On the pilot TV podcast this week we're taking a trip back to the 1950s with a witch and an Android in Disney Plus's Wonder Vision,

leaping ahead to 2380 to discover whether Star Trek is a laughing matter in new animated Star Trek

Lower Decks on Amazon, and finally hopping back to 1981 for Channel 4's new show about

five 18 year old friends living in 80s London during the rise of the age crisis in It's a Sin.

I'm James Dyer and welcome to the pilot TV podcast, your weekly guide to the various highlights of modern television,

something that's grown increasingly important now that it's basically our only

glimpse of the outside world and

joining me inside the pilot TV goldfish bowl this week are not two but three

venerable co-hosts having missed last week due to an inconvenient bout of COVID, Terry White returns to

us fighting fit this week having proved that a 20-hour this is England marathon is too much

unrelenting grimness for even a coronavirus to survive.

How are you feeling Terry?

Much better thank you and I'll have you know that it was actually 54 hours of the West Wing.

See, I've always said that the West Wing is the panacea for all ills,

and you've proved me right, so this is good.

Yeah, I did have to rewatch some episodes because I was tripping and there was an evening where some events were happening with Trump that we may remember and I was watching the 25th,

the 25 episode, obviously where President Bartlett,

without wanting to give away any spoilers,

hands over the presidency for a short period.

And I honestly thought I'd imagined the Pence thing and I was like my

dreams are powerful man. There was some bits I had to rewatch because I couldn't work out if they'd really happened or it had been part of COVID fever, but I yeah I'm I'm now

Towards the end of season six and I text you the other night tonight to say I am already in the deepest of deep mornings

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