Seen on the Small Screen Podcast

Greetings, weary traveler. Do come in and shake the rain from your cloak. Take a place near to the hearth and sip on honeyed mead while our resident minstrels, Jake and Becky, perform for you a perceived interpretation of table top role-playing games in their 1980's infancy. The tale's name? Mazes and Monsters . It stars a young Tom Hanks and some other college students who experience th...

When you take the good and the bad along with a slew of chances, there you have this episode's subject material, The Facts of Life go to Paris . In a movie placed in the middle of the television series, the girls from Eastland Academy and Mrs. Garrett pack their bags and head for vacation and study in the land of the brie. But after being sentenced to a month of hard academic labor instead of...

In a world where criminals operate above the law and mullets reign supreme, Jake and Becky talk about an attempted spinoff of the Knight Rider television series titled "Code of Vengeance." When martial arts dramas and westerns mix together, we get Dalton, a war veteran with a mysterious past who might as well be the man with no name. Dalton's vagabond travels take him to a small Ari...

Children's musical theater and tv stars assemble one last time for Lewis Carroll's nearly never adapted journey of Alice going through the looking-glass. Pursued by a monster bred of her fears, Alice gets temporarily distracted from going home by taking on a pawn's quest, advancing to queenhood by reaching the vaunted eighth square. But Looking-Glass Land is governed by a different...

In this episode, your hosts discuss musical mishaps in the first part of a live-action adaptation of  Alice in Wonderland , brought to us by the disaster master of film, Mr. Irwin Allen. With a story familiar to many, this particular version of Alice's journey is chock full of song and dance routines, fantastic costuming minus one lizard outfit, and big star cameos. From the rabbit hole to th...

Sit right back again, or stand, if that's your preference, and hear a tale of how two intellectual properties joyfully collide in the third TV movie installment of Gilligan's Island, The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island . This time, the castaways delve deep into Fantasy Island territory, inviting to their tropical nest the basketball kings of mirth along with Martin Landau...

Sit right back and hear the tale your hosts relate as they visit everyone's favorite castaways in Rescue from Gilligan's Island . One decade and a half after they were originally shipwrecked, a hut boat and a non-Russian satellite's golden CD enable the gang to escape their island prison and travel to the far-off future world of 1978.  Will bumbling Badenov spies allow the castaways...

Today's small screen offering is the magical adventure “I Dream of Jeannie,” with the 15 years between the original series and the movie built right into the title. After a spell of hiding her powers, Jeannie Nelson is forced out of housewifery to match wits with her evil twin and Haji who plot to break up the Nelson family, including young son T.J. who must decide if the magical path is mean...

Join your hosts as they make silly sound effects and talk about “The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman." In a reunion movie that takes place many years after the original series, retired OSI agents Steve Austin and Jamie Sommers are given another chance to rekindle their  relationship and bond with the long lost son no one knew Steve had. At the same time, they are rec...

In this episode, your hosts dare you not to have a feeling whilst gazing into the soulful eyes of Benji, the stray canine from the tearjerker movies of the 70s and 80s, now starring in a new Netflix movie. Is this film a reboot or a remake? Regardless of what your opinion might be, this a great option for anyone, young or old, who believes that dogs have super powers. Prepare to be astounded as Be...

 It's a typical episode zero. The hosts say hello and mention a few ground rules for the podcast. No real surprises here.  Tell us what you think by clicking here! We'd be happy to receive your comments or ideas for future episodes.

In the premier episode of Seen on the Small Screen, Jake and Becky discuss the pilot episode of “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century,” which is based on the 1930s comic book series. Frozen in time for 500 years, Captain Buck Rogers finds the Earth of the future is not as he knows it. On his many adventures, Buck encounters seductive space vixens, cursing robots, Lite-Brite tribunals, triforce art, and...

Jake and Becky experience pure cinematic chaos in this episode's offering, “Moontrap: Target Earth." Made as a sequel to a movie released over 30 years ago, this film features a shred of the original storyline and none of the original cast. Join Scout, code named Susan,  as she races to uncover the secrets of an ancient alien artifact while escaping the machinations of Charles Shaughness...

Follow along as Becky and Jake review two Charlie Brown television specials you're guaranteed not to find in a movie clearance bin. In “You’re Not Elected, Charlie Brown,” the Peanuts gang experience the gaffes and frustrations of the election cycle as they advance their reformatory man of the people, Linus Van Pelt, into the office of student body president.  “It’s Arbor Day, Charlie Brown,”...