The Haunting (1963)
Oct 18, 2026 · 1 hr 24 min · 13 segments
Companies mentioned in this episode: - Apple TV+ - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) - MGM British Studios - Disney+ - ABC
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DJ StarsageHost
Matt BurlingameHost
Oct 18, 2026 · 1 hr 24 min · 13 segments
Companies mentioned in this episode: - Apple TV+ - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) - MGM British Studios - Disney+ - ABC
DJ StarsageHostMatt BurlingameHost
I do hear that there were a few things that went on back then that were quite important.
Back in 1963, in November, so right about Thanksgiving time, when we are usually thankful for things, well, there was something that was pretty terrible that happened.
One of our youngest presidents at the time, Mr. John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, and it shocked the nation and the world.
Now, of course, how things work is You know, when the president is no longer able to serve the runner-up, the vice president, Lyndon Johnson.
I mean, the first lady is on this trip with her husband, and... she's having to ride on the plane with her husband's body.
At the same time, she's wearing the clothes that she had been in, in the car when he was killed.
And not only that, I mean, he's killed right next to her and then she has to hold his dead, his body.
dead at the time.
The whole, I mean, that's talking about trauma and, Not to mention the fact that my poor uncle, his birthday was November 22nd.
Now this is not on our mini agenda here, because we want to focus on just three little things that happened in history then.
When President Kennedy was assassinated, there was a new installment in the world of sci-fi that came into being over there in the United Kingdom.
Doctor Who was born on television back in 1963, and there was so much competition on the television airwaves back then.
Rarely did they have international news outside of the UK back then, because we didn't have, you know, a 24 hour news channel yet.
somehow the fact that the american president at the time was assassinated was all over tv and so much so that they had to re-air the pilot episode of doctor who another week later just so that people would get a chance to see it
I do hear that there were a few things that went on back then that were quite important.
Back in 1963, in November, so right about Thanksgiving time, when we are usually thankful for things, well, there was something that was pretty terrible that happened.
One of our youngest presidents at the time, Mr. John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, and it shocked the nation and the world.
Now, of course, how things work is You know, when the president is no longer able to serve the runner-up, the vice president, Lyndon Johnson.
I mean, the first lady is on this trip with her husband, and... she's having to ride on the plane with her husband's body.
At the same time, she's wearing the clothes that she had been in, in the car when he was killed.
And not only that, I mean, he's killed right next to her and then she has to hold his dead, his body.
dead at the time.
The whole, I mean, that's talking about trauma and, Not to mention the fact that my poor uncle, his birthday was November 22nd.
Now this is not on our mini agenda here, because we want to focus on just three little things that happened in history then.
When President Kennedy was assassinated, there was a new installment in the world of sci-fi that came into being over there in the United Kingdom.
Doctor Who was born on television back in 1963, and there was so much competition on the television airwaves back then.
Rarely did they have international news outside of the UK back then, because we didn't have, you know, a 24 hour news channel yet.
somehow the fact that the american president at the time was assassinated was all over tv and so much so that they had to re-air the pilot episode of doctor who another week later just so that people would get a chance to see it
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