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A big of an audio disaster has my laptop deicided to switch to my build in mic, which is only little better than a cup on a string.

Base on the 1981 film

"Kevin Haddock"

A boy struggles to make the most of everyday life-until a bumbling gang of thieves lands in his bedroom.

Episode 373 is Star Maidens (1976)

"Escape To Paradise"

Medusa, torn from orbit around Proxima Centauri by a comet, was sent careering through space. Ages later, with Medusa now in orbit between Uranus and Neptune, Adam and Shem escape the autocratic all-female Medusan society and head to earth.

Episode 372 is "Small Wonder" (1985)

"Vicki's Homecoming"

Genius United Robotronics cybernetics engineer Ted Lawson, brings home for assembly and long-term field beta testing Vicki, or V.I.C.I. (Voice Input Child Identicant): a secretly constructed robotic domestic aide in the form of a 10-year-old girl, to whom housewife Joan takes a shine while 10-year-old son Jamie instantly takes advantage of Vicki as a maid to clean his room and do his homework.

Episode 371 is House M.D. (2004)

"Pilot"

Young kindergarten teacher Rebecca Adler collapses in her classroom after losing intelligible speech while teaching students.

Episode 370 is Tag Team(1991)

Tricky Rick MacDonald and Billy The Body Youngblood are two of the best wrestlers in the country. They are told to take a dive by the wife of a promoter. If they don't, she will make sure they are blackballed from wrestling. When they don't do what she says, they are fired immediately. They try many jobs without any success. When they stop a grocery store robbery, they get the idea to be cops. So begins a new chapter in the life of this tag team

Episode 369 is She Spies (2002)

Three cute, humorous women are taken out of prison to work for the government as spies - a crime fighting unit.

"First Episode"

An ex US presidential candidate, who's been given his own TV talk show, might be assassinated. The 3 cute ex cons get to prevent this as their first job as a unit.

Episode 368 is Captain Z-Ro (1955)

"Christopher Columbus"

Captain Z-Ro goes back to 1492 in order to put down an attempted mutiny happening on board Christopher Columbus' ship the Santa Maria.

Episode 367 is The Powers Of Matthew Star (1982)

"Jackal"

Matthew Star appears to be a typical teenager, but in actuality is an alien who is a member of the ruling family of his planet, who are endowed with powers like telekinesis and telepathy. When his home planet was invaded, his parents gave him when he was a baby to one of their trusted emissaries, who went to Earth because it's almost like their home world.

Episode 366 is T and T (1988)

"Extortion in Chinatown"

When a Vietnamese grocer is roughed up by a Chinese extortion gang, T and T. get involved.

Episode 365 is The Fugitive (1963)

"Fear in a Desert City"

After being on the run for 6 months, Richard Kimble falls in love with a beautiful woman who has a young son. She also has a physically abusive, estranged husband, that wants Kimble out of town, or dead.

Episode 06 of Murder She Wrote: Hit, Run and Homicide

We are back with another Jessica episode, I'm joined with Joanne to chat about this season one episode.

Jessica and the police are baffled by a seemingly driver-less car that suddenly appears in Cabot Cove and runs down a visitor who had fired local inventor Dan O'Brien.

Episode 5 of Murder she wrote

"lovers and other Killers"

While in Seattle for a series of lectures, Jessica is drawn into a dangerous case involving young secretary David Tolliver accused of killing his wealthy older lady friend Allison Brevard

Episode 364 is The Wizard (1986)

An eccentric inventor has adventures battling evil around the world.

"El Dorado"

U.S. assigns one of their best agents Alex Jagger to protect The Wizard. On Alex's first day, Simon (Wizard) meets a boy who has cancer. Simon learns that unless he gets a transplant he won't last long and the only possible donor is his brother who's an archaeologist. So Simon drags Alex to where his brother is so that he can go back and help the boy. But his brother is being held captive by his benefactor who wants to keep the treasures that was found for himself.

Episode 363 is Red Shoe Diaries (1992)

Jake yearns to understand the secret life of his late fiancee. To find the answer, he solicits the most heartfelt, passionate, and intimate entries in other women's diaries.

"Safe Sex"

A woman looking for release from the pressuring job finds a man looking for the same thing. Protection and no names are the rules of the Tuesday and Thursday affair. The woman puts spice into the affair as well as the man until the woman snoops through the man's mail and finds his name breaking the rules. The affair is broken off until they re-unite weeks later and start over again with a normal relationship.

Episode 362 is Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures (1992)

Unaired Pilot

Bill and Ted are forced to get jobs at a local hardware store, Nail World, to buy a new amp, but they insult the store manager's daughter and must go back in time to fix this, inadvertently giving life to a noir comic book femme fatale.

Episode 361 is Mr & Mrs Smith (1996)

"Pilot"

Both assigned to the same target, a spy squares off with an international assassin.

Episode 360 is Red light and Siren (1956)

A U.S. Marine sergeant on a 3 day pass is hitchhiking home.

He is pick up by an angry, aggressive man who viciously attacks him.

The detectives have only a few leads.

Episode 359 is Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005)

"The Boy In The Iceberg"

In a war-torn world of elemental magic, a young boy reawakens to undertake a dangerous mystic quest to fulfill his destiny as the Avatar, and bring peace to the world.

Episode 358 is Captain Planet and The Planteteers (1990)

"A Hero For Earth"

Five teenagers work together to encourage enviromentally responsible behavior and combing thier powers unleash earth mightest hero, Captain Planet

Episode is Goodnight Sweetheart (1993)

"Rites Of Passage"

Tv Repairman, Gary Sparrow takes a wrong turn back in time to 1940's war torn London.

Episode 356 is Land of the Giants (1968)

"The Crash"

On June 12, 1983, a sub-orbital aircraft named the Spindrift flying from Los Angeles is pulled into a space warp which transports its crew and passengers into another dimension

Episode 4 of Murder She Wrote "It's a dog's life"

There's in-fighting and backstabbing galore when wealthy Denton Langley snubs his family and leaves most of his estate to a dog, which is discovered after his fatal fall from a drugged horse.

So jump back in to Murder she Wrote with episode 3 Hooray For Homicide,

a bit of a solo endeavour while my co host recovers.

Might change the format a bit as I go forward.

A retro episode back from 2016 Man From Atlanis (1977)

Until we are back up and running here is some retro fun?

A water-breathing human, the sole survivor of an underwater civilization called Atlantis, emerges from the ocean and has to learn to deal with the air-breathers on the surface.

Episode 355 is One Piece (2023)

"Romance Dawn"

A boy named Monkey D. Luffy embarks on a journey to attain the greatest treasure: the one piece. After the former pirate king's public execution 22 years ago, the world has entered a great pirate era, and Luffy aims to be at the top.

Episode 354 is Ghosts US (2021)

"Pilot"

Married New Yorkers Samantha and Jay Arondekar believe that their dreams have come true when they inherit a beautiful country house from Sophie Woodstone, Sam's great aunt, only to find that it is falling apart and inhabited by ghosts who died on the mansion's grounds and are now bound to the area, appearing as they did at the times of their deaths, until they can reach the afterlife. Jay cannot see or hear the ghosts, but Sam can after a near-death experience.

Episode 353 is Tabatha (1976)

This is the first of two pilot made of the spin off of Bewitched

"Pilot"

Tabitha receives a visit from her brother Adam. Meanwhile, she falls in love with her co-worker Cliff and reveals her identity as a witch to him.

Episode 352 is Pan Am (2011)

"Pilot"

Dean takes on his first assignment since his promotion, piloting the Clipper Majestic on its inaugural New York to London flight. Bridget is supposed to be his lead stewardess, until she's a no-show for the flight. Grounded purser Maggie is called in to fill in for her. On the same fateful flight, Kate adds another dimension to her work as she takes on her first assignment from U.S. intelligence. Her stress is compounded when she discovers that newly minted stewardess, Laura, her sister, is also working the same flight.

Episode 351 is My Friend Flicka (1955)

"One Man's Horse"

Flicka is stolen by an outlaw whose horse has gone lame.

Episode 350 is Grange Hill (1978)

"Episode One"

The new comprehensive looks intimidating for the new kids starting at Grange Hill.

Episode 349 is Police Woman (1974)

"The End Game"

The police are after a gang of bank robbers made up of 3 men and 2 women. The gang has been very successful and done very little to identify themselves. They have very few leads until Pepper uncovers a clue which leads them to Las Vegas where they believe the gang is from. Soon Pepper, Crowley and other officers are undercover staking out various banks in the hopes of being inside when they strike next.

Episode 348 is VR.5 (1995)

"Pilot"

A tech wizardwith tragic past discovers that she can use her VR techto bring poeple into her VR world via phone and see or alter their subconsciousness.

Episode 347 is The Outer Limits (1963)

"The Galaxy Being"

A scientific technician working at a radio station makes first contact with an energy alien from the Andromeda galaxy. An underling's disobedience brings it to Earth.

Retro LTP recorded in  2016 BATMAN (1966)

"Hi Diddle Riddle"

While the Riddler maneuvers Batman into being sued, the Dynamic Duo investigate the supervillain's concurrent scheme.

Retro LTP episode The Flash (1990)

Look back at our 8th Episode from 2016

"Pilot"

A laboratory accident endows a police scientist with the ability to move at superhuman speed which he uses to battle a menacing  biker gang as a superhero.

Can Barry run fast enough to save the day.

Episode 346 is Probe (1988)

"Computer Logic"

A misanthropic scientist and his quirky new secretary attempt to shut down an artificially intelligent computer that has decided to start killing people. 

Episode 345 is Jason King (1971)

"Wanna Buy a Television Series?"

In order to interest a television mogul in buying his stories for the small screen,novelist and adventurer Jason King describes to the man a typical plot involving his hero Mark Caine. Caine meets a girl who has been given plastic surgery to resemble the deceased Michele who died in a fire. She is taken by two crooks to meet Bellini, a fence of Michele's acquaintance,supposedly suffering from amnesia,to find out where he has hidden his private stash of valuables. Caine is aware that the girl will be killed once she has served her purpose and steps in to rescue her. 

Episode 344 is Halt and Catch Fire (2014)

I/O

The Texan company Cardiff Electronics gets a new employee from New York. He's apparently working for IBM, but after he gets the new job it gets clear that he has a hidden agenda, and is not exactly what he claims to be. 

Episode 343 is The Adventurer (1972)

"Miss Me Once, Miss Me Twice and Miss Me Once Again"

The Adventurer "Gene Bradley" (Gene Barry) plays the most dangerous role of his career...as stand-in for a potential murder victim.

Episode 342 is Ghost Story (1972)

"The New House"

A young couple move into a home that is haunted by a young girl

Episode 341 is X-Men (1992)

Animated adventure with some Mutants

"Night Of The Sentinels (part 1)"

A young teenager has been rejecting her mutant powers ever since she discovered them. But when giant robots track her down, it's up to the X-Men to save her.

Episode 340 is NCIS (2003)

"Yankee White"

Aboard Air Force One a Naval officer dies after eating with the Potus, then a Marine officer (connected with AF1) also dies in Georgetown in the same way. Abby identifies the cause, and Gibbs thwarts an attempt to assassinate the PotUS. 

Episode 339 is Transformers (1984)

"More Than Meets The Eye (part 1)"

As the Energon supply runs low on the planet Cybertron, the Autobots leave to find a new energy source. Their enemies, the Decepticons, follow. After a vicious battle in space, both of their ships crash land on Earth. 

Episode 338 Is The Love Boat: The Next Wave (1998)

"Smooth Sailing"

The crew of a huge cruise ship awaits its new captain, Captain Jim Kennedy III, who left his US Navy career early for personal reasons. As if this transit weren't hard enough, his ex immediately forces upon him the care for their 15 year-old son Danny, a problem kid with a juvenile record; the captain orders Chief Purser Will Sanders to watch the boy permanently.

Retro episode from 2016 Wonder Woman (1975)

After a dogfight with a Nazi plane, U.S. Air Force Steve Trevor crashlands on an uncharted island in the Bermuda Triangle. Paradise Island is inhabited only by women, and their existence has been kept a secret for thousands of years. Learning of the Nazi threat to humanity, the Amazon princess, Diana, is chosen to accompany Trevor back to the United States

Retro blast from our past while we take a break

Episode 007 The Adventures Of Superman recorded back when the world was young

April 2016

"Superman of Earth"

Episode 337 is time to dance your cares away and let the Fraggles play down in.....

Fraggle Rock (1983)

"Beginnings"

Gobo's Uncle Matt discovers the opening to Outer Space and sets off to explore it, leaving Gobo behind to explore Fraggle Rock and pick up the postcards Matt will send.

Episode 336 is Dungeons and Dragons (1983)

A group of kids are thrown into a fantasy world where they must search for a way home, armed with magic weapons that an evil tyrant wants

"The Night of No Tomorrow"

The pupils seek out and find Merlin, and he'll teach the pupil Presto magic, if he stays with Merlin. Presto decides to stay and attempts a spell to create a way home, but the spell summons dragons instead which attack a nearby village

Episode 335 is The Story Teller: Greek Myths (1991)

"Theseus & the Minotaur"

Theseus, with help from a beautiful Minotaur, versus the savage princess , half-woman half-bull.

Episode 334 is Jim Henson's The Storyteller (1987)

"Hans My Hedgehog"

A barren peasant woman, desperately craving a child, naively says aloud that she wouldn't care what it looks like. Soon enough, she gives birth to a baby who resembles a hedgehog, much to the father's dismay and the scorn of the villagers.