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The Leech Woman

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802 - The Leech Woman
Air Date February 8, 1997
Movie Director Edward Dein
Year 1959
Cast Coleen Gray
Grant Williams
Preceded by 801 - Revenge of the Creature
Followed by 803 - The Mole People


Contents

The Movie

Synopsis

The Leech Woman

After traveling to Africa, a woman learns the secret of eternal youth - unfortunately, it entails regularly sacrificing young men. [1]

Dr. Paul Talbot is trying to find the secret of eternal youth. A 140 year-old African woman, Mala, approaches Paul and offers him her tribe's secret to long life, a special orchid pollen, but he is doubtful until she demonstrates how she has kept herself alive. He tells the secret to his estranged, alcoholic, and aged wife, June and gets an guide to help them go on an expedition to Mala's village.

During the dangerous journey, June realizes Paul only wants her along to test the potential potion and becomes enraged. June, Paul, and the guide are captured by Mala's tribe and arrive just in time to see Mala undergo a special ceremony, extracting the pineal hormones of a man with a spiked ring, killing him in the process. She then mixes it with the pollen and drinks it to make her young again. Mala makes an offer for June to use the ring; Paul wants to use the oppertunity to escape and "get help". However, June turns the tables and chooses Paul as the man she will kill. She undergoes the ceremony, and she and the guide then create a distraction, steal the ring and pollen, and escape. However, the effect is temporary; June realizes she must keep killing men to keep young and alive, and so kills the guide after they become lost in the jungle.

When she arrives back in the states, Sally, Paul's shrewishly-voiced nurse, is dating Neil, June's wimpish but mildly attractive lawyer. June uses her new youth to pretend to be Terry Hart, her own niece; she constantly hits on Neil and makes Sally utterly jealous. She also goes around town, using her older form, to trick drunks and con men for their sweet, sweet pineal juice. Neil eventually falls in love with Terry, and decides to end it with Sally. Sally confronts Terry and tries to send her to New York via gun; the two fight, and Terry kills her with the ring.

During a romantic evening she has planned with the now free Neil, a detective investigating one of the men she's killed comes to her home and confronts her; he discovers Sally's body in the closet. Crazed, June rants about the formula for youth and tries to prove it using Sally's pineal juice; however, female juice does not work. June does not stop aging; realizing she's lost everything, she throws herself off of her second-story bedroom balcony and reveals her horrible secret in death.

Information

The Episode

Host Segments

Tom Servo as Granny

Prologue: The Bots discover an infestation of prairie dogs and use a special vaccum to catch them. Mike is disbelieving until Servo rounds up a herd.

Segment One: Crow still can't remember Mike, much less the prairie dogs he sucked up. Dr. Peanut discovers his destiny...to wear diapers and roller skate around Deep Ape. Professor Bobo and the other apes eventually succumb to diapers and tutus, much to the disgust of The Lawgiver.

Segment Two: The Satellite is still broken, so the gang appeals to the Nanites. They're on strike, at least until the strike is broken by a Nanite tank that squishes their union leader.

Segment Three: Pearl is enjoying some leisure time until Bobo interrupts to point out she hasn't made any laws. Pearl decrees there is no parking on Sundays and soup with buffet. Pearl asks for suggestions, from the SOL crew. Tom's laws reveal he was up to some interesting things during his universal travels...

Segment Four: The Bots want Mike to, um, check out their pillory; his contacts save him from the Bots stealing his pineal juices. Mike is strangely unbothered by this. Luckily, Gypsy has that Richard Basehart weakness...

Segment Five: Servo really, really wants to do his impression of Granny from The Beverly Hillbillies. Mike and Crow suspect Servo just wants to run around yelling "JEEEEEEDDDD!" Tom takes it too far, as always. In Deep Ape, the apes are returning to civilized ways. It works until Peanut finds the diapers again.

Stinger: Detective defeats lawyer with LOGIC!

Other Notes

Miscellanea

  • Unusual credits: Servo yells "JEEEEEEDDDD!" over the credits.

Obscure References

  • "Uh-oh, Ed Gein!"
Ed Gein, a serial killer arrested in Minnesota in 1957, became infamous for making clothing and furniture from his victims' remains.
  • "It's Five Alive!"
Five Alive is a blended juice drink sold by Minute Maid.
  • "Miss Jane Pittman and Mr. George Clinton were wed today..."
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman is a novel in which a 110-year-old African-American woman recounts the events of her life, and was made into an acclaimed made-for-TV movie in 1974. George Clinton is a funk musician known for his oddball clothing and hairstyle.
  • "She dances like a drunk girl at Lynbrook Bowl"
A seedy bowling alley in Brooklyn Park, a Minneapolis suburb.
  • "Oh Miss Havisham"
A mad and wealthy old woman who figures prominently in Great Expectations
  • "Have you heard the drums Unando?"
A take on the ABBA song Fernando.
  • "Agnes Moorehead as Endora!"
Agnes Moorehead played Endora on the 1960s sitcom Bewitched.



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