50:00 – Doc Sleaze welcomes you back on board the ‘Schlock Express’ for some ‘Cannibal Capers’. This time around we explore the bizarre world of the Italian cannibal movie, including a softcore/cannibal crossover, before taking a look at some foreign attempts to cash in on this most Italian of exploitation genres, including an entry that draws on the UK’s own cannibal story traditions.
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41:08 – Guest host Patrick Stewart introduces another selection of thoughts from Doc Sleaze, which include an exploration of just where British newspapers get their stories from, why AI generated entertainment would be good for your mental health and a digression into toilet humour. Plus, a Spanish monster movie and some European cinematic eroticism examined. All accompanied by interludes of Patrick Stewart relating some of his favourite acting memories. Includes:
Patrick Stewart Introduces the Show ¦ Artificial Entertainment ¦ ‘The Sea Serpent’ (1985) trailer (in Spanish) ¦ Movie in Brief – ‘The Sea Serpent’ (1985) ¦ Patrick Stewart on Swearing ¦ Toilet Humour ¦ Patrick Stewart on ‘The Love Boat’ ¦ Confidential Sources ¦ ‘Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade’ (1978) trailer (in Italian) ¦ Forgotten Film – ‘Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade’ (1978) ¦ Patrick Stewart on Pornography ¦ Conspicuous Non-Conformism ¦ Patrick Stewart Closes Out the Show
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43:48 – Doc Sleaze is back with his ‘other’ show (after a lengthy hiatus) for some ‘Fun With the Living Dead’. So, board the ‘Schlock Express’ for a journey through a selection of seventies and eighties zombie movies which all take radically different approaches to the living dead. From shambling Voodoo monsters to respectable – but dead – citizens and from the graveyards of Old England to the coastal resorts of New England, join our journey through four different perspectives on the zombie.
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39:21 – Here at last! Doc Sleaze’s much delayed Christmas Special! In the great British tradition of seasonal special episodes, most of it is really a regular episode, but with tinsel and lights on. But all the ingredients of Christmas are here: sex in the kitchen, religious arguments and suggestions for rehab. Plus, Doc Sleaze dreams of a woke Christmas, special guest Jerry Springer weighs in on the virgin birth and we have a series of extracts from the English language version of director Carlo Spagnotti’s seminal 1973 shockumentary ‘Mondo Christmas’. Not to forget the festive family films – a German knocker-fest and giant monsters. Includes:
Jerry Springer on the Immaculate Conception ¦ ‘We Wish You a Merry Christmas’ ¦ Woke Christmas ¦ Mondo Christmas (Part 1) ¦ Bashing the Archbishop ¦ Random Movie Trailer – ‘The Vampire Happening’ (1971) ¦ Mondo Christmas (Part 2) ¦ Sex and Lies in the Kitchen ¦ Movies in Brief – ‘King Kong Escapes’ (1967) inc Trailer ¦ Mondo Christmas (Part 3) ¦ Rehabilitating Monsters ¦ Mondo Christmas (Part 4) ¦ Carol Singers Rebuffed ¦ ‘We Wish You a Merry Christmas’ (Reprise)
A Merry Christmas to one and all!
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55:14 – The end of the year looms, so Doc Sleaze goes on a last minute ranting spree, with oafs, idiots and Turkish barbers in his sights. Also, a dire warning for would be online fake blackmailers – the Doc is coming for you! Plus, cinematic vulgarity in the form of a Jacqueline Susann adaptation, an unknown sequel and a vampire who is neither horrible nor sexy. Includes:
A Violent Tax Dodging Oaf ¦ ‘Pussycat, Pussycat I Love You’ (1970) Trailer ¦ Forgotten Film – ‘Pussycat, Pussycat I Love You’ (1970) ¦ ‘What’s New Pussycat?’ (1965) Trailer ¦ The Unkindest Cut ¦ Movie in Brief – ‘The Horrible Sexy Vampire (1971) inc trailer ¦ ‘Dracula’s Daughter’ (1936) Trailer ¦ Blackmail by Idiots ¦ ‘The Love Machine’ (1971) Trailer ¦ Forgotten Film – ‘The Love Machine’ (1971) ¦ ‘Valley of the Dolls’ (1967) Trailer ¦ The Inexorable Rise of the Ignorant ¦ Carol Singers
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48:03 – Just what are Elon Musk’s plans for his phallic rocket ships? Under what circumstances would political assassination be legitimate in a democracy? Just how do they decide when to start the Christmas TV ads? Doc Sleaze attempts to answer all these questions, plus a look at a couple of lesser known Giallos, a wild, wild and utterly obscure low budget abomination and how they could make them like that back then. Includes:
Sex and Rockets ¦ ‘Fish With the Eyes of Gold (1974) Main Theme ¦ Movie in Brief – ‘The Fish With the Eyes of Gold’ (1974) ¦ ‘Best Little Whorehouse in Texas’ (1982) Trailer ¦ ‘They Couldn’t Make it Nowadays…’ ¦ ‘Naked You Die’ (1968) Trailer (in Italian) ¦ Movie in Brief – ‘Naked You Die’ (1968) ¦ ‘I’d Like to Thank…’ ¦ Fat Boy Has Fallen ¦ ‘Curse of the Alpha Stone’ (1972) Opening ¦ Forgotten Film – ‘Curse of the Alpha Stone (1972) ¦ Selection of UK Christmas TV Commercials from 1990/91 ¦ The Season is Upon Us, Apparently ¦ ‘Still Too Early…’
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47:58 – Welcome to the Grave Digger’s Ball, as Doc Sleaze exhumes some creaky old horror films from their musty tombs for Halloween. Also, do ‘They’ control the weather? Are former British prime ministers succumbing to madness now they find themselves deprived of power? Why are modern UFO sightings rubbish? Plus, Donald J Trumper is still on the campaign trail, while a special celebrity guest gives us some thoughts from beyond the grave and more. Includes:
Happy Halloween ¦ The Death Boat ¦ Movie in Brief – ‘The Mad Ghoul’ (1943) ¦ ‘I Stuck my finger…’ ¦ Politics of Delusion ¦ ‘Return of the Apeman’ (1944) Excerpts ¦ Movie in Brief – ‘Return of the Apeman’ (1944) ¦ ‘The Ape Man’ (1943) Trailer ¦ Under the Weather ¦ ‘General Hospital’ Weather Control Excerpts ¦ Dead and Undeclared ¦ Forgotten Film – ‘The Mummy’s Revenge’ (1975) ¦ ‘UFO: Target Earth’ (1974) Trailer ¦ The Golden Age of UFO Sightings? ¦ Final Thoughts
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46:35 – Forget the pet eating – here come the zombies! Doc Sleaze delves into the muddy swamp of Voodoo politics, encountering some mob vs zombies action along the way. Plus. when Bela Lugosi met a British drag queen, the power of nostalgia, Mexican sex and horror, You Tube rants and much more. Includes:
Voodoo Drums Over the White House ¦ ‘Sugar Hill’ 1974 Trailer ¦ Forgotten Film – ‘Sugar Hill’ (1974) ¦ Commercial Break – Selection of UK TV ads from the Seventies ¦ Look Back in Nostalgia ¦ ‘Mother Riley Meets the Vampire’ (1952) Musical Excerpt ¦ Movie in Brief – ‘Mother Riley Meets the Vampire (1952) ¦ ‘My Son the Vampire’ – Theme song from US release of ‘Mother Riley Meets the Vampire’ written and performed by Allan Sherman ¦ Not Recommended ¦ ‘Night of the Bloody Apes’ (1968) Trailer ¦ Movie in Brief – ‘Night of the Bloody Apes’ (1968) ¦ ‘Do You Like Bats?’
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56:11 – Doc Sleaze coughs and splutters his way through a high pollen count to bring news from the front lines of Britain’s fight against idiocy – and fascism, plus a look at changing media narratives, the social irresponsibility of celebrities, magicians on film and a rambling tribute to Alain Delon. All that and some classic UK TV ads. Oh, we also establish that Mickey Dolenz is not a strangler. Includes:
Summer of Idiocy ¦ Random Movie Trailer – ‘The Mad Magician’ (1954) ¦ Commercial Break ¦ Olympic Blues ¦ Another Commercial Break ¦ Forgotten Film – Alabama’s Ghost (1973) ¦ More Messages From Our Sponsors ¦ The Editing Suite of History ¦ We’ll Be Right Back… ¦ Suffer the Children ¦ ‘Night of the Strangler’ (1972) Excerpt ¦ Movie in Brief – ‘Night of the Strangler’ (1972) ¦ More Commercials ¦ Unreliable Narratives
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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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