He moves in a heavy stupor as if the vamp has drained him of blood.To set his possessed plan in motion, he tells her that she is invited on a picnic outing in heir rowboat.Upstairs, Barry""s young single mother Jillian Guiler (Melinda Dillon) is roused from her sleep by an invasion of her son""s activated toys and the fact that her television set has turned on, airing an episode of the mid-1970s TV show "Police Woman" starring Angie Dickinson.[A TV News report told of man""s first manned space flight to Mars.Eight months after its launch,The Icaruswas entering the Mars atmosphere.The next day""sSan Francisco Chroniclewas headlined: "Lost in Space?" Note: This was a nod to the original film - a space flight led by Colonel Taylor (Charles Heston).Because of her "bit o"" luck" the previous night when Higgins generously threw coins into her flower basket, she gives her father a half-crown.