• After the show....join us for dessert, refreshments and fine company.

• Tickets are $10 per person and parking is free.

• To get your tickets online or to make reservations call (323) 466-3310. See you there at Author Services in Hollywood.

• Author Services, Inc., 7051 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028 on the corner of Sycamore and Hollywood.

• Doors open: 7:00 pm • Show begins: 7:30 pm

Saturday, 23 & 30 January 2010
Reign of the Gila Monster
Western

Powderville is the roughest and rowdiest town in the West, but it's recently been reformed to the point of extinction by a new sheriff named Gilman. Dubbed the Gila Monster because of his enormous size, ugly features and mean disposition, Sheriff Gilman is obsessed with saving Powderville from its vices and silencing anyone who opposes his tyranny.

Hodwy Johnson, on of the three founders of Powderville, vows to stop Gilman from ruining the "good" reputation of his high-spirited town. Unfortunately, Howdy is wanted for murder and has a huge bounty on his head. He knows that when he returns to town, Sheriff Gilman will shoot on first sight and ask questions later. When Howdy finally forces a face-to-face showdown with the despot, he learns that he has more to lose than just his life.

CAST:

Martin Kove (Director & Howdy Johnson)
Bruce Boxleitner (Narrator)
Lee DeBroux (Gilman)
Jesse Kove (Poison)
Josh Robert Thompson (Lippy)

PRE-SHOW:

Ian Espinoza (guitar & vocals)
Carmen Barth (guitar)
Herbie Katz (harmonica)
Ty Gaddis (percussion)

Saturday, 6 February 2010

The Slickers
Mystery

When Sheriff Tex Larimee of Cactus County, Arizona gets a message from his ailing friend, copper magnate John Temple, to escort him west from New York, he's more than happy to oblige.

Things go bad for Tex soon after his arrival when his wallet is stolen, and he gets held up by a gangster at gunpoint. But when he finds Temple stabbed to death in his hotel, Tex's situation gets downright desperate. He's framed, accused of the murder and pursued by the New York police as their top suspect. Not bad for his first day in the big city. . . .

Cast: Josh R. Thompson, Bob Caso, Alex Klein, Richard Reich and David Aranovich

Saturday, 9 & 16 January 2010
The Planet Makers
Science Fiction

When assigned to a monumental task, Sleepy McGee of the Planetary Engineering Construction Company appears to be wasting his time for months—but McGee has a trick or two up his sleeve. You see, McGee is a unique type of engineer—one who makes barren planets habitable.

Cast: Jim Meskimen, R. F. Daley, Robert Towers, Michael Yurchak and Jimmy Weldon

Saturday, 19 December
The Automagic Horse
Science Fiction

Gadget O'Dowd who produces movie props for major motion pictures, gets landed with the task of building a mechanical horse for a one-time use in a movie shoot. The studio is unable to use a real horse as the horse has to run through a burning barn and this would evoke an outcry from the Society Against Animal Cruelty, hence The Automagic Horse is called for.

Special-effects wizard Gadget has it all worked out, even to the point of using the project to cajole and wheedle extra funds from the movie studio to finance an ultra-secret scheme with the stars as its destination. When the studio sends in an accountant to track every penny Gadget spends, it takes all his skill to side-track the bean counter while forging ahead with his plans.

Cast: Nancy Cartwright, Josh R. Thompson, Phil Proctor and R. F. Daley

Saturday, 7 & 14 November
The Sky Crasher
Air Adventure

Caution is a second-generation ace pilot desperately trying to bury his past and the memories of his father— a daredevil barnstormer who perished trying to wow crowds and killed Caution's mother from the shock.

Now Caution has worked his way up the ladder as an ultra-efficient, ultra-conservative general manager of a small airline struggling to make ends meet. When the US Post Office puts its international delivery service up for grabs to the first airline that can successfully circumnavigate the globe and outperform every other airline, Caution's boss presses him into competing for the contract.

Against his better judgement, Caution throws his name to the wind, risking the hazards of the round-world air race. Joined by a fiery blonde stunt flyer as his female co-pilot, he begins the journey only to discover that a rival airline is trying to sabotage their every move.

Cast: R. F. Daley, Bob Caso, Taylor Meskimen, David Aranovich
and Robert Towers

Saturday, October 31st, Halloween Show
The Death Flyer
Fantasy

Bellamy, a civil engineer, is surveying a long forgotten trail in the swamps of northern Maine, when he is startled by the hoot of an owl. He realized what that means—someone would die this night and Bellamy prayed it wouldn't be him. Suddenly the growing roar of a train ripped through his gloom but the railroad tracks in those swamps had been abandoned for 10 years.... Curiosity gets the better of him and he boards the train only to find a ghostly crew that is thundering to its demise with an equally morbid load of passengers. What is the secret of this death flyer? Can Bellamy escape before it is too late?

Cast: Jim Meskimen, Phil Proctor, R. F. Daley and Tamra Meskimen

Saturday, October 10th & Saturday, October 17rd
Tinhorn's Daughter
Western

Double-Deck Trotwood comes to Puma Pass to buy up all the land the old-fashioned way: the owners either sell at half the price they paid, or they get paid with lead from Trotwood's hired killers.

He'd have owned the whole pass by now except for the meddlesome, red-haired gallant named Sunset Maloney. Everywhere Trotwood turns, Sunset's been a thorn in his side— stealing all his money from stagecoaches, saving miners from his henchmen's strong-arming, and generally making life as miserable as possible.

Then Trotwood's innocent daughter, Betsy, comes to town. When Sunset unexpectedly falls in love with her, he must not only save Puma Pass but somehow open her eyes to the truth about her father, putting both of their lives in danger.

Cast: Lee Purcell, Jennifer Aspen, Lee Burns, Martin Kove, Jeremy F. Lyons and Jesse Kove, David Marciano and Lee de Broux.

Saturday, September 26th & Saturday, October 3rd
The Obsolete Weapon
Science Fiction

An American soldier involved in the World War II invasion of Italy, takes an unexpected journey when an obsolete fountain-pen that alters times, abruptly sends him back to Nero's Rome, fighting for his life as a gladiator against staggering odds in the Coliseum.

September 19th, Saturday
The Sky Devil
Far-Flung Adventure

Daring American pilot Vic Kennedy chose the wrong side of this Greek war. After backing and bringing a rebel leader to the ancient city of Alexandria, Vic finds himself outcast and in search of a country. The French don't want him, the British won't let him stay, and a quick execution awaits him in Greece.

Exhausted, wounded and running on fumes, Vic lands his plane at a Sahara oasis where he must use his cunning— and his last few drops of fuel— to outwit a deadly opponent and free a beautiful captive princess.