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Episode 393 is So Haunt Me (1992) "A Haunted House" Recently made redundant from his job in advertising Pete Rokeby moves,with his wife Sally,teen-aged daughter Tammy,little son David and their dog to a much smaller house,which smells of chicken soup. Hearing noises in the night Sally investigates and meets the ghost of Yetta Feldman,a Jewish former occupant of the house who choked to death on a chicken bone twenty-one years earlier and has seen off seventeen previous sets of house-holders. Pete and Tammy cannot see Yetta and think that Sally is hallucinating after a tiring day - but David can.
Episode 392 is part 2 of B J and the Bear (1978) "The Foundlings" Part 2 B. J. McKay, a guitar-playing independent trucker who travels with a fun-loving chimpanzee named Bear, finds himself caught up with a bunch of young women trying to flee a white slaver who happens to be the local sheriff.
Episode 391 is B J And The Bear (1978) "The Foundlings" Part 1 B. J. McKay, a guitar-playing independent trucker who travels with a fun-loving chimpanzee named Bear, finds himself caught up with a bunch of young women trying to flee a white slaver who happens to be the local sheriff.
Episode 390 is The DayOf The Triffids (1981) "Episode 1" Bill, who works at a farm for deadly plants called triffids, was temporarily blinded by one of them and is now in hospital. The hour approaches for the bandages over his eyes to come off, but a strange silence pervades the room.
Episode 389 is The Swiss Family Robinson (1974) "The Arrival" In 1801, a family from Switzerland is shipwrecked on a deserted tropical island. All wash ashore safely except their younger son Franz, who is presumed dead.
Episode 388 is Lucan (1977) "Pilot" A 20-year old who spent the first 10 years of his life running wild in the forest after being raised by predatory animals now strikes out on his own in search of his identity.
Episode 387 is Mr Merlin (1981) "Pilot" Merlin, who nowadays operates an auto mechanics shop, meets Zac, who he takes on as his new apprentice in both sorcery and fixing cars.
Episode 386 is Sheena Queen Of The Jungle (1955) "Crash in the Jungle" Sheena rescues bush pilot Andy Howard, when his plane crashes in the jungle. Andy was delivering film containing rare footage of a secretive native tribe that had been filmed by Clare Graham, a documentary film maker. Andy is convinced that his plane was sabotaged
Episode 385 is Tracker (2001) "Pilot" The guard's prison comes to Earth. He creates a body out of a billboard. He's dazed and disoriented, he encounters Mel who offers him a ride. The guard must now track down all the alien prisoners.
Episode 384 is Thriller (1973) "Lady Killer" A shy, lonely American girl marries a charming man she meets while on vacation in England, unaware that he has sinister plans for her.
Episode 383 is The Magician (1973) "The Manhunters" Someone is trying to kill Max Pomeroy, Tony Blake's friend. The investigation leads Blake to an alcoholic lady gambler in distress and the plot thickens in a casino.
Episode 382 is Mann & Machine (1992) "Prototype" Los Angeles Police Detective Bobby Mann is teamed with a cyborg cop named Eve to investigate the murders of international steel brokers. Eve finds evidence that implicates another cop, who is also Mann's childhood friend.
Episode is 381 Dream Wife (1965) Actress Shirley Jones stars as Lisa Michaels -- a wife with a husband, a boy, and the ability to hear other people's thoughts. Whether she's trying to use it to have a better marriage, make her kid happy, and even trying to save other people's lives, she just can't quite seem to get things right.
Episode 380 is Deepwater Black (1997) "Awakening" Six crew are awakened from stasis to discovered they are aboard a spaceship alone and under attack from an alien spacecraft.
Episode 379 is The Ghost Busters (1975) "The Maltese Monkey" The Ghost Busters must stop the Fat Man and Rabbit from summoning the ghost of gangster Big Al Caesar, who will help them steal the stuff dreams are made of: the Maltese Monkey.
Episode 378 is Tales of the Unexpected (1979) "The Man From The South" A young American couple on holiday meet a mysterious old gentleman who makes them a macabre wager.
Episode 377 is Detectorists (2014) "episode 1" Andy and Lance are members of the small but dedicated Danbury Metal Detecting Club (DMDC), who search for buried treasure with metal detectors. As boring club president Terry welcomes new member student Sophie Andy and Lance determine to look for the rumoured Saxon hoard on farm-land owned by eccentric Larry Bishop
Episode 376 is the unaired pilot of "THE MIDDLE" (2007) A look at the life of a lower-middle-class family living in the Midwest. Sue tries out for show choir with disastrous results. Frankie desperately tries to close a sale with disastrous results. Brick has trouble relating to his teacher with odd results.
Last on with suspect sound is episode 375 Terry and the Pirates (1952) "Macaco Gold" Hotshot Charlie's plane, with its cargo of gold bullion, is hijacked by the Dragon Lady's operatives while en route to Japan. Terry Lee and Chopstick Joe deduce that the gold could only be disposed of it the Portugese colony of Macao and Terry flies there to attempt to recover the precious cargo.
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.