The Year Without a Santa Claus first aired in 1974, and it’s been a holiday staple ever since. I’ve watched it every year, and oftentimes more than once. It’s one of the best animated Christmas vehicles out there, in my opinion. In fact, I just watched …

“The School Of Hard Knocks” is an episode of the “Pokemon” series which is very similar to the previous episode, “The Path to the Pokemon League” in the respect that both episodes highlight how different trainers have different attitudes and perspectives when it comes to training Pokemon. Once again, …

Overall, I enjoyed That Girl: Stocks and the Single Girl from season four of this hit ABC series. It had some great laughs in it, and it entertained me fully for the full half-hour or so. That said, while this is a different take on the rich …

Aspiring actress Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas) gets an obscene phone call one night and calls the police. Soon, a police detective is at her door. This is a cute scene with Ann trying to get the detective to prove his identity a number of different ways. …

Aang is freaking out over the fact that he has to master three elements by summers end. Katara, being a novice waterbender herself, offers to help train Aang and teach him what she knows so that he can get started.
It’s a pretty logical way to go about learning, …

Sam is upto something very mysterious and he does not tell Dean about it. Meanwhile Sam gets a message from Travis another hunter, who tells them about some flesh eating person, who undergoes Metamorphosis. Travis claims to have killed the earlier one, but now his son is transforming into …

“If you keep a fear hidden, it will take control of you.” That’s the mantra of Stargate: Infinity: Phobia which is one of the animated episodes which aired on Saturday mornings for a while. It focused on an SG team that was stranded off-world since the GDO …

After the previous episode left a bad taste in my mouth with it’s goofy, out of nowhere, plot twist; this episode washes said taste out with a rather magnificent episode that left me enthralled throughout the entire runtime of the episode.
After receiving an anonymous tip about an impending bank …

I like The Cassie Vance Story, one of the ninety minute color episodes that aired during the seventh season of the hit western, Wagon Train. Laraine Day was the guest star, and she was so wonderful to watch. She’s an accomplished actress that brought depth to the …

A missile strikes Pentagon and Parker is sent back 7 days in past in order to try to change what happened. A girl who is really good in playing videogames was contacted by a videogame developer to test his games. What she doesn’t know is that she isn’t playing …

M*A*S*H: Exorcism begins with a telling bit when a Korean salesman sets up shop to get rid of his wares. He’s also put up a spirit post to keep all the bad spirits away. When Colonel Potter (Harry Morgan) tells the company clerk to get rid of …

This episode starts out with General Hammond briefing SG1 about the mission that he sent SG11 on. They were sent to a planet to mine trinium and are 48 hours overdue. Just as they are through with the briefing, it is announced that SG11 is returning. …

Top Chef: Covert Cuisine was unique in that for the elimination challenge, the dinner was actually held at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia. It’s not often a TV show is going to get inside the C.I.A. for something like this, so that was pretty intriguing.
The …

The Sunken episode of this supposed documentary called Chasing Mummies continues some of the action from the week before with Zahi Hawass investigating a possible burial site of Cleopatra while Leslie and the producer are having a hard time getting where they need to go.
The main goal of the …

Well, if Simpsons character Apu can mess up and cheat on his wife, then you know all men have a problem. That’s just what happened in the episode The Sweetest Apu.
Of course, you really can’t blame him considering his wife is hot but probably is exhausted after taking care …

Ann Marie may be one of the most independent young women living in New York, and she may be able to handle muggers and gigolos, but what she can’t deal with it are mice. Unfortunately for the actress, it’s a mouse that invades her apartment one night, sending …

When you watch the World’s Wildest Police Videos on Court TV, you can believe that some people really do get their drivers licenses either by mail order or out of a box of Cracker Jacks. You get to watch actual videos taken by dashboard cameras in police cruisers or …

I’ve talked a bit about the fashion in season’s four That Girl, and that’s why I get a kick out of the fact that in the first moments of That Girl: The Snow Must Go On, Don Hollinger walked into Ann Marie’s apartment and teased her about her new …

Season 5 of Stargate SG-1 blasts its way onto the screen in a show called Enemies. It’s a good show well worth the hour watch.
Stargate SG-1: Enemies picks up where Season 4’s cliffhanger, Exodus, ended. One of the early scenes is a poignant conversation between Jack and …

My youngest daughter was up extremely early this morning (probably thinking today was Christmas morning or something). So, we ended up watching early morning television. Not wanting an infomerical, I put on Happy Days and watched the episode entitled Howdy Doody.
I’m too young to remember the Howdy Doody show …

Highway Patrol’s fourth season aired Hostage as its second episode of the year. In ways, this show is about the human condition and how people respond differently to a crisis. At the heart of the half hour episode is a wounded fugitive who takes a woman and …

Beast Wars: Transformers - The Complete Second Season holds all thirteen episodes from the second season. Every episode looks crisp and clear, and the audio quality is impressive. There’s no grain or static or background noise to interfere with your enjoyment of these episodes. Unfortunately, what may interfere with …

In M*A*S*H: Strange Bedfellows, Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda) and B.J. Hunnicutt (Mike Farrell) are frustrated by their Swamp mate, Major Charles Emerson Winchester III (David Ogden Stiers) who is snoring all of a sudden which is keeping them awake. The two want him to move out.
Ultimately, it’s suspected …

There’s added enjoyment to Alias Smith and Jones: The Root of It All and that comes from the main guest star of the episode. Judy Carne, perhaps best known from Laugh-In and being the first wife of Burt Reynolds, appears here as Leslie O’Hara. However, it’s Carne’s …

Alias Smith and Jones: Exit from Wickenburg is a fun entry for the second regular episode of this western starring Pete Duel and Ben Murphy as outlaws Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry. In this show, they become saloon managers after catching cheats in a card game. Susan …

Surviving Sharks is a show on the Discovery Channel in which a host does tests with sharks to determine how best to avoid being attacked or eaten by a shark when swimming or surfing. It started with tests to determine whether different types of sharks were more active feeders …

The fourth season of the wonderful comedy series, The Andy Griffith Show, began on September 30, 1963 with a very nice show called Opie the Birdman. However, while I have watched this show several times over the years, it’s one I don’t watch as often as others. …

Well, the Simpsons repeat that was on last night wasn’t terrible but it also wasn’t what I was expecting it to be.
Weekend at Burnsie’s had so much potential. Homer injures his eye after befriending a bunch of crows only to make them mad at him later (I wonder what …

Spooks returns for another run, picking up where the last one left off.
MI5 head Harry Pearce is still in the custody of his abductors, while his team try desperately to track him down. Elsewhere, former Spook and fan favourite Ruth, is brought out of hiding when she and …

Dancing With the Stars for the 11th season has been pretty good. This review is for the Week 5 Results show. One thing that I like this year is that they are changing things up, starting with instant results sometimes and sometimes opening with a guest or …

I am not too fond of summer because of the dearth of good television shows. I end up making do with the slim pickings, and thus I am forced to sit through the television series Psych. Until now, I just cannot believe that it has survived for four seasons. …

There’s an odd thing that I noticed in That Girl: That Senorita. It’s the fifth season and while things began to ease up in the fourth season, in this one things are definitely looser in tone and style. It’s a sign of the times in which That …

The third episode of Parking Wars for season four had a lot going on in Philadelphia. One of the fun bits is getting to see the different personalities of those who work as the ticketing agents. There are all kinds. Some come across flamboyantly and even …

From 1960, Have Gun - Will Travel: Out at the Old Ball Park was an oddly entertaining version of this western series which starred Richard Boone as gunfighter for hire, Paladin. I really liked the opening bit because it caught me off guard. We’re again at the …

America’s Next Top Model: Patricia Field was the 2nd show of the current high fashion season. The show was the one where the models receive makeovers, which usually sends a couple of them over the edge from the anxiety of having their hair cut or colored.
One gal enlists …

In CHiPs: Ride the Whirlwind, which is technically the last episode of season two, we get another new concept, that of riding trail bikes to try and capture the bad guys who using off road areas for their crimes. The program is initiated by Jon Baker (Larry Wilcox). …

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Episode 10 has Section 9 going after a serial killer named Marco Amereti, with Batou taking it personally.
This was a great episode because it gave Batou more character development and it was interesting. The animation was very nice and everything was …

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 …

The local television show and sometimes series “Hilla nd Gully Ride” had been going on for years on a certain local television channel on a Sunday evening before I stopped watching and never saw it air again. When I was much younger especially since I was less mature and …

After so long with Jim in a different branch the show is finally reunited. Bringing everyone from the Stamford branches is great. We get to see what a first day with Michal Scott would be like, as well as watching everyone trying to explain Michal. The best line was …

In That Girl: Author, Author, Don Hollinger (Ted Bessell) attempts to write a comedy routine for his girlfriend, Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas) as she tries to make it onto the finals of Talent Showcase. Actually, while the overall show isn’t its best, there are some great moments in …

Homer decides not to go to church on Sunday. He tells her he wants to enjoy one day at home, after working hard in the office. So Marge and the kids go to church in the blistering cold. They are freezing while sitting in the church. Whereas Homer is …

And I thought I could handle most of the stuff this show was throwing at me. This was the bloodiest episode so far. It was about an assassin. And assassin with a personality disorder—¦not a good combination. Our team had to walk into a blood covered bathroom. They also …

Three people are on a hiking trip. Two naval officers and the wife of one of them. During this trip, it is being taped by the officer who ends up dead at the bottom of the cliff. It is up to NCIS to figure out who …

I wasn’t really sure what to expect from the Bones Season 5 finale last night. I kind of figured it would leave things hanging a bit to build up for next season. But, at the same time, I was a bit afraid it wouldn’t be as good as the …

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 …

From February 1968, the 20th show of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea’s last season (it’s fourth) on television, Man-Beast, aired. It’s a show I have mixed feelings about because of the story’s plot. The primary guest star was Lawrence Montaigne, who played a scientist named …

Chasing Mummies: Robbed go right to the action with the famous archaeologist, Zahi Hawass, making a discovery of a previously unearthed sarcophagus with a mummy inside of it. I do enjoy the history that I learn from this show, and actually, I like watching to see how the …

Friends Episode: The One With Mike’s Ex-Girlfriend and Monica’s Hairdo is pretty awesome, but personally, there are more awesome and funnier episodes from Friends. But this one ain’t that bad. As usual, you see Monica and Chandler debating on menial issues and this time, it’s hair issue. …

I recently discovered I could watch the first season of the show Futurama on Netflix Instant watch and wasted no time doing so. I even started with the series pilot episode “Space Pilot 3000.”
Even though the show is still on the air, I rarely watch it. But, after seeing …