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Crossword Mysteries: A Puzzle to Die For is an original film from Hallmark Movies & Mysteries that first aired on March 10, 2019. This film stars Lacey Chabert, Brennan Elliott, John Kapelos, and Barbara Niven, and featured a story from New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz.

Chabert stars as Tess Harper, the crossword editor whose puzzles are the only thing keeping the New York Sentinel afloat. Her peaceful life tinkering over grids gets criss-crossed when a murder victim is found with one of her word puzzles in his pocket. Soon, the determined editor must team up with a skeptical detective in order to scratch out the truth of the matter.

Listen to Áine and Kevin cross off topics like newsroom happenings, police hiring practices, and the one-and-only Chief Chauncey O'Connor.

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"Dizzy Detectives" is a 1943 short film starring The Three Stooges (this iteration consists of Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard). It's all about three bumbling rookie policemen facing off against thieves (and a gorilla).

Who Done It? is a 1949 short film starring Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Shemp Howard. These Three Stooges play private detectives assigned to save a kidnapped millionaire.

'Fraidy Cat is 1951 short film that's an identical remake of Dizzy Detectives. That stars erstwhile Stooge Joe Besser, alongside Jim Hawthorne. And then Besser and Hawthorne teamed up for the 1955 Hook a Crook as well.

We watched all of these back-to-back, in our own self-inflicted, Three Stooges-themed take on Groundhog Day. Listen to Áine and Kevin slap around ideas like "Stooge fandom," plagiarism, and Áine's embarrassing double entendres.

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Heavens to Betsy Ross! My stars and stripes! Jumping George Washington! 

The Funky Phantom was a Hanna-Barbera mystery cartoon that ran from September 11, 1971 to January 1, 1972. It had a relatively short afterlife, only lasting one season (or seventeen episodes). The show stars Micky Dolenz, Tommy Cook, and Kristina Holland as a trio of teenaged sleuths stuck in a somewhat disturbing love triangle. Daws Butler stars as the titular specter, recycling his turn as Snagglepuss, which itself was a spoof of Bert Lahr. Jonathan "Funky Phantom" or "Mudsy" Muddlemore is a Revolutionary War-era soldier who died in a tragic clock-related accident with his cat. After being resurrected from said clock, he joins up with the teens and they travel far and wide, unmasking fake ghosts, a la Scooby Doo.

Watching this went as well for us as the Battle of Bunker — Funky? — Hill went for everybody involved. Listen to Áine and Kevin seance about random musical interludes, Boston Brand, and the history of the American Revolution.

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You are a possessed hill, you're my possessed hill,

Who do you want me to be to make you visit a house most ghostly?

"The House on Possessed Hill" first aired on January 22, 1978. It was the fifteenth episode of The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries' second season.

This episode stars Shaun Cassidy, Parker Stevenson, Ed Gilbert, Lloyd Bochner, Dorothy Malone, Royal Dano, Richard LePore, and Wayde Preston, as well as a young Melanie Griffith!

Listen to Áine and Kevin communicate with the beyond on topics like Alfred Hitchcock, earthquakes, and the supernatural.

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Father is a doctor-spy

Mother's tired, she needs a cry!

The rats are playing up downstairs

Rafters sighing in their sleep

Brother's got court dates to keep

He got convicted ...

Our house, in the middle of our swamp!

"The Night of the Man-Eating House" is the twelfth episode of the second season of The Wild, Wild West, a show deserving of its name starring Robert Conrad and Ross Martin.

The episode first aired on December 2, 1966. It's the show's taken on the horror genre, complete with a sppooky prisoner, ghosts, and a haunted (and hungry) house.

Listen to Áine and Kevin creak on about sex noises, historical traitors, and the bizarre twists-and-turns that come with this show.

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Charlie Chan at the Circus is a 1936 mystery film starring Warner Oland as the titular detective, along with Keye Luke, George Brasno, Olive Brasno, Francis Ford, and Maxine Reiner.

The movie was released on March 27, 1936. In this film, Honolulu detective Charlie Chan's family vacation is interrupted when he is asked to help to solve the murder of a circus owner.

Between the inclusion of yellow face, the stereotyping of Chinese and Chinese-American people, and other racist aspects of this film series, Charlie Chan has not held up well.

Listen to Áine and Kevin discuss topics like Hollywood's shameful history of racism, our status as scholars, and Kevin's support of Richard Hatch's career.

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The Wild Wild West is a Western slash espionage slash science fiction slash steam punk television series that's basically what happens when you combine James Bond antics with old time-y costumes. The series stars Robert Conrad as Secret Service agent Jim West, and Ross Martin and his partner-in-fighting-ridiculous-crimes Artemus Gordon. 

This show schwirsheled around genre with the enthusiasm of a skilled Frisco card sharpie shuffling cards. So today, we’re going to talk about two episodes that play with the concepts of crime and mystery.  

"The Night of the Returning Dead" was the fifth episode of the show's lauded second season, airing for the first time on October 14, 1966. This episode features a special guest star: Renaissance man and Rat Pack member Sammy Davis Jr. "The Night of the Tottering Tontine" is the sixteenth episode of the show's second season, having aired on January 6, 1967. That episode is the show's take on an Agatha Christie mystery, by way of some creative accounting and outrageous architecture.

Listen to Áine and Kevin lasso topics like our dog’s similarity to a M*A*S*H character, financial planners, and the most and least talented members of the Rat Pack.

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24 is a television thriller series that aired on Fox, starring Kiefer Sutherland as super spy Jack Bauer. Each season of the series takes place over 24 hours.

The show's fifth season — also known as "Day 5" — began airing on January 15, 2006 and concluded with a finale on May 22, 2003. Along with Sutherland, the cast also features Kim Raver, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Carlos Bernard, Gregory Itzin, James Morrison, Roger Cross, Louis Lombardi, Jean Smart, Sean Astin, and William Devane.

In this storyline, Jack Bauer must once again save Los Angeles from terrorists, devastating weapons, and possible traitors within the United States government. Talk about a jam-packed day, all resulting in the greatest season of 24.

Listen to Áine and Kevin pack their Bauer bags with topic like slow-burn romance, pulp storytelling, and the Nixon White House.

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Airing on September 22, 1979, "Night of the Wizard" is the inaugural episode of A Man Called Sloane starring Robert Conrad. Conrad is Sloane. A man called Sloane, that is.

Along with his partner Torque, as portrayed by Ji-Tu Cumbuka, and The Director, played by Dan O'Herlihy, Sloane must take on mad men like Roddy McDowall's robot-loving Manfred Baranoff.

Listen to Áine and Kevin engineer conversations around topics like Kevin's childhood, pellets, Irish-ness, and tight pants.

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"Sullied Be Thy Name" is the eleventh episode of Quincy M.E.'s second season, which first aired on May 6, 1977. Jack Klugman stars as the hassled, always-yelling Dr. R. Quincy, M.E. Garry Walberg, Robert Ito, John S. Ragin, Val Bisoglio, and Joseph Campanella all appear as well.

In this episode, Dr. Quincy must ... run interference to protect the reputation of a dead Catholic priest? Against a group of scheming pornographers? Okay!

Listen to Áine and Kevin dissect topics like gritty Quincy reboots, Catholicism, and Áine's attention span.

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"The Long Journey Home" is the thirteenth episode and series finale of the first and only season of Nancy Drew, a short-lived venture from Canadian studio Nelvana. This episdoe first aired on aired December 16, 1995. The show stars Tracy Ryan as Nancy Drew and Scott Speedman and Ned Nickerson, with Jonathan Zaccai guest starring as Christophe.

In this episode, Nancy and Ned bicker across France, meeting a mysterious French hitchhiker along the way. Oh, and they kind of break up? It's a bummer.

Listen to Áine and Kevin squabble about relationship red flags, train danger, and family lore..

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You'd think that Jed Clampett plus mysteries would be more fun!

"Fatal Flight" is the twelfth episode of the second season of Barnaby Jones. The episode first aired on December 9, 1973. The series starred Buddy Ebsen, the actor best known for starring in The Beverly Hillbillies. This episode also featured Lee Meriwether, Richard Anderson, Jerry Douglas, Murray Hamilton, and Pippa Scott.

Ebsen's Jones is a detective who comes out of retirement after his son is killed while working as a private investigator. In this episode — which has the feel of a plane swiftly losing acceleration — the private eye must square off against live wires, parachuting hippies, and over-the-top Foley artists. It's much less exciting than it sounds.

Listen to Áine and Kevin take flight with topics like The Beverly Hillbillies, glacial pacing, and ice cream.

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Top Gun: Maverick is 2022 action film from director Joseph Kosinski. Starring Tom Cruise, the film also features Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Monica Barbaro, Lewis Pullman, Ed Harris, and Val Kilmer.

In this summer hit, Cruise takes the controls once more as Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell from the original 1985 Top Gun. Maverick must return to the TOPGUN program to face his past and train a group of cocky pilots to take on an impossible mission.

Listen to Áine and Kevin radio in about summer fun, call signs, and Twelve O'Clock High.

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The Pearl of Death is a 1944 Sherlock Holmes film starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce and directed by Roy William Neil. Dennis Hoey, Evelyn Ankers, Miles Mander, and Rondo Hatton also show up.

Set during World War II, this film is at least slightly based on the 1904 short story "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. But just barely.

In this film, Sherlock Holmes makes a rare and bizarre blunder that leads to a series of brutal murders. Yikes! Dr. Watson and the famed sleuth are left to try to clean up the shattered porcelain before criminals clutch one very special pearl.

Listen to Kevin and Áine shuck conversational oysters to find gemstones like confusing horses, the death of Presidents William Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor, and our murderous dog,.

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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome is a crime thriller film from 1947, based on the comic strip by Chester Gould.

Starring Boris Karloff as Gruesome and Ralph Byrd as the titular detective, this cast also includes Anne Gwynne, Skelton Knaggs, Edward Ashley, and June Clayworth as other wackily-named characters. Basically, some bad guys have stolen a type of gas that freezes people where they stand. And Dick Tracy is the only detective who can stop them!

Listen to Áine and Kevin come to a standstill over Iron Chef, comic strips versus comic books, and heroic but maligned newspaper reporters.

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"I'm wide awake. Yeah, I was in the dark. I was falling hard, in a crashing car."

Awake is a police procedural — slash family drama slash psychic fantasy slash psychological thriller — that ran from March 1 to May 24, 2012. Kyle Killen created the show, which starred Jason Isaacs as homicide investigator Michael Britten.

After Detective Britten's family gets into a car wreck, his reality diverges into two spheres. In one, his wife Hannah — Laura Allen — survived while his son Rex — Dylan Minnette — died. Then when he falls asleep, the opposite is true: Rex lives and Hannah is dead. The result is stress, sleep-deprivation, and a few spectacularly psychedelic sequences.

Listen to Áine and Kevin drift off on topics like sharp writing, police procedurals, and penguins.

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It's a double Dragnet deal!

In this episode of Mystery to Me, we'll discuss two episodes of Dragnet 1967. The first one, "The LSD Story" or "The Big LSD" aired on January 12, 1967. The second, "Burglary: DR-31" aired on March 6, 1969.

In "The LSD Story," Joe Friday and his partner Bill Gannon must combat the scourge of acid, as personified by the maddening hippie drug dealer "Blue Boy." And in the "Burglary" episode, Friday and Gannon discover how nerdy interests can lead youths into a life of petty crime! Both shows focus on a troubled youngster whose desire to escape dull, dreary reality prompts them to both fall into a subculture that baffles Friday and run afoul of the law.

Listen to Áine and Kevin as they get far out on topics like Gene Roddenberry, S.E. Hinton, drug use, and male fantasy figures.

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24 is a hit television series that aired on Fox, starring Kiefer Sutherland as super spy Jack Bauer. Each season of the series takes place over 24 hours.

The show's second season — also known as "Day 2" — began airing on October 29, 2002 and concluded with a finale on May 20, 2003. Along with Sutherland, the cast also features Sarah Wynter, Elisha Cuthbert, Xander Berkeley, Penny Johnson Jerald, Carlos Bernard, and Dennis Haysbert, and Reiko Aylesworth.

In this storyline, Jack Bauer is tasked with stopping a nuclear bomb that's on the loose in Los Angeles. Torture, terrorism, First Amendment infringement, torture, interrogations, and more torture ensue! Listen to Áine and Kevin chase after topics like B-plots, torture, storytelling twists, and Lost.

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Cool presidents? Detente with Russia? Important faxes? Is this the most nineties movie ever?

Air Force One is a 1997 presidential-themed action thriller by director Wolfgang Petersen starring Harrison Ford as President Harrison Ford ... er, James Marshall. Gary Oldman, Glenn Close, Wendy Crewson, Liesel Matthews, Paul Guilfoyle, William H. Macy, Dean Stockwell, Elya Baskin, and Xander Berkely are also along for the flight.

The set up is simple. What if Die Hard happened on the president's air plane? When terrorists take over Air Force One, the president must ditch politics as usual and rely upon his old military training to save his family and staff ... and prevent the old US of A from negotiating with terrorists.

Listen to Áine and Kevin take off on topics like the history of the early 2000s, Joe Biden's dogs, and the superiority of In the Line of Fire.

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In this episode, Quincy M.E. paraphrases the Dead Kennedys by demanding: "All punks, fuck off."

Airing December 1, 1982, this is the eighth episode of the medical mystery show's eighth season.Jack Klugman stars as Dr. R. Quincy, M.E, or "Quince." This episode also features a young Melora Hardin, Anita Gillette, Barbara Cason, Robert Ito, John S. Ragin, Garry Walberg, and Val Bisoglio.

"Next Stop, Nowhere" drones out question after daring question: Can a genre of music be a murder weapon? Can a song turn a wholesome, clean-cut American kid into a killer? Are the punks the worst people who ever lived? Am I so out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong.

That's right. Jack Klugman's Dr. Quincy is going to come out against the evils of punk music. Listen to Caince and Greence jam about topics like the War of 1812, preachy elders, and the comparative reasonableness of Dragnet.

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