All Episodes

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

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

The Pitt Acknowledges the Existence of Gen X

Talking with Eve Plumb: “Happiness Included”

Let's Get Physical

Helen Reddy: She is Woman (Part 2)

Helen Reddy: She Is Woman (Part 1)

Saving GenX Movie Theater Moments

Everybody Cut Footloose: The Soundtrack

Little Quiz on the Prairie

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

Gee, Your Museum Smells Terrific!

Top 10 Pop Culture Moments of the GenX Era

Shaun Cassidy: Another Epic Interview

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

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

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

Free to Be - In Honor Of Our Minneapolis Home

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

PCPS Light: Music & Memories & the Modern World

PCPS Light: A Christmas in the Life

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

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

GIMME FIVE! Celebrate 5 Years of the PCPS!

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

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

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

Time Capsule 1975: HAPPY 50th BIRTHDAY

Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves: Our GenX Halloween Memories

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

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

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

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

PCPS Light: Host Recommendations

Quiz Show Edition of PCPS Light

A Full-Calorie PCPS Light

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

PCPS Light: Jaws at 50

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

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

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

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

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

A Little Romance: GenX's First Teen RomCom

Our 3rd Annual Bicentennial Encore

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

Linger a Little Longer at the PCPS Camp Singalong!

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

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

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

The Unoffcial Hunger Games: Surviving GenX Field Day

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

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

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

Counting Down The Best Sesame Street Sketches, Encore Edition

More Sunny Days of Sesame Street

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

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

Free to Be … You and Me: An Ageless Anthem

Where The Wild Books Are: PCPS Field Trip Edition

Shakey’s, Shaun Cassidy, and The Sunshine Family

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

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

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

James at 15: The 1970s Dawson's Creek

Back In 2 and 2: It's Love Connection

On Your FM Dial: 1981 - Our Picks

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

This Is Your Brain on PSAs: GenX Edition

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

Lookin' Good Season 15

2024 RAP-Up

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

Holly Jolly Holiday TV Special Countdown

These Happy Days Are (still) Yours and Mine

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

Heartbreak & Hostages: A Rerun of the GenX TV Movie

Back To The Land of the Lost with Wesley Eure

Second Helpings of our GenX School Lunches

PCPS Town Hall YOUR Burning Questions

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

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

The Make Out Mixtape

Ode To The Mixtape

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

Tiger Beat Tales with OG Editor Ann Moses

Fast Times: The Soundtrack...Sort Of?

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

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

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

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

It Takes Two! Donny & Marie - SUPERSIZED EDITION

Livin' in a TV Dream Home, SUPERSIZED EDITION

Holiday Road: Our GenX Road Trips-SUPERSIZED EDITION

Our Purple Rain Book Report: SUPERSIZED EDITION

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

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

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

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

Shaun Cassidy - The Bucket List Interviews: SUPERSIZED EDITION

ONJ and The Great Grease Debate: SUPERSIZED EDITION

On Your FM Dial: 1983 -- SUPERSIZED EDITION

John Sebastian and Our Viral Moment

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

The Gen X Middle School Dance: Therapy Not Included

USA for Africa and "The Greatest Night In Pop"

Benji: GenX's Top Dog

Charlie's Angels: Which Angel are You?

Afternoon Delight: TV Reruns and the Gen X Childhood

Andy Gibb: Our Everlasting Love - Part 2

Andy Gibb: Our Everlasting Love

Judy Blume's Forever...Living on Forever

Still Traumatized by LHOTP

AM Radio Gold Rewind: 1977

Fonzie STILL Loves Pinky

GenX = Generation Divorce with author Priscilla Gilman

Kramer vs Kramer: The Adult Movie for GenX Kids

Signed, Sealed, Delivered with Amy Weinland Daughters

Speedy Delivery! The GenX Art of the Handwritten Letter

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

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

Did You Have “Dance Fever” Fever?

Dynamite Magazine: The Cosmo of 4th Grade

AM Gold: 1979

Let’s Replay Those 70s Christmas Albums

TV Guide Holiday Special Roundup

Come on and Zoom, Zoom, Zooma, ZOOM!

Still Singing, Singing, Singing a Song with The Carpenters

Happy 3 Years, Pop Culture Preservation Society!

Turkeys on TV: Take Two

Dear Nina: The Childhood Friendships That Shaped Us

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

That Time There Was a Poltergeist on The Waltons

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The 3 Songs That Made Me: Junior High Edition

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

Our Friendship Origin Story with “Dear Nina” Podcast

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

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

Still Trippin’: Our GenX Road Trips

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

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

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

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

Duran Duran Devotion With DJ Jake Rudh

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

Doodle-oodle-oo: The Bradys Go To Hawaii

Shaun Cassidy: The Bucket List Interview

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

From Bope to Jarlena: Your Top 10 Soap Opera Supercouples

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

On The Wings of Love: Our GenX Prom Memories

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

The Untitled GenX Podcast: Duran Duran’s RIO Album

Still Here With Judy Blume

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

Tater Tots & Turkey alà King: The GenX School Lunch

Our Teen Dream After Dinner Dish

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

The Sunny Days of Sesame Street

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

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

Christopher Atkins Bares All

On Your FM Dial: 1983

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

You’re Invited to a Teen Idol Dinner Party

And They Called It Puppy Love: Side 2

Kristy McNichol: FOREVER Our OG Girl Crush

Tiger Beat’s TOP Tigers

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

The Pink Bunny Suit Conundrum: Gifts Gone Wrong

The Most Seventiest of 70s Christmas Albums

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

Our Purple Rain Book Report (Part 2)

Purple Rain: The GenX Citizen Kane (Part 1)

Turkeys on TV: A Retro Thanksgiving Episode Roundup

John Denver: He Filled Up Our Senses

It Takes Two! Donny & Marie

He’s INCREDIBLE! Our Chat with John Davidson

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

Back to “Back To The Prairie” with Melissa Gilbert

You Better Shop Around: Revisiting The Mall

Still Crying: Sad Songs of the 70s

Crushology 101: Your First Crush Explained

The PCPS Pop Quiz Challenge

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

Fonzie Loves Pinky

These Happy Days Are Yours and Mine

AM Radio Gold: 1977

Olivia Newton-John and The Great Grease Debate

Little Darlings: The Bet Heard ‘Round The World

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

Holiday Road: GenX Road Trippin’

Still Burning Up With Saturday Morning Fever

Still Rollin’: Our GenX Roller Rink Memories

1976 Rides Again

Seventeen Magazine: Our Go-To Guide to Life

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

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

Heartbreak & Hostages: The GenX Made for TV Movie

Food Fads of the 70s

Read Like The Wind: Books Our Teachers Read Aloud

Back To The Prairie: A Conversation with Melissa Gilbert

The Wonderful World of Disney

Sing…Sing A Song About The Carpenters

We Long To Be … Close To The Carpenters

Yacht Rock: Still Sailing

Dynamite Delivers Again

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

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

Saturday Night = SOLID GOLD!

Livin’ In A TV Dream Home - Part 2

Livin’ In A TV Dream Home - Part 1

The Free To Be You And Me Generation

The Love Boat: Saturday Night Date

Saturday Night Fever Part 2: The Music

Saturday Night Fever Part 1: The Movie

Bright Lights, Prairie Dust: An Interview with Karen Grassle

Encore: Little House on the Prairie

Encore: Battle of the Network Stars

Encore: Schoolhouse Rock

Christmas Rewind

Could It Be Magic?

Come on Down!

“Hold Me Closer, Tony Danza”- Misheard Lyrics

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

Tiger Beat’s Top 10 Teen Idol Countdown

We’re Gonna Turn It On

Rocky Horror Gym Class Show

Oh, God: A Retro Movie For Modern Times

1976: From Pet Rocks to Patriotism

Yacht…Or Not?

Here’s A Story…Part 2

Here’s A Story…of The Brady Bunch

Walking On Shaunshine

A Podcast is Born

PCPS Town Hall

Where The Wild Books Are

Swooner or Later

Kristin’s K-tel Kollection

Battle of the Network Stars

Schlemiel Schlemazel - TV’s Best Theme Songs

Saturday Morning Fever

Bonus Episode: In Conversation with Amy Weinland Daughters

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

Roller Boogie & Me

Dynamite: It Always Delivered!

The OG Girl Crush - Kristy McNichol

We Want Our MTV

From Garanimals to Gauchos - 70s & 80s Fashion

Never Enough Eight Is Enough

I Rank the Songs…Of Barry Manilow

Little Traumas on the Prairie

Schoolboy Father

A Very Special Episode

Deflowered in the Attic

Schoolhouse Rock: The Harvard of TV

Are You the Mary Or the Rhoda?

Livin’ On A Prairie

Looking Through The Eyes of Love

Little GenXers On The Prairie

And They Called It Puppy Love

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

Judy Blume Forever

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

How Deep Is Your Love For The Bee Gees?

A Scooter for Jimmy, A Dolly for Michelle

Oh Come, All Ye Christmas Specials

Caught In A Teen Dream

What’s It All About?