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Season 5 | Episode 51 | The Mysterious World of Buster Lee | The Moon Landing Helsinki 1983.  While researching baldness, Dr. Miles Scorpio makes a discovery with bigger implications. The only problem is the secret ingredient – dimodium – exists only on the Moon.  In a race against time Buster Lee, Lars LaGuardia, Mayella Williams, Joan Reynolds and Beck (the super-pooch) travel to the lunar surface. But not before Buster Lee is trapped in a cave.

Season 5 | Episode 50 | The Mysterious World of Buster Lee | Shrunken Heads Bokeessa 1983. To free his people enslaved by a dictator, a wealthy American returns to the land of his childhood.  Travel to the island nation of Bokeessa where humans are still sacrificed, fire-walking is common, heads are shrunk and giant cobras are bred for big money.  It's an island of beautiful women and strange natives.  Danger lurks around every corner.  Buster Lee and his team have never encountered anything as weird as Bokeessa. And neither have you.

Season 5 | Episode 49 | The Mysterious World of Buster Lee | Vampires A wealthy New York heiress wants to buy a castle in Budapest, only to encounter its strange owners Prince Vuusha and his daughter Viva. Buster Lee and the team from International Investigators travel to eastern Europe to meet the heiress and sort the mess out, but not before a  village is seized by blood-thirsty vampire bats and werewolves.

Season 5 | Episode 48 | The Mysterious World of Buster Lee | Chips Hawaii 1983. Someone is out to hurt Buster Lee's wealthy childhood friend computer genius 19-year-old Pete Dupont. Buster Lee and team fly to Hawaii to find out who is behind the plan and put an end to it.  Along the way, Beck the super-pooch displays a power only canines have and a host of strange suspects are uncovered.  Fasten your seatbelt. This episode comes with hungry cobra snakes too.

Season 5 | Episode 47| The Mysterious World of Buster Lee | Fame New York 1983. When quantum physicist Dr. Oscar Carmichael calls Neely Cairo, he won't say why.  Buster Lee and Lars LaGuardia are sent to investigate.  In the meantime, Mayella and Venture are invited to a party with TV star Grady C. The actor who plays Grady C turns out to be a real phony. To add to the mayhem, Dr. Carmichael has a strange son Buster's age.

Season 5 | Episode 46 | The Mysterious World of Buster Lee | Sea Pork Japan 1983.  Curious to see Japan, Buster Lee and Beck the super-pooch tag along as Lars LaGuardia travels east to see his Kabuki mentor Mr. Noh.  In a small Japanese town, Buster Lee and Lars see robots and meet their first pod of dolphins as sweet as honey fresh from the hive.  Then a culture war starts, and Mutt Keepnews (and his money) is brought in.

Season 5 | Episode 45 | The Mysterious World of Buster Lee | The Fan Travistock New Jersey 1983. Joan Reynolds receives a series of disturbing phone calls after her old movies start playing on Friday nights.  A strange teenager – Casey Bookman – arrives in town.  Mutt Keepnews shows love-struck Venture Falls how to use a BB-gun while Lars takes Joan on a relaxing hot-air balloon ride.  Needing to chill out, Buster Lee and Beck travel up-state to see musician Mason Grunwald.  Can the three different stories all come together in the end? Over a plate of takeout Chinese Food, yes.

Season 5 | Episode 44 | The Mysterious World of Buster Lee | Memorial Weekend  Travistock New Jersey 1981. Back in the day, before Jane Fonda introduced aerobics, fencing was popular; a large pizza, 4 pops, with a complimentary macaroni salad, a side of garlic bread and a medium tiramisu cost $7 bucks. Delivery was free. What a deal. Like millions of other young people, Buster Lee and Lars LaGuardia ordered pizza and spent Memorial Weekend together. That year,  on the Memorial long weekend, it rained non-stop and a cat burglar – wearing an unusual costume – terrorized the neighborhood.

Season 5 | Episode 43 | The Mysterious World of Buster Lee | The Guardians of Mayfair London 1981. The Wimbledon Tennis event was on with the predictable spikes in crime. Summoned to by Scotland Yard, Buster Lee sheds fresh thinking on the situation. In the meantime, we step into the lives of cops who've crossed the line and become criminals themselves.  Joan, ever optimistic, travels to meet a man from her past, but things have changed. 

Season 5 | Episode 42 | The Mysterious World of Buster Lee | Pattern Vendetta São Paulo 1981. When a wealthy debutant vanishes, Buster Lee and Lars LaGuardia fly south to Brazil to investigate.  Disguised as rich debs themselves, Buster Lee and Lars meet a real male model, an amorous housekeeper, and an aging lawyer addicted to plastic surgery.  In this episode, you will attend a real psychic reading too.  Pattern Vendetta prompts questions about the nature of love.  It's not what we think it is. In fact, like the song says, love's a many splendid thing.

Season 5 | Episode 41 | The Mysterious World of Buster Lee | The Censer Giza 1981. Investigating an Egyptian antiquities racket, a G-Man disappears and Buster Lee and Lars LaGuardia are sent to the middle-east to unravel the mystery.  Along the way, they meet a beautiful young woman, a corrupt macaroni dealer, and a strange lad from a good family. See the treasures stored in the ancient catacombs beneath the Great Pyramid. Smell strange incense, spice, and foods.  Travel on animals as they did thousands of years ago.  Live life as it was meant to be lived.

Season 5 | Episode 40 | The Mysterious World of Buster Lee | The Exiles Los Angeles 1981. On the eve of the virgin launch of the Columbia Space Shuttle, Buster Lee and Beck travel to Los Angeles and meet a coterie of models from Europe and an up-and-coming new-wave musician from Albany.  Along the way, Buster Lee discovers a conspiracy theory even Alex Jones hadn't pondered.

Season 5 | Episode 39 | The Mysterious World of Buster Lee | Are We There Yet? In an attempt to exonerate a successful crime writer of murder, Buster Lee discovers the writer is no stranger to crime. Set against the beautiful backdrop of Algonquin Lake in summer, Buster Lee and his team from International Investigators confront guilt, innocence, manipulation, simps, handsome park wardens, and tomato wine.  “Are We There Yet?” climaxes with a court drama that could have been ripped from the imagination of Harper Lee.

Season 5 | Episode 38 | The Mysterious World of Buster Lee | The Pope Rome 1981. After attending a magic conference, Buster Lee meets a young Turkish boy in the departure lounge of the Istanbul Airport.  Days later, while on assignment in Rome, Buster Lee witnesses the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul.  In this premiere episode of The Mysterious World of Buster Lee, adventure and heartbreak are at every turn.  While flying home, Buster Lee discovers what it means to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and how the love of a dog can soothe just about every wound life throws at you.

Season 4 | Episode 37 | Possum Harding Adventures | Let It Snow When a squadron of crop dusters flies over Orlando, spraying a paprika scented dust that turned people into zombies, who knew this was the start of the biggest attempted car heist in history? Being a Possum Harding Adventure, Moscow and Cuba are never far away. Listen as Possum, Melanie, Taylor, Buster Lee, Roman, Neely Cairo, Precious and Ding Dong (the super-pooch and friend of the unfortunate) are all that stand between the crime of the century, the Oil Crisis and peace in the land. Did someone say snow in Florida?

Season 4 | Episode 36 | Possum Harding Adventures | Jinx Alarm Booked by dreamy Roman Cardinelli to boost revenues at Orlando Race Track, Jinx Alarm was supposed to play Friday night as a warm-up act. But when singer Vivian Bane vanished,  one phone call and Possum Harding was brought in to find the missing throaty thrush lickety-split.   Like many of her generation, Vivian lost faith in her religion, herself, and America.  Wooed by local cult–leader and lady’s man, 66-year-old GoGo Goldberg, Vivian ran away and ditched America for the Utopian aimlessness of Key West.   A fascinating look into the hush-hush Neverland of the hippies, “Jinx Alarm” connects curious cultural clues and with long unanswered questions.

Season 4 | Episode 35 | Possum Harding Adventures | Fresh Or Frozen Pt. 2   Surrounded by armed guards from Manchuria, Matthias Crane’s steam-punk submarine attracts the attention of tourists and locals alike. To locate the doe-eyed Buster Lee, super-psychic Neely Cairo lights incense and reaches into the mysterious mind of Ding Dong, the Australian wonder-pooch. Meanwhile, Precious and Possum don bird decoy hats and swim in the shark-infested waters of the Mediterranean Sea. Back on land, Melanie and Taylor watch as millions slip through their fingers, and a mysterious Moroccan swish drops a life-changing note on Possum and Precious at the Louvre. If you were at the edge of your seat for Part One of “Fresh or Frozen,” wait until you hear Part Two. Don’t put it on ice, press play and hear Part Two of “Fresh or Frozen” now.

Season 4 | Episode 34 | Possum Harding Adventures | Fresh Or Frozen Pt. 1 While in the South of France at the Grand Prix, Possum and her posse are trapped in a deadly arrangement involving European millionaire Matthias Crane, a scheme to get-rich-quick, and a too good to believe, cryogenic plan for life extension. Possibly kidnapped, Possum must save the life of her wide-eyed chum Buster Lee. Set against the glamorous backdrop of the Côte d'Azur, with its topless beaches, endless excesses and throbbing disco music, “Fresh or Frozen” is Possum Harding’s first two-part adventure.

Season 4 | Episode 33 | Possum Harding Adventures | The Hijacking A coterie of radicalized retirees hijacks a commercial flight to West Virginia and redirects it to Castro’s evil island prison Cuba. Onboard are Possum’s pals the kind-hearted Buster Lee and super-hunk Taylor McQueen. Little does Possum know that among the hijackers is a woman from her past. Torn between feelings of loyalty and what she knows is right, Possum must decide; the outcome will change everything!

Season 4 | Episode 32 | Possum Harding Adventures | Insurance   When an experimental 6-wheeled race car is stolen, Possum and her team are called to investigate. Wooed by the car’s handsome junior designer (with ties to the Soviets) Possum is led on a wild goose chase across Central Florida. In a dramatic climax that explodes as NASA launches another rocket to space, Possum and her posse of do-gooders, are trapped in a battle where life itself is the prize is.

Season 4 | Episode 31 | Possum Harding Adventures | Forgotten Well When a Hollywood stunt double’s life mysteriously comes to an end, local racing driver Possum Harding is hired to fill in. What was supposed to be a temporary job becomes a complex Cold War nightmare, and Possum is embroiled in a deadly bomb-moving scheme with dark forces in Cuba.

Season 3 | Possum Harding Adventures | Promo   Voice - Mazzanti Music - James Joshua Otto – Revelation

Season 3 | Episode 30 | The Whale | Presented by Duane Murray | Moby, the orca, was the main attraction at Vicksberg Marine Park and Game Farm in Mississippi. His death set off a chain reaction that included a televised State Funeral. 

Season 3 | Episode 29 | Addendum | Presented by filmmaker Bill Thisdell | 

Season 3 | Episode 28 | The Fairmont Affair | Presented by Historian Nathan J. Moldighost | What happens when 6 lives collide Friday, November 22nd, 1963 at The Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco? Does thunder really curdle milk?

Season 3 | Episode 27 | Moon Flowers | Presented by Filmmaker Bill Thisdell

Season 3 | Episode 26 | Exquisite Corpse | Pod Planet audio collaboration starring Ross Sutherland of Imaginary Advice

Season 2 | Episode 23 | The Dove Anniversary | One year after his departure, we go back in time 17 years.

A guest episode originally aired on 99% Invisible. Written and produced by Clive Desmond

Season 2 | Episode 24 | Uncanny Valley (Into The Great Unknown) |The world’s first Artificial Being wakes up only to find (despite his knowledge) something is missing.

Season 2 | Episode 22 | Driving Around With Susan | Guest Episode from Rumble Strip. Takes you places others don't. Produced by Erica Heilman.

Season 2 | Episode 21 | The Smithsonian | How did the world change between 1986 and today? Visiting The Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC is a good place to start.

Season 2 | Episode 20 | Wildlife | What do pigeons want?

Season 2 | Episode 19 | Vanishing Twin Syndrome | Imagine discovering you had an identical twin.

Season 2 | Episode 18 | The Blue Buddha | The plan was to practice yoga. But on day 2 she met 3 local boys with a catamaran.

Season 2 | Episode 17 | The Dove | You never know who you'll meet on a skating rink.

Season 2 | Episode 16 | The Gift of the Magi | How do you buy a gift when all you have is $1.87?

Season 2 | Episode 15 | Nikita Part Two | What’s it like to have a number one hit record in Romania? Find out now.

Season 2 | Episode 14 | Nikita Part One | These days erasing history is more important than making history.

Season 2 | Episode 13 | Haunted Hotel | Unless you have a ghost phobia, business travel can be exhilarating.

Episode 12 | Twisted Sister | In some bathrooms, no one can hear you scream.

Episode 11 | Oak Valley | Why break up with someone in person, when you can do it online, and get some shopping done, too?

Episode 10 | Night Time At The Slaughter House | Pigs weren’t safe at this packing plant. Why should the humans who worked there be any different?

Episode 9 | Mid By Midwest | Snakes, fireworks, and two 12 year-olds: what could possibly go wrong?

Episode  8 | Strangers on a Train | A pair of American tourists meet a German woman on what turns out to be a one-way trip to Zurich.

Episode 7 | Runaway Molly | Intergenerational sexual taboos hit a little too close to home.

Episode 6. | Liars Club | Hard-drinking middle-aged mandiscovers that karma actually does exist.

Episode 5 | Digitalis Interruptus | Ever met a 7 year old girl with a penchant for amputation? We have.

Episode 4 | Fahrenheit 1000 | Welcome to the one place where everything’s served well-done.

Episode 3 | 911 |  College grad learns powerful life lessons on first job.  Then takes 5:45 home.

Episode 2 | Search and Rescue | Opera singer panics when pet monkey escapes into the wilds of suburbia.