Famous Monsters of Filmland issue #181 March 1982 cover featuring Andy Kaufman and Bernadette Peters with robot from Heartbeeps 🔍 Click to enlarge

Famous Monsters of Filmland #181

Mar-82 • Photograph
Inside This Issue

Androids in love front Issue #181 — Andy Kaufman and Bernadette Peters in Heartbeeps — while Terry Gilliam’s Time Bandits tumbles through history in preview. Forry interviews scream queen Bobbie Bresee for The Mausoleum, Ghost Story gathers its elder statesmen, and a heavy “Bells Toll Death Knells” logs fifteen farewells.

Cover Spotlight

A photo of Andy Kaufman and Bernadette Peters alongside their robot companion from HEARTBEEPS — the 1981 sci-fi comedy about two androids who fall in love, an unlikely but charming FM cover subject.

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Contents

  • Tree's a Crowd
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark
  • Devils Strangers Cats Part II
  • The Mausoleum
  • Heartbeeps
  • Bells Toll Death Knells, 15 Claimed for Death's Domain
  • Ghost Story
  • You Axed or It
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Recurring Departments

  • Mystery Photo
  • Graveyard Examiner
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Films Featured

HeartbeepsTime BanditsThe MausoleumRaiders of the Lost ArkGhost Story
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Personalities

Andy KaufmanBernadette PetersBobbie BreseeRichard Matheson
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Bylines & Contributors

Forrest J Ackerman

☠ Collector's Notes

Genre-comedy curio value: the Heartbeeps cover makes Issue #181 one of the run’s most surprising faces, and collectors enjoy it for exactly that. The Forry-conducted Bobbie Bresee interview and Time Bandits preview hold it down on substance.

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FM #181 — March 1982

A photo of Andy Kaufman and Bernadette Peters alongside their robot companion from HEARTBEEPS — the 1981 sci-fi comedy about two androids who fall in love, an unlikely but charming FM cover subject. Inside: Heartbeeps, Time Bandits, The Mausoleum, and Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Andy Kaufman, Bernadette Peters, Bobbie Bresee, and Forrest J Ackerman.

Who had this one on their shelf? Who swiped it from an older cousin? Spill. ⬇️

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