User Reviews

I loved this show when I was a teenager and I looked forward every Sunday to viewing it. One hour long was not enough. Jack Palance was the perfect host for the series and what a great sense of humor. The show topics were about unusual people and animals,strange eating habits around the world and some famous and infamous people - Joan of Arc-was she really an uneducated farm girl who had saintly visions or was she secretly the illegitimate daughter of Isabelle of Bavaria,the Queen of France and was an innocent heretic burned at the stake in her place? and Prince Vlad Tepes of Rumania,one of the inspirations for Bram Stoker's Dracula. Jack Palance's daughter Holly was his co-host at the beginning of the series and Marie Osmond at the end of series and both ladies did an excellent job. I loved this show and I also enjoy the remake of this series with Dean Cain of Lois and Clark fame. I hope both series will be released uncut on DVD.

With it's macabre opening sequence, music and Jack Palance, this show had the fright appeal of a Saturday matinée horror film but was also informative as well! Although sometimes a tad morbid with some of the topics covered (like, unusual food dishes or other non traditional curiosities), you'd remain glued to your television anyhow to watch it till the very end.

The show hit upon a number of various mythos which made for some rather fun and interesting trivia; One such example (although obscure), was regarding the legend of the Frankenstein monster; Near the ending of one episode, Mr. Palance "divulged" that in the frozen arctic (?? Can't fully recall; I only vaguely remember), "a twisted, blue colored, frozen body of a man was discovered...believe it...or not!!" Being a kid when this aired, i always thought that was cool! What kid wouldn't marvel at the prospect of the Frankenstein monster being real?? It was indeed fun television and a one of a kind program, with Mr. Palance's chilling deliveries making the experience bringing the effect of the show to 3 dimensional life. Great show! And Jack Palance, host extraordinaire, is one of the greats and is very much missed!