THE CAT CREATURE (1973) – Episode 276 – Decades of Horror 1970s

Who picked this? Who picked this? Bill, I feel like you picked

this.

All right, Bill.

This was picked in honor of my recently deceased cat, Gizzy, who I am wearing.

Okay, everything's flipped.

God, it's so confusing.

uh i'm wearing on my shirt now my wife had this hawaiian shirt made oh wow face yeah i got so many comments on this shirt he's he was a great cat very good cat we had him for 15 years which i think is the longest that she and i have ever had a cat in our marriage And we miss them, but, you know, that's the way it is with kitties.

I remember watching this when it came out.

You know, 1973, so I would have been 13 years old.

And TV movies were pretty good, especially the spooky ones.

They weren't very spooky, but I was 13, didn't know any better.

I hadn't yet discovered Hammer and all the other really good stuff.

Universal was plenty scary enough for me at the time.

And I thought it was a good TV movie.

It even...

it really kind of worked better for me because also back back in 73 they would show old movies all the time and i was a big fan of old movies i love gangster movies film noir they would just show them all the time they didn't have as much um you know the commercial movie length commercials that they do now even though we only got three or four channels of tv i got to see all the classic bogart gangster movies you know Yeah, all of them.

Edward G. Robinson.

So Curtis Harrington, who I've grown rather fond of, was also obviously a guy who grew up with this stuff.

And he was good friends with James Whale.

You know, he was a fan of classic Hollywood, Golden Age Hollywood.

And now he's making movies.

And this, to me, really feels kind of like an homage to that, not just in the sort of old-fashioned story that it's got going, but in his choice of actors.

He picked some interesting people.

It's got quite a good cast, and a cast of actors, some of whom are very familiar.

Meredith Baxter was very familiar at the time.