TV shows about kids and monsters (was Re: [UA] an idea for UA junior)

[Eric Brennan]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Mowery" <kemowery at earthlink.net>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 9:10 PM
Subject: TV shows about kids and monsters (was Re: [UA] an idea for UA
junior)


>     Well, you can't discount the first few seasons of Buffy, which used
> B-movie monsters to reflect real-life issues.
>
>     Also, there was a Tales From the Darkside episode, "Seasons of
Belief,"
> where at Christmas two kids were teased by their parents about a fictional
> monster called The Grither.

I believe that Twilight Zone magazine printed the original script of that
episode and then the final script, one issue--it was the same issue with
Ellison's story about the ghost on the laugh track, if that helps.  The
original script was chilling, if memory serves--the Grither wasn't just a
monster, but Santa Claus if he'd been run through the House Of Renunciation
and then recombinated with a knocker from faerie myth.

--Eric

"Scottish Common Law says that we can shrink
 President Clinton down to the size of a field mouse
 and then have him fight spiders for our amusement.
Will we do this?  All I'm saying is that Strom
Thurmond has a shrinking ray."
--Arlen Specter on SNL, 2-17




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