You often hear that there’s too much TV to watch these days or that the market is catering to geeky interests on TV today. Yet, the 80’s saw it’s fair share of genre television for people of all ages. In this episode four people that were there (old fogeys) recount tales of the television of their youth. They also discuss whether 80’s television holds up and whether they think that modern audiences would appreciate it. They also give their opinions on various series and talk about the inevitable sequel series to discuss even more 80’s TV.
Our five-minute controversy this week asks if the MCU should do a Heroes for Hire TV series with Mike Colter and Finn Jones.
This week Mark, Joe, and Keith join the cast.
Disclaimer:
In this episode, the Airwolf theme was incorrectly attributed to Mike Post. The Airwolf theme was actually composed by Sylvester Levay.
Show Notes:
The North Texas Apocalypse Bunker
The Airwolf Theme
Finn Jones Wants a Heroes for Hire Series
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Time travel is one of the classic expressions of science-fiction. H.G. Wells went there with his time machine and Hollywood has gone to that well many times and told us many stories with that idea as their basis. In this episode we do a deep dive on time travel. We discuss the methods and philosophies of time travel that we’ve seen in various stories. We’ll talk about our favorite stories with time travel, and we’ll also talk about ones that we had issues with. We also debate the merits of the ending of Infinity War and discuss how time travel is effecting the MCU.