"The Long Journey Home" is the thirteenth episode and series finale of the first and only season of Nancy Drew, a short-lived venture from Canadian studio Nelvana. This episdoe first aired on aired December 16, 1995. The show stars Tracy Ryan as Nancy Drew and Scott Speedman and Ned Nickerson, with Jonathan Zaccai guest starring as Christophe. In this episode, Nancy and Ned bicker across France, meeting a mysterious French hitchhiker along the way. Oh, and they kind of break up? It's a bummer. L...
Jun 20, 2022•37 min•Ep. 92
You'd think that Jed Clampett plus mysteries would be more fun! "Fatal Flight" is the twelfth episode of the second season of Barnaby Jones . The episode first aired on December 9, 1973. The series starred Buddy Ebsen, the actor best known for starring in The Beverly Hillbillies. This episode also featured Lee Meriwether, Richard Anderson, Jerry Douglas, Murray Hamilton, and Pippa Scott. Ebsen's Jones is a detective who comes out of retirement after his son is killed while working as a private i...
Jun 13, 2022•29 min•Ep. 91
Top Gun: Maverick is 2022 action film from director Joseph Kosinski. Starring Tom Cruise, the film also features Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Monica Barbaro, Lewis Pullman, Ed Harris, and Val Kilmer. In this summer hit, Cruise takes the controls once more as Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell from the original 1985 Top Gun. Maverick must return to the TOPGUN program to face his past and train a group of cocky pilots to take on an impossible mission. Listen to Áine and Ke...
Jun 06, 2022•31 min•Ep. 90
The Pearl of Death is a 1944 Sherlock Holmes film starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce and directed by Roy William Neil. Dennis Hoey, Evelyn Ankers, Miles Mander, and Rondo Hatton also show up. Set during World War II, this film is at least slightly based on the 1904 short story "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. But just barely. In this film, Sherlock Holmes makes a rare and bizarre blunder that leads to a series of brutal murders. Yikes! Dr. Watson and the famed...
May 30, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 89
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome is a crime thriller film from 1947, based on the comic strip by Chester Gould. Starring Boris Karloff as Gruesome and Ralph Byrd as the titular detective, this cast also includes Anne Gwynne, Skelton Knaggs, Edward Ashley, and June Clayworth as other wackily-named characters. Basically, some bad guys have stolen a type of gas that freezes people where they stand. And Dick Tracy is the only detective who can stop them! Listen to Áine and Kevin come to a standstill over I...
May 23, 2022•32 min•Ep. 88
"I'm wide awake. Yeah, I was in the dark. I was falling hard, in a crashing car. " Awake is a police procedural — slash family drama slash psychic fantasy slash psychological thriller — that ran from March 1 to May 24, 2012. Kyle Killen created the show, which starred Jason Isaacs as homicide investigator Michael Britten. After Detective Britten's family gets into a car wreck, his reality diverges into two spheres. In one, his wife Hannah — Laura Allen — survived while his son Rex — Dylan Minnet...
May 16, 2022•36 min•Ep. 87
It's a double Dragnet deal! In this episode of Mystery to Me, we'll discuss two episodes of Dragnet 1967 . The first one, "The LSD Story" or "The Big LSD" aired on January 12, 1967. The second, "Burglary: DR-31" aired on March 6, 1969. In "The LSD Story," Joe Friday and his partner Bill Gannon must combat the scourge of acid, as personified by the maddening hippie drug dealer "Blue Boy." And in the "Burglary" episode, Friday and Gannon discover how nerdy interests can lead youths into a life of ...
May 09, 2022•39 min•Ep. 86
24 is a hit television series that aired on Fox, starring Kiefer Sutherland as super spy Jack Bauer. Each season of the series takes place over 24 hours. The show's second season — also known as "Day 2" — began airing on October 29, 2002 and concluded with a finale on May 20, 2003. Along with Sutherland, the cast also features Sarah Wynter, Elisha Cuthbert, Xander Berkeley, Penny Johnson Jerald, Carlos Bernard, and Dennis Haysbert, and Reiko Aylesworth. In this storyline, Jack Bauer is tasked wi...
May 02, 2022•35 min•Ep. 85
Cool presidents? Detente with Russia? Important faxes? Is this the most nineties movie ever? Air Force One is a 1997 presidential-themed action thriller by director Wolfgang Petersen starring Harrison Ford as President Harrison Ford ... er, James Marshall. Gary Oldman, Glenn Close, Wendy Crewson, Liesel Matthews, Paul Guilfoyle, William H. Macy, Dean Stockwell, Elya Baskin, and Xander Berkely are also along for the flight. The set up is simple. What if Die Hard happened on the president's air pl...
Apr 25, 2022•39 min•Ep. 84
In this episode, Quincy M.E. paraphrases the Dead Kennedys by demanding: " All punks, fuck off." Airing December 1, 1982, this is the eighth episode of the medical mystery show's eighth season.Jack Klugman stars as Dr. R. Quincy, M.E, or "Quince." This episode also features a young Melora Hardin, Anita Gillette, Barbara Cason, Robert Ito, John S. Ragin, Garry Walberg, and Val Bisoglio. "Next Stop, Nowhere" drones out question after daring question: Can a genre of music be a murder weapon? Can a ...
Apr 18, 2022•35 min•Ep. 83
Has the critical-darling, gone-too-soon, early-noughties television program Boomtown made its triumphant return? Did we just sit through Boomtown: The Motion Picture ? Ambulance is a 2022 action thriller film from director Michael Bay starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Eiza González, Garret Dillahunt, Keir O'Donnell, Jackson White, Moses Ingram, and Colin Woodell. Gyllenhaal and Abdul-Mateen play two adoptive brothers: a career criminal and a decorated Marine struggling to help sup...
Apr 11, 2022•33 min•Ep. 82
Beverly Hills Cop is a 1984 smash-hit buddy cop film starring Eddie Murphy, along with Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Ronny Cox, Lisa Eilbacher, Steven Berkoff, Paul Reiser, and Jonathan Banks. Murphy plays Detective Axel Foley, a brilliant Detroit cop who must travel to Beverly Hills in order to avenge his murdered friend. Listen to Áine and Kevin quip about fish-out-of-water stories, Elvis movies, and the Beverly Hillbillies. Follow us on the usual social media suspects: Facebook Twitter Instagr...
Apr 04, 2022•39 min•Ep. 81
Uncharted is a 2022 adventure film starring Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg, with Sophia Ali, Tati Gabrielle, and Antonio Banderas. The story comes from the popular Uncharted video game franchise. Holland plays bartender-slash-thief-slash-adventuer Nathan Drake, who confronts danger and mystery in a quest to find Ferdinand Magellan’s gold … and his long lost brother. Listen to Áine and Kevin chart a conversational course that journeys to topics like video game movies, Pacman, Marty Ingels, and the im...
Mar 31, 2022•25 min•Ep. 80
"Snake Eyes" is the premier of the second season of Quincy, M.E. , a medical crime procedural. Jack Klugman stars as Dr. R. Quincy, M.E. Rounding out the cast are Buddy Hackett, John S. Ragin, Garry Walberg, Val Bisoglio, Robert Ito, Frank Converse, and Val Avery. In this episode, Dr. Quincy ends up stuck tending to a burgeoning pandemic at the world's worst medical conference. But is our favorite medical examiner dealing with medical mayhem, or man-made murder? Listen to Áine and Kevin examine ...
Mar 28, 2022•51 min•Ep. 79
It's not hard, not far to reach, we can hitch a ride to the Copper Beeches. "The Copper Beeches" is the premier of the second season of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes , a televised adaptation of a short story from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It first aired on August 25, 1985, and stars Jeremy Brett as the famed detective, David Burke as his stalwart physician companion, as well as Joss Ackland, Lottie Ward, Patience Collier, Angela Browne, Peter Jonfield, Michael Loney, Rachel Ambler, Stewart Shi...
Mar 21, 2022•41 min•Ep. 78
Scampering serial killers, Batman! The Batman is a gritty superhero film that premiered on March 1, 2022. Directed by Matt Reeves, this movie stars Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright, John Turturro, Peter Sarsgaard, Andy Serkis, and Colin Farrell. Basically, Batman must team up with Catwoman to fight corruption in Gotham, as a Zodiac Killer-style Riddler murders victims with dumb puns. In terms of genre, it's bat-milk blend of superhero, noir, and thriller. Picture a guy in...
Mar 14, 2022•43 min•Ep. 77
Talk about a wrong move. This was supposed to be Law & Order's triumphant return, but it's bad enough to earn a contempt of court charge. The first episode of Law & Order's twenty-first season, "The Right Thing" aired on February 24, 2022. The show stars a bunch of newcomers with some returning alumni, including Anthony Anderson, Jeffrey Donovan, Camryn Manheim, Hugh Dancy, Odelya Halevi, Sam Waterson, Alicia Coppola, Lisa Arrindell, and Jeannine Kaspar. This mistrial of an episode follo...
Mar 07, 2022•34 min•Ep. 76
We're going into this review with just the clothes on our backs, and a toothbrush. Jack Reacher is a 2012 thriller film featuring Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, David Oyelowo, Richard Jenkins, Jai Courtney, Werner Herzog, and Robert Duvall. Cruise stars as the titular Reacher, a male-fantasy-figure-slash-hobo, and the central character of Lee Child's wildly popular thriller series. In this film, the ex-Army Military Police investigator must team up with a defense attorney in order to dig into a baff...
Feb 28, 2022•49 min•Ep. 75
You know it's a bad flick when even a mustache has a gritty backstory ... Death on the Nile is a 2022 film directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh based on the 1937 novel by Agatha Christie. Branagh plays the famed detective Hercule Poirot, who ends up on a deadly Egyptian cruise with mysterious passengers played by Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer, Rose Leslie, Annette Bening, Russell Brand, Tom Bateman, Letitia Wright, Jennifer Saunders, Sophie Okonedo, and Emma Mackey. Will the Belgian detective and ...
Feb 21, 2022•45 min•Ep. 74
Ain't no sunshine when Mac's gone Soviet plotting every day Ain't no sunshine when Mac's gone. Like when he sat down on a bomb And got blown away Talk about an explosive season premiere! "Did You See the Sun Rise?" is a dramatic, intense episode of Magnum, P.I. that aired on September 30, 1982, kicking off the Hawaii-based detective show's third season. It stars Tom Selleck, Roger E. Mosley, Jeff MacKay, John Hillerman, Larry Manetti, Lance LeGault, Jean Bruce Scott, and James Whitmore Jr. In th...
Feb 14, 2022•56 min•Ep. 73
Based on a (remarkably inconsistent) series of novels from Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee, Ellery Queen was a fourth wall-breaking, fair play mystery show that allowed viewers to join in on the sleuthing. The NBC program revolved around the titular character, a mystery novelist and large adult son, and his irascible police inspector father. The Queens must team up to solve murders in New York City after World War II. "The Adventure of the Comic Book Crusader" is the fourth episode of...
Feb 07, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 72
Gather round, yet bobbies and barristers. In this episode, we'll be reviewing an episode of Law & Order: UK. First airing on October 22, 2010, "Unsafe" is the fourth episode of the show's first season, and a rewrite of its trans-Atlantic sister show's 1993 episode "American Dream." The discovery of a skeleton on the banks of the Thames throws a spine in the works of justice, allowing a posh and perfidious killer to make a bid for freedom. The episode stars Bradley Walsh, Jamie Bamber, Harrie...
Jan 31, 2022•38 min•Ep. 71
It's the one-year anniversary of Mystery to Me! To honor our silly podcast's birthday — and its inaugural review of Satan Met a Lady (1936) — we're talking about the good version of this Dashiell Hammett story. The Maltese Falcon is the 1941 film noir marking John Huston's directorial debut. The movie features Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Gladys George, Torchy Blane's Barton MacLane, Lee Patrick, and introduces Sydney Greenstreet. Bogart plays private eye Sam Spade, who is thrust in...
Jan 27, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 70
"Remember, dear listeners, you heard it here first, off the record, on the Q.T. and very Hush-Hush." L.A. Confidential is a 1997 film from director Curtis Hanson, based on the novel by James Ellroy. It stars Guy Pearce, Russell Crowe, Kevin Spacey, Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito, James Cromwell, and David Strathairn. This well-acclaimed neo-noir centers around a trio of Los Angeles Police Department detectives in 1953. Ambitious rookie Edmund Exley, brutish Bud White, and celebrity cop Jack Vincenne...
Jan 24, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 69
Beam us up, Hardys. "The Disappearing Floor" aired on March 6, 1977. It's the twelfth episode of the second season of the The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries . It also takes its name from a book pumped out by the Stratemeyer Syndicate published in 1940, although its predecessor focuses on a more grounded case featuring earthbound criminals. In this episode, the Hardy Boys take on a case that's out of this world. The brothers have to deal with hallucinogenic home decor and unidentified flying obj...
Jan 17, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 68
Sherlock Holmes will be the death of us! Hey, it's a cool title. But the movie itself is at death's doorstep, so to speak. Sherlock Holmes Faces Death is a 1943 film starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce and directed by Roy William Neil. Set during World War II, this film is at least slightly based on the 1893 story from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual." In the film, Dr. Watson calls in Holmes to investigate after a disturbing and nearly-deadly incident at the gre...
Jan 10, 2022•59 min•Ep. 67
Listen up, pupils! It's time for another lesson from Ms. Hildegarde Withers! Murder on the Blackboard is a 1934 Pre-Code mystery film from director George Archainbaud. The picture stars Edna May Oliver as a strict teacher-slash-amateur-sleuth Hildegarde Withers, along with James Gleason as Police Inspector Oscar Piper. It's also based on the 1932 novel of the same name by Stuart Palmer. This wild and wacky storyline features murder showing up for class. While overseeing detention, Ms. Withers ge...
Jan 03, 2022•51 min•Ep. 66
Night and you and blue Hawaii ... and Tom Selleck, of course! "Laura" is the seventeenth episode of Magnum, P.I. 's seventh season. Airing on February 25, 1987, this episode stars Tom Selleck as everyone's favorite Hawaii-based private-eye. It also features a swingin' guest star, and a depressing but effective storyline! So the summer wind came blowing in from across the sea, and it brought a retired cop from New York, New York played by Frank Sinatra. The famed singer guest stars as a commandin...
Dec 27, 2021•50 min•Ep. 65
Forget the little town of Bethlehem. This flick will drag you to the little town of boredom. A Christmas Mystery is a 2014 made-for-television film directed by Peter Sullivan starring Esmé Bianco, Ryan Bittle, John Colton and, of course, TV's John Ratzenberger. The story follows a feisty reporter who lost her dad at a young age. When she finds mysterious Christmas cards in her late mother's attic, she hires a perpetually-smiling private detective to unravel her mom's last fling. Listen to Áine a...
Dec 25, 2021•48 min•Ep. 64
Drew you hear what I hear? It's another Mystery to Me episode about Nancy Drew, just in time for the holiday season! "Will the Real Santa Claus...?" aired just shy of Christmas Eve, on December 18, 1977. It's the twelfth episode of the second season of the The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries . But there are no twelve drummers drumming in sight! No, just Pamela Sue Martin playing our favorite Yuletide sleuth Nancy Drew. In this episode, Santa Claus goes on the run after witnessing a drug deal. Hi...
Dec 20, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 63
