Late notice, but I just noticed it during my daily scroll of TCM- Plan 9 at 1:00 am Sat CST, followed by Bride of the Monster! Does Robert Osborne present films this late?- I hope so, I would love to hear his comments on it!
Thanks for the notice! I may just have to watch. Though I wish they’d air the MST3K version of each instead…! 
Thanks. I’ve got the TiVo set.
IIRC, this is one of Rob Zombie’s nights to host.
(I no longer have access to TCM–my life is an aching void.)
Are they doing this because it’s Friday the 13th? Stupidly, I just realized that that’s what today is – with only an hour left to enjoy it in. I wonder if there’s other Friday the 13th related programming on…
Jason Takes Manhattan was on earlier, I think. I skipped it though, preferring to watch The Uninvited on TCM, and now I’m waiting for the creepiness to wear off so I can go to bed. That’ll learn me to watch ghost stories when my husband’s not home. Brrr.
I suspect that it’s Ben Mankiewicz [sp?] who’s more likely to introduce an Ed Wood double feature. He seems to have a somewhat edgier, hipper sensibility, and he’s usually seen in his hosting duties on weekends anyway. I’m not sure exactly when, hosting-wise, Friday ends and the weekend begins, but I guess I’ll find out tonight (if I can stay awake, that is).
Then again, if the TCM guys are really smart, they’ll abstain from introducing these turkeys altogether.
Between such craptastic fare on TCM and AMC’s cheesy horror Friday nights, I’m more hopeful than ever of seeing the B-movie The Last Dinosaur again someday.
:o Now it all makes sense.
“Plan 9” will be playing opposite the original “Night of the Living Dead” on AMC, so if I really need something to jolt me awake, I can just switch to the zombies for a moment.
‘You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!’
Ah, what writing! What acting!
Well that’s just great. Now I have the “Last Dinosaur” theme song stuck in my head.
"He is the last…
There are no more…
He is the last…
Dinosaur."
Bastard.
Not to mention direction, set construction and continuity (I really admire the “timeless” quality of the sequence which flips back and forth between police car/day and graveyard/night).
But my personal favorite is when the police inspector, flustered, scratches his head with the business end of his revolver.
I was looking forward to this all week and I missed it.
I’m sad now.
Is Plan 9… still public domain?
If it was once it remains so. Material once in the public domain doesn’t move back under copyright.
And you know, for all the talk of how Plan 9 is “the worst movie ever made,” it really isn’t that much worse than any number of sci-fi programmers and drive-in fodder that littered screens throughout the 50s and 60s. And it’s a good bit more significant than any of them, since it contains the last footage ever shot of Lugosi and IIRC the only extant footage of the Vampira character (the TV shows are long gone).
OttoDaFe: Yeah, I love the bit where the detective pushes his hat back with the muzzle of his revolver, and then scratches his head with it.
Otto: I agree. Plan 9 really isn’t ‘the worst movie ever made’. (One that I worked on has been called that.) I’ve seen films that are so forgettable that I can’t remember them right now. Plan 9 has something those films don’t: entertainment value.
You’re so right. This was my first viewing but it won’t be the last. I had no idea it was so entertaining. I didn’t stop grinning through the whole thing.
Loved the two military guys talking about whether flying saucers are real.
“Yes, I’ve seen them.”
“Officially they don’t exist – you could be court-martialed for saying that. It’s a secret. Now go out there and find those saucers!”
Or something like that. 
Does anyone know were the Lugosi shots were from? So weird, watching Count Dracula walk in and out of a little 50’s ranch.
And the miniature of the collapsing grave! 
Ed Wood shot some footage of Lugosi shortly after Lugosi got out of rehab. According to Wikipedia, the footage was for a project entitled “The Ghoul Goes West.” Wood had shot about ten minutes of footage before Lugosi’s death and decided to use it for Plan 9.
And IIRC, it was shot at Lugosi’s house.
Tor Johnson’s house, actually.