AUDIO: DANGEROUS ASSIGNMENT: “Flying Saucers”!

There are all kinds of dangers an adventurer might face.  But nothing more intriguing than …

“Flying Saucers” originally aired on “Dangerous Assignment” on April 17, 1950.    This is one of the shows from the early fifties that had both radio and television versions airing at the same time, and featuring the same cast.  The TV series was somewhat obscure, and hard to find.  But now, thanks to Hulu, the series can be watched for free.  The television series only had a single 39 episode season.  Hulu has made all the episodes available.  The radio series ran for three years.  About 90 episodes have survived.  But series star the always reliable Brian Donlevy.

Spooky Audio: THE SHADOW – “Nightmare at Gaelsberry”!

Today we offer that fellow with the ability to cloud men’s minds.

If  decide to spend some time with Lamont Cranston.  You never know where it might lead.  It could lead to the fulfillment of your wildest dreams.  Or it could lead to the …

“Nightmare at Gaelsberry” originally aired on “The Shadow” radio program on February 2, 1941.

Video: First Trailer for THE AVENGERS!

Avengers assemble!

Video: Best Moment on “Doctor Who” This Year!

We’ve been a bit underwhelmed by series six of “Doctor Who”.  But the moment below is one of favorites in this or any other year.  It even inspired us to do the photoshoppery above inspired by this poster.   But none of this will make sense to you until you watch the following:

Audio: BUCK ROGERS – “Origin Story”

Tired of being spooked and scared and chilled?  We thought you might be.  So instead of sharing another radio thriller, we’re offering a bit of juvenile sci-fi with this episode of “Buck Rogers” which offers the original of our mighty hero.

Ah, that was refreshing!   And what did you think of “Popsicle Pete” and the “electro-hypno-mentalophone”?

Video: Is This the Best Evidence of Reincarnation?

We’re not especially convinced.  The boy is almost never allowed to speak for himself.   Mostly it’s just the parents relying information which we are just supposed to accept.

Further hampering our ability to accept this material is the video itself.   It’s clearly not a piece of journalism.  It’s a package created to sell a book.  And as a comment on YouTube wisely puts it:

never believe somebody whos selling something

Yup, you really shouldn’t.

“Falling Skies” Gets Second Season!

Thanks to strong ratings (an average of 6.74 million per episode) TNT’s new Spielberg-produced, alien invasion series is getting a second season.  Great news for genre fans who’ve recently seen many new genre series get the axe before their time.   Clearly, the series mixing of heart-stopping action and deep human drama has been a winner with fans.  Frankly, we’re excited to get another series of this fun new show.

And aren’t you proud of us for not using any “Falling” puns in this story?  It was hard.  But we did it.

DOCTOR WHO: Fan Reaction to River Song Reveal!

It’s been a few days.  Time for us to collect some fan reactions via YouTube to the big “River Song Reveal” on “Doctor Who”.  The reaction as been decidedly mixed.

[Note:  We won't spoil the reveal anywhere in this post.  But the videos do.  So if you haven't watched "A Good Man Goes to War" yet, and don't want the reveal spoiled, don't watch these videos.]

The video above summarizes well one type of reaction.  Especially the first few seconds.  This one doesn’t the obviousness of the reveal though likes the episode overall:

More reactions after the jump …

And if you have a River Song reveal reaction video (try saying that three times fast) on YouTube, post a link in the comments section and we’ll try to include it!

Neil Gaiman Praises YouTube Singer!

We’ve long been fans of  stopitsgingertime, the YouTube channel featuring a High School girl’s songs about “Doctor Who” and other genre television shows.  We highlighted one of her songs here.  Well, now she’s got a much bigger fan than us to champion her cause.  None other than Neil Gaiman, comic book and fantasy writer, not to mention author of this year’s brilliant “Doctor Who” episode “The Doctor’s Wife“.  This is what he had to say about the YouTube songstresses recent effort:

Took me 3 years of scribbling & rewrites to make 45 minutes of Dr Who, summed up in 2:29 by a smart girl with a ukulele http://bit.ly/k73eTQ

We’ve gotten good reviews before.  That is a VERY good review.  You can watch her response to that tweet above, and watch the song Gaiman is referring to after the jump.

Video: Best Scene from GAME OF THRONES Week 5!

Even the action scenes in “Game of Thrones” are full of rich character moments.  And that is strongly shown in our favorite scene for this week’s episode.