Harvey Korman Archives

The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)

Rating: ★

Oct 8, 2005Star Wars Variety Show

The tv special that George Lucas would have all copies destroyed, a work of legendary badness - a Star Wars Thanksgiving special featuring most of the original cast and a series of variety performances that are mind-boggling in their ineptitude, not to mention complete and utter fumbling of everything that Star Wars was

Director: Steve Binder

Actors: Art Carney, Harvey Korman, Beatrice Arthur, Harrison Ford, …

Category: Science Fiction

8 October 200515 December 2023 by Roog

Americathon (1979)

Rating: ★

May 2, 1999Future Telethon/1970s Satire

This seems like it had all the elements to be a biting satirical crosscut of the 1970s in which the US President holds a telethon to keep the country from going bankrupt but flounders in a series of unfunny skits

Director: Neil Israel

Actors: John Ritter, Harvey Korman, Peter Riegert, Fred Willard, …

Category: Science Fiction

2 May 199917 November 2025 by Roog

Herbie Goes Bananas (1980)

Rating: ★

Jan 25, 2003Cute Car/Disney Comedy

The fourth and last of the original Herbie the Love Bug films from Disney, this takes a trip to South America where the inanity reaches a nadir for the series

Director: Vincent McEveety

Actors: Harvey Korman, Joaquin Garay III, Cloris Leachman, Charles Martin Smith, …

Category: Fantasy

25 January 200331 October 2025 by Roog

Alice in Wonderland (1985)

Rating: ★

May 3, 2023Alice in Wonderland TV Adaptation

From Irwin Allen, the creator of Lost in Space etc, a tv version of Alice in Wonderland, conceived as an all-star musical that comes out as ponderous and leaden in Allen's hands

Director: Harry Harris

Actors: Natalie Gregory, Roddy McDowall, Telly Savalas, Ernest Borgnine, …

Category: Fantasy

3 May 202313 March 2026 by Roog

Munchies (1987)

Rating: ★

Jul 5, 1999Malevolent Alien Critters

Painfully cheap and badly made ripoff of Gremlins about a horde of malevolent alien creatures. Produced by Roger Corman

Director: Bettina Hirsch

Actors: Harvey Korman, Nadine Van Der Velde

Category: Science Fiction

5 July 199912 August 2021 by Roog

The Flintstones (1994)

Rating: ★★

Feb 1, 2000Prehistoric Comedy/Cartoon in Live-Action

The first in what later became a fad for replicating cartoon tv series as big-budget live-action films, this does an exacting live-action version of the Hanna-Barbera series

Director: Brian Levant

Actors: John Goodman, Rick Moranis, Rosie O'Donnell, Elizabeth Perkins, …

Category: Fantasy

1 February 200015 December 2020 by Roog

Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)

Rating: ★

Sep 5, 2002Dracula Parody

Mel Brooks had a huge hit with Young Frankenstein, an affectionate spoof of the Universal Frankenstein films. Two decades on he returns to do the same for the Dracula film but with far more scattershot results.

Director: Mel Brooks

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Peter MacNichol, Steven Weber, Mel Brooks, …

Category: Horror

5 September 200223 March 2026 by Roog

The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000)

Rating: ★

Apr 23, 2000Prehistoric Comedy/Cartoon in Live-Action

Sequel to the live-action The Flintstones film. Whether we asked for it or not, this offers up a Flintstones origin story where we see familiar elements of the series fall into place

Director: Brian Levant

Actors: Mark Addy, Stephen Baldwin, Kristen Johnston, Jane Krakowski, …

Category: Fantasy

23 April 200031 July 2026 by Roog