48:15 – A look at modern day, big budget exploitation, plus some more traditional exploitation in the form of Italian ‘Alien’ knock offs, biker movies and a largely forgotten Hammer fantasy film. Also, the relativity of cinematic badness explored and capturing the crackpot demographic. Includes:
Random Movie Trailer – ‘Alien2: On Earth’ (1980) ¦ ‘Alien Contamination’ (1980) Trailer ¦ A Different Kind of Exploitation ¦ Forgotten Film – ‘Vengeance of She’ (1968) ¦ ‘She’ (1965) TV Trailer ¦ From Bad to Worse ¦ Random Movie Trailer – ‘Chrome and Hot Leather’ (1971) ¦ ‘Chrome and Hot Leather’ Radio Spot ¦ Chasing the Crackpot Clicks
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 Apr 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.
45:46 – Doc Sleaze delves into his seventies childhood to remember the ‘Jet Set’ and the ‘Jet Set Lifestyle’ and ponders the nature of memory and our perceptions of the past. We also celebrate the life of ‘Mr B.I.G’, try to repel the ‘Invisible Invaders’, experience some Teutonic sex comedies and watch John Saxon talk to ‘The Bees’. Includes:
Mr B.I.G ¦ ‘Empire of the Ants’ (1977) Trailer ¦ Movie in Brief: ‘Invisible Invaders’ (1959) ¦ ‘Invisible Invaders’ (1959) Trailer ¦ Remembering the ‘Jet Set’ ¦ Random Movie Trailer – ‘Baron Blood’ (1972) ¦ ‘The New Adventures of Snow White’ (1969) Excerpt ¦ Teutonic Sex Comedies ¦ Movie in Brief: ‘The Bees’ (1978)
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 Mar 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.
45:51 – Doc Sleaze confesses to his love of seventies British smut by looking at two of the ‘Confessions’ series before spending a ‘Night on Bare Mountain’, pondering on recycled dialogue in Westerns and hoping that an apparently never ending nightmare movie actually ends. Includes:
Confessions of a Middle Aged Smut Fiend ¦ ‘Confessions of a Pop Performer’ (1975) Trailer ¦ A Snatch of Dialogue ¦ ‘House on Bare Mountain’ (1962) Excerpt ¦ Forgotten Film -‘The House on Bare Mountain’ (1962) ¦ Random Movie Trailer – ‘Gammera the Invincible’ (1966) ¦ ‘The Nightmare Never Ends’ (1980) Excerpts ¦ Movie in Brief – ‘The Nightmare Never Ends’ (1980) ¦ ‘Night Train to Terror’ (1985) Trailer ¦ The Badness Never Ends ¦ ‘Confessions of a Window Cleaner’ (1974) Opening Theme Extract
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 Feb 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.
43:01 – Doc Sleaze enjoys a dose of sex, violence and video piracy via his Roku box as he ponders the legalities of streaming, not to mention the question as to whether streaming TV could make us all famous for fifteen episodes. Along the way we take a look at the treachery of dogs, spanking films as an analogy for the rise of fascism and unreliable memoirs. Includes:
Sex, Violence and Video Piracy ¦ Random Movie Trailer – What Have You Done to Solange? (1972) ¦ UK TV Vintage Dog Food Commercials ¦ Going to the Dogs ¦ Bottoms Up! (1960) Mass Caning Excerpt ¦ Forgotten Film – Education Anglaise (1982) ¦ Bottoms Up! (1960) Trailer ¦ False Memoir Syndrome ¦ Random Movie Trailer – Blood Thirst (1971) ¦ Fame (1980) Trailer ¦ Famous For Fifteen Episodes
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 Jan 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.
56:04 – Just how did Satan become the big bad of seventies horror films? A seasonal look at Satanic cinema, taking in some forgotten devilish gems and a couple of randomly selected diabolical trailers, including:
A Little Less Time For Satan ¦ Forgotten Film: God Told Me To (1976) ¦ Random Movie Trailer: The Devil’s Plaything (1973) ¦ Forgotten Film: The Legacy (1978) ¦ Random Movie Trailer: Beast of the Yellow Night (1971) ¦ Forgotten Film: Beyond the Door (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 Oct 2021 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.
40:22 – Highlighting the unheralded victims of the UK’s current fuel shortages, Doc Sleaze also muses on recent adventures in pop culture past, boredom-inducing villainy, Sam Pekinpah’s last stand and How the West Was Rewritten, including:
Won’t Somebody Think of the Arsonists? ¦ ‘Fire’ by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown Excerpt ¦ Down Under with the Kids ¦ ‘Baywatch’ title theme ¦ Back on the Beach ¦ ‘Baywatch’ Series 7 Episode 12 Excerpt ¦ Western Revisionism ¦ ‘Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942) Trailer ¦ The Tedium of the Recurring Villain ¦ ‘The Osterman Weekend’ (1983 ) Trailer ¦ Forgotten Film: The Osterman Weekend
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 2021 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.
46:18: It’s the ‘Silly Season’ when Britain’s press is traditionally full of tales of UFOs, Nazis and Nessie, so we take a look at the rise and fall of the ‘Season of Silliness’ before taking in various oddments of pop culture, ranging from more bat-shit crazy Japanese video strangeness, Nazi zombies, gardening serial killers and more. Includes:
Rise and Fall of the Silly Season ¦ Polk County Pot Plane (1977) Trailer ¦ Pot Planes, Car Chases and Regional Cinema ¦ Star Virgin (1988) Theme Song ¦ Forgotten Film: Star Virgin (1988) ¦ Absurd (1981) Trailer ¦ The Ideal Exploitation Family ¦ Hatchet (2007) Trailer ¦ Hacked Off ¦ Zombie Lake (1981) Trailer ¦ Guaranteed No Nazi Zombies?
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 2021 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.
1:10:38 – Back in the world of sexploitation, we explore the intimate relationships between sex, violence and horror, via the medium of seventies erotic action movies, German smut and eighties and nineties action heroines, going on a brief detour through Japanese pop culture past before exploring the genius of Jess Franco. Includes:
Blood and Smut (Part 1) ¦ The Schoolgirl Report 2 (1971) Excerpt from English dub ¦ Blood and Smut (Part 2) ¦ Angel of Destruction (1994) trailer ¦ Forgotten Film: Savage Streets (1984) ¦ Savage Streets (1984) trailer ¦ Sailor Suited Schoolgirl Crime Fighters ¦ Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs (1974) opening and closing credits (in Japanese) ¦ Forgotten Film: Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs (1974) ¦ The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein (1972) excerpt ¦ The Genius of Jess Franco
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 2021 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.
1:00:59 – Just why do we watch bad movies? What are bad movies? From amateur mobile phone shot slashers, through priapic sea monsters to gigantic rubber snakes, we explore the various varieties of cinematic badness on offer, including:
Moto Psycho and Amateur Schlock ¦ Moto Psycho Trailer (2012) ¦ Cult of the Bad Movie ¦ Drive In Massacre Trailer (1976) ¦ Drive Ins of Death ¦ The Lucifer Complex (1979) TV Trailer ¦ Forgotten Film – The Lucifer Complex (1979) ¦ Random Movie Trailer – Blood Tide (1982) ¦ Forgotten Film – Thunder of Gigantic Serpent (1988)
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 2021 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.
27:30 – Another rag bag of pop culture off cuts, ranging from the nihilistic allure and restorative qualities of Norwegian Black Metal to a distressing episode of ‘ChiPs’, taking in classic UK TV commercials and Greek diabolism along the way. Includes:
Black Metal Blues ¦ Commercial Breakdown – Hong Kong Harry (includes two entries from ‘Leeds Liquid Gold’ eighties campaign featuring George Cole) ¦ Seeing is not Believing ¦ Capricorn One (1978) Trailer ¦ Distressing Episode ¦ Forgotten Film – ‘Land of the Minotaur’ (1976)
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 2021 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.
