Friday Night Freak Show : Maniac AKA Assault on Paradise

Captain Video rand from 1949 – 1955 on the DuMont TV network from 1949 – 1955. It was the first science fiction show to run on TV.  It aired daily at 7:00pm. Few episodes are extant since most were destroyed after the original broadcast. Despite being  popular among a wide demographic the show was hampered…

anta Claus (sometimes known as Santa Claus vs. the Devil) is a 1959 Mexican fantasy film directed by Rene Cardona and co-written with Adolfo Torres Portillo. In the film, Santa works in outer space and does battle with a demon sent to Earth by Lucifer to ruin Christmas by killing Santa and “making all the…

Star Odyssey (Italian: Sette uomini d’oro nello spazio / Seven Gold Men in Space) is a 1979 Italian film directed by Alfonso Brescia. The film is also known as Space Odyssey, Metallica and Captive Planet in other video markets. The 4 films in Alfonso Brescia’s 1978 sci-fi series are Cosmos: War of the Planets (1978,…