Tonight on Friday Night Freak Show – War of the Robots

Tonight – 9 Eastern 8 central

War of the Robots (Italian title: La guerra dei robot) is a 1978 Italian film directed by Alfonso Brescia. The film was later released on DVD as both Reactor and War of the Robots. The 4 films in Alfonso Brescia’s 1978 sci-fi series are Cosmos: War of the Planets (1978, a.k.a. Year Zero War in…

This 1964 film is a great adaptation of  the Richard Matheson I Am Legend.  Matheson helped write the screenplay but decided to be credited as “Logan Swanson”.  The book inspired Night of the Living Dead(which we showed last week), as well as Omega Man. If you haven’t read the book or seen the Omega Man,…

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…