Also, from everything I’ve read, the original Star Trek theme did not, in fact, use a theremin at all; that seems to be a commonly reported and persistent misconception. What you hear in the Trek TV title sequences that sounds “theremin-like” varies per season (and/or perhaps even per episode), but ...

There are several possible candidate instruments from that era, other than the venerable theremin. Look up other such early eerie-sounding devices as the novachord, the ondes martenot, and the trautonium. Gadgets like these, alongside the theremin, were popular in classic sci-fi and horror films, pa...

Where is your closet? Is this just a one-storey house, not counting the basement? If so, not too big a drop. If your closet is way up on a second floor upstairs, then sliding down a batpole all the way down into your basement might be a bit more, um, thrilling. Beware of friction burns on your hands...

Lots of good classic sci-fi movies were set out there, in those deserts. From THEM! to TARANTULA to IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE to AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN to OUTER LIMITS episodes like “Cry of Silence” and “Keeper of the Purple Twilight”… all good stuff.

Is there a non-damaging way to remove the goofily extraneous flames from the surface? (Gentle scraping, soaking in acetone, etc.)?

O’Connell also played an alien in a classic Outer Limits episode (“The Chameleon”).

Thanks! (Both of you!)

Memory is hazy, but I seem to recall a brief incident in one episode in which Alfred decides, for some reason or other, to enter the Batcave by sliding down a Batpole himself (a somewhat jarring experience for him) instead of taking the service elevator. Can anyone identify the name of the episode i...