John Yeager...what can I say.

Nothing like the old studio system, where actors were put in anything that suited the studio moguls.  Tracy really did some off the wall things; not to mention he got his start playing "Killer Mears" an unrepentant killer, in a Broadway play called The Last Mile.  Oddly enough it was the same role that, in the LA production, brought Clark Gable to notice. Father Flanagan notwithstanding, Tracy was typecast as villain types for years like Bogart was with the "tennis, anyone" juveniles. (Anyone guess I'm a huge 30s movie buff?  )

Anyway, here's the imdb link to the Tracy version. 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033553/synopsis

 And even Bugs Bunny debates whether Frederic March or Spencer Tracy did it better, folks. 

Jeannie

John Yeager makes a piece of pondscum like Bruno Hess seem like Beaver Cleaver.

To me the thing about JY is that they lay it on really thick about how "evil" he is, but he rarely actually does anything.   Mainly he just sounds "evil" with his voice.

Recently I listened to the original story of Jeckyl and Hyde, and it wasn't much different.   At one point Hyde beats someone to death, and we don't find out if he had a reason or what it was.   For the entire rest of the story, we're told over and over that he's engaged in all the worst sorts of depravity, without one word given as to what that consisted of.

By the way, Hyde was a very small man, and it seemed as if he might be Jeckyl's or RL Stephenson's sense of an inner, repressed, misbehaving, naughty little boy.   He came across as a sort of out-of-control monkey.

If anyone is interested Big Finish is doing an audio in the next few months with Cyrus and Sabrina in real time 1973. I'm pretty curious how that will play out.

I'm curious as well, Quentin.  Thanks for the info.

I'm REALLY curious, since Sabrina died in 1970!

I'm REALLY curious, since Sabrina died in 1970!

Whoops!

PT Sabrina died. This audio is set in real time with real time Cyrus and Sabrina.

I believe it was established that "our time" Sabrina was killed by Werewolf Chris after they left Collinsport.

Come to think of it, wasn't that from the stuff one of the writers said might have been in the future of the show, if it hadn't been cancelled?   On the last DS tape, there are those extras, one with Roger Davis reading aloud all of that.    None of that's official, but it comes close I suppose.  Any of that can be rewritten.

Yeah, it's from the Sam Hall TV Guide article.