00:08:35.480 the limo and he starts giving him the information he needs about this old woman, 106 00:08:35.519 --> 00:08:39.600 I'm like, this conversation would have happened at the board room, right. 107 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:43.960 This is the tycoon who owns the entire company. Why is he even 108 00:08:43.159 --> 00:08:46.879 here first of all to reason with this woman, Like he wouldn't have gotten 109 00:08:46.879 --> 00:08:50.360 in the car without knowing the destination. So anyway, Just little things like 110 00:08:50.480 --> 00:08:58.120 that bug me about it. Also, the ending works as far as the 111 00:08:58.399 --> 00:09:03.600 lead character telling us what little green fingers will grow, which is little green 112 00:09:03.720 --> 00:09:07.679 ladies. It's a shocking thing to read. Having the character speak it to 113 00:09:07.759 --> 00:09:11.200 the camera might have been shocking as well, but it kind of does it. 114 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:15.600 I don't know, there's a weird disconnect there. Also. I was 115 00:09:15.720 --> 00:09:22.039 hoping, because she planted her fingers that we were going to get several little 116 00:09:22.120 --> 00:09:26.240 old ladies. Oh, and that would have been really horrified, And I 117 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:31.080 thought they kind of missed an opportunity there. But I love Elsa Lanchester. 118 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:35.440 I think she's fucking She's so great here, So I think I like this 119 00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:41.159 one overall. It's just there was so much potential to make this a truly 120 00:09:41.320 --> 00:09:46.679 frightening episode and a kind of close but no giant cigar to chop around while 121 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:50.080 you're talking. In the tycoon ees, I thought for sure we're going to 122 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:54.799 go into Jordi, veryl territory. At one point when she kept showing all 123 00:09:54.840 --> 00:09:58.840 those plants, I was like, Oh, she's gonna plant him or well 124 00:09:58.919 --> 00:10:03.720 he start to grow fu fungus or plants on him, But she leaves him 125 00:10:03.759 --> 00:10:07.360 alone. Well, that's what the ending reminded me of with her in that 126 00:10:07.559 --> 00:10:09.360 chair. It's that's like, oh, I could think of a Stephen King 127 00:10:09.440 --> 00:10:13.159 and creep show. It's like, but in that it's done better, but 128 00:10:13.240 --> 00:10:16.559 it's also given more time and that's the point of the story here. It's 129 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:22.440 I mean here, this reminded me of that Peter Cushing story from whatever it 130 00:10:22.600 --> 00:10:28.600 was we did. Father Malone eons ago now has that right, okay, 131 00:10:28.679 --> 00:10:33.000 but what it wasn't a was it monster club or what it was? It? 132 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:35.320 No, it was just tales from the Crypto movie, wasn't it. 133 00:10:35.679 --> 00:10:39.639 This has that same feel. It's like a revenge It's ultimately a revenge story, 134 00:10:39.840 --> 00:10:43.279 but the person who's getting the revenge is no longer there. I do 135 00:10:43.399 --> 00:10:46.840 appreciate those kinds of stories, and I agree some of this is just like 136 00:10:46.879 --> 00:10:52.080 telling, not showing for the sake of exposition for the audience, which is 137 00:10:52.159 --> 00:10:56.200 fine, but it feels out of place. But Cameron Mitchell is such a 138 00:10:56.399 --> 00:11:00.279 bastard bad guy. It's like, yeah, I like how over the top 139 00:11:00.360 --> 00:11:03.679 he is. He's great, I do He's Yeah, I like how over 140 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:07.399 the top he is. It's fun. It makes the episode. Some of 141 00:11:07.440 --> 00:11:11.519 these other ones where the villain is not as overstated because he's really it's he's 142 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:16.639 chewing the scenery every time he's on screen. Yeah, Elsa Lanchester is given 143 00:11:16.679 --> 00:11:20.240 as good as she's getting in that department. So there they're of a piece. 144 00:11:20.039 --> 00:11:24.600 It's just that, you know, ultimately, I'm sorry, Rod, 145 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:28.840 but it's overly written for no good reason. This is an atmosphere piece. 146 00:11:30.639 --> 00:11:33.759 It's about a poor old woman potentially bleeding out by the way that could be 147 00:11:33.879 --> 00:11:39.960 the reason of her death, and it didn't want to maybe overly dramatize that 148 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:43.919 necessarily, but that kind of what I took away from it anyway, I 149 00:11:43.039 --> 00:11:48.399 thought. I ultimately I liked the segment, but it's oh, could have 150 00:11:48.440 --> 00:11:52.039 been so much. But the music is great. The music is really good, 151 00:11:52.559 --> 00:11:54.399 I agree, and it's shot beautifully. John Badham is it, you 152 00:11:54.519 --> 00:11:58.399 know, just showing what he does well, which is he can put a 153 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:03.399 camera any We're give you a great scene. And I want to mention the 154 00:12:03.440 --> 00:12:05.320 painting. I like the painting at the beginning, the one that they use 155 00:12:05.519 --> 00:12:09.919 for this segment, I think is really effective as well and creepy. And 156 00:12:11.000 --> 00:12:13.919 that's right here, which again they show one for essentially all of these. 157 00:12:15.320 --> 00:12:20.120 Yeah, the somber silence of shrouds, the gray, unhappy light of a 158 00:12:20.200 --> 00:12:24.519 sunless dawn, and the horse drawn casket very much in keeping with the motif 159 00:12:24.600 --> 00:12:31.799 of this place. The title of the painting. All right, Our next 160 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:37.679 segment is called The Funeral. This is written by Richard Matheson, his second 161 00:12:37.759 --> 00:12:43.559 segment his final segment. Here based on a short story by Richard Matheson and 162 00:12:43.840 --> 00:12:48.559 directed by John Meredith Lucas. This one stars Werner Clemperer. We've already had 163 00:12:48.600 --> 00:12:52.559 Bob Crane this season. If we get John Banner, we'll have the whole 164 00:12:52.679 --> 00:12:56.639 Hogan's Heroes play set. It also stars Joe Flynn. We've already had Season 165 00:12:56.720 --> 00:13:00.320 Romero this season, so if we get Kurt Russell, we'll have the entire 166 00:13:00.360 --> 00:13:05.440 computer War tennis shoes played. This is a story about a funeral director who 167 00:13:05.559 --> 00:13:11.000 receives an unusual request from an unusual guest late one evening. What do you 168 00:13:11.080 --> 00:13:16.440 think of this one, Mike? This was so strange because this is a 169 00:13:16.519 --> 00:13:20.639 blackout skit. You know, we talked, I think in the last episode 170 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:24.120 about well, this is a blackout skit that goes on for way too long. 171 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:28.559 The mutant kid that goes up to outer space. This one, this 172 00:13:28.799 --> 00:13:33.200 is a blackout skit, I mean, and it's got all of these universal 173 00:13:33.320 --> 00:13:35.759 monsters we keep talking about that. The one thing I'm surprised is there's no 174 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:41.559 Frankenstein in here. You even have a Wolfman going on in here. I 175 00:13:41.159 --> 00:13:46.440 was very surprised that Werner Klemper was playing a vampire, since he is as 176 00:13:46.559 --> 00:13:50.519 bald as a q ball. But you know, hey, I love it. 177 00:13:50.799 --> 00:13:54.440 I love a baby. A bald vampire is kind of the new way 178 00:13:54.519 --> 00:14:00.200 to go. So yeah, this went on for way too long. Kind 179 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:05.519 of like my explanation of this Spress flummix, that a blackout sketch was turned 180 00:14:05.559 --> 00:14:11.720 into an actual episode segment, and especially this have we not seen this before 181 00:14:13.039 --> 00:14:16.000 fucking four times now? Like why are we? Like it feels like they're 182 00:14:16.039 --> 00:14:20.039 walking over the same ground and then stomping it down and then going in a 183 00:14:20.120 --> 00:14:24.120 circle again and being like, I don't know who stopped that down last time. 184 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:28.600 You're just beating a dead horse with these blackout sketches. They're they're fine 185 00:14:28.039 --> 00:14:35.759 as blackout sketches because they're two minutes, not ten. Holy shit. And 186 00:14:35.879 --> 00:14:39.759 again, it's not even funny, it's not even entertaining. It's just kind 187 00:14:39.799 --> 00:14:43.679 of weird. That's the word I would use, just kind of strange, 188 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:48.000 because I thought it like I knew where it was going, and we all 189 00:14:48.080 --> 00:14:52.240 know where it's going, and it takes ten minutes to go there, and 190 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:56.240 it feels like it should have only taken two because every other time they do 191 00:14:56.360 --> 00:15:01.080 this it does only take two minutes. I think if they put this in 192 00:15:01.159 --> 00:15:07.120 the last episode, who is Harvey Jason supposed to be in this? I 193 00:15:07.360 --> 00:15:09.879 was just saying, if we put this in the last episode, they could 194 00:15:09.879 --> 00:15:16.360 have cut out the ten minutes of padding of the NASA footage and it would 195 00:15:16.399 --> 00:15:18.639 have slotted in quite nicely. And I do agree with both of you that 196 00:15:18.759 --> 00:15:24.159 this is just another blackout sketch stretched out to a ten minute lang, but 197 00:15:24.440 --> 00:15:31.039 also a big surprise. The other Richard Mathieson segment was also basically a blackout 198 00:15:31.080 --> 00:15:35.440 sketch, and I think they're both handled really well, so this one doesn't 199 00:15:35.480 --> 00:15:37.679 bother me. It you know, it's it's a It is kind of a 200 00:15:37.759 --> 00:15:43.279 one paneled joke, but getting to see Verna Klemper do something other than Colonel 201 00:15:43.360 --> 00:15:48.480 Clink so well sort of made this one a winner in my book, and 202 00:15:48.600 --> 00:15:54.559 that might that doesn't necessarily make me want to recommend this to anybody. But 203 00:15:54.799 --> 00:15:58.120 if you've only been fed a steady diet of clink your entire life, it's 204 00:15:58.159 --> 00:16:03.519 a nice ball to see Vernerd Klepper doing his thing. That's all. He 205 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:10.639 was great, And I hope I didn't miss quote the line the thing that 206 00:16:10.960 --> 00:16:15.679 Harvey Jason keeps saying in here when he's like holding on to the Joe Flynn's 207 00:16:15.879 --> 00:16:18.159 shoulders, he just doesn't keep saying like, oh, very tasty. He's 208 00:16:18.159 --> 00:16:25.159 like trying to do type of thing all Harvey Jason Cannonball's own. Yeah, 209 00:16:25.279 --> 00:16:34.559 Harvey lost world. No, j don't go into the long grass career, 210 00:16:36.960 --> 00:16:40.639 Yeah, I think he's still around. Not realize. Don't go into the 211 00:16:40.720 --> 00:16:45.039 long grass is a quote that I use often playing an Indian man in that 212 00:16:45.200 --> 00:16:49.360 movie. A j Brown facing brown face was a thing even in Steven spielberg 213 00:16:49.440 --> 00:16:52.519 movies. Folks, but wait, not the first time, because make them 214 00:16:52.639 --> 00:16:56.679 laugh, make them laugh. Here in the Night Gallery we had what's his 215 00:16:56.840 --> 00:17:00.679 name? I found out some interesting information about that. By the way, 216 00:17:00.759 --> 00:17:06.400 gentlemen, to make me laugh episode that Spielberg directed. Initially, Evidently he 217 00:17:06.599 --> 00:17:12.599 said that he planned the entire episode in two shots, shot the entire first 218 00:17:12.720 --> 00:17:17.759 day and got one of those tanks down, so the entire first act was 219 00:17:18.079 --> 00:17:21.960 one tank, and then had most of the second tank done, and then 220 00:17:22.039 --> 00:17:25.599 came in the next day and was told we've lost all faith in you. 221 00:17:25.720 --> 00:17:29.519 You've ruined your career here, and that they fired him, and then they 222 00:17:29.640 --> 00:17:33.839 pieced the rest of the episode together with the other footage that he had sort 223 00:17:33.839 --> 00:17:38.440 of done is like testing. So what we get there is not Steven Spielberg's 224 00:17:38.519 --> 00:17:42.480 episode at all. An Spielberg I didn't have much of a career afterwards anyway, 225 00:17:42.559 --> 00:17:45.039 So I think the right call was made. I know no one's crying 226 00:17:45.200 --> 00:17:52.640 for him, but yeah, I mean imagine though, if imagine if he'd 227 00:17:52.680 --> 00:17:59.559 been't given a break now, he wouldn't have wouldn't life, I promise, 228 00:18:00.359 --> 00:18:03.359 much like Rod Serling, who had his name on this program that he did 229 00:18:03.440 --> 00:18:08.400 not want his name on, you know, maybe Spielberg pretty anyway, that's 230 00:18:08.440 --> 00:18:11.839 pretty crazy. I mean, that's pretty wild. That is wild. But 231 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:17.000 I mean the seventies television just seems like the Wild West Man, which I 232 00:18:17.119 --> 00:18:18.440 kind of love, Like there is a little bit of that is gone now 233 00:18:18.680 --> 00:18:23.160 we don't ask you to believe this particular painting, Death's Head, I'll bring 234 00:18:23.240 --> 00:18:27.799 over juke box, but it does point up the all inclusive quality of the 235 00:18:27.880 --> 00:18:33.960 occult. Random inspectors can be found not only in holden houses, but in 236 00:18:33.079 --> 00:18:38.119 places you'd least expect to find them, places like this. Our painting is 237 00:18:38.200 --> 00:18:45.720 called the Tune in Dan's Cafe, all right, But our final segment is 238 00:18:45.759 --> 00:18:49.599 called the Tune in Dan's Cafe. This was written by Gerald Sandford and Gary 239 00:18:49.759 --> 00:18:56.039 bateson short story by Shamus Fraser. This one was directed by David Rawlins. 240 00:18:56.480 --> 00:19:03.039 Now you might notice a very distinctorial flair in this episode. That's because David 241 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:06.960 Rawlins this is the only segment of the show he directed. It's the only 242 00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:11.720 segment of anything he directed ever, but he edited another twelve segments here on 243 00:19:11.920 --> 00:19:15.559 Night Gallery. He was a TV editor pretty steadily up until Night Gallery, 244 00:19:15.799 --> 00:19:18.319 having edited only a few features, not very memorable ones at that, But 245 00:19:18.440 --> 00:19:23.839 that changed when frequent Night Gallery collaborator John M. Batham made the Bingo Long 246 00:19:25.000 --> 00:19:30.640 Traveling All Stars and Motor Kings and then Saturday Night Fever, and David Rawlins 247 00:19:30.680 --> 00:19:33.440 became a feature film editor after that, and the editing is actually really good 248 00:19:33.480 --> 00:19:38.440 in this episode. This episode stars Pernell Roberts, Susan Oliver, and Brooke 249 00:19:38.519 --> 00:19:42.839 Mills has read the dream Girl who is David Rawlins wife. This is don't 250 00:19:42.880 --> 00:19:47.240 really have a description for this episode. Would either of you like to tell 251 00:19:47.680 --> 00:19:52.640 the audience what this one was? Because I'm really then't I'm not saying that 252 00:19:52.720 --> 00:19:56.279 the quality on the show was going down. I'm just saying more recently, 253 00:19:56.519 --> 00:20:02.400 we've been getting episodes that seem to want to confound me, and this is 254 00:20:02.480 --> 00:20:07.279 one of those. I'm just sitting back here waiting for somebody to explain it 255 00:20:07.440 --> 00:20:11.039 to me. Can I be frank you guys, you guys remember when we 256 00:20:11.119 --> 00:20:15.759 did Dreams for Sale. Yeah, that was a fun thing we did together. 257 00:20:15.920 --> 00:20:18.079 That was a lark. We got to talk about George R. Martin 258 00:20:18.200 --> 00:20:25.279 shows episodes and we got to talk about an episode towards correct me if I'm 259 00:20:25.319 --> 00:20:27.640 wrong the end of that show, and I'm trying to remember the name of 260 00:20:27.680 --> 00:20:30.599 the episode. Maybe one of you two could could help me out here. 261 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:36.960 Where there's like a car that the people get inside, yeah, and then 262 00:20:37.079 --> 00:20:41.880 like things happen when they're inside the car, but not when they're outside the 263 00:20:41.960 --> 00:20:48.319 car. You guys remember this bush Okay, that bullshiteah Okay, this had 264 00:20:48.400 --> 00:20:53.400 that same stink on it where it's like someone unpacking some sort of personal trauma 265 00:20:53.559 --> 00:20:57.559 on screen for the rest of us and not realizing that you can't do that 266 00:20:57.680 --> 00:21:03.400 without being entertaining or at least explaining what the fuck's going on. Best I 267 00:21:03.559 --> 00:21:08.480 can tell. What's going on here is a couple who is fighting go to 268 00:21:08.799 --> 00:21:17.359 a diner or a bar that's closing and or possibly already closed, and these 269 00:21:17.440 --> 00:21:22.920 two are together and they're clearly in the process of breaking up or possibly breaking 270 00:21:23.000 --> 00:21:26.559 up. So the husband goes to play a song on the jukebox, to 271 00:21:26.799 --> 00:21:32.440 play their song, not the Elton John song, but a song that's important 272 00:21:32.440 --> 00:21:38.000 to the couple, and instead, for whatever reason, a song comes on 273 00:21:38.119 --> 00:21:47.960 the jukebox that was being played by another couple who were Bonnie and Clyde or 274 00:21:48.440 --> 00:21:53.000 like natural born killers. They were like bank robbers, I guess, yeah, 275 00:21:53.240 --> 00:21:56.319 or like one of them was and the other one didn't know. I 276 00:21:56.440 --> 00:22:03.799 guess the woman isn't but the guy is like a thief. And yeah, 277 00:22:03.880 --> 00:22:06.640 I don't know much from there. All I know is the way the episode 278 00:22:06.720 --> 00:22:11.519 ends is I guess the ghost of the woman goes and sees his dead body, 279 00:22:11.720 --> 00:22:15.440 and or we're seeing what happened when this happened. This is just fucked, 280 00:22:15.720 --> 00:22:18.640 is what this is. I tried, Okay, I try, Okay, 281 00:22:18.880 --> 00:22:23.119 I tried. I'm glad that it wasn't just me. I was like, 282 00:22:25.480 --> 00:22:29.720 am I losing my mind? What is happening here? Yeah? Just 283 00:22:29.920 --> 00:22:36.720 that and the aggravation of a song playing over and over and over again. 284 00:22:37.519 --> 00:22:42.119 I thought I was in that John mulaney skit where he's talking about putting What's 285 00:22:42.160 --> 00:22:49.119 New Pussycat. Honestly, that's all I could think of when I saw this 286 00:22:49.480 --> 00:22:53.480 that I would have preferred What's New? Oh Boy? Yeah, especially it's 287 00:22:53.519 --> 00:23:00.200 such a Sacharin country song. The only good thing about the music in this 288 00:23:00.279 --> 00:23:04.599 episode about that song choice is at the end when they transition outside and it's 289 00:23:04.680 --> 00:23:08.759 the same tune playing now and it's score music, but it's a harmonica playing 290 00:23:08.839 --> 00:23:11.839 the same music. I thought that was nice. I like when movies do 291 00:23:11.960 --> 00:23:17.599 that. The theme can change and adapt from scene to scene. That's my 292 00:23:17.759 --> 00:23:22.519 only plotted for this particular episode, though. So that song, which is 293 00:23:22.559 --> 00:23:26.519 called if You Leave Me Tonight, I'll cry shocking, I know, was 294 00:23:26.720 --> 00:23:32.519 created for the show by Gerald Sandford and the music director Hal Moody, and 295 00:23:32.680 --> 00:23:37.079 then they brought someone in to sing it, and because it was so popular, 296 00:23:37.759 --> 00:23:42.519 he recorded the song, like, actually recorded the song so popular with 297 00:23:42.640 --> 00:23:48.480 who people were calling into the radio asking for the song from that Night Gallery 298 00:23:48.640 --> 00:23:52.960 episode. Wow, yeah, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. 299 00:23:52.160 --> 00:23:56.640 I would sol the radio station say, don't ever play this song. 300 00:23:56.839 --> 00:24:00.000 Jerry Wallace is the guy who they brought in and he recorded it and it 301 00:24:00.079 --> 00:24:07.799 became a hit. Yeah. Wow, mmm, insanity of it? Well, 302 00:24:07.880 --> 00:24:11.880 what's crazy about it is? I was It's pretty far down if you 303 00:24:11.000 --> 00:24:15.839 google information about it. But this is all on a guitar for him. 304 00:24:15.839 --> 00:24:19.119 Because someone is asking about the song and someone chimes back in with all this 305 00:24:19.319 --> 00:24:25.559 information like they know because they probably do, so Yeah, it's pretty crazy. 306 00:24:25.640 --> 00:24:27.279 But at the same time, go, look, the song doesn't exist 307 00:24:27.880 --> 00:24:33.359 until afterwards. But what's funny is I mentioned all this because the song is 308 00:24:33.640 --> 00:24:38.799 awful? Yes, And I can't tell if it's because it's actually bad or 309 00:24:38.920 --> 00:24:45.519 because I had to hear it eight million times. Yeah. I was happy 310 00:24:45.559 --> 00:24:52.039 to see Pernell Roberts And this is kind of in that transitory time between Adam 311 00:24:52.279 --> 00:24:56.880 Bonanza and then Trapper John m D on the show of the same name, 312 00:24:56.359 --> 00:25:00.799 where I'm like, oh, I can actually see how we went from young 313 00:25:00.960 --> 00:25:10.359 handsome Adam to Cartwright to trapper John MD with this. This is the missing 314 00:25:10.440 --> 00:25:14.720 link of Parnell Roberts Roles, is what I'm trying to say. And I 315 00:25:15.000 --> 00:25:18.599 was on speaking of him because I think he's really good in the episode, 316 00:25:18.920 --> 00:25:22.799 and when it starts and it's this couple, they're obviously breaking up, and 317 00:25:22.920 --> 00:25:26.920 this is obviously like some last ditch effort that he's concocted in order to save 318 00:25:27.000 --> 00:25:33.240 their marriage. This is this long distance trip and the utter desperation putting the 319 00:25:33.359 --> 00:25:37.960 song on to try and rekindle some spark with his wife. I was fully 320 00:25:38.039 --> 00:25:44.359 on board. And then it turns into some bullshit where the song keeps playing 321 00:25:44.440 --> 00:25:47.960 by itself to the jukebox. No matter how many times the owner has replaced 322 00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:52.079 the juke box, it will always play this song somehow. And it relates 323 00:25:52.160 --> 00:25:55.319 back to as you said, Chris, this like Bonnie and Clyde like situation 324 00:25:55.480 --> 00:26:00.799 where a young couple were on the run and she earned him in for the 325 00:26:00.880 --> 00:26:03.079 money, and this was their song, and the cops showed up and shot 326 00:26:03.200 --> 00:26:07.160 him up. The editing and the sequence is great. I gotta say, 327 00:26:07.200 --> 00:26:11.359 it's really it's a step above the ordinary Night Gallery episode. Anyway. So 328 00:26:11.960 --> 00:26:15.680 he's killed, and so this is I guess the story of a song that 329 00:26:15.839 --> 00:26:21.240 plays because these lovers were never going to reunite. But it's not that story. 330 00:26:21.440 --> 00:26:25.200 She fucking basically murdered him by sicking the cops on him. And then 331 00:26:25.279 --> 00:26:30.799 this couple now has learned a lesson somehow based on this story that they're told 332 00:26:30.119 --> 00:26:34.440 and this jukebox that magically plays the same fucking stupid song over and over again, 333 00:26:34.640 --> 00:26:37.799 that they're going to rekindle their love. Now, I think that's what 334 00:26:37.880 --> 00:26:41.599 they were trying to tell me. That's why it was so confounding. I 335 00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:44.559 don't get it. I still don't get it. Anyway, Purnell Roberts was 336 00:26:44.640 --> 00:26:48.640 good. Is it more or less confounding than the amount of weeks that this 337 00:26:48.839 --> 00:26:55.160 song featured in this episode spent on the Billboard Hot Country Singles Chart? Terrified 338 00:26:55.240 --> 00:26:59.720 to note two whoa two which is more than zero, which is what the 339 00:27:00.240 --> 00:27:03.960 should be, and it sold eight hundred thousand copies as a single. Wow, 340 00:27:04.359 --> 00:27:08.880 So we're wrong, folks. My opinion here is incorrect based on financial 341 00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:15.160 capitalism that this episode, I guess prompted what's crazy is like I can't even 342 00:27:15.200 --> 00:27:18.920 imagine watching this episode and saying, oh, the song. I want to 343 00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:22.160 hear more of the song past the part that they looped over and over again, 344 00:27:22.200 --> 00:27:26.720 because I don't understand how anyone could not find it as obnoxious and off 345 00:27:26.759 --> 00:27:29.359 putting as the three of us did, to the point of I want to 346 00:27:29.400 --> 00:27:32.720 hear more of that. Please here, just jam the ice pit further into 347 00:27:32.759 --> 00:27:34.920 my fucking ear where Chris, don't you realize that this is a huge song 348 00:27:36.119 --> 00:27:44.240 to mimic on TikTok. Oh? No, okay, it's an actual song, 349 00:27:44.319 --> 00:27:48.200 which means you can't mimic it on TikTok. There isn't an explanation at 350 00:27:48.279 --> 00:27:51.400 least that the people who bought it did not have to listen to only the 351 00:27:51.519 --> 00:27:56.160 first twenty seconds and then the skipping of the word death over and over again. 352 00:27:56.720 --> 00:28:00.799 Yeah, go listen to the single, although I implore you it doesn't 353 00:28:00.880 --> 00:28:06.599 get much better. Have you listen to it? Chris? Yeah, it's 354 00:28:06.680 --> 00:28:11.400 just it's that warbly Hank Williams country music that I that like over singing is 355 00:28:11.480 --> 00:28:17.960 just no thanks. And I actually like country music just fine. I'm not 356 00:28:18.039 --> 00:28:22.920 one of those like I hate country music dickheads, like I don't mind country 357 00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:29.519 music at all, But that kind of heehaws shit I don't like. And 358 00:28:29.640 --> 00:28:33.519 it's and again like it doesn't help. This episode's like overall problem, which 359 00:28:33.640 --> 00:28:38.960 is what's the point at least with tell David, I get what you're getting 360 00:28:40.000 --> 00:28:44.559 at I got it. I don't necessarily find what you're saying entertaining in this. 361 00:28:44.720 --> 00:28:47.839 It's like, what are what? What is going on here? I 362 00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:51.440 do like hehaws shit, But I didn't really care for this just because of 363 00:28:51.519 --> 00:28:55.240 the repetition. It's a terrible song and a terrible episode. I don't care 364 00:28:55.279 --> 00:28:57.039 how many units it's sold. You know, once upon a time, Yeah, 365 00:28:57.079 --> 00:29:03.319 Who's Serious was popular in this country? Oh for good reason? Yeah, 366 00:29:03.960 --> 00:29:11.079 for sure, I saw young Einstein in the theater, folks. Pauly 367 00:29:11.200 --> 00:29:15.160 Shart was popular at one point. It's right when he was squeezing the juice, 368 00:29:15.400 --> 00:29:22.559 wheezing the juiceeezing. That's squeezing, so silly. Father alone, Since 369 00:29:22.599 --> 00:29:25.640 you're always the one who's read the short story, I want to ask you, 370 00:29:25.759 --> 00:29:30.480 did you read the short story for this? No? Yeah, I 371 00:29:30.680 --> 00:29:36.160 was curious, and I did so unapologetically because there's nothing that short story was 372 00:29:36.240 --> 00:29:40.079 going to tell me beyond what we got here. I don't care how they 373 00:29:40.160 --> 00:29:45.319 concocted it. I'm just curious that the short story actually has a point. 374 00:29:45.079 --> 00:29:51.160 I wouldn't count on it. Let's hope's I there was something. Maybe it's 375 00:29:51.240 --> 00:29:55.720 just the part about the song and it's not the trappings around it, and 376 00:29:55.880 --> 00:29:59.640 that stuff was added for the show, That's what I wonder, because like 377 00:29:59.759 --> 00:30:03.279 the tune in Dan's cafe, like some of it, the wife and husband 378 00:30:03.359 --> 00:30:07.400 don't need to be there. That doesn't add anything. So that's more what 379 00:30:07.480 --> 00:30:10.680 I was getting at, Like that stuff feels extraneous to the story that they're 380 00:30:10.720 --> 00:30:14.359 telling. If you take the story of just the couple and there's the song 381 00:30:14.559 --> 00:30:18.240 and it's this weird kind of thing, kind of like there wasn't there an 382 00:30:18.240 --> 00:30:21.759 episode where there was like a guy playing country music in a bar and it 383 00:30:21.920 --> 00:30:25.640 was like, don't don't go murder your wife because you're jealoust. You guys 384 00:30:25.680 --> 00:30:29.240 know what I'm talking about. Like that was a thing. Yeah, yeah, 385 00:30:29.359 --> 00:30:32.400 like that's it. This had that quality to it. If you just 386 00:30:32.599 --> 00:30:37.480 drop away the fighting bickering couple, which ultimately the narrative doesn't serve, and 387 00:30:37.559 --> 00:30:41.400 they don't serve the narrative because like, we don't know why they're there, 388 00:30:41.559 --> 00:30:45.759 and they don't add anything to the proceedings that may actually be entertaining or interesting. 389 00:30:45.839 --> 00:30:49.000 At least these presented interestingly. Like you said, father Moode, it's 390 00:30:49.000 --> 00:30:57.799 a not bad to look at, but to be honest, this show I'm 391 00:30:57.880 --> 00:31:04.759 good. I mean, it's it's the same thing. Where was that good 392 00:31:04.759 --> 00:31:11.920 old jealous and kill your wife? Where was that until David, I've played 393 00:31:11.960 --> 00:31:15.960 this song for you, ding ding, don't kill your husband? I mean, 394 00:31:15.039 --> 00:31:21.319 I can't stand their music. Get it out of here, all right, 395 00:31:21.319 --> 00:31:22.960 We're going to play a preview of the next episode and we'll be right 396 00:31:23.000 --> 00:31:30.799 back to wrap things up. Painting number one, having to do with the 397 00:31:30.880 --> 00:31:34.200 fisherman and what they fish for, or, more specifically, in this case, 398 00:31:34.960 --> 00:31:40.279 a fisherman and what he wasn't fishing for. What appeared in his nut 399 00:31:40.359 --> 00:31:47.160 one afternoon defies logic, reason, and belief, But there it was Lindeman's 400 00:31:47.240 --> 00:31:56.880 catch, a dead man splattered on a concrete walk. Not the most appetizing 401 00:31:56.960 --> 00:32:00.839 of scenes and not the pleasantest of stories. But if you're interested remotely in 402 00:32:01.200 --> 00:32:07.680 homie homicides, this may be your bag. We call it the late mister 403 00:32:07.799 --> 00:32:17.200 Pettington in the general generic area of costume jewelry. Note girl and note expression. 404 00:32:19.039 --> 00:32:22.319 Obviously a lady much disturbed by whatever little babbles she has recently been the 405 00:32:22.400 --> 00:32:29.400 recipient of it, said sentence improperly ending on a preposition. But this story 406 00:32:29.599 --> 00:32:32.680 ending on a much more deadly note than that. We call it a feast 407 00:32:32.759 --> 00:32:37.960 of blood. That's right. On the next episode of Midnight Viewing, we'll 408 00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:43.640 be taking a look at season two, episode sixteen that's broken into three segments, 409 00:32:43.960 --> 00:32:47.240 Lindemann's Catch, a Feast of Blood, and the Late mister Pettington. 410 00:32:47.880 --> 00:32:52.319 Until then, where can people find everybody? Everybody? I'm gonna ask you, 411 00:32:52.440 --> 00:32:55.799 Mike White, you do the honors. I will tell you where de 412 00:32:55.920 --> 00:33:01.440 Guaymedia dot Com. That's the place for everything. Just go there and enjoy. 413 00:33:01.680 --> 00:33:06.079 We put on a lot of good shows where you folks. I kind 414 00:33:06.119 --> 00:33:15.200 that sounded like a threat initially, I will tell you whoa look, we're 415 00:33:15.279 --> 00:33:20.920 having a sale. Okay, geez, hear me now and believe me later. 416 00:33:21.119 --> 00:33:22.440 All right, listen, thank you all for joining us. Here at 417 00:33:22.519 --> 00:33:25.559 midnight viewing. The gallery is now closed.