Do you watch the old black and white Sci Fi shows?

When I was a kid I was addicted to the old 1936 Flash Gordon serial with Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, and Charles B. Middleton, who played Emperor Ming the tyrannical ruler of Mongo. I still tune those in on youtube every once in a while.

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Yes, I just binged watched a few Alfred Hitchcock TV episodes yesterday. Plus I have quite a few old tv on Roku and my youtube list.
 

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When I was a kid I was addicted to the old 1936 Flash Gordon serial with Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, and Charles B. Middleton, who played Emperor Ming the tyrannical ruler of Mongo. I still tune those in on youtube every once in a while.
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Oh yeah, despite some of the obvious fakeness, like the bobbing space ship with smoke coming out the exhaust, Flash Gordon was unique and fascinating. In fact they took a lot from those old series to use in the Star Wars saga.
 
Yes, I just binged watched a few Alfred Hitchcock TV episodes yesterday. Plus I have quite a few old tv on Roku and my youtube list.
Great show, with such iconic introductions and outtros by Hitchcock, all to the tune from Gounod's "Funeral March of a Marionette", with the tell tale bassoon riff.

I probably saw most all of them, and I was surprised in later years when I learned that Hitchcock had only directed a small percentage of the episodes.
 
Oh yeah, despite some of the obvious fakeness, like the bobbing space ship with smoke coming out the exhaust, Flash Gordon was unique and fascinating. In fact they took a lot from those old series to use in the Star Wars saga.
Didn't the space ship drip globs of flame out of it's rear thrust? It was like it couldn't have been going faster than 4 miles an hour. That used to bother me, even as a kid.
 
I watched the Utube of House on Haunted Hill. The only thing I remembered was the skeleton, so it was like watching it the first time. The basic plot I could not recall at all. It's seems like that movie premise was used several times after that right up to recent years.
 
They mainly cover movies, but RiffTrax (and MST3K, etc. before that) liven a lot of the stinkers up a lot.

 


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