#ILoveAMystery Do I recommend?
Without this show there's no #Buffy, no #ScoobyDoo, no #TheGhostBusters, no #Ghostbusters, no #FreakyLinks, no #TheATeam, no #TheLoneGunmen, no #PrettyLIttleLiars as this Radio show fueled the imagination of Silent Generation and Baby Boomers by imprinting itself.
#SevenDays TV ep #1.20 "Walter" (19-May-99).
A "Rainman" ep. Decent warm ep.
Tamlyn Tomita is great as a murderous Chinese spy. I saw her in my #Eureka, #TimeTrax, #FreakyLinks walkthroughs.
As it's 1999 I expected the comic nerd culture bit to land wrong but it went quite well.
RIP Comic Shop Guy
📣 New Podcast! "S05E14 The Case of the Missing Thunderbird Photo" on @Spreaker #freakylinks #pterosaur #sanderson #thunderbird
Bernard's 2025 walkthroughs review.
#FreakyLinks: 6/10
Again generous. I added points for the multimedia tie-ins for which I'm a sucker. This show has so much cult appeal. However a production team who had no idea they should have made great TV let it down repeatedly.
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I did your 3 #FreakyLinks pods. I agree that it was a creative failure but can see why it seemingly has a cult following.
Onto #Threshold next.
Wow how did that pass your first four eps >5.0 rule??
Listening to your #FreakyLinks pods. That show should/could have been THE show.
In my walkthrough I dug out the legacy websites online (via the WayBackMachine) from Derek and even his lost brother's prior website.
Really added to the watching experience.
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BTW I put a hashtag on a show means I've completed a full walkthrough of said show.
Defo listening to your pods this week for TV shows I've completed & documented eg #HarshRealm, #FreakyLinks, #AlienNation, #Dune.
Not #SwampThing as I can't revisit that pile of mud. Its 90s TV show is a lark mind.
#ILoveAMystery Radio 944 cont'd.
As well as #Buffy, #ScoobyDoo, #TheGhostBusters, #FreakyLinks, #TheATeam, #PrettlyLIttleLiars, #HarpersIsland and #TheLoneGunmen vibes from this show already I now can add yet another show:
As we are doing "supernatural" jungle pulp so this is alslo #TombRaider!
#ILoveAMystery Radio 905 cont'd.
As well as #Buffy, #ScoobyDoo, #TheGhostBusters, #FreakyLinks, #TheATeam and #PrettlyLIttleLiars vibes from this show I now can add yet another show:
As characters die at a moment's notice not in any way related to plot progression so this is #HarpersIsland.
#ILoveAMystery Radio 904 cont'd.
As well as #Buffy, #ScoobyDoo, #TheGhostBusters, #FreakyLinks and #TheATeam vibes from this show I now can add another show:
As it's so melodramatic with plots/motivations being teased yet fully irrelevant to any actual story reveals so this is #PrettyLIttleLiars.
#ILoveAMystery Radio 393 cont'd.
As well as #Buffy, #ScoobyDoo, #TheGhostBusters, #FreakyLinks and #TheATeam vibes from this show now I also get a #TheLoneGunmen vibe!
I told you this show is a source spring for so many later shows!
Now Jerry is aboard maybe I'll see other shows in this too?
#ILoveAMystery Radio 403/404 cont'd.
The plots are larger than life and cliched so I don't think adults would get much out of this show other than pure escapism.
By the way as well as #Buffy, #ScoobyDoo, #TheGhostBusters, #FreakyLinks vibes from this show now I also get a #TheATeam vibe.
#ILoveAMystery Radio eps #31 to #55 "The Case of the Nevada Cougar" (27-Feb-39 to 31-Mar-39).
No eps exist.
Synopsis below.
By the way as well as #Buffy, #ScoobyDoo and #TheGhostBusters I'm now getting a #FreakyLinks vibes from this show now. It's so definitive.
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#The4400 Ep 4.05 cont'd.
A town of 4400's had potential to be a few episode arc. And it was good to see Lisa Sheridan ( #FreakyLinks) again so soon. A society of 4400s has legs but no it's gone.
The fascist future is so on the nose and cliched that I'm convinced the S4 writers have no new ideas.
#FreakyLInks End of another walkthrough.
Is this another show with no fans as I didn't get a single like for the whole walkthrough yet I heard it was a cult show. Who knows?
I definitely recommend this show (the ep files I found are just poor VHS level rips mind) and its very cool retro website.
#FreakyLinks Ep 1.13 cont'd.
So it was a nice way to end the show online. In fact the person nicknamed Nexus that Derek and Jason were dealing with is someone who was in contact with Adam in the 1990s as seen on the following page of Adam's original website:
web.archive.org/web/20010202...
#FreakyLinks Ep 1.13 cont'd.
Though the final 4 eps aired Jun-01 the website stopped Feb-01 but after the first TV run was dropped. To that end there is a few pages of an unseen adventure where Derek and the Jason go missing looking into clues surrounding Adam.
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#FreakyLinks TV ep #1.13 "The Final Word" (22-Jun-01).
Final ep and a brilliant ep.
They team are the subjects of a network news investigative report.
Tamlyn Tomita is great as the utterly bland news reporter who gradually lets the case under her skin.
The plot was great and the monster too.
#FreakyLinks Ep 1.12 cont'd.
Betsy Palmer was still pretty nifty in 2001 I have to say.
Again this ep is not on the webpage but there are several Freakylinks.com entries for Feb-2001 which may indicate how the series ended. I guess I'll find out if they tie in or not in the final ep coming up.
#FreakyLinks Ep 1.12 cont'd.
Clearly the show has already been cancelled as these summer eps are delayed but there's so much to like here.
Again no Lan but Chloe's medical license arc concludes.
Mindy is a good addition to the supporting FreakyLinks characters. This is surely her only appearance?
#FreakyLInks TV ep #1.12 "Subject: Sunrise at Sunset Streams" (15-Jun-01).
This is actually ep #1.10 as the Florida Skunk-Ape is mentioned in the ep I had down as #1.10.
Great ep. A monster in an old folks home in Florida.
Alan Young (Mister Ed), Betsy Palmer (Friday the 13th) guest. So good.
#FreakyLinks TV ep #1.11 "Subject: Police Siren" (08-Jun-01).
Cop corruption ep but well made.
Been better if the lady cop was used in the denouement rather than sitting in the captain's office waiting.
Alas the avenging spirit was far too plot convenient.
How Jason did not get shot in this ep!
#FreakyLinks Ep 1.10 cont'd.
Pity no Lan in such a good ep. I wonder it Derek's immortality will wear off?
One drawback was Jeffrey Combs not being more involved but he was great.
Unfortunately these last 4 eps were delayed after cancellation to Jun-01 so the website has no tie in for this ep.
#FreakyLinks TV ep #1.10 "Subject: Live Fast, Die Young" (01-Jun-01).
OMG this was a deadset 10/10 classic!
Eric Balfour, Jeffrey Combs, Paige Moss! And Finn Carter was great too.
Stylistically all the new music that each ep premieres from rock bands of 2001 thematically fitted this ep excellently.
#FreakyLinks Ep 1.09 cont'd.
The Freakylinks website has nothing about this case sadly. Not sure why but to be fair even in episode the Freakylinks website wasn't referenced as having any case files uploaded.
#FreakyLinks Ep 1.09 cont'd.
I like that we meet Jason's family even if his professional background is character ruining. Like he was an idiot for the first 5 eps.
The ghost stuff was a bit o.t.t and that hot chick played by Constance Zimmer disappeared far too quickly from the ep's narrative.
#FreakyLInks TV ep #1.09 "Subject: The Stone Room" (26-Jan-01).
Finally a Jason ep. He's actually a non-practicing property lawyer. This along with Chloe's medical license being investigated are better than the main plot.
I had no idea what was going on in the legal proceedings but that's my fault.
#FreakyLInks Ep 1.08 cont'd.
Fortunately the webpage for this case is a lot more entertaining than the TV ep.
www.haxan.com/archived/fre...
However the website www.sickandtwisted.com is not archived and well let us just say it is better you do not search for it! Did FOX even construct it?
#FreakyLinks TV ep #1.08 "Subject: Me and My Shadow" (19-Jan-01).
A terrible ep of TV.
The shadow thing was shown in the next time trailer and that was all the ep had.
However what was worse what that Derek destroys Chloe's career by being a tone deaf, toxic moron.
The rest of the team did nothing.
