This week, we discuss an episode of NBC's The Tomorrow Show With Tom Snyder from its final year. Tom sits down with BOTNS returning star Ricky Schroder. Iggy Pop performs three songs, bleeds a little, and chats with Tom. Plus "economist" Jerome Smith warns of impending 1980s doom, and "poet" Dorothy Greene-Pepper talks about loooove while Tom just tries to talk. Sit back, fire up a podtini, and chortle along with a broadcast legend (Tom, not us).
Thursday, November 30, 2017
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Extree, extree! BOTNS Comes to YouTube
A NEW WAY TO LISTEN, REVISIT, AND SHARE:
We've had a YouTube page since almost the beginning, featuring play lists related to each episode "curated" by our very on Rick. Now we've started adding full episodes of the podcast. So far, we have all of season one available, but seasons two and three will follow soon(ish). If you're new to the podcast, catch up*. If you're a regular listener, revisit some of your favorite episodes, and either way, share, share, share.
*All episodes remain available through Libsyn, our RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Tune In, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Below, one of our favorite episodes "Let it be Lowenbrau."
We've had a YouTube page since almost the beginning, featuring play lists related to each episode "curated" by our very on Rick. Now we've started adding full episodes of the podcast. So far, we have all of season one available, but seasons two and three will follow soon(ish). If you're new to the podcast, catch up*. If you're a regular listener, revisit some of your favorite episodes, and either way, share, share, share.
*All episodes remain available through Libsyn, our RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Tune In, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Below, one of our favorite episodes "Let it be Lowenbrau."
Friday, November 24, 2017
Show Notes: Season 3 Episode 6: Knight Rider
*This episode of Knight Rider, "Lost Knight," premiered Sunday, December 9, 1984, on the National Broadcasting Company television network.
*Glen Larson created many series in addition to this one, including Quincy, The Fall Guy, Buck Rogers, and many others, and he also had a hand in previous BOTNS-spotlighted Magnum P.I.
*The series' theme song, which has the appropriate title "Knight Rider Theme," is credited to Larson and composer Stu Phillips, who also created the theme for Battlestar Galactica and produced Shelley Fabares' hit "Johnny Angel," a fact that fascinates me for some reason.
*The Garthe Knight (the actual son of wealthy industrialist Wilton Knight) episodes are "Goliath" (Season 2, Episode 1) and "Goliath Returns" (Season 2, Episode 17).
*The K.A.R.R. (Knight Automated Roving Robot)--the evil counterpart of K.I.T.T. (Knight Industries Two Thousand) episodes are "Trust Doesn't Rust" (Season 1, Episode 9) and "K.I.T.T. vs. K.A.R.R." (Season 3, Episode 6). By the way, shouldn't that first episode be called 'Trust DON'T Rust"? Much cooler title.
*Hasselhoff's big break was on The Young and the Restless, not General Hospital, though he did play a doctor--Dr. SNAPPER FOSTER!
*Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) was a smash hit for Billy Ocean, reaching #1 on the Billboard singles chart in 1984.
*Doug's mom in this episode is played by Lenore Kasdorf (who, we confirm, is not Dawn Wells).
*The Hassslehoff appearance on Diff'rent Strokes occurs in that show's sixth season's "Hooray for Hollywood Part 1," which also features the first appearance of Sam!
*Check our YouTube channel for this episode's playlist, which includes a sweet custom Knight Rider pinball machine in action.
*Glen Larson created many series in addition to this one, including Quincy, The Fall Guy, Buck Rogers, and many others, and he also had a hand in previous BOTNS-spotlighted Magnum P.I.
*The series' theme song, which has the appropriate title "Knight Rider Theme," is credited to Larson and composer Stu Phillips, who also created the theme for Battlestar Galactica and produced Shelley Fabares' hit "Johnny Angel," a fact that fascinates me for some reason.
*The Garthe Knight (the actual son of wealthy industrialist Wilton Knight) episodes are "Goliath" (Season 2, Episode 1) and "Goliath Returns" (Season 2, Episode 17).
*The K.A.R.R. (Knight Automated Roving Robot)--the evil counterpart of K.I.T.T. (Knight Industries Two Thousand) episodes are "Trust Doesn't Rust" (Season 1, Episode 9) and "K.I.T.T. vs. K.A.R.R." (Season 3, Episode 6). By the way, shouldn't that first episode be called 'Trust DON'T Rust"? Much cooler title.
*Hasselhoff's big break was on The Young and the Restless, not General Hospital, though he did play a doctor--Dr. SNAPPER FOSTER!
*Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) was a smash hit for Billy Ocean, reaching #1 on the Billboard singles chart in 1984.
*Doug's mom in this episode is played by Lenore Kasdorf (who, we confirm, is not Dawn Wells).
*The Hassslehoff appearance on Diff'rent Strokes occurs in that show's sixth season's "Hooray for Hollywood Part 1," which also features the first appearance of Sam!
*Check our YouTube channel for this episode's playlist, which includes a sweet custom Knight Rider pinball machine in action.
Thursday, November 23, 2017
Episode 3-6: Knight Rider "Lost Knight"
Cool, cool, cool! Master of cool Michael Knight gets into a spot of trouble when his cool talking car K.I.T.T. gets car amnesia and wanders into the wilderness. Luckily for them, cool kid Doug (Jason Bateman) finds K.I.T.T. Oh, and some dudes are trying to blow up a dam or something.
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Friday, November 17, 2017
Show Notes: Season 3 Episode 5: Super Friends
*The All-New Superfriends Hour aired Saturdays at 8:00 on ABC against varying competition, most notably the Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner Hour. The next season, it morphed into Challenge of the Super Friends as the heroes waged battle against the Legion of Doom.
*This episode premiered Saturday morning, September 17, 1977.
*Aquaman seems like a questionable choice for a core Friend in retrospect, perhaps, but he was a proven presence in DC animation, having starred in his own Filmation cartoons in the Sixties.
*Wendy and Marvin were two dork--er, teenagerss who accompanied the Super Friends in the first season of the show. Of course they had a dog, too. Of course they did. The subsequent DC comic gave them a little bit of back story, but there wasn't much to them on the cartoon.
*That Super Friends comic book was an in-continuity adaptation of the show running from 1976-1981 and written by DC info guru E. Nelson Bridwell. It was geared to younger readers.
*The pat on the head we love so much:
*Jim Starlin is a longtime comics scribe known especially for his work on "cosmic" characters like Captain Marvel, Nova, and Thanos.
*Gleek apparently has no non-tail-based powers. He seems a direct creative descendant of Blip, the pet space monkey on Space Ghost.
*Bat Belt Mouse Compartment:
*As best we can tell, Aquaman would not survive LONG in outer space, but he is strong and invulnerable enough to not explode as soon as he is in it. Presumably he needs oxygen, though. Then again, we DO see him flying through space in the opening credits...
*Apache Chief's powers are the ability to grow really, really tall and the ability to track really, really well.
*The BOTNS research time found no link between Alan Moore and this TV show. In fact, a section for editing Wikipedia has this comment:
Is there a source for the "developed by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons" reference in the sidebar? I couldn't find any reference on google that didn't link back here.
Moore would have been 23/24 when this came out, before he started working on Judge Dredd, before he'd done anything except some illustrations for NME. I suspect this is meant as a joke.
*For more info about the voice cast from this version of the series, we recommend heading to acclaimed author Marc Tyler Nobleman's Noblemania page for this great series of interviews.
*El Dorado, a Mexican hero, debuted with the Super Friends in 1981. He has an array of super powers like strength.
*Finally, here is our web version of our popular DECODER segment.
1) Take the first word in the theme song for this show:
2) Then take the letter next to the muppet right above Zoot in this picture:
3) Then count the number of students in this pic:
4) Finally, what are the Super Friends doing while Wonder Woman is talking?
Have you figured it out?
THANK + U + 4 + LISTENING.
Thank you for listening!
*This episode premiered Saturday morning, September 17, 1977.
*Aquaman seems like a questionable choice for a core Friend in retrospect, perhaps, but he was a proven presence in DC animation, having starred in his own Filmation cartoons in the Sixties.
*Wendy and Marvin were two dork--er, teenagerss who accompanied the Super Friends in the first season of the show. Of course they had a dog, too. Of course they did. The subsequent DC comic gave them a little bit of back story, but there wasn't much to them on the cartoon.
*That Super Friends comic book was an in-continuity adaptation of the show running from 1976-1981 and written by DC info guru E. Nelson Bridwell. It was geared to younger readers.
*The pat on the head we love so much:
*Jim Starlin is a longtime comics scribe known especially for his work on "cosmic" characters like Captain Marvel, Nova, and Thanos.
*Gleek apparently has no non-tail-based powers. He seems a direct creative descendant of Blip, the pet space monkey on Space Ghost.
*Bat Belt Mouse Compartment:
*As best we can tell, Aquaman would not survive LONG in outer space, but he is strong and invulnerable enough to not explode as soon as he is in it. Presumably he needs oxygen, though. Then again, we DO see him flying through space in the opening credits...
*Apache Chief's powers are the ability to grow really, really tall and the ability to track really, really well.
*The BOTNS research time found no link between Alan Moore and this TV show. In fact, a section for editing Wikipedia has this comment:
Is there a source for the "developed by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons" reference in the sidebar? I couldn't find any reference on google that didn't link back here.
Moore would have been 23/24 when this came out, before he started working on Judge Dredd, before he'd done anything except some illustrations for NME. I suspect this is meant as a joke.
*For more info about the voice cast from this version of the series, we recommend heading to acclaimed author Marc Tyler Nobleman's Noblemania page for this great series of interviews.
*El Dorado, a Mexican hero, debuted with the Super Friends in 1981. He has an array of super powers like strength.
*Finally, here is our web version of our popular DECODER segment.
1) Take the first word in the theme song for this show:
2) Then take the letter next to the muppet right above Zoot in this picture:
3) Then count the number of students in this pic:
4) Finally, what are the Super Friends doing while Wonder Woman is talking?
Have you figured it out?
THANK + U + 4 + LISTENING.
Thank you for listening!
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