ANGEL DUSTED with Gedde Watanabe (Part 2)
Sam Pancake Presents the Monday Afternoon Movie
Release Date: 08/28/2023
SWEET, SWEET RACHEL with Bridger Winegar
Sam Pancake Presents the Monday Afternoon Movie
Eye! Knife! Raven! Doll! Coffin! Sam is back for your monthly Monday Afternoon adventure. Today's wild movie? Sweet, Sweet Rachel, a 1971 TV movie starring Pat Hingle, Louise Latham, and Alex Dreier. When a murderer strikes using psychic power as a weapon, an expert on paranormal and ESP abilities uses his knowledge to try andtrack down the killer. Juicy subplot: Will Sam's voice make it to the end without a functioning humidifier? Tune in to find out! Sam's guest today is Bridger Winegar: writer, producer, podcaster, and actor. Bridger also hosts the popular I Said No Gifts podcast. Link...
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WOMEN IN CHAINS with Pete Zias
Sam Pancake Presents the Monday Afternoon Movie
Let the prison tropes begin! Sam Pancake has a hot caged piece of heat for you with this episode. The movie? WOMEN IN CHAINS, the 1972 American television film directed by Bernard L. Kowalski. Originally released for ABC's Movie of the Week, the film stars Ida Lupino, Jessica Walter & Belinda Montgomery. Sam's guest today is Pete Zias: actor, commedian, and alum of The Groundlings Sunday Company and The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. Love what you hear? Want to show your support for Sam & The Monday Afternoon Movie? Make sure to follow on the official Patreon page and...
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RITUAL OF EVIL with Stacie Ponder
Sam Pancake Presents the Monday Afternoon Movie
Let the Ritual of Evil begin! This month's episode of Monday Afternoon Movie brings back super podcast guest Stacie Ponder to dissect the classic RITUAL OF EVIL, a 1970 American made-for-television drama directed by Robert Day and starring Louis Jourdan. It was made as a sequel to (1969) Want to show your support for Sam & The Monday Afternoon Movie? Make sure to follow on the official Patreon page and pledge a few bucks if you are able. Show Links: Stacie Ponder's previous episode with Sam: Engineered & Produced by .
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FIVE DESPERATE WOMEN With Sarah Burns
Sam Pancake Presents the Monday Afternoon Movie
The Monday Afternoon Movie hiatus is officially over! Sam Pancake is back to recap and analyze your favorite made for TV movies and specials, in a way that only he can. He continues his march into 70's and 80's TV movie madess with Five Desperate Women, a 1971 ABC Movie of the Week starring Robert Conrad & Joan Hackett. To help Sam break down the plot for us, he's bringing back actor & comedian (of HBO's Enlightened & Barry). You may also remember her from the previous episode covering the John Travolta movie The Boy in the Plastic Bubble. Link below. Want to show...
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THE HOUSE WITHOUT A CHRISTMAS TREE with Lauren Graham
Sam Pancake Presents the Monday Afternoon Movie
What better Christmas present could Monday Afternoon Movie offer you than a holiday special with special guest ? Not only is she one of the titular Gilmore Girls, sheâs also a bona fide Christmas movie star in her own right as a result of starring in both Bad Santa and appearing in this yearâs The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. And sheâs also Samâs IRL bestie, and theyâre joining forces to discuss 1972âs THE HOUSE WITHOUT A CHRISTMAS TREE, starring Lisa Lucas and Jason Robards. Watch the film .
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THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY with Patty Schemel
Sam Pancake Presents the Monday Afternoon Movie
We donât like to brag on this podcast â we donât, we swear! â but presented for your holiday delight is possibly the best union of guest and subject matter weâve done so far: kickass drummer and the 1968 made-for-TV Christmas classic, The Little Drummer Boy. Yes, this is a non-scary episode of the podcast, unless you find the Rankin/Bass stop-motion animation slightly unsettling, and many of us do. Listen to Sam and Patty reminisce about the 90s, her days in the band Hole, drugs and also holiday TV. Watch the special .
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GHOSTWATCH with Roz Hernandez
Sam Pancake Presents the Monday Afternoon Movie
Welcome to a special Halloween edition of Monday Afternoon Movie, in which we discuss not a hilarious made-for-TV gem that is enjoyable on a camp level but instead a TV movie that is actually scary. We speak of GHOSTWATCH, a 1992 BBC broadcast that took many an at-home viewer by surprise when it first aired. To say too much would ruin a first-time viewing experience, so Sam â joined by returning guest ! â will not be giving away the whole plot. Instead, let their conversation inspire you to tune in for yourself. Happy Halloween! And BTW, you can watch this film yourself right now (and...
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THE NIGHT STRANGLER with Jack Plotnick
Sam Pancake Presents the Monday Afternoon Movie
A hero returns just when we need him most! Is it Darren McGavinâs Carl Kolchak? No! Itâs Sam Pancake, here to discuss the second of the Kolchak movies in which a host of crabby white men go on and on in the face of supernatural peril. This time, Sam is joined by professional funny-acting person , to discuss the highs and lows of the made-for-TV horror subgenre. Get even more Monday Afternoon Movie ! Follow Sam (formerly known as Twitter)
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LOOK WHAT'S HAPPENED TO ROSEMARY'S BABY with Stacie Ponder
Sam Pancake Presents the Monday Afternoon Movie
You might think that if anyone was going to follow up the iconic film Rosemary's Baby with further tales of the plucky Woodhouse family, they would do so with the skill and thoughtfulness that made the original so celebrated. Well, you woulnd't be correct, because the 1976 ABC TV movie LOOK WHAT'S HAPPENED TO ROSEMARY'S BABY tosses out the prestiga of the original for the wackadoo kookiness that you'd find in any made-for-TV horror flick of the era. Fortunately for Sam, his guest for the exploration of this sequel-that-should-not-be is none other than , of the celebrated Final Girl blog and...
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SCREAM, PRETTY PEGGY with Andrew Hopf
Sam Pancake Presents the Monday Afternoon Movie
Have you ever been watching reruns of That Girl and felt like Ted Bessell seemed too villainous to be playing Marlo Thomasâs boyfriend? If yes, then weâve got the movie for you. Originally airing in 1973, SCREAM, PRETTY PEGGY has Bessell starring opposite Bette Davis and Sian Barbara Allen in a thriller that sure wants to earn the adjective âHitchcockian.â Sam is joined by to discuss whether it earns it. Get even more Monday Afternoon Movie ! Follow Sam (formerly known as Twitter)
info_outlineSam Pancake and the amazing Gedde Watanabe are back for part two of their walkthrough of Angel Dusted, the NBC TV Special starring Jean Stapleton and Arthur Hill.
An affluent family's son begins to have violent outbursts while away at college and they soon discover that he has fallen into drugs, specifically the dangerous new trendy drug called PCP, otherwise known as Angel Dust.
Will parents Betty and Michael be able to reach their son in time to stop his descent into addiction? Will the young, hip Dr. Gideon's newfangled ways convince them to step out of their usual comfort zones to save him?
One thing is for sure, we are going to play a LOT of classic commercials from the era, and we will find out just how sexist advertisements were then.
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