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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!

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.

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.

All aboard for a time bending lessons in second chances with Vincent Price in episodes one & two of Time Express.

The moon is just like any other office - full of annoying co-workers - in episodes three & four of Moonbase 3.

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.

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.

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, for this bonus episode on Season 2 Episode 18 of Forever Knight.

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.

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.

In this Deleted Scene, 승수 (Chris) gives us some final notes and final quotes.

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.

The breach is on as all mysteries come into focus in episodes 3 & 4 of The City & The City.

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.

Returning guest Stephen squints his eyes to see between the blurry neo-noir of episodes one & two of The City & The City.

The Old West gets a steampunk twist when MacGyver and Q team up for historical tomfoolery in episode one of Legend.

Guest Allie joins us for a fleshy little freak that wants to take ET's place in your heart in the TV movie Wishman.

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.

We take the Escape Pod™ while sniffing some tanctonip and worry about everyones interspecies relationships in episode 21 of Alien Nation.

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 Children of Dune.

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.

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' trouble in the neighbourhood in Part 2 of Frank Herbert's Children of Dune.

Returning guest Jane is our Uncle Moodri, who drops in to give us wacky new-aged advice, in episodes 1 & 2 of Alien Nation.

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.

Aliens have landed and they have a little something to teach us about our prejudice in episode 0 of Alien Nation.

The Tommys come a knockin' as the deaths get wackier in Part 2 of The Tommyknockers.

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 Tommyknockers.

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- in Season 3 Episode 12 of Doomwatch.

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 episode 23 of RoboCop.

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 Episode for Charity on Season Episode 15 of Forever Knight.

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 Doomwatch.

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.

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.

Old Detroit's mechanical crime fighter takes on religion and weight loss in Delta City in episodes three & four of RoboCop.

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 Doomwatch.

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. 

We're coming back with a few format changes and also Luke forgot how to record audio.

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 we've watched according to the numbers.

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.

Dr. Michael Rhodes takes a backseat as two Oscar-winners take over the ESPing in Season 2 Episodes 2 & 9 of The Sixth Sense.

Dr. Rhodes takes on an uncle-killing witch and an angry horse ghost in Season 1 Episodes 8 & 10 of The Sixth Sense.

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.

There is an alternate world where George RR Martin created Sliders in the TV movie/failed pilot for Doorways.

Hollywood heads to the swamp in Season 3 Episode 39 of Swamp Thing.

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.

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 

We get lost in the surreal and unhinged swamps in the live-action 1990 series Swamp Thing of Season 1 Episodes 1 & 10.

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.

We poke a alien corpse with a stick before running off to join the circus in Season 2 Episodes 10 & 12 of The Tripods.

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.

The boys make it to the White Mountains with explosive results in The Tripods Season 1 Episodes 12 & 13.