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Movie Summary  Movie: The Magic Sword:  Young would-be knight George turns twenty and is very sad cuz he can't get him none. He's gaga for the Princess Helene, but stymied by his overprotective adoptive mother Sybil, a sorceress. He mopes around the house until Helene is captured by the evil wizard Lodac (Basil Rathbone), who plans to feed Helene to his two-headed dragon. George ditches Mom, de-petrifies some knights to help him out, and is off to the rescue. The breaks go his way as George gets through Lodac's seven curses and slays the dragon. Lodac's about to pull some last-ditch spell out of his codpiece when Sybil turns herself into a panther and kills him. George and Helene wed, and Sybil manages to control herself at the reception. — Paul Chaplin Host Segments  Prologue:  Joel draws caricatures—and the 'Bots are nude!  Invention:  Joel and the 'Bots wear Big Gulp Berets, designed for "whisper-thin bohemian types" who want to hold spring water instead of beer. Forrester has Designer Bio-Hazard Throw Pillows. Frank demonstrates with a one-act play, during which he sucks up some hazardous fumes and doesn't feel so good.  Segment 2:  Top trainer Joel Robinson promotes Basil Rathbones for dogs, packed with bits of Nigel Bruce.  Segment 3:  The whole gang does a pageant based on life in the Middle Ages. Servo undercuts the whole thing with bitter truth about the horrible lives back then.  Segment 4:  Crow sings of his love for Estelle Winwood in "Ode On Estelle." "She's cute/ She's rooty-toot-toot/ I bet she smells like Juicy Fruit!" Servo contributes a long musical list of people better looking than Crow's new crush.  Segment 5:  The crew runs through the naughty words you can't say on TV, like "hinder," "booger," "nimbus," and so on. They keep it up as Joel reads a letter. In Deep 13, the poison has eaten away Frank's flesh. He's nothing but a skeleton.  Stinger:  Sybil's two bald assistants joined at the waist, staring. Reflections Directed by Bert I. Gordon (0309 - The Amazing Colossal Man, 0313 - Earth Vs. The Spider, and others), this is actually a pretty good movie. The effects are fun—the two-headed dragon, for instance—and it's got a sense of humor. Besides Basil Rathbone, the movie features Estelle Winwood, an occasional witch on Bewitched, and Gary Lockwood, who was one of the astronauts sent to Jupiter in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Although Crow ostensibly rejects Kim CattraIl for Estelle Winwood in this show, it's not really true. His love for Kim has moved beyond the bounds of fiction. She responded to his original declaration by contacting Best Brains, and a long-distance relationship ensued. Most weekends for several years, Crow would fly out to L.A., and he and Kim would spend two or three days snuggling, ordering out, reading, and laughing. (Crow looks good traveling: a slim suitcase is all he carries, and he hides himself behind dark glasses.) Nevertheless, Crow's admiration for Estelle is genuine, and to be admired. Crow seems to have a more all-encompassing and even tantric notion of "woman" than most men. Strictly speaking, of course, Crow is not a man, which may help him transcend received notions of taste and desire. Merrit Stone is in this movie. Guess who he is? — Paul Chaplin