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FEBRUARY 1

2021

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

Before Tim Burton made his brilliant Ed Wood movie, starring Johnny Depp as the hilariously optimistic and untalented film director of such cult clunkers as Glen or Glenda and Plan 9 from Outer Space, the only places to see any of his films were at college or independent cinema arthouse showings, or on the very very late late shows on local TV stations. This 1959 sci-fi Ed Wood “classic” is one such film – which I saw in the 1970s on a Los Angeles triple bill of truly terrible movies, along with 1964’s Santa Claus Conquers the Martians and that infamous musical all-little-people Western, 1938’s The Terror of Tiny Town. TCM is showing Plan 9 from Outer Space, complete with its oddball Criswell introduction, its late-career appearance by Bela Lugosi, and the unforgettable Maila Nurmi, who plays the Vampire Girl – the original inspiration for Cassandra Peterson’s Elvira. For more on this treasure, see Mike Hughes' Open Mike.

30 COINS

HBO, 9:00 p.m. ET

Okay, so this imported horror miniseries isn’t getting any more logical. But it is getting a bit sexier, which I guess is something… in this genre especially. But we’re at the point where the final missing coin from the “blood money” given to Judas for betraying Jesus is about to show up – and what evil will be unleashed then, if those coins indeed all fall into the wrong hands? A pandemic, maybe?

INDEPENDENT LENS: “9TO5: THE STORY OF A MOVEMENT”

PBS, 10:00 p.m. ET

Before there was 9 to 5 the movie in 1980, there was the social movement “9to5” in the 1970s – organized by a group of Boston secretaries and office workers who fought for equal pay and an end to sexual harassment in the workplace. This new documentary looks at what they did – and how they did it. Check local listings.

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David Bianculli has been a TV critic since 1975, including a 14-year stint at the New York Daily News, and sees no reason to stop now. Currently, he's TV critic for NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and is an occasional substitute host for that show. He's also an author and teaches TV and film history at New Jersey's Rowan University. His 2009 Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour', has been purchased for film rights. His latest, The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to the Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific, is an effusive guidebook that plots the path from the 1950s’ Golden Age to today’s era of quality TV.

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