Continuum Drag
294 episodes - English - Latest episode: 13 days ago - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe podcast exploring the forgotten and little seen sci-fi television of yesterday. New episodes every other Tuesday. Email us at [email protected]
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Episodes
264 - Doomwatch (Season 1 Episodes 7 & 11)
April 16, 2024 14:00 - 47 minutes - 88.2 MBQuist and the team investigate why women love chocolate and cigarettes before heading to Wales for literal and metaphorical cock fights in Season 1 Episodes 7 & 11 of Doomwatch.
263 - RoboCop (Episodes 3 & 4)
April 02, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 121 MBOld Detroit's mechanical crime fighter takes on religion and weight loss in Delta City in episodes three & four of RoboCop.
262 - Doomwatch (Season 1 Episodes 1 & 4)
March 19, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 132 MBIt's all political gamesmanship and existential threats as the Department of Measurement of Scientific Works try to keep humanity from ending itself in Season 1 Episodes 1 & 4 of Doomwatch.
261 - RoboCop (Episodes 1 & 2)
March 05, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBEveryone's favourite robotic law enforcement officer comes to the small screen to do battle with Dick Tracy level villains in episodes one & two of RoboCop.
**Return Announcement**
February 27, 2024 15:00 - 7 minutes - 14.3 MBWe're coming back with a few format changes and also Luke forgot how to record audio.
**Hiatus Announcement & 5 Year Best/Worst Lists**
October 20, 2023 14:00 - 50 minutes - 93.8 MBThat's a wrap on our fifth year of watching and chatting about old sci fi & sci fi-adjacent TV. We are going on hiatus but before we do, we look back and the best and worst TV we've watched according to the numbers.
260 - The Sixth Sense (Finale)
October 17, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 124 MBStorm’s a blowin’ as two women have visions of their deaths - one during a hurricane and another after eye surgery - in Season 2 Episodes 11 & 12 of The Sixth Sense.
259 - The Sixth Sense (Season 2 Episodes 2 & 9)
October 10, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 150 MBDr. Michael Rhodes takes a backseat as two Oscar-winners take over the ESPing in Season 2 Episodes 2 & 9 of The Sixth Sense.
258 - The Sixth Sense (Season 1 Episodes 8 & 10)
October 03, 2023 14:00 - 59 minutes - 111 MBDr. Rhodes takes on an uncle-killing witch and an angry horse ghost in Season 1 Episodes 8 & 10 of The Sixth Sense.
257 - The Sixth Sense (Season 1 Episodes 1 & 6)
September 26, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 126 MBA professor studies psychic phenomena as the Vietnam war rages and ghosts gaslight the living in Season 1 Episodes 1 & 6 of The Sixth Sense.
256 - Doorways
September 19, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 132 MBThere is an alternate world where George RR Martin created Sliders in the TV movie/failed pilot for Doorways.
255 - Swamp Thing (Finale)
September 12, 2023 14:00 - 45 minutes - 86 MBHollywood heads to the swamp in Season 3 Episode 39 of Swamp Thing.
254 - Swamp Thing (Season 2 Episodes 5 & 8)
September 05, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 132 MBThings are changing in the swamp with a recycling plant, a hot new teen heartthrob, and an evil nature documentary in Season 2 Episodes 5 & 8 of Swamp Thing.
253 - Swamp Thing (Season 1 Episodes 11 & 12)
August 29, 2023 14:00 - 55 minutes - 103 MBGrandma is dead, Man-Bird is on a rampage and there a boy with a tin ear in Season 1 Episodes 11 & 12 of Swamp Thing
252 - Swamp Thing (Season 1 Episodes 1 & 10)
August 22, 2023 14:00 - 58 minutes - 109 MBWe get lost in the surreal and unhinged swamps in the live-action 1990 series Swamp Thing of Season 1 Episodes 1 & 10.
251 - The Ultimate Impostor
August 15, 2023 14:00 - 48 minutes - 90.7 MBGet your mind erased to a perfect Alpha-10 state so you can drive a race car while occasionally faking a British accent in the TV movie/failed pilot for The Ultimate Impostor.
250 - The Tripods (Finale)
August 08, 2023 14:00 - 54 minutes - 102 MBWe poke a alien corpse with a stick before running off to join the circus in Season 2 Episodes 10 & 12 of The Tripods.
249 - The Tripods (Season 2 Episodes 1 & 8)
August 01, 2023 14:00 - 46 minutes - 87.4 MBThe boys get into sports before heading to the City of Gold with all its tentacle monsters in Season 2 Episodes 1 & 8 of The Tripods.
248 - The Tripods (Season 1 Episodes 12 & 13)
July 25, 2023 14:00 - 35 minutes - 66.1 MBThe boys make it to the White Mountains with explosive results in The Tripods Season 1 Episodes 12 & 13.
247 - The Tripods (Season 1 Episodes 1 & 4)
July 18, 2023 14:00 - 48 minutes - 90.1 MBWe welcome our new overlords on Capping Day in Season 1 Episodes 1 & 4 of The Tripods.
246 - Wir
July 11, 2023 14:00 - 53 minutes - 100 MBWe trade our names for numbers and are assigned glass houses in the dystopian TV movie Wir.
245 - Sliders (Finale)
July 04, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 130 MBWe find the end of the slide hole as Rembrandt and his squad of replacements stumble into the slide-ology religion and a way home in Sliders Season 5 Episode 18.
244 - Sliders (Season 4 Episodes 16 / Season 5 Episode 1)
June 27, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 157 MBReturning guest Jane comes back for more Sliders for a Maggie swap and Rembrandt taking the lead in Season 4 Episode 16 & Season 5 Episode 1.
243 - Sliders (Season 4 Episodes 5 & 13)
June 20, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 142 MBWe hang ten on a slide wave and go to a world with a knock-off Jerry Springer in Sliders Season 4 Episodes 5 & 13.
242 - Sliders (Season 3 Episodes 16 & 17)
June 13, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 164 MBIt's time to die for one of the Sliders as a parallel Earth gets pulsar'd in Season 3 Episodes 16 & 17.
241 - Riverworld [2010] (Part 2)
June 06, 2023 14:00 - 58 minutes - 110 MBWe take the riverboat all the way to the source only to watch it get blown up in Part Two of the 2010 TV miniseries Riverworld.
240 - Riverworld [2010] (Part 1)
May 30, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 141 MBWake up in a post-Iraq War allegory menaced by the Blue Man Group in Part One of the 2010 TV miniseries Riverworld.
239 - seaQuest 2032 (Finale)
May 23, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 65.7 MBBefore getting scuttled the seaQuest starts & stops armageddon during the Cuban Missile Crisis while Tim tries out online dating in seaQuest 2032 Season 3 Episodes 10 & 13.
238 - seaQuest 2032 (Season 3 Episodes 1 & 7)
May 16, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 172 MBWe jump 10 years into the future where Roy Scheider does his contractually obligated duties as seaQuest's former captain while facing off against his replacement Michael Ironside in seaQuest 2032 Season 3 Episodes 1 & 7.
237 - seaQuest DSV (Season 2 Episodes 11 & 20)
May 09, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 164 MBSea monsters threaten the oceans of Earth and space aliens threaten the oceans of some other planet in Season 2 Episodes 11 & 20 of seaQuest DSV.
236 - The World Beyond
May 02, 2023 14:00 - 44 minutes - 84 MBThe mudman cometh but he didn't count on a sports writer with a direct line to the spirt world in the failed pilot/TV movie The World Beyond.
235 - seaQuest DSV (Season 1 Episode 20 / Season 2 Episode 6)
April 25, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 195 MBA million year old alien ship precedes a crew shift change as seaQuest DSV retools in Season 1 Episode 20 and Season 2 Episode 6.
234 - seaQuest DSV (Season 1 Episodes 7 & 8)
April 18, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 146 MBGuest Derek enlists on the seaQuest DSV for a frightfully spooky sunken ship and a frightfully French sunken submarine in Season 1 Episodes 7 & 8.
233 - seaQuest DSV (Season 1 Episode 0)
April 11, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 155 MBWe take a journey to the bottom of the ocean with a talking dolphin, an elderly captain and a teen heartthrob in seaQuest DSV Season 1 Episode 0.
232 - The Clone Master
April 04, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 126 MBReturning guest Kevin witnesses Art Hindle asexually reproduce in the TV movie/failed pilot for The Clone Master.
231.5 - Forever Knight (Bonus Episode)
March 31, 2023 14:00 - 16 minutes - 30.4 MBJordan does a Forever Knight fanfic reading featuring Nick & Dr. Nat.
231 - Forever Knight (Finale)
March 28, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 144 MBIts a grave turn to say the least as we meet with Nick & friends one last time in Forever Knight Season 3 Episode 22.
230 - Forever Knight (Season 2 Episode 20/25)
March 21, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 131 MBThe end is near as an asteroid threatens Toronto and a clip show threatens Schanke's sanity in Forever Knight Season 2 Episodes 20 & 25.
229 - Forever Knight (Season 1 Episode 22 / Season 2 Episode 1)
March 14, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 158 MBNick ruminates on obsession before a certain someone turns out not to be dead after all in Season 1 Episode 22 and Season 2 Episode 1 of Forever Knight.
228 - Forever Knight (Season 1/Episodes 6 & 21)
March 07, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 144 MBReturning guest Stephen stalks the night as psychics find missing people and vampires go to East Berlin in Season 1 Episodes 6 & 21 of Forever Knight.
227 - Forever Knight (Season 1/Episodes 1 & 2)
February 28, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 151 MBAfter dark in Toronto, a vampire cop fights crime, battles his past and makes out with the ladies in Season 1 Episodes 1 & 2 of Forever Knight.
226 - Starflight: The Plane That Couldn’t Land
February 21, 2023 15:00 - 56 minutes - 106 MBWe catch a supersonic ride into Earth's orbit with a sleepy Lee Majors in the TV movie Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land.
225 - Sliders (Season 3 Episodes 2/4)
February 14, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 172 MBReturning guest Dave slides in for a double dose of Quinn doubles in Season 3 Episodes 2 & 4 of Sliders.
224 - Sliders (Season 2 Episodes 8/12)
February 07, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 197 MBWith returning guest Jane, we learn the best way to determine which double is the real one and meet our ancient evil evolutionary ancestors in Season 2 Episodes 8 & 12 of Sliders.
223 - Monster!
January 31, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 113 MBGuest Jaime joins us as a monster goes meta in a late 90s takeoff of the the 50s monster genre in the TV movie Monster!
222 - Sliders (Season 1 Episode 8 / Season 2 Episode 3)
January 24, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 160 MBThe slide hole makes Rembrandt's dreams come true and Quinn a g-g-g-ghost in Season 1 Episode 8 & Season 2 Episode 3 of Sliders.
221 - Sliders (Season 1 / Episode 6 & 7)
January 17, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 159 MBWe slide to an Earth where the smart are athletes and genders roles are reversed in Season 1 Episodes 6 & 7 of Sliders.
220 - Sliders (Season 1 / Episode 1)
January 10, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 152 MBWe slide into a world where parallel dimensions exist and so does adventure in Season 1 Episode 1 of Sliders.
219 - A Cold Night’s Death
January 03, 2023 15:00 - 59 minutes - 112 MBWe enter the cold of night to discover what malevolent force is killing scientists in a chilly research station in the TV movie A Cold Night's Death.
Bonus Content - Tekwar (Episode 14)
December 30, 2022 15:00 - 34 minutes - 65.1 MBListener Sarah requested a Bonus Episodes for Charity & made a generous donation to the Native Women’s Resource Centre of Toronto so we're putting back on our (Jake) Cardigan to get out brain scrambled by memory rustlers in Episode 14 of Tekwar.