Tread Perilously

The Tread Perilously Summer Grab Bag returns to  Tequila and Bonetti  for an episode called "Wonderdog." When the South Coast paper publishes a photo of Tequila as a heroic pooch, it gets the attention of a talent scout who wants to put him in a commercial. Captain Midian Knight uses it as a chance to be Tequila's agent and forces Visiting Detective Nico Bonetti to serve as the dog's handler. Mean...

Tread Perilously Summer Grab Bag continues with an episode of  Automan called "Ships in the Night." When a number of American businessmen go missing in the Central or South American island country of San Cristobal, Lt. Jack Curtis and Roxanne are dispatched to get to the bottom of one particular disappearance. But when Automan connects to the Bureau computer and learns about the other missing pers...

Tread Perilously returns to the Ballad of John D. Cort with an episode of  Baywatch  called "Blindside." After a long period away, John D. Cort returns to Baywatch to complete his mandatory ten days  and  go through his lifeguard recertification. Everyone is thrilled to see him except C.J. They had a thing going before she left Baywatch some years prior. Also, Mitch notices something is off with C...

The time loop is shattered as Tread Perilously finally watches an episode of  Legends of Tomorrow  called "Here I Go Again." When Zari is left behind to fix the Waverider , she soon finds herself in a time loop. Needing to convince the others that they are dying over and over again, she learns the secret words that will get Nate to believe her immediately. Soon, the pair must learn why the ship is...

Tread Perilously's wandering in the time loop brings it to  Person of Interest  and an episode called "If-Then-Else." When the team must stop Samaritan's manipulation of the stock market, they end up pinned down in the New York Stock Exchange building. The Machine must work out a scenario that will allow them to complete their mission and escape. It starts running simulations that, by necessity, m...

Tread Perilously's return to the time loop brings them, at long last, to  Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.  with an episode called "As I Have Always Been." When Fitz's time drive begins to break down, Daisy finds herself reliving the same 90 minutes or so. She eventually discovers Coulson can remember every time loop and that they've been stuck in the cycle for a very long time. Simmons seemingly has the an...

Tread Perilously returns to the timey-wimey with a month they just had to call "Let's Do The Time Loop Again!" First up: an episode of  Fringe  known as "White Tulip." When Olivia, Peter, and Walter are called to the scene of a train car filled with corpses, it soon becomes clear a former MIT professor may be to blame. Walter quickly discovers the scientist is trying to use time travel to seemingl...

Tread Perilously's WandaVision month concludes with an episode of Modern Family  called "New Kids on the Block." While Alex deals with the reality of doing research in Antarctica, Hayley, Claire, and Phil contend with the reality of Hayley's twins -- who will not go to sleep. Jay needs to cut a new commercial, which Manny uses as a chance to get a director credit. But when Jay reveals his lead voi...

Tread Perilously's  WandaVision  month continues with an episode of  Malcolm in the Middle  called "Living Will." Hal's inability to make a decision comes to the fore when he is given power of attorney for a neighbor currently in a vegetative state. With doctors, family, and other neighbors encouraging him to make a choice, will Hal be able to decide if the man lives or dies? Meanwhile, Craig reac...

Tread Perilously's WandaVision month enters Quality Time territory with an episode of Family Ties  called "Suzanne Takes You Down." When Elyse's friend, Suzanne, admits to feeling unfulfilled now that the kids have left for college, she hires the forlorn friend to do some clerical work. But almost immediately, Suzanne begins offering opinions about architectural features of an upcoming project. So...

Tread Perilously's  WandaVision  month continues with an episode  The Brady Bunch  called "The Winner." When Cindy comes home with a trophy for winning a jacks tournament at the park, Bobby laments that he is the only member of the family to lack an award. Talking it over with Mike and Carol, he resolves to win at something.  Anything . It soon leads to strife with the other kids as he becomes an...

Tread Perilously settles in for a month of shows that inspired WandaVision with an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show  called "Racy Tracy Rattigan". With Alan Brady out on vacation, Rob and the others must write the next two shows for guest host "Racy" Tracy Rattigan. The British actor proves to be funny and charming, but his immediate interest in Laura leaves Rob a little unnerved. It becomes full...

Tread Perilously concludes its month of celebrating the new series  Doctor Who  with "Listen." As Clara goes on a somewhat uncomfortable date, The Doctor realizes he is talking to himself and supposes there might be a more sinister reason for it. Soon, he picks up Clara for a trip to the past, the future, and an impossible era to learn the truth behind the perfect hider and the monster under your...

Tread Perilously's  Doctor Who  month continues with a new series episode called "Midnight." While Donna relaxes in a spa on the planet Midnight, The Doctor decides to take an excursion to the so-called Sapphire Falls. It is an eight-hour trip, but a couple of hours in, the transport stops and the mechanic in the flight deck spots movement where no living thing is supposed to be. Soon, something ...

Tread Perilously celebration of  Doctor Who 's second 20 years on the air continues with "73 Yards." When The Doctor and Ruby Sunday land on the Welsh coastline, he breaks a fairy circle and immediately disappears. Ruby's key will not work in the TARDIS and she is forced to fend for herself in the nearby Welsh town. Making her way home to London, she also discovers a mysterious woman is hovering 7...

Tread Perilously's annual  Doctor Who  month celebrates 20 years of the new series, starting with the Jodie Whittaker era episode "Eve of the Daleks." New Year's Eve 2021. Sarah, the owner of Elf Storage in Manchester, must keep the lights on because a certain client always turns up just before midnight on 31 December to deposit items in his storage space. He turns up, naturally enough, but so do...

Tread Perilously's Movies on TV month concludes with an episode of  Teen Wolf  called "Lunatic." Following the incident at school, Scott and Allison are on the outs ... and it seems to be having a profound effect on his wolfy nature. Allison, meanwhile, is starting to notice how strange people are behaving -- particularly her father and aunt. Derek is on the run as he is the prime suspect in the s...

Tread Perilously's month of TV shows based on feature films continues with an episode of  Alien Nation  called "Fifteen With Wanda." When a Newcomer limo driver is witness to a crime on his wedding night, he enters witness protection with Sikes and Francisco as his detail. Unfortunately, the Newcomer took an aphrodisiac as part of the wedding/bonding tradition and must spend the next three weeks w...

Tread Perilously's Movies On TV month continues with an episode of Gidget called "Gidget's Foreign Policy." When Gidget's father allows an associate's daughter to spend the week before classes begin at UCLA at their home, Gidget comes face-to-face with a more rigid way of life: the Swedish way! But her attempts to get the timid Inge to loosen up work too well and, soon, the exchange student is cha...

Tread Perilously begins a month of movies squeezed and stretched into television series with the RoboCop: The Series episode called "Inside Crimes." When William Ray "Pudface" Morgan's latest heist becomes fodder for the OCP Television series Inside Crimes , ratings go through the roof. The executive producer, naturally, wants to feature the criminal -- and RoboCop -- more frequently, but the cops...

Tread Perilously's '80s flashback month concludes with an episode of  The Love Boat  called "Miss Mom/Who's the Champ/Gopher's Delusion" The  Pacific Princess 's latest Mexican coast sailing comes with a twist -- a wrestling match between "Lover Boy" Bob and Thomas 'The Mangler' Sharkey. The promoter even retained the services of Terry "Hulk" Hogan to do ringside commentary! But when The Mangler's...

Tread Perilously's 1980s flashback month continues with an episode of Magnum P.I.  called "Kiss of the Sabre." When Magnum is evicted from the guest house, he gets to know its new inhabitant: novice writer Betty Windom. Constantly suffering writer's block during her attempts to plot a tale of superspy Sebastian Sabre, she decides to butt into Magnum's latest case. Is a simple job verifying details...

Tread Perilously's 1980s flashback months leads them, finally, to  Silver Spoons  with an episode called "A Family Affair." When Ricky meets Jeannie -- who goes to the nearby all-girls school -- at the local hangout, he discovers that she's pretty rad. Soon, she becomes his prom date. Meanwhile, Edward, Kate, and Dexter Stuffins face the threat of a strike at the toy factory. But when Ricky and Je...

Tread Perilously heads back to the 1980s for a month of shows from that glorious decade. First up: a  Miami Vice  episode called "Bushido." When a joint operation with the DEA goes south, Captain Martin Castillo suspects his old friend Jack Gretsky may have interfered with the bust to get his attention. Soon, he visits the local CIA office to confirm and, rather quickly, confronts Gretsky, leading...

Tread Perilously celebrates its 500th podcast by going back to the beginning -- the first ever  Doctor Who story: "An Unearthly Child." When Shoreditch area schoolteachers Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton have a conversation about an unusual student, Susan Foreman, their questions lead them to a junkyard at the end of Totter's Lane. Inside, they find no trace of Susan, but instead discover an out...