Tread Perilously

Tread Perilously's Cornucopia of Sci-Fi continues with an episode of  Resident Alien  called 'Girls' Night.' While Harry continues to work on the interstellar radio, Asta, D'Arcy, Kate, and Liv get a "GN59" text from Kayla and immediately plan a girls' night at the bar. Kate brings her cousin, Carlyn, while the mayor frets about Kate and D'Arcy becoming better friends. As the evening wears on, Liv...

Tread Perilously begins a cornucopia of sci-fi with the most infamous episode of  Torchwood : "Cyberwoman." When Ianto Jones invites a specialist in Cyber tech to Torchwood 3, all hell breaks loose. It turns out he's been keeping his partially Cyber-ized girlfriend on life support since the Battle of Canary Wharf. He's using a Cyber-conversion machine to do it.  And  none of the others know about...

Tread Perilously rounds out a witchy October with the annual visit to  Supernatural . This year: an episode called "Shut Up, Dr. Phil." To keep his mind off murdering Amy Pond (no, really!), Dean convinces Sam to investigate a spate of murders in Prosperity, Indiana. The victims so far have some ties to real estate in the area. But when a contractor also dies, the signs lead to a witch. Is it the...

Tread Perilously continues a witchy October with  The Paul Lynde Halloween Special . When neighborhood kids harass Paul Lynde about his plans to celebrate Halloween, he flees to the home of his housekeeper's sister. But he soon learns both are witches with remarkable resemblances to Witchiepoo and The Wicked Witch of the West. As it turns out, they want him to be a spokesman for witches. In return...

Tread Perilously's witchy October continues with the 1978 TV special  Witch's Night Out . While the adults in town begin to plan a thoroughly grown-up Halloween party, all youngsters Small and Tender want to do is scare them with their Halloween masks. But when everyone recognizes them during trick-or-treating, they run home dejected. Their cries to become real monsters are heard by the local witc...

Tread Perilously's month of witches continues with the  Smallville  episode "Spell." When Lana successfully bids on an old book off eBay, she is quickly possessed by Isabella, her witch-inclined ancestor. Like Lex, she also seeks the Stones of Power and will stop at nothing -- not even death -- to get them. Isabella soon houses the spirits of her coven in the bodies of Chloe and Lois, but will pla...

Halloween season 2024 on Tread Perilously is a celebration of witches, and the magical mischief begins with an episode of  Bewitched  called "To Trick-or-Treat or Not to Trick-or-Treat." When Endora discovers Sam is participating in a Trick-of-Treat For Unicef event that props up stereotypes about witches, the resulting fight with Darren leads her to transform him into the very tropes she despises...

Tread Perilously's Star Trek month 2024 concludes with an episode  Star Trek: Enterprise  called "Shuttlepod One." While on assignment aboard Shuttlepod One, Trip and Malcolm find evidence that  Enterprise  was destroyed while surveying an asteroid field. The pair make plans to direct their impulse-capable shuttle toward the nearest human colony, but it will take years to arrive and they only have...

Tread Perilously's Star Trek Month 2024 continues with the long-delayed episode of  Star Trek: Voyager  called "Bride of Chaotica!" Tom Paris and Ensign Harry Kim's afternoon playing chapter 18 of "The Adventures of Captain Proton" is disrupted when  Voyager  runs aground in a "subspace sandbar." It immediately disrupts quality of life systems on the ship and prevents the Holodeck from shutting do...

Tread Perilously's 2024 Star Trek Month continues with an episode of  Star Trek: The Next Generation  called "Justice." After a tiring mission to establish a new colony, the  Enterprise  finds an idyllic world full of pretty blonde people who  really  enjoy sex. But that permissiveness comes with a zero tolerance policy for the slightest infraction of local laws and death as the only punishment. D...

Tread Perilously's 2024 Star Trek  month opens with an episode of The Original Series called "The Omega Glory." Arriving in orbit around Omega IV, the  Enterprise  discovers the crew of the U.S.S.  Exeter  have been turned into salt; the result of a highly infectious disease from the planet below. Beaming down, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy find the  Exeter 's captain, Donald Tracey, alive and well. He's...

Tread Perilously's summer Patreon request month winds down with a visit to 1990s westerns via an episode of  The Young Riders  called "The Peacemakers." When Hickok rides into Glen Creek, he sees an Amish baptism interrupted by a gang of interlopers. Aiming to help, he soon learns the small religious community is a target for persecution by the nearby town. The tension is stoked by the local newsp...

To celebrate Tread Perilously's 477th podcast, Erik and Justin finally watch an episode of M*A*S*H -- "That's Show Biz." When a performer on a USO tour comes down with appendicitis, she is airlifted to the 4077th and immediately falls for Hawkeye. Once the rest of her colleagues make it to the M*A*S*H unit, they decided to put on an impromptu show. But they soon learn the road to their next stop w...

Tread Perilously's Summer Patreon request month leads to very British superpowers with  Misfits  Season 2, Episode 2. Simon's day of annoying the others is interrupted when his half-brother, Jamie, arrives to introduce himself for the first time. The two start to bond down the pub, but when Jamie's car is stolen, he reveals their father was bound and gagged in the boot. Meanwhile, the others get c...

Tread Perilously's Patreon request month continues with an episode of  Murder, She Wrote  called "We're Off to Kill the Wizard." Jessica Fletcher's quick trip to Chicago is disrupted when a local amusement park impresario invites her and her relatives to a preview of a new horror-infused theme park. But his real objective is to convince her to license her work out for a new venture. When he turns...