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
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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
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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
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That reporter from Batman '89 has a crimefighting dog and a live-in Dad. Solves crime?
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501 - Infiltrator
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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
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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’s a packed house on Failure to Launch this week as we examine Riverworld, a 2003 SyFy original, except it’s not because it’s based on a fantasy book series. Strap yourself in for some tedious world building!
Basically a bunch of people who died at different points in history wake up together, naked and screaming, in Riverworld; a big ol’ planet run by aliens, probably.
Along their journey, our protagonists meet:
- A neanderthal, whose savage attempts to kill people are bad
- Emperor Nero, whose classy attempts to kill people are good!
- Cameron Daddo, whose American accent is bad
- A fish-alien dude, whose paddle-steamer building abilities are good!
Will they find out what Riverworld really is? Can they get back to Earth? Will these and other mysteries be solved? Absolutely not, this is a pilot. They can’t blow this stuff early. Read the books if you’re that desperate, nerd.
Reviewers: James Ferris, Lucy Shaw, David Shaw, Alex Malone, Harry Brimage
Soundboard: Andrew Cherry