Famous Monsters of Filmland issue #161 March 1980 cover featuring dual color stills from Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Disney's The Black Hole 🔍 Click to enlarge

Famous Monsters of Filmland #161

Mar-80 • Collage
Inside This Issue

The space race comes home for the holidays: Issue #161 weighs Star Trek: The Motion Picture — Walter Koenig along for “Trek Talk” — against Disney’s The Black Hole, with both sharing the cover. “1980’s Nerve Shattering Film Forecast” reads the new decade’s tea leaves, and Arabian Adventure, The Legacy, and The Day Time Ended fill the margins. “Marrow Christmas,” indeed.

Cover Spotlight

Two color stills share this cover — a scene from STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE alongside one from THE BLACK HOLE, two 1979 science fiction spectacles that each aimed for something genuinely new.

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Contents

  • Marrow Christmas
  • 1980's Nerve Shattering Film Forecast
  • Star Trek, the Emotion and Action Picture
  • Arabian Adventure
  • The Legacy of Terror
  • Answer to Mystery Photo No.119
  • The Day Time Ended
  • The Horrorwood Reporter
  • Trek Talk
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Recurring Departments

  • Fang Mail
  • The Graveyard Examiner
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Films Featured

Star Trek: The Motion PictureThe Black HoleArabian AdventureThe LegacyThe Day Time Ended
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Personalities

Walter KoenigGeorge Pal
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Bylines & Contributors

Forrest J Ackerman

☠ Collector's Notes

Trek-versus-Black Hole season gives Issue #161 a clean late-1979 snapshot quality, and the Walter Koenig interview adds Trek-collector pull. The 1980 film forecast is a fun what-did-they-know read now.

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FM #161 — March 1980

Two color stills share this cover — a scene from STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE alongside one from THE BLACK HOLE, two 1979 science fiction spectacles that each aimed for something genuinely new. Inside: Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Black Hole, Arabian Adventure, and The Legacy, and Walter Koenig, Forrest J Ackerman, and George Pal.

Tell us the first monster from this one that lived in your head rent-free. ⬇️

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