Week of October 26-November 1, 2018

Here are your consolidated listings for the week for Comet TV, MeTV, and TCM. Click links to read more on classichorrors.club. Movie descriptions provided by IMDb.

Friday, October 26

4:00 PM Comet TV Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter (1966)
Legendary outlaw of the Old West Jesse James, on the run from Marshal MacPhee, hides out in the castle of Baron Frankenstein’s granddaughter Maria, who proceeds to transform Jesse’s slow-witted pal Hank into a bald zombie, which she names Igor.

9:00 PM Comet TV Night of the Living Dead (1968)
There is panic throughout the nation as the dead suddenly come back to life. The film follows a group of characters who barricade themselves in an old farmhouse in an attempt to remain safe from these bloodthirsty, flesh-eating monsters.

11:00 PM Comet TV House of the Long Shadows (1983)
An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet: can he write a classic novel like “Wuthering Heights” in twenty-four hours?

11:30 PM MeTV The Twilight Zone
The Big Tall Wish

Saturday, October 27

12:00 AM MeTV Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Place of Shadows

12:30 AM MeTV Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Perfect Murder

1:00 AM Comet TV Snowbeast (1977)
A Colorado ski resort is besieged by a sub-human beast that commits brutal murders on the slopes.

3:00 AM TCM The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)
In a turn-of-the-century Renaissance Italian mansion, its tyrannical owner, a one-handed, wheelchair-bound pianist, with a strong belief in the occult, is murdered.

5:00 AM TCM The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)
A mysterious circus comes to a western town bearing wonders and characters that entertain the inhabitants and teach valuable lessons.

12:00 PM Comet TV The Devil Bat (1940)
A mad scientist develops an aftershave lotion that causes his gigantic bats to kill anyone who wears it.

1:15 PM TCM Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1941)
Dr. Jekyll allows his dark side to run wild when he drinks a potion that turns him into the evil Mr. Hyde.

1:30 PM Comet TV The Vampire Bat (1933)
When corpses drained of blood begin to show up in a European village, vampirism is suspected to be responsible.

5:00 PM TCM The Power (1968)
One by one members of a special project team are being killed by telekinesis – the ability to move things with the power of the mind alone.

6:00 PM MeTV Wonder Woman
Death in Disguise

7:00 PM MeTV Svengoolie: 13 Ghosts (1960)
A family inherits what proves to be a haunted house, but a special pair of goggles allows them to see their ghostly tormentors.

TCM Primetime: Ghostly Encounters

7:00 PM TCM The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (1947)
In 1900, a young widow finds her seaside cottage is haunted…and forms a unique relationship with the ghost.

9:00 PM TCM The Ghost & Mr. Chicken (1966)
Luther Heggs aspires to be a reporter for his small town newspaper, the Rachel Courier Express.

9:00 PM Comet TV Space: 1999
Journey to Where

9:00 PM MeTV Lost in Space
The Deadly Games of Gamma 6

10:00 PM MeTV Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Return of the Fightin 69th

10:15 PM Comet TV Space: 1999
Taybor

11:00 PM MeTV Battlestar Galactica
War of the Gods: Part 2

Sunday, October 28

12:00 AM MeTV Kolchak: The Night Stalker
They Have Been, They Are, The Will Be

12:30 AM TCM House of Dark Shadows (1970)
Vampire Barnabas Collins is accidentally released from his centuries-long confinement at his family’s estate in Maine.

2:30 AM TCM Night of Dark Shadows (1971)
A painter and his wife move into a home and find themselves plagued by ghosts and spirits of his ancestors that used to be witches.

1:00 AM MeTV Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
The Peacemaker

2:00 AM MeTV Land of the Giants
The Secret City of Limbo

3:00 AM MeTV Swamp Thing
The Death of Dr. Arcane

3:30 AM MeTV Swamp Thing
Legend of the Swamp Maiden

4:30 AM TCM Black Cats & Broomsticks (1955)
This short film examines the role in mid-20th century America of superstitions, personal rituals, taboos, talismans, and the black arts.

2:00 PM Comet TV Night of the Living Dead (1968)
There is panic throughout the nation as the dead suddenly come back to life. The film follows a group of characters who barricade themselves in an old farmhouse in an attempt to remain safe from these bloodthirsty, flesh-eating monsters.

TCM Monster of the Month: The Mummy

7:00 PM TCM The Mummy’s Shroud (1967)
In 1920 an archaeological expedition discovers the tomb of an ancient Egyptian child prince.

9:00 PM TCM Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb (1971)
An archaeological expedition brings back to London the coffin of an Egyptian queen known for her magical powers.

9:00 PM Comet TV Space: 1999
Rules of Luton

10:00 PM MeTV Night Gallery
The Ring with the Red Velvet Ropes

10:15 PM Comet TV Space: 1999
Mark of Archanon

10:30 PM MeTV Night Gallery
Somethign in the Woodwork

11:30 PM Comet TV Transatlantic Tunnel (1935)
A Team of International Scientists and engineers attempts to build a tunnel under the ocean.

11:00 PM MeTV The Twilight Zone
On Thursday We Leave for Home

Monday, October 29

12:00 AM MeTV Alfred Hitchcock Presents
There Was an Old Woman

12:30 AM MeTV Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Whodunit

3:00 AM TCM Diabolique (1955)
The wife and mistress of a loathed school principal hatch a plan to murder him while having the perfect alibi.

4:00 AM MeTV Night Gallery
Death on a Barge

4:30 AM MeTV Night Gallery
Whisper

5:30 AM TCM The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
The young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed befriends her father’s dead first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.

6:45 AM TCM The Bad Seed (1956)
A housewife suspects that her seemingly perfect eight year-old daughter is a heartless killer.

9:00 AM TCM Children of the Damned (1964)
Six impossibly intelligent children from all over the world with dangerous psychic powers hide in a church in England after the military tries to experiment on them.

10:45 AM TCM Village of the Damned (1960)
In the English village of Midwich, the blonde-haired, glowing-eyed children of uncertain paternity prove to have frightening powers.

12:00 PM Comet TV House on Haunted Hill (1959)
A millionaire offers $10,000 to five people who agree to be locked in a large, spooky, rented house overnight with him and his wife.

12:15 PM TCM What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.

2:00 PM Comet TV House of the Long Shadows (1983)
An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet: can he write a classic novel like “Wuthering Heights” in twenty-four hours?

2:45 PM TCM Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.

5:15 PM TCM The Nanny (1965)
There’s just something not quite right when Bette Davis stars as an English nanny. And is her 10-year-old charge an emotionally disturbed murderer or just an insolent brat?

TCM Primetime: 200 Years of Frankenstein!

7:00 PM TCM Island of Lost Souls (1932)
An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.

8:15 PM TCM Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1931)
Dr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that transforms him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde.

10:00 PM TCM Mad Love (1935)
In France, an insane surgeon’s obsession with an actress from England leads him to replace her pianist husband’s hands that got mangled in an accident with the hands of a late knife murderer.

11:15 PM TCM The Fly (1958)
A scientist has a horrific accident when he tries to use his newly invented teleportation device.

11:30 PM MeTV The Twilight Zone
A Nice Place to Visit

Tuesday, October 30

12:00 AM MeTV Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Help Wanted

12:30 AM MeTV Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Portrait of Jocelyn

1:00 AM Comet TV Creature from the Haunted Sea (1954)
A crook decides to bump off members of his inept crew and blame their deaths on a legendary sea creature. What he doesn’t know is that the creature is real.

3:15 AM TCM The Frozen Dead (1966)
A crazed scientist keeps the heads of Nazi war criminals alive until he can find appropriate bodies on which to attach them so he can revive the Third Reich.

4:30 AM MeTV Night Gallery
The Doll of Death

5:00 AM TCM Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1920)
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.

6:15 AM TCM The Magician (1926)
A magician/alchemist, seeking to create life, finds that he needs the “blood of a virgin” to continue his experiments. He sends out his dwarf assistant to pick out the right girl.

7:45 AM TCM The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936)
An ordinary man suddenly finds that anything he says comes true. Or at least, almost anything!

9:15 AM TCM The Devil-Doll (1936)
An escaped convict uses miniaturized humans to wreak vengeance on those that framed him.

10:45 AM TCM The Mysterious Island (1929)
On a volcanic island near the kingdom of Hetvia rules Count Dakkar, a benevolent leader and scientist who has eliminated class distinction among the island’s inhabitants

12:30 PM TCM Doctor X (1932)
A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist’s quest to unmask The Moon Killer.

2:00 PM TCM The Return of Doctor X (1939)
A hotshot reporter and a young doctor team up to investigate a series of grisly murders and a mysterious sample of synthetic blood.

3:15 PM TCM King Kong (1933)
A film crew goes to a tropical island for an exotic location shoot and discovers a colossal ape who takes a shine to their female blonde star.

5:15 PM TCM Things to Come (1936)
The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.

Bowery Boys Horror

7:00 PM TCM Ghost Chasers (1951)
A ghost helps the Bowery Boys capture a gang of crooks led by a mad doctor.

8:30 PM TCM The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters (1954)
Slip, Sach and the rest of the Bowery Boys enter a haunted house, where they engage in slapstick with the Gravesend Family which has one Creepy Butler, 2 Mad Scientists a crazy old woman.

9:45 PM TCM Spook Busters (1946)
The Bowery Boys–Slip, Sach, Bobby, Whitey & Chuck–start their own exterminating service, and get a job which takes them to a spooky old abandoned mansion in the middle of the night.

11:15 PM TCM Spook Chasers (1957)
The gang gets stuck during a thunderstorm in a spooky mansion, where they run into ghosts, gorillas and various “apparitions.”

11:30 PM MeTV The Twilight Zone
Nightmare as a Child

Wednesday, October 31

12:00 AM MeTV Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Orderly World of Appleby

12:30 AM MeTV Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Never Again

12:30 AM TCM Master Minds (1949)
When Sach eats too much sugar, he goes into a trance whereby he’s able to predict the future.

1:30 AM Comet TV The Vampire Bat (1933)
When corpses drained of blood begin to show up in a European village, vampirism is suspected to be responsible.

1:45 AM TCM Night of the Living Dead (1968)
There is panic throughout the nation as the dead suddenly come back to life. The film follows a group of characters who barricade themselves in an old farmhouse in an attempt to remain safe from these bloodthirsty, flesh-eating monsters.

3:30 AM TCM Plague of the Zombies (1966)
Young workers are dying because of a mysterious epidemic in a little village in Cornwall. Doctor Thompson is helpless and asks professor James Forbes for help.

4:30 AM MeTV Night Gallery
Hatred Unto Death/How to Cure the Common Vampire

5:00 AM TCM Hands of a Stranger (1962)
A concert pianist loses his hands in a car crash, but a surgeon gives him new ones. The experimental medical procedure goes awry when the new hands drive the pianist mad.

6:30 AM TCM Dementia 13 (1963)
A scheming widow hatches a daring plan to get her hands on her late husband’s inheritance, unbeknownst to her that she is targeted by an axe-wielding murderer.

8:00 AM TCM Cat People (1942)
An American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland’s fables if they are intimate together.

9:15 AM TCM Carnival of Souls (1962)
After a traumatic accident, a woman becomes drawn to a mysterious abandoned carnival.

10:45 AM TCM Spirits of the Dead (1968)
Anthology film from three European directors based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe.

1:00 PM TCM From Beyond the Grave (1974)
An anthology of four short horror stories revolving around a British antique shop and its mysterious owner.

3:00 PM TCM Black Sabbath (1963)
Boris Karloff hosts a trio of horror stories concerning a stalked call girl, a patriarch who has become a vampire-like monster, and a nurse who is haunted by her ring’s rightful owner.

5:00 PM TCM Dead of Night (1945)
An architect senses impending doom as his half-remembered recurring dream turns into reality. The guests at the country house encourage him to stay as they take turns telling supernatural stories.

TCM Primetime: Vincent Price!

7:00 PM TCM House of Wax (1953)
An associate burns down a wax museum with the owner inside, but he survives only to become vengeful and murderous.

8:45 PM TCM Pit & the Pendulum (1961)
In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister’s death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.

9:00 PM Comet TV Nosferatu (1922)
Vampire Count Orlok express interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter’s wife.

10:15 PM TCM The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the “Red Death” plague that stalks the land.

11:00 PM Comet TV The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Hypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders.

11:30 PM MeTV The Twilight Zone
A Stop at Willoughby

Thursday, November 1

12:00 AM MeTV Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Gentlemen from America

12:00 AM TCM House on Haunted Hill (1958)
A millionaire offers $10,000 to five people who agree to be locked in a large, spooky, rented house overnight with him and his wife.

12:30 AM MeTV Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Baby Sitter

12:30 AM Comet TV The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
A mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer.

1:30 AM TCM Theatre of Blood (1973)
A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.

3:30 AM TCM The Last Man on Earth (1964)
When a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter.

4:30 AM MeTV Night Gallery
I Do Not Belong to the Human World

5:00 AM TCM Mighty Joe Young (1949)
A young woman who has raised a giant gorilla from an infant brings him to Hollywood years later seeking her fortune in order to save her family’s ranch.

6:45 AM TCM The Valley of Gwangi (1969)
Cowboy James Franciscus seeks fame and fortune by capturing a Tyrannosaurus Rex living in the Forbidden Valley and putting it in a Mexican circus.

8:30 AM TCM 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
A space-opera spanning the dawn of man to humanity reaching the stars.

11:15 AM TCM One Million Years B.C. (1966)
Prehistoric man Tumak is banished from his savage tribe and meets pretty Loana who belongs to a gentler coastal tribe but he must fight caveman Payto to win her favors.

12:30 PM Comet TV The Devil Bat (1940)
A mad scientist develops an aftershave lotion that causes his gigantic bats to kill anyone who wears it.

2:00 PM Comet TV Creature from the Haunted Sea (1954)
A crook decides to bump off members of his inept crew and blame their deaths on a legendary sea creature. What he doesn’t know is that the creature is real.

4:00 PM Comet TV J.D.’s Revenge (1976)
A docile black law student is possessed by a 1940s mobster in mid-1970s New Orleans.

11:30 PM MeTV The Twilight Zone
The Chaser

Friday, November 2 (Early AM)

12:00 AM MeTV Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Belfry

12:30 AM MeTV Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Hidden Thing