Link to the ISO episode (YouTube) 

Jeb, Blake and return guest Alex French are getting sleepy... sleepy... as we fall under the spell of Leonard Nimoy discussing HYPNOSIS. 

Nimoy Fashion Alert:

 

Mentioned in this episode: 

Trilby (novel) - the source of Svengali 

Dr. William Kroger (and his amazing red chair)

Dr. Joseph Barber  

Franz Mesmer  (of "mesmerism" fame) - the print is titled Le magnétisme dévoilé. I found references to it in the French national library. It's also reprinted in the book Science in the age of Sentimentality by Jessica Riskin.

 

Dr. Ron Katz (obit)

Van Pelt's mysterious "chair-camouflage" 

 

Ed Ray - hero bus driver. (obit)

The Chowchilla Bus Hijacking story

Let's learn French with hypnosis! Or should that be hypnose?

 

The Clonus Horror (the MST3K version)