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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.