For anyone who is curious, here is the "Sweet Transvestite" number from the new version, featuring Laverne Cox:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5_mxUuj_jw

The other big production numbers all appear to be up on Youtube as well.  I played "Time Warp" and enjoyed having a look at Reeve Carney's interpretation of Riff Raff.

It is all very energetic but something about it just does not work for me... opinions I have seen are divided between giving it an A for effort and treating it as a tired disaster zone.

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Fans, I found two of the Universal "complete legacy" classic monster DVD sets in my local Newbury Comics (a media shop in the Boston area) marked down--they are used, but appear to play fine.  And so, I am watching Frankenstein vs. the Wolfman (from around 1943).  I don't remember ever seeing this one before, apart from a bit when I came into it towards the end of a TV broadcast back around 20 years ago.

Let's just say that the opening sequence, set in the Talbot family mausoleum, proved to have a very familiar look and feel to it.  You might be surprised.  I know I was.

DS definitely stole... er, borrowed... from the best.

For fans of the Universal Sherlock Holmes films (with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce), this one includes a very Inspector Lestrade type role for actor Dennis Hoey.

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That's a very cool article, MB.  Thanks!  I don't recall having read that before.

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KLS and Lara did promos for the Festivals that were aired on the Sci Fi channel during the episodes.  I didn't watch very often but when I did see the broadcasts, I remember those commercials coming up a few times.

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Thanks for posting these again, MB.  Really lovely to see.

What with this sequence and the seance, I keep asking myself why DC and Sam chose to cut some of the most atmospheric, effective moments of the movie.  Of course they had to do the work of editing out nearly half an hour, as mandated by the evil suits of MGM, in the space of a few hours...

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And here's the link to a blurb about TCM's horror-heavy October schedule:

http://www.insidethemagic.net/2016/10/tcm-to-put-the-classic-back-in-horror-this-october-a-virtual-whos-who-in-boo/

Best,

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MB, thanks so much for posting that fab video clip from the film!  I had completely forgotten about that moment. 

When I clicked on the wmv link, it downloaded to my computer.  It eventually opened using the VLC player, which was something I had to add a few years ago to cope with certain files. 

I imagine you'd need an "app" that mirrored the abilities of the VLC player on your phone to play something like that. Of course I have no idea what the requirements of the "app" would be.  For the sake of my sanity, I've been hanging on to not doing anything web related on my phone, although I currently have an "android" which I think could do it all.  The screen is so tiny though...

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That is a fabulous episode.   A number of WWW episodes have a DS flavor.

Another one that makes me think of our show is "The Night of the Vicious Valentine" with Agnes Moorehead over-the-top as a VERY eccentric villainess.  That one is perhaps more reminiscent of the Diana Rigg/Patrick Macnee series The Avengers, especially this one episode called "The Murder Market."

(I always have to ploddingly say something like "The British cult TV series The Avengers from the 1960s with Patrick Macnee," yadda, now because if I just say "The Avengers," people think I'm talking about something involving comic books.)

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