Cereal At Midnight

40 years ago, Saturday morning cartoons leveled up with the arrival of Dungeons & Dragons, an animated series that ran weekly from 1983-1985. Cereal At Midnight celebrates this iconic cartoon by talking to Mark Evanier, the man who wrote the series bible and developed the show for television! Mark Evanier's Website: NewsFromMe.com **************************************************************** Review Archive: CerealAtMidnight.com/p/reviews.html Shop: CerealAtMidnight.Threadless.com Ebay.com/usr/cerealatmidnight Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight Facebook.com/CerealMidnight Twitter: CerealMidnight Instagram: CerealMidnight TikTok: OfficialCerealAtMidnight Letterboxd: CerealAtMidnite **************************************************************** When shopping on Amazon, please consider using Cereal At Midnight's affiliate link to support the channel: https://amzn.to/3LAgnlt

"You think you can take me? Go ahead on. It's your move." Final Justice is a 1984 crime/action movie from low budget director Greydon Clark, the man behind such video-era delights as 1982's  Wacko  and 1983's  Joysticks ("totally awesome video games!") . It stars Joe Don Baker as Thomas Jefferson Geronimo (great name), a Texas sheriff who chases a murderer all the way to the Mediterranean island Malta, where our villain has holed up in a massive compound that would make Tony Montana jealous. Using the fish-out-of-water storytelling device, our small town sheriff--almost always in a cowboy hat--feels like a holdover from a western as he takes on an entire criminal organization all by himself. Chuck Norris, eat your heart out. Joe Don Baker is at the very end of his leading man career here. In fact, I believe this is his final lead actor credit in a feature film. He'd still have some top-billed parts on television, but he would slip further and further...

These New Kids have the fright stuff.

If you're a child of the 1980s, you probably have fond memories of this Halloween special that originally aired October 30th, 1985 on CBS. The half-hour show was a staple of my annual Halloween viewing habits for years, and I vividly remember this being the topic of conversation during school the day after it debuted. What I appreciated about it then is what I still appreciate about it now: it tried to be scary, and it was. So often with kid's fare, the creators pull their punches at the last minute, but Garfield's Halloween Adventure  doesn't really let the viewer off the hook. The ghosts of long dead pirates are real.