Buried By Time

Before streaming, before endless menus of choices, television had stranger corners. Local stations filled their schedules with old horror films, creature features, science-fiction reruns, and regional hosts who could make a cheap movie feel like something fun viewers had discovered in the dark. This episode of  Buried by Time  follows Svengoolie from Jerry Bishop’s original Chicago version on WFLD...

What if the message we have been waiting for is not a voice from another world, but a reflection of our own history coming back through space? In this episode of  Buried by Time , we follow the strange idea at the heart of the movie  Contact : a signal from beyond Earth carrying an old television broadcast, a memory of humanity sent back with new instructions hidden inside it. From early radio dre...

Michael Jackson’s  Thriller  did more than dominate the charts. It turned a pop song into horror cinema, transformed the music video into a cultural event, and gave Vincent Price one of the most recognizable spoken performances in music history. This episode explores the 1982 album, the 1983 short film, the choreography, practical makeup, MTV spectacle, Halloween afterlife, and the extraordinary c...

Vincent Price did not become a horror icon by being the loudest man in the room. He became unforgettable because he made fear sound elegant, intelligent, and almost inviting. In this episode of  Buried by Time , we look at how Vincent moved from art history and stage work into Hollywood, how films like  House of Wax ,  The Fly ,  House on Haunted Hill , and the Edgar Allan Poe cycle shaped his leg...

Before Rod Serling became permanently linked to The Twilight Zone, he returned to television with something darker, stranger, and more uneven: Night Gallery. This episode of Buried by Time explores Night Gallery as one of Serling’s final major television projects, a haunted anthology built around eerie paintings, moral punishment, buried guilt, and stories that often felt less like warnings from t...

Rod Serling became famous as the creator and host of  The Twilight Zone , but his story reaches far beyond strange endings and black-and-white television. In this episode of  Buried by Time , we look at Serling’s life as a World War II veteran, writer, television pioneer, and moral critic of American culture. From early live television dramas to the creation of  The Twilight Zone , Serling used sc...

Milli Vanilli became one of the biggest pop acts of the late 1980s, then collapsed when the world learned Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan were not the voices on the records. This episode of Buried By Time looks at the image, the hidden singers, Frank Farian, the Grammy scandal, the lip syncing scandal, the machinery behind the illusion, and the human cost when the fantasy broke. Credit note: The real s...

In 1976, the United States turned 200 years old and wrapped itself in red, white, and blue. The Bicentennial became more than a holiday. It was a national mood, a design style, a marketing campaign, and for many families, a memory of one strange summer filled with fireworks, tall ships, parades, disco, 8-track tapes, TV dinners, Bomb Pops, red-white-and-blue ice cream, classic television, big Amer...

Marilyn Monroe was not only a bombshell. She helped build the shell. In this episode of  Buried By Time , we look at the carefully constructed image of Marilyn Monroe, from the famous “switch” she could seemingly turn on in public, to the makeup, clothing, possible cosmetic procedures, vulnerability, glamour, and performance that turned Norma Jeane into one of the most recognizable women in histor...