A collection of strange tie-in novels in which the crumpled Lieutenant Columbo gets involved in real-life crimes, most notoriously the Manson Family murders.
Tag: TV series
Maybe Some Things Are Just Not All That Good
The cancellation of movies and TV shows might seem like a personal vendetta against fans but it is usually for rather more basic reasons.
The Golden Age Of Film and TV Tie-In Novels
Paperbacks from the glory days of the film and television tie-in novel.
Noirvember: The Naked City
Our crime movie series continues with a look at the classic, pioneering police procedural that spawned a popular TV series.
Noirvember: Portrait Of Alison
Continuing our crime movie month with a look at a flawed but interesting film adaptation of a BBC serial from 1955.
Cronenberg Meets Ballard: Super-Cannes Heads Towards TV
Ballard, Cronenberg and insular, isolated communities going insane – it sounds the perfect combination.
Time Out Of Mind: Science Fiction Authors Explored
The TV series covering the major names from the final days of serious science fiction literature.
Black Bart – The Buried TV Sequel To Blazing Saddles
The Mel Brooks classic that became a TV series that ran for four seasons without being broadcast anywhere.
The Nature Of Monkey Is Irrepressible!
Celebrating the Monkey Magic of the classic martial arts fantasy TV series.
Enter The Kingdom Of Lars Von Trier
The Kingdom, Lars Von Trier’s oddball and unsettling 1990s Tv soap opera.
Reinventing The Weimar Republic: Babylon Berlin
The complex and ambitious political German noir TV series is both ambitious and frustrating.
Carol Lynley 1942 – 2019
The cult movie actress and star of The Poseidon Adventure and Bunny Lake is Missing has died.