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Krel · Space Ranger Joined: 19 Feb 2023 Posts: 190

Roy Thinnes is David Norliss a occult investigator and debunker who is writing a new book debunking the occult, and it's practitioners.

After a prolonged absence, his best friend and publisher (Don Porter as Sanford T. Evans) goes to Norliss' home to check on him. He finds a number of cassette tapes and listens to the first tape.

The tape is about Norliss investigating an incident reported by Ellen Cort (Angie Dickinson), a widow who claims that she was attacked one night by her recently-deceased husband on their estate.

"The Norliss Tapes" was a TV pilot movie by Dan Curtis that didn't sell. Since it's broadcast, it's reputation has only grown. It has even had theatrical showings

I remember it being very spooky. I wish I could see it again.

David.

Bud Brewster · Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 7:35 pm Post subject:

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Well, gee whiz, David — I can easily grant that wish! Here's the YouTube video of the pilot you asked for. Very Happy

YouTube has several versions of the videos, but some of time are wacky Podcast with weird "host" who yank about the program.

Anyway, it sounds like an interesting series!

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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

Pow · Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2023 8:13 pm Post subject:

I well remember seeing this TV-movie back when it was originally broadcast in 1973. Found it quite scary; especially the scene where the raging creature is attempting to attack Roy Thinnes & Angie Dickinson who are in a car inside a garage and desperately trying to escape its clutches.

This made-for-television movie was also a pilot, but it wasn't picked up by the network. Working title: "Demon."

Dan Curtis produced & directed this production. Dan is well remembered for his other television projects such as Dark Shadows, the two 90-minute Kolchak TV-movies "The Night Stalker," "The Night Strangler," and the Kolchak: The Night Stalker tv series.

Filming for this movie took place in San Francisco & Monteray, California.

Hurd Hatfield (Charles Langdon) played the title character in the 1945 feature film The Picture of Dorian Gray which is based upon the classic novel by Oscar Wilde.

Gorgeous Michelle Carey plays Marsha Sterns in this television movie.