BALLADEER’S BLOG IS NOW SIXTEEN YEARS OLD

BALLADEER’S BLOG

THANK YOU once again to all of you readers for making Balladeer’s Blog so enjoyable to write. As I always say, the unusual and controversial items I sometimes churn out here mean that readers have to be open-minded and very secure in their own beliefs not to just take offense and leave. You folks are the greatest!  

Here are some of my most popular blog posts from the past 12 months.

ROBERT REDFORD R.I.P. – After his death I reviewed his obscure films like War Hunt, This Property is Condemned, The Chase, Downhill Racer and others HERE.

RYAN O’NEAL: FORGOTTEN FILMS – A posthumous look at his films like Green Ice, Nickelodeon, Wild Rovers, The Thief Who Came to Dinner and more HERE. 

THREE BAD TOM SELLECK MOVIES – The Chinese Typewriter HERE, The Gypsy Warriors HERE, and The Washington Affair HERE.  

ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION – A Trip to the Moon by Mr. Murtagh McDermot (1728) An Irishman travels to the moon and meets the inhabitants HERE. Mars to the Earth (1895) – The first Martian visit to Earth HERE. Story of the Second Traveler (1879) An island of sci-fi wonders HERE, Wonderworlds (1911) A spaceship expediton to explore other planets HERE.

BAD MOVIES – JACINTO MOLINA, SPAIN’S KING OF HORROR – I reviewed his movies like Exorcismo, Fury of the Wolfman, Assignment: Terror, Werewolf vs the Yeti, House of Psychotic Women and many more HERE. THE BOD SQUAD (1974) Women abducted by pirates learn kung fu and fight back HERE. AGAINST THE DARK (2009) Steven Seagal fights zombies HERE. FOES (1977) A very weird assault by aliens HERE. KARATE GIRL (1973) Turkish kung fu movie HERE. 

FORGOTTEN TELEVISION – PARTNERS IN CRIME (1984) – Loni Anderson and Lynda Carter as widows of a P.I. who take over his agency and solve his murder as their first case HERE. THE GIRL FROM U.N.C.L.E. (1966-1967) Stefanie Powers as U.N.C.L.E. agent April Dancer HERE. MRS. COLUMBO (1979-1980) Kate Mulgrew as Columbo’s wife solving murders HERE.

THE NEGLECTED RAILROAD WAR (1878-1880) – A neglected conflict that involved Robber Barons and various big-name gunslingers like Doc Holliday, Bat Masterson, Texas Ben Thompson, John Joshua Webb and more HERE.

MORE FORGOTTEN TELEVISION – BLUE LIGHT (1966) Robert Goulet as a deep-cover American spy who has infiltrated the Nazi propaganda system HERE.  STAGECOACH WEST (1960-1961) – Wayne Rogers plays a stagecoach driver based in Wyoming in the Old West HERE.  CIMARRON STRIP (1967-1968) Stuart Whitman is an Old West Marshal in the Cimarron Strip HERE.  ESPIONAGE (1963-1964) Real-life spy stories from the Cold War and the World Wars back to the Revolutionary War HERE. CASEY JONES (1957-1958) Alan Hale as the legendary 1890s train engineer HERE.

SWASHBUCKLER MOVIES – RICARDO MONTALBAN- Rage of the Buccaneers, Mark of the Renegade and The Saracen Blade HERE. ROCK HUDSON – Sea Devils, Captain Lightfoot, The Golden Blade and Bengal Brigade HERE. JOHN PAYNE – Raiders of the Seven Seas, Tripoli, and Caribbean Gold HERE. JEFF CHANDLER – Yankee Buccaneer, Flame of Araby and Yankee Pasha HERE.

QUISP VS QUAKE (1965-1973) – Battle of the breakfast cereal mascots HERE.

NEGLECTED GUNSLINGERS – Whiskey Jim HERE. Big Steve Long HERE.

FIVE LOST OUTLAW TREASURES OF THE OLD WEST HERE.

THE DOUBLE DAGGERS (1877) – The second Deadwood Dick Dime Novel HERE.

RICHARD DENNING’S BAD MOVIES – Target Earth, Creature with the Atom Brain, Unknown Island, Day the World Ended and more HERE.

SUPERHEROES – Iron Fist: More 1970s stories with Master Khan, the X-Men and more HERE. The Defenders: Valkyrie’s Quest and more HERE.

COOL NAMED SPORTS TEAMS – United International College HERE,  Truckee Meadows College HERE.  Mesalands College HERE.  Lake Sumter State HERE.  Lamar College HERE.  Gulf Coast Christian College HERE.  Sweet Briar College HERE.  Montcalm College HERE. Carteret College HERE. Mohave College HERE.