Our Critical Assignment series continues with another bionic Q&A panel hosted by John.   This time around, we present Lee Majors' appearance at DragonCon 2013.  The panel took place on Saturday, August 30 and it was John's first time meeting Lee and he relates what the experience was like.  Plus, Paul fills us in on the making of the the career restrospective that was shown to the audience prior to Lee's taking the stage.

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Most DOCTOR WHO fans know the tragic story of the “missing episodes” – individual installments and occasionally entire stories from the early days of the show, wiped or junked by the BBC sometimes only shortly after they were aired, never to be seen again. Most of the losses centered around the First Doctor (William Hartnell) and Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton) eras, but as the decades have passed there have been a number of surprising and very welcome recoveries. Missing episodes have been found and returned to the BBC from all over the globe, and as of 2013 there were 106 episodes still missing…until now.

This October – and appropriately enough in the show’s 50th anniversary year – the largest haul of recovered episodes in the last 25 years or more has been announced: nine episodes that restore one Second Doctor story and nearly complete another.

Now available on iTunes as digital downloads (find the link below) and soon to appear on DVD at the end of this year and the beginning of 2014, the six-episode Second Doctor story “The Enemy of the World” is complete for the first time since its airing in 1967-1968, and the subsequent tale “The Web of Fear” is now lacking only its third episode. Both stories are treasures beyond imagining for fans to either revisit or see for the very first time.

Scott and Arnold are two of those fans, and they’re joined in this very special “Satellite” episode by Stephen Graves, online deputy editor of Stuff.tv and co-host of The Naked Scarf podcast. Stephen was fortunate enough to attend the BBC’s press conference on Thursday, October 10, 2013 that announced the recovery of the episodes and gave those in attendance the chance to watch two of them alongside stars Frazer Hines and Deborah Watling, who appear as the Doctor’s companions Jamie and Victoria in both adventures.

Join the guys as they celebrate the “new” episodes and speculate on what the future may hold for the ongoing “missing episode” hunt!

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The Rift Crew is back with an all new In Review episode.  In this episode we talk about Pacific Rim, Harry Potter, Riddick, Burn Notice, DC Comics and naked Harley Quinn, Voyager I, and the loss of the sense of wonder when it comes to science.  All this and more for the low, low price of nothing.  Download the episode, take a listen, and chime in with your thoughts on what we discussed here.

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Segment One: Bringing it to the Table

4:45 - Keith loves his new restaurant haunt, Sauce.

7:15 - Krissy wants to know why Pacific Rim didn't get the love at the box office she felt it deserved.

20:36 - Mike is excited by the news of a new Harry Potter inspired movie scripted by J.K. Rowling.

29:45 - Promo for Tales from the Mouse House Podcast

30:30 - Promo for The Thunder Crester Podcast

Segment Two: Reviews

32:20 - Natalia returns with a new book review, looking at the apocalyptic novel, Interrupt.

43:17 - Dan reviews Riddick and we discuss why this movie even got made when it appears nobody wanted it.

53:10 - Keith was less than impressed with the ending of Burn Notice, but he is happy about the return of Sons of Anarchy.

1:02:37 - Promo for The Jen and Dave Show.

1:03:25 - Promo for The Machinery of Light

Segment Three: Pop Tops

1:05:20 - We take a look at the mess DC Comics has made with their request for a naked Harley Quinn contemplating suicide, Voyager I and what happened to our sense for science, and the passing of Ray Dolby.

Michael Falkner reports on the Gravity of the situation at the box office with the weekly tally.  Plus, there's a bionic boatload of new TV on DVD releases this week that includes the fourth season release of The Six Million Dollar Man.  It's all there, plus a whole lot more on an all new The Weekly Podioplex.

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Interview: Vic Mignogna (Star Trek Continues, Full Metal Alchemist, Dragon Ball Z)

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TV News: Update on the Dr. Horrible Sing-A-Long Blog Sequel; Firefly’s New Sequel

Movie News: Wonder Woman Trailer; The Batman and Superman Movie just MIGHT have Wonder Woman, Hear Khan’s Voice as Smaug, Jurassic Park 4 gets Its Star, Z*Con: Your Con Will Be Infested

TWIST: How Trek 2 Should Have Ended, Brian Fuller’s New Star Trek Series

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Who said this and in what movie?    ”You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember: All I’m offering is the truth. Nothing more.”

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Scott and Arnold kick off a month-long tribute to the greatest holiday of them all – Halloween – with a tribute to a film maker whose name is synonymous with that festival: John Carpenter! The guys have selected five films to discuss in this feature-length episode – HALLOWEEN, THE FOG,THE THING, PRINCE OF DARKNESS, IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS – three of which comprise the director’s self-titled “Apocalypse Trilogy.” Join us as we start a month of horror and mayhem with a Master of the Macabre, the Prince of Darkness himself!

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Michael Myers Masks

Hysterical (1983, The Hudson Brothers)

John W. Campbell Jr.’s “Who Goes There?” (Wikipedia)

Practical effects from The Thing remake (video by ADI)

Bernard Quatermass (Wikipedia)

Timescape (1980, Gregory Benford – John Carpenter has credited this as partial inspiration for Prince of Darkness)

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October means that we dip in once again to the CBS Radio Mystery Theater.  This year, we look at the final year of EG Marshall's turn as host of the long running anthology series. Plus, we conclude the current stories for Superman and The Avengers and premiere new stories.

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October 4, 2013
0:29 - The Regis Jack Experience Netcast Promo
3:46 - The Adventures of Superman - "Lighthouse Point Smugglers", part 4 - July 29, 1940
16:45 - CBS Radio Mystery Theater - "The Solid Gold Zarf" - October 4, 1981
1:01:34 - The Avengers - "From Venus with Love", part 4

What if they declared a cultural revolution and nobody came? That's pretty much the situation with CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC, the movie that was supposed enshrine disco as the musical trend of the eighties and instead wound up being the genre's epitaph, not to mention destroying the careers of close to anyone involved with it. Purportedly a fictionalized version of the formation of the music group Village People -- if by fictionalized you mean completely divorced from reality and by music group you mean guys who can sing and dance while dressed up as Christopher Street stereotypes -- and an opening volley in the ongoing political actualization of the homosexual community, even if no one in the film can gather the nerve to utter the word "g*y," the film founders under the multiple curses of a director, Nancy "Ida Morgenstern" Walker, making her feature film debut despite the fact that she had never done a musical, stars -- including Steve Guttenberg, Valerie Perrine, and Bruce Jenner -- with no particular talent for singing or dancing, and a script -- for which producer Allan Carr took partial credit -- that barely knows the definition of the words "musical" and "comedy" individually, much less put together.

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Hell bent on completing the set they started with SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND and continued with XANADU, the loyal devotees of the Temple of Bad, Andrea Lipinski, Kevin Lauderdale, and Dan Persons, join in with their special guest, multimediumrare.com's Orenthal V. Hawkins, to delve into arguably the most benighted of the fin de 70's musicals. So put on your dancing shoes, gently insert your earplugs, and remember: YOU CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC. Because the indifference of 1980's America has already done the job for you.

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Tonight’s Diners: Scott, M., & Raul

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In this listener feedback show, M., Scott, and Raul discuss the following listener feedback:  The New Gotham Series, Marvel’s: Agents of Shield; The Dune Book Series; The Wheel of Time book series; The Blacklist; Olympus Has Fallen; Man of Steel Versus Falling Skies; Star Trek Into Darkness; World War Z; Jurassic World; Stargate; Independence Day 2; Robocop reboot; Once Upon a Time season 3; Big Bang Theory; Revolution; and Sleep Hollow.

Cloudy 2 takes the top box office spot, but will the new movie releases this weekend topple it? Michael Falkner reveals it all on a new The Weekly Podioplex.

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