Wrong Station Episodes to Start With If You Like Black Comedy, Or Just Need to Laugh Before You Scream

37: The Rat Story

Their apartment has a big rat problem. Big rat, singular. Which means it’s time to bring in the big guns, unsavoury as that may be.

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53: Auld Tupp

A man traveling abroad for the holidays wanders into a pub that time seems to have forgotten. The folk there seem nice enough, if a bit odd, though their traditionals are strange and shockingly violent. Though who is he to judge? 

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101: The Witch Machine

A misplaced delivery lands a small business with a miracle machine that can make anything. Things you need, things you don’t, and things entirely unexpected. 

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Pledge Drive #17: The Pit (Season 8)

It’s the punk show of the century, and everybody wants to be there. Even some unexpected guests who aren’t familiar with how things are done in the pit. 

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October Surprise #3: Mixer (Season 9)

You’re tired of the dating apps. Aren’t we all? Why not try something more personable, face-to-face. What could go wrong?

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155: Tonic

What would you do to get your hair back? In this speculation sci-fi descent into the man-o-sphere, the answer might surprise you.

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114: April Ghouls: I Never Quite Knew What To Make of That. It’s simply as the title says.

Pledge Drive #14 : Darts (Season 8). Sometimes you just need to stop for smokes, and get a little more than you asked for. 

Pledge Drive #4: Meeting Minutes (Season 8). Strategy. Acquisitions. Amateur surgery. Cannabalism. All recorded in meticulous detail for the company records. 

Wrong Station Episodes for the Aspiring Eco-Terrorists

Are you fed up with boiling to death? So are we. While we can’t explicitly recommend doing eco-terrorism, we can tell you that the following episodes may encourage that kind of action. Please enjoy, and don’t worry if you feel yourself becoming radicalized. That’s the point.

141: With Dog’s Teeth

A young woman tries to escape from it all by traveling to a nature preserve: only to find that ‘it all’ got there first. Something follows her in the woods at night. But is it hunting her--or trying to turn her into a hunter? A story about rage and purpose.

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139: The Fire Angel

A man ruins his life in the pursuit of success in the gas industry, and then retires to the wildfire country of British Columbia. One October, the smoke starts to fill the trees and he knows his past is coming for him. He can’t bring himself to get away. He spent his life participating, now all he can do is watch.

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122: Extinction Event

A group of teens plan to vandalize an oil executive’s home. Their harmless little prank will be paid for in blood. A security guard, armed with a sledgehammer, stalks the halls of this mansion. No matter where they hide, he will find them. He will find all of them.

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74: When the Water Come Up. 

A poor community rejoices when the mine reopens. But when the summer-long drought comes to an end, the rains bring up something awful from the deep. Bring your fishing poles.

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57: Horses. 

Wildfire season. A young boy visits a family farm for the final time before it is engulfed in flames. As smoke fills the valleys, something strange wanders the dry hills. The fire destroys and also creates, but the things it creates wish only to die.

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See also…

Pledge Drive #7: Rhino (Season 8). A big game hunter gets lost in his biggest prize yet.

Pledge Drive #9: Dogs (Season 8). A remote island community--a terrible experiment.

Wrong Station Episodes to Listen to If You Like Big Splashy Space Opera-Style Sci Fi

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151 & 152: POWER SWORD, parts 1 & 2.

This one’s a slasher/murder mystery space opera that takes place on a planet that supplies mercenaries to an interstellar empire. It’s about cool swords and fighting for your family. It’s also about the empty promise of nationalism, and about what may lie beyond that.

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143 & 144: Existential Threat, parts 1 & 2.

This one’s a monster movie that takes place in a far-future commune built on the ruins of a high-tech civilization. It’s a look at how sane societies respond to crises--and how a big enough crisis can derail even a utopia.

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140: Champion

This one’s about an ordinary man who gets abducted to fight in alien gladiatorial pits… and discovers that he’s pretty damn good at it. It’s a story about how viciousness can hide who we really are.

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133: The Feeling of Control

‘What if they did a season of Gundam about the Afghanistan war?’ It’s about prison labour, about how “A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore a computer must never make a management decision”, and about how easy it can be to surrender your humanity when given a polite nudge.

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Pledge Drive #5: BITEFORCEQUOTIENT (Season 8)

A genetically engineered super-soldier hatches from his cryopod thousands of years too late. He roams the irradiated wasteland slaughtering giant bugs as he tries to fulfil his final mission. A story that dares to ask: What if Being A Man™ isn’t all it’s cracked up to be?

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97: Recording Angels

A ghost ship story. Set in a space utopia where human & artificial minds live in harmony, a depressed teenager and a sentient ship explore the wreckage of a failed colony vessel. What does it mean to live in utopia? What debt do the citizens of a place like that owe to the countless generations who suffered before?

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65: Unbridled. A living planet; a doomed love.

42: Hunter, Hunter. Bored space aristocrats hunting an even more dangerous game.

40: All Alone. The isolated crew of a colony ship fall into paranoia.

27: Come and See. A maze of insanity at the universe’s edge.