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Remember, you can watch Professor Fred's Movie Marvels, Fridays at 9pm and Midnight and Saturdays at 3pm on SCCtv -
Comcast Ch 28 and Wave Broadband Ch 19 and to the world via live simulcast at www.scctv.net.!!

Watch an episode of Movie Marvels on-demand!  Our featured on-demand Professor Fred's Movie Marvels is "The Gorilla."

Here is the broadcast schedule of upcoming shows on SCCtv!

August 8 and 9

Poster for The Giant Gila Monster
The Giant Gila Monster (1959)
1h 14min
Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Released 1959 (United Kingdom)
Starring Don Sullivan, Fred Graham, Lisa Simone
Directed by Ray Kellogg
Written by Ray Kellogg, Jay Simms
A giant lizard terrorizes a rural Texas community and a heroic teenager attempts to destroy the creature.

August 15 and 16

Poster for Manster
Manster (1959)
1h 13min
Horror, Sci-Fi
Released March 28, 1962 (United States)
Starring Peter Dyneley, Jane Hylton, Tetsu Nakamura
Directed by George P. Breakston, Kenneth G. Crane
Written by William J. Sheldon, George P. Breakston
An American reporter in Japan is given a mysterious injection by a scientist, who turns him into a two-headed monster.

August 22 and 23

Poster for Jack and the Beanstalk
Jack and the Beanstalk (1952)
Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Released April 12, 1952 (United States)
Starring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Buddy Baer
Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Written by Nathaniel Curtis, Pat Costello
Abbott & Costello's version of the famous fairy tale, about a young boy who trades the family cow for magic beans.

August 29 and 30

Poster for Hot Rod Girl
Hot Rod Girl (1956)
Action, Drama, Romance
Released July 1956 (United States)
Starring Lori Nelson, Chuck Conners
Directed by Leslie H. Martinson
Written by John McGreevey
After his kid brother is killed in a street race, a champion drag-racer quits racing. However, a new kid comes to town determined to force him back into racing so he can take his title--and he's already taken his girlfriend.

September 5 and 6

Poster for Horrors of Spider Island
Horrors of Spider Island (1960)
1h 17min
Horror
Released March 1962 (United States)
Starring Harald Maresch, Helga Franck, Alexander D'Arcy
Directed by Fritz Böttger
Written by Fritz Böttger, Eldon Howard, Albert G. Miller
Survivors of a plane crash on a remote island find it is covered by spiders. When bitten, the survivors start turning into spiders.

September 12 and 13

Poster for Doctor of Doom
Doctor of Doom (1963)
1h 20m
Horror, Sci-Fi
Starring Lorena Velázquez, Armando Silvestre, Elizabeth Campbell
Directed by René Cardona, Manuel San Fernando
Written by Alfredo Salazar
A mad doctor abducts women with his ape-man helper for cruel brain experiments. A female wrestler seeks revenge after her sister becomes a victim.

September 19 and 20

Poster for Dead Men Walk
Dead Men Walk (1943)
1h 4min
Drama, Horror, Mystery
Released 12 April 1943 (USA)
Starring George Zucco, Mary Carlisle, Nedrick Young
Directed by Sam Newfield
Written by Fred Myton
The twin of a kindly small-town physician returns from the grave for vengeance against his brother, who secretly killed him because the twin served Satan.

September 26 and 27

Poster for Attack from Space
Attack from Space (1965)
1h 16min
Action, Sci-Fi
Released TV Movie 6 March 1965
Starring Ken Utsui, Sachihiro Ohsawa, Junko Ikeuchi
Directed by Koreyoshi Akasaka, Teruo Ishii
Written by Ichirô Miyagawa
The Supreme Council from the Emerald Planet sends the superhero Starman (Super Giant in Japan) to protect Earth from destruction by an evil alien race from the Sapphire Galaxy. The Sapphirians are out to destroy earth using a space station that can hurl a fiery "Death Star" and destroy the entire planet.

October 3 and 4

Poster for Attack of the Giant Leeches
Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959)
Horror, Sci-Fi
Released October 1959 (United States)
Starring Ken Clark, Yvette Vickers, Jan Shepard
Directed by Bernard L. Kowalski
Written by Leo Gordon
A backwoods game warden and a local doctor discover that giant leeches are responsible for disappearances and deaths in a local swamp, but the local police don't believe them.

October 10 and 11

Poster for Bowery at Midnight
Bowery at Midnight (1942)
1h 1min
Crime, Thriller
Released October 30, 1942 (United States)
Starring Bela Lugosi, John Archer, Wanda McKay
Directed by Wallace Fox
Written by Gerald Schnitzer, Sam Robins
Kindly soup kitchen operator and professor of criminology Bela Lugosi uses his soup kitchen as a front for a criminal gang who commit a series of daring robberies and murders.

October 17 and 18

Poster for The Brain That Wouldn't Die
The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)
Horror, Sci-Fi
Released August 10, 1962 (United States)
Starring Jason Evers, Virginia Leith, Anthony La Penna
Directed by Joseph Green
Written by Joseph Green, Rex Carlton
A doctor experimenting with transplant techniques keeps his girlfriend's head alive when she is decapitated in a car crash, then goes hunting for a new body.

October 24 and 25

Poster for The Gun and the Pulpit
The Gun and the Pulpit (1974)
1h 14min
Western
Released April 3, 1974 (United States)
Starring Marjoe Gortner, Slim Pickens, David Huddleston
Directed by Daniel Petrie
Written by William Bowers, Jack Ehrlich
A young gunslinger on the lam impersonates a preacher, brings hope to his parishioners and law-and-order to a town terrorized by a strongman's bunch.

October 31 - Happy Halloween!! - and November 1

Poster for The Terror
The Terror
1h 21min
Horror, Sci-Fi
Starring Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight
Directed by Roger Corman, Francis Ford Coppola, Jack Hale
Written by Leo Gordon, Jack Hill, Roger Corman
A young French soldier cut off from his unit is beguiled by a mysterious woman, whom he learns is the wife of the local Baron - and that she seemingly died twenty years earlier.

November 7 and 8

Poster for Mesa of Lost Women
Mesa of Lost Women (1953)
Horror, Sci-Fi
Released June 17, 1953 (United States)
Starring Jackie Coogan, Allan Nixon, Tandra Quinn
Directed by Ron Ormond, Herbert Tevos
Written by Herbert Tevos
A mad scientist named Arana is creating giant spiders and dwarfs in his lab on Zarpa Mesa in Mexico. He wants to create a master race of superwomen by injecting his female subjects with spider venom.

November 14 and 15

Poster for The Killer Shrews
The Killer Shrews (1959)
Horror, Sci-Fi
Released 1959 (United Kingdom)
Starring James Best, Ingrid Goude
Directed by Ray Kellogg
Written by Jay Simms
On an isolated island, a small group of people are terrorized by giant voracious shrews in the midst of a hurricane.

November 21 and 22

Poster for Blackmail
Blackmail (1929)
Crime, Thriller
Released October 6, 1929 (United States)
Starring Anny Ondra, John Longden, Sara Allgood
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Written by Charles Bennett, Alfred Hitchcock, Benn W. Levy
After killing a man in self-defense, a young woman is blackmailed by a witness to the killing.

November 28 and 29

Poster for Teenage Zombies
Teenage Zombies (1959)
1h 13min
Horror, Sci-Fi
Released April 15, 1960 (United States)
Starring Don Sullivan, Katherine Victor, Steve Conte
Directed by Jerry Warren
Written by Jerry Warren
A crazed female scientist uses nerve gas to turn local teenagers into her unquestioning slaves.

December 5 and 6

Poster for Assignment: Outer Space
Assignment: Outer Space (1960)
1h 13min
Sci-Fi
Starring Rik Van Nutter, Gabriella Farinon, David Montresor
Directed by Antonio Margheriti
Written by Ennio De Concini, Jack Wallace
In the 22nd Century, Ray Peterson, reporter for the Interplanetary News, is assigned to write a story aboard a space station.

December 12 and 13

Poster for Unknown World
Unknown World (1951)
Adventure, Sci-Fi
Released October 26, 1951 (United States)
Starring Bruce Kellogg, Otto Waldis, Marilyn Nash
Directed by Terry O. Morse
Written by Millard Kaufman
Scientists use a gigantic drilling machine for an expedition to the center of the earth.

December 19 and 20

Poster for The Last Man on Earth
The Last Man on Earth (1964)
1h 26min
Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Released 6 May 1964 (USA)
Starring Vincent Price, Franca Bettoia, Emma Danieli
Directed by Ubaldo Ragona, Sidney Salkow
Written by Richard Matheson, William F. Leicester
When a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter.

December 26 and 27 - A Double Header!

Poster for A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol (1951)
Drama, Family, Fantasy
Released December 2, 1951 (United States)
Starring Alastair Sim, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison
Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst
Written by Charles Dickens, Noel Langley
Ebenezer Scrooge, a curmudgeonly, miserly businessman, has no time for sentimentality and largely views Christmas as a waste of time. However, this Christmas Eve, he will be visited by three spirits who will show him the error of his ways.
Poster for Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)
Adventure, Comedy, Family
Released November 14, 1964 (United States)
Starring John Call, Leonard Hicks, Vincent Beck
Directed by Nicholas Webster
Written by Glenville Mareth, Paul L. Jacobson
The Martians kidnap Santa Claus because there is nobody on Mars to give their children presents.

January 2 and 3, 2026 - Happy New Year!!

Poster for Wild Horse Phantom
Wild Horse Phantom (1944)
56min
Western
Released October 28, 1944 (United States)
Starring Buster Crabbe, Falcon, Al St. John
Directed by Sam Newfield
Written by George Wallace Sayre, Milton Raison
A lawman stages a prison break so a gang of imprisoned robbers will lead him to their hidden loot.