Tonight on MeTV- we bring you another vintage Sven show that features the original premiere of the fun song created for us by ‘60s rock and roll icon, Freddy “Boom Boom” Cannon-and another trip onto the “Inner Sanctum” with Lon Chaney Jr. as a radio psychic who feels guilty that his mental powers can cause murder-and leads to him trying to find solace in an eerie wax museum- in the chilling tale of the "Frozen Ghost"!
After the traditional floating head in a glass globe welcomes us to the Inner Sanctum, we become part of the live audience for a radio show featuring "Gregor the Great"- a mentalist with amazing mind-reading skills. He stuns the audience with his psychic power – that is, all except a drunken heckler that he decides to make an example of- but his anger results in a tragic event. Alex Gregor, feeling it is all the fault of his mental power, decides to cut himself off from the world-give up his career- and even his engagement to his pretty assistant!
In an attempt to get George back to living his life, his agent finds a new job for him, unrelated to any mental magic- as a researcher and lecturer at an old friend's wax museum. Madame Valerie Monet, in charge of the establishment, feels Alex will benefit the museum, and make life easier for herself and her young niece Nina-but, the museum's talent sculptor of its statues, Rudi, is adverse to this new crew member invading his territory- and very possibly becoming his rival for the attentions of Nina. Rudi had a tarnished past-he was an esteemed plastic surgeon who had a horrible mishap, resulting in his banishment from the medical profession- leading to his entrance to sculpting wax works of art. He has found a safe place in the museum- but now feels threatened by the addition of Alex.
Alex, meanwhile, takes to his new job with enthusiasm- and, honestly, has no romantic interest in Nina -while Madame Monet, who DOES have interest in Alex, is prodded by the scheming Rudi into a jealous rage, and confronts Alex- having a sort of "Incredible Hulk" effect, angering him to the point of possibly sparking his mental powers again. He stalks off into the night- returning to the museum the next day to the news that Madame Monet has disappeared! A police inspector arrives at the museum and questions the staff- leading to him suspecting that Alex is a key to the lady's disappearance-since he would seem to be the last person to see her alive. Could he have caused the missing person's life to disappear as well?
Many schemes seem to be hatching in the creepy wax museum, which includes several clues to what has happened- as the displays hold sinister secrets- and may be an exhibition for devious acts!
This 1945 entry in the “Inner Sanctum” series (based on a popular radio show of the golden age of radio) like the others in the series, stars Lon Chaney Jr-this time as Alex “Gregor the Great”- with his fiancee/assistant played by Universal contract player Evelyn Ankers- plus the unctuously threatening Martin Kosleck as the sculptor. Other familiar faces appear and we'll fill you in on them- bring you another edition of the Sven drawing game “Too Drawn Out”; and show you a real-life wax museum that features impressive presentations of several classic movie monsters (run by the great-nephew of a man who portrayed one!); plus a twin spin- two musical numbers- our usual one with Doug, and- we bring back the original premiere version of the “Svengoolie Stomp”-the song written about yours truly and performed by 1960s rock and roll icon Freddy “Boom Boom” Cannon, complete with its array of celebrity cameos ( except for one- which we’ll explain and show in the mail segment)! We’ll also take a few moments to talk about his great career and timeless hits like “Palisades Park”, “Where the Action Is” and “Tallahassee Lassie”!
"Frozen Ghost" haunts the MeTV airwaves tonight at 8 pm eastern/pacific, 7 central time, and please check for channel and time in other areas at www.metv.com or in your local TV listings. Viewers will be live-Tweeting on Twitter during the show, as usual- and most likely have us trending high among the most-Tweeted about topics- so, feel free to join in, and make sure to add the hashtag #svengoolie .Our Chicago area viewers will get another look at “King Kong Escapes” on CW26, our main local station, at 11 am.
Have you seen the Sven baseball cap now in our store? It has become one of our top sellers in just a little over a week! Please check it out- as we’ve said, it makes a great Father’s Day gift!
We hope you have an enjoyable holiday weekend, and will join us tonight for “Inner Sanctum” mystery, the “Svengoolie Stomp” and much more!
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Last week I was talking about multi-tasking, watching Saturday 'toons while participating in a Washington State emergency communications drill for amateur radio, and that prompted a discussion of Mt. Saint Helens.
This week I discovered that the Loowit Brewing Company of Vancouver WA USA has a commemorative beer for one of the characters associated locally with Mt. Saint Helens.
This is not Missouri's President Harry "Buck Stops Here" Truman. This Harry Truman was a cantankerous old coot that wasn't going to leave his cabin just because the mountain it was on was blowing up.
He is a folk hero to many in Washington.
Mrs. Drang, who was born and raised here, has little nice to say about someone so attached to a cabin that he would dare a mountain to come kill him.
And for the record, I agree with Mrs. Drang, daring a mountain to blow you up is stupid.
It is like cheating.
Blog goes live at 10pm here.
Can still get to bed on time.
MADave good vibes
for your mom⚘
Differences are crucial.
Got the job.
They must have been desperate.
I'm getting to the point that I will not watch any movie unless I have seen it before.
80% of the few newer movies that I have even tried to watch have been pointless garbage to me.
Guess I'm getting old.
(For pre-empting the First Feel-good Movie of the Summer on a certain channel named for a greeting card company! 🙄)
We know what we will be watching 8pm Saturday night.
The first concerns my dad's brother. Shortly after he had passed away, my sister claims she was awakened every night, around the same time, by the sound of a vehicle pulling into our driveway, opening the garage entrance to our house, and walking up the steps. She said the sound of the footsteps stopped just as they reached the door. This happened several nights in a row; when she told our dad about it, he said that she just must have been imagining things. Then, one night, HE heard it. Putting two and two together, he remembered that his brother would, when visiting, always use that garage door entrance to the house. As soon as my dad closed off that particular entrance, retaining only the one near our front porch, these strange nightly sounds/visitations suddenly ceased.
The other story concerns my aunt, who lived in Pennsylvania. The house she, her husband, and children lived in was a pre-Civil War house. She claimed to have seen, regularly, two apparition, an elderly char woman dressed in soot-colored clothes and a little boy dressed in Victorian-style frock coat and knickers. According to her, sometimes they would dematerialize by walking right into and through the basement's washing. The old woman, she claimed, seemed to be nosy about everything that was taking place in the basement. She also said they were most frequently seen when changes or renovations were being done to the house. Sometimes they would make their presence known by lightly pushing my aunt into the doorway when we should return home from some errand. Who they were, and whatever connection, if any they had to the house, no one in the family could every find out.
Watching toons ☕
a very old Popeye
wow love it ⚓💪
To see Olive wearing
a gown and heels 👠
loved that⚘
Have a great Friday
everyone take care
keep cool ⛵
See you later 🐙
