This week on SVENGOOLIE...

[Dargo]

When I was a kid, I was taken to a great double bill: The Amazing Colossal Man and The Attack of the Puppet People. Loved them both. By coincidence, I'm visiting a friend this Labour Day weekend whose father took us to that double bill, so many years ago.

So then, you're sayin' you're back over there in Ole Blighty again right now, Swithin?

Funny, didn't know the Brits celebrated LABOR Day like we do this month.

(...nope, thought they celebrated this kind'a thing on May 1st?!)

They celebrate neither Labor Day nor Labour Day. They do have a holiday in May (two in fact). The first one is the first Monday in May, called early May bank holiday, and the latter one is the last Monday in May, called spring bank holiday.

The last holiday before Christmas is the summer bank holiday, which was last week. It's the last Monday in August.

They aren't very creative with their official government holiday names.

Uh-huh, and evidently there's another thing the Brits are or were never much "creative" about either, ya know Tex.

(...yep, getting rid of that OH SO needless letter "u" in words such as "Labor")

[Swithin]

When I was a kid, I was taken to a great double bill: The Amazing Colossal Man and The Attack of the Puppet People. Loved them both. By coincidence, I'm visiting a friend this Labour Day weekend whose father took us to that double bill, so many years ago.

So then, you're sayin' you're back over there in Ole Blighty again right now, Swithin?

Funny, didn't know the Brits celebrated LABOR Day like we do this month.

(...nope, thought they celebrated this kind'a thing on May 1st?!)

The UK's August Bank Holiday used to be in early August. It was changed by law in 1971, making it the last Monday in August. World War I famously began around the early August Bank Holiday, which had been extended that year. (Scotland retains the early August Bank Holiday).

[j.lunatic]

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This was a follow up to The Amazing Colossal Man (1957), I wish this one would be shown. I haven't seen it in years but I think it was better than War Of The Colossal Beast. The first one has the Colossal Man as a normal looking, articulate guy who slowly gets more insane. The second one just had the guy with a messed up face who doesn't even talk.

Svengoolie specifically mentioned that they would like to show TACM, but the rightsholder refuses to cooperate.

[ElCid]

So then, you're sayin' you're back over there in Ole Blighty again right now, Swithin?

Funny, didn't know the Brits celebrated LABOR Day like we do this month.

(...nope, thought they celebrated this kind'a thing on May 1st?!)

They celebrate neither Labor Day nor Labour Day. They do have a holiday in May (two in fact). The first one is the first Monday in May, called early May bank holiday, and the latter one is the last Monday in May, called spring bank holiday.

The last holiday before Christmas is the summer bank holiday, which was last week. It's the last Monday in August.

They aren't very creative with their official government holiday names.

Uh-huh, and evidently there's another thing the Brits are or were never much "creative" about either, ya know Tex.

(...yep, getting rid of that OH SO needless letter "u" in words such as "Labor")

Actually the UK celebrates Labor Day (also known as International Workers Day) the first Monday after May 1. This is per the Time and Date website. I believe IWD used to officially be May 1 when established by the Communists.

[txfilmfan]

They celebrate neither Labor Day nor Labour Day. They do have a holiday in May (two in fact). The first one is the first Monday in May, called early May bank holiday, and the latter one is the last Monday in May, called spring bank holiday.

The last holiday before Christmas is the summer bank holiday, which was last week. It's the last Monday in August.

They aren't very creative with their official government holiday names.

Uh-huh, and evidently there's another thing the Brits are or were never much "creative" about either, ya know Tex.

(...yep, getting rid of that OH SO needless letter "u" in words such as "Labor")

Actually the UK celebrates Labor Day (also known as International Workers Day) the first Monday after May 1. This is per the Time and Date website. I believe IWD used to officially be May 1 when established by the Communists.

It's not an official government holiday identified as such, though. It's simply a bank holiday.

https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays

[Bronxgirl48]

Swithin, I've never seen VOODOO WOMAN. So Tom Conway is in that one too.

I looked up Chester Morris and Tom Conway movies, and SHE CREATURE popped up in both their filmographies. I guess my memory isn't totally kaput, lol.

Voodoo Woman is a follow-up film to She Creature. Both films were produced by Alex Gordon and directed by Edward Cahn, as well as featuring many of the same supporting actors, like Marla English, and Lance Fuller.

Ah! Maybe Sven will be able to show one or the other in the not too distant future.

[ElCid]

Swithin, I've never seen VOODOO WOMAN. So Tom Conway is in that one too.

I looked up Chester Morris and Tom Conway movies, and SHE CREATURE popped up in both their filmographies. I guess my memory isn't totally kaput, lol.

Voodoo Woman is a follow-up film to She Creature. Both films were produced by Alex Gordon and directed by Edward Cahn, as well as featuring many of the same supporting actors, like Marla English, and Lance Fuller.

Ah! Maybe Sven will be able to show one or the other in the not too distant future.

Both are available on YouTube. If you can get past the headpiece that Tom Conway wears in Voodoo Woman.

[Swithin]

The character played by Marla English in Voodoo Woman is so evil, that even Nipkow wouldn't have anything to do with her.

[jamesjazzguitar]

The character played by Marla English in Voodoo Woman is so evil, that even Nipkow wouldn't have anything to do with her.

Well, Nipkow might if she was taller.

[Bronxgirl48]

lol, thanks, ElCid!

[Hibi]

What was on Sven over the wknd? I completely forgot to check what was on. Wondering if they cut in again with CBS programming (LOL).

[jamesjazzguitar]

What was on Sven over the wknd? I completely forgot to check what was on. Wondering if they cut in again with CBS programming (LOL).

War Of The Colossal Beast, a sequel to The Amazing Colossal Man (1957),

[Hibi]

What was on Sven over the wknd? I completely forgot to check what was on. Wondering if they cut in again with CBS programming (LOL).

War Of The Colossal Beast, a sequel to The Amazing Colossal Man (1957),

Thanks. Don't think I've seen that one. Didn't he die in the first film? How did he get resurrected?

[LiamCasey]

This month on Svengoolie...

9/7: Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) w/ John Vernon, Royal Dano and Christopher Titus.

9/14: The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) w/ Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent, Paul Langton and Raymond Bailey. Plus William Schallert and Billy Curtis. Screenplay by Richard Matheson. And directed by Jack Arnold.

9/21: The Night Stalker (1972) w/ Darren McGavin, Carol Lynley, Simon Oakland, Ralph Meeker, Claude Akins, Charles McGraw, Kent Smith, Elisha Cook Jr., Stanley Adams, Larry Linville and Barry Atwater. Screenplay by Richard Matheson. And directed by John Llewellyn Moxey.

9/28: Dead of Night (1977) w/ Ed Begley Jr., Horst Buchholz, Anjanette Comer, Elisha Cook Jr., Joan Hacket and Patrick Macnee. Screenplay by Richard Matheson. And directed by Dan Curtis.