George Gaynes – MRQE

Stepmonster (V)

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Todd Dougherty has an imagination driven by comic books. So when he accuses his soon-to-be stepmother of being a monster, no one believes him. When neighbors start turning up dead, it becomes a race against time for Todd to stop this hideous, carnivorous creature from marrying his dad and ruining his life.

One Touch of Venus (TV)

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

While touring a museum, Rodney Hatch, an unremarkable barber, places an engagement ring intended for his girlfriend on the hand of a statue of Venus, the goddess of love and beauty. From Mount Olympus, Venus witnesses the event and decides to visit Rodney on Earth by magically inhabiting the statue. Hilarity ensues when she starts to fall in love with Rodney and competes with his girlfriend for his attentions. This television version of Kurt Weill’s successful Broadway musical is much more faithful to the stage version than the 1948 Ava Gardner film, which changed the story considerably and cut most of the songs.

The Girl in the Empty Grave (TV)

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The police chief of a small town begins an investigation after a young woman, who was supposed to have died several months previously, starts appearing around town just before her parents are found mysteriously dead.

The Fantastic Four

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

When dosed with cosmic rays, four intrepid astronauts are given incredible powers. They decide to form a superhero group called the Fantastic Four to fight their arch-enemy, Dr. Doom.

Trilogy of Terror (TV)

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

A horror anthology containing three stories: a female college professor is aggressively pursued by one of her students; a prudish brunette determines that her free-spirited blonde sister is evil; and a woman’s night turns upside down after she purchases an ancient Zuni fetish doll.

Vanya on 42nd Street

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An uninterrupted rehearsal of Chekhov’s 1899 play “Uncle Vanya” played out by a company of actors. The setting is their run down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play is shown act by act with the briefest of breaks to move props or for refreshments. The lack of costumes, real props and scenery is soon forgotten.

Police Academy: Mission to Moscow

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

The Russians seek help in dealing with the Mafia from the veterans of the Police Academy. They head off to Moscow, in order to find evidence against Konstantin Konali, who marketed a computer game that everyone in the world is playing.

“Punky Brewster”

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

An abandoned waif and her dog are taken in by a cranky apartment manager who becomes her guardian in this family-friendly sitcom.

Micki + Maude

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

TV reporter Rob Salinger is married to Micki, but because she’s always busy working, they hardly ever spend time together. One night at which he got stood up by Micki again, Rob meets cellist Maude and they soon get romanticly involved. When it turns out Maude is pregnant with his baby, Rob decides to marry Maude. When he’s on the verge of telling Micki, she tells him she’s pregnant, so he doesn’t have the heart to leave her, but he marries Maude anyway. Now married to two pregnant women who don’t know about each other, Rob has a busy time taking care of both and keep them from finding out.

Police Academy

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

New rules enforced by the Lady Mayoress mean that sex, weight, height and intelligence need no longer be a factor for joining the Police Force. This opens the floodgates for all and sundry to enter the Police Academy, much to the chagrin of the instructors. Not everyone is there through choice, though. Social misfit Mahoney has been forced to sign up as the only alternative to a jail sentence and it doesn’t take long before he falls foul of the boorish Lieutenant Harris. But before long, Mahoney realises that he is enjoying being a police cadet and decides he wants to stay… while Harris decides he wants Mahoney out!