508 - Defenders of Dynatron City
Failure To Launch
A tie-in cartoon for a videogame that flopped. Obviously includes Tim Curry.
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507 - Bermuda Triangle
Failure To Launch
A family's boat trip ends when they wash up on an island in the Bermuda Triangle, but don't worry, it's aggressively All Good.
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506 - Suburban Beat
Failure To Launch
80's housewives team up to crack an incredibly inappropriate case, but tbf the cops are shit.
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505 - Creating Rem Lazar
Failure To Launch
Old friends Michael Williams and Sarah Baggs follow Ferris down a centrist musical rabbit hole.
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504 - Madame Sin
Failure To Launch
Robert Wagner (Dr. Evil's Number 2) as a cut rate Bond goes up against Bette Davis (her own eyes) as a full-blown Bond villain.
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503 - The Owl
Failure To Launch
Growly, 80s-style vigilante justice dispensed by a flying-animal-themed anti-hero. Hero is more homeless than usual.
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502 - Sniff
Failure To Launch
That reporter from Batman '89 has a crimefighting dog and a live-in Dad. Solves crime?
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501 - Infiltrator
Failure To Launch
Scott Bakula has another run in with a space probe, but this time, it's personal. Because it's inside him.
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432 - I-Man
Failure To Launch
Scott Bakula is exposed to Space Gas and cannot die. He finds this extremely inconvenient.
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431 - M3K
Failure To Launch
It’s the Three Musketeers, but set in modern day (August 2000) America! How does that work? We still don’t know.
info_outlineIt wouldn't be a season of Failure to Launch without a crimefighting dog, so here's Sniff, another pilot from the 1988 CBS Summer Playhouse (pls bring this back CBS it's been so bountiful.)
Robert Wuhl, best known for being that reporter in most of Kim Basinger's scenes in Batman '89, is Sid Barrows, a reporter in most of the dog's scenes in this thing. Nominally he's here to solve crimes but as is trad the dog does most of the heavy lifting.
Every crimefighting dog show needs a twist though, and Sniff's is... Sid's dad seems to live with him and do most of the homemaking? It's unconventional but also surprisingly charming. 4 stars.
Reviewers: James Ferris, Harry Brimage, Lisa Dibb
Soundboard: Andrew Cherry