508 - Defenders of Dynatron City
In the midst of Turtle mania, surrounded by Street Sharks, Battletoads and Martian Biker Mice, one studio decided to do things backwards: Wh...
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507 - Bermuda Triangle
Wouldn't you know it, John doesn't spend enough time with his family! But that's ok, they're going on a long cruise, just the four of them....
506 - Suburban Beat
Our first Failure to Launch for 2020 is the super-1985 Suburban Beat, the story of 4 suburban housewives thrown together by circumstance (th...
505 - Creating Rem Lazar
Two kids cuddle a shitty mannequin who turns into a man with a blue mullet. He avoids getting stabbed in 80s New York City while teaching th...
504 - Madame Sin
This week we're looking at our oldest pilot ever, Madame Sin, a 1973 attempt to kinda do Bond on TV, but what if the villain was the protago...
503 - The Owl
This Failure to Launch covers The Owl, a trapped-between-eras vigilante hero who is both an 80s style down-and-dirty street justice thug and...
502 - Sniff
It wouldn't be a season of Failure to Launch without a crimefighting dog, so here's Sniff, another pilot from the 1988 CBS Summer Playhouse...
501 - Infiltrator
Failure to Launch is BACK, with... essentially the same pilot we left you with. Scott Bakula* gets into an accident with a space probe,* and...
432 - I-Man
In this 'Christmas' edition of Failure to Launch, we examine I-Man, a Scott Bakula Sci-Fi vehicle in which he learns the meaning of Christma...
431 - M3K
This week on FtL, we travelled back in time, then forward again, to look at a sexy, revamped version of the Three Musketeers. But these aren...
430 - Power Cop
This week in our 101st EPISODE EXTRAVAGANZA (whoops) we treat ourselves with a locally-shot action extravaganza: Irresistible Force, a.k.a....
429 - Our Thirties
This week on Failure to Launch, we raced through Our Thirties, a 2006 sitcom that, like all other sitcoms from the era, was trying to be Fri...
428 - The Omen
At Failure to Launch, Halloween's not over yet!* Closing out this extended spoopy month is The Omen, a mid-90s attempt to serialise the 1970...
427 - Ultraviolet
This continuation of the spooky month has us watching Ultraviolet, a 2000s attempt by FOX to adapt a British series about cops and vampires....
426 - Good Against Evil
This week's spooky Failure to Launch travels back to the 1970s, dipping into the US's trendiest fear of the time: Satanists! These particula...
425 - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
This week on Failure to Launch, we watched a modern version of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, starring Adam Baldwin? …that's honestly as much as we...
424 - Sorority
This week Failure to Launch examines a late-90s relic from MTV, Sorority. An attempt to riff on classic college comedies like Animal House,...
423 - The Spirit
After his boss is killed and then he himself is killed (but not really), he teams up with a hot Walkman fence slash wheelchair-bound child r...
422 - The Lone Ranger
This week Failure to Launch takes a look at the 2003 (oh my god guys, it's so 2003) pilot for The Lone Ranger. It's got everything a great w...
421 - Night Visions
This week's Failure to Launch examines a 1990 semi-supernatural cop show created by Wes Craven. Wes Craven! He's pretty good at stuff! It's...