Well, since nobody made a Sharknado thread yesterday (because John is a crankypuss) here you go.
And yes, I was gloriously in full Joel and the Bots mode last night, laughing my ass off. (“Octoquake! Beavercano! Chickencane! Thunderhog! Bonobonami!”)
Open thread.
Matt
It’s not that funny when the filmmakers are in on it.
Shakezula
In days to come SciFi fans will marvel of the accuracy of this list.
RSA
I’ll speculate that the original idea was piranhas + tornados, but that the title Piranhado wasn’t cheesy enough.
PeakVT
Surely you can’t be serious?
NotMax
I hear that Slothquake is kind of slow.
Soonergrunt
@PeakVT: oh, yes. It was serious. A tornado FULL OF SHARKS! How can that NOT be serious?
Jerzy Russian
There is breaking news on CNN: Mr. Zimmerman’s lawyers assert that he is not guilty. That surely must be the first time that council for the defense has stated something like that in a criminal trial, and I can see why there is a need to have this as breaking news.
Cassidy
I’m gonna have to catch Sharknado on Netflix. I wonder if it’ll be on Hulu+ tonight?
Anyway, since open thread, I’m still gonna do some light spamming in the name of women’s sports. Sorry Gin & Tonic, but is what it is. This weekend, Invicta FC 6 is happening. They’re the female fighting organization and they’re moving up to PPV. The main event is Cris “Cyborg” Santos v. Marloes Coenen for the FW belt. Cyborg won their first match, but was later caught for steroids. She should be clean now and is tested frequently by IFC, but still has a significant amount of muscle mass, Coenen is a Dutch kickboxer and submission wiz and I’m hoping she wins. The card also features Thug Rose Namajunas, Rowdy Bec Hyatt, Joanne Calderwood, Leslie Smith, and Sarah D’Alelio. The whole card looks good, it’s not expensive.
This morning on the way to work I was listening to an MMA podcast and they had Marloes Coenen on. They asked her about Cyborg’s prior steroid bust and if she felt their first encounter was largely due to the anabolic steroids Cyborg was using. She stated that while she does have a personal opinion on it, she doesn’t feel making a public statement would be right as Cyborg had already been judged publicly and she didn’t feel good kicking someone who had been down. I thought that was a pretty classy response. She also brought up an interesting point in that she still feels that their first fight was stopped too early, as do I and many other fans, and that it was a male referee who stopped the fight and it seems to her that the men are far more quick stop a fight as if they have to protect the women from getting beat up. I’d never thought of that before.
Anyway, thanks for humoring me. If you got some extra scratch and want to support women’s sports, this should be a good fight card.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@Soonergrunt: I believe the statement from the writers went something like: If you were a shark and picked up by a tornado and thrown out of your safe, comfortable home, you’d be pissed and just start biting at anything around you. The logic is undeniable.
Linda Featheringill
That clip is funny. The very idea that sharks can pursue their evil agenda on dry land!
Cassidy
@Belafon (formerly anonevent): I’m convinced.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@Jerzy Russian: I did also see that, at least on NBC, they are calling it the George Zimmerman trial. At least they are getting the person right.
Jerzy Russian
Closer to the “topic” of this open thread, is the Sharknado movie so bad that is is good? I thought “2012” was in that category. On the other hand “Polar Storm” was just bad (in that movie an asteroid strikes near Alaska and changes the obliquity of Earth’s axis, leading to bad things happening).
Rosalita
what happened overnight? all the sudden this sharknado thing today… I must be getting older and slower on my cultural phenomenon
MikeJ
@Linda Featheringill:
And yet Obama does nothing to stop them! He hasn’t even used the bully pulpit!
Cassidy
@MikeJ: If he just really wanted to stop them bad enough….
NickT
@Cassidy:
If he would only listen to the unelected and unelectable jayackroyd! There’s some quality purity troll faux-progressive nonsense being peddled on the threads this morning.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@Rosalita: I heard about it yesterday, though I missed the fact that it was showing last night. I was expecting it to show on Saturday, the most dangerous night on television. I’ll have to try to find a way to tape it. I have an eight year old who will love it.
BGK
@Jerzy Russian:
I watched about ten minutes of it, and no, it’s just bad-is-bad bad. I was plus three, and it wasn’t even entertaining in an ironic way. Also too, HD is far too unkind to the wrecks that John Heard and Tara Reid have become.
We did manage to waste an entire staff meeting last week “producing” the sequel to this turd. It got us out of any semblance of productivity for an hour, so I can thank ‘SyFy” for that.
Soonergrunt
@Belafon (formerly anonevent): well, shouldn’t we, on some level at least, try to empathize with the sharks? They didn’t ask to get sucked up into a tornado (or to feature in such a gleefully awful movie for that matter) but haters gotta hate I suppose.
red dog
Fodder for the same idiots who are watching the Zimmerman trial which ends the just prior to the movie debut.
PaulW
@PeakVT:
I am not serious.
Also, people age. While I’m not a fan of Tara Reid’s acting style (there isn’t much of one) I honestly cannot grok the full-on hate people seem to be dumping on her. If she’s getting a paycheck, then hey work is work.
Soonergrunt
@Belafon (formerly anonevent): while you’re at it, see if you can’t also get Sharktopus.
Yes, it is EXACTLY what the name says it is. I’ll leave it to your imagination, secure in the knowledge that you can’t possibly imagine anything as bad as that on any level.
PaulW
@Rosalita:
Sometimes the memes are forced. Sometimes there’s just a moment in the cultural malaise where something as mindbogglingly moronic as flying sharks in tornadoes just has this lowest-common-denominator appeal to our collective schadenfreude. And sometimes, just sometimes, a shark will guide the spirit of Ed Wood back to set right what went wrong.
The Other Bob
SyFy took Stargate Universe off the air, but make piles of these sh*t movies? Ug.
raven
@PaulW:” I’m just going to go find a cash machine”!
Cassidy
@PaulW: If she had been in a Wes Anderson movie, most of the movie snobs here would be in love with her.
PaulW
@Soonergrunt:
Anything by Coleman Francis comes to mind, actually. Compared to Coleman’s directorial style, Ed Wood was coherent and well-edited.
Certified Mutant Enemy
Let’s not forget Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus -starring Deborah Gibson…
Anoniminous
Where are the frickin’ lasers beams?
Cassidy
@Soonergrunt: @Certified Mutant Enemy: Both of which were amazing pieces of schlock cinema. If you can’t pop some popcorn, crack a beer and enjoy an Asylum movie, then you’re wound way too damn tight.
PaulW
@The Other Bob:
That’s not the worst of it. Last I know (I haven’t really tuned in to SciFi YES THATS HOW YOU SPELL IT YOU MORANIC TV EXECS that consistently), they had WRESTLING on that network.
And to be fair, Stargate Universe had a higher budget. SyFy can shill Sharknado and expect a turnout of the curious and morbidly insane at the same viewership numbers, making more of a profit out of it.
peach flavored shampoo
Can Sharknados get concealed weapons permits?
Petorado
For some reason I keep reading the movie title as “Snarknado.” I’m impressed how airborne sharks roar exactly like lions.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@Soonergrunt: I’ve caught parts of Sharktopus, and a number of their other movies. I really enjoyed the Debbie Gibson-Tiffany movies, especially when they were together and they both died.
I’ve said this before: If this is how they pay for their good shows – Stargate’s, Eureka, Warehouse 13, etc – I am willing to sit through the commercials and go get my popcorn during the movies.
Comrade Jake
To think I used to have so much respect for Ziering. Wasted talent.
PaulW
@Anoniminous:
Sequel. Sharks with frickin laser beams attached to their frickin heads will get sucked up into a storm vortex that passes over a mad scientist’s sealab, and get unleashed on an unsuspecting Las Vegas. I should be expecting a phone call from Asylum’s execs asking me to pound out the screenplay any… second… now…
Comrade Jake
I only caught about the first ten minutes of this last night, but I don’t think it’s possible to overstate how bad it was.
One guy was on the beach with his leg nominally bitten off by a shark. Except it was quite clear from the shot that his leg was just buried in the sand.
Production value, for the win!
Rosalita
@PaulW: @Rosalita:
Sometimes the memes are forced. Sometimes there’s just a moment in the cultural malaise where something as mindbogglingly moronic as flying sharks in tornadoes just has this lowest-common-denominator appeal to our collective schadenfreude. And sometimes, just sometimes, a shark will guide the spirit of Ed Wood back to set right what went wrong.
Rosalita
dam quote thingy!
Ken T
I can’t quite picture what “Thunderhog” would be, but it does have a ring to it …
Hawes
Bonobonami would be like porn flick for furries.
Anoniminous
@PaulW:
There’s a technical problem.
Sharks with frickin’ laser beams on their heads spinning around in a tornado would end-up as The Attack of the Killer Sushi.
Soonergrunt
@PaulW: unfortunately, the wrestling paid for everything else. More people tune into that than to anything else that Syfy does. The two best shows on Syfy since BSG, Eureka and Warehouse 13 have always been right on the bubble because they cost so much to make even as they had the largest viewership on the network of original programming.
raven
Janet Napolitano to Resign as Secretary of Homeland Security, Official Says
Mike E
@Cassidy: and if Anderson filmed people beating the crap out each other…
burnspbesq
Well, this has nothing to do with either sharks or tornados, but is nevertheless noteworthy.
A Guantanamo detainee, Ahmed Adan Ajam, has alleged in a filing with the District Court in DC that the NDAA’s provisions constraining the President’s authority to transfer or repatriate detainees are an unconstitutional power-grab by Congress, infringing on the Commandef-in-Chief power that Article II gives solely to the President.
http://www.lawfareblog.com/2013/07/a-commander-in-chief-challenge-to-the-constitutionality-of-the-transfer-restrictions/
I’m neither taking bets nor making predictions, but at first blush it seems like a decent argument.
Comrade Jake
@raven: And become UC President. Dude, way to bury the lede!
BGinCHI
Um, is that the cast of 90210 starring in this?
Talk about synergy.
ruemara
@Petorado: “Snarknado” was me on the twitters, during this magnum opus.
kd bart
I was fully expecting a “Screenplay by Glenn Beck” credit at the end.
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: Maybe a Concrete Blonde tour is in the works.
Mike E
@kd bart: his original idea was to use marionettes.
MikeJ
@Comrade Jake: I assumed she was reforming Concrete Blonde.
Mino
@raven: Interesting.
burnspbesq
@Omnes Omnibus:
Meh. Johnette Napolitano never really did it for me.
Now, a Motels tour …
some guy
@burnspbesq:
wait, are you saying that Obama is actually the Commander in Chief of the armed forces? unpossible!
some guy
has there been any word on how the siege of Allepo is going today? have our allies in Al Qaeda made sure that nobody gets to eat for Iftar in that city? I hope Al Qaeda has the will and the weapons to really starve all those civilians, because that would be such a break from the usual car bombings, beheadings, and mortar rounds fired into civilian neighborhoods our Syrian friends usually engage in.
BGinCHI
@burnspbesq: I think she’s dead (the Motels lead singer). I had a thing for her way back when though. When she was alive and younger.
scav
@Anoniminous: There’s always the straight-line wind option. Sharks with frickin laser beams on their heads surfing the leading edge of a derecho or bow echo could make for some serious imagry, let alone posters. Save the tornado chop cycle for a deus ex machina save for later in the movie.
Also, see here for some sharks with serious karate crossover potential.
BruinKid
@Comrade Jake: Here’s the L.A. Times on the Napolitano story. I’m not sure quite what to make of this yet, as it relates to the UC. She’s definitely an out-of-the-box candidate for us, which could be a good or bad thing. We’ll see.
She’ll probably be at least more popular than outgoing UC president Mark Yudof.
Now, will Mitch McConnell try to block any nominee Obama puts forth to replace her? Or would that be seen as fucking around with our national security? And would McConnell even care?
Cassidy
@Mike E: I have no idea what you’re talking about. Don’t his over-pretentious shitpile movies usually have some sort of awckward fight in it or am I thinking of Woody Allen?
some guy
@BGinCHI:
Martha Davis is definetly NOT dead. she’s on tour right now.
Comrade Jake
@BruinKid: Are you in the UC system? I have several friends who are faculty at various campuses – Davis, Berkeley, and UCLA.
The past five years are so have been fairly trying for them. Not sure what Napolitano can do to make things better, but hopefully she’ll at least try.
MikeJ
@BGinCHI: Martha Davis dead? that’s going to make their current tour a bit odd.
Mike E
@Cassidy: Touché. Wes is the new Woody: he makes the same movie over and over.
I have an inordinate fondness for The Royal Tenenbaums though.
MikeJ
@Mike E: Moonrise Kingdom was great.
ruemara
@burnspbesq: This is fascinating. I hope he wins.
Cassidy
@Mike E: I actually don’t mind him. I like some of what he does. I just like needling his fans and movie snobs. :D It’s kind of like messing with Steelers fans.
In all seriousness, I’m a B movie fanatic, the cheesier the better. I willing watch movies by The Asylum and Uwe Boll. My “do not cross” line is pretty low, down about at the forgotten half-Estevez brother. I also love a good, well made drama and will happily sit through a dumb, summer action movie.
burnspbesq
@Comrade Jake:
So Janet Napolitano is going to be John Yoo’s boss.
The jokes will commence writing themselves in 3 … 2 …
dmsilev
@raven:
Well, obviously. She did a bad job dealing with the flying sharks after all.
burnspbesq
@some guy:
Shocking, but true.
SFAW
@PeakVT:
Of course he is. And don’t call him “Shirley.”
(Assuming that’s why you chose that particular phrasing.)
@burnspbesq:
The Motels? Maybe “Tragic Surf” should be on the Sharknado soundtrack?
@BGinCHI:
Unless she died in the last couple of weeks, I think Martha Davis is still alive. And touring with the New Motels. I think one or two more incarnations, and it can be called “Martha Davis and Motels 6.”
gene108
@Soonergrunt:
Also check out the awesome that is Megashark versus Giant Octopus
Debbie Gibson was robbed, robbed, I tell you of an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in this movie.
lamh36
OT:OH HELL NO!!!! MSNBC showed a pic of Trayvon Martin’s dead body from on the scene photos and now some online places are posting the pic!!!!! NO NO NO!!!! That is wrong and disgusting. MSNBC should apologize and anybody who posts it on my timeline I will delete from my friends list. The family of Trayvon deserves respect in regards to the image of their DEAD CHILD!!!! I blame this on the sad SAW-LIKE tortute porn society that we have become.
Mike E
@MikeJ: It really didn’t tap my raft, if’n ya know what I mean.
NickT
@dmsilev:
Even better:
Janet Napolitano is resigning as head of the Homeland Security Department and seeking a post as president of the University of California.
Cassidy
@Cassidy: I hit submit before I meant to…
I specifically bring him up because I seem to remember a movie thread, might have been about The Avengers, and someone was bad mouthing it and then switched to wishing all movies could be as good as Rushmore and The Royal Tenanbaums, etc. I could easily be forgetting the details as it was a long time ago. I just couldn’t stop laughing at the pretentiousness of it.
I do think that there is some beauty in violence be it the choreographed movements of a John Woo film or the raw street fighting of Donnie Yen’s Flashoint, the cold, focused fury of Man On Fire or Man from Nowhere. It’s why I love combat sports. The power of the sweet science is beautiful.
gene108
@Certified Mutant Enemy: Stole my thunder :-(
Elizabelle
Does that line truly belong in a movie trailer?
Steeplejack
@Cassidy:
Hey, thanks for reminding me!
DVR Alert
More Truffaut on TCM tonight. No big theme, just a good selection from across his career, and most of them rarely shown. (All times EDT.)
piratedan
wonder if they’ll be a follow up, like “arachniboob” because giant spiders caught up in a dust storm seems to be a story line full of win and you get to use the word partial of boob semi-legitimately.
Shakezula
@gene108: Is that what gave rise to Sharktopus? (It only looked like they were fighting!)
burnspbesq
Ack! 80s flashback! The opening acts on the East Coast leg of the current Motels tour were Gene Loves Jezebel and Bow Wow Wow.
gene108
@Shakezula:
No but it did give rise to Megashark versus Crocosaurus
catclub
@Linda Featheringill: Landshark.
Tone in DC
The 80 foot snake flick (with Ice Cube, Rick Springfield, and either Tiffany or Debbie, but not both) was more than enough for me.
The whole cast sang the Tommy James version of Mony Mony as the credits rolled.
Tone in DC
@burnspbesq:
Was Go West not available? Maybe INXS or Spandau Ballet?
Mike E
@burnspbesq: Is Billy & The Boingers on that tour also?
catclub
@Ken T: Thunder thighs?
Jay in Oregon
@The Other Bob:
Sharknado and other movies of its ilk are usually produced on a small budget (IMDB lists the budget at approx. $1 million) and, according to SyFy, do very well overseas and in DVD sales.
As I said on Twitter last night, networks and movie studios don’t care if you’re watching the movie ironically or not; if the numbers look good, you can expect to see more. And hey, today everyone’s talking about how much buzz Sharknado generated on Twitter, so expect “Sharknado 2: Megalodon Rising” to be announced soon.
piratedan
@BGinCHI: wiki seems to think she’s still around too…. have to admit, the early-mid 80’s was a great time for strong female vocals, Benatar, Davis, Smyth, the Bangles and the Go-Go’s.
burnspbesq
The Motels and the Bangles are playing on the same bill at the L.A. County Fair on 9/2. And I’m going to see the B-52s and X at the OC Fair next Thursday. The 80s either never went away or they’re back.
Shakezula
At work a two person conversation about Sharknado is rapidly expanding thusly:
What was this? Was it a movie?
Yes there were sharks and –
Are you talking about Sharknado, I stayed up all night watching it –
Sharknado? Me too! I couldn’t turn it off…
And so on.
piratedan
@burnspbesq: Annabella! gawd she was awesome!!!!
MikeJ
@Tone in DC:
Hard to have INXS without Michael Hutchence.
I saw them open for the Go-Gos.
Tone in DC
@MikeJ:
They’ve gone through about four other frontmen since he died. It’s been a revolving door since Elegantly Wasted.
Almost as dysfunctional as Van Halen, in that respect.
MikeJ
@Tone in DC: Obviously not *impossible* to have INXS without him, but I don’t think you’re going to come up with anything you want to see.
burnspbesq
Peter Garrett is not seeking re-election to the Australian Parliament. Perhaps a Midnight Oil reunion is in the cards.
maya
Sharknado would have been much more authentic if Capt’ Quint was seen rowing by in the vortex.
Citizen_X
@Cassidy:
Who is that? Not Emilio.
And did you see where Charlie Sheen is in Machete Kills? As the President! The trailer introduces him as “Chuy Estevez” or some damn thing.
Redshirt
It’s real time MST3K. Cool concept.
Tone in DC
@MikeJ:
I figure you’re right (especially given some of the “vocalists” I’ve seen lately in pop music).
Tone in DC
@Citizen_X:
I think that is actually his given name, Carlos Estevez (Martin Sheen = Ramón Estevez).
IMDB is our friend.
Trinity
So awesome.
Cassidy
@Citizen_X: I meant Joe Estevez and I was mistaken. He is not the other brother. He is the brother of Martin Sheen.
I saw the poster. I’m looking forward to it and kind of “meh” about Charlie.
? Martin
@BruinKid: This is quite a surprise. I didn’t expect UC to go with a non-academic for president.
It goes to show how worried universities are about their public funding that political insiders keep getting picked for the top jobs.
ThresherK
Who can give me a good hot dog recommendation? (Natural casing, please.)
We’re hosting the folks nice enough to have given us two pool parties in the last month, during a stretch of incredible humidity and heat.
Nylund
@RSA: Not only is it hard to come up with a good name involving the word piranha, but there’s already been a movie about flying piranhas, “Piranhas II: The Spawning.”
LanceThruster
Why do they hate us?
Just One More Canuck
@Cassidy: They must be kenyan-muslim sharks
danimal
@burnspbesq: @piratedan: I Want Candy must have a different vibe now that Annabella is old enough to be a grandma.
The Moar You Know
@MikeJ: As a former professional musician who is not usually a lead singer, it’s hard for me to admit that to the listening public in general, I’m expendable. The guys in INXS are fucking great musicians, it was the guitar player’s band in the first place, but without Hutchence, who was something one rarely runs into, an exceptionally good singer – they’re done. For better or worse his voice was the identity of that band.
Shakezula
@ThresherK: Sharkdogs? 100% shark ground up by chainsaw.
Sorry. It is the heat. And that damn movie. What’s wrong with Ball Park?
piratedan
@danimal: true that, but I was always partial to Do you wanna hold me myself, still, she had great pipes, an exotic look and that sound was reliably different from just about everyone else (excepting Adam Ant, who they roughly left at McLaren’s suggestion).
cleek
@ThresherK:
Zweigles. (http://www.zweigles.com/)
though if you are in the area where they’re sold (Rochester area, NY), you probably already know about them.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@The Moar You Know: Here in Rockwall, TX, on Thursdays during the summer, they are doing a Concert By the Lake series. Last night was a band, Chinatown, that did pop covers. Overall the band was OK but not great, but their lead guitarist was both an exceptional player and singer. He needs a better band or to go solo.
Just One More Canuck
@Cassidy: we have the same taste in movies. An all-time favorite: Surf Nazis Must Die
Cassidy
@Just One More Canuck: You know, I have probably seen a third to half of Troma’s movies, but have yet to watch that one as a whole. I know, I know, I’m sorry.
The B-est B Movie I have ever seen was Bloodsucking Pharoas in Pittsburgh.
ThresherK
@cleek: Thanks for the recco.
Yeah, I shoulda mentioned, I’m in the northern CT / western MA retail belt. Household of 2, so buying 3 lbs of hot dogs is a bit of a leap of faith.
And I’d experiment, but when I go shopping it seems the 1-lb packages are all skinless.
NickT
@Just One More Canuck:
Sure, but do YOU want to ask for their collective birth certificate?
Just One More Canuck
@NickT: Someone needs to see the long-form to check the kerning
@Cassidy: that sounds awesome. I need to see that
Johnny Coelacanth
Hebrew National are reliably good hot dogs; all beef as well. You could hi thee to a Whole Foods or your local equivalent and get some grass-fed, nitrate free, blah blah blah fancy dawg, if you want an indisputably good hot dog.
NotMax
@Cassidy
If that type of stuff tickles your fancy, then perhaps something to look forward to later this year:
Attack of the Psychedelic Zombies, Man!
Mnemosyne
@NotMax:
I think it was during the MST3K version of The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies that Crow started screaming, “End! END!” at the screen because it was dragging on so long.
Good times, good times.
NotMax
@Mnemosyne
Ever stumble across Frankenstein’s Great Aunt Tillie?
Now that is a true dreckfest.
Mnemosyne
@ThresherK:
Do they sell Nathan’s in your local store? They’re more of a Chicago and/or southwest thing, so they may not, but they’re good. And I second the recommendation for Hebrew National.
Mnemosyne
@NotMax:
I don’t think I have, but I’ve seen a lot of bad and good/bad movies. I used to subscribe to Video Watchdog.
NotMax
@Mnemosyne
Donald Pleasance.
In drag.
’nuff said.
Cassidy
@NotMax: I would watch that in a heartbeat.
PaulW
@Anoniminous:
What if the sharks could control when the lasers were activated? That way, they would coordinate their attacks and not hit each other.
Remember: Sharks are sharks FOR A REASON. And they will KILL YOU.
ruemara
@Mnemosyne: Manos, Hand of Fate. Every argument is invalid, after that.
RSA
@Nylund:
Cool… I guess I should watch more TV.
Bucky Reynolds
This piece of crap shows how far the intelligence level of Americans has fallen. And, I am going to blame politicians for the dumbing down of our education system – mostly the GOP.
I can’t believe people watching this crap and the fake and stupid reality shows; e.g., Ice Road Truckers, American Pickers, Ax Men, Cupcake Wars, Dance Moms, Storage Wars, Dig Wars, Donut Showdown, Fish Tank Kings, Gator Boys, Ghost Hunters, Ink Master, Honey Boo Boo, The Kardashians, Monster Fish, Monsters & Mystery, Mountain Men, Operation Repo, Parking Wars, Paranormal Witness, Property Wars, all the Housewives shows, Redneck Island, Salvage Dawgs, Shipping Wars, Storage Wars, Swamp People, Sweetie Pie’s, Tanked, Tattoo Nightmares, Ultimate Survial Alaska, Wife Swap, Yukon Men, and so many more that I can’t name them all.
I am so lucky that I had shows like Omnibus, Westinghouse Studio One, You Are There, GE Theater, Dick Powell Presents, Aldred Hitchcock The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, The Alcoa Hour, The Bell Telephone Hour, The Best of Broadway, Burns and Allen, The Colgate Comedy Hour, Damon Runyon Theater, The David Susskind Show, The DuPont Show with June Allyson, The Ernie Kovacs Show, Four Star Playhouse, The Garry Moore Show, The George Sanders Mystery Theater, The Jackie Gleason Show, Red Skelton Show, O. Henry Playhouse, Orient Express, The Philco Television Playhouse, Science Fiction Theatre, Watch Mr. Wizard, The Steve Allen Show, Stage 7, Stories of the Century, Studio 57, The Stu Erwin Show, Life Of Riley, Tales of Tomorrow, Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, Wide Wide World, Walt Disney, Your Show of Shows, and all the great sitcoms.