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In my ongoing quest to collect things from my childhood, I came across the message board on IMDB for a show that was on Fox back in 1987 called Werewolf which only survived one season, beginning with a 90 minute TV movie. At the time I was about 13 and was all in love with all things horror related (little has changed I'm afraid :lol), so I eagerly watched the TV movie and then the subsequent show. The plot was very similar to that of the show for The Incredible Hulk, in which the main character of the show had been bitten by a werewolf (that happened in the TV movie that started the show), and living as an outcast he went from town to town each week, saving some people in trouble and bringing justice to the bad guys by inevitably turning into a werewolf when the bad guys were least expecting it. However, having wolfed out, he was then somewhat shunned by the people he had helped, and was forced to move on. He was even pursued every week by another character (in this case a bounty hunter, as opposed to the reporter on The Incredible Hulk). His ultimate goal was to find the werewolf that had bitten him and kill him, thus making himself no longer a werewolf. One memorable thing about the show was that as a werewolf he had the scar of a pentagram on the palm of his hand, and when he was going to turn into a werewolf it would begin to bleed.

Anyway, in reading the message board (which seems to be mainly filled with people wondering why Sony hasn't bothered to put this out on DVD yet :lol) and user comments for the movie, I was reminded of a song that played during a memorable scene in the TV movie, which I really loved at the time, although I had no idea who sang it or what it was called. It turns out the name of the song is "Silent Running" and was done by Mike + The Mechanics. Excited at finding out who sang the song, I looked up which album it was on, and found that it was on their self-titled album, and since it was selling used for $3, I figured why not, and went ahead and got it.

Why bring this up? Two reasons:

#1 - I have nothing else to talk about really (unless you want to see me break down the Lakers-Timberwolves series some more, which I doubt anyone has any interest in)

#2 - The album arrived today, and the song is even better than I remember it :grin

One side-note here: I looked up another werewolf movie from my childhood: The Boy Who Cried Werewolf, and at the bottom of the page it says that if you liked that movie (about a boy whose father happens to be a werewolf), then you would probably like the Eddie Izzard standup comedy film called Dress to Kill. I dunno about you, but I fail to see the connection there between the two :lol