
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Mercury In Retrograde
Arnie, Jakob, and Stuart are Flash-ing back to 1990, an era of television when there was only one DC comic book character on prime time. Soap star John Wesley Shipp spent an entire season as Barry Allen in a bulky red suit, chasing down CBS audiences who were quickly turning the dial to The Cosby Show and other light-hearted fare. Was the Red Speedster simply ahead of the superhero trend, or stuck in a rush job rip-off of Tim Burton’s Batman? You don’t have to wait for answers about this pilot to the quickly-canceled TV show. Listen Now!
4.5
25332,533 ratings
Mercury In Retrograde
Arnie, Jakob, and Stuart are Flash-ing back to 1990, an era of television when there was only one DC comic book character on prime time. Soap star John Wesley Shipp spent an entire season as Barry Allen in a bulky red suit, chasing down CBS audiences who were quickly turning the dial to The Cosby Show and other light-hearted fare. Was the Red Speedster simply ahead of the superhero trend, or stuck in a rush job rip-off of Tim Burton’s Batman? You don’t have to wait for answers about this pilot to the quickly-canceled TV show. Listen Now!
270 Listeners
193 Listeners
1,372 Listeners
4,534 Listeners
22,865 Listeners
80 Listeners
63 Listeners
11 Listeners
9 Listeners
24 Listeners
3 Listeners
29 Listeners
82 Listeners
33 Listeners
1,475 Listeners
12 Listeners
4 Listeners
4 Listeners
15 Listeners
7 Listeners
648 Listeners
10 Listeners
19 Listeners
9 Listeners
5,961 Listeners
1,368 Listeners
1,432 Listeners
220 Listeners
971 Listeners
4,660 Listeners
769 Listeners
467 Listeners
1,102 Listeners
313 Listeners