Scarecrow's Blog From the Darkside

For about eleven minutes, this clever bit of “revenge manipulation” sets up its protagonist and his game. It is about escaping a failed marriage by using a sweet, cute nurse (Diane Keaton, a beaming doll) to rid him of his adulterous, beautiful trophy wife (Angel Tompkins, fulfilling the role of sarcastic, suspect cheater, lovely and obviously with her husband just for his money so she can shop and fuck somebody else due to his condition) by playing on her jealousy. Keaton is involved with a chauffeur (Larry Watson), and they are engaged to be married. He’s a stud who is also sleeping with Tompkins and Wiseman knows all by spying on them through the use of his binoculars, peering out of his window. Wiseman is bedridden and ill, a misanthropic (but highly intelligent and cunning) grouch with little joy left in him. He seizes upon a history of jealousy involving Keaton, learning of her violent attack on another woman who put her arms around Watson. This is his golden chance to g

I think a review I wrote for IMDb hits some of the same notes that remain about right with me after the viewing tonight and the 20 odd some times I've watched it through the last twenty some odd years. It has chinks in the armour like how we see an entire scene play out with those involved in the airplane company experiencing the extraordinary event of the empty plane landing without any passengers, all privy to what happened before Stone enters the picture to do his investigation. Then when it plays out its big twist at the end involving how Stone is in fact reliving a case he couldn't solve as people in that "illusion" were real people who he had never met before but knew their names (it is possible, I guess, that Stone knew of their existence and through his loop of never ending hysteria just imagined them as the folks replacing those who were part of the case of the missing plane fifteen/twenty years prior but I'm guessing that is me covering up a creative

To me, “The Robot” has all the good stuff the show could offer really. The plot is really, really simple but it gives us the chance to a refurbished Robby the Robot (not the same as The Forbidden Planet or the Lost in Space episode, “War of the Robots” but the memory of what he was still remains just “with a few modifications”) saving the day, and a colony of zonked landers (my nickname for those nomads who live on the land in areas living off what they can in ragged clothes just looking for that next good meal) tossing rocks at Jonah (Terry Lester) due to this toxic gas causing wacked out behavior. The jet pack that allows Jonah to travel by air to destinations the Ark II is unable makes an appearance (he’s in the air when the landers causing him to fall to the earth with their tossed boulders!) as does the land roamer that resides in an additional section of Ark II. Yep the roamers rolls off and Jonah and Ruth (Jean Hon) take a ride in it looking for signs of the gas. With no

Space Academy debuted the year of my birth. Born in August of 1977, this show was in September. I had never heard of it until my uncle mentioned it to me in 2010. I often talk about my uncle because he was such an influence. 2009 – 2011 was not an easy time for me, truthfully. I was spending time at my uncle’s to work on assignments as I returned to college after losing a job I had for twelve years. Tense time in my life, for sure. But 2010 was also quite special. My uncle would be dead by July 2011. But in 2010 we spent a great deal of time together and he introduced me to a few shows in the 70s I was unfamiliar. Space Academy , Ark II , and Jason of Star Command were all Saturday morning offerings for kids to enjoy. Short-lived as they might be, DVD releases for them were picked up by my uncle around 2007. He really wanted me to watch these shows with him and I did…every episode of all three in 2010. I can tell you that I’m grateful I did. The first of the shows was Space Ac