TV Reviews
Adam-12: Wednesday Warrior
Adam-12: Wednesday Warrior is the final episode of the fourth season for this wonderful police drama which stars Martin Milner and Kent McCord as Officers Pete Malloy and Jim Reed. Gary Crosby returns as Officer Ed Wells, and he has an important role in this outing. It …
That Girl: 7 1/4 - Part 2
In the second part of 7 1/4, a third season show from the hit comedy, That Girl, Ann Marie and Don Hollinger are in California. He’s writing a story for his magazine, while Ann is hoping to get an acting job. Early on, there’s a bit where …
The Twilight Zone: The Shelter TV Show
From 1961, the third year of this classic science fiction series, The Twilight Zone: The Shelter is another one that focuses on the human condition; specifically, the desire to survive no matter the cost.
The setup has a bunch of neighborhood friends enjoying dinner together as they celebrate one of …
Torchwood
My husband began watching Torchwood reruns on the internet awhile back. I am not really into sci-fi television, but I do like this show. It is about a special ops team that deals with aliens and alien artifacts. They also deal with a rift that allows things from the …
Doctor Who: Season 5, Episode 12: The Pandorica Opens
So we come to the first part of the fifth season’s finale, and man, does it manage to cram a lot into the 47 minute run time. The first few minutes jump around to various historical eras. This allows us to see some past characters like Van Gogh, …
The Apprentice U.K.: S6, Ep 4 TV Show
The United Kingdom of The Apprentice with Lord Alan Sugar continued with this sixth season the show, the fourth of the job interview. In the show, the teams are pitched products and have to choose two to back and sell to store buyers. This is not a …
TV Show: 24 Hour Restaurant Battle
My wife and I had some free time before our regular shows came on last night and ended up once again trying to clear something off our DVR. What we ended up watching was a show called 24 Hour Restaurant Battle.
I wasn’t really sure what to think of this …
Stargate SG-1: Crystal Skull
Stargate SG-1: Crystal Skull is an excellent episode of this great science fiction series. It brings a bit of personal into the mission picture as Daniel Jackson’s maternal grandfather is an intricate part of the story.
The essence of Stargate SG-1: Crystal Skull is that Daniel gets out of …
The Simpsons PTA Disbands Season 6 Episode 21
A field trip to Fort Springfield goes horribly wrong when Principal Skinner refuses to pay the entrance fee and the class are caught attempting to “learn for free” by trying to watch a battle re-enactment through a fence. This leads to the Fort Springfield employees chasing the class out …
Adam-12: The Search
From October 1971, Adam-12: The Search is one of the very best episodes of the entire police series. It’s incredibly dramatic, emotional, and angst-ridden in all the very best ways.
In the show, Martin Milner’s Officer Pete Malloy is in a pursuit of a criminal when his vehicle crashes, …
Family Guy TV Episode: 420 (Season 7, Episode 12)
Synopsis: In honor of the 420 holiday (4/20 is a big holiday for people who want marijuana legalized), this episode has Brian being arrested for drugs and then forming a campaign to legalize marijuana.
What I liked about this episode: Overall, this episode honestly wasn’t anything overly special compared to …
South Park - Jersey Thing
Just hearing this title had me curious. I mean, what is the Jersey Thing? The only explanation that the episode had about what a Jersey Thing is, is just the mean and annoying excuses that people from New Jersey use when …
Fireball XL5: Wings of Danger
Fireball XL5: Wings of Danger has some neat moments to it and at the center of the show is something basic to human nature — revenge. Okay, so it’s aliens who want the revenge. It’s the group from Planet 46 (the first episode of Fireball XL5, in …
Remington Steele: Steele Belted TV Show
From season one in November 1982, Remington Steele: Steele Belted was fairly interesting. It began with Steele’s condo being ransacked, though Laura Holt doesn’t seem to care. It’s not until he ends up in the middle of things himself, that Holt lets Steele in on the current …
Have Gun - Will Travel: The Wager
Have Gun - Will Travel: The Wager is a second season episode from this half-hour series that starred Richard Boone as the gunfighter, Paladin. Though the performers are very good, I actually didn’t enjoy this episode very much, and there’s one big reason for that. Overacting.
Boone is …
House: Teamwork
Well, once again, the show House seems to be changing the cast again. At least they managed to bring back Thirteen and, since there really wasn’t any point in her, got rid of Cameron (though I have a feeling we’ll see her again).
This wasn’t a bad episode either. You …
Boston Public
Boston Public is a show about high school students and their teachers. the show focuses primarily on the teachers and how they interact with troubled kids. Each episode deals with a different scenario between teacher and student.
I really enjoyed this show and was saddened when it was …
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Defenders of Peace
It’s rare for any show to expect the people who watch it to think, and rarer for a cartoon, but The Clone Wars on rare occasion attempts just that. This episode is based around a small tribe of people who want peace at any cost.
They are willing to abandon …
VH1’s Brooke Knows Best
The daughter of Hulk Hogan breaks away from the usual series and embarks on a series of her own. Now that the Hogan Knows Best show is over, Brooke has basically moved out of the familyhome after the divorce of her parents and launched her own series. Moving to …
A Certain Justice - Part 1
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 …
Trinity Blood episode 3
Teardrops of hatred, spoiling the land with its wrath, without coherence or mercy for that part. This is episode 3 of Trinity blood and the starting point of the major story arcs, in this case the Istvan “Star of Sorrow” two part story arc. You are introduced to Sister …
TV show The Office
The Office is my favorite show on network television. The entire case is great! At first, I thought that Steve Carell just dominated the series with his portrayal of the bumbling office manager Michael Scott. Carell’s sense of comic timing is superb. Most all the …
Big Bang Theory - The Terminator Decoupling
“The Terminator Decoupling” is the episode of The Big Bang Theory originally airing on CBS on March 9, 2009. This episode was saved by great chemistry (over the telephone) between Sheldon and Penny. The rest of the episode was light on laughs.
Pros: Sheldon was featured in …
The Black Tower - Part 2
The Black Tower - Part 2 continued to hold my interest fully, which is the first of the Dalgliesh murder mysteries to have that effect. Based on the P.D. James novel, this television version of the book stars Roy Marsden as Inspector Adam Dalgliesh and Pauline Collins as …
Spongebob Squarepants Season Two: Sailor Mouth
One day while Spongebob was taking out the trash he noticed that there was quite a bit of graffitti on the garbage dumpster. He couldn’t believe that some people would do such a thing to the Krusty Krab’s property. He starts to read some of the things that are …
Big Brother: Finale Part 1 9-9-10 TV Show
The first episode of the two part Big Brother finale from its twelfth season aired on September 9, 2010. The show picked up where the previous one had ended, which was in the middle of an adventurous Head Of Household competition. Actually, it’s the first part of …
Fullmetal Alchemist Episode 1
Fullmetal Alchemist Episode 1 begins with two brothers, Edward and Alphonse, performing a ceremony involving a transmutation circle. We hear an explanation of Alchemy and then we see that it backfired and that Ed is hurt and Al has disappeared, it cuts to four years later when Ed …
House: Wilson
Last night’s episode of House was actually quite good. It still didn’t have a case that was overly hard to diagnose but at least Wilson got more air time than a quick cameo appearance. In fact, the entire episode was really about him and his involvement with one of …
Batman Versus Dracula
OK, just when I thought cartoons based on comic books have gone a bit too far, there is another one that pops up. Batman vs. Dracula is one of the examples of it.
The Batman character has gone through a few transformations over the years and the Cartoon Network version …
Wagon Train: The Geneva Balfour Story
The Geneva Balfour Story of Wagon Train had a very nice cast, including Peter Brown, Sherry Jackson, and Robert Lansing. It’s one of the more intense stories of the seventh season. The weather is scorching, and the supplies for crossing the terrain are low in numbers. …
Law and Order SVU Season 1 Episode 19- Contact
Law and Order SVU Season 1 Episode 19- Contact
I really loved this episode. I thought it was absolutely coming in. Just because of the story that they have come up with. This is not just another crime investigation, this was absolutely interesting and unusual. I …
The Andy Griffith Show: Andy Discovers America TV Show
Someone finally fit the bill that the producers of The Andy Griffith Show were looking for. I think Aneta Corsaut was super as Helen Crump, Opie’s teacher, but I’m really not sure why she was better than Joanna Moore. Whatever the reason, we meet Miss Crump for …
Glee
Glee is a television series about a bunch of misfit kids who join the Glee club for various reasons including wanting to become a star and wanting to fit in. The show is based around a teacher who loved Glee Club when he was a student and his …
Psych: Weekend Warriors
Like I mentioned in another review, I ended up watching a couple more episodes of the show Psych before bed last night. One of those episodes was a half-way funny episode entitled “Weekend Warriors.”
This one has Shawn and Gus posing as Civil War reenactors after someone appears to be …
Supernatural Season 4
I’ve been a die-hard fan of Supernatural for four years now, watching it religiously since it first started in 2005. It originally attracted me by offering several hour-long, semi-related horror stories. While the story has since deviated from the original premise, delving deeper into the characters’ lives over the …
Centennial: For as Long as the Waters Flow
The worst thing about Centennial: For as Long as the Waters Flow is that we’ve lost the wonderful character of Elly Zendt, played so nicely by Stephanie Zimbalist. In reality, she was only around for one episode and for such a great character, it was a shame to …
Wagon Train: The Robert Harrison Clarke Story
Another of my favorite ninety minute, color episodes of Wagon Train is The Robert Harrison Clarke Story. It guest stars Michael Rennie, who was a terrific actor. He plays Clarke, an Englishmen who is traveling through the west to basically disprove the many things he’s read in …
Fireball XL5: Prisoner on the Lost Planet
I got a huge kick out of Fireball XL5: Prisoner on the Lost Planet, which is one of 39 shows of the series created by Gerry Anderson. Some of the things I enjoyed about this episode:
Commander Zero is one of those good tough guys. He likes to …
Whatever with Alexis and Jennifer: Series Premier TV Show
Whatever with Alexis and Jennifer is described as being so not your mother’s talk show. My initial reaction from watching their 2010 series premier is darn, it should be. These two women have apparently hosted a radio show for the past five years and now have …
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: 2nd Gig Episode 7
Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex 2nd Gig Episode 7 has Section 9 transporting some plutonium to a safe play away from where the refugees are.
This episode was very well done and it was very interesting and revealed some of the interesting plot and it might …
The Simpsons Season 3 Episode 3 When Flanders failed
Ned invites The Simpsons for a barbecue party. Homer decides to stay at home while the rest of the family goes. However he finally ends up at the party. Ned announces that he is opening his “Left-handed” store. Homer is jealous of him and wishes that Ned goes bankrupt. …
Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Naked Now
Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Naked Now is just bad. Just plain bad. The first episode to air after the series premier is a comedy show that has very few actually humorous parts and is riddled with nonsensical lines of dialogue tied in with awkward performances. Boy …
Diagnosis Murder: All American Murder TV Show
Episode three of season three is Diagnosis Murder: All American Murder. We continue to learn tiny tidbits of Amanda’s marriage to Colin Livingston, who she married in the off-season. They have to remind the audience because she’s very pregnant. They even did another Jack reference, talking …
So You Think You Can Dance - One of Six Voted Off TV Show
Well, actually, the title is a misnomer, and I’m not sure that I agree with the decision for the One of Six Voted Off episode of So You Think You Can Dance.
The five dancing competitors opened the show with an entertaining, Bob Fosse number. I liked this routine, …
Trinity Blood Six “The Sword Dancer”
In the gloom of post-apocalyptic Amsterdam, a flash of light from a man sheathed in darkness. Gently he flies across the air and executes the righteous judgment against the wicked vampires whom forsaken the day, for the gloomy joys of the night abyss. This is “Sword Dancer”, the sixth …
To Boldly Go … Season Two featurette
To Boldly Go … Season Two featurette includes some great comments about some of the classic episodes which aired during the second season of Star Trek. This includes the wonderful and most popular episode, The Trouble with Tribbles, which just about everyone calls the one and only comedy …
House: The Down Low
I will admit, last night’s episode of House was a refreshing episode. It had an interesting case and the side stories weren’t too bad either.
First, the case was fantastic. You have a drug dealer, who turns out to be an undercover cop, who is brought in with some sort …
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