Cereal At Midnight

Let's talk about how much of an influence Tim Powers' book ON STRANGER TIDES was on the creation of the PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN movies. Jack and Elizabeth, undead pirates, curses and magic...this book created the world way back in 1988.

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If you're a child of the 1980s, you probably have fond memories of this Halloween special that originally aired October 30th, 1985 on CBS. The half-hour show was a staple of my annual Halloween viewing habits for years, and I vividly remember this being the topic of conversation during school the day after it debuted. What I appreciated about it then is what I still appreciate about it now: it tried to be scary, and it was. So often with kid's fare, the creators pull their punches at the last minute, but Garfield's Halloween Adventure  doesn't really let the viewer off the hook. The ghosts of long dead pirates are real.