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Tonight's Menu

Much of the conversation in tonight’s show revolves around the following news: Powers, the Interstellar Text Adventure Game, the Star Wars: The Force Awakens prequel comic, The Crow reboot, The Flash spin-off series The Magnificent Seven, Kate Mulgrew’s New Book and more.

Our SciFi Five In Five  is from Colin Taylor

Top Five Obscure Science Fiction Shows that You Should Probably Watch (or Watch Again)

Quantum Leap (1989-1993) Scientist Sam Beckett finds himself trapped in time–“leaping” into the body of a different person in a different time period each week. [Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell]

SeaQuest DSV (1993-1996) In the early 21st century, mankind has colonized the oceans. The United Earth Oceans Organization enlists Captain Nathan Bridger and the submarine seaQuest DSV to keep the peace and explore the last frontier on Earth. [Roy Scheider, Jonathan Brandis, Don Franklin, Ted Raimi, Stacy Haiduk, Stephanie Beacham]

The Lone Gunmen (2001) Spin-off of The X-Files featuring the trio of computer-hacking conspiracy geeks popularly known as The Lone Gunmen. Like a misguided Mission Impossible team, they embark on a series of comic adventures that simultaneously highlight their genius and ineptitude. [Bruce Harwood, Tom Braidwood, Dean Haglund, Zuleikha Robinson, Stephen Snedden]

First Wave (1998-2001) Framed for murder and on the run, a former thief struggles to expose the vanguard of an alien invasion with the help of a conspiracy theorist and newly discovered prophecies of Nostradamus. [Sebastian Spence, Rob LaBelle, Roger R. Cross]

Sliders (1995-2000) A boy genius and his comrades travel to different parallel universes, trying to find their way back home. [Jerry O’Connell, Kari Wuhrer, Sabrina Lloyd, John Rhys-Davies, Cleavant Derricks]

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Home takes the top box office spot this past weekend and there's only one new major movie release to challenge it.  But the real news comes from Adam West and Burt Ward regarding Batman 66!  Michael Falkner has this and more on a new Weekly Podioplex.

Comment on the episode or write weeklypodioplex@gmail.com.

Weekly Podioplex Notes for March 31, 2015

Introduction

Opening Clip: Furious 7

Box Office Report

Top Ten

#1 – Home

#2 – Get Hard
#3 – The Divergent Series: Insurgent [-2]
#4 – Cinderella [-2]
#5 – It Follows [+14]

#6 – Kingsman: The Secret Service [-1]

#7 – Do You Believe? [-1]
#8 – Run All Night [-5]

#9 – The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel [-2]

#10 – The Gunman [-6]

(New Release) [Change]

Tops From the Past

2010 – Clash of the Titans
2005 – Sin City

1995 – Tommy Boy

1985 – Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment

1975 – Escape to Witch Mountain

Box Office Premieres for the week of April 3rd, 2015

Wide

Furious 7 – [PG-13]

Limited

Woman in Gold – [PG-13]

5 to 7 – [R]

Lambert & Stamp – [R]

Effie Gray – [PG-13]

Home Entertainment for the week of March 31st, 2015

New Releases on DVD and Blu-Ray

Interstellar – [PG-13]

The Imitation Game – [PG-13]

Wild – [R]

TV on DVD and Blu-Ray

Veep: Season Three (2014)

Mortal Kombat: Conquest (1998)

Silicon Valley: Season One (2014)

Blu-Rays From the Past

The Facts of Life (1960) – [Approved]

Podcast Promos

The Batcave Podcast

The Batcave Podcast is an Internet show that takes a look at each and every episode of the 60s Batman television series. Host John S. Drew celebrates the great and looks to see where the show went wrong as it slid into oblivion in its third and final season with a different guest host each week. In the end, John is attempting to justify his love for this series, not to the listener, but to himself. Join him on this long, strange trip.

Quick Flicks

• Animated 1966 Batman feature film(s) coming

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“Forget” what THE WALKING DEAD was like a few weeks ago! Rick and company are settling into the Alexandria Safe Zone, but are the Wolves at the gate…or are they already inside? Join Arnold and Scott as they raid the freezer, bake a batch of cookies, and decide what was good, what wasn’t so good, and what sort of grade the Doctor thinks the episode deserves! Or don’t join them…and wake up tomorrow…you’ve heard this? We know what we think you should do!

ALSO: Hear Arnold talk all about the new Indiegogo campaign for the planned remake of classic 1980 zombie film NIGHTMARE CITY, spearheaded by TOM SAVINI and UMBERTO LENZI!

Show Music: “Bitter Pill” (feat. Vosmoy) by Still Pluto.

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We present a classic one-hour radio drama this time -   one of Orson Welles’ Mercury Theater on the Air adaptations.  Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo first appeared in 1844 and was an immediate success.  Welles portrays Edmond Dantès, a young man unjustly imprisoned for many years who uses an immense fortune to wreck revenge against his enemies.  This broadcast begins with a news bulletin about the Czechoslovakian Crisis of 1938, which ultimately drew England into World War II.

Episodes

The Mercury Theater on the Air

“The Count of Monte Cristo”

August 29, 1938

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