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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gomez" data-source="post: 1755198" data-attributes="member: 20204">Darn you beat me to it.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Oh well, here are Television shows with Lovecraftian influences. Night Gallery Each of the following vignettes are part of a single episode of the show. “Cool Air” (Episode 18) A young woman falls in love with a colleague of her dead father, who is dying in his very chilly home. Not a bad adaptation, despite the inclusion of a romantic element, but the ending mars the mood. “Miss Lovecraft Sent Me” (Episode 7) This mildly humourous short skit has no Lovecraftian elements, only using his name. “Pickman’s Model” (Episode 17) In Victorian Boston, a woman encounters an artist who paints ghouls. Like “Cool Air,” a romantic element is included, but it is the creature shown at the end that ruins the episode. “Professor Peabody’s Last Lecture” (Episode 14) Professor Peabody (Carl Reiner) spouts the names of many creatures in the “mythos.” His students include Mssrs. Bloch, Derleth, and Lovecraft. Although this episode is pretty silly, it is, again, the creature at the end that makes it especially laughable. “The Return of the Sorcerer” (Episode 29) Based on Clark Ashton Smith’s “mythos” story of the same name, this episode only manages to remain above average due to the performances of Vincent Price and Bill Bixby. The Real Ghostbusters Two episodes of this cartoon had Lovecraftian references. “Collect Call of Cthulhu” When the Necronomicon is stolen by some tentacled beast, the Ghostbusters are helped out by Dr. Alice Derleth from Arkham. Michael Reaves wrote the script for this episode. “Russian About” The Ghostbusters are in Russia attending a lecture when a magical grimoire is stolen and the Old Ones are unleashed. This episode was written by J. Michael Straczynski, the creator of “Babylon 5.”</blockquote>

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