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Pop Culture Preservation Society — 284 episodes

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The Krofft Supershow Universe

2

Stars' Second Acts and Greg Evigan Like You've Never Heard Him Before

3

Bicentennial Bonanza: Party Like It's 1976!

4

Sailing Away to The Summer of 1980

5

Season 19 Preview: Krofft Supershows, "Airplane," Preppies and so much MORE

6

Why Summer Reading Programs Were The Best ... and Our Picks For YOUR 2026 Summer Reading List

7

Gen X As Punching Bag: Why The Internet Is Beating Up On The Most Overlooked and Underestimated Generation

8

PCPS Light-Listen To Your Meds: Why Music is Medicine, and Our Reset Playlists

9

PCPS Light: The Analog Comeback We've Been Waiting For

10

PCPS LIGHT: “Who Needs Friends” and That Time Andrew McCarthy Asked Michelle to Prom

11

The Pitt Acknowledges the Existence of Gen X

12

Talking with Eve Plumb: “Happiness Included”

13

Let's Get Physical

14

Helen Reddy: She is Woman (Part 2)

15

Helen Reddy: She Is Woman (Part 1)

16

Saving GenX Movie Theater Moments

17

Everybody Cut Footloose: The Soundtrack

18

Little Quiz on the Prairie

19

K-Tel's Music Express! 20 Original Hits! 20 Original Stars!

20

Gee, Your Museum Smells Terrific!

21

Top 10 Pop Culture Moments of the GenX Era

22

Shaun Cassidy: Another Epic Interview

23

Season 18 Preview: Shaun Cassidy, Jane Fonda, Footloose and MORE

24

PCPS LIGHT: Top 10 Old TV Shows Every Kid Should Know

25

PCPS LIGHT — Please, Please, Please Let Cameron Get What He Wants

26

Free to Be - In Honor Of Our Minneapolis Home

27

PCPS LIGHT - The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders and the 1979 Movie We Can’t Unsee

28

PCPS Light: Music & Memories & the Modern World

29

PCPS Light: A Christmas in the Life

30

PCPS LIGHT - A Look Back at Our Past Holiday Episodes!

31

Something Borrowed, Something Blue: TV Weddings of the GenX Era

32

GIMME FIVE! Celebrate 5 Years of the PCPS!

33

MTV Book Club: Hello, Whip It and Land of Confusion

34

It Started With a Shaun Cassidy Concert...and Became an Anniversary Party

35

I'd Like To Teach the World To Sing: The Commercial Jingles of Our GenX Childhoods

36

Time Capsule 1975: HAPPY 50th BIRTHDAY

37

Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves: Our GenX Halloween Memories

38

The OG YA Novel: Lois Duncan's "I Know What You Did Last Summer"

39

Mel Harris Talks "thirtysomething" and Gives Us HOPE for a Reboot

40

thirtysomething: BIG Feelings About The Show and Characters We Loved as twentytsomethings

41

Disco Book Club: FEVER; The Complete History of Saturday Night Fever

42

PCPS Light: Host Recommendations

43

Quiz Show Edition of PCPS Light

44

A Full-Calorie PCPS Light

45

PCPS LIGHT: Darth Vader In the Wisconsin Dells, Kurt Thomas on the Pommel Horse, and Pamela Anderson on Her Own Terms

46

PCPS Light: Jaws at 50

47

PCPS LIGHT 1: The Fisher-Price Play Family Dilemma, the Viral Ribbon Barrettes, Leg Warmers, and Monica Lewinsky

48

CHiPs Roller Disco: The Most Seventies of the 70s TV Episodes

49

A Chorus Line of Musicals From Our 1970s Record Cabinet, Part 2

50

A Chorus Line of Musicals From Our 1970s Record Cabinet - Part 1

51

Diving into “The Scott Fenwick Diaries” with Author Kristin Nilsen

52

A Little Romance: GenX's First Teen RomCom

53

Our 3rd Annual Bicentennial Encore

54

Billy and Joey and Delta Dawn at the Copacabana: Story Songs of the 70s

55

Linger a Little Longer at the PCPS Camp Singalong!

56

Cinematic Sagas on the Small Screen: The TV Miniseries of the GenX Era

57

Kick the Can, Freezetag and Hopscotch: A Top 10 List of the Games that Kept GenXers Outside

58

Stay Sweet! Friends Forever: Gen X Yearbook Reader's Theater

59

The Unoffcial Hunger Games: Surviving GenX Field Day

60

Camp Songs, Thorn Birds and CHiPs Roller Disco: A Sneak Peek at Season 16

61

More of Mary, Maude, & Marlo (and The Woman Who Gave Them Life)

62

On The Wings of Love -- GenX Prom Dreams Forever!

63

Counting Down The Best Sesame Street Sketches, Encore Edition

64

More Sunny Days of Sesame Street

65

The PCPS Sings Along with "Free To Be...You and Me (and Marlo!)"

66

Rereading "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret"

67

Free to Be … You and Me: An Ageless Anthem

68

Where The Wild Books Are: PCPS Field Trip Edition

69

Shakey’s, Shaun Cassidy, and The Sunshine Family

70

Getting Schooled on Urban Cowboy: A Music-Loving History Teacher Weighs In

71

A Very Special Episode About a Very Special Episode Pt. 2

72

A Very Special Episode About a Very Special Episode Pt. 1

73

James at 15: The 1970s Dawson's Creek

74

Back In 2 and 2: It's Love Connection

75

On Your FM Dial: 1981 - Our Picks

76

On Your FM Dial: 1981 - Part 1: The Grammys

77

This Is Your Brain on PSAs: GenX Edition

78

Scandal, Sequins and Sex: Primetime Soaps of the 80s

79

Lookin' Good Season 15

80

2024 RAP-Up

81

Mr. T, Deney Terrio and the Island of Misfit Holiday Specials

82

Holly Jolly Holiday TV Special Countdown

83

These Happy Days Are (still) Yours and Mine

84

Signed, Sealed, REdelivered: The GenX Art of the Handwritten Letter

85

Heartbreak & Hostages: A Rerun of the GenX TV Movie

86

Back To The Land of the Lost with Wesley Eure

87

Second Helpings of our GenX School Lunches

88

PCPS Town Hall YOUR Burning Questions

89

Here's The Story...of Our Visit to The Brady Bunch House

90

The M*A*S*H Finale: Saying Goodbye to the 4077th

91

The Make Out Mixtape

92

Ode To The Mixtape

93

To Good Times, To Happy Days To Little House on the Prairie: 50 Years of TV's Finest

94

Tiger Beat Tales with OG Editor Ann Moses

95

Fast Times: The Soundtrack...Sort Of?

96

Fast Times at Ridgemont High: Learn it, Know it, Live it.

97

Back to School: GenX Style (Trapper Keepers, designer jeans & Liz Lange)

98

Where The Wild Things Are - GenX's Favorite Picture Books: SUPERSIZED EDITION

99

The "Free To Be You and Me" Generation: SUPERSIZED EDITION

100

It Takes Two! Donny & Marie - SUPERSIZED EDITION

101

Livin' in a TV Dream Home, SUPERSIZED EDITION

102

Holiday Road: Our GenX Road Trips-SUPERSIZED EDITION

103

Our Purple Rain Book Report: SUPERSIZED EDITION

104

Those Coming of Age Classics From Your Gen X Library & "The Genius of Judy Blume"

105

From Gauchos to Garanimals: 70s & 80s Fashion, SUPERSIZED EDITION

106

From Jaws to Dirty Dancing: Summer Movie Blockbusters of the GenX Era: SUPERSIZED Edition

107

Andrew McCarthy's Brat Pack Unpacked: Let's Talk About "BRATS"

108

Shaun Cassidy - The Bucket List Interviews: SUPERSIZED EDITION

109

ONJ and The Great Grease Debate: SUPERSIZED EDITION

110

On Your FM Dial: 1983 -- SUPERSIZED EDITION

111

John Sebastian and Our Viral Moment

112

PCPS Town Hall: YOUR Questions (and ours) Answered!

113

The Gen X Middle School Dance: Therapy Not Included

114

USA for Africa and "The Greatest Night In Pop"

115

Benji: GenX's Top Dog

116

Charlie's Angels: Which Angel are You?

117

Afternoon Delight: TV Reruns and the Gen X Childhood

118

Andy Gibb: Our Everlasting Love - Part 2

119

Andy Gibb: Our Everlasting Love

120

Judy Blume's Forever...Living on Forever

121

Still Traumatized by LHOTP

122

AM Radio Gold Rewind: 1977

123

Fonzie STILL Loves Pinky

124

GenX = Generation Divorce with author Priscilla Gilman

125

Kramer vs Kramer: The Adult Movie for GenX Kids

126

Signed, Sealed, Delivered with Amy Weinland Daughters

127

Speedy Delivery! The GenX Art of the Handwritten Letter

128

Variety Shows of the 70s: Weird, Wacky and Wonderful

129

What’s a Phone Book? The GenX/GenZ Generation Gap

130

Did You Have “Dance Fever” Fever?

131

Dynamite Magazine: The Cosmo of 4th Grade

132

AM Gold: 1979

133

Let’s Replay Those 70s Christmas Albums

134

TV Guide Holiday Special Roundup

135

Come on and Zoom, Zoom, Zooma, ZOOM!

136

Still Singing, Singing, Singing a Song with The Carpenters

137

Happy 3 Years, Pop Culture Preservation Society!

138

Turkeys on TV: Take Two

139

Dear Nina: The Childhood Friendships That Shaped Us

140

Dirty Dancing: Chemistry, Classism, Controversy…and The Time of Our Lives

141

That Time There Was a Poltergeist on The Waltons

142

Pop Culture Therapy: Love, Loss and Little House on the Prairie

143

Part 2…Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture

144

Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture, Pt. 1

145

Husker Du! Do You Remember?... “What's Happening,” the Ford Pinto and Buying on Layaway?

146

Believe It Or Not, It’s Our 80s TV Theme Song Top 10 Countdown

147

Our Book Fair is The Best Book Fair: GenX Grade School Edition

148

“Then Again, Maybe I Won’t” by Judy Blume

149

The 3 Songs That Made Me: Junior High Edition

150

Come On Down (Eileen) For A Game Of Rewinding The Music Of The 80s

151

Our Friendship Origin Story with “Dear Nina” Podcast

152

Oh, I Smell Like Green Beans: Misheard Lyrics On Replay

153

Are You The Mary or The Rhoda? The Debate Continues…

154

Still Trippin’: Our GenX Road Trips

155

P.S. I Love You: The Fan Letters and Clubs of the GenX Youth

156

The Intersection of The Muppets, Little House, and Harriet the Spy with Halle Stanford

157

First Crush Book Club with ‘Worldwide Crush’ and Author Kristin Nilsen

158

We Love New York: Shaun Cassidy, Prairie Talk, and a Little Shake-n-Bake

159

Duran Duran Devotion With DJ Jake Rudh

160

KTEL’s Sunshine Pop: Music That Lets The Sun Shine In.

161

Doodle-oodle-oo: The Bradys Go To Hawaii

162

Shaun Cassidy: The Bucket List Interview

163

Pretty In Pink: The Great Blane (and Duckie, and Steff) Deliberation

164

From Bope to Jarlena: Your Top 10 Soap Opera Supercouples

165

The GenX Soap Moments We’ll Never Forget (unless amnesia)

166

On The Wings of Love: Our GenX Prom Memories

167

Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret: The Movie, The Memories & The Moments

168

The Untitled GenX Podcast: Duran Duran’s RIO Album

169

Still Here With Judy Blume

170

The PCPS is (always) Right: Trivia and Hilarity with Us!

171

Tater Tots & Turkey alà King: The GenX School Lunch

172

Our Teen Dream After Dinner Dish

173

10…9…8: A Sesame Street TOP 10 Countdown

174

The Sunny Days of Sesame Street

175

Baby, Remember My Name, Fame! (part 2)

176

FAME! We’re Gonna Live Forever! (part1)

177

Christopher Atkins Bares All

178

On Your FM Dial: 1983

179

Getting Lost (in the Land of The Lost) with Wesley Eure

180

You’re Invited to a Teen Idol Dinner Party

181

And They Called It Puppy Love: Side 2

182

Kristy McNichol: FOREVER Our OG Girl Crush

183

Tiger Beat’s TOP Tigers

184

Ain’t No Stopping Us Now: Our 100th Episode Retrospective

185

The Pink Bunny Suit Conundrum: Gifts Gone Wrong

186

The Most Seventiest of 70s Christmas Albums

187

“The Miracle Worker” (and more) with Melissa Gilbert

188

Our Purple Rain Book Report (Part 2)

189

Purple Rain: The GenX Citizen Kane (Part 1)

190

Turkeys on TV: A Retro Thanksgiving Episode Roundup

191

John Denver: He Filled Up Our Senses

192

It Takes Two! Donny & Marie

193

He’s INCREDIBLE! Our Chat with John Davidson

194

Come On Down (again!): Game Shows of the 70s

195

Back to “Back To The Prairie” with Melissa Gilbert

196

You Better Shop Around: Revisiting The Mall

197

Still Crying: Sad Songs of the 70s

198

Crushology 101: Your First Crush Explained

199

The PCPS Pop Quiz Challenge

200

Mary, Maude & Marlo (and the woman who gave them life)

201

Fonzie Loves Pinky

202

These Happy Days Are Yours and Mine

203

AM Radio Gold: 1977

204

Olivia Newton-John and The Great Grease Debate

205

Little Darlings: The Bet Heard ‘Round The World

206

From Jaws to Dirty Dancing: Summer Blockbusters of the GenX Era

207

Holiday Road: GenX Road Trippin’

208

Still Burning Up With Saturday Morning Fever

209

Still Rollin’: Our GenX Roller Rink Memories

210

1976 Rides Again

211

Seventeen Magazine: Our Go-To Guide to Life

212

“Champions: A Love Story” ~ A PCPS Watch & React

213

The Most Memorable Made-For-TV Movies: A Countdown

214

Heartbreak & Hostages: The GenX Made for TV Movie

215

Food Fads of the 70s

216

Read Like The Wind: Books Our Teachers Read Aloud

217

Back To The Prairie: A Conversation with Melissa Gilbert

218

The Wonderful World of Disney

219

Sing…Sing A Song About The Carpenters

220

We Long To Be … Close To The Carpenters

221

Yacht Rock: Still Sailing

222

Dynamite Delivers Again

223

Encore: A Day in the Life of a 1970s 5th Grader

224

DEAR SUPERSTAR: THE FAN LETTERS AND CLUBS OF A GENX YOUTH

225

Saturday Night = SOLID GOLD!

226

Livin’ In A TV Dream Home - Part 2

227

Livin’ In A TV Dream Home - Part 1

228

The Free To Be You And Me Generation

229

The Love Boat: Saturday Night Date

230

Saturday Night Fever Part 2: The Music

231

Saturday Night Fever Part 1: The Movie

232

Bright Lights, Prairie Dust: An Interview with Karen Grassle

233

Encore: Little House on the Prairie

234

Encore: Battle of the Network Stars

235

Encore: Schoolhouse Rock

236

Christmas Rewind

237

Could It Be Magic?

238

Come on Down!

239

“Hold Me Closer, Tony Danza”- Misheard Lyrics

240

Orange Julius Wishes & Karmelkorn Dreams: Our Tribute To The Mall

241

Tiger Beat’s Top 10 Teen Idol Countdown

242

We’re Gonna Turn It On

243

Rocky Horror Gym Class Show

244

Oh, God: A Retro Movie For Modern Times

245

1976: From Pet Rocks to Patriotism

246

Yacht…Or Not?

247

Here’s A Story…Part 2

248

Here’s A Story…of The Brady Bunch

249

Walking On Shaunshine

250

A Podcast is Born

251

PCPS Town Hall

252

Where The Wild Books Are

253

Swooner or Later

254

Kristin’s K-tel Kollection

255

Battle of the Network Stars

256

Schlemiel Schlemazel - TV’s Best Theme Songs

257

Saturday Morning Fever

258

Bonus Episode: In Conversation with Amy Weinland Daughters

259

A Day in the Life of a 1970s 5th Grader

260

Roller Boogie & Me

261

Dynamite: It Always Delivered!

262

The OG Girl Crush - Kristy McNichol

263

We Want Our MTV

264

From Garanimals to Gauchos - 70s & 80s Fashion

265

Never Enough Eight Is Enough

266

I Rank the Songs…Of Barry Manilow

267

Little Traumas on the Prairie

268

Schoolboy Father

269

A Very Special Episode

270

Deflowered in the Attic

271

Schoolhouse Rock: The Harvard of TV

272

Are You the Mary Or the Rhoda?

273

Livin’ On A Prairie

274

Looking Through The Eyes of Love

275

Little GenXers On The Prairie

276

And They Called It Puppy Love

277

I’m Not Crying, You’re Crying: Sad Songs from the ‘70s

278

Judy Blume Forever

279

Are You There Judy? It’s Us, Carolyn, Kristin & Michelle

280

How Deep Is Your Love For The Bee Gees?

281

A Scooter for Jimmy, A Dolly for Michelle

282

Oh Come, All Ye Christmas Specials

283

Caught In A Teen Dream

284

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