Team Avatar comes to a small fishing town that has been ravaged by pollution courtesy of a fire nation military factory. I was a bit worried when the episode started out, having grown up in the age of Fern Gully and Captain Planet, I really don’t need some …

In this episode we see Eric in action, so I guess this episode message is: Everything can happen if you help it happen. I agree with this statement, if you sit around all the day just waiting for something to happen you can miss a bunch of great opportunities. …

From season four of the terrific western series called Laramie is this episode called The Betrayers. Robert Fuller gets the primary focus of the hour in his starring role of Jess Harper. In the early years, most of the shows were buddy types, the stories revolving around both …

Despite how promising the previous episode’s ending cliffhanger seemed, episode thirteen came and went without seeing an ounce of the Kakashi versus Zabuza fight. However, that is not to say that this episode was without action. Quite the contrary if truth be told. This episode revolved mainly around two …

Sharon Farrell is the big guest star in Wagon Train: The Pearlie Garnet Story, a ninety-minute, seventh season episode of the series. There’s little to love about Pearlie. She’s a pathetic and sad character, and this is her story, much of which is told in flashback.
The story reveals …

At my house, the television set is usually set on TNT, to watch Law & Order. I am a court advocate, and I enjoy watching the workings of the police and of the court actions, afterwards, on this t.v. drama.
The really nicest part of this series is that you …

This program in the hugely popular Shark Week series on Discovery features the stories of those who were attacked by sharks and survived. It uses interviews with the lucky survivors as well as reenactments to tell their stories.
I have always been afraid of sharks, and despite the interviews …

Well, that was an episode I have never seen before and one I wish I would have seen sooner because it made a few later episodes of Bones a little easier to understand.
The Man in the Cell had Brennan and Booth chasing serial killer Howard Epps after he escaped …

Sam has a dream in which everyone is blocked in time except him. He invites Annie for a cappuccino but she says she doesn’t know what a cappuccino is. That’s really funny isn’t it? Sam is from 2008 and he had an accident and woke up in 1973 so …

Cowboy Bebop Episode 16 has an assassin named Udai with ties to Jet escaping from prison.
This episode was very good because it gives us Jet’s origin story and it’s very well done and very well written. I enjoyed watching this episode because it was so interesting and entertaining …

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 …

Patrick Swayze returns to episodic television for the first time since his short-lived 1982 series The Renegades, in this A&E TV drama, The Beast. The show airs Thursday nights at 10pm and is then rerun several times throughout the week.
A&E has gone all out in promoting this series, …

Haku is dead, Zabuza all but defeated, and the Konoha ninja got a rude awakening into the truth of their world. Zabuza is an evil, heartless ninja who desires nothing more than to kill his enemies, so when his boss shows up and cancels his contract, he should still …

The Virginian: It Tolls for Thee is from the first season of this western series which had the unique honor of being 90-minutes in length when airing. Overall, it’s not a series I’m that crazy about, but some episodes aren’t too bad.
In It Tolls for Thee, guest star …

In 2007 for the 40th anniversary of this terrific, long lasting ideal, Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier aired on TV. I remember being excited about it because the two-hour event was hosted by Leonard Nimoy and because they were going to show a ton of Star Trek …

Alex Haley’s Queen was my first exposure to any of Alex Haley’s work. The mini-series appeared on television in the early 90s, and even though Halle Berry had been a working actress prior to landing the leading role in the mini-series, I think it was her first breakout role …

The Universe is a great series that examines features of the universe in documentary style. The show Secrets of the Sun (Season One Episode Two) was, like all the Universe episodes I’ve seen, very interesting. In college, I found Astronomy to be tedious, but if I had had episodes …

From season two, Have Gun - Will Travel: The Moor’s Revenge is half comedy, half drama, though it’s more laughter than gunfight. This is the first time I can recall that the guest stars had their names in the opening title and not just at the end. …

Stalemate is another good episode of the 1970 drama, The Young Rebels, which starred a magnificent young cast which included Rick Ely, Louis Gossett Jr., and Phillippe Forquet. Hilary Thompson is also on board, playing Ely’s girlfriend on the show.
I enjoy this show because it’s a theme that, …

Chase: The Comeback Kid is the third outing for this new NBC TV series which focuses on United States Marshals. It opens with, what else, a chase where the victim goes over a balcony and goes splat on the cement ground below. This is followed by some …

After trying to watch Tosh.0 quite a few times, I am still truly baffled as to how this guy who hosts it got his own show. Now, I have absolutely nothing against the comedian who hosts it, but I remember when the first season premiere was advertising I thought …

“Bloodbath” is an Abby-centric episode. When NCIS goes to a crime scene at a motel where there is tissue and blood all over the room, they wonder where the body may be. While Abby and McGee are going over some evidence, Abby smells almonds - cyanide. …

Laramie: No Second Chance, a second season outing of this hit western, features Fay Spain as Fran Ericson, and she has one very big vendetta against Slim Sherman (John Smith). Her venom runs deep.
Spain was a petite powerhouse with quite the pout in her day. She really …

A former Navy Seal, Jack Curtain, breaks out of Leavenworth and into a couple’s home. We think he is going to rape the woman but instead, he ends up stealing the husband’s clothes, changing and leaving through a window.
Gibbs and his team start out the case …

This was the twenty ninth episode of the entire popular 1990s American television show “The X-Files”. It was also the fifth episode of the second season in the series. I think I would put this episode in my top thirty episodes of the entire series since I thought …

Well, that was a cute episode of the show Hogan’s Heroes at lunch today; the Big Record; though it was somewhat predictable.
Basically, they are kicked out of the recreation hall so the Gestapo can have an important top secret meeting there. Hogan and his crew want to find out …

Due South: Say Amen is a story that has been done before, in western genres and all other types of dramas. That said, it’s still fairly well done and is entertaining.
The one thing that really makes no sense, though, concerns the character of Inspector Meg Thatcher. We …

Bernard Fox makes his first appearance as Malcolm Merriweather in this March 1963 episode of The Andy Griffith Show called Andy’s English Valet. It’s a charming entry that eventually has Malcolm working as a valet for Andy and Opie (Ron Howard).
Here are a few notes of things that …

Early on in The Virginian: A Matter of Destiny, there’s a nice little song sung by Randy Boone and Roberta Shore. It’s very upbeat and cute as they entertain at a party at Shiloh. These two would have made a great romantic pairing, but more than anything …

I don’t know if I really like this episode or really hated it; there are some interesting points to it, yet it was really hard to watch, which took away from the enjoyment of the show. I realize that in the real life, the crimes and the investigations are …

This show is the great modeling reality tv show there is, Tyra Banks as the host only makes the show better as she is a retired professional model who was really great when she was still doing her profession. There are a lot of candidates here who are aspiring …

In M*A*S*H: Pressure Points, Colonel Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan) gets overly snappy and testy towards the personnel, especially Hawkey Pierce (Alan Alda) after returning from a brief trip away. It all stems because Hawkeye has to operate on one of Potter’s patients. The colonel becomes more intolerant …

Anyone who tunes in to the UPN network in the evenings has probably had the fortunate opportunity to catch the quick witted rulings of Judge Mathis. Of all the court tv shows on the air, I find that Judge Mathis is the sharpest male judge on the bench. …

The group comes across gear from a waterbending tribe, a sword, an arrow and the like.
Sokka showcases impressive tracking skills and leads them to a boat that belonged to his and Katara’s tribe. There, they meet Bato, a family friend who tells them that he knows where their …

Centennial: The Longhorns is one of the most fun section of this wonderful mini-series. It’s the only focused on the cowboy, and since I love cowboys, I loved this episode.
One of the reasons The Longhorns works so well is that it is headed up by the terrific actor, …

“Skokie” is a made for TV movie about how the Jewish community -mostly survivors of the Holocaust- try to stop Neo Nazi’s from marching through their town of Skokie, Illinois. They fight in court with the Neo Nazi leader being represented by the ACLU and specifically a Jewish …

This has to be one of my top or favorite episodes of CSI ever because it really highlights the character of Greg. When I saw it, I also thought it felt like one of the older episodes of the show from the days before they started focusing on different …

From June 1962, The Twilight Zone: The Changing of the Guard closed out the third season of this wonderful science fiction series. It was a terrific show to end a season with as well. It’s a story many people can identify with and that’s part of its …

Bart and Lisa love watching Krusty. They feel Krusty is areal gem of a guy. However there is more to it than meets the eye. Krusty spends his money haphazardly and on wasteful stuff. He is very busy and cannot do all shows and openings.He decides to open a …

Hawthorne: The Match was a very intriguing and sometimes difficult show to watch because the subject matter was emotional and just tugged at your heartstrings. The big issue centered around the need to find a kidney match for two little girls, twins, who both had the need. …

For all intents and purposes, M*A*S*H: Hawkeye is a one-man soliloquy as Hawkeye Pierce, traveling alone in a jeep, swerves to avoid hitting some Korean children and ends up turning over the vehicle and getting a bad hit in the head. Realizing that he might have a concussion …

As someone who had seen the U.K. version of the hit NBC Television show ‘The Office’ I didn’t know what to expect at first when the United States decided to do their own version of this comedy. Wondering how it would play out, I tuned in to the first …

The title from this outing of The Andy Griffith Show no doubt comes from the classic movie, Arsenic and Old Lace, which was a tale of two somewhat ditzy but loveable sisters who had a funny look on life. That could also be said of the sisters in …

“I Want a Boyfriend: The Luxury Cruise Ship Is a Trap” is the twelfth episode of the Sailor Moon series. In this story, it is not Jadeite, but one Queen Beryl’s monsters, that comes up with a plan to steal human energy, and she proposes it to Jadeite. The …

As I have seen most of the episodes of the first season of show Seven days I knew, more or less, what to expect in seconds season. Actually I was expecting some little improvements because it usually happens that way. Then again, the first episode should also be a …

The CW series Supernatural will have you sitting on the edge of your seat with the combination of mystery and the evil spirits who are trying to stop the Winchester Brothers from finding their father. It may sound far fetched, but the stories are well written and when …

Bruce Campbell stars in the title role of The Adventures of Brisco County Jr., a unusual western series that is part science fiction and part comedy. Julius Carry co-stars as his sometimes partner, Lord Bowler. In this episode, Hard Rock, Brisco learns a bit more about the …

When I first heard about the TV show nurse Jackie, I did not know what to think about it. It seems like a spin off of to show House, only this one with a female character. At first I didn’t want to watch it because it seemed a bit …

Synopsis: Prisoners of war at Stalag 13 during World War II are really working as undercover agents who use the camp to transport POWs out of enemy territory and conduct sabotage missions while supposedly under the control of the German airforce.
What I like about this series: I’m not going …

From the first season, The Andy Griffith Show: The Christmas Story is a show I must watch every year at least three or four times. I love it that much, and it just isn’t Christmas without seeing this wonderful episode of this down home comedy show.
Andy Griffith and …