Fellow Svengoolie Super SvenPals everywhere will be dancing for joy for a trifecta of three big broadcasts to celebrate Sven, Super SvenPals & Halloween!
Compilation trailer for Dan Curtis‘ classic mammoth ABC made-for-TV movie horror/thriller masterpiece, “Trilogy of Terror” (1975) with Karen Black. Sidebar: This snippet was originally prepared/licensed by ABC for the latter MPI Home Video VHS release (MPI had most home entertainment rights to select ABC-produced programs and ABC News programs/specials at the time). Viewer discretion is advised.
The legendary and iconic Berwyn/Chicago classic mammoth horror masterpiece film host will present his big broadcast premiere of “Trilogy of Terror” (1975) at a special time, this Sat.; Oct. 1 at 7 p.m. Eastern/6 p.m. Central on Me-TV.
Sven’s upcoming big broadcast premiere of of “Trilogy of Terror” (1975) will be part of Svengoolie’s month-long tribute to classic and cult classic mammoth horror/monster/sci-fi feature film masterpieces, Super SvenPals/Super Tooners and Halloween 2022, titled “Svengoolie’s Halloween BOOnanza” festival throughout the month of October on Me-TV! For the first installment of “Svengoolie’s Halloween BOOnanza ” on the evening of Oct. 1 and alongside Sven’s big broadcast premiere of “Trilogy of Terror” (1975); the upcoming Me-TV original documentary on the life and career of the legendary & iconic Svengoolie/Rich Koz; plus guest cameos from numerous fellow Super SvenPals/Super Tooners & highlights from Sven’s recent Berwyn/Chicago festivities, “Svengoolie: Uncrypted” (2022) will premiere that same evening at 9 p.m. Eastern/8 p.m. Central! Day #1 of Sven’s “Halloween BOOnanza” festival will conclude with the return of the Sven/”Toon In With Me” companion series, “Sventoonie” at 10 p.m. Eastern/9 p.m. Central!
“Trilogy of Terror” (1975) was directed by veteran television and feature film director-producer Dan Curtis. Curtis was best-known for producing and directing his classic mammoth gothic horror series masterpiece on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) television network, “Dark Shadows” (1966-71) with Jonathan Frid and Grayson Hall (also of 1972’s “Gargoyles” fame). Curtis also directed two classic mammoth Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) gothic horror feature film masterpiece adaptation of his ABC-TV “Dark Shadows” series; “House of Dark Shadows” (1970) with Frid and “Night of Dark Shadows” (1971).
Alongside “Trilogy of Terror” and his earlier “Dark Shadows” series, most of Curtis’ classic mammoth masterpiece TV productions aired on the ABC television network for the majority of his career. He also produced the classic mammoth ABC made-for-TV movie masterpiece production of John Llewellyn Moxey‘s “The Night Stalker” (1972) with Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, Carol Lynley, Claude Akins and Larry Linville of TV’s “M*A*S*H” fame; Curtis also directed the classic mammoth ABC “Kolchak” made-for-TV movie masterpiece sequel, “The Night Strangler” (1973) with McGavin, Oakland, Margaret Hamilton of 1939’s “The Wizard of Oz” fame, John Carradine, Al Lewis of “The Munsters” fame and Wally Cox. The two classic mammoth ABC made-for-TV “Kolchak” movie masterpieces inspired the latter classic mammoth Universal Studios/ABC TV supernatural masterpiece series “Kolchak: The Night Stalker” (1974-75) with McGavin and Oakland.
Curtis also directed the classic mammoth critically-acclaimed Emmy award-winning Paramount Pictures/ABC made-for-TV wartime drama masterpiece miniseries adaptation of Herman Wouk‘s “The Winds of War” (1983) with Robert Mitchum, Ali MacGraw, Ralph Bellamy, John Houseman, Topol, Polly Bergen and Peter Graves and a follow-up classic mammoth critically-acclaimed Emmy award-winning made-for-TV wartime drama masterpiece sequel miniseries adaptation that was produced entirely by ABC, Herman Wouk’s “War and Remembrance” (1988-89) with Mitchum, Bellamy, Topol, Bergen, Sami Frey, Robert Hardy, Jane Seymour and William Schallert.
The screenplay of Curtis’ classic mammoth 1975 ABC made-for-TV horror/thriller masterpiece production was written by veteran screenwriter William F. Nolan and was based off of several original story ideas by veteran screenwriter Richard Matheson. Nolan previously co-authored George Clayton Johnson‘s classic mammoth futuristic sci-fi thriller novel masterpiece that was later adapated by Michael Anderson for the classic mammoth Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) futuristic sci-fi/thriller masterpiece with Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Roscoe Lee Browne, Farrah Fawcett (Farrah Fawcett-Majors), Peter Ustinov and Richard Jordan; “Logan’s Run” (1976). Matheson previously wrote the screenplay for Jack Arnold’sclassic mammoth Universal sci-fi/fantasy/visual effects masterpiece, “The Incredible Shrinking Man” (1957) with Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent, Paul Langton, Raymond Bailey (of TV’s “The Beverly Hillbillies” fame) and William Schallert and also wrote 16 episodes of Rod Serling‘s classic mammoth CBS television sci-fi/thriller/supernatural/fantasy masterpiece series, “The Twilight Zone” (Matheson wrote for Serling’s series from 1959-64).
“Trilogy of Terror” (1975) originally aired on the ABC television network on March 4, 1975 as part of the network’s “Tuesday Movie of the Week”/”Movie of the Week” series of feature-length productions produced by the ABC television network, according to IMDB and an original 1975 ABC print ad for “Trilogy of Terror.” According to additional details from IMDB, Curtis’ classic mammoth made-for-TV thriller/horror masterpiece production was co-produced under the ABC television network’s in-house production unit, “ABC Circle Films” (which later became “ABC Productions,” which is now known as “ABC Studios“/”ABC Signature“).
According to a March 4, 1975 issue of The Gettysburg Times, ABC programmed “Trilogy of Terror” (1975) in-between an episode of “Happy Days” (titled “Fonzie Joins the Band”) and an episode of “Marcus Welby, M.D.” (titled “Dark Corridors”). During the original March 4, 1975 prime-time airing of the “ABC Tuesday Movie of the Week”/”Trilogy of Terror,” the alphabet network & Dan Curtis’ classic mammoth 1975 made-for-TV horror-thriller masterpiece was shown opposite an episode of “M*A*S*H” (titled “Payday”) and the First Annual “People’s Choice Awards” on CBS and the Columbia Pictures made-for-TV movie production of “The Last Survivors” (1975) on NBC.
For the original March 4, 1975 ABC airing of “Trilogy of Terror” (1975): Curtis’ classic mammoth made-for-TV horror/thriller masterpiece aired on ABC-owned WLS-TV in Berwyn/Chicago, Illinois and on a regional scale for the home region of “Silver Screen Reflections;” the original 1975 ABC showing of Curtis’ “Trilogy of Terror” aired on WMAL-TV 7 (which became WJLA-7 in 1977) ; which carried Me-TV in the Washington, D.C./Frederick, Maryland region from 2013-17) in the Washington, D.C./Frederick, Maryland area; ,WTPA-TV 27 (which became WHTM-27 in 1980) in the Gettysburg/Hanover/York/Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area and WJZ-TV Channel 13 (which later became affiliated with CBS after the 1995 Baltimore TV affiliation switch, CBS-owned since the 1996 Westinghouse/Group W-CBS merger) in the Baltimore, Maryland area. -C.H.
Who was in Dan Curtis’ “Trilogy of Terror” (1975)?
The players who appeared in Dan Curtis’ classic mammoth ABC made-for-TV horror/thriller masterpiece production of “Trilogy of Terror” (1975) were Karen Black (in the dual roles of Julie, Millicent, Therese and Amelia); Robert Burton (as Chad Foster), John Karlen (as Thomas Ammen), George Gaynes (as Dr. Chester Ramsey), Jim Storm (as Eddie Nells), Kathryn Reynolds (as Anne Richards), Orin Cannon (as a motel clerk), Gregory Harrison (as Arthur Moore), Tracy Curtis (as Tracy) and the vocal stylings of Walker Edmiston (for those who have not seen “Trilogy of Terror,” the writer/author of “Silver Screen Reflections” will not reveal what character Edmiston voiced in Curtis’ classic mammoth 1975 made-for-TV horror-thriller masterpiece). -C.H.
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