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## HEADING: HORROR ## LEFT COLUMN 2053. JACK THE RIPPER. 10/21/88 w/Michael Caine, Armand Assante, Ian Bannen, Anne Seymour. THE SECOND UNIVERSITY OF "jack the ripper" 10/25/88 JACK THE RIPPER Host: Present Best known. RED SCRIPT: THE KODGER (1960)(1947) w/Mike Connors, Lee Majors, Lana Carter, Jr. Gabe Kaplan 2054. FRIDAY THE 13TH. THE SERIES At the beginning of each episode we are warned "Jason Voorhees made a deal with the devil to sell cursed antiques, but he broke the pact and it cost him his soul. Now his niece Vicki 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 realistic & the prospect of more mindless horror movies being adapted as television series. As the title of its is, Friday the 13th The Series con- sists chiefly of low-key lighting, some 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 as a ghostly double called a doppelganger) 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 archivist with slipping range uses the camera to duplicate him- self, then sends his doppelganger out to stab victims with a machete (machete give good blood). The archivist then has terrific local stories to report exclu- sively on his broadcasts, which is not too surprising considering what some tele- casters do during ratings-season weeks. Ryan finally catches up with the archi- vist and gets the negative. After a lot of double-dealing, Ryan slides the dop- doppelganger but loses the negative to him. The dop- pelganger loses some green blood, but the five hours are up and the blow-dried and shocked archivist disappears. The duplicate starts bleeding nice red blood and he happily shouts, "I'm alive!" just before he expires from the stab wound. Vicki is played by Robey, a rock star and model who once, in a burst of pro- science, organized a band called Louise and the Crooks. 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 nightmare about a nasty gangster, an aging and somewhat nifty ex-cop/mentor, Vicki's old boyfriend, some counterfeit money and, as the missing 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. Vicki'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 cron- ies murdering several people with guns, including the boyfriend (an FBI agent, it turns out) and the ex-cop—who manages with his last breath to touch the badge to the gangster. Ryan and Vicki recover the badge and still another cursed anti- que is taken out of circulation. Horror's the word, all right guys ## 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 LOVE, HEADS YOU DIE. 10/02/88 FRIDAY'S NIGHTMARES: A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET: The Series: "THE BRIDE WORE RED". FRIDAY'S DEAD: THE FINAL NIGHTMARE. (1991) SIMON, KING OF THE WITCHES. (1971) w/Andrew Prine. Wes Craven's NEW NIGHTMARES (1994) w/Russ. England. 2060. INHERIT THE WIND. (BW) (1961) Spencer Tracy, Gene Kelly. F. March. PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (BW) Hurd Hatfield, Geo. Sanders. (1945) Dorothy Reed & Angela Lansbury. THE PICTURE OF DORIAN WYNE. w/Mayme & 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.