Television

Fifty years ago last month, the pilot episode of Rod Serling’s new venture into the weird and outré debuted as an NBC World Premiere Movie to a host of expectant home viewers. Night Gallery was in the same mold as ...

For many viewers of my generation, no other club on the face of the Earth boasted the kind of elite membership offered by the Midnight Society. The Society featured a motley group of adolescents who abandoned their homes by cover ...

“My mother’s maiden name was McConnell. Her ancestors are Canadian, Irish, Scotch and Welsh. And, on the Harper side, they are French, English and, according to my sister, American Indian. But, I think her addition of American Indian came after ...

“Very little comment here, save for this small aside: that the ties of flesh are deep and strong, that the capacity to love is a vital, rich and all-consuming function of the human animal, and that you can find nobility ...

Original Air Date: 18th of December, 1977 Lee Gambin is currently working on a book looking at the phenomenon of Very Special Episodes in American TV sitcoms. He and a number of contributing writers will be examining multiple episodes that ...

Publicity photo of child actor Stefan Arngrim promoting his role on the television series Land of the Giants It was one day in 1975. My dad was watching a show that had what looked to be a normal group of people surrounded by ...

Joe R. Lansdale has been doing big things for a lot of years now (he published his first novel, Act of Love, way back in 1981), and yet somehow it seems like he’s doing even bigger things now. The prolific ...

Project Blue Book is a brain-sucking worm lodged in the zombified skull of America, incessantly jamming the fear button in what’s left of our parasite-eaten gray matter to provoke us into shadowboxing hallucinations of the Deep State and Russian spies.

There is something otherworldly about teenage girls. To those of us who have never been teenage girls, or those of us whose adolescences have receded into a dim bubblegum-scented, glitter-strewn past, they seem inherently alien. The intensity of their friendships, ...

Have you been feeling down recently? Are you feeling adrift in a world that doesn’t seem to make sense in spectacularly, sinisterly different ways compared to the usual ways so much that it confuses the crap out of you? You’re ...