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Season 5 | Episode 51 | The Mysterious World of Buster Lee | The Moon Landing

Helsinki 1983.  While researching baldness, Dr. Miles Scorpio makes a discovery with bigger implications. The only problem is the secret ingredient – dimodium – exists only on the Moon.  In a race against time Buster Lee, Lars LaGuardia, Mayella Williams, Joan Reynolds and Beck (the super-pooch) travel to the lunar surface. But not before Buster Lee is trapped in a cave.

Season 5 | Episode 50 | The Mysterious World of Buster Lee | Shrunken Heads

Bokeessa 1983. To free his people enslaved by a dictator, a wealthy American returns to the land of his childhood.  Travel to the island nation of Bokeessa where humans are still sacrificed, fire-walking is common, heads are shrunk and giant cobras are bred for big money.  It’s an island of beautiful women and strange natives.  Danger lurks around every corner.  Buster Lee and his team have never encountered anything as weird as Bokeessa. And neither have you.

Season 5 | Episode 49 | The Mysterious World of Buster Lee | Vampires

A wealthy New York heiress wants to buy a castle in Budapest, only to encounter its strange owners Prince Vuusha and his daughter Viva. Buster Lee and the team from International Investigators travel to eastern Europe to meet the heiress and sort the mess out, but not before a  village is seized by blood-thirsty vampire bats and werewolves.

Season 5 | Episode 48 | The Mysterious World of Buster Lee | Chips

Hawaii 1983. Someone is out to hurt Buster Lee’s wealthy childhood friend computer genius 19-year-old Pete Dupont. Buster Lee and team fly to Hawaii to find out who is behind the plan and put an end to it.  Along the way, Beck the super-pooch displays a power only canines have and a host of strange suspects are uncovered.  Fasten your seatbelt. This episode comes with hungry cobra snakes too.

Season 5 | Episode 47| The Mysterious World of Buster Lee | Fame

New York 1983. When quantum physicist Dr. Oscar Carmichael calls Neely Cairo, he won’t say why.  Buster Lee and Lars LaGuardia are sent to investigate.  In the meantime, Mayella and Venture are invited to a party with TV star Grady C. The actor who plays Grady C turns out to be a real phony. To add to the mayhem, Dr. Carmichael has a strange son Buster’s age.

Season 5 | Episode 46 | The Mysterious World of Buster Lee | Sea Pork

Japan 1983.  Curious to see Japan, Buster Lee and Beck the super-pooch tag along as Lars LaGuardia travels east to see his Kabuki mentor Mr. Noh.  In a small Japanese town, Buster Lee and Lars see robots and meet their first pod of dolphins as sweet as honey fresh from the hive.  Then a culture war starts, and Mutt Keepnews (and his money) is brought in.

Season 5 | Episode 45 | The Mysterious World of Buster Lee | The Fan

Travistock New Jersey 1983. Joan Reynolds receives a series of disturbing phone calls after her old movies start playing on Friday nights.  A strange teenager – Casey Bookman – arrives in town.  Mutt Keepnews shows love-struck Venture Falls how to use a BB-gun while Lars takes Joan on a relaxing hot-air balloon ride.  Needing to chill out, Buster Lee and Beck travel up-state to see musician Mason Grunwald.  Can the three different stories all come together in the end? Over a plate of takeout Chinese Food, yes.

Season 5 | Episode 44 | The Mysterious World of Buster Lee | Memorial Weekend 

Travistock New Jersey 1981. Back in the day, before Jane Fonda introduced aerobics, fencing was popular; a large pizza, 4 pops, with a complimentary macaroni salad, a side of garlic bread and a medium tiramisu cost $7 bucks. Delivery was free. What a deal. Like millions of other young people, Buster Lee and Lars LaGuardia ordered pizza and spent Memorial Weekend together. That year,  on the Memorial long weekend, it rained non-stop and a cat burglar – wearing an unusual costume – terrorized the neighborhood.

Season 5 | Episode 43 | The Mysterious World of Buster Lee | The Guardians of Mayfair

London 1981. The Wimbledon Tennis event was on with the predictable spikes in crime. Summoned to by Scotland Yard, Buster Lee sheds fresh thinking on the situation. In the meantime, we step into the lives of cops who’ve crossed the line and become criminals themselves.  Joan, ever optimistic, travels to meet a man from her past, but things have changed. 

Season 5 | Episode 42 | The Mysterious World of Buster Lee | Pattern Vendetta

São Paulo 1981. When a wealthy debutant vanishes, Buster Lee and Lars LaGuardia fly south to Brazil to investigate.  Disguised as rich debs themselves, Buster Lee and Lars meet a real male model, an amorous housekeeper, and an aging lawyer addicted to plastic surgery.  In this episode, you will attend a real psychic reading too.  Pattern Vendetta prompts questions about the nature of love.  It’s not what we think it is. In fact, like the song says, love’s a many splendid thing.