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Trivia: The members of the Midnight Society are never shown lighting the fire. Nickelodeon was concerned that younger children might try it at home.

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Problem at Sea - S1-E7

Trivia: Poirot in the ship's lounge is reading the actual May 1st 1935 issue of Bystander (recognizable by the cover and with the correct page order, does not seem to be a simple movie prop), roughly consistent with the time frame of the first season and a contest taking place on the 14th. (00:07:50)

Sammo

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Chopper - S1-E15

Trivia: The name "Backus" is written on a tarp in the Cook County Warehouse that Kolchak is investigating. Jim Backus guest-starred in this episode as a motorcycle dealer.

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Show Stoppers - S4-E12

Trivia: They pay homage to the original 1932 movie Freaks. In Freaks, Cleopatra gets mutilated and turned into a tarred and feathered bird for visitors to gawk at in terror. Hercules gets viciously attacked under the carnival vehicle. In this episode, Stanley gets cornered by all the freaks under the carnival vehicle and gets viciously attacked and mutilated to resemble Meep (a feathered freak who was killed by the cops in an earlier episode).

Tricia Webster

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Trivia: In the pilot episode, "The LSD Story" Friday states that the population of Los Angeles was seven million people. As of 1970, it was only 2,811,801 people, unless he meant the whole county, which was 7,032,075.

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Pilot - S1-E1

Trivia: Originally, the new "Ghost Face" mask was meant to be made out of human flesh that was being stretched over the killer's face, hence it distorts and resembles a "screaming face" like the original Ghost Face mask. This idea was dropped relatively early in filming. However, several scenes had already been filmed with the killer for the pilot, so in some shots, the mask is actually a CG model that's been added in over the original. (Though thankfully it's hard to tell which scenes have the digital mask).

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Season 2 generally

Trivia: Since episode 10 of season 2, "Nor I, Nigel AKA Leg in Iron", all the episode names (at least to episode 21) are palindromes (a word or phase spelled the same forward or backwards).

Bishop73

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Among the Few - S2-E2

Trivia: The fuel station features metal miniblinds in several scenes. These did not become available until the early 1940s and would aluminium be diverted from airplane production to blinds?

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Trivia: Bert Cohen was paged on the intercom in the Desert Inn more than any other name heard in the whole series. In second place was Monty Levine and third was Thomas Shefsky.

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Trivia: Except for the pilot, all of the show's season 1 episodes are named after Led Zeppelin songs, and all of the current season 2 episodes are named after R.E.M. songs.

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