Episode Details

Coming Attractions for October 23, 2026: Monster Mash at the Drive-In. 12 pieces (vintage commercials and promos, short pieces, songs and theme tunes): Halloween, The Thing, Rocky Horror Picture Show and more, with Ray Starling.

In this episode:

1. 0:00 Coming Attractions opens: Ray Starling welcomes you
2. 1:11 Halloween (radio spot, 1978) — Halloween is a 1978 American slasher film directed and scored by John Carpenter, who co-wrote it with producer Debra Hill and stars Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P. J. Soles, and Nancy Loomis. The film follows Michael Myers, an escaped mental patient who was committed for murdering his teenage sister on Halloween in the fictional Illinois town of Haddonfield, and who returns 15 years later to stalk teenage babysitter Laurie Strode and her friends. Dr. Samuel Loomis, Myers' psychiatrist, pursues him throughout the film.
3. 1:37 The Thing (trailer) — The Thing from Another World is a 1951 American science fiction horror film directed by Christian Nyby and produced by Edward Lasker for Howard Hawks' Winchester Pictures Corporation, featuring Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite, and Douglas Spencer, with James Arness playing The Thing. The film was released by RKO Radio Pictures and is based on the 1938 novella Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell Jr.
4. 3:27 Rocky Horror Picture Show (commercial) — The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a 1975 musical comedy horror film produced by Lou Adler and Michael White, directed by Jim Sharman, and distributed by 20th Century Fox, based on Richard O'Brien's 1973 stage musical. The screenplay was written by Sharman and O'Brien, who also played Riff Raff, and the film serves as a tribute to science fiction and horror B movies from the 1930s through early 1960s. The film stars Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick, is narrated by Charles Gray, and includes cast members from the original Royal Court Theatre, Roxy Theatre and Belasco Theatre productions, including Nell Campbell and Patricia Quinn.
5. 3:56 The Pit and The Pendulum (trailer) — The Pit and the Pendulum is a 1961 American horror film directed by Roger Corman and starring Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr, and Luana Anders. The screenplay by Richard Matheson was loosely inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's 1842 short story of the same name. Set in sixteenth-century Spain, the film follows a young Englishman who visits a castle to investigate his sister's death, and after experiencing ghostly appearances and violent deaths, he becomes trapped on the torture device by his lunatic brother-in-law in the climax.
6. 6:15 Coming Attractions on Stupid Potato

…and 10 more. The whole running order: Coming Attractions

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