12:31 – The first of (hopefully) twelve mini-episodes covering the festive season. Will Doc Sleaze stay the course, or will he get bored and give up after a couple of days? Stay tuned to find out. Meanwhile, enjoy this first day of Christmas musings, which includes:
Christmas Bells ¦ Earlier Every Year ¦ National Anthem ¦ HM The Queen’s Christmas Message ¦ John Player Special TV ad 1972 ¦ Up in Smoke ¦ Camel Christmas TV ad ¦ 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 2020 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.
42:04 – From fiction to alleged fact, this time around Doc Sleaze looks into the world of UFOs and the paranormal. From Italian close encounters to Bigfoot encounters in Britain, this episode has it covered, including:
Occhi dalle stelle (1978) theme by Marcello Giombini ¦ Forgotten Film – Eyes Behind the Stars (1978) ¦ Eyes Behind the Stars (1978) extract ¦ Close Encounters of the Crackpot Kind ¦ Rentaghost theme ¦ Ghosts and Ghouls ¦ ‘The Abominable Snowman’ (1954) Trailer ¦ British Bigfoot? ¦ UFO Opening Theme ¦ Gerry Anderson’s UFO ¦ UFO Extract (Featuring Ed Bishop)
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 2020 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.
1:25:01 – It’s a movie marathon as Doc Sleaze reveals his successive lost weekends of schlock, join him in drowning in a tsunami of sex and horror, including:
Schlock Weekend ¦ Forgotten Film – Requiem for a Vampire (1971) ¦ Forgotten Film – Orloff Against the Invisible Man (1970) ¦ Hunters of the Golden Cobra (1982) Trailer ¦Another Lost Weekend of Schlock ¦ Forgotten Film – Evil Town (1987) ¦ The Last Shark (1981) Trailer ¦ Italian Style ¦ Forgotten Film – Night Killer (1990) ¦ Nightmare in Wax (1969) Trailer ¦ Schlock of the Old ¦ Forgotton Films Double Bill – I Drink Your Blood/I Eat Your Skin (1970)
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 2020 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.
46:13 – In between the seventies schlock movies and dream analysis, we ask the questions currently on everyone’s lips: do conspiracy theorists believe in elephants? Would Hitler endorse Donald Trump? Are Britain’s women in the grip of an epidemic of incontinence? All these questions and more might or might not be answered in this broadcast, which includes:
Quick Metal Riff ¦ The Third Secret ¦ Forgotten Film: Octaman (1971) ¦ Virus (1996) Trailer ¦ Not Believing in Elephants ¦ Tena ‘I Will Be Me’ TV ad ¦ The Wet Sell ¦ Forgotten Film: Laserblast (1978) ¦ Hitler (1962) Excerpt ¦ Heil Trump! ¦ Madmen of Mandoras (aka They Saved Hitler’s Brain) (1963) ¦ Making a Quiet Exit
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 2020 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.
41:13 – As Summer rolls to a close, we take a look at some cinematic icons: John Wayne, Charles Bronson, James Coburn and Paul Naschy, while also explaining just how everything is political, whether you like it or not, in an edition including:
Quick Metal Riff ¦ John Wayne – The Sunset Years ¦ Big Jake (1971) Trailer ¦ Everything’s Political ¦ Random Movie Trailer – Mr Majestyk (1974) ¦ In Like Flint (1967) Trailer ¦ In Like Sexists ¦ Forgotten Film: Mark of the Wolfman (1968) ¦ Fury of the Wolfman (1973) Trailer
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 Aug 2020 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.
46:39 – More low grade exploitation and attempts to sell you stuff in the 1970s, as we try and discern when a parody isn’t a parody, lift the lid on the world of dreams and get exasperated by the coronavirus contrarians, including:
Quick Metal Riff ¦ Boy’s Own Parody ¦ Forgotten Film: The Amorous Milkman (1973) ¦ Selling Stuff – a Selection of UK TV ads From 1977 ¦ Acoustic Shuffle by Kevin McLeod (From FreePD.com) ¦ A Plague of Idiocy ¦ Death Ship (1980) Trailer ¦ Over By Christmas? ¦ Paper Mask (1990) Trailer ¦ Bloody Contrarians! ¦ A Troubling Dream ¦ The Swinging Cheerleaders (1974) Trailer ¦ Forgotten Film: The Swinging Barmaids (1975) ¦ Swinging Barmaids End Titles
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 Jul 2020 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.
50:39 – Another trawl through pop culture obscurities, in which we uncover the depressing reality behind seventies British sex comedies, celebrate those unsung heroes of TV and film – the supporting players and character actors, watch London destroyed by a man in a lizard suit, explore the commodification of freedom, before looking at those non-racist racists we all know. All this and more, including:
Adventures of a Taxi Driver (1976) excerpt ¦ Adventures in Smut ¦ Adventures of a Plumber’s Mate (1978) excerpt ¦ More Adventures in Smut ¦ Adventures of a Taxi Driver opening and closing theme ¦ Eugene Deckers ¦ Random Movie Trailer – Gorgo (1961) ¦ Forgotten Film: Mister Freedom (1968) ¦ Adventures of a Private Eye (1977) excerpt (featuring Christopher Neil and Diana Dors) ¦ Sex Ban? ¦ The Spook Who Sat By the Door (1973) trailer ¦ ‘I’m Not Racist, But…’
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 Jun 2020 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.
40:16 – The world of ‘Brucesploitation’ uncovered, featuring multiple Bruce Lees, the most bizarre Hong Kong fake Bruce Lee films, modern ‘Brucesploitation’ and the phenomenon’s Western equivalents, including:
The Clones of Bruce Lee (1980) – including trailer ¦ Birth of the Dragon (2017) Trailer ¦ Will the Real Bruce Lee Please Stand Up? (Part One) ¦ Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993) Trailer ¦ Will the Real Bruce Lee Please Stand Up? (Part Two) ¦ The Dragon Lives Again (1977) ¦ Exit The Dragon, Enter The Tiger (1976) Trailer ¦ Virtual Necrophilia ¦ Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth (1976) Trailer
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 May 2020 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.
35:17 – Schlock Express is back with a no-frills lockdown episode. From plastic bikinis and clunky robots to space heroes with drawn on moustaches, we take a look into the wild world of Italian Star Wars knock offs.
Kicking off with The Humanoid and its cast of James Bond veterans, we move on to possibly the high point of this sub-genre with the magnificently surreal Starcrash before plumbing the depths with Alfonso Brescia’s poverty stricken space opera, Star Odyssey.
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 May 2020 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.
43:14 – An exploration of bad taste as we pose the question: how far is ‘too far’? From Nazi sitcoms, to speculations on Royal demises via objectionable TV commercials, not to mention David Niven demeaning himself in movies of dubious taste and quality, Doc Sleaze explores the issue in an edition including:
Quick Metal Riff ¦ ‘Heil Honey, I’m Home’ intro ¦ How Far is Too Far? ¦ ‘Heil Honey I’m Home extracts ¦ Rise of the Sex Robots ¦ Forgotten Film: The Statue (1970) ¦ VIPoo Commercial ¦ Crossing a Line? ¦ VIPoo Commercial (Extended Version) ¦ The Queen’s Future Funeral ¦ VIPoo Commercial (Alternative Version) ¦ Pick Up on Dodgy Street ¦ Forgotten Film: Vampira (aka Old Dracula) (1974)
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 April 2020 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.
