Tonight on MeTV- like a thermos that can go from holding cold liquids to hot-we have a valiant group of naval personnel go from the chill of the Antarctic- to an impossible tropical throwback to prehistoric times! The mind boggles as they find themselves stranded among long extinct giant reptiles, killer plant life, and a dangerous two-footed menace in "The Land Unknown"!
Our Navy not only stands by to protect us, but can also help find answers to scientific phenomenon- such as planning an expedition to the frigid waters of the Antarctic-not for defense purposes, but to investigate what appears to be an area of unusually warm temperatures amidst the deep chill there! Commander Harold Roberts sets out with a crew of three- one being Maggie Hathaway, the obligatory female investigative reporter, and, as their helicopter flies towards the target area , they get a dire warning about a dangerous approaching storm. They attempt to fly around it when “something” strikes their helicopter’s rotor- and they are headed for a crash landing !
They miraculously find a landing space- actually below sea level- and, in the middle of what appears to be a steaming tropical jungle!? Unable to make radio contact to insure their rescue, they must attempt to fix the copter ( with its legendary damaged push-pull rod)- without parts vital to the repairs. Things only get worse when they realize that, not only has the plant life not evolved (in fact, some of it appears to need more than water and oxygen to survive-but protein of the living kind! )- but neither has the animal population- as they see what incredible thing may have struck their aircraft, and then- encounter living dinosaurs! And- as they continue to search the area, they notice what appear to be -human footprints!
They attempt to escape the lost world, with its many perils- and find that a mysterious human inhabitant of the jungle may be the most dangerous creature they have to face! Can they escape- will they be able to survive, trapped by fate and multiple menaces- or will some lose their lives, while others remain as residents of this strange throwback world?
This 1957 sci-fi film is best remembered for its dinosaurs- one in particular- and we’ll tell you about them, along with our cast ( watch for a still picture of Tarzan- we’re still not sure if it actually is our leading man Jock Mahoney or the guy who played the Tarzan-like jungle guy on an episode of “Gilligan’s Island”!). Again, with all our conventions cancelled due to the coronavirus – we are bringing back plus some of the sights and special guests we encountered at a past C2E2 comics and entertainment convention in Chicago- including cosplaying convention goers, and visits with two celebrity Sven fans- one being "Star Trek: The Next Generation" cast member and "Big Bang Theory" guest star Wil Wheaton- and, the other, the one and only wrestling legend, artist, and quick wit Jerry "the King" Lawler!
Let it be known that the “Land Unknown” is becomes known tonight on MeTV at 8 pm eastern/pacific, 7 central, or check your local listings (or at www.metv.com) for time and channel in your neck of the woods. Remember to join the fans on Twitter who live-Tweet during our program, using the hashtag #svengoolie – and help us trend high nationally every week. In the Chicago area, viewers get a second look at the classic Lon Chaney Jr. “Wolf Man" at 11 am on the U.
Join us tonight on MeTV for a journey that remains a chiller-even in the temperate prehistoric zone!
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Chaney told him it was due to his severely cirrhosis-damaged liver, which he had already arranged to donate, upon his death, to the UCLA Medical School, whose staff had informed him that it was the most bloated liver they had ever examined at the time. Like the rest of you, I'm sure, I prefer to forget stories like that and try to remember Chaney in his younger, healthier days.
Sad that we've lost more of our classic movie/tv stars. I think that Olivia de Haviland was probably one of the last of the major studio stars to pass on. My son and I had a discussion before about Hollywood's Golden Age. I was surprised that it's cut off date is 1959. So, John Saxon just did get under the wire with that date.
I thought I remembered seeing John Saxon playing "Troy Donahue" type roles, as I got interested, in my mid to late teens, on watching late fifties/early sixties movies that had been aimed at the teen/young adult audiences at the time. I had to look it up, but I thought I remembered seeing John Saxon in a movie with Sandra Dee, and he did make one-titled "The Reluctant Debutante." He was also in a "Tammy" movie.
About those Gene Roddenberry sci-fi pilots, there were two of them. The first one, with Mariette Hartley as a mutant with two navels(the one thing most people remember about it,)starred Alex Cord as the main character, Dylan Hunt. The second time around John Saxon played the character. Roddenberry must have thought that was a prime name, as it was recycled once again in the Andromeda series. I think Roddenberry might have passed on by the time they did that series, but the ideas were still his.
The late Mr. Saxon did have quite a few horror movies in his filmography-with at least one werewolf one, "Mom Was a Werewolf."
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Silver Shamrock!
Special note to Dale. If any of your students can correctly diagram that last run-on sentence, go ahead and give them their Master’s Degree in English.
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One more day of suffering until Sven comes and spares us with some great entertainment!
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Get all your snack stuff and chores done today. Then tomorrow nothing to do but watch MeTV and wait for Sven.
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Just checking in before I hit the hay! Since you all have been talking about both The Little Rascals and WWoL for awhile - how bout something they both have in common.
Hint: She was blind by the time she appeared in this Saturday's feature.
Wow, she was The Bird Woman in MARY POPPINS.
Watching it this time, I might enjoy his performance more seeing how wide a range he had.
WWoL was one of the few, if any, lead roles Hull ever played. He was a great character actor in supporting parts. If you're serious about not seeing him in anything else.....try "Great Expectations" (also directed by Stuart Walker), "Lifeboat" (directed by Hitchcock), "Objective, Burma" and "Inferno" just to name a few......
Another Hull of a supporting performance by Henry Hull (see what I did there?) was in the 1941 Humphrey Bogart crime classic HIGH SIERRA. Hull played the town doctor, Doc Banton.
In a different interview, with author Gregory Mank, Brandon recalled his experience working with Lon Chaney, Jr., late in Chaney"s life, on a soda pop commercial (I forget for what brand). However, it wasn't pop that he remembered Chaney drinking on the set that day, but vodka. The booze attracted a good number of fruit flies that swarmed around Chaney's head and followed him to the sound stage on his way to shoot the rest of his scenes--very sad story.
Please refrain from throwing rotted fruits or vegetables my way.
