Matty P Radio

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world, and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week we take you back to a certain time in television, a time before binging entire seasons overnight, a time before cable TV bundles and DVRs, a time even before Must See TV...Behold, the era of EVENT TELEVISION! From Roots to Battle of the Network Stars to Geraldo opening Capone's vault, you'd be hardpressed to find a better example than V: The Original Miniseries, the two-part sci-fi primetime event written and directed by Kenneth Johnson (Bionic Woman) and starring Marc Singer (Beastmaster) -- both of whom we happened to talk with at SDCC 2019! Debuting in 1983, V is an allegorical (and unnervingly relevant) story of America facing the spectre of populism and facism on its own shores. From lizard aliens though, so it's more entertai