TUNNEL VISION

Your Humble Narrator is a fan of the vintage network MeTV, in no small part because they play silly, nostalgic old-school ‘60s and ‘70s sci-fi on the weekends, including Irwin Allen’s ridiculous The Time Tunnel.

This week’s scheduled episode is “Chase Through Time,” in which our epoch-hopping, stock-footage-fleeing heroes James Darren and Robert Colbert find themselves, among other eras, back in prehistory. So…

Monster-of-the-Week: …let’s acknowledge the primordial titan that threatens them in that episode…

…obviously played by an unfortunate alligator with fins and horns attached. It appears to have been recycled from Allen’s own 1960 version of The Lost World.

BIG BIRD

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

In observance of the holiday…

Monster-of-the-Week: …our honoree is this Brobdingnagian turkey…

…that towered over Kurt Kasznar, Deanna Lund and the gang in “The Golden Cage,” a 1968 episode of Land of the Giants. Of all the sci-fi stories made for television about attempts to catch giant turkeys, this is arguably one of the better ones in color.

WET WOLF SMELL

The adventure drama Black Sea, set on a submarine, opens tomorrow, so…

Monster-of-the-Week: …let’s do one of the monsters that threatened that roomiest and least claustrophobic of submarines, the Seaview, during the run of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Charles Aidman as a scientist who becomes a snarling werewolf!

In the course of the 1966 episode, Aidman scratches Richard Basehart, who then has to be put on wolf-watch. The makeup has a pretty cool, I Was a Teenage Werewolf look.