When one thinks of gourmet food, Scooby-Doo wouldn’t normally leap to mind — Scooby Snacks and Dagwood-style sandwiches being the more typical foods associated with everyone’s favourite mystery-solving Great Dane — but with Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost, our intrepid group of amateur sleuths journey deep into the world of gastronomical delights. So, who exactly…
Category: TV
Scooby-Doo! and Kiss: Rock and Roll Mystery (2015) – Review
Scooby-Doo and the gang have been hooking up with celebrities since the 70s in their series The New Scooby-Doo Movies, where they teamed up with such notables as the Harlem Globetrotters, Sandy Duncan, Don Knotts, and Tim Conway, and it didn’t matter if they were fictional characters or not as they also hooked up with…
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979) – Review
When George Lucas’s space fantasy film Star Wars broke box office records, it wasn’t too surprising that many Star Wars rip-offs were quick to follow, with Roger Corman leading the pack with such films as Star Crash and Battle Beyond the Stars, but television producer Glen A. Larson managed to create not one, but two…
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo (1985) – Review
In five decades of Scooby-Doo mysteries, there is one show that really stands apart from the other incarnations and that would be the 1985 series The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo — not to be mistaken for William Castle’s 13 Ghosts — and it stands apart not because it had the gang encountering real ghosts and…
The Fantastic Journey (1977) – Review
In 1977, producer Bruce Lansbury brought to the small screen a show called The Fantastic Journey, a startling tale about a small group of people trapped on a mysterious island — decades before J.J. Abrams would conjure up his series Lost — and though this particular series didn’t even manage a full season, thanks to the…