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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- "Seeing is Believing" is a rarely-seen installment of the syndicated 1972 horror / suspense anthology THE EVIL TOUCH hosted by Anthony Quayle. This episode stars Robert Lansing and Alfred Sandor. It was written by Mel & Ethel Brez, and was produced & directed by Mende Brown.
WOKR Channel 13 in Rochester New York ran "Evil Touch" Sunday nights at 9:30. Haven't seen this episode since I was 12. Thanks very much for the upload.
This was one of the better episodes of the series.
finally this lost episode is shown WOW
Thanks for sharing this. Aside from a little silliness near the end this is genuinely suspenseful and well-acted - my favorite of these so far.
I remember seeing this episode in 1973 when I was seven years old. Even though I didn’t completely understand it, I did the best I could to tell my first grade class about it. According to the monster’s silhouette, it looks a lot like Chewbacca.
I was about 10 so I understood what was happening, but no less haunted by this episode.
Many thanks for posting this! I haven't seen this episode since the '70s. I love the idea of an actor 's imagination bringing the Creature to life. I just wish the Creature's reveal didn't look like the guy was being choked by a hairy Muppet. But, still, a classic episode.
Thank you SO MUCH for posting this. I fondly remember The Evil Touch when I was a kid. I especially remember the episode 'Scared to Death' when it first aired back in '73 - it literally almost scared ME to death with that ending. In fact I never forgot it, and finally got to see it again thirty years later. Well, let's just say it didn't have quite the same effect on me as it did when I was 8 yrs old, but nonetheless I still enjoyed it. I'm glad you've found and are putting out some of these lost episodes, as I have some memories of a few of them which I haven't seen on TH-cam yet. I seem to remember one which had a phony seance element to it, but so far no luck in finding that one. Thanks again!
I'm glad you're enjoying my uploads of THE EVIL TOUCH. More are definitely coming, including an upgraded print of "Scared to Death." I've seen every episode of ET, but can't recall one with a seance (fake or otherwise). Of course, that's a very common element in horror television. Just off the top of my head, I can think of such storylines on JOURNEY TO THE UNKNOWN and 13 DEMON STREET.
@@maljardin4251 Thanks! I'll have to check those titles out. I'm sure they'll be up my alley! 😆
@@Knockface Could also be an episode of "Rod Serling's Night Gallery" starring Steve Lawrence and Harvey Lembeck.
@@gallery7596 I Believe you could be correct. I think the episode you're referring to is called "The Dear Departed."
When you step barefoot on a LEGO in the middle of the night 😱
THE BEST IN THE SERIES THANKS FOR SHARING
I used to watch this series all the time. I was 11 years old when it came on the air. This was one of the best episodes. Very creepy.
I'd never seen this one before.
Thanks for posting.
Thanks for posting remember watching this series in grade school on Sunday night after doing home work ....
Thanks for uploading, it excellent
I've had a recurring nightmare my entire life about this episode. I was 4 years old and completely traumatized by this in the early 70s. It's been fun revising it... its still as terrifying as I remembered.
I forgot, but I saw this several times in the Japanese version a long time ago
Glad I could make it accessible for you again. The video on this one comes from an Italian VHS release back in the 1980s.
@@maljardin4251 Maybe the rest of "Dr. McDermitt's New Patients" and "Faulkner's Choice" have seen the Japanese version, too.
WOW, holy grail for me since I was a kid. Would love to get a copy. A film copy was sold on ebay a few years ago, so I wonder if that collector made this transfer.
Nope. Video came from a 1980s commercial VHS release in Italy back in the 1980s. There's a free extension in Google Chrome called Video Download Helper. It will enable you to capture my video straight from YT.
@@maljardin4251 Thanks for the fast, informative reply. So it was in "plain sight" all along! Never knew the series had any home video releases. Would still love to get a dvdr copy of the source as it would look better than the YT. Downloading it is smaller video, and the format isn't compatible with bluray player.
nice looking copy, too!
Wow, thanks for sharing!
My pleasure. I'm still searching for more of the lost episodes. And better copies of the ones already in circulation
please post more of the Evil touch .
Fear not. More episodes are on the way. I'm even working on another of the "lost" episodes. Two more, actually, of you count one that I have with only a Japanese audio track (no English).
@@maljardin4251 Ive seen that Faulkner's choice.
@@johnwalsh4857 Where did you see "Faulkner's Choice"? I've viewed an archival print of it, but it is very difficult to come by.
@@maljardin4251 Sorry the homecoming got it mixed.saw it on a Japanese youtube site.
@@johnwalsh4857 Ahhh, yes, now I understand. I've seen that one, too. I need to examine those Japanese recordings more closely. Their version of "Dear Cora ..." has two short sequences that aren't in the English language cut of the episode.
Great series, by the way. It sounds to me like someone doesn't want this film to go ahead.
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The last time I saw this was 1977
The only time for me, but it made a stong impression.
@@Spiritgumm Same here good to see it again
I LOVE THESE SHOWS ANYBODY KNOW IF IT IS ON DVD ? THANK YOU
Sadly, no, the series was never released on DVD. If someone were to release it, I'd buy it in a heartbeat. The only home video release I'm aware of was done back in the mid 1980s ... in Italy. Six episodes were released on VHS, with audio in Italian.
@@maljardin4251 If you copied this episode from the Italian VHS tape with Italian audio, how is it in English?
@@Spiritgumm The video is from the Italian VHS release. The accompanying audio is from a very low quality home VHS capture. I've been working hard to synch up the English audio to the Italian video. Hopefully someday a truly high quality set of this series will be released. While there's no telling if the master elements still exist, I know that a complete set of 16mm prints is held by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.
so the last two lost eps are Dr. Mcdermitts new Patients and Faulkner's Choice.
That's correct. Neither is truly lost, as the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia holds 16mm prints of both. But no copies are in general circulation. Also, the circulating copy of "Never Fool with a Gypsy Ikon" is cut for syndication, so a few minutes of it are still missing.
😅Call me when there's a murder...
You've said that some of your uploads were copied from Italian vhs tapes in Italian audio, so how do they have English audio? Asking because I was thinking of searching for the tapes, but they'd be useless without English audio.
Excellent point. I've been merging the audio from old low quality VHS recordings with the video from the Italian retail tapes. It's an arduous process, but worth it to have improved English language copies of the episodes.
@@maljardin4251 So you made or found a vhs copy from broadcast of this episode? What country was that from? Did you have to change the speed if there was a PAL-Ntsc discrepancy?
@@Spiritgumm Yes, there was an incompatibility issue between the two recordings (difference in frame rates). The video source was an Italian PAL recording converted to NTSC. The audio was from an Australian source. I had to make multiple adjustments to get the two to line up.
@@maljardin4251 The result was great, I wouldn't have guessed. I'm asking in part because you only find the same episodes among trader collector groups, and I wondered why this (and your other rare titles) never showed up. Then again, the Italian tapes were available and those never showed up. I don't suppose your source belongs to a trading group?
@@Spiritgumm I've learned over the years that there's a big difference between what is in common circulation among traders' groups and what is out there in the wild. You just have to dig a LOT harder. I just obtained six episodes recorded on Beta circa 1985 in Japan. Oddly, it's a bilingual broadcast, so episode titles are in Japanese, but audio is in English. The batch includes a full-length copy of the episode starring Ralph Meeker. The only copy of that one in common circulation is cut for syndication, missing about 3 minutes.