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.
45:58 – Another random assemblage of musings from the mind of Doc Sleaze, TV continuity announcements, film trailers and found footage, including:
Quick Metal Riff ¦ Right Royal Ruckus ¦ How the World Ends (Omega Man (1971) Excerpt) ¦ Two Fisted Pontiff ¦ Southern TV Day by Day Complaints Box 1979 ¦ That Bandit Express ¦ Smokey and the Bandit 3 Excerpt ¦ Celebrity Cull ¦ Southern TV Day by Day Condensed Edition 1980 ¦ Anger Mismanagement ¦ Life Noggin – The Science of Anger 2015 ¦ The Shrouded Singer ¦ Forgotten Film – Split Second (1992)
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 March 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.
40:37 – Join Doc Sleaze’s campaign to make February 29 a public holiday! Let the people celebrate their extra day every four years! Other delights to be found in this episode cover the joys of not watching TV, the pleasures of not talking, TV shows they should make and much more, including:
Quick Metal Riff ¦ Watching/Not Watching ¦ Southern TV Continuity (inc ITN News) 1979 ¦ Buried Madness ¦ Random Movie Trailer – Creature With the Atom Brain (1955) ¦Southern TV Final Ad Break (1981) ¦ The Extra Day ¦ Southern TV Continuity and Ad Break (1980) ¦ The Drugs Really Do Work ¦ Random Movie Trailer – Twilight People (1972) ¦ Southern TV Continuity (1981) ¦ The Great British Porn Challenge ¦ 1981 Southern TV Closedown with Brian Nissen (inc National Anthem)
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 February 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.
30:51 – The Schlock Express is back to look at cinematic portrayals of the Devil and all his works. We kick off with a continental excursion to get ‘Nude for Satan’, followed by some home counties deviltry with ‘Satan’s Slave’, before winding up by looking into ‘The Eye of Satan’, another ultra low-budget outing from Cliff Twemlow and his merry Manchester direct-to-video crew.
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 February 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.
58:21 – This time around we celebrate love in its strangest forms. From Hammer Film’s early seventies obsession with ‘strange love’ in the form of lesbian vampires, cross gender mad scientists and crazed killers with father issues, through woman-eating trees, marriage phobia and marrying oneself, to the redemptive power of disco. And remember – love is love, no matter how strange or weird it might be.
‘Strange Love’ by Tracey from Wembley (love theme from ‘Lust for a Vampire’) ¦ Hammer films and strange love -the rise of the lesbian vampire (including trailer from ‘The Vampire Lovers’ (1970)) ¦ Cross gender mad scientists (including ‘Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde’ (1971) trailer) ¦ Father issues and mad killers (including ‘Hands of the Ripper’ (1971) trailer) ¦ Random Movie Trailer – ‘Womaneater’ (1958) ¦ ‘Womaneater’ excerpt ¦ Unhappily Ever After ¦ ‘Strange Love’ by Tracey from Wembley (version 2) ¦ Nuptials for the Single Man ¦ Forgotten Film: ‘Nocturna’ (1979)
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 January 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.
57:09 – We pay homage to a seasonal British tradition: the annual edition of your favourite publication! So prepare to be entertained by a bumper hard covered edition of Doc Sleaze’s regular podcast. We’ve got magic and mystery, ghost stories and schlock, plus a couple of favourites from podcasts past and some unused material from the last year, including:
The Annual – an explanation ¦ Thunderbirds Christmas Special (Excerpt) Part One ¦ When Commercials Go Bad ¦ Christmas Commercials Collection (from 1989) ¦ Manchester Confidential – Gordo Explores Manchester Christmas Market 2018 (Excerpt) Part One ¦ Crapchester Christmas Market ¦ Manchester Confidential – Gordo Explores Manchester Christmas Market 2018 (Excerpt) Part Two ¦ Doppelgangers ¦ Santa is Dead! ¦ Bottling It – a Seasonal Mystery ¦ A Ghost Story For Christmas – The Stalls of Crapchester ¦ Thunderbirds Christmas Special (Excerpt) Part Two ¦ Breaking the Magicians’ Code ¦ Forgotten Film – Don’t Open Till Christmas (1984)
(‘Santa is Dead’ originally appeared in ‘The Sleazecast at Christmas’ and ‘A Ghost Story For Christmas – The Stalls of Crapchester’ originally appeared in ‘A Sleazecast Christmas Carol’)
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 December 2019 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.
42:45 – A trip back to the Seventies when British TV and films seemed to be about smut, smut and more smut! Join the Doc in an exploration of the ‘outdated sexual stereotypes’ which seem to trouble contemporary schedulers so much, including:
Minder theme (Kenny and Waterman, 1978) ¦ Outdated Sexual Stereotypes ¦ Minder Excerpt ¦ Doctor on the Grope ¦ Doctor in Charge Excerpt (1972) ¦Doctor Under the Influence ¦ 1977 Commercial Break ¦ On the Buses Movie Excerpt (1971) ¦ The Corrupting Influence of Seventies TV ¦ Love Bug (Theme from What’s Up Nurse!) ¦ Forgotten Film – What’s Up Nurse (1977) ¦ Love Bug (Reprise)
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 November 2019 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.
