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Moon Shot: The Inside Story of the Apollo Project (1994)
:Description:Astronauts Deke Slayton and Alan Shepherd tell the story of America's race for the moon, utilizing an untapped treasure of NASA tapes, home movies and never-before-seen footage of the Soviet space program.Starring: Deke Slayton, Alan Shepherd
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Bill Nye the Science Guy: Reptiles & Insects
: :Science goes 'Boing!' when Bill Nye shows up, and this fast-moving installment of his popular show is no exception. Reptiles & Insects--Leapin' Lizards! uses the Science Guy's trademark wacky sounds and visual effects to get across a wide range of facts about some of our cold-blooded relatives and, as an added bonus, makes science and scientists look cool. We get to see venomous snakes, hissing cockroaches, and angry crocodiles in the safety of the living room. Nye knows that our first response is to say ...
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Little Rascals
: :Kids may enjoy the slapstick of this modern reworking of the old Our Gang comedies, but parents who grew up watching them on TV (or grandparents who saw them at theaters) will wonder why anyone would want to be involved in this pathetic remake. Directed by Penelope Spheeris, the film takes look-alike kids and casts them as Spanky, Alfalfa, Buckwheat, and the rest, minus any sense of what made the old Hal Roach comedies funny. Instead of kids being kids, these are kids doing shtick ...
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Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein
: :Universal Pictures made a great deal of money from its monster movies in the 1930s. In the early '40s, the burlesque team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello kept the studio's coffers full. When the two franchises were combined in 1948, the result was another windfall--despite the apparent oil-and-water mix of subject matter. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein was the first of these summit meetings, although the title is a misnomer. Actually, Bud and Lou bump into most of the Universal heavy-hitters, including Count Dracula ...
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Bewitched Halloween
: :Samantha and her fellow witches are bedeviled by Halloween in these two black-and-white 25-minute episodes specially packaged for the occasion. In 'The Witches Are Out,' Darrin (Dick York in both episodes) is fired after refusing to use a stereotyped old crone witch in an ad. So Samantha and friends spook the client with protest signs and tricks until he gladly calls off his 'discriminatory' campaign. In 'Trick or Treat,' Endora (Agnes Moorehead) is peeved that Samantha opts to entertain one of Darrin's clients on Halloween ...
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Bill Nye the Science Guy: Outer Space Way Out There!
: :Samantha and her fellow witches are bedeviled by Halloween in these two black-and-white 25-minute episodes specially packaged for the occasion. In 'The Witches Are Out,' Darrin (Dick York in both episodes) is fired after refusing to use a stereotyped old crone witch in an ad. So Samantha and friends spook the client with protest signs and tricks until he gladly calls off his 'discriminatory' campaign. In 'Trick or Treat,' Endora (Agnes Moorehead) is peeved that Samantha opts to entertain one of Darrin's clients on Halloween ...
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Twilight Zone (Time Enough At Last/The Monsters are Due on Maple Street)
: :Samantha and her fellow witches are bedeviled by Halloween in these two black-and-white 25-minute episodes specially packaged for the occasion. In 'The Witches Are Out,' Darrin (Dick York in both episodes) is fired after refusing to use a stereotyped old crone witch in an ad. So Samantha and friends spook the client with protest signs and tricks until he gladly calls off his 'discriminatory' campaign. In 'Trick or Treat,' Endora (Agnes Moorehead) is peeved that Samantha opts to entertain one of Darrin's clients on Halloween ...
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The Sopranos - The Complete Fourth Season
: :Carmela to Tony: 'Everything comes to an end.' True enough, Mrs. Sope, but on The Sopranos, the end comes sooner for some than others. Though for some the widely debated fourth season contained too much yakking instead of whacking, and an emphasis on domestic family over business Family, what critic James Agee once said of the Marx Brothers applies to The Sopranos: 'The worst thing they might ever make would be better worth seeing than most other things I can think of.' And in most ...
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Waltons: Thanksgiving Story
: :Carmela to Tony: 'Everything comes to an end.' True enough, Mrs. Sope, but on The Sopranos, the end comes sooner for some than others. Though for some the widely debated fourth season contained too much yakking instead of whacking, and an emphasis on domestic family over business Family, what critic James Agee once said of the Marx Brothers applies to The Sopranos: 'The worst thing they might ever make would be better worth seeing than most other things I can think of.' And in most ...
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Amazing Stories Book Two (Go to the Head of the Class, Family Dog)
: :Most of this second volume of stories from the 1985-87 television anthology series is a middling offering from former Steven Spielberg protégé Robert Zemeckis, who later won an Oscar for directing Forrest Gump. (Spielberg was the creator of Amazing Stories.) Zemeckis's episode is a bit of schlock horror called 'Go to the Head of the Class,' and while it stars Christopher Lloyd in a fiendish role as a decapitated teacher, and an atypical part for Mary Stuart Masterson as a manipulative teenage babe, there isn't ...
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