For Whom the Rock Falls- Find Out in “Monolith Monsters”- Tonight!

Beware the falling columns of rock- they're sure to cause destruction and shock! Don't pick up the fragments, because  they might- become  some "Monolith Monsters" tonight!

So much for low-rent poetry- but, get set for a fun science fiction film of the 50s- and one that we get many requests for- as a meteor collides with earth, fracturing into  multiple shards, spread out in the desert. A local government geologist happens to pick one up, not being sure of its origin, and brings it to his office. When a a co-worker returns to the office from a business trip- he finds the office in shambles, and his friend dead- in an almost petrified state! unbeknownst to him, his schoolteacher girlfriend takes some students on a field trip into the desert- where one finds (ahem) an unusual specimen of rock!

Before long, we have more destroyed property, and more cases of petrified people- and, when the geologist and his cohorts finally link the rocks to the problem- they discover  too late what can make the rocks a huge threat to the town and its population!

This 1957 film  has familiar faces in the cast, like Grant Williams and Lola Albright- and we'll  tell you about them and their fellow cast members, along with some uncredited actors you might recognize. Plus- naturally- some Sven fun sure to rock your world!

"Monolith Monsters" show up tonight on MeTV at 10 pm eastern/pacific, 9 pm central, and, if you're unsure when we're on in your neighborhood, please check your local listings. For Chicago viewers who need a second look at the first part of Universal's "Ape Girl" series, we'll have "Captive Wild Woman" on our sister station, WCIU, at 11 am.

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Coming up, appearance-wise, we'll be doing the annual Brookfield Zoo AAZK Spaghetti Dinner event benefiting the "Vital Ground" foundation and celebrating the birthdays of two of the zoo's grizzly bears- this year, it's on Thursday, March 26th.We'll post information soon, or, just go to www.brookfieldaazk.org and click on "events'.

We've also got more appearances being booked- meanwhile, we've been busy shooting some new shows along with updating previously run programs.

join us tonight- you can bet your last money- it'll be a STONE gas, honey! ( did I ever mention that "Soul Train" actually started locally at our company? that's a story for another time...)