BBC TV: Dr. Terror’s Vault Of Horror.

I had trouble even remembering his name for a while.
It was so long ago…

I would have been 8 or 9…or maybe even 10. I don’t know but it would have been the 1990’s and almost midnight and I would be awake and glued to the my wee flickery TV with fuzzy reception.
Dr. Terror would appear on the screen to introduce the scary horror film of the evening.

Dr. Terror. That was his name. He was a cartoonishly (That’s a word!) sinister horror host for the BBC. An elegantly scary class act!

Do you remember this guy?

Those were the days.
Back then, there were fields as FAR AS THE EYE COULD SEE…
10 pence. That was a lot of money then y’know!

I remember it all and in those days the BBC would run horror double bills at midnight on Fridays and it really was an education.

The good old Doctor introduced me to the likes of “Child’s Play” (1988), “The People Under The Stairs” (1991), “Sometimes They Come Back” (1991) and obscurities like “The Baby” (1973), “VAMP” (1986) and “House” (1986).

I also grew up watching Hammer Horror flicks and Dr. Terror’s Vault Of Horror re-ran a lot of them.
I have a particularly good memory of being dog tired in my dressing gown, keeping myself awake so I could watch “Scars Of Dracula” (1970) at 2am.

Things haven’t changed much since that’s exactly what I was doing at 2am only two nights ago and I’m 30 years old now!

Anyway, it really was a great time to be young and impressionable and luckily for you and me, a few videos of Dr. Terror exist and here they are:

Abra Cadaver!

Ever used to watch “Tales From The Crypt“?
I loved that show.

I’ve been making my way through it all recently and I’m up to series (Or Season) 3.
It seems like everyone in Hollywood starred in an episode at one point.
Even your old pal Danny Elfman wrote the theme tune!
(Although Danny Elfman writes the theme tunes for everything doesn’t he).

“Tales From The Crypt” is basically a big kids creepy comic book anthology of horror and I loved it at the time and I love it even more these days!
It’s right up there with “The Twilight Zone“.
When it was bad it was terrible but when it was good you’d get episodes like this one…

A Town Called Bel Air.

Also,
I hear there’s still plenty of room in at The Hotel California.

The Exact Opposite Of “Happy Days”.

Folks,
I’m not even kidding.

Yesterday I decided to change the alarm tone on my phone.
For YEARS, I’ve woke up to the theme tune from “Happy Days” but I was sick of it so I changed it.

Í’ve just went onto the BBC News site today to find THIS!:

I’m never changing my ringtones EVER AGAIN.

I loved Tom Bosley!
Read the full article HERE.

Conspiracy Theories: “September Clues”.

What do you think of conspiracy theories?
Where do you stand on that one?

If someone says to me “Man never went to the Moon”,
I tend to think:
“Aye we fucking did.
How the hell do you know how light and shadows and gravel and gravity work on the Moon?”

“How do you know?”

I think we went to the Moon and I also think Buzz Aldrin was right to smack that guy in the chops for suggesting otherwise.

Most of the time,
I couldn’t care less about conspiracy theories.

Mark Chapman programmed by the F.B.I to shoot Lennon?
– Don’t care.

Jimmy Hoffa whacked out by the mafia?
– Don’t care.

Area 51?
– I just don’t care.

World Trade Centre taken down by missiles and not planes and completely covered up by the media?
– I care about that one.

I’ve always had a secret interest in that one because of the sheer scale of it and I remember it very clearly.
When it comes down to it,
Far too many things about September 11th 2001 don’t make any sense.
They just don’t.

Most people are completely content to believe what the news shows and tells them to believe.
You could spend a lifetime going through everything online about it but I’d recommend watching the documentary “September Clues”.
See what you think after watching that.

And ta-da!
Here it is here:

PART B.
PART C.
PART D.
PART E.
PART F.
PART G.
PART H.
EPILOGUE.