Network Special

Network Special

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Network Special episodes

  • Episode #12 - Bill (1981)

    This week on a very special Network Special, Nathan and Zachariah - along with friend of the show Mike Wendt (Cleveland Film Commission) - go through the true-life story of Bill Sackter played by Mickey Rooney. Bill spends his days washing dishes in a country club until he runs into Barry Morrow, a filmmaker who decides to make a documentary about him. The two become close friends and Bill becomes national hero!

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    1 hr 17 min
  • Episode #12 Trailer
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    Bill (1981) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7RWDkuFPSA (Watch)
    In this true story Mickey Rooney plays a mentally challenged adult who is forced to cope with the outside world after 46 years in a mental institution. Bill is befriended by a young Iowa film maker (Dennis Quaid), who helps him get a job and makes him feel like part of the family. This originally aired Dec.22,1981 on CBS.
    2 min
  • Episode #11 - The Pilot (1984)

    B-boys Nathan and Zachariah windmill their way into your hearts with a very special dance-themed episode of Network Special. Listen in as N & Z poplock along with the kids of a school that is totally obsessed with rockin', rappin', and a third word that starts with R. Also, the boys talk about rap sheets and scrambled cable on our most hip-hop episode yet (and we've done a MC Hammer biopic)!

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    Mountain Dew Commercial featuring Oz Rock

    43 min
  • Episode #10 - Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue (1990)

    Podcast all-stars Nathan and Zachariah go deep into the free shelf at your local Blockbuster to bring you a tale of drugs gone batty! Introduced by the "Just Say No!" queen herself, this cartoon featured a smattering of Saturday morning cartoon heroes and a couple of plucky kids who brave the perils of time machines and evil carnivals to shake off the bad habits of smoke monsters. Also, N & Z talk about their favorite PSAs.

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    Snake PSA

    Pee-wee Herman PSA

    Fried Eggs PSA

    1 hr 11 min
  • Episode #10 Trailer
    Here's what we're watching this week!
    Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwDTB7yVN9I (Watch)
    2 min
  • Episode #9 - Shangri-La Plaza (1990)

    This week Nathan and Zachariah put on their dancing shoes and singing lips to discuss a pilot that CBS scrapped. Luckily for us, they paid a crap-ton of money to produce it so they aired it as a TV special giving the Network Special fellas permission to discuss it on their show! Tune in to hear all about this musical experiment featuring some pretty big names in the biz and also some of the worst music this side of Broadway.

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    58 min
  • Episode #8 - The California Raisins

    The shriveled boys of Network Special are back in California and this time they’re bringing along a couple of friends from advertising. The California Raisins were created by an ad agency to sell - you guessed it - raisins. The Raisins were so popular that they spawned a couple of television specials, a soundtrack, and a bunch of merchandise. Zachariah and Nathan dive deep into the vine to find out what makes these grapes so special.

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    Meet the Raisins!: Stream / Buy

    The Raisins: Sold Out!: The California Raisins II: Stream / Buy

    44 min
  • Episode #7 - Fuzzbucket (1986)

    In a very magical episode, Zachariah and Nathan discuss the 1986 Disney movie Fuzzbucket starring everybody’s favorite imaginary-friend-but-real-friend Fuzzbucket! Airing on The Magical World of Disney on May 18, 1986, Fuzzbucket leaped into the nightmares of children all over the country and into the hearts of these podcast creators.

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    1 hr 10 min

About Network Special

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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…