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## HEADING: HORROR ## LEFT COLUMN 2053. JACK THE RIPPER. 10/21/88 w/Michael Caine, Armand Assante, Ken Bones, Jane Seymour. JACK THE RIPPER, PART 1 Eschewing the sensational, the two-part (1988 TV-movie turns one of history's most notorious serial-crime stories into an intriguing psychologi- cal murder mystery. In 1888 London, a killer who became known as Jack the Ripper brutally sawe five prostitutes in the lawless East End. Producer-director-writer David Wickes filmed on location and relied on government files and interviews with criminolo- gists and Scotland Yard officers to reconstruct the slayings and the manhunt for the murderer. Michael Caine portrays Scotland Yard inspec- tor Frederick Abberline, the hard-boiled, hard- driving detective assigned to the case. In his investigation, Abberline uncovers surprising leads that seem to implicate members of the po- lice, American actor Richard Mansfield (Armand Assante), a British clairvoyant (Ken Bones)—and even the royal family. Sgt. George Godley: Lewis Collins. Sir William Gull: Ray McAnally. Emma: Jane Seymour. Catherine: Susan George. Bates: Jonathan Moore. Ullswyn: Michael Hughes. Baster: Henry Andrews. Arnott: Edward Judd. Screaming Jon Launmore: Lust: Michael Gothard. Dr. Adlam: Richard Morant. Salisbury: David Swift. Prince Albert Victor: Marc Cuhwa. Women: Hugh Fri- ser, Matthews, Ronald Hines. (2 hrs.) THE SECRET IDENTITY OF jack the ripper™ 10/26/88 JACK THE RIPPER Host: Peter Ustinov. NEWSCAST. THE LODGER. (BW) (1944) w/Merle Oberon, George Sanders and Sir Cedric Hardwicke. 2054. FRIDAY THE 13TH. THE SERIES. At the beginning of each episode we are warned: "Lewis Vendredi made a deal with the devil to sell cursed antiques, but he broke the pact and it cost him his soul. Now his niece Micki and her cousin Ryan have inherited the store and with it the curse. Now they must get every- thing back and the real terror begins." A much more real terror is the prospect of more mindless horror movies being adapted as television series. As the first of its ilk, Friday the 13th: The Series con- sists chiefly of low-key lighting, eerie mu- sic and lots of gore. The stories are me- chanical, the suspense artificial, the dia- logue stilted, the acting heavy-handed, the direction routine. One week the cursed antique was an old camera with a feature Kodak better not consider: if you take a picture of someone with this camera and develop the negative, a complete duplicate of that person appears (such a ghostly double is called a doppelgänger) and lives until the negative is destroyed. If, however, the negative is not destroyed within five hours, the original person disappears and the duplicate takes his place. A television anchorman with slipping ratings uses the camera to duplicate him- self, then sends his doppelgänger out to slash victims with a machete (machetes give good blood). The anchorman then has terrific local stories to report exclu- sively on his broadcasts, which is not too far-fetched considering what some sta- tions do during ratings-sweeps weeks. Ryan finally catches up with the anchor- man and gets the negative. After a lot of double-dealing, Ryan stabs the dop- pelsänger but loses the negative to him. The dop- pelsänger loses some green blood, but the five hours are up and the blow-dried and shocked anchorman disappears. The duplicate starts bleeding nice red blood and he happily shouts, "I'm alive!" just before he expires from the stab wound. Micki is played by Robey, a rock star and model who once, in a burst of pres- cience, organized a band called Louise and the Creeps. Cousin Ryan is John D. LeMay. A press release reveals that on the day of LeMay's audition for the role, "my horoscope said that anything I wanted would be mine. Is it any wonder I'm here in Toronto, in a show called Friday the 13th?" Another episode was a mishmash about a nasty gangster, an aging and somewhat nutty ex-policeman, Micki's old boyfriend, some counterfeit money and, as the miss- ing antique, an old sheriff's badge. The badge has the ability to inflict excruciat- ing—and finally fatal—pain when touched to someone's chest. The ex-cop gets the badge and is intent on touching the gang- ster with it. Micki's old boyfriend turns up. Seems he's in town to sell counterfeit money to the gangster. It all winds up with the ex-cop killing several people with the badge and the gangster and his cro- nies murdering several people with guns, including the boyfriend (an FBI agent, it turns out) and the ex-cop—who manages with his last twitch to touch the badge to the gangster. Ryan and Micki recover the badge and still another cursed anti- que is taken out of circulation. Horror's the word, all right. ## RIGHT COLUMN 2055. FRIDAY THE 13TH: THE SERIES: 2056. FRIDAY THE 13TH: THE SERIES: 2057. FRIDAY THE 13TH: THE SERIES: 2058. FRIDAY THE 13TH: THE SERIES: 2059. FRIDAY THE 13TH: THE SERIES: TALES I LIVE, HEADS YOU DIE. 10/22/88 FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES: A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET: The Series: "THE BRIDE WORE RED". FREDDY'S DEAD: THE FINAL NIGHTMARE. (1991) SIMON, KING OF THE WITCHES. (1971) w/Andrew Prine. WES CRAVEN'S NEW NIGHTMARE. w/Robert Englund. (1994) 2060. INHERIT THE WIND. (BW) (1961) Spencer Tracy, Gene Kelly. F. March PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (BW) Hurd Hatfield, Geo. Sanders, (1945) Donna Reed & Angela Lansbury. THE PICTURE OF DORIAN WAYNE. w/Wayne & Schuster. (Spoof) SECRET OF DORIAN GRAY, (1970) w/Richard Todd & Herbert Lom. 2061. MURDER ON ORIENT EXPRESS. w/Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Sean Connery, John Gielgud, (1974) Ingrid Bergman, Martin Balsam, Jacqueline Bisset, Wendy Hiller, Vanessa Redgrave, R. Widmark, Michael York, Anthony Perkins WHO IS KILLING THE GREAT CHEFS OF EUROPE? (1978) w/Jacqueline Bisset, Geo. Segal BLUEBEARD. (BW) (1944) w/John Carradine & Jean Parker.