This review is of the American television show Modern Family, Season two episode 4, “strangers on a treadmill.” This episode gets it’s name from a reference to the movie strangers on a train where two strangers agree to kill someone for the other one so that the person close …

I thoroughly enjoy this series as it remind of such winners as ER and Hill Street Blues. The cast of unknowns and minor experienced actors is just perfect. I enjoy these characters and weekly root for such friends as Sully, Faith, Carlos, Kim, Boscorelli, …

Medium: Talk to the Hand had a very different beginning. The opening teaser has Alison with Mr. Bill about safety. Mr. Bill was such a contemporary figure a couple of decades back. I was never that amused with him, but once you see him, it’s hard …

These commercials are soooo funny. I like the one where the three guys are at a hot party. At first, because you see the first one wearing a white shirt and black tie, you think that he is just a guest. But by the time …

The Andy Griffith Show: The New Housekeeper is the delightful first episode of this landmark TV series. This one deals with the arrival of Beatrice Taylor to take care of Andy Taylor and his son, Opie. Some of my thoughts on this episode follow:
–The opening scene is …

The sixth entry for the third season of Highway Patrol, which stars Broderick Crawford as Chief Dan Mathews, was called Hostage Family Copter. Yes, it’s another show that features the helicopter. This crime drama loved showcasing this mode of transportation, which as we all know today can …

Out of all the seasons and all the episodes of CSI New York, season 8 episode 1 was the least enjoyable. Actually it was really painful and boring to watch. I think that they had a good idea, but it could have been done much better.
This year it is …

Hawkeye goes on a sleepwalking binge in M*A*S*H: Hawk’s Nightmare. Having nightmares he doesn’t want to admit to or think about, Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda) begins to sleepwalk, doing things to confuse the personnel like playing basketball, shooting invisible marbles, and talking about old school friends and …

Well, we finally get introduced to Booth’s brother in the episode The Con Man in the Meth Lab and find out the importance of not judging someone a saint on first impressions. Sure, he seemed perfectly charming to Bones and just about everyone else meeting him for the first …

The Ray Bradbury Theater: Tomorrow’s Child, which was one of the last episodes of this science fiction series to air back in August 1992, started out with a neat shot of a vessel speeding across the water. As we closed in, we saw that it was being driven …

I’m not sure, but it really seems like the show Bones is starting to go downhill a bit ever since they insisted on focusing on Booth and Brennan as a potential couple.
Last night’s episode, The Predator in the Pool, didn’t do much to make me think otherwise either. While …

Alias Smith and Jones: Stagecoach Seven is one of my favorite episodes for this hit ABC western series. One of the reasons for that is that Randolph Mantooth (Johnny Gage on Emergency!) guest stars as Dan Loomis. Actually, the cast is really very good in this show …

Things are changing on Due South. This two-parter, Victoria’s Secret, has a different opening. I don’t know yet if that was just for this episode, or if it’s a transition for more things. One thing that definitely is altering, though, is the presentation of the …

‘Would I Lie to You?’ is a funny game show on BBC1, with television personalities, but mainly comedians, as contestants. This show has been around since 2007 but I only discovered it recently, since the the role of the host was taken over by one of my favourite …

In Diagnosis Murder: Death in the Daytime, Amanda Bentley (Victoria Rowell) wins a walk-on appearance on the soap opera, The Young and the Restless. Naturally, everyone is happy for her and they all want to go with her. Someone does die, along with members of the Y …

I think this season may have kept MASH going for a couple of more years just because the episodes, though not as funny, definitely made you think more about the mental effects of war.
First Hawkeye needs to reply to a letter written by a kid who lost his brother …

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Saboteur, show 24 of this science fiction program, is one of duplicity. The first thing we see are several electrical arcs, but it’s not from weather or some machine malfunction; rather, we see Captain Lee Crane (David Hedison) being brainwashed. …

This is a fun show that I think I learn a lot from. While a lot of the advice is not necessarily applicable to my life, it’s interesting to see what other people have done and what the solution is.
There is of course a certain sense of humour …

In this second episode of the classic British Sitcom Red Dwarf, Dave Lister (Craig Charles) and his holographic and not so chum, Arnold Rimmer (Chris Barrie) find themselves experiencing some strange occurences on the lost in deep space and drifting mining ship Red Dwarf. Suddenly the crew is experiencing …

It had to happen sooner or later and as it turns out, it happened in the third season of this hit comedy series about the Korean War. In M*A*S*H: Iron Guts Kelly, a general arrives for a stopover at the 4077th. With General Kelly is his number …

Have Gun - Will Travel: The Bostonian was a waste of viewing time in my book. I just felt like I’d seen versions of this tale many times, not the least of which were in other episodes of this western series. What amazes me is that it …

This was not the Highlander we all know and love. The Duncan in this movie was dark and brooding and unsure of himself. The movie was choppy-it didn’t have a good flow. There wasn’t much information about the characters and how they all came together. It didn’t …

The Virginian: Rope of Lies is aptly named. Of course, it could just as easily be chain of fools. The short of the matter is that everything is manipulated by a beautiful lady, who manages to convince just about all the men in her life to do …

Dr. Phil was made famous primarily due to Oprah’s belief in his unique ability to provide guidance and support to those undergoing serious bouts of identity crisis, depression, or other internal issues. It was then that Dr. Phil branched off and got his own tv show. The …

“Flashpoint” is the 23rd episode of season one of Justice League Unlimited. This is easily one of the best episodes of the season, even without a big knockdown dragout fight between the heroes and any supervillian. The episode is so great because it starts the beginning of …

I recently rented a DVD of episodes from the show Clifford the Big Red Dog for my daughter. And, even though I wasn’t watching it with her very closely, some of the episodes managed to stick out in my head. One of those was “Mac’s Secret Dog Club.”
I liked …

Shark Week is a series of nature specials on sharks that airs every year on the Discovery Channel. Every year, five or six different episodes of nature shows on sharks make up this collection of programs. This particular episode, how not to become shark bait, focuses on …

CHiPs: Repo Man features Mills Watson as the repo man. In other words, he’s in the repossession business. Unfortunately, he doesn’t have a lot of tact and he does a lot of underhanded things to get the job done. Quite honestly, I’ve never enjoyed Watson as …

Well, since I was up anyway after watching Project Runway, I did take the time to watch Models of the Runway again (though I do think the show is getting a bit on the boring side now).
For the most part, it was pretty much the same old stuff. A …

I like to watch an excellent show, if I am going to take the time out to watch television. I have found that ‘Charmed’, is one of those kind of shows that is a series, yet, has a start and a finish to each show. I like that. …

Undercovers: Xerxes continued the spying adventures of Steven and Samantha Bloom, a husband and wife team who also own a catering business. However, this is now a sideline as the two have been recruited to go on missions yet again for the Central Intelligence Agency.
Below are a few …

Here Come the Brides: Loggerheads gives us some tension between the show’s three heroes. I’m referring to Jason, Joshua, and Jeremy Bolt, played respectively by Robert Brown, David Soul, and Bobby Sherman. We learn early on that Joshua has a new idea about profit sharing that he …

I don’t watch a lot of PBS (Public Broadcasting System) shows and never have. I just didn’t grow up watching the dramas too much, probably because so much of it is British and the culture was strange to me as a child. I didn’t know what they …

From November 1963, The Twilight Zone: The Old Man in the Cave has its moments, but it’s not really a favorite episode. It’s more odd than appealing, and I’ve never found it to be all that satisfying as entertainment goes.
Apparently, some bomb has gone off, and the world …

Produced in 2004, the War and Remembrance: The Making of War and Remembrance featurette opens with one of the promotional ads for this lengthy mini-series which aired on ABC in 1988. From there, viewers are introduced to Dan Curtis who produced, directed, and co-wrote the mammoth war picture. …

My daughter brought home a book from the library called Knuffle Bunny and I have to admit, it is one of the better books I’ve read to her.
This one actually reminded me a bit of our youngest daughter. Basically, you have a little girl who can’t speak yet but …

Just like always the crime scene investigation team is struggling to solve the murder cases while fighting the melancholy and the pain of their personal life. It was a really great episode, only the very last few minutes of the show were a little bit over the top, or …

Brenda Song is a rising Disney star. She plays a big role in the popular Disney Channel series The Suit Life of Zack and Cody. Her role is a rich heiress of the Tipton. Her father owns the hotel and is a billionaire. Of course, if you dad is …

I’ve asked it before and I’ll ask it again. What the heck is Dennis Rodman doing on Celebrity Apprentice? If I didn’t know before that the man is a self-absorbed idiot, I do now. His confrontation with Clint Black was childish; except it was also dangerous. …

The Andy Griffith Show: Andy and Opie’s Pal, from January 13, 1964, was one of the few episodes where Opie’s human fallacies came out.
One of the good things about The Andy Griffith Show is that the characters weren’t perfect. Andy frequently misjudges people. He apologizes, a …

Since Phineas Bogg was a pirate, it makes since that a show would be done about pirates and that came to pass with Voyagers!: Old Hickory and the Pirate, which aired during the November sweeps season of 1982. In this case, it’s all about Jean Lafitte being accused …

This was another episode where the bad guys were foreign, and not only that but they were Russians, which in this show is even worst, although Olga is a Russian woman and she works on the project, it is almost as if the show wanted to make it seem …

I tend to like watching certain genres of Japanese animation especially if I feel that they have a very interesting plot and characters, but for some reason I find many of those hard to encounter these days, especially when it comes to new anime. Therefore, what I did was …

Ricardo Montalban guest stars in Hawaii Five-O: Samurai. He’s a crime boss in Hawaii who is being investigated by the grand jury. There’s a lot of mystery going on, including the death of Mary Travis, a witness against him who dies while testifying, and assassins from Japan …

The pilot for the new series, My Generation, takes a look at the class of 2000, beginning with a video yearbook opening. This was somewhat attention getting as it still has the usual characters for high school and colleges, like the beauty queen and the jock.
However, the show …

The Marvelous Treasure Machine is an episode of Sea Hunt that has also been referred to as Continental Rift. Unfortunately, shows don’t always show their name titles when they air, and Sea Hunt is one of those. Therefore, I can’t say for sure which episode title is …

A one-hour show presented by Ms. Amanda Lamb was a great change from other various reality shows dominating the TV landscape today.

What I liked about the show was its format. It was pretty straightforward. There were no contentious flare-ups and me-against-the-world drama between participants that seemed customary in almost all …

I have only seen the first part of the Simpsons episode Million Dollar Abie so I was glad to be able to watch the entire thing yesterday afternoon. It turned out to be pretty good.
Basically, in this episode, Springfield has a chance to land an NFL team (despite the …

This episode revolves around SG1 bringing an artifact back to the SGC, only to have it “snap them in the ass,” as General Hammond says.
After finding an orb on a planet that resembles the moon, Daniel and Sam make a case to bring it back to earth with them. …