June 16, 2024 — B-Movie Guru Brian Walker

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🗓️ 16 June 2024

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Now with better audio and fewer ads: Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear as Gene and cohost Tim Swartz welcome back Brian Walker, the creator and webmaster of Brian’s Drive-In Theater, where he’s been keeping memories of drive-in films and their stars alive since February 1, 1998. On the agenda: low budget (B-movie) fare, particularly serials featuring super heroes and other popular characters. He also talks about the sad histories of some of the stars that never quite realized their full potential, and others, such as George Reeves (“Adventures of Superman”), whose lives ended tragically. Brian’s love of films began in childhood with his first Super 8mm projector given to him by his grandmother who also bought him his first film, a four-minute excerpt of a W.C. Fields comedy. Over the last 50 years, he has assembled a film collection from such genres as horror and science fiction, comedy, and action. Currently calling Morgantown, West Virginia home, Brian is fortunate to live in proximity of a number of still-operating drive-in theaters in the southwestern Pennsylvania area and loves taking his convertible to the drive-in during the warm summer months.

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0:00.0	You're in the Paracast. You're in the Paracast, the gold standard of paranormal radio.
0:28.2	And now, here's Gene Steinberg.
0:32.6	So, folks, what I was doing for the past few days when I had spare time was to go onto YouTube
0:39.1	and watch videos of old movie serials, like for example, Zombies of the Stratosphere
0:46.2	from your public pictures around 1952 or 53. What is notable about it? Well, one of the aliens
0:54.1	is portrayed by Leonard Nimoy.
0:57.4	So when people think that Spock was the first alien he played,
1:01.7	no, it was this unnamed character in that movie.
1:05.8	And also, it featured Judd Haldrun, who had played Commando Cody,
1:19.9	and Captain Video, as a guy named Larry Martin, which makes no sense to me because in the next movie he puts on a mask and says, I am Commando Cody.
1:24.7	If we want to find consistency in plots, that's not the way to do it. But talking about pop culture, classic movies, movie serials, westerns, whatever,
1:31.1	Brian Walker is the driving guy to join us.
1:34.1	How are you doing, Brian?
1:35.7	I am well today.
1:36.7	How are you, Gene?
1:38.1	Oh, enjoying all that junk.
1:41.0	Do you ever sit down and watch a movie serial straight through chapter by chapter
1:45.4	by chapter? Well, actually, I have done that many times. I think the one that I can recall,
1:54.3	the first one that I ever watched from beginning to end was Crash Corrigan's Undersea Kingdom.
1:59.7	Funny story about that one, too.
2:01.4	I actually streamed it.
2:02.8	It was probably the first serial I ever streamed.
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