Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee
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A fictional host, for a show that never airs, playing B-movies that don't exist, on a station that's never named.
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2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! In this silent film, a twelve year-old wins a luxury car. An heiress takes him under her wing, and he becomes a car-for-hire to the rich and inebriated of Baltimore. See them set the city a-whirl in 1924's “Bobby's Big Black Car.”
November 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! In this silent film, a twelve year-old wins a luxury car. An heiress takes him under her wing, and he becomes a car-for-hire to the rich and inebriated of Baltimore. See them set the city a-whirl in 1924's “Bobby's Big Black Car.”
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! The school supports the terminally-ill girl to make her dream prom come true, but when her health rallies, resentment builds. Despite misgivings, it’s up to the mean girl to do what she does best in 1996’s “The Price of Dreams.”
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! The school supports the terminally-ill girl to make her dream prom come true, but when her health rallies, resentment builds. Despite misgivings, it’s up to the mean girl to do what she does best in 1996’s “The Price of Dreams.”
2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! In this 17th c. United Provinces drawing-room farce, a flower merchant's wife juggles her husband's contentment, her lover's passion, and her son's first awkward forays into romance. Revel in 1937's “Fortunes Fade & Love Blooms.”
November 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! In this 17th c. United Provinces drawing-room farce, a flower merchant's wife juggles her husband's contentment, her lover's passion, and her son's first awkward forays into romance. Revel in 1937's “Fortunes Fade & Love Blooms.”
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! He’s the only angry man on the jury. Why can’t the others follow the obvious case by the prosecution? Suborned bailiffs and tampered beverages might have something to do with it in 2005’s “Innocent Until Lunch.”
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! He’s the only angry man on the jury. Why can’t the others follow the obvious case by the prosecution? Suborned bailiffs and tampered beverages might have something to do with it in 2005’s “Innocent Until Lunch.”
Noon on Baron Tikitrocious' Weekend Tikipeats! In a fit of pique the family matriarch adds absurd clauses and conditions to her estate. Her adult children go to ludicrous lengths to satisfy the conditions, throwing everyone into chaos, in 1972's “Last Will and Temper Tantrum.”
November 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Noon on Baron Tikitrocious' Weekend Tikipeats! In a fit of pique the family matriarch adds absurd clauses and conditions to her estate. Her adult children go to ludicrous lengths to satisfy the conditions, throwing everyone into chaos, in 1972's “Last Will and Temper Tantrum.”
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! A polished, bookish lad shows up in Nebraska Charms, and the ladies go crazy for the sensitive boy. The sawmill owner has to convince his daughter that the arrival is “Not an Eligible Cowboy (1937)” (until he suddenly is).
November 23, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! A polished, bookish lad shows up in Nebraska Charms, and the ladies go crazy for the sensitive boy. The sawmill owner has to convince his daughter that the arrival is “Not an Eligible Cowboy (1937)” (until he suddenly is).
Noon on Baron Tikitrocious' Weekend Tikipeats! When a Canadian Privy Council member is assassinated, RMCP “I” agent Neville Maine investigates a mysterious Mexican spirits mogul and his nefarious plan to invade Canada. Thrill to 1965's “the Tequila Imperative.”
November 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Noon on Baron Tikitrocious' Weekend Tikipeats! When a Canadian Privy Council member is assassinated, RMCP “I” agent Neville Maine investigates a mysterious Mexican spirits mogul and his nefarious plan to invade Canada. Thrill to 1965's “the Tequila Imperative.”
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Celebrate the perseverance of man against outrageous fortune as jeweler Otto Frederick Rohwedder invents, then loses his prototype to fire, and rebuilds and perfects his bread slicing machine in 1963’s “The Best Invention Ever.”
November 22, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Celebrate the perseverance of man against outrageous fortune as jeweler Otto Frederick Rohwedder invents, then loses his prototype to fire, and rebuilds and perfects his bread slicing machine in 1963’s “The Best Invention Ever.”
2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! When the tequila supply is threatened by poisoning, Mexican counterintelligence sends suave agent Vincente Amador to thwart the “Multinational Organization for Overlords & Sovereign Evils.” See 1965's “Operation: M.O.O.S.E.”
November 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! When the tequila supply is threatened by poisoning, Mexican counterintelligence sends suave agent Vincente Amador to thwart the “Multinational Organization for Overlords & Sovereign Evils.” See 1965's “Operation: M.O.O.S.E.”
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! The house of the future exhibit burns down at the expo, and junior engineers Frank and Bill have three days to throw together a replacement or be fired. The half-remembered meet the half-baked ideas in 1957’s “The House of 1980!”
November 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! The house of the future exhibit burns down at the expo, and junior engineers Frank and Bill have three days to throw together a replacement or be fired. The half-remembered meet the half-baked ideas in 1957’s “The House of 1980!”
2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! Nazi gold floods the black markets. The Swiss hire freelance spy “the Wildcard” to investigate a lethal Teutonic heiress who has more than one terrible secret. Will the Wildcard find “the Valkyrie's Chest (1987)”?
November 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! Nazi gold floods the black markets. The Swiss hire freelance spy “the Wildcard” to investigate a lethal Teutonic heiress who has more than one terrible secret. Will the Wildcard find “the Valkyrie's Chest (1987)”?
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! 1829-1834, Charles Pawwin serves as ships doctor on a five year voyage of discovery. His observations about the family tree of life and scales of time lead him to heretical theories in Skookumtrope’s animated 1980 “HMS Beagle.”
November 20, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! 1829-1834, Charles Pawwin serves as ships doctor on a five year voyage of discovery. His observations about the family tree of life and scales of time lead him to heretical theories in Skookumtrope’s animated 1980 “HMS Beagle.”
2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! Tensions rise, and nations distrust their allies. A cabal of opposing career intelligence agents unite to investigate. Will they get to the bottom of it before one of their countries stops them? Find out on “Union of Alleged Spies.”
November 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! Tensions rise, and nations distrust their allies. A cabal of opposing career intelligence agents unite to investigate. Will they get to the bottom of it before one of their countries stops them? Find out on “Union of Alleged Spies.”
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Early individual recordings, radio sketches, and rare film clips from 1935-42, combined with archived and new interviews, provide a fascinating view of the comedic duo’s early careers in 1974’s “Deed & Shine: Two-Steps Forward.”
November 19, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Early individual recordings, radio sketches, and rare film clips from 1935-42, combined with archived and new interviews, provide a fascinating view of the comedic duo’s early careers in 1974’s “Deed & Shine: Two-Steps Forward.”
2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! A sniper feigns a degenerative nerve disease to disappear into civilian life, but a threat to his Peace Corps niece awakens conspiracies within conspiracies that want him gone, one way or another, in 1993's “the Shaking Gunman.”
November 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! A sniper feigns a degenerative nerve disease to disappear into civilian life, but a threat to his Peace Corps niece awakens conspiracies within conspiracies that want him gone, one way or another, in 1993's “the Shaking Gunman.”
2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! A blacksmith seeks to develop a new style of sword to achieve renown. A warrior amuses herself by misleading him until she takes a real interest in the pursuit. They develop a new style of swordplay in 1992’s “The Hubert Blade.”
November 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! A blacksmith seeks to develop a new style of sword to achieve renown. A warrior amuses herself by misleading him until she takes a real interest in the pursuit. They develop a new style of swordplay in 1992’s “The Hubert Blade.”
2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! A rupture between dimensions allows a giant phase-shifting Ibis to come through and threaten the cities of Australia. Luckily, Japan is only 6848 kilometers away. See Mizarī Studios' 2000 “Saramandāsai VS Sinewave Bin Chicken!”
November 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! A rupture between dimensions allows a giant phase-shifting Ibis to come through and threaten the cities of Australia. Luckily, Japan is only 6848 kilometers away. See Mizarī Studios' 2000 “Saramandāsai VS Sinewave Bin Chicken!”
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Our time-displaced knight returns to the ‘80s to aid a senior whose grandchild skipped his hearing. It turns out the knight must teach this reincarnation of his liege to reawaken his honor and chivalry in 1989's “Flail Bondsman 2.”
November 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Our time-displaced knight returns to the ‘80s to aid a senior whose grandchild skipped his hearing. It turns out the knight must teach this reincarnation of his liege to reawaken his honor and chivalry in 1989's “Flail Bondsman 2.”
2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! Criminals undermine the noblest sport, until the somehow unrecognizable Copper Helmsman poses as an accountant to save the day. See 1972's “The Copper Helmsman vs. the Fight Fixers (Capitán Bueno Peleas Televisión Extranjera).”
November 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! Criminals undermine the noblest sport, until the somehow unrecognizable Copper Helmsman poses as an accountant to save the day. See 1972's “The Copper Helmsman vs. the Fight Fixers (Capitán Bueno Peleas Televisión Extranjera).”
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! A boy is adopted by a physician and taught the suspect arts of medicine and sleuthing. As the only daughter’s suitors die, the two doctors solve the mystery to ensue her happiness in Smithwick-on-Naddle’s 1964 “The Four Autopsies.”
November 16, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! A boy is adopted by a physician and taught the suspect arts of medicine and sleuthing. As the only daughter’s suitors die, the two doctors solve the mystery to ensue her happiness in Smithwick-on-Naddle’s 1964 “The Four Autopsies.”
Noon on Baron Tikitrocious' Weekend Tikipeats! Special Forces Z Unit goes missing. Their wives, sweethearts, siblings and mothers form their own unit to find them behind Japanese lines. Intercut with WW2 Australian home-front propaganda, rally to 1974's “The War Shelias.”
November 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Noon on Baron Tikitrocious' Weekend Tikipeats! Special Forces Z Unit goes missing. Their wives, sweethearts, siblings and mothers form their own unit to find them behind Japanese lines. Intercut with WW2 Australian home-front propaganda, rally to 1974's “The War Shelias.”
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! WW2 alpine soldiers are separated from their unit, and find a frozen Legionnaire in a cave. They must outwit Germans who believe he has mystic importance as the bodies pile in Hedgewoode’s 1968 “The Curse of the Faithful Soldier.”
November 15, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! WW2 alpine soldiers are separated from their unit, and find a frozen Legionnaire in a cave. They must outwit Germans who believe he has mystic importance as the bodies pile in Hedgewoode’s 1968 “The Curse of the Faithful Soldier.”
2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! This Revolutionary War-era slasher film features a foaming-at-the-mouth British Captain who finally picks the wrong victim in the baker's daughter (scream-queen Julia Strictland). See the screen run red in 1987's “Rabid Redcoat.”
November 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! This Revolutionary War-era slasher film features a foaming-at-the-mouth British Captain who finally picks the wrong victim in the baker's daughter (scream-queen Julia Strictland). See the screen run red in 1987's “Rabid Redcoat.”
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! When a book store reading day is taken hostage, a tween with an overactive imagination and a motor mouth must overcome her medications to confuse the gunman, hide the other kids, and save “Morganna Malarkey’s Best Day Ever (2003).”
November 14, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! When a book store reading day is taken hostage, a tween with an overactive imagination and a motor mouth must overcome her medications to confuse the gunman, hide the other kids, and save “Morganna Malarkey’s Best Day Ever (2003).”
2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! A new-age retreat in Phoenix is targeted by a deranged hippie. As the crystal-strokers drop off one by one, only divorcee Nina (scream-queen Julia Strictland) stands a chance of survival. It's 2002's “Tran-KILL-ity.”
November 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! A new-age retreat in Phoenix is targeted by a deranged hippie. As the crystal-strokers drop off one by one, only divorcee Nina (scream-queen Julia Strictland) stands a chance of survival. It's 2002's “Tran-KILL-ity.”