The best and worst of small time life is shown in this second season episode of The Andy Griffith Show. Mayberry Goes Bankrupt aired in October 1961 and dealt with how the town handled the situation of Frank Myers (Andy Clyde), a nice older gentleman who lived in …

I, like most people, was somewhat skeptical when it was announced that Doomsday, the infamous monster who killed Superman, would be coming to Smallville. It seemed odd when they announced that Doomsday was going to be played by Sam Witwer as a paramedic with a dark side. …

While the shadow of an eclipse darkens ephemerally planet Earth, a number of people begin to realize that they have extraordinary abilities. Peter Petrelli, a nurse whose brother Nathan is running for Congress, dreams he can fly. Hiro Nakamura, a Japanese office worker, learns he can travel through space …

From November 1961, The Andy Griffith Show: Opie’s Hobo Friend had a superb guest star. Buddy Ebsen appeared as David Browne, a hobo who is befriended by Opie Taylor (Ron Howard).
Ebsen’s laid back manor and easy going acting ability really sells the audience on Browne being a hobo. …

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 …

I was home at lunch today and came across a Home Improvement episode, “Adventures in Fine Dining” that I could relate to.
This episode featured the three boys on the show putting up a ruckus at a restaurant (something our daughter is bad about too) and prompting Tim to show …

Code Geass Episode 1 is a Japanese Anime that recently aired on Adult Swim last year. It’s about a high school student named Lelouch Vi Britannia, who is very smart and academically gifted. He lives in a world where Britannia took over the world and conquered Japan. …

On a new world, Vincent Law awakes to life outside of rondo and is appalled by what he sees. There is life outside of the domes, and now he must escape. This is the deep and philosophical anime Ergo Proxy, episode 4. On the outside world, there is a …

I really enjoy watching this show in the morning. I enjoy the first twenty minutes of it the most. The host chat is definitely the highlight of the show, and I enjoy the new segment they have added to the end of the show, where Regis and Kelly read …

I’m not really a fan of Will Smith or his wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith, but there wasn’t anything else on TV on Monday, May 17, 2010, so I tuned into Oprah and ended up spending a pretty enjoyable hour learning about the Smith family and how they live. Remembering …

2 funny episodes in a row. I’m going to go ahead and take that as a good sign. It took a while, but these characters are starting to step up. Oh, I doubt they’ll ever be as great as the original crew, but no show has …

Synopsis: Shawn and Gus investigate the murder of a paleontologist who appears to have been killed by a dinosaur bite.
What I liked about this episode: This is a classic episode that shows what made this series great and will make you miss the good old days if you see …

The group steals some fire nation clothes so that they can fit in without having to resort to hiding in caves all the time. By and large, the plan works rather well, except that Aang gets mistaken for a student playing hookie and is enrolled in school.
Sokka’s skeptical, …

Remington Steele: License to Steele was the first episode of what would become a successful drama for five years on the NBC Network. The show starred Stephanie Zimbalist as private detective, Laura Holt, and Pierce Brosnan as her fictional detective and agency head, Remington Steele.
Basically, Laura Holt was …

Tila Tequila is a reality show which has now had two seasons. Warning: Spoilers; The first season bobby won, but he could not deal with her fame, so they had to let it go. The second season, she chose Kristy, who then did not want her, so instead of …

M*A*S*H: A War for All Seasons goes through the year1951 told in one thirty-minute show, which further points out how crazy it is that this show lasted almost five times the length of the actual war, which went from 1950-1953. This would mean that the first eight seasons …

First of all, I did not expect that I would learn to love CW’s One Tree Hill series. I have been a loyal viewer of the series since the airing of its first season when its characters were in their teenage years. Now it has made to its sixth …

The most emotional portion of Centennial: The Crime is the demise of Oliver Seccombe. He was an interesting character because he did do some bad things, such as running out on Levi and Elly Zendt, leaving them to fend for themselves; , claiming not to be responsible for …

I am reviewing The Dancing Men, a Sherlock Holmes adventure from the boxed set Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, produced in 1983 by Granada Television. In this episode, Holmes is employed by Hilton Cubit, who brings Holmes some curious drawings of stick figured men, who appear to be dancing …

OK, I’ll admit the Simpsons episode The Frying Game was both interesting and funny.
I’m not sure where to begin with this one. You have Homer being sentenced to community service because he accidentally injures a rare screaming caterpillar. And, during his meals on wheels work, comes across a rich …

Aang and crew come across a forest that was razed and burnt to the ground by the fire nation armies. Aang mourns the loss of the forest, but Katara cheers him up by showing him acorns, indicating that the forest will grow back in time.
They come across an …

This episode was really trying to be like the early seasons, it had all the same elements, but I still find it lacking. Lucy is amicable enough and Cole is good for a laugh or two but there is still no real connection with any of these characters.
Thankfully, …

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 …

The 8th show of Black Gold’s third season on the air was, well, lackluster and highly repetitive in my opinion. In essence, the hour picks up where they left off in the 7th show with the workers letting off steam at the bar, only that is where a …

Hey, you should be proud of me. A new television series came on TV and, not only did I watch it, I actually got to see the first episode of it (that rarely happens).
But, after watching The Secret Life of the American Teenager on ABC Family, I really find …

Code Geass Episode 9 focuses on Kallen and her daily life as a student; we also learn about her mother and learn that she has a tragic home life, along with her double life at school.
I did think that this episode was very interesting and it gave Kallen more …

Have Gun - Will Travel: The Great Mojave Chase, episode 3 of season 1, starts out with some fun humor, all stemming from Paladine buying a camel to take across the Mojave Desert. It creates quite a stir. Written by Gene Roddenberry, the best part was the …

That lovely doctor of space medicine Venus gets to co-pilot in Fireball XL5: Mystery of the TA2. The TA2 was an early ship from decades ago. When part of the wreck is discovered, Colonel Steve Zodiace and his XL5 crew go in search of the TA2’s captain, …

Any fan of the original Shining movie will know Stephen King wasn’t best pleased with Kubrick’s adaptation, and in this mini-series, King has the chance to rectify those issues and bring in ignored elements of the book.
The story is the same, the Torrence family spend the winter in …

Our youngest daughter decided to sleep in this morning and, since I didn’t have to take care of her while my wife got our oldest ready for school, I decided to sit down and watch an episode of Married with Children entitled Sixteen Years and What do You Get.
This …

I had the Simpsons on yesterday afternoon and, for a change, the channel wasn’t showing a repeat that I had seen several dozen times before. Instead, they had a newer episode (at least for me) called Skinner’s Sense of Snow.
This episode was a bit bizarre at times and I …

From season 1 of Have Gun - Will Travel, The Hanging Cross was a magnificent holiday show. Written by Gene Roddenberry, this was a very different Christmas experience. In fact, the entire structure of the show was innovative in that it deviated from the standard opening.
The …

Avatar: The Last Airbender Episode 5 begins with Aang, Katarra and Sokka traveling to the city of Omashu, where a friend of Aang’s once lived. They get into trouble after destroying part of the city using the transportation shoots as slides and Aang’s skills as the Avatar are …

I’m inside today with a sick child and sick wife so I’m having a marathon of sorts by watching old Psych episodes. This included the season 1 episode “Spellingg Bee.”
This was a good episode for a couple reasons. First, I like how they introduce Lassiter’s new partner by having …

This is show is so great. I only caught it during the second season but instantly fell in love with it. The characters are very well developed and you learn something new about them every episode as well as clues to their past and how it relates …

From season three of MacGyver, we get an episode called Ghost Ship that is so fun to watch. The Phoenix Foundation is part of a project that will survey the environment in a wilderness area in Alaska. The survey will help them environmentally to save the land. …

Synopsis: A man who becomes an instant hero for saving a woman in the subway collapses shortly after his rescue and House and his team must find out why. At the same time, House meets Cuddy’s mom for the first time and Taub must deal with the fact his …

Stargate SG-1: Threshold is focused on trying to undo the brainwashing that Apophis had done on Teal’c, who now believes the Goa’uld is a god and that he is his First Prime. To try and get Teal’c back mentally, Bra’tac returns to the SGC to proceed with a …

I wasn’t really excited about last night’s episode of Ghost Hunters; well, at least not from the paranormal end of things.
I liked the fact they were investigating the famous site of the Hindenburg explosion and there was quite a bit of history about the wreck explained that I didn’t …

With the new changes with the netorks, you can always expect Saturday morning catrtoons from Cartoon Network. Since the WB has cancelled Pokemon from their list, you kids are missing you catching. Well now you can catch them on Cartoon Network. Saturday mornings, you can catch Pokemon at 9 …

Bart takes an interest in doing magic tricks. Homer thinks it will be good to earn this way. However they hardly earn anything from the magic show. However they try out another way of earning, by conning people. Bart and Homer look for inspiration from a book, for tips …

Beast Wars - Bad Spark is, I think, about the darkest and most chilling episode of the entire series. In this episode, a stasis pod unlike any other is discovered and Optimus reveals what exactly was in it and what he was ordered to do with it. The Transformer …

Trigun Episode 13 is a recap episode and recaps the first 12 episodes of the series, without being repetitive and boring; it shows the highlights of the series and gives Vash even more character development. It’s an excellent episode and not bad for a recap.
It explains what’s happened …

If you like to watch stand up comedy a great new reality show called Last Comic Standing is for you. They start out with l6 contestants and week after week they are given challenges which evolve around performing stand up. The audience votes and the next week …

CHiPs: CHP-BMX has some extra added drama to it when Sergeant Getraer (Robert Pine) has a family crisis. After a bike race, his young son is hit by a car and is taken to the hospital in serious condition. What amazes me is that Getraer goes to …

The 28th episode of Sea Hunt’s second season was called Underwater Ejection and focused on deep sea diver Mike Nelson, portrayed by Lloyd Bridges, hunting down nose cones from space craft. The man has some interesting jobs, that’s for sure.
Mike Nelson opens the show with an injury, which …

Mobile Suit Gundam 00 episode 1 begins with a young boy named Setsuna fighting in a war as a child. He is rescued by someone in a mysterious suit called a Gundam. He joins the organization called Celestial Being which seeks to eliminate war.
This episode is pretty …

Cover Her Face - Part 4 has Chief Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh still searching for the murderers of Stavros Veludis and Sally Jupp. Based on the P.D. James murder mystery, this television version of the novel has moved fairly well thus far.
A character I haven’t talked about yet who …

From 1959, The Loretta Young Show: Sister Ann starred Loretta Young in this recurring character of Sister Ann. This series was an anthology show that lasted for several seasons. Loretta appeared in several of the stories throughout the seasons, but not all. This role of Sister …

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 …