Seen on the Small Screen Podcast
Episodes
68 episodes
Ep17--Vengeance is Mine, Saith the Munster
(Disclaimer: This episode came up in the manner we chose our most recent episodes, from the ether of random chance. We recorded this back in January and had no idea it would be released this close to Halloween. So, enjoy this unintended n...
Ep16--You Can (Can't) Return to Green Acres
Gather round good people of the soil and listen to a ballad of the year 1990 and a return to chores, stores, fresh air, and Times Square Super Mario Bros. time capsules in the television film Return to Green Acres. In yet another movie...
Ep15--Who Traps the Parent Trapper?
Who traps the parent trapper? This is the phrase foremost on Becky and Jake's mind as they discuss today's tv Sunday Movie by Disney: The Parent Trap 2. In yet another sequel that takes place decades after the original, we find th...
Ep14--Honey, We've Exhausted the Franchise
In a cookie-cutter house in the middle of suburbia, there is a stairway. At the top of those stairs is an attic with a dark scientific secret. Will you, the listener, walk those steps and risk the shrinking machine? Today, Becky and Jake are ta...
Ep13--Advanced Mazes & Monsters, 5th Edition B/X
Greetings, weary traveler. Do come in and shake the rain from your cloak. Take a place near to the hearth and sip on honeyed mead while our resident minstrels, Jake and Becky, perform for you a perceived interpretation of table top role-playing...
Ep12--You Take the Good, You Take the Bad, and le Risque
When you take the good and the bad along with a slew of chances, there you have this episode's subject material, The Facts of Life go to Paris. In a movie placed in the middle of the television series, the girls from Eastland Academy a...
Ep11--El Auto Fantastico Meets the Stuff
In a world where criminals operate above the law and mullets reign supreme, Jake and Becky talk about an attempted spinoff of the Knight Rider television series titled "Code of Vengeance." When martial arts dramas and westerns mix together, we ...
Ep10--Where a Few Adaptations Have Gone Before
Children's musical theater and tv stars assemble one last time for Lewis Carroll's nearly never adapted journey of Alice going through the looking-glass. Pursued by a monster bred of her fears, Alice gets temporarily distracted from going home ...
Ep9--An American Alice in Aria Land
In this episode, your hosts discuss musical mishaps in the first part of a live-action adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, brought to us by the disaster master of film, Mr. Irwin Allen. With a story familiar to many, this particula...
Ep8--Gilligan's Island Presents the Great Globetrotter Robot Smackdown--Featuring Special Guest Gregg Paschall
Sit right back again, or stand, if that's your preference, and hear a tale of how two intellectual properties joyfully collide in the third TV movie installment of Gilligan's Island, The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island. This ...
Ep7--Probation from Gilligan's Island
Sit right back and hear the tale your hosts relate as they visit everyone's favorite castaways in Rescue from Gilligan's Island. One decade and a half after they were originally shipwrecked, a hut boat and a non-Russian satellite's...
Ep6--Do Jeannies Dream of Electric Sheep?
Today's small screen offering is the magical adventure “I Dream of Jeannie,” with the 15 years between the original series and the movie built right into the title. After a spell of hiding her powers, Jeannie Nelson is forced out of housewifery...
Ep5--Benji, the Kaiju Superhero
In this episode, your hosts dare you not to have a feeling whilst gazing into the soulful eyes of Benji, the stray canine from the tearjerker movies of the 70s and 80s, now starring in a new Netflix movie. Is this film a reboot or a remake? Reg...
Ep4--Many Bionic Returns
Join your hosts as they make silly sound effects and talk about “The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman." In a reunion movie that takes place many years after the original series, retired OSI agents Steve Austin and Jamie...
Ep3--Charles, Arbors, and Elections
Follow along as Becky and Jake review two Charlie Brown television specials you're guaranteed not to find in a movie clearance bin. In “You’re Not Elected, Charlie Brown,” the Peanuts gang experience the gaffes and frustrations of the election ...
Ep2--Moontrapped--Target Mirth
Jake and Becky experience pure cinematic chaos in this episode's offering, “Moontrap: Target Earth." Made as a sequel to a movie released over 30 years ago, this film features a shred of the original storyline and none of the original cast. Joi...