Tag: Universal Monsters

FW Presents: Those Wonderful Toys Ep.14

August 30, 2021

Those Wonderful Toys returns with a lively conversation between Chris and Plaid Stallions maven Brian Heiler! Brian discusses his new Toy Ventures magazine and the return of his long out-of-print book, Rack Toys: Cheap, Crazed Playthings! Tangents along the way include !mpact Comics, Shazam!, The Monster Squad (not that one), Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends and A Man Called Sloane!

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“Royalty-Free 80s Music” by Dar Golan

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Super Mates 93: House of Franklin-Stein Part 3

October 12, 2020

The Super Mates keep it in the family by discussing the 1939 Universal Monsters Classic, Son of Frankenstein! Boris Karloff returns as the Frankenstein Monster, joined by an all-star cast featuring Basil Rathbone, Lionel Atwill, and a scene-stealing Bela Lugosi as Ygor!

Then, via time hypnosis (!) we travel to the past with Batman and Robin to discover “The True Story of Frankenstein” from Detective Comics #135 (May 1948) by Edmond Hamilton and Bob Kane!

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Son of Frankenstein (1939) directed by Rowland V. Lee, music by Frank Skinner

“The House of Franklinstein” by Terry O’Malley, of Stop Calling Me Frank https://rumbarrecords.bandcamp.com/album/haberdashed

“Frankenstein” by The Edgar Winter Group

“The Electric Brain” from Batman movie serial (1943) by Lee Zahler

Batman Main Title March (1966 movie) by Nelson Riddle

“House of Frankenstein” by Big Bee Kornegay

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Super Mates 91: House of Franklin-Stein Part 1

September 14, 2020

Return to the House of Franklin-Stein! The Super Mates begin hosting the Halloween party no one can cancel with a Universal Monsters classic! Lon Chaney Jr. stars in the horror noir, Son of Dracula…but is he the son of the Count, or the real deal? And just who is pulling the strings, the count, or his vampire bride?

Then it’s a bit of Saturday Morning Fever when Chris and Cindy discuss the Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends episode, “The Bride of Dracula”. Drac has his romantic sites set on Firestar! Can Spidey and Iceman save their roommate?

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    “The House of Franklinstein” by Terry O’Malley, of Stop Calling Me Frank

    “Without You” (from a DIFFERENT Son of Dracula) by Harry Nillson

    Clips and music from Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends’ “Bride of Dracula”, directed by Don Jurwich, theme and music by John Douglas

    “Transylvania Terror Train” by Captain Clegg and the Night Creatures

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Super Mates 82: House of Franklin-Stein Part 1

September 13, 2018

Come back to The House of Franklin-Stein! The spooks are after Bud & Lou…and Chris & Cindy! It’s an all-time classic: Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (and the Wolf Man, and Dracula!) With Chaney, Lugosi and Strange!

Then it’s over to the comic vault of horror to review Super Friends #28 (1979), featuring the World’s Greatest Super Heroes vs. a monster rally all their own: Solomon Grundy! Bizarro! Man-Bat! Etrigan the Demon! Swamp Thing!

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Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein directed by Charles T. Barton; music by Frank Skinner

Opening wedding march by Marc Shaiman from Addams Family Values

World’s Greatest Super Friends theme and incidental mustic by Hoyt Curtain

“(It’s A) Monster’s Holiday” by Buck Owens

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FW Presents: Those Wonderful Toys Ep.5

October 19, 2017

FW Presents a Halloween Treat! Chris takes a look at Remco’s line of Universal Mini-Monsters action figures from the 80s!

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“Toyland” by Doris Day

Audio clips from Spaceballs, Dracula (1931), Bride of Frankenstein, The Wolf Man (1941), Creature from the Black Lagoon, Mad Monster Party

“The Monster Mash” by Bobby “Boris” Pickett

“Frankenstein” by Edgar Winter

“Zombie Zoo” by Tom Petty

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Super Mates 76: House of Franklin-Stein Part 3

October 12, 2017

It’s a House Party! House of Franklin-Stein covers the Universal Monster Rally classic House of Dracula! The Wolf Man, Frankenstein’s Monster, and Dracula himself converge on the home of a kindly scientist, who soon becomes a Mad Doctor!

Then Chris & Cindy check out a spooky episode of the Super Friends, when the World’s Greatest Super Heroes succumb to the will of Dracula in “Attack of the Vampire”!

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House of Dracula directed by Erle C. Kenton; music by William Lava

Opening wedding march by Marc Shaiman from Addams Family Values

Music from Bride of Frankenstein by Franz Waxman

Music from The Wolf Man and Son of Dracula by Hans J. Salter

“Pencil Thin Mustache” by Jimmy Buffett

“Werwolves of London” by Warren Zevon

Super Friends: “Attack of the Vampire” directed by Ray Patterson and Carl Urbano. Music by Hoyt Curtain

Music from Scars of Dracula by James Bernard

“At the House of Frankenstein” by by Big Bob Kornegay

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Super Mates 74: House of Franklin-Stein Part 1

September 14, 2017

Welcome back to The House of Franklin-Stein! Chris and Cindy kick off their annual Halloween Horror event by taking a look at a genuine classic, 1954’s Creature From The Black Lagoon!

Then we hop ponds to Fantastic Four #97, where the FF encounters “The Monster from the Lost Lagoon” by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby!

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Creature from the Black Lagoon directed by Jack Arnold; music by Hans Salter, Henry Mancini and Harry Stein

Opening wedding march by Marc Shaiman from Addams Family Values

Fantastic Four (1967) animated series opening by Hoyt Curtain

Music from Fantastic Four (2005) and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer by John Ottman

“Batman, Wolfman, Frankenstein and Dracula” by The Diamonds

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Super Mates 60: House of Franklin-Stein Part 1

September 08, 2016

The House of Franklin-Stein has risen from the grave! Chris and Cindy revive their annual Halloween series focusing on a classic horror movie and a related comic! First up is Universal’s 1944 monster rally, House of Frankenstein, starring Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney, John Carradine and Glenn Strange! Then it’s monster mayhem, Jack Kirby-style in Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #142-143!

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House of Frankenstein directed by Erle C. Kenton; Music by Hans Salter

Opening wedding march by Marc Shaiman from Addams Family Values

“Batman, Wolfman, Frankenstein or Dracula” by The Diamonds

“At the House of Frankenstein” by Big Bob Kornegay

“We Built This City” by Starship

“Rock Until You Drop” by Michael Sembelo (from The Monster Squad)

“Jimmy Olsen’s Blues” by The Spin Doctors

Selected tracks from Superman: The Movie Soundtrack by John Williams

Superman animated theme by Shirley Walker

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