# Ed Wood double feature on TCM tonight!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 14, 2006, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wood-double-feature-on-tcm-tonight/376386 "2006-10-14T02:14:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2006, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wood-double-feature-on-tcm-tonight/376386/1 "2006-10-14T02:14:09Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2006, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wood-double-feature-on-tcm-tonight/376386/2 "2006-10-14T03:00:15Z")
Thanks for the notice! I may just have to watch. Though I wish they’d air the MST3K version of each instead…! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2006, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wood-double-feature-on-tcm-tonight/376386/3 "2006-10-14T03:05:01Z")
Thanks. I’ve got the TiVo set. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2006, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wood-double-feature-on-tcm-tonight/376386/4 "2006-10-14T03:05:28Z")
IIRC, this is one of Rob Zombie’s nights to host. (I no longer have access to TCM–my life is an aching void.) ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2006, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wood-double-feature-on-tcm-tonight/376386/5 "2006-10-14T03:08:12Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2006, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wood-double-feature-on-tcm-tonight/376386/6 "2006-10-14T03:13:00Z")
Jason Takes Manhattan was on earlier, I think. I skipped it though, preferring to watch [The Uninvited](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037415/) 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. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2006, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wood-double-feature-on-tcm-tonight/376386/7 "2006-10-14T03:16:03Z")
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](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076294/) again someday. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2006, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wood-double-feature-on-tcm-tonight/376386/8 "2006-10-14T03:24:08Z")
[QUOTE=Dr. Rieux] IIRC, this is one of Rob Zombie’s nights to host. [/QUOTE] :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. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2006, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wood-double-feature-on-tcm-tonight/376386/9 "2006-10-14T08:01:48Z")
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=389858&highlight=zombie](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=389858&highlight=zombie) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2006, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wood-double-feature-on-tcm-tonight/376386/10 "2006-10-14T16:06:20Z")
‘You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!’ Ah, what writing! What acting! ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2006, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wood-double-feature-on-tcm-tonight/376386/11 "2006-10-14T16:50:27Z")
[QUOTE=The Scrivener] 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](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076294/) again someday. [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wood-double-feature-on-tcm-tonight/376386/12 "2006-10-14T18:00:48Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.] ‘You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!’ Ah, what writing! What acting! [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![teemingONE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b4bc9f/32.png) [@teemingONE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teemingONE)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2006, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wood-double-feature-on-tcm-tonight/376386/13 "2006-10-14T18:29:52Z")
I was looking forward to this all week and I missed it. I’m sad now. Is **Plan 9…** still public domain? ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wood-double-feature-on-tcm-tonight/376386/14 "2006-10-14T19:21:55Z")
[QUOTE=teemingONE] Is **Plan 9…** still public domain? [/QUOTE] 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). ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2006, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wood-double-feature-on-tcm-tonight/376386/15 "2006-10-14T19:33:59Z")
**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. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2006, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wood-double-feature-on-tcm-tonight/376386/16 "2006-10-15T02:57:00Z")
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! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2006, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wood-double-feature-on-tcm-tonight/376386/17 "2006-10-15T03:05:06Z")
[QUOTE=AuntiePam] Does anyone know were the Lugosi shots were from? So weird, watching Count Dracula walk in and out of a little 50’s ranch. [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2006, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wood-double-feature-on-tcm-tonight/376386/18 "2006-10-15T03:49:25Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] 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. [/QUOTE] And IIRC, it was shot at Lugosi’s house. ---
**Author:** ![minty\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2006, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wood-double-feature-on-tcm-tonight/376386/19 "2006-10-15T04:56:29Z")
[QUOTE=OttoDaFe] And IIRC, it was shot at Lugosi’s house. [/QUOTE] Tor Johnson’s house, actually.