This series is for one-off articles. Typically, there might be two such articles in every Signal.
(See also "Standalone")
Episodes
| Title | Aired | Actions | ||||
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| What is Firefly? | The Signal: Season 1, Episode 1 | shownotes | ||||
| Can't Stop the Signal - How Serenity Cultivates Fandom | The Signal: Season 1, Episode 1 | shownotes | ||||
| Who is Shepherd Book? | The Signal: Season 1, Episode 2 | shownotes | ||||
| How to Make a 'Verse-worthy Costume on a Browncoat's Budget | The Signal: Season 1, Episode 2 | shownotes | ||||
| A Mini-Episode to introduce The Signal | The Signal: Season 1, Episode 2.5 | shownotes | ||||
Review of Firefly Episode 1 (Serenity) |
The Signal: Season 1, Episode 2.5 | shownotes | ||||
| Handsome Devils: Malcolm Reynolds and Han Solo | The Signal: Season 1, Episode 3 | shownotes | ||||
| Who is Shepherd Book? - Epilogue | The Signal: Season 1, Episode 3 | shownotes | ||||
| Food from the Edge | The Signal: Season 1, Episode 5 | shownotes | ||||
| Review of Serenity (the pilot) | The Signal: Season 1, Episode 6 The Signal: Season 1, Episode 16.6: Bits of the Signal |
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| The Science of Firefly | The Signal: Season 1, Episode 7 The Signal: Season 7, Episode 13.1: Blast from the Past, part one |
shownotes | ||||
| Kaylee, the Soul of Serenity | The Signal: Season 1, Episode 8 | shownotes | ||||
| What's in a Name, part 1 | The Signal: Season 1, Episode 8 | shownotes | ||||
| Dragon*Con update | The Signal: Season 1, Episode 8.5 | shownotes | ||||
| New York City Browncoats report on press screening of Serenity | The Signal: Season 1, Episode 8.5 | shownotes | ||||
| Dragon*Con - Here's how it is | The Signal: Season 1, Episode 8 | shownotes | ||||
In Defense of The Train Job |
The Signal: Season 1, Episode 9 | shownotes | ||||
| The Science of Firefly, part 2 | The Signal: Season 1, Episode 9 | shownotes | ||||
| Civilization and Solidarity: A Bushwhacked Review | The Signal: Season 1, Episode 10 | shownotes | ||||
| What's in a Name, part 2 | The Signal: Season 1, Episode 10 | shownotes | ||||
| Memories of Dragon*Con | The Signal: Season 1, Episode 12.5: Dragon*Con 2005 Bonus Show | shownotes | ||||
| The Fifteenth Episode | The Signal: Season 1, Episode 11 | shownotes | ||||
| Blue, Grey, Purple, and Brown: Civil War Influences in Firefly | The Signal: Season 1, Episode 12 | shownotes | ||||
| Chinese Whispers - Shepherd Book's First Name | The Signal: Season 1, Episode 13 | shownotes | ||||
| Spamalot Review | The Signal: Season 1, Episode 13 | shownotes | ||||
| From Earth-That-Was to the 'Verse | The Signal: Season 1, Episode 14 | shownotes | ||||
| Why We Love Wash | The Signal: Season 1, Episode 14 | shownotes | ||||
| Fruity Oaty Bar | The Signal: Season 1, Episode 16 | shownotes | ||||
| A Celebration of Firefly | The Signal: Season 1, Episode 15 | shownotes | ||||
| River | The Signal: Season 1, Episode 16 | shownotes | ||||
| Why Wash? | The Signal: Season 1, Episode 16 | shownotes | ||||
| The Browncoat Wish List | The Signal: Season 1, Episode 16.5: November Bonus Show | shownotes | ||||
| Serenity RPG | The Signal: Season 1, Episode 16.5: November Bonus Show | shownotes | ||||
| Firefly: A Soundtrack in Review | The Signal: Season 1, Episode 16.5: November Bonus Show | shownotes | ||||
| The New Dynamic | The Signal: Season 1, Episode 16.5: November Bonus Show | shownotes | ||||
| The Official Forum Purplebelly - a tribute to Rich Adams by the Signal Crew | The Signal: Season 1, Episode 16.7: December Bonus Show | shownotes | ||||
| Firefly Talk | The Signal: Season 1, Episode 16.7: December Bonus Show | shownotes | ||||
| Firefilk | The Signal: Season 1, Episode 17.2: Solstice Special, part 2 | shownotes | ||||
| Our Mrs. Reynolds and Trash: the Saffron Arc | The Signal: Season 1, Episode 17.1: Solstice Special, part 1 | shownotes | ||||
| The Making of the Signal | The Signal: Season 1, Episode 17.3: Solstice Special, part 3 | shownotes | ||||
| Musical Evolution: From Firefly to Serenity | The Signal: Season 1, Episode 17.2: Solstice Special, part 2 The Signal: Season 7, Episode 13.5: Blast from the Past, part three |
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| A Beginner's Guide to Serenity | The Signal: Season 2, Episode 1 | shownotes | ||||
| The Man they call Jayne | The Signal: Season 2, Episode 1 | shownotes | ||||
| Petty Thief with Delusions of Standing | The Signal: Season 2, Episode 2 | shownotes | ||||
| Why Serenity? | The Signal: Season 2, Episode 2 | shownotes | ||||
| The Firefly Timeline | The Signal: Season 2, Episode 4 | shownotes | ||||
| The Virtual Seasons | The Signal: Season 2, Episode 4 | shownotes | ||||
| Canonicity: The Truth of the Signal | The Signal: Season 2, Episode 6 | shownotes | ||||
| Simon | The Signal: Season 2, Episode 6 | shownotes | ||||
| Conversions and Healing | The Signal: Season 2, Episode 8 | shownotes | ||||
| DVD Differences | The Signal: Season 2, Episode 7 | shownotes | ||||
| The Two Serenities | The Signal: Season 2, Episode 8 | shownotes | ||||
| Dance in Firefly | The Signal: Season 2, Episode 10 | shownotes | ||||
| The Hidden Depths of David Newman's Soundtrack | The Signal: Season 2, Episode 9 | shownotes | ||||
| Television's Changing Landscape | The Signal: Season 2, Episode 10 | shownotes | ||||
| The Novelization Didn't do the Job | The Signal: Season 2, Episode 10 | shownotes | ||||
| Rules of the 'Verse | The Signal: Season 2, Episode 11 | shownotes | ||||
| How Many Ls in Malco(l)m? | The Signal: Season 2, Episode 11 | shownotes | ||||
| Response to Jill's Novelization article | The Signal: Season 2, Episode 11 | shownotes | ||||
| The Migration | The Signal: Season 2, Episode 12 | shownotes | ||||
| Virtual Firefly | The Signal: Season 2, Episode 12 | shownotes | ||||
| The Structure of Out of Gas | The Signal: Season 2, Episode 14 | shownotes | ||||
| Screening Feedback Segment | The Signal: Season 2, Episode 13 | shownotes | ||||
| Serenity - the Early Script | The Signal: Season 2, Episode 14 | shownotes | ||||
| Serenity (the Ship) | The Signal: Season 2, Episode 16.5: Live at Dragon*Con 2006 | shownotes | ||||
| Done the Impossible DVD Review | The Signal: Season 2, Episode 15 | shownotes | ||||
| The Case for a Sequel | The Signal: Season 2, Episode 18 | shownotes | ||||
| Dragon*Con Recap | The Signal: Season 2, Episode 17 | shownotes | ||||
| Games and Sports in Firefly | The Signal: Season 2, Episode 22 | shownotes | ||||
| Serenity Cubed Report | The Signal: Season 2, Episode 18.5: Convention Wrapup | shownotes | ||||
| Music Review: Soundtrack to Done the Impossible | The Signal: Season 2, Episode 20 | shownotes | ||||
| Where are you Hiding, Little Girl? | The Signal: Season 2, Episode 21 | shownotes | ||||
| A Browncoat Thank You | The Signal: Season 2, Episode 22 | shownotes | ||||
| The Things that Last | The Signal: Season 3, Episode 1 | shownotes | ||||
| QMx Money Review | The Signal: Season 2, Episode 23.5: The Money Show | shownotes | ||||
| Browncoats Backup Bash | The Signal: Season 3, Episode 1 | shownotes | ||||
| What if we Don't? | The Signal: Season 3, Episode 4 | shownotes | ||||
| Everything Looks Good from Here | The Signal: Season 3, Episode 3 | shownotes | ||||
| Big Damn Chefs Review | The Signal: Season 3, Episode 2 | shownotes | ||||
| Serenity Blueprint Review | The Signal: Season 3, Episode 10 | shownotes | ||||
| Shepherd Book Revisited | The Signal: Season 3, Episode 5 | shownotes | ||||
| The Oldest Profession in the 'Verse | The Signal: Season 3, Episode 7 | shownotes | ||||
| Review of Firefly: The Official Companion | The Signal: Season 3, Episode 12 | shownotes | ||||
| What I'd like to see in the Big Damn Trilogy | The Signal: Season 3, Episode 14 | shownotes | ||||
| Screening Report | The Signal: Season 3, Episode 14 | shownotes | ||||
| Live Question and Answer Session | The Signal: Season 3, Episode 17 | shownotes | ||||
| QMx Blueprints Reference Pack Review | The Signal: Season 3, Episode 20 | shownotes | ||||
| QMx Malcolm Reynolds Stunt Pistol Replica Review | The Signal: Season 3, Episode 20 | shownotes | ||||
| A Proud and Lonely Thing | The Signal: Season 3, Episode 21 | shownotes | ||||
| Serenity Found, a Review | The Signal: Season 3, Episode 21 | shownotes | ||||
| The Aries Commonwealth | The Signal: Season 3, Episode 23 | shownotes | ||||
| From Firefly to Future | The Signal: Season 3, Episode 23 | shownotes | ||||
| Elizabeth Adams and Malcolm Reynolds | The Signal: Season 3, Episode 23 | shownotes | ||||
| Real Life Roleplaying | The Signal: Season 3, Episode 23.5: Persephone Pickers Special | shownotes | ||||
| Picking The Tunes | The Signal: Season 4, Episode 1 | shownotes | ||||
| Science versus Ideology in Joss Whedon's Firefly | The Signal: Season 4, Episode 2 | shownotes | ||||
| Conversion Season | The Signal: Season 4, Episode 3 | shownotes | ||||
| Guns of the Verse | The Signal: Season 4, Episode 3 | shownotes | ||||
| The Case for Comics | The Signal: Season 4, Episode 4 | shownotes | ||||
| Shindiggery | The Signal: Season 4, Episode 5 | shownotes | ||||
| The Firefly Dialect | The Signal: Season 4, Episode 6 | shownotes | ||||
| Serenity Complete 2008 Con Report | The Signal: Season 4, Episode 8 | shownotes | ||||
| Vera: Jayne's Very Favorite Gun | The Signal: Season 4, Episode 8 | shownotes | ||||
| CSTS: The Phantom Screenings | The Signal: Season 4, Episode 9 | shownotes | ||||
| Firefly: The Happy Dystopia | The Signal: Season 4, Episode 9 | shownotes | ||||
| Fighting in Firefly, Part One | The Signal: Season 4, Episode 9 | shownotes | ||||
| Review of Ben Mund's QMx Serenity Valley Lithograph | The Signal: Season 4, Episode 12 | shownotes | ||||
| Joss's new summer release: Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog | The Signal: Season 4, Episode 12 | shownotes | ||||
| Fighting In Firefly, part 2: Stage Combat | The Signal: Season 4, Episode 13 | shownotes | ||||
| The Browncoats' Wish List | The Signal: Season 4, Episode 13.5 | shownotes | ||||
| Coffee in the 'Verse | The Signal: Season 4, Episode 15 | shownotes | ||||
| Read the Script | The Signal: Season 4, Episode 14 | shownotes | ||||
| Sex and the Special Hell | The Signal: Season 4, Episode 15 | shownotes | ||||
A review of Steven Brust's My Kind of Freedom |
The Signal: Season 4, Episode 16 | shownotes | ||||
| All That's Decent And Nice | The Signal: Season 4, Episode 19 | shownotes | ||||
| Crooked Little Vein review | The Signal: Season 4, Episode 17 | shownotes | ||||
| Codename Kestrel | The Signal: Season 4, Episode 18 | shownotes | ||||
| Dragon*Con 2008 Report | The Signal: Season 4, Episode 19 | shownotes | ||||
| Can't Stop the Cheesecake | The Signal: Season 4, Episode 23: Holiday Special | shownotes | ||||
| Anatomy of a Signal | The Signal: Season 4, Episode 20 | shownotes | ||||
| Kaylee Maquette Review | The Signal: Season 4, Episode 21 | shownotes | ||||
| Stepping Up to the Plate: Back to Basics | The Signal: Season 4, Episode 23: Holiday Special | shownotes | ||||
| What's Your Cheesecake? | The Signal: Season 4, Episode 23: Holiday Special | shownotes | ||||
| Cheesecake Sightings: Body and Soul | The Signal: Season 4, Episode 23: Holiday Special | shownotes | ||||
| Les on Cheesecake | The Signal: Season 4, Episode 23: Holiday Special | shownotes | ||||
| How Did I Fall in Love with a Ship? | The Signal: Season 5, Episode 1 | shownotes | ||||
| A Thousand Words | The Signal: Season 5, Episode 1 | shownotes | ||||
| The More Things Change | The Signal: Season 5, Episode 2 | shownotes | ||||
| The Map of The 'Verse Review | The Signal: Season 5, Episode 2 | shownotes | ||||
| Dollhouse Screening Review | The Signal: Season 5, Episode 3 | shownotes | ||||
| Firefly BluRay Review | The Signal: Season 5, Episode 3 | shownotes | ||||
| Don't Let Their Perfection Fool You: Firefly's Women and Feminism | The Signal: Season 5, Episode 4 | shownotes | ||||
| The Search For Serenity | The Signal: Season 5, Episode 4 | shownotes | ||||
| Here be Dragons | The Signal: Season 5, Episode 4 | shownotes | ||||
| The State of Serenity | The Signal: Season 5, Episode 7 | shownotes | ||||
| Trend Spotting: Serenity and the TV Show Movie | The Signal: Season 5, Episode 6 | shownotes | ||||
| An Afternoon with Jewel Staite | The Signal: Season 5, Episode 7 | shownotes | ||||
| Niches Be Damned | The Signal: Season 5, Episode 10 | shownotes | ||||
| Can't Stop the Serenity: Looking at the New Kids on the Block | The Signal: Season 5, Episode 10 | shownotes | ||||
| Robin Hood and His Merry Men? | The Signal: Season 5, Episode 10 | shownotes | ||||
| CSTS: How The Old Timers Keep The Romance Alive | The Signal: Season 5, Episode 14 | shownotes | ||||
| The Costumes Make the Man | The Signal: Season 5, Episode 11 | shownotes | ||||
| The Best Days | The Signal: Season 5, Episode 13 | shownotes | ||||
| Pairs and Plot Hooks | The Signal: Season 5, Episode 14 | shownotes | ||||
| No More Running | The Signal: Season 5, Episode 14 | shownotes | ||||
| Can't Pick Just One | The Signal: Season 5, Episode 14 | shownotes | ||||
| The Idiot's Guide to Conversion | The Signal: Season 5, Episode 14.7: The Clip Show | shownotes | ||||
| Companions of Both Sexes | The Signal: Season 5, Episode 15 | shownotes | ||||
| Warrior Woman and Childlike Pilot | The Signal: Season 5, Episode 16 | shownotes | ||||
| It's My Life | The Signal: Season 5, Episode 16 | shownotes | ||||
| Benefits of a Ragtag Crew | The Signal: Season 5, Episode 18 | shownotes | ||||
| Robots are Great | The Signal: Season 5, Episode 17 | shownotes | ||||
| Mal and St Crispian | The Signal: Season 5, Episode 18 | shownotes | ||||
| The Conversion Story: A Browncoat Badge of Honor | The Signal: Season 5, Episode 18 | shownotes | ||||
| All That Was Missing Was the Hot Cheese | The Signal: Season 5, Episode 18 | shownotes | ||||
| Xie xie, Browncoats | The Signal: Season 5, Episode 21: Holiday Special | shownotes | ||||
| Love Keeps Her In the Air | The Signal: Season 5, Episode 19 | shownotes | ||||
| Killer Angels and Dust Devils | The Signal: Season 5, Episode 21: Holiday Special | shownotes | ||||
| We Make our Own Path | The Signal: Season 6, Episode 1 | shownotes | ||||
| Rivers and Ophelia | The Signal: Season 6, Episode 1 | shownotes | ||||
| Browncoat: The Next Generation | The Signal: Season 6, Episode 2 | shownotes | ||||
| It Has to Be | The Signal: Season 6, Episode 3 | shownotes | ||||
| Audio Conversion | The Signal: Season 6, Episode 4 | shownotes | ||||
| Guerrilla Marketing: The Good, the Not So Good, and the Let's Try Something Else | The Signal: Season 6, Episode 4 | shownotes | ||||
| Review of Atlas of The Verse Vol.1 | The Signal: Season 6, Episode 5 | shownotes | ||||
| A Review of Serenity Adventures | The Signal: Season 6, Episode 7 | shownotes | ||||
| Pioneers of the 'Verse, Part 1 | The Signal: Season 6, Episode 7 | shownotes | ||||
| Pioneers of the 'Verse, Part 2 | The Signal: Season 6, Episode 8 | shownotes | ||||
| Reavers and Frankenstein | The Signal: Season 6, Episode 10 The Signal: Season 7, Episode 13.4: Blast from the Past, part two |
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| Can't Stop the Serenity: Five Years On and Still Going Strong | The Signal: Season 6, Episode 10 | shownotes | ||||
| Bars and the Verse | The Signal: Season 6, Episode 12 | shownotes | ||||
| Review of Firefly: Still Flying | The Signal: Season 6, Episode 11 | shownotes | ||||
| Was a Mighty Fine Shindig | The Signal: Season 6, Episode 14 | shownotes | ||||
| Finishing the War | The Signal: Season 6, Episode 14 | shownotes | ||||
| A Sense of Place in Firefly | The Signal: Season 6, Episode 14 | shownotes | ||||
| A Change of Venue | The Signal: Season 6, Episode 15 | shownotes | ||||
| A 'Verse of Make-Believe | The Signal: Season 6, Episode 15 | shownotes | ||||
| The Reaver Potential | The Signal: Season 6, Episode 15 | shownotes | ||||
| It's in the Details | The Signal: Season 6, Episode 18 | shownotes | ||||
| Like Gravity | The Signal: Season 6, Episode 18 | shownotes | ||||
| Cortex 2.0 | The Signal: Season 6, Episode 20: Holiday Special | shownotes | ||||
| Reaver Chase: The Game | The Signal: Season 7, Episode 1 | shownotes | ||||
| The Clothes and the Characters | The Signal: Season 7, Episode 2 | shownotes | ||||
| The Worthier Part | The Signal: Season 7, Episode 3 | shownotes | ||||
| He Looks Better in Red | The Signal: Season 7, Episode 4 | shownotes | ||||
| The Clothes and the Characters, Part II | The Signal: Season 7, Episode 5 | shownotes | ||||
| Browncoat Cosplay: An Introduction | The Signal: Season 7, Episode 6 | shownotes | ||||
| An Indelible Mark | The Signal: Season 7, Episode 7 | shownotes | ||||
| A Firefly Safari | The Signal: Season 7, Episode 10 | shownotes | ||||
| Life on the Raggedy Edge | The Signal: Season 7, Episode 9 | shownotes | ||||
| Of Love and Money | The Signal: Season 7, Episode 11 | shownotes | ||||
| The Expanding Whedonverse | The Signal: Season 7, Episode 10 | shownotes | ||||
| Never Too Young to Wear a Brown Coat | The Signal: Season 7, Episode 9 | shownotes | ||||
| The Voice of Serenity | The Signal: Season 7, Episode 10 | shownotes | ||||
| A Tale of Two Equilibria | The Signal: Season 7, Episode 12 | shownotes | ||||
| When the Stars Align | The Signal: Season 7, Episode 11 | shownotes | ||||
| Partners in Crime | The Signal: Season 7, Episode 15 | shownotes | ||||
| The Heroes of Firefly | The Signal: Season 7, Episode 13 | shownotes | ||||
| Psychic Definitions - What is a Reader? | The Signal: Season 7, Episode 12 | shownotes | ||||
| The Value of Life, Part 1 | The Signal: Season 7, Episode 18 | shownotes | ||||
| The Vasty Nothingness | The Signal: Season 7, Episode 14 | shownotes | ||||
| The Sound of Redemption | The Signal: Season 7, Episode 13.2: Redemption Special | shownotes | ||||
| The Good, the Bad, and the Alliance | The Signal: Season 7, Episode 13.2: Redemption Special | shownotes | ||||
| Analyzing Laura | The Signal: Season 7, Episode 13.2: Redemption Special | shownotes | ||||
| Redressing the Balance | The Signal: Season 7, Episode 13.2: Redemption Special | shownotes | ||||
| A Tale of Two Crews | The Signal: Season 7, Episode 19 | shownotes | ||||
| Hard Burn: The Firefly | The Signal: Season 7, Episode 21: Holiday Special | shownotes | ||||
| Analyzing Unification Day | The Signal: Season 7, Episode 21: Holiday Special | shownotes | ||||
| The Bipolar World of Malcolm Reynolds | The Signal: Season 8, Episode 2 | shownotes | ||||
| Ten Years On | The Signal: Season 8, Episode 3 | shownotes | ||||
| What Sounds Like Firefly? Pt. I | The Signal: Season 8, Episode 3 | shownotes | ||||
| What Sounds Like Firefly? Pt. 2 | The Signal: Season 8, Episode 4 | shownotes | ||||
| Everyone Lies | The Signal: Season 8, Episode 4 | shownotes | ||||
| Resistance in the 'Verse | The Signal: Season 8, Episode 6 | shownotes | ||||
| Bigger Damn Heroes? - A Browncoat's Guide to the Avengers | The Signal: Season 8, Episode 10 | shownotes | ||||
| My coat's kind of a brownish colour | The Signal: Season 8, Episode 8 | shownotes | ||||
| Spreading the Word by Deed | The Signal: Season 8, Episode 11 | shownotes | ||||
| The Tension is Killing Them | The Signal: Season 8, Episode 14 | shownotes | ||||
| From Signal Speculation to the Tabletop | The Signal: Season 8, Episode 15 | shownotes | ||||
| Dead System 2: Travellin' the 'Verse | The Signal: Season 8, Episode 14 | shownotes | ||||
| Dead Canon | The Signal: Season 8, Episode 15 | shownotes | ||||
| Not a Good-Bye | The Signal: Season 8, Episode 16 | shownotes | ||||
| Out of Renewable Biofuel | The Signal: Season 8, Episode 17 | shownotes | ||||
| Dead System 3: In the Savage Black | The Signal: Season 8, Episode 16 | shownotes | ||||
| Ten Years On; Still Going Strong | The Signal: Season 8, Episode 17 | shownotes | ||||
| Nine Different Things | The Signal: Season 8, Episode 17 | shownotes | ||||
| 101 uses for a Jayne's hat | The Signal: Season 9, Episode 2 | shownotes | ||||
| Defending the Alliance | The Signal: Season 9, Episode 4 | shownotes | ||||
| Same but Different | The Signal: Season 9, Episode 2 | shownotes | ||||
| Dead System 4: Reborn? | The Signal: Season 9, Episode 3 | shownotes | ||||
| CSTS | The Signal: Season 9, Episode 8 | shownotes | ||||
| D*Con Report! | The Signal: Season 9, Episode 7 | shownotes | ||||
| Passion of Mal | The Signal: Season 9, Episode 8 | shownotes | ||||
| Interviews at D*Con | The Signal: Season 9, Episode 7 | shownotes | ||||
| Rose City Comic Con | The Signal: Season 9, Episode 7 | shownotes | ||||
| Firefly RPG Corebook review | The Signal: Season 10, Episode 2 | shownotes | ||||
| Review: Serenity Firefly Class 03-K64 Leaves on the wind | The Signal: Season 10, Episode 1 | shownotes | ||||
| Review: Firefly Board Game | The Signal: Season 10, Episode 3 | shownotes | ||||
| Review Leaves on the Wind | The Signal: Season 10, Episode 5: The Last Show | shownotes | ||||