It’s Just A Show

Time of the Apes dubs over Beth and Adam as they investigate apes, damn dirty apes, naked apes, humble country apes, and owls.

Show Notes.

Time of the Apes: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. TV ad trailer. Watch it on Netflix or YouTube.

Basket Case 2 and Basket Case 3.

Planet of the Apes Wiki.

Saru No Gundan, the TV series that has been edited into Time Of The Apes.

Exhaustive rundown of Saru No Gundan on the Planet of the Apes Wiki. [Thanks!]

It’s Just A Show 25 on The Deadly Mantis, which features even more Planet of the Apes talk.

Japanese fandom and Conquest of the Planet of the Apes.

Prophecies of Nostradamus.

Apes in Godzilla vs Mecha-Godzilla [1973].

Tsuburaya Productions.

It’s Just A Show 21 on KTMA’s Gamera vs. Barugon goes in-depth on Eiji Tsuburaya’s connection to Gamera and Japanese special effects.

White supremacists and Japan.

First Alert With William Conrad.

Mayor Tommy Shanks from SCTV.

It’s About Time.

Nick Lowe’s “I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass”.

Bedtime for Bonzo.

The Ramones’ “Bonzo Goes To Bitburg”.

David Hedison.

The owls are not what they seem.

White-faced gibbons.

Larry Cohen’s The Invaders.

Faces of Death.

Darren McGavin, character actor extraordinaire and ultra-dad.

Issey Miyake.

Sandy Frank in the NY Daily News.

Scopes Monkey Trial.

William Jennings Bryan, who was not even Southern.

TVTropes on the Simple Country Lawyer.

A humble country lawyer.

Inherit The Wind.

Dr. Zaius.

Monkey Shines.

Telegraph article on Marcel from Friends.

What Katie the monkey did after Friends.

Katie on IMDB.

Garrick Hagon, aka the voice of Godo.

Adam’s other podcast, And Thereby Hangs A Tale.

Bonus.

A bonus bit, about the Disney Afternoon Collection, is available as a thank you to our Patreon supporters...

The Unearthly keeps Adam and Chris in the basement, where they can barely talk about shorts, John Carradine, shorts, Tor Johnson, and shorts.

Also features the shorts Posture Pals and Appreciating Our Parents!

Show Notes.

The Unearthly: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.

Posture Pals: IMDB.

Appreciating Our Parents: IMDB. UnMSTed.

The Mads: A Night of Shorts.

Update: The Mads: Halloween Safety, a short from the Night of Shorts, has been released to YouTube!

The next Mads event will be The Brain from Planet Arous.

Chris reading the list of Jesús Franco names is available to our Patreon supports.

Chimes at Midnight.

A Part Of Our Scare-itage covers a Donald Pleasence movie?!

Fiasco Family Movie Night presents HubrisWeen!

And HubrisWeen tackled The Unearthly!

The other short that we covered was Platform Posture.

Joel, Josh, and Bill’s new shorts come at the end of Hodgson’s Second Annual Puppet Camp!

...which was a fundraiser for MIGIZI, which looks totally worth giving some money to.

Our episode on Red Zone Cuba.

House of Dracula.

We discussed Billy Barty in our episode on The Undead.

And we discussed The Tingler in our episode on Terror from the Year 5000.

And we discussed David Carradine in our episode on Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II.

There’s more Tor in our episode on The Beast of Yucca Flats.

The filmography of Tor Johnson includes a pic of Tor with hair.

[Tor’s hair may have been naturally dark, not blond? Sources disagree, and photos are rare.]

Tor Johnson masks.

Star Trek: The Next Generation Episodes? Take Your Pick!

More! Our episodes on The Leech Woman and The Incredible Melting Man.

TV Tropes on Dracula’s cape flourish.

Bonus.

If you are enjoying It’s Just A Show, please consider supporting us on Patreon! Supporters get to listen to a segment about Flintstone chewable vitamins that was cut for time.

The Sidehackers (or is it The Side Hackers?) revs its engines real loud and makes it hard for Chris and Charlotte to talk about sexual violence, friendly bikers, unfriendly bikers, sidehacking, and Rommel’s book.

cw: This is a heavy episode, and we talk about sexual violence (including a discussion about the notorious scene that was edited out of the movie) as well as other histories of violence.

Show Notes.

The Sidehackers: MST3K Wiki. IMDb.

MST3Kon is July 16, as part of Blobfest!

Our episode on Cave Dwellers.

The Hollister Riot.

Women at the Hollister Riot.

Other female bikers!

Frank Rooney: Cyclists’ Raid. [Subscription required to get it from the official source.]

The Wild One.

The Quebec Biker War.

A Timeline of the Hells Angels (as of 2013).

On bikers and other counterculture groups.

Veterans and bikers.

The Altamont Speedway Free Concert.

Then Came Bronson.

The Southern California Side Hack Association.

A 1972 article about sidehacking.

Why are sidecars called “hacks”?

Sidecar Racers Association (of Canada).

The Rommel thing in Europe.

Watch it on YouTube.

The New Life Sings The Sidehackers. [cw: At least one song title is, uh, problematic.]

The Mini-Skirt Mob.

A supercut of all the scenes you care about from a 1975 Ross Hagen film with a fun name.

Budd Friedman.

Smallpox vaccination scars.

Erwin Rommel: Infantry Attacks and Tank Attacks.

Patton.

Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon, if you can and want to. Thanks!

Let’s have a Patrick Swayze Christmas, as Santa Claus Conquers the Martians gathers Chris and Adam round to sing carols about Pia Zadora, Vince Guaraldi, Donald Pleasence, Milton Delugg, and, you guessed it, Patrick Swayze. Happy holidays, whatever you do or don’t celebrate!

Content warning: Contains sensitive information about Santa which you may not want your young children to overhear.

Show Notes.

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians: IMDb. MST3K Wiki. Trailer. Watch on ShoutFactoryTV!

Oh, we forgot to mention it, but Chris was on a special holiday party episode of This Is Your Mixtape! Check it out, it’s sweet.

Our previous holiday episodes on Santa Claus and Gamera.

Santa Claus: The Movie.

Rifftrax and Cinematic Titanic also did this movie.

Rifftrax indeed did Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny.

Pia Zadora defends her controversial win.

Meshulam Riklis obituary.

Butterfly.

The Lonely Lady.

Black Christmas.

The Happy Tree awakens...

Captain Newfoundland. [And an update.]

A mashup.

Darlene Love: Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).

The Cryptkeeper: Have Yourself a Scary Little Christmas.

Our episode on The Starfighters.

Road House.

Rifftrax does Road House [twice].

Kevin Smith does Road House.

Jeff Healey: Angel Eyes.

Rip Taylor obituary.

Kids in the Hall: Chalet 2000.

Rip Torn obituary.

Bonus.

Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon to make our spirits bright. (And to hear a bonus bit from this episode!)

It’s Final Justice for Chris and Charlotte, who are sentenced to talk about Joe Don Baker, Greydon Clark, Yes, Malta, and Geronimo.

Show Notes.

Final Justice (Greydon Clark, 1985): MST3K Wiki. IMDb. Trailer.

By-The-Bywater is the Megaphonic podcast about all things Tolkien.

Our episode on The Crawling Hand.

R.I.P. Peter Schickele. Chris especially recommends the 1712 Overture, though New Horizons in Music Appreciation is a little more MST3K.

Paul Frees: Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head.

Our episode on Hobgoblins (which Greydon Clark did not produce).

And our episode on Angels Revenge (which Greydon Clark did direct).

Walking Tall (Phil Karlson, 1973).

Walking Tall (Kevin Bray, 2004).

Hell’s Bloody Devils (Al Adamson, 1970), featuring Greydon’s first time directing an actor.

Our episodes on Outlaw (of Gor) and The Day Time Ended, directed by John “Bud” Cardos.

We discussed László Kovács in our episode on The Incredibly Strange Creatures...

Greydon Clark: On the Cheap: My Life in Low Budget Filmmaking.

Wacko (Greydon Clark, 1982).

Joysticks (Greydon Clark, 1983).

Helena (Abelli) Dalli has been keeping busy.

Malta is ranked high for LGBQAI+ rights.

Yes: Owner of a Lonely Heart.

Livingston Taylor: I’ll Come Running.

Bum Phillips.

Mustaccioli and Lazzaroni.

Popeye Village.

Air Malta’s list of film locations in Malta.

Let’s enjoy some acting.

Geronimo and Geronimo.

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