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Sep 29, 2026 · 53:27
We reach the end of a swamp not with a monster fight but a whimper in episodes nine and ten of Swamp Thing.
Sep 15, 2026 · 56:14
The Jackal reaches the end game at an unexpectedly fast pace in episodes three & four of Deadly Games.
Sep 1, 2026 · 54:32
Sometimes you're the Green, sometimes you're the Rot in episodes seven & eight of Swamp Thing.
Aug 18, 2026 · 1:09:33
What if a video game bad guy came to life but no one involved really understood video games or compelling television in episodes one and two of Deadly Games.
Aug 4, 2026 · 1:01:31
It's time for the mid-season origin story for a new superhero character that no one saw coming in episodes 5 & 6 of Swamp Thing.
Jul 21, 2026 · 59:34
Returning guest Michael joins us for a man on the run for being wrongfully accused of killing his wife but it was a robot-armed and legged and torso'd man who did it in the TV…
Jul 7, 2026 · 48:03
Swamp Thing solves some horrors of the week in episodes three & four of Swamp Thing.
Jun 23, 2026 · 52:47
After taking the Escape Pod™, we get a complete explanation for Chance's entire backstory in episode 17 of Strange Luck.
Jun 9, 2026 · 1:19:16
We go splashing around in the swamp as the pretty people face down some ugly deaths in episodes one & two of Swamp Thing.
May 26, 2026 · 1:12:55
One week you're getting mistaken for a racist hitman, the next you've lent your powers to a waitress in episodes five & six of Strange Luck.
May 12, 2026 · 52:18
In the future, Tom Hanks will kill you if you waste a single kilowatt in the short-form digital series Electric City.
Apr 28, 2026 · 1:08:10
Chance uses his luck to ensure the right man gets executed and the right man gets stabbed to death in the street in episodes three & four of Strange Luck.
Apr 14, 2026 · 1:07:35
Returning guest Mark does a ride along as Brogan and the squad take on slumlords and space spores in episodes 23 & 24 of Space Precinct.
Mar 31, 2026 · 1:02:53
We take a chance on whether a coincidence is science fiction in episodes one & two of Strange Luck.
Mar 17, 2026 · 54:27
Brogan tries to figure out who let the dogs and the organs out in episodes 7 and 8 of Space Precinct.
Mar 3, 2026 · 1:08:09
Guest Chris enters the building that makes you slide in the TV movie Parallels.
Feb 17, 2026 · 36:37
A documentary from the front lines of a nuclear strike on the UK that never happened in the TV movie The War Game.
Feb 3, 2026 · 1:07:27
Returning guest Ryan from Yum Yum Pod shows up to defend the indefensible in the finale of Night Visions.
Jan 20, 2026 · 1:01:23
There's a mad bomber and a cyborg on the loose in episodes 5 & 6 of Space Precinct.
Jan 6, 2026 · 1:00:54
Guest David returns for some cautionary tales of picking up hitchhikers, dying and coming back to life, and just being crazy in episodes 5 & 6 of Night Visions.
Dec 23, 2025 · 58:51
The precinct takes on a hologram and a dangerous new street drug that improves your health in episodes 3 & 4 of Space Precinct.
Dec 9, 2025 · 1:03:10
Returning guest Jamie envisions a star-studded outing of half-baked twists in episodes 3 & 4 of Night Visions.
Nov 25, 2025 · 1:16:33
Guest Bazil discovers that in the space justice system, aliens are considered especially weird looking in episodes one & two of Space Precinct.
Nov 11, 2025 · 1:04:13
The visions start coming and they don't stop coming as the spooky anthology series gets a new millennium upgrade (?) in episodes one & two of Night Visions.
Oct 28, 2025 · 59:41
A very bad boy is making Halloween extra satanic in the TV movie Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell.
Oct 21, 2025 · 7:54
The podcast returns on Oct 28!
May 20, 2025 · 16:50
We're going on a hiatus and stopping down the podcast for a while but before we do, it's a baby shower for Jordan!
May 13, 2025 · 1:27:37
Vincent Price assures us that everything makes senses and that everyone is making a change to their lives but we aren't sure he's right in episode 3 & 4 of Time Express.
Apr 29, 2025 · 1:12:02
It's the end of the world as they know it and the Russians need to save Tom in episodes 5 & 6 of Moonbase 3.
Apr 15, 2025 · 47:31
All aboard for a time bending lessons in second chances with Vincent Price in episodes one & two of Time Express.
Apr 1, 2025 · 50:20
The moon is just like any other office - full of annoying co-workers - in episodes three & four of Moonbase 3.
Mar 18, 2025 · 48:01
With a metal plate in his head, only one man is immune to mind control and he uses his powers to have a meet-cute in the TV movie Night Slaves.
Mar 4, 2025 · 53:18
A pre-Brexit EU has a base on the moon where they're up to all sorts of science and paperwork in episodes one & two of Moonbase 3.
Feb 25, 2025 · 54:59
Listener Ryan made a generous donation to the Annex Cat Rescue to send us back to early-90s, vampire-ridden Toronto with a special appearance by guest Don, a former crew member,…
Feb 18, 2025 · 38:16
After taking the Escape Pod™, Ramos gets the chance to shine as Pratt and Bartok try to make an old timey movie in episode 12 of Legend.
Feb 4, 2025 · 1:02:26
Germany, 1970. You can get hunted for money for the entertainment of millions and to sell a variety of bizarre products in the TV movie Das Millionenspiel/The Millions Game.
Jan 28, 2025 · 8:49
In this Deleted Scene, 승수 (Chris) gives us some final notes and final quotes.
Jan 21, 2025 · 1:16:54
Guest 승수 (Chris) climbs aboard Bartok's proto-drone as General Custer and Wild Bill Hickock drop by for some alt-history in episodes four & five of Legend.
Jan 7, 2025 · 1:11:53
The breach is on as all mysteries come into focus in episodes 3 & 4 of The City & The City.
Dec 24, 2024 · 57:56
Pratt (and to a lesser extent Bartok) mix it up with a Robin Hood-style bank robber and the 18th president of the United States in episodes 2 & 3 of Legend.
Dec 10, 2024 · 1:09:17
Returning guest Stephen squints his eyes to see between the blurry neo-noir of episodes one & two of The City & The City.
Nov 26, 2024 · 43:15
The Old West gets a steampunk twist when MacGyver and Q team up for historical tomfoolery in episode one of Legend.
Nov 12, 2024 · 58:22
Guest Allie joins us for a fleshy little freak that wants to take ET's place in your heart in the TV movie Wishman.
Oct 29, 2024 · 1:01:30
Returning guest Billy joins us for a Halloween episode with some rowdy chaps who annoy a ghost with science in the TV movie The Stone Tape.
Oct 15, 2024 · 48:50
We take the Escape Pod™ while sniffing some tanctonip and worry about everyones interspecies relationships in episode 21 of Alien Nation.
Oct 1, 2024 · 48:14
Arrakis gets it's very own Sonic the Sandworm to do something that isn't entirely clear while the Atreides deals with some interpersonal issues in Part 3 of Frank Herbert's…
Sep 17, 2024 · 1:20:08
Bad cop & Tenctonese cop have to protect a witness, be better fathers, survive a siege and mind control gas in episodes three & four of Alien Nation.
Sep 3, 2024 · 45:46
Arrakis jumps 15 to 20 years into the future, where Leto 2 & his sis Ghanima are chillin' out, maxin', relaxin' all cool when the mind-ghost of Baron Harkonnen starts makin'…
Aug 20, 2024 · 1:26:46
Returning guest Jane is our Uncle Moodri, who drops in to give us wacky new-aged advice, in episodes 1 & 2 of Alien Nation.
Aug 6, 2024 · 46:57
Susan Sarandon conspires to take down the Muad'Dib with a little help from that rascal Bijaz in part one of Frank Herbert's Children of Dune.
Jul 23, 2024 · 1:30:55
Aliens have landed and they have a little something to teach us about our prejudice in episode 0 of Alien Nation.
Jul 9, 2024 · 52:07
The Tommys come a knockin' as the deaths get wackier in Part 2 of The Tommyknockers.
Jun 25, 2024 · 59:59
Jimmy Smits has a plate in his head to protect him from the wacky inventions the glowing green lights make in part one of this TV movie adaptation of Stephen King's The…
Jun 11, 2024 · 40:22
The British Parliament needs someone to figure out if sex and violence is bad for the British public and there is only one person they can trust - a popular rock'n'roll musician-…
May 28, 2024 · 37:55
The unholy trinity of pilot episode villains return to assassinate Old Detroit's #1 crime fighter and also maybe the President of the United States if she happens to be there in…
May 21, 2024 · 35:22
Listener Adam made a generous donation to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health to bring vampire cop Nick Knight back for a 90s virtual reality murder mystery in this Bonus…
May 14, 2024 · 48:03
They blow up a character and replace their secretary while a chicken grows a couple of human heads and a manufactured virus moves into a village in Season 2 Episodes 1 & 2 of…
Apr 30, 2024 · 55:29
Returning guest Dave does the math as one kid with four bad lungs sustains two storylines with zero lighting in episodes 5 & 6 of Robocop.
Apr 16, 2024 · 47:12
Quist and the team investigate why women love chocolate and cigarettes before heading to Wales for literal and metaphorical cock fights in Season 1 Episodes 7 & 11 of Doomwatch.
Apr 2, 2024 · 1:04:40
Old Detroit's mechanical crime fighter takes on religion and weight loss in Delta City in episodes three & four of RoboCop.
Mar 19, 2024 · 1:10:41
It's all political gamesmanship and existential threats as the Department of Measurement of Scientific Works try to keep humanity from ending itself in Season 1 Episodes 1 & 4 of…
Mar 5, 2024 · 1:06:22
Everyone's favourite robotic law enforcement officer comes to the small screen to do battle with Dick Tracy level villains in episodes one & two of RoboCop.
Feb 27, 2024 · 7:44
We're coming back with a few format changes and also Luke forgot how to record audio.
Oct 20, 2023 · 50:11
That's a wrap on our fifth year of watching and chatting about old sci fi & sci fi-adjacent TV. We are going on hiatus but before we do, we look back and the best and worst TV…
Oct 17, 2023 · 1:06:01
Storm’s a blowin’ as two women have visions of their deaths - one during a hurricane and another after eye surgery - in Season 2 Episodes 11 & 12 of The Sixth Sense.
Oct 10, 2023 · 1:20:21
Dr. Michael Rhodes takes a backseat as two Oscar-winners take over the ESPing in Season 2 Episodes 2 & 9 of The Sixth Sense.
Oct 3, 2023 · 59:26
Dr. Rhodes takes on an uncle-killing witch and an angry horse ghost in Season 1 Episodes 8 & 10 of The Sixth Sense.
Sep 26, 2023 · 1:07:20
A professor studies psychic phenomena as the Vietnam war rages and ghosts gaslight the living in Season 1 Episodes 1 & 6 of The Sixth Sense.
Sep 19, 2023 · 1:10:26
There is an alternate world where George RR Martin created Sliders in the TV movie/failed pilot for Doorways.
Sep 12, 2023 · 45:57
Hollywood heads to the swamp in Season 3 Episode 39 of Swamp Thing.
Sep 5, 2023 · 1:10:23
Things are changing in the swamp with a recycling plant, a hot new teen heartthrob, and an evil nature documentary in Season 2 Episodes 5 & 8 of Swamp Thing.
Aug 29, 2023 · 55:18
Grandma is dead, Man-Bird is on a rampage and there a boy with a tin ear in Season 1 Episodes 11 & 12 of Swamp Thing
Aug 22, 2023 · 58:11
We get lost in the surreal and unhinged swamps in the live-action 1990 series Swamp Thing of Season 1 Episodes 1 & 10.
Aug 15, 2023 · 48:31
Get your mind erased to a perfect Alpha-10 state so you can drive a race car while occasionally faking a British accent in the TV movie/failed pilot for The Ultimate Impostor.
Aug 8, 2023 · 54:36
We poke a alien corpse with a stick before running off to join the circus in Season 2 Episodes 10 & 12 of The Tripods.
Aug 1, 2023 · 46:52
The boys get into sports before heading to the City of Gold with all its tentacle monsters in Season 2 Episodes 1 & 8 of The Tripods.
Jul 25, 2023 · 35:22
The boys make it to the White Mountains with explosive results in The Tripods Season 1 Episodes 12 & 13.
Jul 18, 2023 · 48:08
We welcome our new overlords on Capping Day in Season 1 Episodes 1 & 4 of The Tripods.
Jul 11, 2023 · 53:31
We trade our names for numbers and are assigned glass houses in the dystopian TV movie Wir.
Jul 4, 2023 · 1:09:46
We find the end of the slide hole as Rembrandt and his squad of replacements stumble into the slide-ology religion and a way home in Sliders Season 5 Episode 18.
Jun 27, 2023 · 1:24:07
Returning guest Jane comes back for more Sliders for a Maggie swap and Rembrandt taking the lead in Season 4 Episode 16 & Season 5 Episode 1.
Jun 20, 2023 · 1:15:46
We hang ten on a slide wave and go to a world with a knock-off Jerry Springer in Sliders Season 4 Episodes 5 & 13.
Jun 13, 2023 · 1:27:28
It's time to die for one of the Sliders as a parallel Earth gets pulsar'd in Season 3 Episodes 16 & 17.
Jun 6, 2023 · 58:59
We take the riverboat all the way to the source only to watch it get blown up in Part Two of the 2010 TV miniseries Riverworld.
May 30, 2023 · 1:15:37
Wake up in a post-Iraq War allegory menaced by the Blue Man Group in Part One of the 2010 TV miniseries Riverworld.
May 23, 2023 · 1:19:36
Before getting scuttled the seaQuest starts & stops armageddon during the Cuban Missile Crisis while Tim tries out online dating in seaQuest 2032 Season 3 Episodes 10 & 13.
May 16, 2023 · 1:32:16
We jump 10 years into the future where Roy Scheider does his contractually obligated duties as seaQuest's former captain while facing off against his replacement Michael Ironside…
May 9, 2023 · 1:27:52
Sea monsters threaten the oceans of Earth and space aliens threaten the oceans of some other planet in Season 2 Episodes 11 & 20 of seaQuest DSV.
May 2, 2023 · 44:55
The mudman cometh but he didn't count on a sports writer with a direct line to the spirt world in the failed pilot/TV movie The World Beyond.
Apr 25, 2023 · 1:44:20
A million year old alien ship precedes a crew shift change as seaQuest DSV retools in Season 1 Episode 20 and Season 2 Episode 6.
Apr 18, 2023 · 1:18:08
Guest Derek enlists on the seaQuest DSV for a frightfully spooky sunken ship and a frightfully French sunken submarine in Season 1 Episodes 7 & 8.
Apr 11, 2023 · 1:23:08
We take a journey to the bottom of the ocean with a talking dolphin, an elderly captain and a teen heartthrob in seaQuest DSV Season 1 Episode 0.
Apr 4, 2023 · 1:07:35
Returning guest Kevin witnesses Art Hindle asexually reproduce in the TV movie/failed pilot for The Clone Master.
Mar 31, 2023 · 16:13
Jordan does a Forever Knight fanfic reading featuring Nick & Dr. Nat.
Mar 28, 2023 · 1:16:58
Its a grave turn to say the least as we meet with Nick & friends one last time in Forever Knight Season 3 Episode 22.
Mar 21, 2023 · 1:09:46
The end is near as an asteroid threatens Toronto and a clip show threatens Schanke's sanity in Forever Knight Season 2 Episodes 20 & 25.
Mar 14, 2023 · 1:24:34
Nick ruminates on obsession before a certain someone turns out not to be dead after all in Season 1 Episode 22 and Season 2 Episode 1 of Forever Knight.
Mar 7, 2023 · 1:17:09
Returning guest Stephen stalks the night as psychics find missing people and vampires go to East Berlin in Season 1 Episodes 6 & 21 of Forever Knight.
Feb 28, 2023 · 1:20:49
After dark in Toronto, a vampire cop fights crime, battles his past and makes out with the ladies in Season 1 Episodes 1 & 2 of Forever Knight.
Feb 21, 2023 · 56:27
We catch a supersonic ride into Earth's orbit with a sleepy Lee Majors in the TV movie Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land.
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