March 8-12, 1980
Today Ken welcomes writer, Tick-creator and all around personal
hero Ben Edlund to the show.
Ken and Ben discuss going through the looking glass from
Massachusetts, desire to play by the rules, a multi-TV household,
piloting the house from the kitchen, The Muppets, Henson's
subversive PBS model, WGBH, Zoom, trying to live the California
lifestyle in New England, CHiPs, Beefcake Baywatch, Baywatch
Nights, punk rock scare episodes, C.B. Radio culture, men and ape,
Fantasy Island, Hawaii 5-0, Love Boat, Herve Velechez, Mason Reese,
Hunks, Mr. Magoo, the noble idiot, Harvey Comics meeting Heavy
Metal, Epic Magazine, Alice, One Day at a Time, The Unshakable
Mollie B, Freebie and the Bean, M*A*S*H milk, The Tick is the
ticket, That's Incredible vs. Real People, The Gary Marshall
universe, FoxKids, Pirates of Dark Water, Bobby's World, Sheriff
Lobo, first run syndication, The Day After Tomorrow, Three's
Company, SOAP, sad songs in Taxi, Hart to Hart, old movies, writing
to Jacques Cousteau, Captain Bob, drawing, running a trading card
supply syndicate, Buck Rogers, Quark, Benson, Ron Glass, Firefly,
Barney Miller, Supernatural Hal Linden, Captain America the
Musical, Quincy, the dark underbelly of NYC, the Incredible Hulk,
The Benji problem, Pink Lady and Jeff, Creature Features, Lon
Chaney Jr boozing it up, faking your own death, Breaking Bad, myth
arch vs. monster of the week and the coming of the cyborg age.
