Always bucking the system and putting their patient’s first, Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda) and Trapper John McIntyre (Wayne Rogers) treat a North Korean, much to the consternation of Frank Burns (Larry Linville) in M*A*S*H: Germ Warfare. In fact, Frank complains to Colonel Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson), who tells …

Verizon launched its television service, FIOS TV, about two years ago. I am lucky enough to live in one of their testing areas and was very excited about the prospect of having my TV, phone, internet and cell phone all from one company - and on one bill.
We …

“Brother Tom” is an episode of “The Jeffersons”. In this episode, Tom starts to feel that Helen isn’t as happy as she could possibly after seeing how she enthusiastically talked and acted with a couple of black friends that she knew from high school. Tom feels that needs to …

Before my father bought this dvd for himself, I had never heard of the comedy series “The Gods Must Be Crazy”. I was not very eager to watch it either, even though I like comedies, and when I overheard my father watching it for the first time, I was …

I haven’t watched too many episodes of The Simpsons lately, other than some of the older re-runs that they show at 6 p.m. during the week. But, I did get a chance to watch a newer episode last night (though still in re-run); The Good, The Sad and the …

Wagon Train: The Melanie Craig Story was a hoot and one of the best non-Robert Fuller episodes of Wagon Train. Fuller actually missed several episodes due to an accident, so it’s a long stretch without seeing Cooper Smith. Still, this story had some fun in it.
Melanie …

No Exit was labeled the season finale of the Jada Pinkett Smith drama show, Hawthorne. There have been just 10 episodes in this very short season, but for the most part, they’ve been decent ones. This one in particular was extremely intense and compelling. It was …

Fireball XL5: Space City Special is a wonderful, terrific, and very special episode of this puppet TV series. I believe it was probably the season ender, or shown at a break because it aired in June and then there is a break until the next episode aired in …

For a show that got canceled twice before, Family Guy had been doing a great job in giving exactly what it had promised, 30 minutes of funny jokes and scenes where you ask yourself what movies they took that from. Yet, …

The Devil You Know, from season 3 of Stargate SG-1, concludes the events begun in the prior episode, entitled Jolinar’s Memories. For me, this second part is so much more exciting to watch.
On a mission to rescue Sam’s father, Jacob, from hell, otherwise known as Netu, SG-1 become …

Emergency! is an astounding, groundbreaking TV series that aired on NBC beginning in 1972. The show’s star was Robert Fuller. Now this is offbeat casting, but that’s how Jack Webb wanted. Webb loved to go for things that were different and having cowboy veteran performer Fuller …

Finally, a season six show worth watching. It’s one of three. Stargate SG-1: Abyss is the return of Daniel Jackson, sort of. Now Ascended, Daniel shows up to help Jack, who has been implanted with a Tok’ra symbiote. The symbiote took Jack by force to attempt …

The ITV ‘Tonight’ programme subtitled ‘How to Save a Grand in a Day’ is presented by popular television financial expert Martin Lewis and it aired tonight. I am already quite a fan of Mr Lewis as he is always very enthusiastic in giving his easy to digest advice …

As I mentioned in another review, I was watching re-runs of the show Futurama last night since there really wasn’t much else on TV at the time. One of the episodes, entitled Anthology of Interest I, was an episode I had not seen before. However, it quickly became one …

The Andy Griffith Show: Ellie Comes to Town is the show where widower Andy Taylor gets himself a girlfriend in the form of new druggist, Ellie Walker. Elinor Donahue, who viewers watched grow up on Father Knows Best, plays the lady pharmacist, who has come to Mayberry to …

One of my brother’s favourite shows these days is an old American television show named “I Dream of Jeannie”. He will watch it sometimes on the cable television channel Nickelodeon on a program called Nick at Nite and sometimes if I have the time I will watch it with …

This program in the hugely popular Shark Week series on Discovery features the stories of those who were attacked by sharks and survived. It uses interviews with the lucky survivors as well as reenactments to tell their stories.
I have always been afraid of sharks, and despite the interviews …

ULTRAMAN! ULTRAMAN! ULTRAMAN! WOW! ULTRAMAN! IT’S ULTRAMAN! WOW! Yes, it is ULTRAMAN! That cool Japanese superhero who could grow up to superhuman size and battle big dinosaur monsters from outer space. Luckily, he was the Science Patrol helping him, although they never seem to be very successful. This is …

The second season of BBQ Pitmasters premiered this week. I only caught a few token scenes of this series last year, so this is really the first complete show of the show that I’ve seen. I do recognize some of the faces, though, including judge Myron Nixon, …

Zuko and crew continue to look for Aang, employing the bounty hunter that Zuko used back in season 1. Even her mole can’t get a trace on him. According to June, Aang no longer exists.
Aang happens to wake up on a strange island. My thought was …

Tenspeed and Brown Shoe: Savage Says: “There’s No Free Lunch” is the second regular episode of this detective drama, which is really a comedy in drama’s guise, that stars Ben Vereen and Jeff Goldblum.
Here are a few observances about this hour of entertainment which, by the way, was both …

I had the house to myself at lunch today and, as I ended up doing yesterday, I decided to ride the exercise bike that has been collecting dust in a corner of our living room (except for the parts being used as a coat rack) while watching an episode …

This episode of South Park, entitled “Margaritaville”, is meant to be a satire on the response to the failing economy. As the world treats the economy as a living entity, the people fall do everything they can to not spend money as a means of appeasing this economy. This …

I watched Star Trek Voyager season 3 episode 7 just before I left to take the boy scouts camping for our usual week of summer camp. I really enjoy watching this series so much and I am excited that I can finally watch all of the episodes in order …

Trigun Episode 25 begins with Vash recovering in a small town, distraught over the fact that he killed Legato Bluesummers, he doesn’t know what he’s supposed to do and keeps asking Rem what he should do. Meanwhile, Meryl and Milly help him recover while they work digging for …

I suppose season two just isn’t as fun for me as season one of MacGyver was. This is another show that just doesn’t quite tickle my fancy as some others do. It’s plenty watchable, with good moments, but it’s another old flame returning, and not just for …

This animated tale, The Night Before Christmas, is not to be confused with the traditional Father Mouse story of ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas. This is another tale that is more current, in the computer age, in fact, though it does still include a mouse family, only these …

Remington Steele starring Pierce Brosnan and Stephanie Zimbalist was a really fun show that I enjoyed watching for most of its run. The Steele Framed episode was the fifth episode of the second season and actually began with the two leading characters celebrating the one year anniversary of …

One of the series that I’m watching right now is “How to Get Away with Murder”, which airs on the cable television channel ABC. The title actually got my attention a little before it began because of how unique it sounded, and after a while when it premiered, I was …

The forth season of Curb Your Enthusiasm gets rolling quickly. Larry and Cheryl’s tenth anniversary is fast approaching and they make mutual promises to each other as anniversary gifts. Cheryl is granted her wish of renewing their vows at a small ceremony and Larry brings Cheryl up on a …

One of the things I liked about this television show was the introduction. Of course I also liked the plot and I guess I can say that it is one of the most interesting X-Files episodes I have ever seen. In a way the fictitious show “Dumbass” in …

In 1966, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Death Ship aired. It was the 22nd show of the second season. Like always, this science fiction show starred Richard Basehart and David Hedison. It also included one of its larger guest casts in which those …

The Ray Bradbury Theater: The Screaming Woman opens for the second time with a introductory scene that is actually a bit of an adventure with Bradbury in the mountains holding a divining rod. Another man comes up to him, recognizing him as a sci fi writer. In …

I myself love the little mystery shows. I really don’t know why or how, but they grab & keep my attention. But one show that keeps me interested in it is Crime 360; this show is so educational, & so amazing. I never knew about what …

Jekyll was a three part mini-series on BBC and shown on BBC America.
It is considered a “sequel” to the famous story and bring the idea to the current times.
James Nesbitt stars as Tom Jackman. He has already begun transforming into a leerying and menacing Jekyll from the beginning …

Last night’s episode of Monk; Mr. Monk is the Best Man, ended up being a bit predictable but it was actually pretty darn funny too.
Stoddlemeyer ends up proposing to his girlfriend TK (even though they have only been dating for 6 months and seem to rush into the ceremony …

The wonderfully alluring Rhonda Fleming guest stars in Wagon Train: The Patience Miller Story. She plays the title role, a religious woman who speaks in ‘thee’s’ and ‘thou’s’, who arrives to teach school to a combination of Indian and pioneer children. She’s met with some resistance from …

Highway Patrol: Reformed Criminal stars Lee Roberts as a man transporting thousands of dollars when he has an automobile accident. This sics the California Highway Patrol on his trail. The kicker is that the man, Frank Wood, is really Frank McCauley, and he has a troubled …

The Virginian: The Lady from Wichita was a fairly decent episode from this 90 minute western’s sixth season on the air. The Shiloh Ranch was run by John Grainger (Charles Bickford), who is seen minimally in this outing. The regular of note was Doug McClure, whose Trampas …

Operation Repo: is one of the most action-packed shows on TV (with it airing every Monday at 9:30 p.m.). It shows the job of a repo man/woman in “extreme” situations. Unlike most reality shows, Operation Repo shows everything, including them getting shot at up-close. Sometimes characters are actually …

I came home at lunch today and my wife was watching the Bones episode I taped for her last week. I didn’t get a chance to watch it then so I sat down to watch it with her.
It was a halfway decent episode.
Basically, you have a neighborhood throwing a …

It used to be I would only tune into Cartoon Network for their Adult Swim line up after 9:30 at night. Now, I’m watching almost all the time in no small part to their show Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends.
Centering around a foster home for abandoned imaginary friends, the …

Super Mario World - “Born To Ride” is an episode that focuses primarily on Yoshi. The writers have been placing plenty of emphasis on the character, with this being his third episode of heavy focus out of a total of seven, probably because at the time, Yoshi was a …

WOW! This tv series is WOW! Have you seen this? If you haven’t, you should! I’ve watched this series on dvds, I borrowed my aunt’s dvds, she has like every season of them. I never watched them on tv, since I really don’t have …

The episode starts with Homer watching quite a stylish show Eye on Springfield. Lisa is having a slumber party, and they target Bart. Bart somehow escapes the girl’s, but now then they target Maggie and spoil her face with make-up. Homer cannot take any more non-sense and head’s for …

Season Two starts with the second part of the Fisher King. The team is unaware of Elle being shot and are still trying to find out the identity of the unsub. Reid and Garcia figure it out from all the clues and Reid realizes the unsub got his …

The Fugitive: The Cage is not a big favorite of mine. Richard Kimball is in a tiny fish town working when there’s a case of the plague. Risking the wrath of his employer and facing re-capture, he can’t walk away from what he knows to be deadly, …

Boris Karloff hosted the Thriller program with this entry, The Hungry Glass, airing in 1961. It’s a mystery tale full of intrigue. It begins innocently enough with a happy couple arriving in a seaside time to move in to a nice home. What they don’t know …

The Jetsons is a great TV show that started in the 60s. But later there were more shows made in the 80s and the re runs were shown for decades. This is a great show, and I really love how they thought the 21th Century was going to be. The …

Talk about ending the second season on a high note, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea concluded its year with this 26th episode, The Return of the Phantom. This brought back Alfred Ryder as the marvelous Krueger, who first was seen about midway through the year in …