CRIME LAB 1976

I would have loved this ten years earlier in 1966, the 1976 mobile crime lab. How cool is that! Did you have one?

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1976-vintage-amsco-mobile-crime-lab-2101289570

2001: A SPACE AUTOGRAPH

Hi Woodsy. Seeing Scoop's 2001 pictures on the blog the other day, I remembered I’ve got these. 

Knowing my fondness for autographs, here’s some from the film: Gary Lockwood, Kier Dulea and Arthur C Clarke himself. 

Open the pod bay doors, Hal!

All the best. 

Will O

UK

RESCUE PATROL TEAM

There's something very Thunderbirds about this Rescue Patrol Team set of Transformers. What do you think? 

https://www.transformerland.com/wiki/toy-info/transformers-g1-zone-micro-transformer-teams-rescue-patrol-team-c-331-/7337/

THE HAUNTED HOUSE OF HORROR ON UKTV

Another heads up that Talking Pictures TV, here in the UK is showing I, Monster and a Tigon favourite, The Haunted House of Horror next Friday starting from 9.05 pm, as part of their Cellar Club, introduced by  Caroline Munro.

Although I'm not really a horror fan, The Haunted House of Horror is sort of  special to me, as a couple of locations used  were filmed in my home town of Southport. One was at the 'haunted' Palace Hotel shortly before it was demolished, and the other was at the dilapidated Bank Hall at nearby Bretherton. Both were great and very spooky locations. Bank Hall still stands, and still looks spookily impressive. When I was a teenager my mates and I use to ride our motorbikes up to Bank Hall, were the derelict house was occasionally taken over by local amateur  rock bands who would do impromptu gigs there! 

I do have a DVD copy of the Haunted House of Horror, as part of my Tigon film collection. A few notable aspects about the film was Dennis Price's part was originally intended for Boris Karloff, however Karloff was to ill to appear;  Ian Ogilvy was the original choice of Chris, the lead role, but that was taken by Frankie Avalon, and the part of Richard, which was re-written for David Bowie, went eventually to Julian Barnes. Film producer, Tony Tenser who was the head of Tigon pictures, retired to Southport in 1978, and remained here until his death in 2007.

 

Star Wars Arms

 Following on from the earlier discussion on rifle stocks, here is an article from 'Fantastic Films'  August 1978, that shows where each of the main weapons in A New Hope came from.

TOPO TOR ROCKET

If you like Topo Gigio then Dreams of Space have posted a wonderful picture book. There's even a plastic TOR rocket toy in Topo's place too!

http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2021-09-24T13:16:00-07:00&max-results=7&start=5&by-date=false

HORRIBLY COVERED

 I do love seeing old European horror comics online.

They remind me of the comics I got as a kid in more ways than one. I bet a lot of continental kids grew up and had to get their collections back like I did.

The European covers are sometimes lifted from other publications and its fun to work them out. What can you see?

Here's a very Frank Frazettaesque cover on Escorpion. Is it lifted?

And this beastly fella has walked straight off a Creepy or Eerie cover, 'cos I had one!

This looks the same as Skywald's Psycho or Nightmare, if you're in the 'horror mood'! I had lots of 'Nightmares'.

And as for this, I'm pretty sure its a Creepy or Eerie cover just with different heads!

This monster should be Christopher Lee's Dracula but now its Wolfy!

These witches ring a bell too. Not sure why.

Another Christopher Lee pose. Beautiful colouring.

That looks like Barbara Steele up top. The raging lady looks familiar too.

The space-age Sophia Loren below reminds me of something, just unsure about it.

and finally, the big haired lady has an Aubrey Beardsley vibe I would say. Would you?

Professionals Action Pack

 I do like the The Professionals, but I can't say I picked up any of the spins offs, apart from the odd paperback and an annual or two. Did anyone have the Action Pack ?

The crime buster kit, another piece of Professionals merchandise.