Tread Perilously

The Ballad of John D. Cort continues as Tread Perilously watches an episode of  Baywatch  called "The End?" When a series of tremors leads to a larger shock, the Baywatch team is caught off guard for landslides, liquefaction, and dangerous panes of glass. Cort and Craig, meanwhile, find trouble when the shockwaves hit the spot they were diving. Back on land, Hobie helps Craig's wife, Gina, get to...

Tread Perilously's winter Patreon request month continues with an episode  Mrs. Davis  called "Zwei Sie Piel mit Seitung Sie Wirtschaftung." Evading her seemingly German captors, Simone learns from Mrs. Davis that she must seek the Holy Grail. But Wiley and his resistance believe the quest is just to prove Simone will be a good custodian in the algorithm's data center. Which, of course, he wants h...

As the Patreon request month continues, Tread Perilously ventures into  Warehouse 13  for the first time with an episode called "Duped." With Myka still mad at Artie for what happened with MacPherson, she and Pete are ordered to help with the inventory. It leads to a suspicious mirror and a haunted Studio 54 disco ball. But after Myka stares too deeply into the mirror, she is called away to Las Ve...

Tread Perilously starts the new year with the Winter Patreon request month. First up: an episode of the cop drama  Adam 12  called "Log 72: El Presidente." As the morning shift starts, Reed wonders if he can afford to buy a house. Malloy cannot contemplate why he would stop being a renter. Their first call of the day takes them to an apartment building with a unique living situation for three of i...

The end-of-year tradition continues as Tread Perilously watches the debut episode of  Fallout . 219 years after the end, Vault 33 denizen Lucy MacLean gets more than she expected when she volunteers to wed someone from Vault 32. The resulting attack by raiders, and the abduction of her father, leads her to the surface where she faces an uncertain future. Meanwhile, Brotherhood of Steel member Maxi...

Tread Merrily 2024 concludes with an episode of  Knight Rider  called "Silent Knight." While trying to evade the F.L.A.G. Christmas banquet. Michael encounters a young lad who happened to see a bunch of bank robbers transferring their ill-gotten gains from a circus van to an unmarked K-car. He also managed to lift the gold watch one of the robbers stole from the bank manager. Soon, Michael and KIT...

Tread Merrily 2024 continues with an episode of ALF known as "ALF's Special Christmas" — although it will be referred to as "ALF'S Christmas Special". When the Tanners take the opportunity to spend Christmas at a cabin in the woods, ALF grumbles about the lack of indoor plumbing and electricity. His antagonism gets so bad, Willie sends him outside for a few hours. ALF ends up driving into town wit...

Tread Merrily begins with the  Doctor Who Christmas special "The Return of Doctor Mysterio." While investigating a potential alien invasion, The Doctor discovers a boy he met years earlier is using his accidental superpowers to become a real-life superhero. But "The Ghost" leads a complicated civilian life that is now intruding on his costumed one as the invasion, The Doctor, and the woman he secr...

Tread Perilously's Cornucopia of Sci-Fi concludes with a  Caprica  episode called "False Labor." After each of the main characters has troubled dreams, Joseph Adama awakes to another day of work while his brother, Sam, plots to send guns to Tauron. Daniel Greystone continues to develop Resurrection technology and perfect a simulacrum of his wife, Amanda. She, meanwhile, works to embed herself amon...

Tread Perilously's Cornucopia of Sci-Fi continues with an episode of  Upload  called "Strawberry." Nathan and Nora are still on the road returning consciousnesses of the departed to their families. Their latest stop brings them to a farm where pork and cheese are produced. Note the wording. While the parents of the departed prove folksy and nice, their world is anything but. Back in the "Afterlife...

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...