Category Archives: television

“In Search Of…”: Opening the Door to Paranormal Television Then and Now

August 11th, 2009 | Posted in paranormal, television

In September 2006 Baylor University released a survey which mentioned that a “surprising level” of belief in the paranormal by Americans. ReligionLink commented on this and said that, “According to a 2005 askyourguide Poll, about 75 percent of Americans hold some form of belief in the paranormal – extrasensory perception, ghosts, telepathy, clairvoyance, astrology, communicating with […]

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Celebrating 50 Years of The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling Conference at Ithica College

November 16th, 2008 | Posted in 1950s, 1960s, conference, fantasy, Marc Scott Zicree, Rod Serling, science fiction, television, Twilight Zone

The discussion list for the Popular Culture and American Culture Associations included an item recently of interest to TheoFantastique. Ithica College is hosting a Rod Serling conference in October 2009. As the college event’s website describes the event: Picture, if you will, a place where communication students can study the creative work of one of […]

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The Love War: A Legacy of the ABC Movie of the Week

September 28th, 2008 | Posted in 1970s, science fiction, television

The other day a memory of 1970s television came to mind in the form of a science fiction tale, but I couldn’t remember the name of the program. Thank goodness for the Internet and Google. A quick search under “Angie Dickinson” and “Lloyd Bridges,” connected to “1970s television” produced the result I was hoping for. […]

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Small Screen Treasures: Two Gems of Seventies Horror Television

April 3rd, 2008 | Posted in horror, television

In my previous post I focused on a classic horror film of the 1970s, and in this post I shift to commentary on horror television from the same decade. Last weekend I watched a series of VH1 programs that looked back at various aspects of the 1970s. Although I was born in the mid-1960s I […]

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Marc Scott Zicree: Rod Serling and The Twilight Zone Companion

February 28th, 2008 | Posted in fantasy, Marc Scott Zicree, science fiction, television, Twilight Zone

“You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s the signpost up ahead – your next stop, the Twilight Zone!” If you have spent much time at all watching classic television from the late 1950s […]

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Occult-Tinged Fiction Revisited

June 14th, 2007 | Posted in fantasy, occult, science fiction, television

A friend and colleague of mine who is a reader of this blog sent me an email recently with some thoughts in response to my last post on “Occult-Tinged Television.” Since my friend sent this email to me privately in that he is working out his thoughts on this topic, I won’t mention his name, […]

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