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Week 67: Thomas Veil's Long Night This week, all we've got is one drama and one sitcom. Luckily, it's the strongest drama (Nowhere Man) and the strongest sitcom (Minor Adjustments) in the current lineup.

Week 67: Thomas Veil's Long Night

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Week 66: Strong Week All Around Sorry for the late post this week. The server's build process broke and I didn't notice until the evening.

Week 66: Strong Week All Around

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Week 65: Edward Burton, You Are the Father It's a very light week, but a good one. Swift Justice remains the weak link, but I did like this week's episode better than its previous two outings.

Week 65: Edward Burton, You Are the Father

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Week 64: A Job, a Siege, and One More Terrible Paranormal Episode Another lighter week with the WB sitcoms in reruns. We get strong episodes from Savannah and The Sentinel, and weaker episodes from everything else.

Week 64: A Job, a Siege, and One More Terrible Paranormal Episode

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Week 63: On the Lookout for The Sentinel The sitcoms are all in reruns this week, but we get four great new drama episodes (including new show The Sentinel) and one of the reruns is a new-to-UPN Minor Adjustments that originally aired on NBC. There's also another episode of that paranormal show with Jonathan Frakes.

Week 63: On the Lookout for The Sentinel

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Week 62: First Head-to-Head Battle While UPN technically started airing on Wednesdays last week and the WB aired a one-off Savannah rerun on Tuesday several week back, this Wednesday marks the first time both networks faced each other with new programming [1].

Week 62: First Head-to-Head Battle

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Week 61: UPN Expands to Wednesdays (kinda) UPN officially expands to Wednesdays this week, putting the two networks in direct competition going forward. However, UPN aired an awards show I can't find a recording of and the WB aired reruns, so the proper competition will have to wait for next week.

Week 61: UPN Expands to Wednesdays (kinda)

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Week 60: Unreliable Flashback Since 1996 was a leap year, we've now shifted these recap posts onto Saturdays thirty-years-ago while remaining on Mondays here in the present. Going forward, I plan to keep the Saturday alignment, which means recaps will shift between present-day Mondays and Tuesdays every even year starting in 1998.

Week 60: Unreliable Flashback

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Week 59: Suicide, Scabs, and Stereotypes The sitcoms were a bit of a mixed bag this week [1], but all three dramas were great!

Week 59: Suicide, Scabs, and Stereotypes

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Week 58: Will You WB My Valentine? This week, we get an excellent Voyager episode, a great Savannah, and a more middling Nowhere Man as long as a slate of Valentine's Day sitcom episodes.

Week 58: Will You WB My Valentine?

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Week 57: Love and Conspiracy at the Old Folks Home It's the busiest week of the year so far with new episodes from all of the currently running shows, including particularly strong outings from Savannah, Nowhere Man, and Minor Adjustments.

Week 57: Love and Conspiracy at the Old Folks Home

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Week 56: Seven Sitcoms Sorry for the late post this week. I accidentally had it set to post tomorrow initially.

Week 56: Seven Sitcoms

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Happy Threshold Day! Normally, I wait until Monday to recap all of the previous week's WB and UPN programming. However, today is a special day. Today is the 30th anniversary of UPN airing a Voyager episode in which Tom Paris turns himself and Captain Janeway into lizards and they have lizard babies.

Happy Threshold Day!

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Week 55: WB Tries Drama, UPN Retries Comedy After a year of only half-hour comedies, the WB makes its first attempt at drama this week with the primetime soap Savannah. Similarly, after a drama-only fall schedule, UPN takes a another stab at comedy with new show Moesha and NBC reject Minor Adjustments.

Week 55: WB Tries Drama, UPN Retries Comedy

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Week 54: Standard Robot Parable No. 73 UPN ramps back up this week with strong episodes from both Voyager and Nowhere Man and a bland TV movie to fill space until its spring replacements start next week.

Week 54: Standard Robot Parable No. 73

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Week 53: Deadly Game Over This week, we get the last Deadly Games to air on UPN, as well as an additional episode that never aired due to a cliffhanger ending. The WB sitcoms are also back from their winter break.

Week 53: Deadly Game Over

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Week 52: Turns Out Deadly Games Are Expensive As 2025 turns into 2026 here in the present, the WB and UPN turn from 1995 to 1996 with a Sister, Sister rerun and the penultimate episode of Deadly Games.

Week 52: Turns Out Deadly Games Are Expensive

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Week 51: Christmas Eve Pig Theft For the last full week of the year, all we have is one replacement-level new-to-the-WB Sister, Sister rerun, as The WB just aired reruns and UPN burned off a few failed pilots that I'm unable to find recordings for.

Week 51: Christmas Eve Pig Theft

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Week 50: Mildly Christmas-Themed Insurance Fraud For our last week of the year with fully new episodes [1], we get solid Christmas specials from Simon and The Wayans Bros., a somewhat disappointing Christmas special from The Parent 'Hood, and an Unhappily Ever After about a fake car theft where Christmas is limited purely to set decoration.

Week 50: Mildly Christmas-Themed Insurance Fraud

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Week 49: Christmas Trio Aside from our usual Sister, Sister rerun, we get a trio of Christmas episodes from the WB this week, and while two of them are duds, the third is by far the best Pinky and the Brain I've seen so far.

Week 49: Christmas Trio

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Week 48: Oops, All Reruns Just a single Sister, Sister rerun this week, as the WB is taking the week off and UPN is off until the new year. Luckily, it's a good one!

Week 48: Oops, All Reruns

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Week 47: Live Shot Goes Off Air Apologies for the short post this week. While I watched everything, with Thanksgiving I didn't have much time to write things up, so I focused on the two standouts: an excellent mid-season finale for Nowhere Man, and a final Live Shot episode with multiple cliffhangers that will unfortunately never be resolved.

Week 47: Live Shot Goes Off Air

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Week 46: Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years Three different holidays are represented by this week's episodes, and only Sister, Sister's lines up with the actual time it aired, with Live Shot and Deadly Games representing Christmas and New Year's Eve respectively.

Week 46: Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years

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Week 45: More of the Same Most shows remain at their average this week, though Live Shot is great (despite atrocious recording quality) and Unhappily Ever After is surprisingly good.

Week 45: More of the Same

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Week 44: A Perfectly Fine, Full Week This week was our first full schedule in a bit, and while no show has its strongest outing here, everything is at least fine.

Week 44: A Perfectly Fine, Full Week

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Week 43: Murder, Hallucination, and Sitcoms This week was another light one, and, aside from an excellent Nowhere Man, I didn't care for much of it.

Week 43: Murder, Hallucination, and Sitcoms

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Week 42: First Halloween Apologies if anyone tried to access the site in the past day and a half; my apartment lost power while I was traveling so I wasn't able to turn the server back on after it was resolved.

Week 42: First Halloween

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Week 41: Aliens, Pranks, and a Trip to Chicago A lighter schedule this week, as the WB's Wednesday lineup is reruns with solid Sunday sitcoms and a pretty great episode of Deadly Games.

Week 41: Aliens, Pranks, and a Trip to Chicago

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Apologies for the duplicate posts. There was a bug in the Tumblr crossposter that caused the server to crash between when the Bluesky post was made and when it was registered, causing it to be recreated each time it tried again. It's fixed now and the duplicate posts have been deleted.

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Week 40: Nowhere Man Gets Meta A pretty solid week overall, with the weakest part of the schedule a one-off [1] special of figure skating performances. The sitcoms range from okay [2] to good and the dramas are all great, with Nowhere Man's return a particular highlight.

Week 40: Nowhere Man Gets Meta

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