kids nowadays don't know anything about comic books... clutching my quarter on Sat morning, waiting to buy the latest donald duck... later i was crazy about pogo: i still think the latter was the funniest thing on the planet... walt kelley was a genius...
I never 'got' comics/comic books. Several people tried to introduce them to me but they all basically crashed and burned. I could appreciate the artwork and even the story but.... give me novels *every* time!
It was a short movie Sarah, and is probably available on YouTube [grin]
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians is a 1964 American science fiction comedy film directed by Nicholas Webster, produced and written by Paul L. Jacobson, based on a story by Glenville Mareth, that stars John Call as Santa Claus. It also features an eight-year-old Pia Zadora as one of the Martian children.
The film also marks the first documented appearance of Mrs. Claus in a motion picture (Doris Rich plays the role), coming three weeks before the television special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, which also featured Mrs. Claus.
The film regularly appears on lists of the worst films ever made, is regularly featured in the "bottom 100" list on the Internet Movie Database, and was featured in an episode of the syndicated series of the Canned Film Festival of 1986. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians took on newfound fame in the 1990s after being featured on an episode of the comedy series Mystery Science Theater 3000.
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kids nowadays don't know anything about comic books... clutching my quarter on Sat morning, waiting to buy the latest donald duck... later i was crazy about pogo: i still think the latter was the funniest thing on the planet... walt kelley was a genius...
I never 'got' comics/comic books. Several people tried to introduce them to me but they all basically crashed and burned. I could appreciate the artwork and even the story but.... give me novels *every* time!
This is quite the combo. Never thought of Santa and Martians as something that would ever go together.
It was a short movie Sarah, and is probably available on YouTube [grin]
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians is a 1964 American science fiction comedy film directed by Nicholas Webster, produced and written by Paul L. Jacobson, based on a story by Glenville Mareth, that stars John Call as Santa Claus. It also features an eight-year-old Pia Zadora as one of the Martian children.
The film also marks the first documented appearance of Mrs. Claus in a motion picture (Doris Rich plays the role), coming three weeks before the television special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, which also featured Mrs. Claus.
The film regularly appears on lists of the worst films ever made, is regularly featured in the "bottom 100" list on the Internet Movie Database, and was featured in an episode of the syndicated series of the Canned Film Festival of 1986. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians took on newfound fame in the 1990s after being featured on an episode of the comedy series Mystery Science Theater 3000.
[From Wiki]
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