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He-Man and the Masters of the Universe – Teela’s Quest

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  • Title: He-Man and the Masters of the Universe – Teela’s Quest
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Wayback Wednesday takes us back to Eternia and the Masters of the Universe. The sixth episode produced He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, and the second to be aired, “Teela’s Quest” takes Teela (Linda Gary) on a journey to the Crystal Sea hoping to learn the truth about her real parents from the Oracle. Learning shes’s gone off alone on such a dangerous journey, He-Man (John Erwin) and Battlecat follow as Skeletor (Alan Oppenheimer) dispatches Mer-Man (Oppenheimer) who plans to sacrifice the young warrior to the sea demon Bakkull.

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Jaws @ 50

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  • Title: Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
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50 years after its release, Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story takes a look back at Steven Spielberg‘s Jaws examining the troubled production, its immediate box office success, and the film’s lasting legacy 50 years later. Director Laurent Bouzereau uses both new and archival interview footage from cast and crew to take us through the years from the publishing of Peter Benchley‘s novel, which inspired the film, to how the film is revered today.

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CIA – Directed Energy

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  • Title: CIA – Directed Energy
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Running out of ways to spinoff their FBI franchise, CBS turns to a new series focused on FBI Agent Bill Goodman (Nick Gehlfuss) assigned to be the liaison with a covert CIA team led by the far less by-the-book Colin Glass (Tom Ellis) working domestically to prevent terrorist attacks. Featuring a cameo by Jeremy Sisto to confirm everything fits into the same shared world as the FBI shows, the premiere provides the basics in highlighting the kinds of operations the CIA is tasked with and the struggle Goodman has initially with Glass and his way of doing things.

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Steal – Fill or Kill

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  • Title: Steal – Fill or Kill
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The opening episode of the six-part Amazon series features a heist of the pension management company Lochmill Capital by a group of armed robbers (Jonathan Slinger, Yusra Warsama, Andrew Howard, Díana Bermudez, Shaun Mason, and Tomisin Ajani) taking control of the entire floor of the skyscraper and forcing through a trade worth four-billion pounds. Filled mostly with chaos and panic, the characters we learn the most about are trade processors Zara Dunne (Sophie Turner) and Luke Selborn (Archie Madekwe) who, after showing the new intern around that morning, are forced into cooperating with the robbers and are instrumental in getting the trade approved.

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Muppets Noir #1

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An overworked Kermit, a dime-store novel, the mention of pie, and a backstage accident at the Muppet Theater lead to an unconscious Kermit reimagining himself in a noir world as gumshoe Flip Minnow hired by Delores Crustworth: Queen of Pies (food which our amphibian detective has an aversion) to find her missing neice Meringue (Miss Piggy). While on the case we’re introduced to several Muppet mainstays as part of Kermit’s delusion including Fozzie as Officer O’Bear, Rowlf as a piano player in a restaurant that tolerates no noise, and Gonzo as a nightclub act.

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