Help on old sci-fi movie/tv shows

Discussion in 'Art & Culture' started by jack1, Dec 6, 2009.

  1. jack1 Registered Member

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    I have two shows that I remember watching as a child and would welcome any help to find out what they were. These could just be episodes from a TV show I'm not sure...

    One was set in a rocky alien environment. The show was black and white and most likely pre 80s & pre-70s but could be pre-60s. There were some aliens or monsters outside that looked like black rocks almost. I remember them moving slowly. The people in the show were collecting eggs I think from these things. That's about all I remember from that.

    On the second one I'm pretty sure it's a TV show. I remember the opening montage sequence where I a photographer was telling someone to keep move back until they fell off the cliff behind them. Then it focused on scary looking door going to a basement of a house. Maybe also showed some scary dolls. All the time the was a narrator like Twilight Zone has talking what's behind the door etc.

    I know.... I was around 10 at the time but this is what I remember and would like to figure what these were..
     
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  3. Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

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    Was it "Inner Sanctum"? That was on TV in the late 1950s, and before that it was a radio show. I remember the line, "As the creaking door opens...," while they showed the door slowly opening and played the creaky door sound effect.

    Those old radio shows were amazing. They had to write dialog that would trigger your imagination. Not only was there no visual component, but there was minimal narration, or none. Just dialog, foley and really primitive effects.
     
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  5. jack1 Registered Member

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    I feel like the intro was in color. Looking up inner sanctum now. Doesn't seem to have a whole lot of video online or for rent....
     
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  7. Anti-Flag Pun intended Registered Senior Member

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    The second one at first sounds like the intro to "tales from the crypt", but then it loses it's way slightly.
     
  8. FreshHat Registered Senior Member

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    It would be a great help to know when you were ten years old.

    Was it 1999? 1983? 1975? 1964?

    When I was ten years old (1968), I was pretty stoked on "Lost In Space", an extremely cheesy sci-fi TV show with horrible special effects, terrible monsters, atrocious sets, and even worse scripts and acting.

    When you mentioned "rocky alien environment", I immediately thought of that show.

    ETA: Wikipedia states the show originally ran on CBS from 1965 to 1968. The first season was black & white, the later seasons were in colour.
     
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  9. jack1 Registered Member

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    Oh that would help...

    mid 80's.
     
  10. jack1 Registered Member

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    When I think of Tales From the Crypt I think of the HBO shows. The intro had the castle you went through. Was this a remake of an older show?
     
  11. Read-Only Valued Senior Member

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    Can't help with the first one but the second sounds vaguely similar to "Outer Limits."
     
  12. Anti-Flag Pun intended Registered Senior Member

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    Hmm possibly, and from what I remember there were different intros, 1 was a castle, the other was more of a "haunted mansion". The movies may be different from the series.
     

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