578: This Week In Historical TV: September 4-10, 1991
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Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV
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🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Earlier this year, our Patreon supporters unlocked a new milestone, and with it a new annual BONUS bonus episode: This Week In Historical TV! Since we've gone with September 4-10, 1991 and chosen as our lead topic Cast A Deadly Spell, an HBO TV movie that combines classic hard-boiled detective fiction with the works of H.P. Lovecraft, we had to invite Dan Cassino, a fan of both, to talk about it. Around The Dial takes us through some highlights of our week in programming: the series premiere of Herman's Head; an all-timer Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode on Gamera vs. Guiron; Parker Lewis Can't Lose; and the Merlin Olsen-hosted Fantastic Facts. Tara pitches the S09 Cheers episode "Days Of Wine And Neuroses" for induction into The Canon. Then, after plucking a winner and loser out of the September 6, 1991 issue of Entertainment Weekly, it's on to a Game Time that has us asking many MORE than 19 Questions about the characters, places, and things of the 1991-92 TV season. Send your zombie henchman outside and join us!
GUESTS
- Lead Topic → Cast A Deadly Spell
- Will Dave Hate This? → The Gambler Returns: The Luck Of The Draw
- Around The Dial → Herman's Head
- Around The Dial → Mystery Science Theatre 3000
- Around The Dial → Parker Lewis Can't Lose
- Around The Dial → Fantastic Facts
- The Canon → Cheers S09.E16: Days Of Wine And Neuroses
- Winner & Loser → Jack Wagner
- Winner & Loser → Ramy Zada
- Game Time → 19 Questions: 1991-92 TV Season Edition
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I got vampires in West Hollywood. |
| 0:02.4 | Salamanders coming out of the fire hydrants in Santa Monica. |
| 0:05.1 | Black rain, red rain, hail the size of your fist. |
| 0:08.6 | Magic is the way of the future. |
| 0:10.2 | Wouldn't want to buck the future, would you, Bradbury? |
| 0:12.0 | This is the future. |
| 0:13.4 | I'll take vanilla. |
| 0:20.3 | This is the extra Extra Hot Great Podcast. |
| 0:24.4 | Episode 324 of the week of September 4th, 1991. |
| 0:33.6 | I am oatmeal demon David T. Cole, and I'm here with hands-free champagne pour, Sarah D. Bunting. |
| 0:40.3 | More like Chazam pain, am I right? |
| 0:42.6 | Old one, Tara Arellano. |
| 0:43.9 | Don't even try to spell my name. |
| 0:45.4 | And magical dance instructor Dan Casino. |
| 0:49.0 | Tap, jazz, and necromancy. |
| 0:53.4 | Welcome to extra, extra hot Hot Great for a week. |
| 0:57.9 | In the past, your pledges unlocked our latest campaign goal, and thus we are doing this |
| 1:03.7 | bonus bonus episode this week in historical TV. |
| 1:08.0 | Like the protagonist of the movie, we're about to talk about TV movie, I don't particularly |
| 1:12.6 | believe in fate, but a couple of weeks ago, as we're recording this, I happened to pull out |
| 1:17.8 | the September 6th, 1991 issue of Entertainment Weekly and the September 9th, 1991 issue of |
| 1:22.8 | people, because both of them had the stars of Beverly Hills, 90210 covers, and we wanted to talk about them for a bonus episode of our sister podcast, again with this, which we did. That dropped September 27th. |
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