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Sleepy Hollow and Headless Menaces

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 Well, it's the 12th anniversary of the TVCU. Some years back, I did a TVCU Quickie on Sleepy Hollow.  There I said that the TV series wasn't in the TVCU.  Evidence since then has pointed that it is, but so is the original, very different story.  And so, there must be more than one Ichabod Crane and Katrina.  We already know there's more than one Headless Menace, or Ghost, as we've seen Headless Riders on motorcycles in the modern day.   THE SKETCHBOOK OF GEOFFREY CRAYON “THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW” (SHORT STORY BY WASHINGTON IRVING) Release Date: 1820 (Setting is 1790) Series: Legend of Sleepy Hollow The Story: Schoolmaster Ichabod Crane competes with bullyish Abraham Van Brunt for the hand of Katrina Van Tassel. Abraham constantly plays pranks on Ichabod to make him look bad. Ichabod is very superstitious, and at one particular party, Abraham takes advantage of this to relate many of the local ghost stories, including one of a Hessian soldier whose ...

The Scottish Play: The TVCU Gets Classy with Shakespeare

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" Macbeth The  Prince of Cumberland ! That is a step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires. The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see." — Macbeth , Act I, Scene IV The TVCU most typically covers subjects regarding television and film series.  Occasionally, we have covered radio series.  Recently I expanded our range to cover the stage play A Streetcar Named Desire under the basis that it is still a story written for actors to perform.  And under that basis, I'm going really old school with this one.  Get ready to relive high school English, the TVCU way, as today we explore the crossovers around William Shakespeare's Macbeth. Probably around the 11th Century--LADY MACBETH OF THE MTSENSK--The same events from Macbeth, told from Lady Macbeth's perspective. Probably around the 11th Century--SHERLOCK HOLME...