Best Erik Amaya Podcasts (2025)

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Tread Perilously -- Modern Family: New Kids On The Block 1:48:14

3d ago1:48:14

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Tread Perilously's WandaVision month concludes with an episode of Modern Family called "New Kids on the Block." While Alex deals with the reality of doing research in Antarctica, Hayley, Claire, and Phil contend with the reality of Hayley's twins -- who will not go to sleep. Jay needs to cut a new commercial, which Manny uses as a chance to get a d…

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Tread Perilously -- Malcolm In The Middle: Living Will 1:39:07

10d ago1:39:07

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Tread Perilously's WandaVision month continues with an episode of Malcolm in the Middle called "Living Will." Hal's inability to make a decision comes to the fore when he is given power of attorney for a neighbor currently in a vegetative state. With doctors, family, and other neighbors encouraging him to make a choice, will Hal be able to decide i…

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Tread Perilously -- Family Ties: Suzzane Takes You Down 1:38:02

17d ago1:38:02

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Tread Perilously's WandaVision month enters Quality Time territory with an episode of Family Ties called "Suzanne Takes You Down." When Elyse's friend, Suzanne, admits to feeling unfulfilled now that the kids have left for college, she hires the forlorn friend to do some clerical work. But almost immediately, Suzanne begins offering opinions about …

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Tread Perilously -- The Brady Bunch: The Winner 1:36:44

24d ago1:36:44

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Tread Perilously's WandaVision month continues with an episode The Brady Bunch called "The Winner." When Cindy comes home with a trophy for winning a jacks tournament at the park, Bobby laments that he is the only member of the family to lack an award. Talking it over with Mike and Carol, he resolves to win at something. Anything. It soon leads to …

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Tread Perilously -- The Dick Van Dyke Show: Racy Tracy Rattigan 1:44:50

1M ago1:44:50

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Tread Perilously settles in for a month of shows that inspired WandaVision with an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show called "Racy Tracy Rattigan". With Alan Brady out on vacation, Rob and the others must write the next two shows for guest host "Racy" Tracy Rattigan. The British actor proves to be funny and charming, but his immediate interest in La…

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Tread Perilously -- Doctor Who: Listen 2:06:07

1M ago2:06:07

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Tread Perilously concludes its month of celebrating the new series Doctor Who with "Listen." As Clara goes on a somewhat uncomfortable date, The Doctor realizes he is talking to himself and supposes there might be a more sinister reason for it. Soon, he picks up Clara for a trip to the past, the future, and an impossible era to learn the truth behi…

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Tread Perilously -- Doctor Who: Midnight 1:45:54

2M ago1:45:54

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Tread Perilously's Doctor Who month continues with a new series episode called "Midnight." While Donna relaxes in a spa on the planet Midnight, The Doctor decides to take an excursion to the so-called Sapphire Falls. It is an eight-hour trip, but a couple of hours in, the transport stops and the mechanic in the flight deck spots movement where no l…

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Tread Perilously -- Doctor Who: 73 Yards 2:16:47

2M ago2:16:47

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Tread Perilously celebration of Doctor Who's second 20 years on the air continues with "73 Yards." When The Doctor and Ruby Sunday land on the Welsh coastline, he breaks a fairy circle and immediately disappears. Ruby's key will not work in the TARDIS and she is forced to fend for herself in the nearby Welsh town. Making her way home to London, she…

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Tread Perilously -- Doctor Who: Eve of the Daleks 1:37:49

2M ago1:37:49

1:37:49

Tread Perilously's annual Doctor Who month celebrates 20 years of the new series, starting with the Jodie Whittaker era episode "Eve of the Daleks." New Year's Eve 2021. Sarah, the owner of Elf Storage in Manchester, must keep the lights on because a certain client always turns up just before midnight on 31 December to deposit items in his storage …

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Tread Perilously -- Teen Wolf: Lunatic 1:46:50

2M ago1:46:50

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Tread Perilously's Movies on TV month concludes with an episode of Teen Wolf called "Lunatic." Following the incident at school, Scott and Allison are on the outs ... and it seems to be having a profound effect on his wolfy nature. Allison, meanwhile, is starting to notice how strange people are behaving -- particularly her father and aunt. Derek i…

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Tread Perilously -- Alien Nation: Fifteen With Wanda 1:53:00

2M ago1:53:00

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Tread Perilously's month of TV shows based on feature films continues with an episode of Alien Nation called "Fifteen With Wanda." When a Newcomer limo driver is witness to a crime on his wedding night, he enters witness protection with Sikes and Francisco as his detail. Unfortunately, the Newcomer took an aphrodisiac as part of the wedding/bonding…

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Tread Perilously -- Gidget: Gidget's Foreign Policy 1:33:32

3M ago1:33:32

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Tread Perilously's Movies On TV month continues with an episode of Gidget called "Gidget's Foreign Policy." When Gidget's father allows an associate's daughter to spend the week before classes begin at UCLA at their home, Gidget comes face-to-face with a more rigid way of life: the Swedish way! But her attempts to get the timid Inge to loosen up wo…

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Tread Perilously -- RoboCop The Series: Inside Crimes 1:35:12

3M ago1:35:12

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Tread Perilously begins a month of movies squeezed and stretched into television series with the RoboCop: The Series episode called "Inside Crimes." When William Ray "Pudface" Morgan's latest heist becomes fodder for the OCP Television series Inside Crimes, ratings go through the roof. The executive producer, naturally, wants to feature the crimina…

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Tread Perilously -- The Love Boat: Miss Mom/Who's the Champ/Gopher's Delusion 2:06:13

3M ago2:06:13

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Tread Perilously's '80s flashback month concludes with an episode of The Love Boat called "Miss Mom/Who's the Champ/Gopher's Delusion" The Pacific Princess's latest Mexican coast sailing comes with a twist -- a wrestling match between "Lover Boy" Bob and Thomas 'The Mangler' Sharkey. The promoter even retained the services of Terry "Hulk" Hogan to …

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Tread Perilously -- Magnum P.I.: Kiss Of The Sabre 1:30:59

3M ago1:30:59

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Tread Perilously's 1980s flashback month continues with an episode of Magnum P.I. called "Kiss of the Sabre." When Magnum is evicted from the guest house, he gets to know its new inhabitant: novice writer Betty Windom. Constantly suffering writer's block during her attempts to plot a tale of superspy Sebastian Sabre, she decides to butt into Magnum…

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Tread Perilously -- Silver Spoons: A Family Affair 1:58:52

4M ago1:58:52

1:58:52

Tread Perilously's 1980s flashback months leads them, finally, to Silver Spoons with an episode called "A Family Affair." When Ricky meets Jeannie -- who goes to the nearby all-girls school -- at the local hangout, he discovers that she's pretty rad. Soon, she becomes his prom date. Meanwhile, Edward, Kate, and Dexter Stuffins face the threat of a …

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Tread Perilously -- Miami Vice: Bushido 1:49:43

4M ago1:49:43

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Tread Perilously heads back to the 1980s for a month of shows from that glorious decade. First up: a Miami Vice episode called "Bushido." When a joint operation with the DEA goes south, Captain Martin Castillo suspects his old friend Jack Gretsky may have interfered with the bust to get his attention. Soon, he visits the local CIA office to confirm…

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Tread Perilously -- Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child 1:57:14

4M ago1:57:14

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Tread Perilously celebrates its 500th podcast by going back to the beginning -- the first ever Doctor Who story: "An Unearthly Child." When Shoreditch area schoolteachers Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton have a conversation about an unusual student, Susan Foreman, their questions lead them to a junkyard at the end of Totter's Lane. Inside, they fi…

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Tread Perilously -- Baywatch: The End? 2:03:34

4M ago2:03:34

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The Ballad of John D. Cort continues as Tread Perilously watches an episode of Baywatch called "The End?" When a series of tremors leads to a larger shock, the Baywatch team is caught off guard for landslides, liquefaction, and dangerous panes of glass. Cort and Craig, meanwhile, find trouble when the shockwaves hit the spot they were diving. Back …

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Tread Perilously -- Mrs. Davis: Zwei Sie Piel mit Seitung Sie Wirtschaftung 1:59:13

5M ago1:59:13

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Tread Perilously's winter Patreon request month continues with an episode Mrs. Davis called "Zwei Sie Piel mit Seitung Sie Wirtschaftung." Evading her seemingly German captors, Simone learns from Mrs. Davis that she must seek the Holy Grail. But Wiley and his resistance believe the quest is just to prove Simone will be a good custodian in the algor…

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Tread Perilously -- Warehouse 13: Duped 2:04:04

5M ago2:04:04

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As the Patreon request month continues, Tread Perilously ventures into Warehouse 13 for the first time with an episode called "Duped." With Myka still mad at Artie for what happened with MacPherson, she and Pete are ordered to help with the inventory. It leads to a suspicious mirror and a haunted Studio 54 disco ball. But after Myka stares too deep…

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Tread Perilously -- Adam-12: Log 72 El Presidente 2:02:06

5M ago2:02:06

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Tread Perilously starts the new year with the Winter Patreon request month. First up: an episode of the cop drama Adam 12 called "Log 72: El Presidente." As the morning shift starts, Reed wonders if he can afford to buy a house. Malloy cannot contemplate why he would stop being a renter. Their first call of the day takes them to an apartment buildi…

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Tread Perilously -- Fallout: The End 1:56:55

5M ago1:56:55

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The end-of-year tradition continues as Tread Perilously watches the debut episode of Fallout. 219 years after the end, Vault 33 denizen Lucy MacLean gets more than she expected when she volunteers to wed someone from Vault 32. The resulting attack by raiders, and the abduction of her father, leads her to the surface where she faces an uncertain fut…

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Tread Perilously -- Knight Rider: Silent Knight 1:58:01

5M ago1:58:01

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Tread Merrily 2024 concludes with an episode of Knight Rider called "Silent Knight." While trying to evade the F.L.A.G. Christmas banquet. Michael encounters a young lad who happened to see a bunch of bank robbers transferring their ill-gotten gains from a circus van to an unmarked K-car. He also managed to lift the gold watch one of the robbers st…

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Tread Perilously -- ALF: ALF's Special Christmas 2:06:04

6M ago2:06:04

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Tread Merrily 2024 continues with an episode of ALF known as "ALF's Special Christmas" — although it will be referred to as “ALF’S Christmas Special”. When the Tanners take the opportunity to spend Christmas at a cabin in the woods, ALF grumbles about the lack of indoor plumbing and electricity. His antagonism gets so bad, Willie sends him outside …

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Tread Perilously -- Doctor Who: The Return Of Doctor Mysterio 1:41:31

6M ago1:41:31

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Tread Merrily begins with the Doctor Who Christmas special "The Return of Doctor Mysterio." While investigating a potential alien invasion, The Doctor discovers a boy he met years earlier is using his accidental superpowers to become a real-life superhero. But "The Ghost" leads a complicated civilian life that is now intruding on his costumed one a…

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Tread Perilously -- Caprica: False Labor 2:00:36

6M ago2:00:36

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Tread Perilously's Cornucopia of Sci-Fi concludes with a Caprica episode called "False Labor." After each of the main characters has troubled dreams, Joseph Adama awakes to another day of work while his brother, Sam, plots to send guns to Tauron. Daniel Greystone continues to develop Resurrection technology and perfect a simulacrum of his wife, Ama…

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Tread Perilously -- Upload: Strawberry 1:29:49

6M ago1:29:49

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Tread Perilously's Cornucopia of Sci-Fi continues with an episode of Upload called "Strawberry." Nathan and Nora are still on the road returning consciousnesses of the departed to their families. Their latest stop brings them to a farm where pork and cheese are produced. Note the wording. While the parents of the departed prove folksy and nice, the…

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Tread Perilously -- Resident Alien: Girls' Night 2:09:55

7M ago2:09:55

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Tread Perilously's Cornucopia of Sci-Fi continues with an episode of Resident Alien called 'Girls' Night.' While Harry continues to work on the interstellar radio, Asta, D'Arcy, Kate, and Liv get a "GN59" text from Kayla and immediately plan a girls' night at the bar. Kate brings her cousin, Carlyn, while the mayor frets about Kate and D'Arcy becom…

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Tread Perilously -- Torchwood: Cyberwoman 2:18:12

7M ago2:18:12

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Tread Perilously begins a cornucopia of sci-fi with the most infamous episode of Torchwood: "Cyberwoman." When Ianto Jones invites a specialist in Cyber tech to Torchwood 3, all hell breaks loose. It turns out he's been keeping his partially Cyber-ized girlfriend on life support since the Battle of Canary Wharf. He's using a Cyber-conversion machin…

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Tread Perilously -- Supernatural: Shut up, Dr. Phil 1:59:09

7M ago1:59:09

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Tread Perilously rounds out a witchy October with the annual visit to Supernatural. This year: an episode called "Shut Up, Dr. Phil." To keep his mind off murdering Amy Pond (no, really!), Dean convinces Sam to investigate a spate of murders in Prosperity, Indiana. The victims so far have some ties to real estate in the area. But when a contractor …

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Tread Perilously -- The Paul Lynde Halloween Special 1:57:05

7M ago1:57:05

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Tread Perilously continues a witchy October with The Paul Lynde Halloween Special. When neighborhood kids harass Paul Lynde about his plans to celebrate Halloween, he flees to the home of his housekeeper's sister. But he soon learns both are witches with remarkable resemblances to Witchiepoo and The Wicked Witch of the West. As it turns out, they w…

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Tread Perilously -- Witch's Night Out 1:44:40

8M ago1:44:40

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Tread Perilously's witchy October continues with the 1978 TV special Witch's Night Out. While the adults in town begin to plan a thoroughly grown-up Halloween party, all youngsters Small and Tender want to do is scare them with their Halloween masks. But when everyone recognizes them during trick-or-treating, they run home dejected. Their cries to …

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Tread Perilously -- Smallville: Spell 2:07:23

8M ago2:07:23

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Tread Perilously's month of witches continues with the Smallville episode "Spell." When Lana successfully bids on an old book off eBay, she is quickly possessed by Isabella, her witch-inclined ancestor. Like Lex, she also seeks the Stones of Power and will stop at nothing -- not even death -- to get them. Isabella soon houses the spirits of her cov…

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Tread Perilously -- Bewitched: To Trick-Or-Treat Or Not To Trick-Or-Treat 1:38:06

8M ago1:38:06

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Halloween season 2024 on Tread Perilously is a celebration of witches, and the magical mischief begins with an episode of Bewitched called "To Trick-or-Treat or Not to Trick-or-Treat." When Endora discovers Sam is participating in a Trick-of-Treat For Unicef event that props up stereotypes about witches, the resulting fight with Darren leads her to…

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Tread Perilously -- Star Trek ENT: Shuttlepod One 2:10:32

8M ago2:10:32

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Tread Perilously's Star Trek month 2024 concludes with an episode Star Trek: Enterprise called "Shuttlepod One." While on assignment aboard Shuttlepod One, Trip and Malcolm find evidence that Enterprise was destroyed while surveying an asteroid field. The pair make plans to direct their impulse-capable shuttle toward the nearest human colony, but i…

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Tread Perilously -- Star Trek VOY: Bride Of Chaotica! 1:54:22

9M ago1:54:22

1:54:22

Tread Perilously's Star Trek Month 2024 continues with the long-delayed episode of Star Trek: Voyager called "Bride of Chaotica!" Tom Paris and Ensign Harry Kim's afternoon playing chapter 18 of "The Adventures of Captain Proton" is disrupted when Voyager runs aground in a "subspace sandbar." It immediately disrupts quality of life systems on the s…

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Tread Perilously -- Star Trek TNG: Justice 2:14:24

9M ago2:14:24

2:14:24

Tread Perilously's 2024 Star Trek Month continues with an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation called "Justice." After a tiring mission to establish a new colony, the Enterprise finds an idyllic world full of pretty blonde people who really enjoy sex. But that permissiveness comes with a zero tolerance policy for the slightest infraction of lo…

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Tread Perilously -- Star Trek TOS: The Omega Glory 1:49:31

9M ago1:49:31

1:49:31

Tread Perilously's 2024 Star Trek month opens with an episode of The Original Series called "The Omega Glory." Arriving in orbit around Omega IV, the Enterprise discovers the crew of the U.S.S. Exeter have been turned into salt; the result of a highly infectious disease from the planet below. Beaming down, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy find the Exeter's c…

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Tread Perilously -- The Young Riders: The Peacemakers 2:06:56

9M ago2:06:56

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Tread Perilously's summer Patreon request month winds down with a visit to 1990s westerns via an episode of The Young Riders called "The Peacemakers." When Hickok rides into Glen Creek, he sees an Amish baptism interrupted by a gang of interlopers. Aiming to help, he soon learns the small religious community is a target for persecution by the nearb…

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Tread Perilously -- MAS*H: That's Show Biz 1:49:39

9M ago1:49:39

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To celebrate Tread Perilously's 477th podcast, Erik and Justin finally watch an episode of M*A*S*H -- "That's Show Biz." When a performer on a USO tour comes down with appendicitis, she is airlifted to the 4077th and immediately falls for Hawkeye. Once the rest of her colleagues make it to the M*A*S*H unit, they decided to put on an impromptu show.…

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Tread Perilously -- Misfits: Season 2, Episode 2 1:33:27

10M ago1:33:27

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Tread Perilously's Summer Patreon request month leads to very British superpowers with Misfits Season 2, Episode 2. Simon's day of annoying the others is interrupted when his half-brother, Jamie, arrives to introduce himself for the first time. The two start to bond down the pub, but when Jamie's car is stolen, he reveals their father was bound and…

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Tread Perilously -- Murder, She Wrote: We're Off To Kill The Wizard 1:57:45

10M ago1:57:45

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Tread Perilously's Patreon request month continues with an episode of Murder, She Wrote called "We're Off to Kill the Wizard." Jessica Fletcher's quick trip to Chicago is disrupted when a local amusement park impresario invites her and her relatives to a preview of a new horror-infused theme park. But his real objective is to convince her to licens…

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Tread Perilously -- The Charmings: Pilot 1:50:34

10M ago1:50:34

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Tread Perilously starts the summer Total Request Live with the debut episode of the forgotten ABC TV series The Charmings. Waking up after a 1000-year sleeping curse, Snow White Charming, her husband Eric, and their sons find themselves in 1980s Los Angeles. They attempt to re-establish some sort of life with a home, new neighbors, and a new school…

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Tread Perilously -- Cop Rock: Ill-Gotten Gaines 1:59:29

11M ago1:59:29

1:59:29

Tread Perilously's summer grab bag continues by finally returning to Cop Rock for its second episode, "Ill-Gotten Gaines." Following the death of unarmed man, Hollander tries to pin it all on LaRusso. Meanwhile, he also assigns Gains to Rose, who is still grieving the death of his partner in the pilot episode. But making things worse, Gaines thinks…

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Tread Perilously -- Tequila And Bonetii: Fetch This, Pal 1:28:35

11M ago1:28:35

1:28:35

After a long absence, Tread Perilously returns to the world of Tequila and Bonetti with an episode called "Fetch This, Pal." When Tequila and Bonetti are called to the scene of a possible bomb scare, they are accosted by the head of the LAPD's K9 unit (guest star James Tolkan) who refuses to give them access to the building. Soon, Bonetti signs Teq…

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Tread Perilously -- Baywatch: Old Friends 2:03:04

11M ago2:03:04

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The Ballad of John D. Cort continues with an episode of Baywatch called "Old Friends." Mitch, Craig, and Garner take a few days off to hang glide in the Santa Monica mountains. Well, Garner is more interested in reading and dozing. But when Mitch crashes into a tree, gets bit by a snake, and subsequently falls into a quarry, it's up to Craig and Ga…

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Tread Perilously -- Night Court; A Day In The Life 1:47:52

11M ago1:47:52

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Tread Perilously's month of treading safely concludes with a top episode of Night Court: "A Day in the Life." When Judge Harry Stone's courtroom is called upon to adjudicate 200 cases before midnight, Dan's salacious plans are threatened. Will he, Christine, Harry, Mac, Roz, and Bull survive an onslaught of would-be gods, dueling Moses-es, amateur …

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Tread Perilously -- Columbo: A Stitch In Crime 1:36:12

12M ago1:36:12

1:36:12

Tread Perilously continues its month of treading safely with one of the best Columbo episodes ever filmed: "A Stitch In Crime." When Dr. Barry Mayfield's (special guest star Leonard Nimoy) ambitions to become renowned for a new anti-rejection drug are threatened by the head of the project, he plots to murder him in the slowest way possible. When hi…

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Tread Perilously -- What We Do In The Shadows: On The Run 1:33:53

12M ago1:33:53

1:33:53

Tread Perilously engages in a normal human podcast by watching an episode of What We Do In The Shadows called "On The Run." When a mysterious vampire tracks down Laszlo over the matter of an ancient debt, he abandons his life on Staten Island to become "Jackie Daytona" -- a beloved local fixture and bar owner in Pennsylvania. Much to his surprise, …

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