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 Posted:   May 12, 2025 - 8:07 AM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

Continuing SEASON 4:




October 6, 1985 (2)
"Original Music": Williams Kraft
https://www.bitchute.com/video/l1vBP9CDWYDu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAsElRy7Lec (first episode of this multi-episode load) (in Spanish?)

This is the final effort by Kraft for the series.

Highlights:
  • 16:37 in.
  • 19:57 in.
  • 23:18 in.
  • 28:56 in.
  • 33:19 in.
  • 37:07 in.
  • 38:37 in.
  • 42:26 in.
  • 43:51/44:22 in.

    Believe it or not:

    Find out how safety engineers stage crashes to test equipment that could save your life, take a ride with an unusual collector who goes out of his way to collect junk mail, share a young boy's joy as computerized techniques help him overcome a disabling disease, be an audience member at a bizarre Japanese game show were you sit in a tank with snakes and eat horrible things, take a walk with an amputee fitted with a remarkable new leg, allow Marie Osmond to introduce you to the participants in a most unusual contest, testing motorcycle/race car helmets, aides for the disabled so they can bowl, take a walk through an odd house with such designs as doors that go nowhere, see a vast collection of windmills collected by the King of Windmills, and finally step threw St. Paul's Cathedral -- a church with only a front.


    As this is Kraft's final effort for the series, I feel I must note that sadly, it appears none of his scoring is in the Kraft Finding Aide Collection:
    https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6x0nb4dp/entire_text/

    This is the only episode to actually name a co-star in the opening preview.

    Just try to not wear your seatbelt after watching this.

    Cut away trivia:

    "The albatross can fly for six days without beating its wings, and sometimes even goes to sleep in mid-air."

    "Although far from any river, fresh fish are caught in the water holes of the Sahara desert."

    "In the late 1780s, a performing pig in England became a sensation by solving mathematical problems."

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     Posted:   May 16, 2025 - 7:37 AM   
     By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

    Continuing SEASON 4:




    October 13, 1985
    "Original Music": Ken Harrison
    https://www.bitchute.com/video/KwtmMk0itzFg (missing opening) (link used)
    https://ok.ru/video/3898508577327 (missing opening and theme music)

    This is the only effort for the series by Harrison.

    Highlights:
  • 9:10 in.
  • 15:22/17:27 in.
  • 21:47 in.
  • 24:34/26:42/27:35 in.
  • 36:44 in.
  • 40:21 in.

    Believe it or not:

    A business that bronzes baby shoes and other items people want preserved, sort along with employees in the dead-letter office of the New York General Post Office, make an appointment to buy expensive shoes at Lobb -- one of the oldest and strangest shoe stores around, the portable pollen and smoke remover, a little boy born with no immune system that lives in a plastic bubble, a new therapy for kidney stones, optical fibers at AT&T, a simple invention that propels ships at sea using the sea, surplus energy created with expired and tossed candy, see the longest mural in the world -- depicting the history of Los Angeles, stilt dancing to appease a patron Saint, see the symbolic ritual of mating and sexuality involving giant straw ropes in Japan, and finally take a look at a car shredder.


    While aired as a season four episode, this is clearly from late season two/early season three and not aired originally. Reasoning: the old theme music, and the stilt dancers were seen in some of the opening credits for season three. Why this episode did not originally air when made, I have no idea.

    Since this episode, the Great Wall of Los Angeles has been flooded five times and is eroding away, to the point you can't just go see it the way Jack did. While a historical landmark, it is now a costly financial issue, facing $1.3 million dollars in repairs and refurbishing, which so far has not been ponied up.

    Cut away trivia:

    "Scientists have combined the cells of a tomato and a cow to create the first vegetable that is also part animal."

    "A parade in Sri Lanka features fifty richly decorated elephants in a celebration to honor a tooth of Buddha."

    "To protect a valuable ring, a jeweler displayed it inside an aquarium filled with deadly piranha fish."

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     Posted:   May 19, 2025 - 8:08 AM   
     By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

    Continuing SEASON 4:




    October 27, 1985 (4.4)
    "Original Music": John Cacavas
    https://ok.ru/video/3898810239535 (missing opening)
    https://www.bitchute.com/video/rC1aj9Ct0uj7 (same load)
    Alternative link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAsElRy7Lec (second episode of this multi-episode load; maybe beginning at 41:57 in) (in Spanish?)

    Highlights:
  • 6:16 in.
  • 9:47 in.
  • 12:25 in.
  • 15:06 in.
  • 25:07 in.
  • 28:17 in.
  • 36:49 in.
  • 39:42 in.
  • 41:37 in.
  • 42:38 in.

    Believe it or not:

    How conducting an orchestra proved to be fatal for one composer, listen to John Cage's work 4'33", "artists" who chained themselves with a rope for a year, see sculptors of workers, read along with the 1920's rules of operating an aircraft, testing of aircraft safety, crashing a passenger plane to test new ideas for safety, studying the 2,000 year old "man in the box", a hospital for horses in Pennsylvania, an artificial leg for a horse, training Magpie birds to eat an infestation, and finally take a photo with a llama in New York.


    Cut away trivia:

    "Abstract artist Niki de Saint Phalle transforms objects into works of art, by firing a shotgun at them."

    "To test toilets, a New Jersey company installed 60 in an 11-story tower and flushed them all at once."

    "In England, during the late 1500's, women who adorned themselves with wigs and makeup were subject to punishment as witches."

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     Posted:   May 23, 2025 - 9:09 AM   
     By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

    Continuing SEASON 4:




    November 10, 1985 (4.5)
    Composer: Craig Safan
    https://www.bitchute.com/video/5j5ikMP1X68l (missing ending)

    Highlights:
  • 4:15 in.
  • 9:26 in.
  • 14:14 in.
  • 18:17 in.
  • 21:09 in.
  • 23:27/25:27/25:56/26:28/31:26 in.
  • 43:49 in.

    Believe it or not:

    Search your pocket change for valuable coins, study the mystery of the Mississippi Indians, rent a crypt in a wall for dead relatives, go inside Russia for a rare look at how cosmonauts are working and living in space, take a tour a macabre museum on Mexico where mummies are the star attraction, journey inside the human body with medicine's newest diagnostic model, discover how disabled children learn to use an electronic hand, beat out a rhythm with a musician who teaches drums how to talk, witness a remarkable operation that re-connected a little girls' severed legs, play a musical instrument made out of an otherwise ordinary barbeque grill, tape a video will in Germany that is like a television production (even scored), have your remains put into orbit by Celestus I in Florida, unravel te mystery of the sound of a stratovarious violin, and finally take a look inside a museum with pictures found on stones and more as well as hidden numbers.


    Due to well over a decade of constant tinkering by Google to remove search results they don't like, down play others, hide things altogether, and promote first websites that display on iPhone, it's become increasingly hard to find information with that search engine, even things you would think they wouldn't hide, so as a result, I was unable to find out if Celestus I launched and if the company is still in business.

    Cut away trivia:

    "A recent study has revealed that some 30% of all office workers suffer from cyberphobia, the fear of computers."
    (man -- that's not a thing anymore!)

    "To provide raw material for anti-venom vaccine, Russ Lambert of Toledo, Ohio, captures and sells live wasps."

    "Some of the first automobiles were decorated with horses heads to prevent frightening real horses."


    NO USABLE ENGLISH LOAD FOUND.

    November 17, 1985
    Composer: John Cacavas
    REGION BLOCKED: https://youtube.com/watch?v=OrfuGcoNL10 (English) (supposedly not blocked in Somaliland)
    Alternative link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPmzZrSSElk (fourth episode of this multi-episode load; begins 1:27:47 in -- incomplete) (in Spanish?)

    Believe it or not:

    TEXT


    Cut away trivia:

    "The teeth of a vampire bat is so sharp, it can bite into a sleeping victim without being detected."

    "A volcanic flow near Bend, Oregon created a river of obsidian glass 1 1/2 miles long."

    "When angered the male sea elephant inflates its nose until it is 20 inches long."
    (Oh, thank goodness it said "Nose"...)

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     Posted:   May 27, 2025 - 9:08 AM   
     By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

    Continuing SEASON 4:




    NO LOAD FOUND.


    November 24, 1985 (4.7)
    Composer: John Cacavas

    Believe it or not:

    A deadly underwater snake attack. A medical facility in Soviet Russia where five surgeons perform a hundred operations a day. Playing with fire in India. The world's [then] largest television screen in Japan. A contest involving tens of thousands of bees for beards made of bees. Thousand year-old eggs being eaten in Hong Kong. An emergency operation on a baby born with no connection from his mouth to his stomach. A man who lifts two tons in sixty seconds in Spain. And a deeper look inside the human eye.


    Cut away trivia:

    "At La Crosse, Wisconsin, the bridge across the Mississippi river was forced to close by gigantic swarms of invading flies."

    "The New York site occupied by St. Patricks cathedral was sold to the church in 1857 for only one dollar."

    "Some superstitious Hong Kong drivers are paid more than $44,000 for lucky number license plates."




    December 1, 1985 (4.8)
    "Original Music": Arthur Kempel
    https://ok.ru/video/3898509822511
    https://www.bitchute.com/video/T9LMAizwxGNU

    Highlights:
  • 14:07 in.
  • 16:49 in.
  • 22:59 in.
  • 33:59/35:09 in.
  • 38:04 in.
  • 41:26 in.


    Believe it or not:

    The upset over the painting September Morn', bump around in bumper cars, ride around in monster trucks, take a ride to the Temple of Safe Driving in Japan, watch as a giant metal spike is driven through and old gas-guzzling automobile for performance art, mastering written Chinese in Japan by a man writing poems ... on grains of rice without looking at his work in progress, discover the way Benjamin Franklin wanted everyone to write in English, see a man who has been keeping his commentary on life in a written diary since he was 16 years old, take a look at a skeletal building structure covered in books, the Royal Marines training in Great Britain, a Japanese artists who creates amazing celestial photographs ... made with food, how the famous painting of The Last Supper nearly did not survive history, and finally six English ravens who keep England from falling.


    The restoration of The Last Super was apparently completed in 1999: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation-Restoration_of_Leonardo_da_Vinci%27s_The_Last_Supper

    Cut away trivia:

    "One of the first record players, the gramophone, looked like a sewing machine, you played it with your feet."

    "A computer chip, the size of a sugar cube, could contain all the information in the library of congress."

    "In the ancient cities of France, human skulls were installed in stone walls to ward off evil spirits."

    Jack Palance: "The men have a choice: if they don't like the taste of eggs, they can just eat the worms."

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     Posted:   May 30, 2025 - 7:37 AM   
     By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

    Continuing SEASON 4:

    Well, sad to see it go, but Monday I posted the last available episode.



    December 8, 1985
    "Original Music": Arthur Kempel
    https://ok.ru/video/1875075729967 (volume is really low on this load, you may want to adjust it up a little)
    https://www.bitchute.com/video/KLJn0pTzXb3m

    Highlights:
  • 7:18 in. Short Arabian-flavored intro cue.
  • 8:21 in. More Arabian music.
  • 9:41 in. Long Arabian cue, over two minutes in length.
  • 14:30 in.
  • 17:18 in.
  • 22:41 in.
  • 26:31 in.
  • 29:22 in.
  • 54:18 in.


    Believe it or not:

    Learn about an 1897 newspaper article that claimed an alien from Mars crashed and died that was again re-printed in 1970, step into an Arabian place of rest where everyone is welcome -- friend and enemy, watch as a man climbs one of the World Trade Center towers, discover how doctors use hypnosis to help their patients become immune to pain, share the musical achievements of a performer who is profoundly deaf, journey to Morocco as maidens prepare to participate in an annual marriage festival, free climb up Devil's Tower, cling to Suicide Rock in California as climbers risk their lives in an attempt to climb it, make a house call with a professional snake charmer in Egypt, tap out a tune with a New York composer who creatures music with ordinary objects into extraordinary music,take a leap from atop the world's highest waterfall, pass threw a Pakistani portal with a giant who is over eight feet tall, a heat-sensitive camera for medical examination, discover where the opening four notes of Beethoven's 5th Symphony come from, and finally the regular checks of the Leaning Tower of Pizza to keep it from falling over.


    Thanks to the persistence of morons who believed the story and now the internet to preserve it, that town the fake news story about an alien crash, was Aurora, Texas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora,_Texas,_UFO_incident

    About 5:30 in: Probably one of the worst commercial Christmas jingles you'll ever hear.

    The deaf female musician featured in this episode, Evelyn Glennie, is still alive today and indeed succeeded at a career in music: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Glennie
    47:42 in: Why does the black-haired Asian(?) woman look like she's trying to not shit herself?

    David Van Tieghem, the percussionist who uses everyday objects, is still alive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Van_Tieghem
    (he plays mixing bowls just like the late Emil Richards did on the score to Planet of the Apes)

    Cut away trivia:

    "As weapons of war, explosives were first used by the Chinese over 700 years ago."

    "A Manhattan store once sold 35 ounce packages of ice chipped from icebergs, for $7 each."

    "To honor her deceased husband, a widow built a 70-room California Mansion, in which no one has ever lived."


    NO LOAD FOUND.

    January 30, 1986 (4.10)
    Composer: Craig Safan

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     Posted:   Jun 2, 2025 - 8:18 AM   
     By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

    Finishing SEASON 4:




    February 6, 1986 (4.11) (final episode)
    Composer: Craig Safan
    https://www.bitchute.com/video/pUgQTURYJUbT (incomplete, missing around fifteen minutes of the opening and the end credits, so I am unable to verify the composer credit)

    Highlights:
  • 0:00 in. Cue already in progress.
  • 0:54 in.
  • 25:48 in. Music fit for a Corn Palace.
  • 27:49 in.
  • 29:59 in.

    Believe it or not:

    ??????????, prick along with acupuncture to cure ailments, the perfection of a Samurai sword, Monks in Japan who endure torture to strengthen their devotion, a tomb yard that is a resting place for souls rather than ashes, a big laser light musical show with ancient chants to honor a Buddhist Priest, intense studies on the biological clock, how to honor the heroic deeds of men in battle without honoring the man from the Battle of Saratoga, pluck Indian corn in corn fields for an art display, step inside the world's only Corn Palace, the North Dakota no-hold's-barred Stampede rodeo "suicide race", and finally dive in with golf ball divers to make a living.


    Cut away trivia:

    "To set a world record, a teenager in Sri Lanka spoke non-stop for 159 hours."

    "In the late 1800's, arm-less musician Carl Herman Unthan, performed violin concerts by playing with his feet."
    (another corrected entry)

    "In Australia, Wendy Hall turned in record time 28.2 seconds to win a bed-making contest."

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