sixties

Everybody knows I am a huge Carol Lynley fan so I was thrilled when Warner Bros. Archive recently released Once You Kiss a Stranger (1969) starring Carol as a psychotic heiress on DVD-on-Demand. Click here to read the Cinema Retro magazine review and pick up a copy of their prior issue featuring my tribute article on the movie.

In 1972 as a favor to her friend and Malibu neighbor Larry Hagman making his directorial debut, Carol Lynley guest starred as Blob food in the cheesy horror comedy with a hippie beat Beware! The Blob a.k.a. Son of Blob. Hagman also got such notable actors as Godfrey Cambridge, Burgess Meredith, and Shelley Berman to do bits as victims of the Blob while Robert Walker had the Steve McQueen role as the hero.

It was nice that Carol was loyal to her friend but after just turning down a role in Five Easy Pieces this was not a good career move. Hopefully, she got a boat load of money for it. Thankfully, she did The Night Stalker and The Poseidon Adventure next.

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I watched the Pioneers of Television: Science Fiction last night on PBS and highly recommend it. The show paid tribute to such 60s classics as Star Trek, Irwin Allen’s Lost in Space and The Time Tunnel, and delved into the history and making of these shows. What was great that they interviewed Drive-in Dream Girl Marta Kristen, Angela Cartwright, Billy Mumy, Nichelle Nichols, and Lee Meriwhether besides the obvious William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, among others. Hell they even showed a photo of our Francine York as the Noble Niolani singling her out as one of Lost in Space‘s memorable aliens!