59:31 – In between musings about the forthcoming general election, Doc Sleaze finds time for remembering D-Day via the medium of war movies, ultra low budget straight-to-video dross from the UK, asks when a sequel isn’t really a sequel and engages in some dream analysis. Includes:
Panic in Year Tory ¦ ‘The Longest Day’ (1962) Trailer ¦ War Movies and Remembrance ¦ Forgotten Films Double Bill: ‘Alien From LA’ (1988) and ‘Journey to the Centre of the Earth’ (1988) ¦ “Stick ‘Em in the Army!” ¦ ‘Fight Back’ (2001) Closing Theme ¦ Movie in Brief – ‘Fight Back’ (2001) ¦ John Major Concedes 1997 Election (BBC News) ¦ Debatable Value ¦ Robert Mackenzie’s ‘Swingometer’ Explains 1966 Election Results (BBC News) ¦ A Dream of No Significance ¦ Tories Facing Electoral Disaster in 2024 (Sky News) ¦ Election Fatigue?
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44:37 – Back to the Seventies with Isaac Hayes as Doc Sleaze takes another stroll through the underbelly of pop culture, pondering over the opportunities afforded invisible men, whether Italian movies can be judged on poorly edited and dubbed VHS duplicates and goes ‘Down Under’ for some detective action. Plus some topical political ranting. Includes:
‘Truck Turner’ (1974) Trailer ¦ Forgotten Film – ‘Truck Turner’ (1974) ¦ ‘Nobody Runs Forever’ (1968) – aka ‘The High Commissioner’ Trailer ¦ Down Under Detective – Scobie Malone on Film ¦ ‘Scobie Malone’ (1976) TV Teaser ¦ Movie in Brief – ‘The Skin Under the Claws’ (1975) ¦ ‘2+5: Missione Hydra’ (1966) Excerpts ¦ Movie in Brief – ‘2+5: Missione Hydra’ (1966) ¦ ‘Invisible Maniac’ (1990) Promo ¦ Invisible Voyeurs ¦ ‘Invisible Man’ (1933) TV Trailer ¦ Under the Whip ¦ BBC2 Closedown 22/12/80
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57:38 – Doc Sleaze takes another stroll down ‘Exploitation Alley’, musing about mercenaries on film, B-movies as patriarchal subjugation of women, the squalid truth about giant movie monsters and more. Plus, vaguely satirical political gibberings and more obscure movie talk. Plus, to celebrate BBC2’s sixtieth anniversary, Gerald Priestland gamely tries to get the channel launched throughout the show, before Dennis Tuohy finally gets things rolling. Includes:
BBC2 Launch Night ¦ Mercenary Movies ¦ Wild Geese (1978) Trailer ¦ Another Day, Another Sex Scandal ¦ Movie in Brief – Faceless (1987) inc Trailer ¦ BBC2 Tries to Launch Again ¦ The Dead That Vote ¦ Random Movie Trailer – The Mad Bomber (1973) ¦ BBC2 Launch Delayed Again ¦ Amazing Colossal Dumps ¦ Movie in Brief – Lucifer’s Women (1974 ) inc Trailer ¦ BBC2 Finally Launches ¦ Cinema of Subjugation ¦ BBC2 Opening Night Closedown
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50:41 – Just in time for Easter, Doc Sleaze rises again. This time, in between various moans and rants about the state of the world, Doc Sleaze goes ‘Black in Time’ to the golden age of Blaxploitation movies – the seventies! Includes:
Wind-breaking Performance Cars ¦ Movie in Brief – ‘Uptown Saturday Night’ (1974) ¦ Trailer ‘Let’s Do it Again’ (1976) ¦ Lifestyle Choices ¦ Forgotten Films Double Bill – ‘Black Caesar’ (1973) and ‘Hell Up in Harlem’ (1973) (inc trailers) ¦ State of Apathy ¦ Movie in Brief ‘Tough Guys’ (1974) ¦ Random Movie Trailer – ‘Black Belt Jones’ (1974) ¦ Trailer ‘Hot Potato’ (1976) ¦ Don’t You Believe It…
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37:04 – In a small, yet perfectly formed, edition, Doc Sleaze finds himself ‘Baffled’, both by the failed Leonard Nimoy TV pilot and Russ Meyer’s unhistorical sex slave romp, before being distracted by some beach party/haunted house action. Plus: the politics of dementia, frustrating dreams and more. Includes:
Disappointment in Dreamland ¦ ‘Baffled’ (1973) Trailer ¦ Movie in Brief – ‘Baffled’ (1973) ¦ ‘How to Stuff a Wild Bikini’ (1965) Trailer ¦ Stuffing Invisible Bikinis ¦ Ghost in the Invisible Bikini’ (1966) Trailer ¦ Movie in Brief – ‘Black Snake’ (1973) ¦ ‘Black Snake’ (1973) Trailer ¦ Demented Politics
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48:15 – Online crackpots! Fake experts! Conspiracy nuts! Doc Sleaze kicks off a new year of recordings with multiple rants. Along with the ravings against the usual suspects, some obscure movie talk, including an Italian-Canadian cop movie and possibly the most deranged Jekyll and Hyde film ever. (We make it all up as we go along, you know). Includes:
Right-Wing Fantasy Island ¦ Movie in Brief – ‘Blazing Magnum’ (1976) inc trailer ¦ UK TV ad break – Cadbury’s ‘Smash’ robots selection ¦ Attack of the Houthis ¦ Random Movie Trailer – ‘The Valley of Gwangi’ (1969) ¦ UK TV ad selection from 2000 ¦ More From the Loons ¦ Forgotten Film – ‘Edge of Sanity’ (1989) inc trailer ¦ UK TV ad break – ‘Black Magic’ ad selection ¦ Enough of Experts ¦ UK TV ad – ‘Fruit and Nutcase’ (feat. Frank Muir)
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51:59 – Join Doc Sleaze at Christmas, as he falls prey to the madness of seasonal shopping, says ‘no’ to festive parties, revisits a lost world and gets annoyed at political ignorance. Plus, Sammy Davis Jr! Peter Lawford! Together in a pair of swinging London movies! Includes:
Christmas Bells ¦ Apparently, Christmas is Coming ¦ Nineties Christmas TV Ads ¦ The Lost World Found Again ¦ ‘The Lost World’ (1960) Trailer ¦ An Idiot’s Guide to British Politics – Again ¦ Forgotten Film – ‘Salt and Pepper’ (1968) (including trailer) ¦ Another Batch of Nineties Christmas TV Ads ¦ The Season of Saying ‘No’ ¦ Forgotten Film – ‘One More Time’ (1970) (including trailer) ¦ More Nineties Christmas TV Ads ¦ The Madness of Christmas Shopping ¦ Christmas Bells
License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Doc Sleaze more info at TheOvernightscape.com. Released Dec 2023 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and clever hosts presenting unique programs, historic archival material, and nocturnal audio.
42:36 – Beware the bald! Seventies weirdness with Jeff Lieberman’s ‘Blue Sunshine’ – the film that demonises baldness and delivers the important message: taking drugs will make your hair fall out! Plus, more strange dream experiences, right-wing conspiracies and crackpottery, a call for more elitism in politics and more direct to video movie obscurities. Includes:
More Unpopular Pop Culture Opinions ¦ Random Movie Trailer – ‘Silk’ (1986) ¦ ‘Giallo’ (2009) Trailer ¦ Dreaming in Giallo ¦ ‘The Black Gestapo’ (1975) trailer ¦ More Right-Wing Crackpottery ¦ Forgotten Film – ‘Blue Sunshine’ (1977) ¦ ‘The Candidate’ (1972) Trailer ¦ Up the Elites! ¦ ‘Horror Safari’ (1982) Excerpt ¦ Movie in Brief – ‘Horror Safari’ (1982)
License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Doc Sleaze more info at TheOvernightscape.com. Released Nov 2023 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and clever hosts presenting unique programs, historic archival material, and nocturnal audio.
50:15 – Just for Halloween Doc Sleaze disinters some musty old material in order to muse about the nature of movie monsters, offers some more unpopular opinions on a beloved piece of pop culture and mulls over some old monster movies. Oh, and he’s still banging on about those bloody chocolate covered peanuts. Includes:
Mummy Movies ¦ ‘The Mummy’ (1959) Trailer ¦ Another Unpopular Opinion ¦ ‘Brides of Dracula’ (1960) Trailer ¦ Monsters Behaving Badly ¦ ‘Dr Heckyll and Mr Hype’ (1980) excerpt ¦ Movie in Brief: ‘Dr Heckyll and Mr Hype’ (1980) ¦ ‘Revenge of Frankenstein’ (1958) Trailer ¦ More Monstrous Behaviour ¦ ‘Frankenstein Created Woman’ (1967) Trailer ¦ A Further Adventure of the Phantom Chocolate Covered Peanuts ¦ Forgotten Film: ‘Prophecy’ (1979) inc trailer ¦ ‘Creature From the Black Lagoon’ (1954) Trailer ¦ Half Man, Half Fish, All Pervert? ¦ Closing Cackle
License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Doc Sleaze more info at TheOvernightscape.com. Released Oct 2023 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and clever hosts presenting unique programs, historic archival material, and nocturnal audio.
54:55 – Benny Hill! Andy Warhol on The Love Boat! Alien Hoaxes! What did Roger Moore do between Bond Pictures? Doc Sleaze looks into various moments in pop culture history, plus some obscure movie talk and mystery peanuts. Includes:
Benny Hill in Retrospect ¦ Stagecoach (1966) Theme ¦ Movies in Brief – Stagecoach (1966) ¦ Stagecoach (1939) Trailer ¦ The Alien Fakes Are Coming, The Alien Fakes Are Coming… ¦ Forgotten Film – The Sicilian Cross (1976) (including trailer) ¦ Street People (1976) Trailer (AIP re-edit of The Sicilian Cross) ¦ More About Benny Hill ¦ The Love Boat Theme (Dionne Warwick version) ¦ Another Bizarre Moment in Pop Culture History ¦ The Love Boat Theme (Jack Jones version) ¦ The Adventure of the Phantom Chocolate Covered Peanuts ¦ Benny Hill Theme (Yakety Sax) ¦ Benny Hill in Conclusion ¦ Benny Hill Theme (Yakety Sax)
License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Doc Sleaze more info at TheOvernightscape.com. Released Sep 2023 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and clever hosts presenting unique programs, historic archival material, and nocturnal audio.
