LEAVE IT TO BEAVER Season 01, Episode 13 - "Voodoo Magic" (1958)

It's Voodoo Woodoo Wednesday in The Dungeon, and I'm got something wild from 1958 for you!

  

Tonight's show just might be the best "Leave It To Beaver" episode of all time! It's titled "Voodoo Magic," and was episode 13 of season one.

The boys, Wally, the Beaver, and Eddie Haskell want to go to the movies. Wally and Beav's parents specifically tell them they need to go to the theatre that's playing "Pinocchio," not the one that's showing "Voodoo Curse," because the last time they saw a movie like that, the Beaver had nightmares!

But Eddie figures out a workaround! The kids were told that Wally couldn't take Beaver to the movie, but they didn't say that Beaver couldn't take Wally to the movie, so they have Beaver buy the tickets, and that way everything should be copacetic!

"Voodoo Curse" is full of 'spine tingling horror,' that's for sure, although we never get to see any of it!

Of course the boys get busted when they can't even answer simple questions about "Pinocchio!"

The Beaver learned something from the movie, so since Eddie Haskell got them in trouble...

.......Beaver makes an Eddie Haskell voodoo doll, and sticks a nail and a hat pin in it!

When Eddie gets real sick, Beaver tries to patch up the doll in an effort to make things better!

Beaver brings Eddie an apology and some flowers!

But then he finds out when Eddie's Mother is out of the room that the little shit was just faking it so he could stay home from school!

I should go back and watch it again, but if I remember correctly, this all takes place over about two days time, and in those two days....

.....Barbara Billingsley as June Cleaver......

.......Wears a minimum of........

.......At least five different outfits! I'll bet she drove the wardrobe department krazy! The only thing that remains the same is her pearl necklace!

Anyway, that's it. Great episode! Too bad they never had another kid, a psycho baby brother named Meat Cleaver! Now that would have been really good!

SOME TABONGA! GIANT MONSTER LAFFS

If it's today, then, it's time for some Tabonga! Giant Monster Laffs to start your week off!.. So, sit back and let the big guys have the mic, time for some monstrous hilarity (n'yuk, n'yuk!)...

Well, there you have it right from them big old monsters' mouths! If you don't think they're funny, you may get a visit from one of their foots, so better beware and show them some respect!! Back on Wednesday with more wild 'n' weird Dungeon Cargo!

LIFE ON MARS? - "Drive-In Saturday Night 1973" (2006)

 This TV series "Life On Mars" came out in 2006, and I'm so out of it, I still think that's something new, even though it's twelve years old! Time is a funny thing, and that's just what this show is all about!

 Tonight's Saturday Night Special was a pretty cool BBC show called "Life On Mars" that was on for two seasons from 2006 to 2007! That's what I like about my life right now, I might be behind times but I don't have to waste a lot of time watching shows I think might be cool! Instead I just wait for somebody like my pal Lord Litter to tell me about them, and then I watch them! It really works great!

 This BBC version of "Life On Mars" came out in 2006, and ABC redid it again in America in 2008, and this year a Korean TV series by the same name, "La-i-peu on Ma-seu," aka "Life On Mars" came out, but the guy is transported back to 1987 instead of 1973!

 The story starts off innocuously enough, a couple of detectives working on a murder case, and they are also lovers! Archie Panjabi is Maya Roy, and John (The Master) Simm is Sam Taylor.

 They've got a serial killer on their hands!

 Maya decides to go after the guy on her own, and by the time Sam gets there, it's too late!

 Just in case you didn't know where the title came from!

 Next thing you know, a car hits Sam and knocks him out, and this is where this story is kind of like "The Dead Zone." Sam's not going to go into a coma for six years, and he's not going to be able to see into the past or the future!

 What does happen to him is that when he comes to, he's in the year 1973, not 2006 any more!

 

Manchester had gone through some improvements since 1973!

 To prove it's 1973, Sam's car now has an 8-track player in it!

 Sam's just a little confused! So where do you start if this is your life?

 The whole police station is different with different people, and Sam finds out that this is his new assignment! That's how they fit a stranger in!

How the Hell is he supposed to get anything done, there's no cell phones!!!

 Despite everything else, there's still a murder in 1973 to be investigated!

 Every one around him thinks Sam just moved to the area! This is his new apartment! He's absolutely thrilled!

 Just like in "The Dead Zone," Sam has a dreadlocked mentor, only this wise man is a bartender!

There was a time when I spent every spare penny I had on records! Man, I used to love to go to the record store and find something like David Bowie's "Hunky Dory" and taking it home and listening to it for the first time! "Hunky Dory" was David's 1973 album that had "Life On Mars" on it!

Sam thinks he's in a coma, but he's not! Don't jump Sam, just play it again! Then again, maybe he is in a coma, but either way, he needs to make it through two seasons somehow!

"Life on Mars?" backed with "Drive-In Saturday!" How you gonna top that? David Bowie references, and good music from 1973. I'm going to go watch episode two now! That's how I'm going to do it!

SATAN'S CHEERLEADERS / Come Score With The Cheerleaders! - 1977

Welp, here we go again... It's Friday and time for another flick to fillet, here, at The Dungeon! Our little story goes like this... The janitor at a local high school is actually the scout for a coven of Satanists on the lookout for a virgin to sacrifice! After their car breaks down, he picks up a cheerleading squad to use for their rituals, however, unbeknownst to the local devil-worshipers, one of the cheerleaders is actually a witch! Filmed near Malibu with a paltry budget of $75,000. Oh yeah, check out that tag line at the top of the poster!

This sucker stars John (GUNSLINGER) Ireland, Yvonne (Lily Munster) De Carlo, Jack (THE ANGRY RED PLANET) Kruschen and John (THE COSMIC MAN) Carradine.

The whole damn thing starts at Malibu Beach, the gang's groovin' out until teens from a rival high school show up and ruin all the fun! So, to see who's the boss of that small patch of sand on the beach, they fight it out the only way they know how!

Back at the raunch, Billy the janitor, played by Jack Kruschen, aka the sacrifice scout, decides to go to his special spot with a peep hole and check out the girlies in the shower! I think the weirdest thing is that Ms. Johnson, their cheerleading coach, likes to watch too!

Later, on the way to an event, the gang's car breaks down and by some strange chance Billy stops in his van and picks them up. On the trip between the first and second photo, well, a lot of crazy shit happens!! After their heads stop spinning from a ride down a hill, they find that devilish head just sitting there! Wha?..,

We find out fairly quickly that the Sheriff, played by John Ireland, is a head honcho in the cult. Billy pissed him of so he pummels him a goodern!

John is The Bum... He pops in occasionally to remind the girls that everyone is freakin' crazy around here! Boy, they show his hands way too much, they are really bad.

To prove the locals are crazy, this total weirdo listens in on one of the girl's phone call.

The Sheriff and his wife, played by Yvonne DeCarlo, run the show. They need a virgin!

She is a High Priestess and spends a lot of time in front of her pentagram with an eyeball.

Look!!.. A mini Dungeon-Shed!!

I threw this still in just because I like it, that's all...

Okay, so, Yvonne has two Dobermans, and when the Devil figures out that one of the cheerleaders, Patti, is a witch, he no longer needs a lowly High Priestess. He sics the dogs on her and her dying words are, get ready, quote... "Satan, why hast thou forsaken me?"

Anyway, Patti is Dev's fave now! And, what kind of powers does she have?..

Well, ones that help their football team cheat to win! Really?.. REALLY?!! Praise Satan, woooo... Now that we got that behind us, it's time to let you know that Eegah!! is back tomorrow with more junk 4 U!