Atomic TV

Hosted by Nashville’s rockin’ combo Los Straitjackets… Masked Mexican Wrestlers!… The real international man of mystery, El Santo!… Mexican monster movies… Mondo films… People eating Parasites – and The Dead!… Spanish Superhero El Barrio vs. Tony the Landlord in the squared circle… Meet a Roman Catholic Masked Wrestler Priest!… plus an assortment of vintage Atomic Scare Films and Civil Defense Messages and old Natty Boh commercials.

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Be shocked and amazed by our tribute to human curi-oddities on and off the Midway… witness Stupid Human Tricks by local weirdos like Nostrildomus the Human Slot Machine who stuffs 10 quarters up his nose and (cringe!) see the sparks fly when Penile Knievel shoots firecrackers out of his urethra on a drunken cook-out dare…Look back on vintage Ripley’s Believe It or Not trailers… drop your jaw in astonishment watching Todd Browning’s cult classic Freaks… see Baltimore’s own halfboy Johnny Eck… Hear siamese-twin singing sensations the Hilton Sisters… Animal Freaks… See an Armless trombone player… Legless dancer Peg-Leg Bates… Handicapped Cowboys… Midget Cowboys… Sift through the treasure trove of oddness collected by Baltimore sideshow expert James Taylor (publisher of the Shocked and Amazed peri-odd-ical)…

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We interviewed Jim Rose (Lollapalooza, X-Files) and filmed highlights from his latest traveling sideshow of freaks (Mexican Tranvestite Wrestlers, Sumo Wrasslin’ She-Babes, The Human Enigma, Mr. Lifto, The Armenian Rubber Band Man) when they played Sowebo’s Lithuanian Hall in Spring of ’97… See 60’s strippers shaking their shag-a-delic money-makers!… Dance The Twist with Fat French Frogs!… See Pouty Brit Beatniks sulk to John Barry jazz riffs while Oliver Reed does his Method-Spazz Dance!… See The Archies cover the Sex Pistols’ “God Save the Queen”!… Coming Attractions for Lezzie Lick Flicks!… Skizz Czyzk’s classic animated short My Little Pickle Love Song… And more! (You need more?)

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