In the opening episode of “Star Wars: The Clone Wars”, Jedi Master Yoda commandeers three clone troopers (Jek, Rys, and Thire) against Count Dooku’s vicious apprentice, Ventress, who has in her possession a much larger droid army. The two sides battle it out on on an important planet to …

One of the early episodes whereby we get to glimpse Phoebe’s busy work-life as a stockbroker or something. Phoebe has a lot of work that she does before she becomes a Massage Assistant and the one whereby she becomes a stockbroker is also when she suffers a mini heart-attack. …

It’s time for the spotlight to fall on Mercury and Venus in this DVD instalment of The Universe, one of the History Channel’s finest series’.
All the usual experts on hand to offer illuminating information and engage the audience with things we never knew, bringing their enthusiasm to the everyman …

From February 1988, The Ray Bradbury Theater: Skeleton focuses on a hypochondriac named Bert Harris (Eugene Levy). This is really one of those weird, out there stories that I’m not even sure how to describe. This guy is so nuts about trying to get a doctor to …

CSI:Miami
PG-13
Pilot Episode: Cross Juridictions
Cast: William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, George Eads, Jorja Fox, David Caruso, Adam Rodriguez, Emily Proctor, Khandi Alexander, Rory Cochrane, Kim Delaney
**Spoiler Alert**
“Cross Jurisdictions” is the pilot for the series spin-off “CSI:Miami” which premiered in 2002.
In this episode, a retired …

The great and awesome Jimmy Stewart is the Man of the Hour in The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast, which was taped in Las Vegas. Right off the bat, I’ll say that the wonder of this hour is the quality of the talent there to roast Stewart. There …

For the first time, Ray Bradbury, from whose mind all of these episodes come from, does a unique introduction to his story. He talks more about how he gets ideas. I love these introductions. In the show’s first cable season, there were six episodes and only …

Death Note Episode 2 begins with Light Yagami using the Death Note to kill various criminals in Japan while the police try to figure out what’s behind the string of bizarre murders through heart attacks. The authorities call in the mysterious L, a detective who has solved even the …

Spongebob decides to purchase a television, but not so that he can watch television, he just wants to be able to use the box for his game of imagination. When the television arrives, Squidward is just baffled as to what Spongebob is actually doing, and he ends up getting …

Our infant daughter took a while to fall asleep last night so I ended up sitting up with her and watched the late episode of The Simpson’s. It happened to be the one entitled “Barting Over.”
This one was somewhat funny. Bart discovers he made a commercial when he was …

The Twilight Zone loves to go to the past, and sometimes to the future, but shifting through time is one element of storytelling that is prevalent throughout the entirety of the series. In 1963’s No Time Like the Past, Dana Andrews stars as a scientist named Paul Driscoll …

If you are a have a mother, or a grandmother there is a good chance you have either heard of or viewed at one point the daytime drama Days Of Our Lives. It had been on since the 1965 and like other daytime drama’s in recent years, the …

Nicholas Flemming is an author and comic strip creator who doubles as a mercenary/vigilante named Jon Sable, hence the name of the series — Sable. He’s supposed to be some kind of superhero, apparently all begun due to some real life event that was laced in tragedy. …

Sea Hunt: Storm Drain, the 29th program to air in this underwater adventure series’ third season on television, included an appearance by young Beau Bridges in the role of Warren Tucker. Beau, who grew up to be a terrific actor himself, was the young son of series star …

This was not a bad season. So far, not my favorite, but definitely a good tie-in for what was done and what is to come. The fact that I continue to even watch Scrubs is proof enough that it is both clever, cute, and hilarious enough to win over …

MacGyver: The Invisible Killer is a who-dun-it mystery where a killer has infiltrated a five-day retreat that Mac is leading for the Phoenix Foundation. Four men from high pressure assignments, none of who know one another, meet to go backpacking for several days. Eventually, they learn …

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 …

I actually missed this fourth episode when it aired originally, but I’m happy to say that I’ve finally been able to see it. Even though going in, I know who won, there’s still the other groups, and I’m curious to see how my views line up with the …

Have Gun - Will Travel: Jenny opened at the Hotel Carlton in San Francisco where our hero, Paladin (Richard Boone), is coming to a lady’s aid once again. The lovely lady has the misfortune to have numerous $20 bills which, as it turned out, were distributed in Denver …

Fashion Star is somewhat similar to Project Runway. The show is about giving unknown fashion designers the chance to show their clothes to the world, and the twist to this show is instead of winning a huge prize at the end like Project Runway, the prizes are given weekly …

Well, last night’s episode of Bones wasn’t the best episode I’ve seen, but it wasn’t the worst one either.
In The Rocker in the Rinse Cycle, they find themselves investigating the murder of a rich guy who was last seen at a rock and roll fantasy camp and find themselves …

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Deadliest Game, the seventh episode of year two for this science fiction program, includes the second guest appearance by Lloyd Bochner. This time he plays General Hobson, and they tried to age him by making him look like he 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 …

When I was a kid I watched many cartoons. Not many of them stayed with me however I do remember the Care Bears, I loved them as a kid and although I don’t love them now, it’s dwindled down to a mild like I think they are …

The 38th episode of Sea Hunt’s third season was another one of these political intrigue shows that I really don’t like very much. I so prefer the almost non-existent ocean life shows or even the episodes focused on technological advances over these small fabricated country tales. The …

M*A*S*H: 5 O’Clock Charlie is all about a Korean pilot who is, fortunately, bad at his job. He flies over the camp every day, trying to take out an Ammo dump. While the Majors Burns (Larry Linville) and Houlihan (Loretta Swit) want a big gun to guard …

When I saw the previews for this new show, I knew instantly that I would be drawn to it. Aside from enjoying Chris Rock’s honest brand of humor, I noticed that several colorful character actors were on board for the laughs. Tichina Arnold and Terry Crews do a …

A Very Supernatural Christmas is a third season episode of the CW series “Supernatural”, and the first time that the show had a holiday themed episode. Previously they attempted to do a few different holiday episodes, but this time they went with Christmas. I have to admit that I …

After the previous episode, I wasn’t really sold on the Cybermen. I’m still not blown away by them, but my opinion of them as foes of the Doctor has increased significantly.
Really though, this episode belongs to Mickey, who gets to shine after being left behind and then …

Sea Hunt’s 27th episode of its third season was called Underwater Beacon, so named mostly from a piece of equipment deep sea diver Mike Nelson (Lloyd Bridges) was checking out for the United States Coast Guard.
Though not my favorite stories as a rule, I do like to see the …

Supersize Me is an interesting documentary if you can catch it on TV. It brings a lot of things to light about how McDonald’s made getting junk food easy and helped create a nation of obese people. Not sayinng everyone’s obese, but you know what I mean.
This guy ate …

Last night, I finally got to get my Simpsons fix by watching a re-run on network TV. And, I was glad to see it was an episode I have seen in the past and loved; The Cartridge Family.
The episode starts out making fun of soccer (and how Americans think …

And he found out he had Diabeties and he had to Decide who!He was like having heart attacks while on his dates…I never pictured the ending like that….wierd…
At the begging of the date with this girl named Heather he gave her like a pen to remember him by if …

Well, that was an episode of the Simpsons I haven’t seen before; The Debarted, and it was actually kind of interesting.
Basically, there is a new kid in school that seems cooler than Bart so he tries to outprank the kid and eventually becomes friends with him. However, the kid …

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 …

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. …

I don’t watch a lot of reality television, but there is one weight loss and fitness show that I really love. It is called The Last 10 Pounds Boot Camp, and the premise of this half-hour show is quite basic: each episode features a subject, or victim, who is …

Cowboy Bebop Episode 20 has Spike trying to evade master assassin Mad Pierrot after he sees the man commit a murder.
This episode was fantastic; it had everything that makes Cowboy Bebop a great anime to watch. The action was top notch and the gunfights were awesome. It …

It’s funny to see how the Chinese have become the main rivals of the Americans instead of the Russians. They are ruining American satellites and squeezing a piece of land on the moon. That’s me talking about the Space Force series.

Remember when Trump threatened to create these troops? A lot …

From 1968, Star Trek: Spectre of the Gun is a show I really do love. It’s a take on the events of the O.K. Corral with Wyatt Earp. Of course, it’s based more on the myth of what happened than the reality, but it’s still legend and …

In this episode, the night students are sitting around the library when it begins to thunder and it immediately calls for story time.
Merrill tells the others about a woman who was an archer and she came across a vampire. The vampire told her he loved her and that his …

Season 2 opens with a megabang and doesn’t let up until the final closing minutes. Picking up right after “What He Beheld”, the Season 1 finale, “Samson and Delilah” takes a page from “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines” with the good robot unintentionally gone bad. Sarkissian’s men attack …

M*A*S*H: Sometimes You Hear the Bullet is a masterpiece edition of this show in my opinion. I clearly recall watching this show the first time it aired. In fact, I taped it on a cassette recorder when it was rerun because I thought it was just that …

It’s hard to believe the fictional detective Adrian Monk has solved 100 cases. But, it was only fitting to celebrate that milestone on Monk’s 100th episode last night. And, I have to say it was one of the better episodes that’s been on in recent history.
The great thing about …

The fifth show of season three, Highway Patrol: Mistaken Identity which stars Broderick Crawford, was a watchable entry that pretty much held my interest. Sometimes I almost was distracted, but the story kept me enticed for the most part, even though there were holes here and there in …

Hex is a supernatural television series, that ran for two seasons. Set in a boarding school, with a history of witchcraft and supernatural events, it is a story about the birth of the anti christ, the demonic version of Jesus Christ. Complete with lesbian ghosts, fallen angels, archangels and …

I could tell by the way the first episode began that Lost was going to be a great hit for the producers at ABC.
The story begins as a plane crashes into a lost island, several hours off the original course, making it difficult to envision a rescue. We are …

I like this channel because they bring you so much information about the celebrities that you love to watch. But I am left a little cold with this particular show. The E! news doesn’t really seem to be as focused as I would like it to …

The Kids are Alright is the second episode from the third season of Supernatural. Dean convinces Sam to go to a small town in Indiana where one of his ex-girlfriends live and he wants to see her before he dies. Once there they discover that there’s a demon in …

While this episode of Psych wasn’t quite as good as many others, I will admit Lights, Camera, Homicidio was a cute one.
Shawn is on site at a Latin soap opera trying to solve a murder and ends up joining the cast of the show. His role was actually …