Dick Shawn – MRQE

The Year Without a Santa Claus (TV)

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Feeling forgotten by the children of the world, old St. Nick decides to skip his gift-giving journey and take a vacation. Mrs. Claus and two spunky little elves, Jingle and Jangle, set out to see to where all the season’s cheer has disappeared. Aided by a magical snowfall, they reawaken the spirit of Christmas in children’s hearts and put Santa back in action.

Dames at Sea (TV)

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Dames at Sea is a musical with book and lyrics by George Haimsohn and Robin Miller and music by Jim Wise. The musical is a parody of large, flashy 1930s Busby Berkeley-style movie musicals in which a chorus girl, newly arrived off the bus from the Midwest to New York City, steps into a role on Broadway and becomes a star. It originally played Off-Off-Broadway in 1966 at the Caffe Cino and then played Off-Broadway, starring newcomer Bernadette Peters, beginning in 1968 for a successful run. The television version was broadcast on the Bell System Family Theater on NBC on November 15, 1971. The cast had extra chorus girls and boys, and there were full production numbers, turning into the very thing it was spoofing. Ann Miller was singled out for praise, especially when “she was allowed to tap out her brassy…temperamental star…”

Evil Roy Slade (TV)

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Orphaned and left in the desert as an infant, Evil Roy Slade (John Astin) grew up alonesave for his teddy bearand mean. As an adult, he is notorious for being the “meanest villain in the West”so he’s thrown for quite a loop when he falls for sweet schoolteacher Betsy Potter (Pamela Austin). There’s also Nelson L. Stool (Mickey Rooney), a railroad tycoon, who, along with his dimwitted nephew Clifford (Henry Gibson), is trying to get revenge on Evil Roy Slade for robbing him.

Way… Way Out

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A platonically wed American couple run a lunar weather station near an unwed Soviet couple.

Penelope

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

When James met Penelope at a club, it took all of three weeks before they were married. But after the marriage, other women became attracted to James and he kept getting promoted, which took him away from Penelope. So Penelope puts on a disguise and robs her husband’s bank. Her psychiatrist, Greg, believes that this condition is caused by James being over worked and under romantic with Penelope. She also tells Greg that she robs the business associates of James. But Greg is in love with Penelope – in fact everyone likes her. The problem is when she confesses to her crimes, no one believes her.

Looking Up

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Family secrets are revealed as three generations of a middle-class New York Jewish family come together in this story of good relations and bad relations.

Angel

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

15 year-old Molly Stewart is a prep school honor student who moonlights as a Hollywood prostitute. After a serial killer begins stalking and murdering some of her street friends, she becomes a target herself.

It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.

Maid to Order

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Spoiled Jessie Montgomery, whose wild behavior and spending excesses cause her well-meaning but exasperated millionaire father Charles to wish he never had her, is visited by fairy godmother Stella. In an effort to save Jessie, Stella casts a spell which causes Charles to no longer have a daughter. Jessie, now penniless and without a friend, must take a maid’s job to earn a living, and hopefully to learn her lesson.

Captain EO

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In this 3-D science fiction film that was shown at Disney theme parks, the infamous Captain EO and his ragtag crew are sent on a diplomatic mission through space to deliver a gift to the mysterious and menacing Supreme Leader of a desolate industrial planet.