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Nancy Drew: "The Long Journey Home" (1995) Jun 20, 2022

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"The Long Journey Home" is the thirteenth episode and series finale of the first and only season of Nancy Drew, a short-lived venture from Canadian studio Nelvana. This episdoe first aired on aired December 16, 1995. The show stars Tracy Ryan as Nancy Drew and Scott Speedman and Ned Nickerson, with Jonathan Zaccai guest starring as Christophe.

In this episode, Nancy and Ned bicker across France, meeting a mysterious French hitchhiker along the way. Oh, and they kind of break up? It's a bummer.

Listen to Áine and Kevin squabble about relationship red flags, train danger, and family lore..

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Barnaby Jones: "Fatal Flight" (1973) Jun 13, 2022

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You'd think that Jed Clampett plus mysteries would be more fun!

"Fatal Flight" is the twelfth episode of the second season of Barnaby Jones. The episode first aired on December 9, 1973. The series starred Buddy Ebsen, the actor best known for starring in The Beverly Hillbillies. This episode also featured Lee Meriwether, Richard Anderson, Jerry Douglas, Murray Hamilton, and Pippa Scott.

Ebsen's Jones is a detective who comes out of retirement after his son is killed while working as a private investigator. In this episode — which has the feel of a plane swiftly losing acceleration — the private eye must square off against live wires, parachuting hippies, and over-the-top Foley artists. It's much less exciting than it sounds.

Listen to Áine and Kevin take flight with topics like The Beverly Hillbillies, glacial pacing, and ice cream.

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Top Gun: Maverick (2022) Jun 06, 2022

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Top Gun: Maverick is 2022 action film from director Joseph Kosinski. Starring Tom Cruise, the film also features Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Monica Barbaro, Lewis Pullman, Ed Harris, and Val Kilmer.

In this summer hit, Cruise takes the controls once more as Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell from the original 1985 Top Gun. Maverick must return to the TOPGUN program to face his past and train a group of cocky pilots to take on an impossible mission.

Listen to Áine and Kevin radio in about summer fun, call signs, and Twelve O'Clock High.

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The Pearl of Death (1944) May 30, 2022

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The Pearl of Death is a 1944 Sherlock Holmes film starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce and directed by Roy William Neil. Dennis Hoey, Evelyn Ankers, Miles Mander, and Rondo Hatton also show up.

Set during World War II, this film is at least slightly based on the 1904 short story "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. But just barely.

In this film, Sherlock Holmes makes a rare and bizarre blunder that leads to a series of brutal murders. Yikes! Dr. Watson and the famed sleuth are left to try to clean up the shattered porcelain before criminals clutch one very special pearl.

Listen to Kevin and Áine shuck conversational oysters to find gemstones like confusing horses, the death of Presidents William Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor, and our murderous dog,.

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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947) May 23, 2022

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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome is a crime thriller film from 1947, based on the comic strip by Chester Gould.

Starring Boris Karloff as Gruesome and Ralph Byrd as the titular detective, this cast also includes Anne Gwynne, Skelton Knaggs, Edward Ashley, and June Clayworth as other wackily-named characters. Basically, some bad guys have stolen a type of gas that freezes people where they stand. And Dick Tracy is the only detective who can stop them!

Listen to Áine and Kevin come to a standstill over Iron Chef, comic strips versus comic books, and heroic but maligned newspaper reporters.

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Awake: Season One (2012) May 16, 2022

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"I'm wide awake. Yeah, I was in the dark. I was falling hard, in a crashing car."

Awake is a police procedural — slash family drama slash psychic fantasy slash psychological thriller — that ran from March 1 to May 24, 2012. Kyle Killen created the show, which starred Jason Isaacs as homicide investigator Michael Britten.

After Detective Britten's family gets into a car wreck, his reality diverges into two spheres. In one, his wife Hannah — Laura Allen — survived while his son Rex — Dylan Minnette — died. Then when he falls asleep, the opposite is true: Rex lives and Hannah is dead. The result is stress, sleep-deprivation, and a few spectacularly psychedelic sequences.

Listen to Áine and Kevin drift off on topics like sharp writing, police procedurals, and penguins.

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Dragnet 1967: "The LSD Story" (1967) and "Burglary: DR-31" (1969) May 09, 2022

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It's a double Dragnet deal!

In this episode of Mystery to Me, we'll discuss two episodes of Dragnet 1967. The first one, "The LSD Story" or "The Big LSD" aired on January 12, 1967. The second, "Burglary: DR-31" aired on March 6, 1969.

In "The LSD Story," Joe Friday and his partner Bill Gannon must combat the scourge of acid, as personified by the maddening hippie drug dealer "Blue Boy." And in the "Burglary" episode, Friday and Gannon discover how nerdy interests can lead youths into a life of petty crime! Both shows focus on a troubled youngster whose desire to escape dull, dreary reality prompts them to both fall into a subculture that baffles Friday and run afoul of the law.

Listen to Áine and Kevin as they get far out on topics like Gene Roddenberry, S.E. Hinton, drug use, and male fantasy figures.

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24: Season Two (2002-2003) May 02, 2022

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24 is a hit television series that aired on Fox, starring Kiefer Sutherland as super spy Jack Bauer. Each season of the series takes place over 24 hours.

The show's second season — also known as "Day 2" — began airing on October 29, 2002 and concluded with a finale on May 20, 2003. Along with Sutherland, the cast also features Sarah Wynter, Elisha Cuthbert, Xander Berkeley, Penny Johnson Jerald, Carlos Bernard, and Dennis Haysbert, and Reiko Aylesworth.

In this storyline, Jack Bauer is tasked with stopping a nuclear bomb that's on the loose in Los Angeles. Torture, terrorism, First Amendment infringement, torture, interrogations, and more torture ensue! Listen to Áine and Kevin chase after topics like B-plots, torture, storytelling twists, and Lost.

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Air Force One (1997) Apr 25, 2022

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Cool presidents? Detente with Russia? Important faxes? Is this the most nineties movie ever?

Air Force One is a 1997 presidential-themed action thriller by director Wolfgang Petersen starring Harrison Ford as President Harrison Ford ... er, James Marshall. Gary Oldman, Glenn Close, Wendy Crewson, Liesel Matthews, Paul Guilfoyle, William H. Macy, Dean Stockwell, Elya Baskin, and Xander Berkely are also along for the flight.

The set up is simple. What if Die Hard happened on the president's air plane? When terrorists take over Air Force One, the president must ditch politics as usual and rely upon his old military training to save his family and staff ... and prevent the old US of A from negotiating with terrorists.

Listen to Áine and Kevin take off on topics like the history of the early 2000s, Joe Biden's dogs, and the superiority of In the Line of Fire.

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Quincy M.E.: "Next Stop, Nowhere" (1982) Apr 18, 2022

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In this episode, Quincy M.E. paraphrases the Dead Kennedys by demanding: "All punks, fuck off."

Airing December 1, 1982, this is the eighth episode of the medical mystery show's eighth season.JackKlugman stars as Dr. R. Quincy, M.E, or "Quince." This episode also features a young Melora Hardin, Anita Gillette, Barbara Cason, Robert Ito, John S. Ragin, Garry Walberg, and Val Bisoglio.

"Next Stop, Nowhere" drones out question after daring question: Can a genre of music be a murder weapon? Can a song turn a wholesome, clean-cut American kid into a killer? Are the punks the worst people who ever lived? Am I so out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong.

That's right. Jack Klugman's Dr. Quincy is going to come out against the evils of punk music. Listen to Caince and Greence jam about topics like the War of 1812, preachy elders, and the comparative reasonableness of Dragnet.

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