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Tread Perilously

Jun 30, 2022

Tread Perilously's month of reactionary PSA television concludes with the two-part episode of What's Happening!! called "Doobie or Not Doobie."

When Rerun fails to obtain tickets to a Doobie Brothers concert at the high school, he runs into a man offering him three front-row tickets in exchange for recording the show....


Jun 23, 2022

Tread Perilously's month of reactionary PSA television continues with the 1982 TV movie Desperate Lives.

When high school guidance counselor Eileen Phillips spots 10th Grader Scott Cameron stoned to high heaven on their first day of school, she decides to get serious about the drug problem on campus. But the school...


Jun 16, 2022

Tread Perilously's month of reactionary PSA television continues with an ABC Afterschool Special called "The Day My Kid Went Punk."

When dweeby band nerd Terry Warren gets a summer job as a day camp counselor at a mountain resort, he takes the opportunity to rethink his image. Trading in his terrible glasses for...


Jun 9, 2022

Tread Perilously begins a month of television reacting poorly to social trends with the 1967 episode of Dragnet called "The LSD Story."

When Sgt. Joe Friday and his partner, Officer Frank Gannon, take a call concerning a young man with a painted face "eating the bark off trees" at a nearby park, they make their first...