Sandy Petersen, when he’s bored beyond endurance (better than Holmes’ cocaine, I suppose), will occasionally call me and we’ll telewatch a dumb movie on Youtube or Amazon Prime. Last week we watched (not too diligently, as we were yakking the whole time) the obscure Space Probe Taurus, a film I only vaguely remembered having seen maybe once as a tot. It’s not the most dynamic piece, and by 1965 the main astronaut character’s rampant sexism to the mission’s female doctor must have seemed a bit much. Of course, he’s only hiding his romantic interest in her blah blah. The Gabby Hays guy above pops up for about a minute, and there are some adorable crabs macrophotographed to threaten their model space rocket. Unfortunately, they electrocute the crabs a couple of times to simulate them being frustrated by the ship’s force field, which didn’t really endear the film to me. I hope they at least ate them afterwards. Anyway, it’s on YouTube.
