Continuum Drag (Continuum Drag)

We take the Escape Pod™ all the way to the final episode of Invasion America to witness the final confrontation between teen alien David and his uncle the Dragit on the dark side of the moon.

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

The Eden Project personally ends winter and gets back on the road only to fall sick when their government installed tracking chips get a computer virus in episodes 20 & 21 of Earth 2.

Guest Phil from The New Ray Bradbury Review arrives on Mars for some spooky and apocalyptic goings-ons as Rock Hudson and pals settle in for part two of The Martian Chronicles.

We travel to the near future where the Cold War rages on, political intrigue abounds and the Moody Blues is setting the tone in episodes one & two of Star Cops.

Kolchak deals with the devil and aging poorly in episodes seven & eight of Kolchak: The Night Stalker.

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.

The Eden Project faces mysterious contagions, saboteurs, water shortages and more search parties in episodes 5 & 7 in Earth 2.

(Podcast Note: Earth 2 was broadcast out of order and we have opted to watch it in the creator's intended order. As a result, our episode numbering reflects the official IMDb episode listing and will look out of order and super wonky. Just go with it.)

We land on another second Earth where the remnants of humanity struggle to convey what exactly is going on in episodes one & two of the BBC One series Outcasts.

Guest Jane returns for a second dose of Kolchak as he faces stair-related murders and a knight in evil armour for episodes 17 & 18 of Kolchak: The Night Stalker.

We reach the end of Sleepwalkers with a horror author, his creepy dream house and a tentacle monster in episode 9. (Podcast Note: Sleepwalkers was broadcast out of order and we have homebrewed our best guess as to the intended order. As a result, our episode numbering reflects the official IMDb episode listing and will look out of order and super wonky. Just go with it.)

Jordan launches the first round of the Ultimate Sci-Fi Show Tournament where Luke will make a series of decisions to create a sci-fi series that is ultimate.

Returning guest Nico joins us as a simple British housewife is accidently shot into space and terrible attempts at comedy ensue in episodes one & two of Come Back Mrs. Noah.

We execute the Threshold plan for extradimensional alien spacecrafts and theta waves gone awry in episodes one & two.

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

We join the new class Star Corp ensigns as they embark on a poorly-rendered cold war between Earth and its colonies in the TV movie/failed pilot Star Command (or In The Fold depending on who you ask).

Guest Melanie joins us to witness the birth of a 80s icon and digital talking head in the TV movie Max Headroom: 20 Minutes in the Future.

We enter a Chronosynclastic Infundibulum for a sampler platter of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s work adapted for public television in the TV movie Between Time and Timbuktu.

We reboot Harsh Realm as a mega summer blockbuster, then someone loses a leg and Santiago goes to Cleveland.

In our last Harsh Realm episode, its a classic Romeo and Juliet plot featuring a very lonely priest and Pinnochio revealing that he loooves gold.

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.

Before getting scuttled the seaQuest starts & stops armageddon during the Cuban Missile Crisis while Tim tries out online dating in seaQuest 2032 Season 3 Episodes 10 & 13.

In this deleted scene from episode 17 of Continuum Drag, Luke's cousin Nick and his fiancee Jen drop in after being bumped from the episode with a few questions they had about the last episode of Harsh Realm.

Guest Taylor joins us as we head into the post-apocalyptical Australian outback to play the most dangerous game - pool - in the TV movie Hard Knuckle.

Back before superheroes ruled the box office, the Justice League of America tried to conquer the small screen in this bizarre mash-up of a children's television action series and a knock-off Friends-style sitcom.

Returning guest Jane comes back for more Sliders for a Maggie swap and Rembrandt taking the lead in Season 4 Episode 16 & Season 5 Episode 1.

This week, we enlist with the USMC 58th Space Aviator Cavalry squadron and learn something that every human knows - payback's a bitch.

Returning guest Jane investigates monsters-of-the-week, both visible & otherwise, in episodes three & four of Kolchak: The Night Stalker.

Guest Taf joins us for a swinging singles cruise and a trip to the symphany in Chicago for episodes five & six of Kolchak: The Night Stalker.

Listener Sarah requested a Bonus Episodes for Charity & made a generous donation to the Native Women’s Resource Centre of Toronto so we're putting back on our (Jake) Cardigan to get out brain scrambled by memory rustlers in Episode 14 of Tekwar.

We are joined by guest Billy as Tim Curry's mysterious character joins the Eden Project and brings some great looking aliens with him in episodes two and three of Earth 2.

Guest Derek enlists on the seaQuest DSV for a frightfully spooky sunken ship and a frightfully French sunken submarine in Season 1 Episodes 7 & 8.

We spend a day with Mrs. Noah as she prepares for a rescue shuttle before they decide to try out some classic Star Trek transporter technology in episodes three & four of Come Back Mrs. Noah.

David meanders around America as we discover that the Dragit has so many half completed schemes on how to invade Earth in episodes 5 & 6 of Invasion America.

With three new categories, Jordan has Luke add the second character to his sci-fi masterpiece in the making.

Our second episode on Space: Above & Beyond teaches us a lot of in-show terminology as West goes AWOL and Vansen goes berserk. Also: there are so many S:A&B patches and we mention them all!

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.

Guest Nick joins us as we travel back in time to the Great Chicago Fire to stop a modern day epidemic in the TV movie/failed pilot Time Travellers.

In the 4th & 5th epsiodes, Space: Above & Beyond begins to hit its stride with a Tank mutiny, space pancakes and the adventures of Raymond T Butts.

A third year of the podcast has come to an end. But before we take our break, we play a little game to celebrate.

Luke and Jordan are joined by our guest Jane for a whole lot of blood, cockroaches and political intrigue in episodes six and seven of Space: Above & Beyond.

The slide hole makes Rembrandt's dreams come true and Quinn a g-g-g-ghost in Season 1 Episode 8 & Season 2 Episode 3 of Sliders.

Guest Trish from The Skiffy & Fanty Show crew joins us as Carl faces off with a bad dream and an invisible threat in episodes 9 & 10 of Kolchak: The Night Stalker.

We encounter our first two-parter ever in episodes 8 & 9 of Space: Above & Beyond, where the 58th recklessly sticks their arms into gooey alien orifices and get tossed into a penal colony for their efforts.

We're joined by returning guest Courtenay as West nearly gets a lobotomy and Wang is a real Ebenezer Scrooge in episodes 10 & 11 of Space: Above & Beyond.

We catch a supersonic ride into Earth's orbit with a sleepy Lee Majors in the TV movie Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land.

We're joined by guest Kevin to explore the world of Gene Roddenberry's failed pilot/TV movie Genesis II, where a mustache from the past wakes up in a post-lust society and goes nuclear.

The podcast is returning for a fourth year next Tuesday, but now is a good chance to remind ourselves how the podcast works.

Returning for the second half of Space: Above & Beyond, Luke tests Jordan's psychic abilities and we watch a live Tank birth in the twelveth and thirteenth episodes of the season.

We welcome our new overlords on Capping Day in Season 1 Episodes 1 & 4 of The Tripods.

Space: Above & Beyond hits its high water mark with episodes 14 & 15 as we face the Wild Card's greatest enemy, Chiggy Von Richthofen, and get to know the newest (and possibly best) member of the 58th: the horny AF Lt. Winslow.

We split our time between a military academy and an institution where triple helixes and increased theta waves drive kids to crush heads and skeletons to mutate in episodes three & four of Threshold.

This week, we're joined by guest Sherren as West's kid brother shows for a family reunion and the Saratoga faces the crime of the century: what happened to Commodore Ross' strawberries?!?

It's a spooktacular Halloween episode as hosts Jordan and Luke watch the failed pilot/TV movie for The Omen, where a body-jumping supernatural parasite tries to ruin Boston's St. Patrick's Day parade.

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

A Reverend & his wife stumble upon an Old West cult with a complicated plan in the TV movie Black Noon.

The aliens are already here and Nostradamus tried to warn us in season 1 episodes 1 & 18 of First Wave.

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

The tournament comes to an end with a final cast shuffle and what the plot of the Ultimate Sci-Fi Show actually is.

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

We finally get out of London and into the country side of the time sprawling fifth and sixth episodes of the 1981 The Day of the Triffids.

This week on Space: Above & Beyond, hosts Jordan & Luke develop a theory of about a haunted tank and the Pleasure Ship Bacchus makes an appearance with some celebrity friends.

Guest Jane drops in for a minute to give us her thoughts on the second part of The Langoliers miniseries in this deleted scene.

The Eden Project keep wandering Earth 2 as Solace dreams of girlfriends past, Bess has more common sense than most and Gaal returns in episodes six and four. (Podcast Note: Earth 2 was broadcast out of order and we have opted to watch it in the creator's intended order. As a result, our episode numbering reflects the official IMDb episode listing and will look out of order and super wonky. Just go with it.)

Space: Above & Beyond cribs notes from history class as hosts Jordan & Luke are joined by returning guest Jane for re-imaginings of Operation Mincemeat and the Guadalcanal Campaign, Wild Cards-style.

The end is here. We finish off Space: Above & Beyond with episodes 22 and 23, a two-parter that brings us face to face with the Chigs and their weird little babies. Also, someone dies!

Hosts Jordan and Luke dive into the universe of The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy (or The Osiris Chronicles, depending who you ask) which borrows liberally from Star Trek and Star Wars before it finally finds what its got going for it: A huge gross blob monster.

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.

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.

Logan gets a new partner - Bruce Campbell! - in episode 9 of Timecop.

After taking the Escape Pod™, we arrive for a convoluted spy thriller about the Misfits and a blender in episode 16 of Misfits of Science.

We watch the first two episodes of Galactica 1980, the sequel to the original BSG, which starts off as a fish-out-of-water comedy about aliens adapting to 80s Earth culture before taking a hard right turn to somehow end up in 1944 Nazi Germany.

Returning guest Dave slides in for a double dose of Quinn doubles in Season 3 Episodes 2 & 4 of Sliders.

The Code 5s are up to no good in the deeply strange cases of a vampire pregnancy and vampire pedophilia (you've been warned) in episodes three and four of Ultraviolet.

As guest Stephen joins us this week, we finish the final installment in the first cycle of Galactica 1980 episodes before the entire series suddenly shifts gears and abruptly becomes a children's show featuring TWELVE new pint-sized characters in the first of another multipart episode.

We hit the halfway point of Galactica 1980 in our holiday episode of Continuum Drag, where a fancy flying saucer brings dead Super Scouts back to life before they go off to win the big regional little league championship in episodes five and six.

In our Halloween episode, we are joined by returning guest Jane for a trip on an airplane into the deranged mind of Stephen King for Part One of the TV miniseries The Langoliers.

In our New Years Day episode, returning guest Kevin joins us for a Halloween two-parter of Galactica 1980 where the Cylons come to Earth to hang out with Wolfman Jack at a house party in New York City. Also, we have some technical difficulties that make it sound like Kevin is joining us from inside a cave... Sorry, Kevin!

In the final two episodes of Galactica 1980, Troy and Dylan work on a farm (ee-eye-ee-eye-oh) before a bizarre final episode that ditches the entire cast of the series to bring back Battlestar Galactica's Starbuck for an unrelated stand-alone adventure.

Hosts Jordan and Luke watch the first part of a mini-series/failed revival of The Invaders. Starring Scott Bakula, part one reveals a sweeping alien conspiracy to smoke cigarettes and eat steak & eggs for every meal.

The final member of the cast is selected in the penultimate episode of Jordan's Ultimate Sci-Fi Show Tournament.

Listener Ryan made a Bonus Episodes for Charity donation to the Annex Cat Rescue so that we could make a return to visit Jake Cardigan as he tries to stop the mass murder of every Tek Lord, Tek dealer and Tek head in episode 13 of Tekwar.

All aboard for the full-length pilot about an atomic-powered cross-country train filled with Hollywood's biggest stars and murderous intent in episode one of Supertrain.

The Threshold team finds the wider public having crystal forest dreams, has a leak in their operation, and simply can't stop itself from debating religion v science in episodes seven & eight.

In this deleted scene from episode 99, we pre-cast Threshold into a feature film from 1971.

We wrap up the second half of The Invaders mini-series/failed pilot as it very awkwardly tries to wedge autism into its mythology of chain-smoking, environment-polluting alien invaders and their evil plot to stop a subway expansion.

We start our most contemporary series to date, Almost Human. Featuring Karl Urban with his leg blown off and a Sensitive Soul-brand robot partner, who fight futuristic crime syndicates in a sci-fi police procedural that William Shatner should probably call his lawyers about. (Podcast Note: Almost Human was broadcast out of order and we have opted to watch it in the creator's intended order. As a result, our episode numbering reflects official IMDb episode listing and will look out of order and super wonky. Just go with it.)

It's a crime-of-the-week bonanza as Kennex and Dorian get down to some police work when future tech kills via designer drugs for designer humans and robo-organ extortion rings in episodes six and ten of Almost Human.(Podcast Note: Almost Human was broadcast out of order and we have opted to watch it in the creator's intended order. As a result, our episode numbering reflects official IMDb episode listing and will look out of order and super wonky. Just go with it.)

We're coming back next week!

Hear all about the new format for the podcast and our new Bonus Episodes for Charity, where you can give to charity and get a bonus episode.

Guest Jeff joins us as the Star Cops get the team together to take on a computer worm and a cover-up on the Ronald Reagan Space Station in episodes three & four.

In episodes two and three, Almost Human wanders into the gross inner workings of sexbots in the future before knocking-off Die Hard in all the best ways. (Podcast Note: Almost Human was broadcast out of order and we have opted to watch it in the creator's intended order. As a result, our episode numbering reflects official IMDb episode listing and will look out of order and super wonky. Just go with it.)

Returning guest Michael teams up with alien claymation characters to help a woman pursue her dream of becoming a detective in the failed TV pilot for The Danger Team.

Here is a little bonus content, where Jordan reads you a piece of Almost Human fan fiction.

We ride the wave with a surprise WWE cameo and some bikers up to no good in Season 2 Episodes 1 & 3 of First Wave.

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.

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

The podcast is coming back next week, but before that we wanted to do a little housekeeping and mentions some changes we're making.

This week, Almost Human gives us a peak into the lives of Rudy Lom and Capt Maldonado as the boys try a new algae-based street drug before getting a little court room drama that seems to be a pretty flimsy case in episodes four and five.  (Podcast Note: Almost Human was broadcast out of order and we have opted to watch it in the creator's intended order. As a result, our episode numbering reflects official IMDb episode listing and will look out of order and super wonky. Just go with it.)

This week, MMA superstar Gina Carano drops in to beat the snot out of Kennex and Dorian before a killer nerd on the dark web retools the plot of Die Hard with a Vengeance with explosive results in episodes nine and seven of Almost Human. (Podcast Note: Almost Human was broadcast out of order and we have opted to watch it in the creator's intended order. As a result, our episode numbering reflects official IMDb episode listing and will look out of order and super wonky. Just go with it.)

We hit a tennis ranch for a doppelganger thriller and then take the night train to Dallas with a dog & a women's PanAm swim team in episodes three & four of Gemini Man.