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Dave exits Discovery One in a pod to investigate. He appears to travel across vast distances of space and time through a “Star Gate,” a tunnel of colorful light and imagery and sound. After passing over the landscape of an alien world, Bowman arrives in a futuristic room containing Louis XVI-style decor [2]. As he walks about the room, he repeatedly sees himself at later stages of ageing, first in his spacesuit, then in an ornate dressing robe, sitting down to a well-appointed meal. The older Dave accidentally knocks his glass on the floor, smashing it and breaking the silence. Looking up from the broken glass, he sees himself lying on what appears to be his deathbed, at the foot of which appears a final monolith. Dave slowly reaches out to it and is transformed into a fetus-like being enclosed in a transparent orb of light — the “Star Child”.

The film suddenly returns to space near the Moon and Earth. Floating in space, the Star Child gazes at Earth.

HAL suggests another EVA mission to restore the part and wait for it to fail, to determine the problem. Hiding their concern, Dave and Frank retreat to a pod to discuss HAL’s questionable reliability in secret, finally agreeing to “disconnect” him should the AE-35 not fail, as HAL predicted. However, unbeknownst to them, HAL is reading their lips.

Frank exits in a pod to put back the original AE-35 as Dave watches from inside Discovery. While Frank is performing the EVA, HAL takes control of the empty pod, hurtles it at Frank and kills him, sending his body tumbling in space. Dave hurriedly exits the ship in another pod to rescue Frank, forgetting to bring his space helmet. While Dave is outside, HAL kills the three hibernating scientists by deactivating their life support systems.

Upon returning to the ship with Frank’s lifeless body, Dave is refused reentry into the ship by HAL. HAL reveals that he knows of Frank and Dave’s plan to disconnect him, and asserts that the mission is “too important” to allow Dave to jeopardize it. HAL terminates the conversation. After releasing Frank’s body, Dave opens an air lock, and activates the pod’s emergency hatch bolts. The explosive decompression propels him into the airlock, exposed to the vacuum of space without a helmet, but he manages to close and pressurize the airlock.

Safely inside the ship, Dave enters HAL’s ‘Logic Memory Center’. As HAL futilely attempts to negotiate with him, Dave proceeds to disconnect his higher brain functions. HAL pleads and protests his termination, slowly regresses to past memories, and finally falls silent. Suddenly, a pre-recorded video briefing by Dr. Floyd plays, explaining the true nature of the mission — to investigate the signal sent to Jupiter from the alien artifact on the Moon. Floyd discloses that the secret mission had been known only to HAL until the ship’s arrival in Jupiter space.

Over images of an African desert, a caption reads “The Dawn of Man”. A tribe of prehistoric ape-men is struggling to survive in the dry desert. One morning, a mysterious black rectangular monolith appears near their habitation and is nervously examined by the apes. Following this encounter, a lone ape-man (Daniel Richter) invents the first tool while scavenging through a pile of bones. The ape-man picks up a bone and plays with it, finally using it as a club to crush other bones. The ape-man who created the tool, now standing partially upright, leads the tribe in defense of their waterhole from another tribe, clubbing an enemy ape to death with the new-found weapon. The victorious ape-man throws his weapon into the air, at which point the film jumps forward to the future, in a match cut that links the tumbling bone to a man-made orbital satellite.

Here is the ending of Dr. Who and the opening of The Two Ronnies on WTTW Channel 11 in Chicago. Includes:

Marty Robinson voice over during credits: “We’ve all heard of the City by the Bay, the City in a Garden, the City of Angels, the Eternal City, the City of Light. All lovely and descriptive appellations. Next week, the Doctor and Romana will leave for a holiday in the City of Light, but will find instead… the City of Death.”

Nova promo - “The Case of ESP”

“Little People” special

WTTW Channel 11 ID

The Two Ronnies open

This aired on local Chicago Television on Sunday, July 15th 1984.

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INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1978)
CREEPY DOG WITH HUMAN HEAD!

The 1978 remake of the original 50s classic is undeservedly overlooked by many fans of horror. The tale, which taps in to the “who can you trust” paranoia famous in many films from The Thing to Alien, as an alien spore creates duplicate versions of people that will slowly take over the world. But this version throws a new twist not dreamed of in the original, by having an incredibly disturbing dog with a human head running about. This was done decades later in Tim Burton’s comedy “Mars Attacks!” with a hilarious effect, but its just so creepy and bizarre in this film, it’s nearly impossible to shake the goosebumps off. Thank God they removed the scene when he realizes he can lick places in his body that were previously impossible to reach!

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Planet of the Apes “re-imagined” as an episode of The Twilight Zone. Why?
Rod Serling, creator of The Twilight Zone, also co-wrote the screenplay for Planet of the Apes. Which is why the movie plays like a two-hour episode of the show, complete with social commentary and shock ending.
Thanks to digital video editing, someone was able to re-edit the movie as an episode of the show. Opening narration comes from the episode “Elegy.” Closing narration comes from “The Shelter.”

The original idea by Richard O’Brien for “Science Fiction/Double Feature” for The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The test audience reaction was negative and it was changed to feature the lips of Patricia Quinn lip-syncing to the song.

A machine with a doll face mimics images on television screen in search of a satisfactory visage. Doll Face presents a visual account of desires misplaced and identities fractured by our technological extension into the future.