Finally, the episode you've all been waiting for. We talk about perfumes and scents for what seems like hours. We thrown in some fashion here and there, and mention that we watched another episode of Hart to Hart. Enjoy!

Hart to Hart Season 4

Harts on the Scent (Dog Attack Juice)

The Harts are back in England (for real) and awkward dinners are back with a literal vengeance! Chim-chimmeny, old chap!

Hart to Hart Season 5

Harts and Hounds (Jell-O Cam)

We took Radinski's command to "enlarge" literally and went very long on this episode. So much to say about drugging wives, thermal cameras, and baby blue lab coats! If you're truly "Hartcore", listen to the very end.

Larsen's Last Jump (Enlarge!)

Hart to Hart Movies

Hart to Hart Returns (The Movie!)

Following Angela Lansbury into Egypt for 1978's Death on the Nile was the right move for your intrepid team! With an insanely stacked cast of amazing stars who are having a blast on screen, how will we ever choose our next link??! AHH! KILLINGS! ALL THE TIME KILLINGS!

Chain Reaction Season 1

Death on the Nile 1978 (Angela Lansbury)

We followed Rod Loomis to Quantum Leap Season 5:Episode 15 "Blood Moon" and why? Why you ask? I honestly don't know. But I think it was to remind us of how bonkers the theme song is.

Chain Reaction Spooky Edition

SS - Quantum Leap S5 E15

We followed "vampires" to Park Chan-Wook's Thirst. If we can offer you any advice before watching this film, it is to watch it all at once and in linear order. It helps.

SS - Thirst

It's Holiday Hart season! Our first episode in this capsule is "Long Lost Love" from season 5 of Hart to Hart. You know when people say "last but not least"? This one is "least but not last".

Holiday Harts

HH - Long Lost Love, again

We dip back into "A Christmas Hart" for our little holiday capsule and we realize that there are riches yet to be mined from maybe every episode of Hart to Hart??

HH - A Christmas Hart again

We close out our "holiday Harts" capsule with the crown jewel of Christmas episodes, "Tis the Season to Be Murdered" starring a small wooden(?) fighter pilot who was READY for his close-up.

HH - Tis the Season to Be Murdered again

We're back with a BANG! with Martin Scorsese's 1985 classic "After Hours" because we all think that Griffin Dunne is "the world's biggest cutie-pie". It's our first episode of Chain Reaction: Open Season, which means we can go absolutely anywhere! We hope you'll join us.

Chain Reaction: Open Season

After Hours (Griffin Dunne)

We followed phenomenal cinematographer Michael Ballhaus to The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and OH BOY did we dig it! Huge apologies for Erik's near constant hacking. No amount of gin would help.

The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (Michael Ballhaus)

We followed Margit Carstensen to 1981's Possession and we may never be the same again.

Possession (Margit Carstensen)

We followed Isabelle Adjani to another euro-thriller-weirdo flick, 1976's The Tenant! Paris has never looked so unromantic!

The Tenant (Isabelle Adjani)

We followed Bernard Fresson to 1959's Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais) and though if you blink you'll miss him, we are thrilled that we ended up here.

Hiroshima Mon Amour (Bernard Fresson)

We followed Eiji Okada to 1973's Lady Snowblood! Holy shit!

Lady Snowblood (Eiji Okada)

We followed the theme of "revenge/made in Japan" to 1977's House/Hausu. It's the highest concentration of pure 1977 that we've been able to source.

It Was Murder Podcast

Hausu (revenge/made in Japan)

We....uh....followed Erik's theme of dreamlike television movie to 1985's "The Peanut Butter Solution" and...hmmm...we're sorry?

The Peanut Butter Solution (Heavy Gentho)

We followed...something...I don't know anymore...to 1985's House! our minds may be mush, but we are still more coherent than this film.

House 1985 (Funho?)

We followed Michael Ensign to 1983's WarGames. Definitely hits different in 2024, but the message remains evergreen.

WarGames (Michael Ensign)

We followed director John Badham to the 1977 phenomenon Saturday Night Fever. Blood, sweat, and tears.

Saturday Night Fever (John Badham)

We followed "disco" to 1979's Nocturna. I never thought I'd use disco to kill.

Nocturna (Disco)

We followed Sy Richardson to the 1984 cult classic Repo Man! Joe has an insight into the film that blows Erik's mind while Ellen drops Johnny Marr's original band name on us.

Repo Man (Sy Richardson)

We followed Dick Rude (yes, really) to 1984's Night of the Comet. It's a perfect movie. (the thoughts expressed in this podcast description are not shared by Ellen Ito)

Night of the Comet (Dick Rude)

We followed "zombies" to 1974's Let Sleeping Corpses Lie/The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue/Don't Open the Window/choose your own title.

Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (Zombies)

We followed Giorgio Trestini to the amazing 1974 thriller Don't Look Now! Erasing psychics??? Us??!! Never!

Don't Look Now (Giorgio Trestini)

We followed editor Graeme Clifford to 1976's The Man Who Fell to Earth. David Bowie is painfully thin, Rip Torn is incredibly naked, and Buck Henry does a weird spit bubble thing that none of us can explain. Can you?

The Man Who Fell to Earth (Graeme Clifford)

We followed Candy Clark to 1973's surprise hit "American Graffiti"! Is GL's only non-sci-fi movie a study of nostalgia, or is it still a sci-fi movie? Find out, maybe, in the episode.

American Graffiti (Candy Clark)

We all picked The Conversation!!! It's a cause for slow, tense, methodical celebration!

The Conversation (unanimous)

We followed John Cazale to 1975's Dog Day Afternoon for our Chain Reaction: Open Season finale!

Dog Day Afternoon (John Cazale)

Formalwear foot chases, a helicopter with a human arm, and a spectacular fall down stairs make Passport to Murder our favorite episode yet!

Hart to Hart Season 1

3 - Passport to Murder (Reiley's Fall)

Three friends agree to watch every episode and movie of the television hit Hart to Hart to determine once and for all if Hart to Hart is a good show. Join Ellen Ito (the devoted lover) Erik Blood (the nostalgic acquaintance) and Joe Garber (the dubious virgin) on a journey filled with fabulous fashions, furious fistfights, and of course MURDER!

It Was Murder Podcast

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