It's our Quasi-annual Quest into the world of Questions, Queries & Queasts (There's "Mr. Show" fans here, right?). If we use your question, we send you one of our Swag packs, it's That Simple!

NEXT SHOW: THANKSGIVING ("The Telehell Feast of Gluttony"; our look at bad food commercials)

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SPECIAL: Guest host Scott Mason (Play Like a Jet Podcast) is here to guide you through the world of Sports...Particularly, Sports Gimmicks that were designed to bring in more viewers, but instead caused those same viewers to change the channel at world record speeds

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Dammit, we made it! 100 Episodes...and for the occasion, we're going to do things a little "Differently" while taking a look at a show that may have been a little Blasphemous to some viewers...

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And a SPECIAL THANK YOU To Everybody who has listened to the past 100 shows...even if This is your first time...

Why would a seemingly innocent sitcom about the End of the World Ever make it onto TV Guide's "Worst TV Shows of All time" List? Maybe a Jolly man in a Red Suit might have something to do with it.

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For this Special Thanksgiving episode, we've got a Turkey that we wouldn't even feed to our Dog...even if that Dog turned out to be a Reincarnated Peter Boyle.

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It's TV Movie Time once again; this time around, a 70s Horror Cult Classic Schlock-fest that has as many fans as it does foes...and would probably make Alfred Hitchcock's eyes roll in disgust.

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Oh, Baby, this sucks! All the Desitin in the World couldn't prevent this diaper rash from becoming an unfortunate by-product of the Dot-Com boom.

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An episode on Halloween is a Treat...too bad the show we're covering today was the biggest Trick played on fans of a TV Classic.

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Telehell reminds you once again, if you live in the United States and are able to do so, VOTE DAMMIT! because if you don't, chances are we're gonna wind up with an election like Bush V. Gore all over again...of course, that wouldn't have happened if the TV News didn't blow it in the first place...

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McLean Stevenson: One of the Textbook definitions of the term "What were You thinking?" As proof of that, here's a look at his 4th Sitcom flop since leaving M*A*S*H; one that relies a little too heavily on ethnic Stereotypes.

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Nothing is sacred in Telehell, not even Kids cartoons. The first one we're gonna cover is a slap in the face to the Mean Green Mutha from Outer Space.

SPECIAL THANKS to Joe Blevins of These Days are Ours: A Happy days Podcast, and to Rob Maurer for lending a hand in this one.

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SEASON 3 PREMIERE: We're kicking off Season 3 in a BIG way; as Telehell welcomes its first Guests--Peter Melnick & Eddie Wilson of "The Marvelists"--as they help us sift through the wreckage of a TV Movie Pilot that Almost killed off Wonder Woman before the TV series we know & love ever premiered.

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3...is a magic number...yes, it is...it's a Magic number...if that Magic happens to be one practiced in the Dark Arts. Here's a look at what's happening Starting October 4th.

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Special thanks to Mike Porter for being not only our Trailer voice, but he'll also be the New voice of our Introductions this season.

Our look at TV things that have the Underworld as a theme continues, as I get roped into pet sitting for the Boss' Hellhound...This 1970s TV Movie Schlockfest tells you what NOT to do when taking care of your domesticated demon.

Thank, still once again, Darren Marlar of Weird Darkness for being the Boss...

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It's that time again! That time where the boss chews me out over what we did in the past Season; plus, get a sneak preview of some of what we'll be covering in Season 3 this October.

NEXT EPISODE: "Ask Telehell 2" on August 16th

Thanks, as always, to Joan Bishop for lending a hand.

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SEASON FINALE: As punishment for skipping two subjects this season, I am now being forced to review Two Additional Episodes of "The Brady Bunch Hour"...Will I be able to maintain my sanity?

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SPECIAL THANKS to Joan Bishop & Rob Maurer for lending their time & talent to this episode. And even BIGGER THANKS to everybody who listened this season.

NEXT SHOW: July 12th, 2020

Part 1 of our SEASON FINALE triggers our descent into madness, as we take a look at a cheap cash-in on a TV Classic...

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This week, we look at the program that did more Damage than Godzilla, as it killed off the Variety Show format, damaged Sid & Marty Krofft's careers, and lit the fuse for Fred Silverman's removal from NBC.

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This week, we Celebrate Mother's Day by telling the tale of what TV  Guide once thought was the 2ND WORST TV SHOW OF ALL TIME...and it sure beats a brunch.

PLUS: Stay Tuned to the End for Details on how to enter our Latest Twitter contest (@TelehellPodcast) for a Collection of DVDs from the Showtime Network.

It's Spring! Which means Spring Cleaning! Which also means we get to mop the floor with a show that tried--and failed--to duplicate the success of other well established hits

This week, we take a look at the History Of & The Top 7 Worst (or at least, most awkward) uses of a TV Device that conditions people to laugh...whether the material we see is funny or not.

CAUTION: Some moments may be a little TOO Cringey.

There are reasons why a TV show never makes it to series after the "Pilot" phase...being a teenager who's able to conjure up a comedian for no reason ranks up there.

We return from our Spring Break in an uncertain world just so we can enter another kind of uncertain world...the Afterlife. As we present the case of the Only time (not counting his year on "Suddenly Susan") Eric Idle headlined a sitcom.

NOTE: This is the first episode we recorded in a makeshift home studio, we apologize for any sound distortion, we promise to improve next week.

It's hard to imagine that we've been doing this for (Almost) 100 episodes; and YET, we have Yet to cover TV shows that actually have a Hell-ish undertone...That all changes with this "Hell Week" of shows, starting with Sammy Davis Jr.'s Love Letter to the Underworld...

Thanks--as always--to Darren Marlar of Weird Darkness, and to our own Joan Bishop.

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Our Mid-Season Finale has it all: The Beast from that Disney movie, A Ghostbuster, The lady who danced on the car in that Whitesnake song, The guy who dropped an F-Bomb on SNL in Season 6 AND More "Beach Boys" music than allowed by law..........That means the movie is good, right?

After that, We're off for the rest of March, but We will Return with more Episodes on APRIL 5th, 2020.

FIRST: Details about a giveaway we're doing on Twitter Only

NEXT: Our feature presentation about televised feature presentations.

PLUS: We read some fan mail.

Love Stinks! And the 8 shows that we will be featuring here today is more than enough to consider a lifetime of celibacy.

"When you wish upon a Star......" You wonder how much cocaine was snorted in order to come up with one of the most Baffling Production Numbers ever broadcast on the Oscars.

We're crossing a BIG one off the list, just in time for Super Bowl Sunday. The tale of how one of the most infamous fabric rips in TV history came to be.

We take a few minutes to remember our "Patron Saint", as well as all the Positive achievements he made to television.

On this week before the Super Bowl, we talk about the reason why Football games push everything in Prime Time up about an hour or so; simply put, we have a little German girl to blame for it.

NOTE: We recorded this episode while getting over a week-long fever, I'm gonna sound pretty F'd up.

As the original Star Wars was gaining popularity, it was only a matter of time until all the imitators would try to flatter the audience...This short lived space spoof involving a barely competent crew of astro-trash men, women & clones was one of them. SPECIAL THANKS to Rob Maurer for his help this episode.

NOTE: We originally produced this episode in December, weeks before we heard that Buck Henry (the show's creator) had passed away. We dedicate this episode to him.

What happens when you take one of the most iconic Indie movies of all time, Remove everything about it that made it great, and add a Laugh Track, the future "Felicity" and "Goatboy"? You get a story that's a little over 37 Minutes to tell.

CAUTION: More Explicit Language/content than we normally allow.

SEASON 2 PREMIERE: Hindsight is 20/20; and if it weren't for Hindsight, ABC's News Magazine of the Same Name would Never have survived past its first episode in 1978. Telehell is Back with an All-New Season, and how could we NOT take advantage of Once in a lifetime Wordplay?

Why let Snow White and a bunch of Underachiving actors hog the spotlight of "Dumbest Oscar Moments" when there's nearly 100 years of ceremonies to sift through? These are some of the other "Dumb" moments that deserve the award for "Best reason to shake your head in shame"

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New Shows start January 5th, 2020; until then, here's a Small taste of what we have in store this time around...

HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: We look back at Season 1; and if you listen carefully, get a sneak preview of Season 2--all while our Boss breathes down our neck about it.

VERY SPECIAL THANKS to Adam Carrizales & Joan Bishop for lending their voices to this episode.

SEASON FINALE: This season would not be complete without looking at something that makes me vomit on the inside. How far would You be willing to go just to win a buck? If it means sacrificing your dignity and self respect, then have I got a Show for You!

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Say you're a popular TV show and two of its biggest stars leave in a pay dispute; what would you do to keep the show going? You hire clones of the Original, of course, and hope nobody is stupid enough to know the difference! What could Possibly go Wrong?

What discussion of Bad TV would be complete without talking about  the single most Expensive series/failure of all time (at the time). All Aboard for a trainwreck!

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Even Hell--let alone Telehell--has its limits. With that, here is a list of things that we cannot, will not, and will probably NEVER Review (Unless in certain circumstances)...or at least the ones we can think of off the top of our heads

NEW EPISODE: 16 years after the last ripoff of "Fawlty Towers", John Larroquette tries to avoid the mistakes that Bea Arthur made--even going so far as to get John Cleese's permission to do it--But do we get a well run hotel this time, or is this another place with stains on the mattress?

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This week, we take a look at one of the two most blatant ripoffs in TV history; as after "Maude", but before "Golden Girls", Bea Arthur tries to show off an impression of Basil Fawlty.

NOTE: This is a 2 Part episode, our "Nine Circles" will return in the next part.

Our maiden voyage into Telehell takes a look at a show that was such a critical and ratings flop in its first episode, that the 2nd episode was a 30 minute apology (Let’s see MTV do that today). Jackie Gleason’s one and only foray in hosting a game show, You're In The Picture is our first subject…

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Well folks, the time for Teasing has come to an end. In the next Five minutes; we're going to explain who we are, what we're about, and what subjects we're going to be covering over the next 12 weeks. We look forward to you coming back for more on July 7th.

Scott Mason (Play like a Jet podcast) Joins us at the 50-yard line as we take a look at the Three (theatrical) Halftime shows that may have caused the powers that be in the Football world to change their gameplans...

Also, after you listen to this show, catch me trying to pretend to talk about football as I make a Guest Appearance on "Play like a Jet"

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Here they come...walking down the street...gettin' funniest looks from everyone they meet...Partially because these Monkees don't look a thing like the ones they're supposed to be based on. Did "The New Monkees" deserve better, or were they really just a ripoff act?

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Our look at shows with "New" in the title continues with a look at what happens when something flashes in the pan, and people try to keep the pan flashing for as long as the can. As we see if NKOTB had "The Right Stuff" to be cartoon characters...

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We begin the New Year by taking a look at some shows that take Serious advantage of the word "New"...None more advantageous than an allegedly "New" sketch comedy show that looked a little TOO familiar to the few viewers who watched it...

Our thanks to Andrew Dick (That Week in SNL), Darin Patterson (SNL Nerds) and Ian Fermaglitch (Ian Talks Comedy) for a quick yet complex cameo.

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Once again, we spend our Christmas looking at a song turned Holiday TV Special; except This year, we're looking at one of The most Polarizing pieces of media that ever existed, and the TV Movie it inspired...Hold on to your shoes, Ladies & Gentledemons...We're going THERE.

Thanks again to Darren Marlar of "Weird Darkness" for playing our Boss. 

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