TV Reviews
Stylista TV series
The CW network’s - together with Tyra Banks - indirect answer to the popular Project Runway is Stylista, a TV series that enlists several fashion-oriented individuals to vie for the prize of a much-coveted fashion career at Elle magazine.
Unlike Project Runway, which focuses on creativity and talent easily appreciated …
The Simpsons Season 6 Episode 2 Lisa’s Rival
A new girl at school Alison begins to beat Lisa in every field. Whether it is education, extra-curricular activities, and so on. This makes Lisa very jealous of Alison. She does not get the post in the band, but Alison does. This makes her feel threatened. She decides to …
Lost TV programme
I hate this programme! It frustrates the hell out of me and I am soo glad I can rant about it on this website! It just doesnt make sense. Polar bears??? People living underground and everyone having past lives that are somehow interlinked.
I switch over every time it comes …
I Love Lucy (TV Series) - Lucy Meets Orson Welles (Episode)
“Lucy Meets Orson Welles” is an episode of “I Love Lucy”. In this episode, Orson Welles makes a special appearance, and with his appearance, comes one of the series’ few “serious” scenes where the lines aren’t being delivered with the intention of getting laughs. This scene plays out when …
Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Texas Cowgirl TV Show
The fourth episode of the 1954 TV series Sherlock Holmes had the surprising name of The Case of the Texas Cowgirl. The reason for the surprise is simply that it’s a show taking place in London and yet is about a cowgirl. Specificially, the focus is in …
Legend: Mr. Pratt Goes to Sheridan
One of the things that worked against Legend is that it was on the new UPN network. They didn’t have the stamina to let the series grow and really find its strength. Still, what we do have are a collection of tales in which actors Richard Dean …
The Jetsons
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 …
Have Gun - Will Travel: Saturday Night TV Show
Have Gun - Will Travel: Saturday Night is from the fourth year of this western series. As always, Richard Boone stars as Paladin, gunfighter for hire. This is one of the episodes where the action begins with Paladin not in San Francisco, where he lives at the …
Highway Patrol: Convict’s Wife TV Show
From season two, Highway Patrol: Convict’s Wife revolves around a man who escapes from capture and heads for his wife, from whom he’s separated. She wants to believe the best about him, but she’s essentially going her own way.
Anne Carroll played the wife, Betty Brandon, but I wasn’t …
M*A*S*H: War of Nerves
M*A*S*H: War of Nerves focuses on the troops of the 4077th just getting plain tired and sick of the war. They’re on the edge, frustrated, miserable, lonely, irritable, and all kinds of adjectives that scream they want out. Everyone is driving one another batty, and there just …
Masquerade: Oil
Masquerade: Oil took us to Rome, the city of love, where the National Intelligence Agency operatives were trying to foil the villains of the piece. The villains are a bunch of Arabs who kidnapped Americans in Kuwait. They took the workers from an oil field and locked …
The Virginian: Storm Over Shiloh TV Show
Storm Over Shiloh was the 23rd episode of the 90 minute western The Virginian in its 7th season on the air. This is one of the more ensemble stories, meaning it’s one I tend to enjoy more than others. I’m really not very fond of shows where …
The Good Wife: Mock TV Show
The Good Wife is a show I watch every week, but even as I watch it, it often bothers me. In fact, the more the show goes along, the more I wonder if I might stop watching. This episode called Mock is a perfect example of why …
Harper’s Island Episode 9
Harper’s Island Episode 9 is more exciting than the previous one. This one is more dark and mysterious for me. The fact that the killer is lurking out there and anytime is trying to kill and get more victims make this a more exciting watch than the previous …
That Girl: Should All Our Old Acquaintance Be Forgot
One of the things I like about That Girl is that they celebrate a lot of the holidays, or at least acknowledge them. Some shows may do Christmas, but that’s about it, so this is quite nice. The occasion here is New Year’s Eve, and to welcome …
NCIS: Jeopardy Season 3
When a prisoner turns up dead in an elevator, Ziva has to prove that she did not kill him. To make matters worse, the dead man’s brother insists that he be returned to him, along with the heroin they obtained, or Jenny Shepherd will be killed.
Gibbs puts Gibbs …
The Fall Guy: Scavenger Hunt TV Show
The Fall Guy: Scavenger Hunt was a power punched way to conclude its first year of shows. It opened up extremely strong by showing a scene being filmed in the interior set for the Psycho house. Once again, William Bryant played the director, a part he took …
Surviving the Cut: Air Force Pararescue TV Show
So often we hear about extraordinary missions and fetes accomplished by various military groups. These are bold and daring tasks that most people can barely imagine, let alone accomplish on their own. This is what makes Surviving the Cut a really special TV series. It lets …
Law & Order SVU TV Episode: Possessed
When we decided to watch Law & Order SVU last night, we didn’t know there was going to be two episodes instead of just one. So, instead of going to bed by 9, we ended up staying up an extra hour to watch the second episode called “Possessed.”
At first, …
Medium Season 4 Episode 14 - Car Trouble
Just as every morning Allison wakes up from a dream which is more than just a dream but a message from the dead. In that dream she sees how everything in this world works, from how electricity is generated to how the gas appears in her stove after being …
The Ray Bradbury Theater: The Haunting of the New TV Show
File this one under weird and move on to the next. Actually, to be honest, The Ray Bradbury Theater: The Haunting of the New isn’t the worst of these that I’ve seen, but at the same time, this episode from the science fiction series third year is …
Toddlers and Tiaras TV Show “Fancy Faces”
I am not a pageant mom myself. I did enter a couple of pageants myself as a child, but I would never push my children into pageants if they did not want to do them. My kids are pretty much indifferent to pageants at this point so …
Eli Stone series
I really enjoy this series because it is a well thought out manner of basing a show on the act of doing good deeds for others without seeking a reward. The lead actor playing Eli Stone is very capable of carrying a series. I can believe that …
So You Think You Can Dance
I would prefer to watch So You Think You Can Dance instead of other shows like American Idol or America’s Got Talent because there’s something that stands out to me about that show. I love seeing how many talented people there are out there, and they way that they …
The Fugitive: The Iron Maiden
The first thing I noticed when I watched The Fugitive: The Iron Maiden again was that it guest starred Richard Anderson. Anderson was one of TV’s most used actors from the 60’s to the 80’s. He was on absolutely everything at one point at another, and like …
The Simpsons Season 3 Episode 21 Black Widower
The Simpsons are getting ready to meet Selma’s boyfriend. The kids’s are shocked when they find out that Selma’s boyfriend is Sideshow Bob. Bart is terrified at the sight of him. Sideshow Bob tells them the story of how he got released from jail. Sideshow Bob wins over everyone’s …
M*A*S*H: Peace on Us
It’s a piece of mayhem in M*A*S*H: Peace on Us. Once again, the rigors of the Korean War become unbearable for the doctors and nurses. The whole camp is on edge with everyone being overly testy. Margaret Houlihan (Loretta Swit) is fit to be tied over …
The Twilight Zone: Time Enough at Last TV Show
The Twilight Zone: Time Enough at Last is one of the best, if not the best, episode of the entire series. It’s superbly acted, is an enticing tale, is full of irony, and it just keeps your heart pounding as you watch.
Here are a few ups and downs …
World’s Untold Stories
When I sit in front of TV, I just switch to entertainment programs or some programs that I like. I rarely to watch the everyday news like my husband always do. The other day, my husband asked me to watch CNN news (his favorite program) with him. That show …
Sea Hunt: Killer Rock TV Show
Sea Hunt: Killer Rock opens with deep sea diving expert Mike Nelson in a business suit headed for a meeting with a woman named Evelyn Hodges. She owns a company that wants to take on a dangerous ocean job that is, at the least, explosive.
Lloyd Bridges stars as …
The Andy Griffith Show: The Guitar Player TV Show
I mentioned early on that most of my reviews for the early episodes of The Andy Griffith Show would tend to be glowing. I adore this series and it was so very well produced. That said, there are some shows that I’ve never warmed up to, and …
House Detective
House Detective, on HGTV early Saturday mornings gives you an insiders angle on what to look for when buying a home,not the positives, but the negatives. Home buyers,especially first time home buyers tend to look at the superficial things, the landscaping, the color on the walls, the color …
Adam-12: Million Dollar Buff
Leo Gordon guests stars in Adam-12: Million Dollar Buff from season four of the Jack Webb police series. Gordon is a tall, powerful presence, and in this case, his character of Jennings Thornton is a one-man vigilante. He is continually interfering in police operations, much to Malloy’s …
Kim Possible: Bonding
My daughter is still watching Kim Possible episodes I loaded for her recently and I got a chance to watch one with her last night; Bonding.
This was a somewhat cute episode. Kim and Ron are fighting the bad guy Dr. Dementor and end up getting his new bonding ball …
Sea Hunt: Dead Man’s Cove TV Show
Sea Hunt: Dead Man’s Cove featured Leonard Nimoy as the primary guest star. Nimoy was on the show quite a bit. In this outing, he’s a man who claims his wife died accidentally while they were skin diving. There’s about a five minute scene where he’s …
Law & Order Criminal Intent: Enemy Within
My wife and I watched a season one episode of Law & Order Criminal Intent last night; Enemy Within, that turned out to be a decent episode.
This is, of course, one of the first episodes of the series and involves Goren and Eames having to investigate an arson at …
Voltron: Escape to another planet
I’ve been watching episodes of the old cartoon show Voltron and today was the second episode in the series “Escape to another planet.”
While the animation in this cartoon still remains a bit weak compared to today’s cartoons, the plot itself definitely continues to be interesting; though I’m normally not …
That Girl: I Ain’t Got Nobody
The plot surrounding That Girl: I Ain’t Got Nobody is that Ann’s picture is inexplicably in a major girlie magazine, creating chaos for everyone who knows her and interfering with her attempt to be cast on a children’s show with a character called Captain Gooney (Kenneth Mars).
A positive thing …
Highway Patrol: Lie Detector TV Show
Lie Detector is an intriguing early look at the technology of the lie detector which occurred in this 1956 episode of Highway Patrol.
Actually, the first thing I noticed in Lie Detector is that star Broderick Crawford wasn’t seen in the first several minutes. I don’t believe that’s been …
Smallville Season 7 episode 11
This was a very good episode of Smallville. It involved the return of Oliver Queen/Green Arrow who I love and was pleased to see is back. Lex paying some chick to do his dirty work and get him Green Arrow, Clark and Lana’s already strained relationship.
So the Green …
Dora’s Christmas Carol
I’ve heard about Dora the Explorer for quite a while, and I’ve seen the character’s image here and there, but I’ve never actually seen an episode of the animated show; that is, until I flicked on Dora’s Christmas Carol over the holidays. I just really wanted to watch …
Have Gun - Will Travel: The Return of the Lady
Patricia Medina reprises her role from The Lady as Diana Coulter as she invites Paladin to her wedding in Have Gun - Will Travel: The Return of the Lady. What we learn is that she and Paladin have had a relationship, but she got a little tired of …
Murder Times Seven movie
Murder Times Seven stars Richard Crenna as Frank Janek. This is the 4th of seven movies with the Janek police detective. In this outing, a fellow detective has been murdered and Janek is in charge of the investigation. It’s soon very clear that he and the …
Hawaii Five-O: Once Upon a Time: Part II
The intensity of the first part of this story continues with Hawaii Five-O: Once Upon a Time: Part II. It’s a few months later, and Steve McGarrett’s nephew has died, earning him the wrath of his sister, Mary Ann. She blames her brother for interfering in what …
Bodylicious TV Programme, NDTV Good times
NDTV Times is a TV Channel which started about a couple of years back. This channel addresses the issues of the cosmopolitan and urban global Indian audience. We are avid watchers of this channel. This channel has very interesting programmes like ‘Bodylicious’. This programme has three types of …
Seinfeld: The Boyfriend
I’ve been watching re-runs of Seinfeld late at night (while waiting for my wife to get home from work) and have seen some classic episodes; including “The Boyfriend.”
This is one of the funnier episodes of the series because they manage to get baseball player Keith Hernandez to guest star …
Have Gun - Will Travel: Man Who Struck Moonshine TV Show
From March 1962, the fifth season, Have Gun - Will Travel: Man Who Struck Moonshine is a show with a message about drinking too much. It’s veiled within a story of eerie happenings, but it is about being an alcoholic. It’s about a man with no confidence, …
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