Network Special
Network Special is a podcast about the lost art of appointment television. Utilizing the power of VHS recordings and DVD cash-ins, hosts Colin Patrick and Nathan Scherer discuss television specials that were mostly meant to be aired once. Tune in to relive your childhood (or the childhood of your parents) and see what TV executives thought would be great television for the whole family.
Episodes
On a bittersweet episode of Network Special, Zachariah the OG returns to send us off in style! That's right, this is the last and final episode of Network Special ever! We watch two very strange Warren Beatty specials that aired on TCM (reluctantly I assume) which he created all to retain the rights to Dick Tracy in a move that will not pan out the way he hopes. Tune in to hear us laugh and laugh and laugh one last time! Oh, and th...
This week we're going deep in the tunnels under a daycare to talk about a true-life story that will make you angrier than a wet hen! This HBO movie takes you deep into the Satanic Panic of the 80s; focusing on the McMartin Preschool and the allegations of child abuse that turned out to be one big crock of YOU KNOW WHAT. Also, tune in to hear all about Nathan's past as he remembers what it was like to be caught up in the fever!
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This week on a very divided episode of Network Special, the dudes dive into Neverland to talk about NBC's airing of a classic tale. If you like Broadway musicals, then you'll love this special! If you don't like Broadway musicals, then you'll hate it! Tune in to find out which one of us likes it and which one of us doesn't!
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We're back from vacation and we tackle one of the big boys of TV cartoon specials by show favorites Rankin/Bass! We are doing two specials starring the voices of Orson Bean, John Huston, and Brother Theodore. Tune in to hear our thoughts on this mixed bag of a combo (pizza-flavored) and to hear Nathan & Colin sing their hearts out!
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This week on Network Special, we get to help close out the year with a show we actually liked! Jim Henson comes to the rescue with this charming little southern Christmas classic from 1977. The puppetry is amazing, the music is great, and the voice actors are as nostalgic as ever. Join us!
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This week on Network Special, Randy Quaid. :(
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We're kicking off the Christmas season with an old friend. We're talking about the sequel to Single Santa Seeking Mrs. Claus and we are just as underwhelmed! Tune in to hear us complain about plot holes and forced tension and bad costume design - we do it all in this week's episode of Network Special.
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It's Christmas. It's the Smoky Mountains. It's Dolly Parton and Lee Majors. It's Dan Hedaya. All of the pieces of a perfect Christmas puzzle are there except for one crucial thing: a witch! Oh, and also a Snow White parody of sorts. What more could you ask for?
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This week on Network Special we start what will no doubt be an annual tradition (since there are so many of them) and watch one of the sequels to the Robert De Niro & Charles Grodin comedy Midnight Run. This one is technically a sequel but just as in The Jerk, Too this seems to take place in a parallel universe of sorts. Also, an early Christmas present: an improv sesh starring your new favorite characters Tabitha and her surfe...
This week on Network Special it's Thanksgiving morning! We're getting our turkeys ready and the mashed potatoes are on the boil. What else are we gonna do while we wait except watch a bunch of people march down a freezing cold street in New York! This year, we're talking the 1997 version which was dubbed "The Great Balloon Massacre" - tune in to find out why!
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This week we tackle another pilot gone wrong and this time it went REALLY wrong. The Jerk, Too is an alternate universe for - you guessed it - the Steve Martin classic The Jerk. Sadly, there is no Steve Martin here but we get all kinds of nods to the original (just not any of the funny ones). Thankfully, a Randy Newman-alike gives us a classic banger of a theme song so all is not lost.
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It's getting close to Thanksgiving and that means it's time to watch this holiday classic starring Bryan Cranston and Judge Reinhold. Every year (since 2003), millions of Americans around the country get out their DVD players and watch this heartwarming comedy from the looney lads at National Lampoon. Tune in to hear all about this comedy institution and whether or not this TV special holds up as much as Animal House!
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It's a very divisive episode this week as the boys disagree heavily on this week's show! One of us loved this perfectly scary and effective TV movie that stretched its horror to the limits of broadcast TV in the early 80s and the other one of us is dumb. It's a very "dark night" for the show! Tune in to see if this is the last episode we record, or if we make up and carry on!
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It's all Old West this week on Network Special as the cowboys talk about a horror western movie from 1971. It's a spooky little treat for the Halloween season that involves cults, satan, and all that dust you know and love from the western genre. Tune in to hear us do impressions of all the actors and to find out what twists and turns are in store for those who watched the dang thing!
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It's extra spooky this week as the Network Special fellas talk about a few different Disney Halloween Specials that all seem eerily similar! Every year Disney released a clip show with slightly different narrators and sections that all run together in the mind. In fact, both hosts watched a completely different special and didn't realize it until the record! Tune in to find out how THAT kind of thing works on a show like this.
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This week on Network Special we team up with our old pal Geraldo Rivera to take on the dark lord himself! Tune in to hear all about how a secret cabal of satanic pedophiles was ravaging America all throughout the 80s. Sound familiar? QAnon was a little late to the party that Geraldo helped kick off!
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This week, we get high on our own supply and snort up some good podcastin' fun! We watch as a realtor gets seduced by the white devil which helps him totally get super successful and sell tons of houses! Don't miss this week's episode if you too are hooked on cocaine and need some tough love to help you drop this nasty habit.
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This week on Network Special we revisit an old friend! The Ewoks are back and more boring than ever in this sequel to the FIRST Ewoks movie made by our nation's greatest movie director of all time. Listen in to hear us talk about disobedient children, gruff old actors, and weird helmets.
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This week on Network Special, we are BACK with the second season of the show and this time, we brought along a new host! Say farewell to Zachariah and hello to Colin as we watch another WonderWorks special starring Peter Billingsley. This is the tale of a giant chicken and the New Jersey city that can't quite figure out what to do with it. Tune in to hear all about it (way too much in fact) and to cheer on our new friend!
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This week is bittersweet on the season one finale of Network Special. Zachariah is moving on from the show to spend time with his children. He has served this podcast well and as a final salute to the Nathan/Zachariah era, we hold the first ever Speshie Awards! Listen in to hear what we think are the best shows we watched and to remember all the good times we had. We're all going to miss you, buddy!
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