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Sunday 19 February 2023

The Secret Saturdays




Episode Guide

The Secret Saturdays is an American animated television series created by Canadian cartoonist Jay Stephens for Cartoon Network.[2] It debuted on October 3, 2008 in the United States. The series follows the adventures of the Saturdays, a family of cryptozoologists that work to keep the truth about cryptids from getting out, to protect both the human race and the creatures themselves. The Saturdays travel the Earth searching for cryptids to study and battling twisted villains like the megalomaniac V.V. Argost. The series is influenced by 1960's-era Hanna-Barbera action series and is combined with Jay Stephens' own personal interest in cryptozoology. The show finished its run on January 30, 2010, but aired reruns on Boomerang from December 5, 2011 to June 1, 2014.[3]

The Secret Saturdays
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Genre
Created byJay Stephens
Developed by
  • Brandon Sawyer
  • Jay Stephens
  • Fred Schaefer
Directed byScott Jeralds (also supervising director)
Voices of
ComposerMichael Tavera
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes36 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producerJay Stephens
Producers
  • Scott Jeralds
  • Fred Schaefer (supervising producer)
Running time22 minutes
Production companyPorchLight Entertainment
DistributorWarner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution
Release
Original networkCartoon Network
Picture format16:9 1080i (HDTV)
Original releaseOctober 3, 2008 –
January 30, 2010

The Secret Saturdays was the first Cartoon Network original series to be broadcast in high-definition.[citation needed]

The Saturday family later appear in the Ben 10: Omniverse episode TGIS where they team up with Ben Tennyson and Rook Blonko to stop Ben's enemy Dr. Animo who has revived the Saturdays' archenemy V.V. Argost in a plot to collaborate with him to cause Cryptid-based havoc.

PlotEdit

The Secret Saturdays revolves around the titular Saturdays, a family of cryptozoologists consisting of parents Doc and Drew Saturday and their 11-year-old son, Zak Saturday. The Saturdays are members of the Secret Scientists, a global organization with the goal of studying and safeguarding sciences considered too dangerous to be general public knowledge. As the foremost experts in cryptids, the Saturdays are responsible for studying and protecting cryptids around the world, while also keeping their existence a secret from the rest of humanity and averting cryptid-related threats. The Saturdays travel in their airship with their cryptid companions Fiskerton, Komodo, and Zon, while the young Zak Saturday strives to help his parents with their missions and to master his mysterious innate ability to influence and control the actions of cryptids.

At the beginning of the series, the Secret Scientists are attacked en masse by V.V. Argost, the masked host of the cryptid-centric television series V.V. Argost's Weird World and a longtime enemy of the Secret Scientists. Argost and his henchmen steal the pieces of the Kur Stone, a Sumerian artifact which can lead its wielder to the location of Kur, an allegedly all-powerful cryptid. In the first season of the show, the Saturdays are also pitted against bounty hunter Leonidas Van Rook and his apprentice, who is later revealed to be Drew's long-lost brother Doyle Blackwell, who was separated from her after their parents died in an accident in the Himalayas. The Saturdays also discover an ancient mirror which leads to a dimension made of antimatter, and encounter their evil counterparts, whom Zak dubs the "Mondays." At the end of the first season, the Saturdays and Argost race to Kur's supposed resting place in Antarctica, only to discover that Kur is actually Zak; when the Kur stone first shattered years ago, Kur's soul entered Zak's unborn body, which is the origin of Zak's cryptid-influencing powers.

In the second season, Argost, taking an interest in Zak as the true Kur, bargains with Zak to teach him how to use his powers. Meanwhile, the Secret Scientists have turned against the Saturdays, wishing to capture Zak and place him into cryogenic sleep to prevent him from becoming a serious threat. As Doyle and a reformed Van Rook investigate the origins of V.V. Argost, they discover that Argost is actually a cryptid, the yeti, and was responsible for the murder of Drew and Doyle's parents decades ago. Argost captures Zak and reveals himself as the yeti, then uses the mirror artifact to summon Zak Monday, whose powers he steals, giving him the same powers as Zak. Argost and Zak wage a global cryptid war against each other using their Kur abilities, but Zak ultimately overpowers Argost, forcing him to retreat. After killing Van Rook, Argost captures Zak and tries to absorb his powers in addition to Zak Monday's, but the combination of matter and antimatter destroys Argost and the power of Kur permanently.

Mountain Monsters

 





Episode Guide

Mountain Monsters is an American cryptozoology-themed reality television series airing on Travel Channel. It originally premiered on June 22, 2013 on Destination America. The series follows the Appalachian Investigators of Mysterious Sightings (A.I.M.S.) team, a band of seven native West Virginian hunters and trappers, as they research and track unidentified creatures in the Appalachian Mountains. There is also a side-series titled Mountain Monsters: By The Fire that features extra facts and never-before-seen footage from different episodes of the series.

Mountain Monsters
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Season 3 intertitle
GenreReality Television
Starring
  • John Tice
  • Jeff Headlee
  • Willy McQuillian
  • Joseph Lott
  • William Neff
  • Jacob Lowe
Narrated byMichael Berger[1]
Theme music composerLast American Cowboys
Opening theme"Mountain Man Town"
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons8
No. of episodes79 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
  • Colt Straub
  • Duke Straub
  • Russell Geyser
  • Jay Blumke
  • Ken Charles
  • Royal Malley
ProducerAmerican Chainsaws
Running time42-60 minutes
Release
Original networkDestination America (2013–17)
Travel Channel (2019–present)
Discovery+ (2021–present)
DMAX (2013–19)
Original releaseJune 22, 2013 –
present



The series aired for five seasons on Destination America.[2] After an 18-month hiatus, it was announced that the series was renewed for a sixth season and would be moving to Travel Channel.[3]

In 2021 it was announced that a TV special titled Mountain Monsters: A Tribute to Trapper would premiere on January 3, 2021. It was also announced that the seventh season will premiere on January 10, 2021.[4] It was announced shortly after the premiere of Season 7, that new episodes would only release exclusively on the Discovery+ streaming platform for the rest of the season.[5]

The official Mountain Monsters Instagram account revealed on December 10, 2021 that an eighth season would premiere in January 2022.[6] Season 9 celebrates its tenth anniversary.

PremiseEdit

The A.I.M.S. team is a self-styled, cryptozoology research team founded by West Virginians John "Trapper" Tice, Jeff Headlee, and Willy McQuillian. Their goal is to prove the existence of mysterious creatures such as BigfootWampus catGrafton MonsterSpearfingerWerewolfHellhoundLizard Man, and Mothman. The episodes normally begin with Trapper, Jeff, Huckleberry, and Buck discussing the specific creature they are hunting on the way to the location where the creature was spotted. They then meet with eyewitnesses who have encountered the creature, giving the team an idea of where to conduct an initial night investigation to find evidence of the creature being in the area.

After concluding their initial night hunt, Willy and Wild Bill begin work on a trap to contain the creature while the rest of the team searches for more evidence, meeting with additional eyewitnesses who normally possess photographic, video, or audio evidence of the creature. After testing the completed trap the team begins the final night hunt.

The creatures are, supposedly, occasionally caught on camera, such as the Cave Creature, Chupacabra, Wildman (Bigfoot), Waya Woman and Smoke Wolf's eyes. They are also shown as a digital rendering that appears before and after commercial breaks. The team attempts to capture these creatures (with Hogzilla, three Devil Dogs and two wolves from the Tygart Valley being their most recent trapped creatures). In some instances, the team places trail cameras and/or infrared camcorders near the trap to capture photographic evidence of the creature in question. They have caught fleeting, blurry images of what they claim to be the Grassman, Shadow Creature, Cherokee Death Cat, Black Wolf and the Bigfoot from the Tygart Valley on camera, to name but a few. More recently a recurring rogue team has spied on and sabotaged the A.I.M.S. team and their investigations. But the Rogue Team did not have much involvement in the show's 6th season, which focused more on the team hunting monsters like in the earlier seasons.

As of the 7th season, Trapper has died, and the rest of the team continues to hunt creatures in his legacy.