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Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon’s 'Double Dare', which ran from 1986 to 1993 and taped more than 500 episodes, gave its kid contestants bicycles or boom boxes in exchange for fetching giant balls of snot from oversized noses.

Jake Rossen








Patrick Fabian, Rhea Seehorn, Bob Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, Michael Mando, Giancarlo Esposito, and Tony Dalton in Better Call Saul.

As evidenced by 'Breaking Bad,' Vince Gilligan and his cohorts have an eye for detail that’s nearly unrivaled. If anything, 'Better Call Saul'—which is originally set several years before the events of 'Breaking Bad'—only proves the point.

Karen Han




Julie Vrabelova/Syfy

We chatted with co-creator and showrunner Terry Matalas and stars Amanda Schull and Emily Hampshire about Syfy's epic time travel series.

Erin McCarthy




Netflix

At 2:40 a.m. on December 9, 2001, Durham, North Carolina-based novelist Michael Peterson made a frantic call to 911 to report an accident. What followed was a decades-long mystery that still hasn't quite ended.

Jennifer M Wood