New Episode-Stephen King's The Golden Years (1990)

Stephen Kingcast

Constant Reader

Tv & Film, Arts, Arts:books, Books

4.7 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

At long last, your greatly demanded requests for me to review Stephen King's The Golden Years has been granted! What? What do you mean you don't know what I'm talking about? What do you mean you've never heard of The Golden Years? You mean you've never seen the the 1990 seven episode CBS television show about an elderly janitor bombarded by energy after a scientific experiment goes awry which causes him to begin to age backward? You don't remember cat and mouse espionage story of government officials trying to outsmart Shop operatives as the walls close in around the janitor, whose powers are stranger than we were led to believe? Well, don't worry. You're not alone. The Golden Years is not one of Stephen King's most recognized, fondly remembered--or remembered at all--work, but it is worth discussing for its place in television history. Coming off the heels of the success of Twin Peaks, TV stations were rabid for their own quirky, speculative, genre-story. Enter: Stephen King's The Golden Years. Tune into my thoughts on the Golden Years, how it ties into King's larger multiverse and whether or not Harlan, our main character, ever shows up in a little town called Derry. What am I talking about??? You'll just have to tune in! As always, if you have any thoughts on anything related to Stephen King, write into stephenkingcast@yahoo.com Follow on Bluesky, Facebook, Tik Tok and Instagram. Stay organized and up to date with all things Stephen King at stephenkingcast.com

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, welcome to the Stephen King cast.
0:04.4	One Man's Musings on the Works of Stephen King.
0:06.4	Each week I'll review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King
0:09.3	and the chronological order of publication.
0:11.1	And this week I continue my examination of the televised works of Stephen King.
0:18.7	And today, today, well, let me back up a little bit this one's interesting
0:26.5	because you know people talk about um underseen projects or underrated projects or forgotten projects.
0:42.3	I mean, what I'm about to talk about today might as well just be the continent of Atlantis
0:48.3	for all of the impact it's had upon its audience.
0:52.3	Today I am talking about Stephen King's The Golden Years.
0:57.7	So, which it's going to be an interesting conversation. But before I get into the golden
1:03.9	years, welcome. Welcome to the Stephen Kingcast, everyone for new listeners. Welcome to the Stephen Kingcast, everyone. For new listeners, welcome to the Stephen King cast.
1:13.7	This was devised a long time ago, over 10 years ago,
1:17.3	as a chronological exploration of the published works of Stephen King.
1:22.6	So if you want episodes that dive into a thorough analysis at a college level, which I wanted it to be.
1:33.7	You have all of those there, all of the very, very thorough book reviews that analyze the
1:40.4	themes and the conflicts and the characters and place it within larger patterns that Stephen
1:48.5	King was working with over stretches of novels and places it within the context of the entirety
1:54.4	of his work. I also have a lot of the movie reviews and the short story reviews and the TV reviews and
2:02.6	there's reviews for other books and other horror stuff I have Stranger Things reviews up there so
2:12.6	there's a lot there's a lot to go through so if you are just tuning in for the first time, there is a
2:18.0	treasure trove of content for you to be able to swim around through like Scrooge McDuck
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