Jay Gnasher

Calamity! #17


Join us on this, the first day of a three-day weekend! Featuring 3 Women (in particular: Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek and Janice Rule, and Elvira turns up later too*), the further continuation of Counterpart, and the epic double-length licensed-music-featuring fourth-season (over-hyphenated) finale of The Venture Bros.!

16:00 – Pee-wee’s Playhouse S04E01 – Dr. Pee-wee and the Del Rubios
Reba has a splinter on her finger and so Pee-wee plays doctor to remove it. Then the Del Rubio Triplets visit the Playhouse.

16:30 – The Boy With Two Heads Episode 6 – Chico makes the Rain
Chico might be able make the rain, but can he make those two scallywags trying to abduct him vanish? Find out here!

16:44 – Metalocalypse S1E07 – Dethfam
Uncomfortable and embarrassed, Dethklok painfully endures while their parents are in town for a visit. The guys are at first pissed and doubtful when their parents announce the release of their “Parents of Dethklok” album, but are then impressed by the depth of their parents’ anger.

16:59 – Ultraman Episode 25 – The Dreaded Comet Tsuiphon
The Science Patrol gets word that the stellar radiation emitted by a comet as it roars past the Earth may accidentally cause hydrogen bombs to explode.

17:25 – M Squad S01E14 – The Palace Guard
Gangster Tommy Hatch is wanted for murder, but the police have to keep him safe from other gangsters who want him dead before he can testify against them. Lt. Frank Ballinger is assigned to protect Hatch even though he despises him.

17:49 – F Troop S01E12 – Honest Injun
A conman comes to town taking the troopers money, which is O’Rourke’s job.

18:15 – Mannix S01E14 – Then the Drink Takes the Man
Mannix infiltrates an alcohol-rehabilitation center in Mexico. His client is a young woman who fears her father is being swindled. Intertect has devised a cover identity so that Mannix poses as an alcoholic who has been committed there by an Intertect operative posing as his wife.

19:05 – Stingray
Episode 15 – Autumn
Ray gets hired by a beautiful blonde (again) to look into the disappearance of her father. But things just aren’t making sense. It appears as though a novelist is somehow setting situations up for him.

19:52 – Portlandia S03E03 – Missionaries
The Mayor sends Fred and Carrie on a door-to-door mission in Seattle to recruit new citizens for Portland. With Kyle MacLachlan and Martina Navratilova

20:14 – 3 Women (1977)
Directed by Robert Altman and starring Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek and Janice Rule. A psychological drama set in a dusty California desert town, two roommates/physical therapists, one a vain woman and the other an awkward teenager, share an increasingly bizarre relationship.

22:21 – Counterpart S01E04 – Both Sides Now
Both Howards deepen their investigation of the conspiracy. Quayle meets one of Howard’s sources. Clare must decide what to do about Baldwin.

23:17 – Duckman S02E04 – Inherit The Judgement: The Dope’s Trial
Duckman, in search of his free clock radio, takes the family out to the desert. They wind up in a small town where “King” Chicken is the sheriff and Duckman is put on trial for being a heretic.

23:40 – The Venture Bros. S4E16 – Operation P.R.O.M.
In this special double-length (not two-parter! Double length!) episode; the boys have their prom night, which, as homeschooled kids, isn’t quite what they, or anyone else, expected. Meanwhile, Brock and SPHINX! continue to pursue the mysterious Investors; Dean continues to pursue Triana; Hank pursues the mail lady, and his and Dermot’s band play; Doc predictably invites prostitutes to the boys’ prom. And just that’s what goes well.

00:26 – SGC2C S03E08 Switcheroo
Space Ghost interviews Susan Olsen. Space Ghost’s evil twin brother Chad Ghostal tries to take over the show by interviewing Elvira.

00:41 – Captain Nice Episode 1 – The Man Who Flies Like A Pigeon
Written by Buck Henry (Get Smart), produced by Jay Sandrich (He&She) and starring William Daniels (the voice of Night Rider’s KITT) with Paula Ann Prentiss and Alice Ghostley.
Carter Nash is a quiet, unassuming chemist who accidentally discovers a compound which turns him in to Captain Nice, a very shy superhero dominated by his mother.

01:04 – The Ray Bradbury Theater S03E04 – The Wind
A weather expert is stalked by a demonic sentient wind.

01:28 – Brian & Roger
S01E04 – Trapped in the Flat
One of Brian’s young flatmates has a funny turn. Can Roger help out?

*viewers’ note: in fact, there will be more than three women appearing in today’s stream



1 Comment

  1. hedgehog90 1.hedgehog90

    I love 3 Women!
    Sadly I won’t be around this evening to watch it. To everyone else though, try to catch it. It’s totally unique, weird and compelling!

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