I laughed my butt off when I watched the first season of Golden Girls. All of the characters seemed so undeveloped at the time. I don’t mean the acting skills, but in how the actresses came to “know” their characters.
The pilot always cracks me up. Blanche, played by Rue …

The fourth episode for the 1970 television series, The Young Rebels, was called To Hang a Hero and dealt with the true story of Nathan Hale. Most everyone knows about Hale’s hanging as a spy by the British. His immortal last words were to the effect …

I was surfing channels when I saw this show at the National Geographic Channel. The title is “My Dog Ate What?” and it was very engaging I watched the whole show.
This is about dogs (and in this episode called “Batteries and Cereal Boxes”, a tortoise was featured too!) who …

I don’t know why it appeals to me so much, but Starhunter is one of my favorite TV shows. Sure it is low-budget, nor does it have the greatest acting in the world, but there is a certain charm and appeal to the show nonetheless. Thus I …

The View is a show hosted by four women (five when Barbara Walters is on). These four women, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sherri Shepherd and Elisabeth Hasselbeck, have very different opinions and views on many different subjects from raising children, to marriage woes, to political issues.
The best and most …

The epiosode begins, where Marge tells Bart not to waste food since, his father works very hard, to put food on the table. The next scene, shows Homer playing in the office. MrBurns notices this. He fires Homer, but Homer does not pay attention to it. He is too …

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Time Bomb is the second episode of the second year that this wonderful Irwin Allen science fiction series was on the air. Following are some observations about this 1965 episode:
–The opening shot in the theme is a bit different in what …

I used to watch all of the CBS soaps everyday. Now that my life has gotten a lot busier I have focused on just watching As The World Turns. As The World Turns is a great soap for younger people in their late teens and early twenties and has …

The Simpsons Season 8 is one of the great seasons of the animated show because it contains several episodes that fans regard as classics. However it also contains episodes that are just as good, but aren’t talked about very often. Personally I love the episode where Bart is finally …

The Andy Griffith Show: Ellie Comes to Town is the show where widower Andy Taylor gets himself a girlfriend in the form of new druggist, Ellie Walker. Elinor Donahue, who viewers watched grow up on Father Knows Best, plays the lady pharmacist, who has come to Mayberry to …

Well the big news in The Runaway episode is that now Laramie has a school. As of season 1, it did not, and in season 2, it was the motivation behind Slim sending younger brother Andy (Robert Crawford Jr.) off to school in the east. Now there’s …

This might have been the absolutely worst episode on the show. Not only was it boring, but it was also stupid. In this episode they creators of the show are trying to show the normal everyday flow of thing as they happen in the lab and in the field. …

When Noreen Weckerley, Kenny Weckerley’s sister (from the pilot episode) shows up at Jump Street and tells Hanson that Kenny needs his help, Tom goes undercover at an in-patient adolescent abuse center to check out his claims of mistreatment.
When he gets a friend to pose as his mother and …

From December 1962, Have Gun - Will Travel: Be Not Forgetful of Strangers is the 15th outing of this final sixth season of the western series. This is, as would be timely, a Christmas story, though it is not overt at first.
Paladin arrives in a town, unnamed at …

The first episode of Top Shot fascinated me enough that I tuned in for this second episode. I love the host, Colby Donaldson of Survivor the Australian Outback fame, who is well suited to this outdoorsy show which strives to find the best shooter of the bunch. …

Stargate SG-1: Within the Serpent’s Grasp is the last episode of season 1, the end of the 3-story season-ending arc, and the first of the 2-part cliffhanger. That’s a lot of show!
As mentioned in prior reviews, Daniel Jackson has a way of getting through to Jack O’Neill, and …

Medium Season 4 Episode 15- Being Joey Carmichael
This was another spooky and bizarre episode of Medium. It was intentionally confusing and strange. The whole show deals with the paranormal and the bizarre, but I think this episode has done an extra good job at weirding me out. Usually …

I had a chance to catch a re-run of Hogan’s Heroes while at home for lunch today; “Will the Real Adolf Please Stand Up.”
I came in a bit late to see the first few minutes of the episode so, in all honesty, I can’t tell you exactly what was …

Music opens The Andy Griffith Show: Crime-Free Mayberry from November 1961, the show’s second season. I love hearing the sing along moments or just any time like this one when Griffith’s Andy Taylor plays the guitar and lets out with some song or another. This one is …

In That Girl: No Man Is a Manhattan Island, Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas) appears on a game show where her success depends on knowing her neighbors. I actually had a problem with how this introductory scene went because we’ve seen Ann with a lot of her neighbors, and …

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 …

Part four of John Adams, the HBO 2008 mini-series, is called Reunion. Following the end of the war, John Adams is back home once again, although not for long. This time, John eventually sends for Abigail to join him in Paris.
The scene where Abigail arrives is prolonged. …

I have always loved Richard Dean Anderson so couldn’t wait to watch his new series, MacGyver, when it debuted in 1985. It was the beginning of real success for Anderson and the start of a new culture, one filled with MacGyverism and TV parodies like MacGruber on Saturday …

Netflix is the best thing that could’ve happen to TV shows… and to us! Its plan of just giving us all the episodes at once is genius and with these project I think they’ve gotten even more popularity. This time, the creator of Weeds was the one chosen to bring …

I called it! I totally called it! This episode has Katara and Zuko going to find the people responsible for her mother’s death. Even Aang attempts to crack a joke, saying that it’s her turn to take a field trip with Zuko, only to be met with dead …

“Act 2 Ami - Sailor Mercury” is the second episode of the Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal series. In stark contrast to the 1990s anime, which had what many refer to as “filler” episodes, those being episodes that didn’t advance the main storyline, and such it wasn’t until episode …

Law and Order SVU is a very depressing show at times, but the acting is superb. There are a few things that I don’t like about the show but overall it is one of my favorite shows on TV. One of the main issues that the show has is …

Last night was the first time I got a chance to watch the entire Family Guy episode “Road to Germany” and, unlike other travel stories involving Brian and Stewie, this one was actually pretty good.
Of course, there wasn’t a whole lot with the rest of the family but it …

The Amazing Race: They Don’t Call This the Amazing Race for Nothin’ was the beginning of the 17th season for this Emmy winning reality show where pairs go off in search of adventure in the hopes of bringing home the million dollar prize.
This season there are two couples …

Have Gun - Will Travel: A Drop of Blood, from December 1961, was a follow up to an episode done the year before. They brought back the two main stars from that show, Martin Gabel and Roxane Berard, as well as one other performer from that show.
Regina Gleason …

The funny thing about Have Gun - Will Travel: The Return of Dr. Thackeray is that Paladin actually talks marriage, and the thing is that he’s such a playboy as a rule. They don’t really show much, but it’s there and prevalent in his lifestyle. In this …

Star Trek: The Terratin Incident is a fun little animated show that focuses on the crew of the Enterprise shrinking. From November 1973, the half hour children’s program has Kirk and company passing through a flash of light which both disables their dilithium crystals and also causes the …

In The Prisoner: Hammer Into Anvil, we have another repeat Number Two, the mysterious controlling power of The Village where Patrick McGoohan’s Number Six is being held prisoner by an unnamed group that wants information from him which he refuses to give. The Number Two character tends to …

Normally, I enjoy episodes of Monk. The latest episode, Mr. Monk and the Three Julies was an OK one but not as enjoyable as others.
First of all, I really felt for his assistant Natalie. They are at a crime scene and she overhears the police radio mention her daughter …

Wow, just wow. That’s all that can be said after watching this episode. Doctor Who finales tend to be larger in scale, but this completely blew everything else out of the water by a long shot, a looong shot. Just when you think that the show …

The latest edition of Shatner’s Raw Nerve featured psychic John Edward. This is the show where William Shatner has a one-on-one casual and unscripted conversation with someone, in this case Edward. I’ve found many of these shows to be pretty fascinating. This may be the first …

The pilot for CHiPs aired on September 15, 1977 and introduced the world to the lives of two California Highway Patrol officers, Jon Baker and Frank Poncherello, played by Larry Wilcox and Erik Estrada. On the surface, they were different as night and day, but they were partners …

I watched CSI VII the episode on Empty Eyes and it was so scary that I still remember the gory details up till now.
This was based on a true crime story and it made me sick thinking of the killer. Yeah he was caught in the end, …

After Larry’s latest behaviour; “Aren’t you Evelyn?” has now been picked up by ABC. But this reassuring new development doesn’t last for long, and as usual, Larry’s at the core of it all.
At a party hosted by an ABC bigwig; a broken bathroom lock serves as the catalyst …

Last night was one of what I feel is one of the better Simpson’s travel episodes; The Regina Monologues.
In this episode, Bart finds $1,000 and, after a series of events that include Mr. Burns trying to recover the money (which he originally lost) the Simpson family eventually decides to …

Tonight was the grand finale of the first season of Top Shot. Unfortunately, my favorite, Kelly, was already gone so I wasn’t as invested in the event as I had been in the prior episodes. There were four remaining when the show began.
They had the first elimination …

The Kids Are Alright, episode 601, opens in almost a way you’d expect this to the be last season because there is a montage at the beginning of the episode of all the characters. I love this show, but there are still parts of it that annoy me. …

Oprah gets some A-class interviews and she landed a couple of good ones for this Wednesday, May 19, 2010 episode. The first half hour was devoted to rock singer, Bret Michaels. Now, I’ve never thought twice about this man until he went on Celebrity Apprentice this season. …

I was getting bored with my usual afternoon re-runs after work yesterday and decided to flip channels looking for something new. I came across the Garfield Show on Cartoon Network (or some channel like that).
I didn’t know they re-did the show in a 3-D format so I took the …

The Scorched Feather is the 22nd episode of the second season for this black and white TV western series which stars Richard Boone as Paladin, gunfighter for hire. The guest star of note in this specific episode is Lon Chaney who plays William Ceilbleu. Written by Bruce …

Imagine that you are a highly respected, handsome man with a wonderful life of the American Dream. You have it all. Family, friends, terrific job, and all that one works for in life. Imagine how much you are in love with your wife, and how much she loves you.
Now, …

I watched the first season or two of Curb Your Enthusiasm recently. It’s a comedy show that used to be on HBO and it won a bunch of comedy awards so my favorable review is going to be nothing new to the enlightened television watcher who by fluke …

Whoopi: The Fat and the Frivolous is not a favorite outing of this series which stars the very colorful Whoopi Goldberg. Whoopi also developed this NBC series which aired during the 2003-2004 TV season. In the show, her character of Mavis Rae is a one time singer …

Sorry it took me so long to take the time to write about Thursday’s episode of Bones; The Gamer in the Grease. I had intended on watching it Thursday night and discovered it was difficult to do while taking care of a sick baby and trying to get my …