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This i believe [memory serves me well] was a Canadian supernatural soap opera riding on the Dark Shadows wave around 1969 or so, I remember our local TV station in New York WNEW-TV- CH-5- METROMEDIA] showed it in early evening for a short period, before they took it off.Anyone remember this? Is it Lost now?
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This i believe [memory serves me well] was a Canadian supernatural soap opera riding on the Dark Shadows wave around 1969 or so, I remember our local TV station in New York WNEW-TV- CH-5- METROMEDIA] showed it in early evening for a short period, before they took it off.Anyone remember this? Is it Lost now?
Yes I do, I seem to recall that someone put it out on VHS sometime ago.
FYI, the show featured the early work of Composer ARTHUR B. RUBINSTEIN who composed the original music for the series.
Ford A. Thaxton
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This aired as recently as 2007 on the 'Drive-In' channel in Canada. It may have run beyond that but I cancelled my extended cable package that year so it may in fact still be on the air. It was very trippy. I immediately liked this show. Reminded me lot of I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE .
I recall that the music was very good but I dont think I ever saw a composer credit. I had assumed it was canned library music. It had a very cool voodoo drum main title.
No one I have ever talked to has ever heard of it.
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This i believe [memory serves me well] was a Canadian supernatural soap opera riding on the Dark Shadows wave around 1969 or so, I remember our local TV station in New York WNEW-TV- CH-5- METROMEDIA] showed it in early evening for a short period, before they took it off.Anyone remember this? Is it Lost now?
"Strange Paradise" was produced in Canada, and aired in syndication on Metromedia's owned television stations.
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There was a fire at a television station a couple of years ago in Ottawa. A lot of older shows that had been stored on the site were lost. Hopefully STANGE PARADISE wasn't one of them. The newspaper article did mention that all the episodes of THE AMAZING WORLD OF KRESKIN (1972) had been lost. - Now who will believe that I used to watch a talk show about a psychic with enormous bell-bottom pants and enormous sideburns? They'll think I made that up.
I'm still trying to track down episodes of the old PIERRE BERTON SHOW. I'm sure that would have been mentioned had it been lost in the fire as he's considered a national treasure. A grainy interview with Bruce Lee is available from a variety of sources. I'm looking for his interview with cryptozoologist Ivan T. Sanderson. Supposedly, the show featured the long-lost but widely-rumored/believed/remembered-to-have-been-seen, thunderbird photograph of a reputed pteranodon shot in Texas.
Everyone seems to remember seeing that photograph, yet in the days before cheap and easy access to copying and duplication machines, a single copy of the photograph could easily be lost. It has become it's own urban myth now.
Musically Texas pteranodons have been evoked by Jerome Moross for THE VALLEY OF GWANGI, and Alan Hawkshaw for ARTHUR C. CLARKE'S MYSTERIOUS WORLD.
Alan Hawkshaw played the groovey organ music on the AMAZING SPIDER-MAN cartoon in 1967 according to Bill Martin one of the composers.
Well that was a sort of unfocused, stream-of consciousness post. What was the question?
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There was a fire at a television station a couple of years ago in Ottawa. A lot of older shows that had been stored on the site were lost. The newspaper article did mention that all the episodes of THE AMAZING WORLD OF KRESKIN (1972) had been lost. - Now who will believe that I used to watch a talk show about a psychic with enormous bell-bottom pants and enormous sideburns? They'll think I made that up.
Paul,
I remember this series. It was shown by ITV back in the mid to late 70s.
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That is a real shame about that fire, i remember when i was a kid watching Kreskin, you would think people would used common sense and stored certain things in more then one place in case of such incidents.
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Maljardin.
French for 'unhealthy garden'. Similar to the town of Le Morte Rouge 'the Red Death' in SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE SCARLET CLAW. Why people move to places with names like that is beyond me. They're just asking for trouble.
Those home buyer brochures should mention avoiding such named places. Although.... there was that possessed pig on the pastorally named GREEN ACRES.
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This i believe [memory serves me well] was a Canadian supernatural soap opera riding on the Dark Shadows wave around 1969 or so, I remember our local TV station in New York WNEW-TV- CH-5- METROMEDIA] showed it in early evening for a short period, before they took it off.Anyone remember this? Is it Lost now?
"Strange Paradise" was produced in Canada, and aired in syndication on Metromedia's owned television stations. Many of the writers from "Dark Shadows" worked on the series.
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Ford, do you know if Arthur Rubenstein composed the exotica track used for the opening and closing? The graphics credit only "Score Productions, Inc."
At 1:10 there is also the credit "Music: Bill Matthews."
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