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Flight School
by Fearless Flyer, Gravity, Vertigo, and The Flying Dutchman
Each week, four intrepid folks take on Pilot episodes from all over the world, and decide if it has the guts to take off, or if it is grounded for the season.
Episodes
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Game of Thrones - Heads Will Roll
Hello Frequent Flyers and Welcome aboard our 101st flight, Game of Thrones. Just like a meteor, GoT burst onto the television set and beheaded our expectations, and favourite characters. Between dire wolves, the death of character archetypes, and wanting to punch someone in the face SO MUCH, your...
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Star Trek: The Next Generation - Get In Losers, We're Boldly Going
Hello Frequent Flyers, You find us out amongst the stars. Welcome to our latest episode, Star Trek: The Next Generation. Stardate - 21.1201762 (Shut up stardates are hard) Our mission: To discover the pilot episode of ST:TNG. My crew are determined to uncover the mystery of Far Point Station by…
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Teen Wolf - Howling For You
HellOOoooOOOOoo Frequent Flyers, and Welcome aboard our 99th episode, Teen Wolf. We're back in High School, and it's as tough as ever. Sometimes you just don't fit in, and it has nothing to do with the time you went crawling through the woods with your bestie looking for half a corpse and then…
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Firefly - Can't Take this Show From Me
Howdy Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard this here rig, Flight 98, Firefly. Sometimes you don't win the battle, but you keep fightin' that there war. Sometimes you never leave Serenity Valley, but you take it with you. Keep stickin' it to the Alliance, with your rag tag bunch of rule-breaking...
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Legion - For We Are Many
Hello Frequent Flyers and Welcome aboard our 96th flight, Legion. The troubling implications of secret organizations set about to control or exterminate people of great power aside, what do you do when the girl you love engages in a badass 60's Dance Number but then switches consciousness with…
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Making History: Visions and Revisions
Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 96th Flight, Making History. Ah, the past - full of revolution, and righteous fury, of brotherhood and bloodshed. Also Ham. When the future holds no future for you, perhaps it's time to discover your father's time machine and make like a tree and time...
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Crazyhead - Hell is Other People
Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 95th Flight, Crazyhead. You know that feeling when you're in a club with your bestie, and all of the sudden some dude who looks like he's on fire from the inside out starts trying to hunt you down and you gotta run? Remember those good days? No? What...
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Riverdale - Dear Double Digest
Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 94th flight, Riverdale. Idyllic Riverdale is nothing like you remember. Scandal, intrigue, and betrayal lurks in every corner; from Pop's chocolate shop to Archie's guitar lessons. A death starts the school year, and there's a new kid in town, Veronica...
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A Cryin' SKAM
Hello Frequent flyers, and welcome aboard our 93rd flight, Skam. Being a teenager is hard - friendship, first love, navigating the unending drama of growing up. It doesn't end. But that's ok, because Dr. Phil is here to motivate you to go to that party, and talk to those people! You can do it!
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Fraiser - Cheers to Change
Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 92nd flight, Fraiser. Change is inevitable, seasons, Starbucks flavours, the showing at the Opera. But that doesn't make it easy, in fact, it could be the hardest thing in the world, right up there with your less-mobile father moving in with his…
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A Series of Unfortunate Events - The Perilous Pilot
This flight is not like other flights, there is no safety pamphlet in the seat ahead of you, there is merely our 91st flight, A Series of Unfortunate Events. Unlike other pilots, which focus on the ups and downs of life, you'll find that the Baudelaires experience more downs than a broken roller...
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This is Us - Divided We Stand
Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 90th Episode, This is Us. How easily a human life can be tangled with another's. How twisted and snarled those connections can get. Loss, grief, joy, the Challenger explosion - what does that look like, and how do people react throughout time? Will…
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Goblin - Of Weddings and Woe
Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 89th Flight, Goblin. When betrayed general, Kim Shin, is put to death by the machinations of an evil Iago, what's his soul to do but suffer endlessly without a proper burial. PSYCHE - someone prays for him and he comes back with a vengeance. Or...
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3% Down for a Lease on a New Life
Hello Frequent Flyers and Welcome aboard our 87th flight, 3%. When the corrupt make the rules, you can either follow them, or break them. But when the high stakes competition force the underprivileged in to a fight of wits and strength, it may not be the rules that get broken. What's left to do-...
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Search Party - Finder's Weepers
Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 87th episode, Search Party. We all know the millennial malaise that's stricken our nation. Where do you go when you're not good at anything, or care enough about anything? Where do you turn? And what if someone you once knew disappeared. A good person,...
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Billy on the Street, Rogue Flight Crew in the Sheets
When the Captain's away the crew comes out to play - a trivia game that is! Our New Years episode kicks off 2017 with questions, debates, and deeply personal insights to some of the crew's proclivities, Billy on the Street style. Featuring the return of Steely Eyed Missile Man and Stowaway, the...
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The Man in the High Castle - F is for Fascism
Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 85th Flight, The Man in the High Castle. The Allies have lost the war and the Axis powers divvy up the remains of the world. What is left now but to assimilate and survive? Perhaps maybe a mysterious film that shows the Allie powers celebrating D-Day?…
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Conviction - No Appeal
Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 84th Episode, Conviction. When politics and the law clash - what is Hayley Atwell to do but lead the new Conviction Integrity Unit, to review cases and try to free the innocent. If you're thinking: shouldn't this already exist? or: isn't that the...
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Letterkenny - Writing Home
Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 83rd Flight, Letterkenny. Small town problems with big personalities all seem to clash when you're trying to stop fightin' and just sell your produce. But some big city kid rolls into town with your ex-sweetie and it gets awful hard to tamp down the...
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The Crown - Heavy is the Head
Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 82nd Flight, The Crown. I'm sure we've all been there. Future of the Monarchy hanging over our shoulders as our ailing father tries to bestow his wisdom before his inevitable demise. So relatable. Or is it perhaps - the humanity behind the Monarchy…
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Cosmos - Written in the Stars
Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 81st flight, Cosmos. Step aboard the ship of the imagination with Neil Degrasse Tyson as it takes you on an around the universe tour of the amazing and awe inspiring sights that the world has to offer. Meet early philosophers, astronomers, and…
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The Good Place - Froyo and Brimestone
Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 80th Flight, The Good Place. We are all taken to wondering at times, what happens beyond the fine veil of death. To whence does the soul venture if a soul must venture at all? What if I were to tell you - and you must keep this hush as one does not…
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Pitch - Place your Bats!
Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 79th Flight, Pitch. One in the hand may be worth two in the bush but a girl on the field is worth changing everything just for the chance. When you got a screwball that could knock out a whole team, whats to keep you from the locker room of the greats?...
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Westworld - Ghost Writers in the Sky
Howdy Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 78th flight, Westworld. Come on down to the little home on the Prairies - where rich billionaires can do whatever they want to the mindless automatons that run the park. Shoot, steal, sleep with, scalp. Who cares? They forget that anything happened the...
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Scream - The Call From Inside
Hello Frequent Flyers and Welcome to our 77th flight, Scream. You hear footsteps in the garden, a skittering on your roof, breathing in your hall. Bolt the doors, Flyers, lock them fast. But be certain you are alone in there. Be certain you have some method of protection. Do not heed the silence…
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Hannibal: A Feast for the Senses
Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome to our 76th flight, Hannibal. There's a hunger - a ravening hunger in the pit of you. And you can see the hunger, see its yawning chasm, its desperate gasps for sustenance. What can you do, but eat? So what if the show that inspired such yearning features the…
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Twin Peaks - A Flat Line?
Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 75th Flight, Twin Peaks. When the murder of the Perfect Daughter shakes a small town, what's left to be done but track down the sicko that did the deed. But this small town has one thing in common - secrets. And also the same meeting place for secret...
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The Living and the Dead - Pagan Poltergeist
Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 74th episode, The Living and the Dead. The Race to modernity has begun, but on this farm the old ways still take hold. And sometimes they take hold in the worst ways - a sinners soul corrupting a once adventurous girl - a salt of the earth farmhand...
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Versailles - Ruling is a Royal Pain
Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 73rd episode, Versailles. Louis' been having those prophetic dreams. The kind where he bangs the embodiment of the glory France in a mirrored hall. You know, architecture dreams. But he's got opposition and while his royal entourage grow increasingly...
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Jeeves and Wooster - A Capital Affiance
Hello everyone and welcome aboard our 72nd Episode, Jeeves and Wooster. Sometimes even the most respectable of gentlemen need fishing out of the soup, as it were. They may have gotten into a spot of trouble with the law, snatching a police officer's helmet perhaps. Or they may attract fiancées…
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Stargate Atlantis - That Sinking Feeling
Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 71st flight, Stargate Atlantis. What's a Scientist to do when faced with the possibility of exploration of strange new worlds? Or a Pilot, with a heroes history and a disregard for rules who somehow is compatible with ancient technology. Or worse?...
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The Get Down - One Groovy Get-up
Disco, drugs, and dreams - you can find them all in the Bronx in 1977. Buildings always burning, but so too does the soul of one young Wordsmith, destined to meet Grandmaster Flash. Art, politics, and the war against an inescapable urban experience, step back in time to the birth of modern music....
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Stranger (Danger!!!!) Things
Hello Frequent Flyers and Welcome Aboard our 69th Episode, Stranger Things. Come with us back to a time before the internet - when Dungeons & Dragons ruled from the basements, phones had cords, and missing children taken to a dark otherworld happened so infrequently as to be rare. Can four kids,...
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What's On Our Radar 2016 - Part 5/5: Stowaway
Hello Frequent Flyers, and welcome aboard our summertime service. With your Flight Crew away on top secret missions, we have decided to cultivate a selection of picks for you when the heat of the day overwhelms your poor burnt skin, and you decide to duck inside. Sit down, get sorted with a nice...
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What's On Our Radar 2016 - Part 4/5: Fearless Flyer
Hello Frequent Flyers, and welcome aboard our summertime service. With your Flight Crew away on top secret missions, we have decided to cultivate a selection of picks for you when the heat of the day overwhelms your poor burnt skin, and you decide to duck inside. Sit down, get sorted with a nice...
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What's On Our Radar 2016 - Part 3/5: Steely-Eyed Missile Man
Hello Frequent Flyers, and welcome aboard our summertime service. With your Flight Crew away on top secret missions, we have decided to cultivate a selection of picks for you when the heat of the day overwhelms your poor burnt skin, and you decide to duck inside. Sit down, get sorted with a nice...
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What's On Our Radar 2016 - Part 2/5: Vector
Hello Frequent Flyers, and welcome aboard our summertime service. With your Flight Crew away on top secret missions, we have decided to cultivate a selection of picks for you when the heat of the day overwhelms your poor burnt skin, and you decide to duck inside. Sit down, get sorted with a nice...
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What's On Our Radar 2016 - Part 1/5: The Flying Dutchman
Hello Frequent Flyers, and welcome aboard our summertime service. With your Flight Crew away on top secret missions, we have decided to cultivate a selection of picks for you when the heat of the day overwhelms your poor burnt skin, and you decide to duck inside. Sit down, get sorted with a nice...
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Eureka - E=MC(Scared)
Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 68th Episode, Eureka. We all know that you're geniuses. Certifiable smart-folk. So why not move on down to the epicentre of intelligence, small-town Eureka. Where science and math are encouraged and the law is very relaxed about explosions. Where the...
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Filthy Preppy Teen$ - High School is Murder(ing)
Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 67th Episode, Filthy Preppy Teen$. Folks, I'm sure you know the feeling of being cast away on a desert island, with only your boomerang to survive. Meegan and Chaud certainly do - but that's all behind them. They just want to return to their life atop...
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Penny Dreadful - Fist Full of Dollars
Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 66th Episode, Penny Dreadful. When there's a creaking on the steps and a sudden quiet outside, when your breath fills the cold air with mist and your heart trembles in your chest, to whom do you turn? Perhaps to a woman with a mysterious gift and...
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Narcos - Up to Snuff
Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 65th episode, Narcos. On this flight, we take a romp through the idyllic city of Miami, early 1970's. Flip flops, Hippies and Farrah Fawcett hair rule the scene and the DEA all have their eyes on that Devil's Lettuce, if you catch our drift. Then a...
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Fairy Tail: Wizards Gone Wild
Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 64th Episode, Fairy Tail. When your world is full of Wizard Guilds that insist on you joining to get your wizard license like a more interesting AMA card, there's bound to be some problems. Especially when you want to get into the most prestigious…
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Attack on Titan - Takeout and Delivery
Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 63rd flight, Attack on Titan. If passengers look out the left side of the plane, they'll be able to see the three massive walls that have protected our kind for centuries. If they look out the right side you should see the monstrous, ravening Titans,...
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In the Flesh - Out of Body Experience
Hello Frequent Flyers and Welcome aboard our 62nd Episode, In the Flesh. When the apocalypse goes from nigh to passé, the question ringing in everyone's brains must be – what next? So what, the Zombie hoards massacred your village, forcing you to destroy the terrible mockeries of humanity that...
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House of Lies- Truth or Dare
Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 61st Episode, House of Lies. When you're trying to get the fat cat 1% that drove the economy to the brink to go with your economic plan, things can get a bit heated. Especially when the #1 company you're going up against is your ex-wife's. And sure,...
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Turn - You Spin Me Right Round
Hello Frequent Flyers and Welcome aboard our 60th Episode, Turn. Our passengers may notice that this trip to the past comes free with de-saturated tones, and a heck of a lot of moral ambiguity. We advise that you remain seated until your Captain turns off the 'Fight The British' sign. Upon which...
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Brooklyn Nine Nine - Stop in the Name of Love
Hello Frequent Flyers and Welcome Aboard our 59th Episode, Brooklyn Nine Nine. We here on Flight School take your safety seriously. That's why we've decided to get rid of our old air marshal that let us do...literally anything...and replaced him with a newer, tougher, air marshal. One that's…
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Fresh Off the Boat - Straight Outta DC
Hello Frequent Flyers and Welcome Aboard our 58th Flight, Fresh Off the Boat. I think we can all remember the 90's. Hip hop and CD Player's, skipping every bump in the road as your family drives you way across America to open up a Western themed restaurant in the middle of Florida. We can all…
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Lizzie McGuire - Girl, You'll be a Woman Soon
Hello Frequent Flyers and Welcome aboard our 57th Flight, Lizzie McGuire. We've all been there, perched awkwardly on the end of our beds as our parents try to explain the magical mysteries of puberty. And if those mysteries happen to come attached to scrunchies and a million tarantula braids and...
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many episodes does Flight School have?
Flight School currently has 109 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is Flight School about?
Each week, four intrepid folks take on Pilot episodes from all over the world, and decide if it has the guts to take off, or if it is grounded for the season.
How often does Flight School release new episodes?
Flight School publishes regularly with 109 episodes available. Check the episode list for the typical release schedule.
Where can I listen to Flight School?
You can listen to Flight School on PodParley by clicking any episode. We provide an embedded audio player for direct listening, and you can also subscribe via your preferred podcast app using the RSS feed.
Who hosts Flight School?
Flight School is created and hosted by Fearless Flyer, Gravity, Vertigo, and The Flying Dutchman.
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