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Another wonderful find from Retrontario : from 1981, Elwy Yost interviews legendary 3-D movie star Dr. Tongue on Saturday Night at the Movies , who happens to look a lot like John Candy. Note how Elwy is totally in the spirit of the thing. For those of you not familiar with the cinematic oeuvre of Dr. Tongue, enjoy one of his first films, Dr. Tongue's Evil House of Wax , as taken from a 1977 ad for Monster Chiller Horror Theatre .

Today's trip in the wayback machine revolves around a show that may that started my love of old movies. Magic Shadows ran weeknights on TVOntario throughout the 1970s and 1980s. The show divided old movies into 20-25 minute segments, bookended with comments by host Elwy Yost. Often, one day a week was reserved for serials. The length was perfect for little me to get hooked on classic movies, especially if they were pictured in our quickly-tattered copies of Daniel Blum's photo histories of film. Dad often tuned in for British comedies - I'm All Right Jack and The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery stick out in my mind. It wasn't long before I started watching Saturday Night at the Movies . Around this time was a brief period where I was trotted around my elementary school as a seven-year old film expert lecturing grade eights, though I think Dad quashed that quickly (probably thinking I didn't need to be paraded around like a carnival freak). Some peo...