Super Mario World - “The Yoshi Shuffle” is one of the show’s most entertaining episodes, I think. In this episode, Luigi gets transformed into an egg by a Magikoopa and stolen by Bully and Cheatsy. Mario and Yoshi follow them to Koopa’s Castle where they must engage in a …

The last episode to air in 1968, Star Trek: Elaan of Troyius was never a favorite of mine. I’m not fond of France Nuyen as an actress, and I really hate her character here of Elaan. Like most episodes of Star Trek, though, there’s always something to …

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast continued with a tribute to, of all people, and I can’t even fathom why, Evel Knievel. Taped in Las Vegas, as always, the roasters included Ernest Borgnine, Gabe Kaplan, and a slew of other folks who have basically nothing to do with Knievel, …

Season three of Stargate SG-1 ends with the first of a two-part that sadly indicates a shift in the show that ultimately began its downhill slide. Many fans consider the first three years of the show to be the vintage years. Sadly, I agree with them.
The unfortunate …

“About Face” was a great episode for anyone who loves the character of Jimmy Palmer played by the wonderful Brian Dietzen.
We viewers don’t often get a chance to see much of Jimmy as he is always stuck in the morgue. However, in this episode, we got to see …

I have never sat down to watch the show Fringe before so, when I watched last night’s episode “Of Human Action,” I had to figure out a lot of what was going on just from guessing a bit.
But, I will admit, this was an interesting show.
In some ways, it …

Death Note Episode 3 has the police investigating the Kira murders while L deduces that Kira might be a student, because of the times the deaths occur. Meanwhile, Light decides to change up the times that his victims die so he can throw them off.
This episode was pretty …

From October 1968, The Virginian: Vision of Blindness was the 4th outing of this 90 minute western’s seventh season on the air. I’ve been watching a few more of these shows lately because David Hartman is now in the cast as David Sutton, one of the ranch hands …

While this isn’t exactly what people mean when someone says that a person is afraid of their own shadow, the phrase still remains apt here when talking about Dr. Barton (a scientist who got bombarded with dark matter in an accident), and with good reason. This episode is …

Emergency! is an astounding, groundbreaking TV series that aired on NBC beginning in 1972. The show’s star was Robert Fuller. Now this is offbeat casting, but that’s how Jack Webb wanted. Webb loved to go for things that were different and having cowboy veteran performer Fuller …

One episode I’m really not fond of at all is That Girl: He and She and He, a second season entry. This brings back the character of Noel Prince, the British photographer from the two parter earlier in the season. In that outing, Noel went after Ann …

The New Gidget was the second television series for the Gidget character. The first time around it was a teenage Sally Field in the role, with Don Porter as her father. Gidget is all grown up now and married to her longtime sweetheart. First seen the …

The Fugitive: The Cage is not a big favorite of mine. Richard Kimball is in a tiny fish town working when there’s a case of the plague. Risking the wrath of his employer and facing re-capture, he can’t walk away from what he knows to be deadly, …

This is one of my favorite episodes of the series. It introduces this show’s incarnation of Aquaman, who is awesome. I know, you think that there’s no way that Aquaman can be anything other than lame, but this episode proves that theory wrong.
While his over …

Little People, Big World is one of the best shows on TV. There are no profession actors, no made up stories. It is the story of a real famiily, the Rollofs and thier everyday life. teh Parents Matt and Any and oneof their 4 children, Zach …

Criminal Minds: Safe Haven was another very violent hour of television, though it was also a compelling sixty minutes that held my attention throughout. This was a combination of the story and the acting, primarily from the talents of Mare Winningham.
In this show, the BAU goes after a …

Master Sergeant Woodruff, played by Sandy Kenyon, stiffs Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda) in a poker game. Since he’d stiffed B.J. Huneycutt (Mike Farrell) in the prior game, the captains tell Woodruff he can’t play with them anymore. To get back into their good graces, he offers to …

I absolutely love this show! I’m not a fashion diva by any means. I hardly know anything about real fashion. I wear jeans and sneakers most every day. I can still tell what I like and think looks good though!
The designers on the show are all different, with …

I think The Secret Millionaire make for interesting viewing and usually it is quite moving. The idea is that a millionaire will go undercover to a disadvantaged area, volunteer to help with some local charity or community project and live amongst the community for a while in conditions …

Cecil Kellaway steals the show in That Girl: Old Man’s Darling. This marvelous acting fellow plays one of the world’s richest men, who really is just a very lonely old man who is without family and friends. When he meets Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas), he is charmed …

For one of the few times that I can remember in this show, the opening of That Girl actually references something that happened in the show just prior to it. Ann Marie and Don Hollinger meet Harry Cook, played by William Schallert, at a party. He recollects …

The Circuit was a pretty dreadful movie that had its world premier on ABC Family. That alone should have told me that it wasn’t going to be very good, but considering that it revolved around auto racing I decided to sit back and watch it. As an auto racing …

My oldest daughter has started watching Scooby Doo cartoons on a regular basis; both the newer shows and some of the first episodes from Scooby Doo Where Are You.
The other day, we sat down to watch the episode Bedlam in the Big Top. In this episode, Scooby and the …

I was able to watch a re-run of the show in the Disney Channel last week. It still made me laugh my heart out. But nothing compares to the first time that you’ve seen Mr. Bean do his crazy antics. I …

More and more each week, I find myself not liking the House character Cuddy. Well, to be honest, I think the entire show might be going downhill a bit since it focuses on character interaction and relationships rather than actually trying to solve some sort of medical problem.
Once again, …

Don’t be fooled by this title: The Ray Bradbury Theater: The Concrete Mixer . It sounds like it could be a show that deals with children, construction, and such, but it’s really about the mixing of cultures, or perhaps the dangers of such. From January 1992, the …

What makes Star Trek: The Alternative Factor memorable to me is the guest star appearance of Robert Brown as Lazarus. Brown is a very good actor. I first became aware of him on Here Come the Brides where he played Jason Bolt, and now I’ve seen numerous …

Over the past couple of years, episodes of the Simpsons seemed to be weak at best. It seems that, after all the years the show has been on the air, the writers are starting to run out of stories to tell.
The last episode I saw of this, Eternal Moonshine …

What do you do when you have a perfectly good pilot that has never been seen by a TV series’ audience? You incorporate it into the show the viewers are watching. That’s what Gene Roddenberry did back in 1966. His first pilot for Star Trek, the …

Mr. Krabs realizes one day that by law he is required to give Spongebob a vacation, and if he does not he could get in a lot of trouble with the law. This really scares him because he doesn’t want to get fined and have to pay someone, so …

Proving Ground is a nice little episode of the fifth season of Stargate SG-1. It’s yet another show focused on Earth (one must wonder how much economics played in all of these Earth-bound episodes) where four potential SGC candidates are put through a rigorous training exercise, the four …

From season two, The Andy Griffith Show: Aunt Bee’s Brief Encounter focuses on Frances Bavier’s character of Aunt Bee Taylor. She becomes very fond of a handyman named Henry Wheeler. He’s jovial and fun, and the two senior citizens enjoy spending time together.
There’s just one thing about …

The Middle is a new show on ABC this fall. At the time of this writing, there have been six episodes shown. I have seen every one so far - some multiple times - so I think I have a good enough idea to write this review so far.
The …

Denise was approached by two women who wanted to sue their doctor for malpractice for using unconventional methods in plastic surgery. The two women was enraged when they knew that it was the fat from the doctor’s ass that was plumped in their lips. Denise refused to represent them …

Macross Plus Episode 3 has Isamu and Guld still in a bitter fight over Myung as something begins to go wrong for her before the Sharron Apple concert.
This was an interesting episode and it was interesting to watch. It’s a good anime but it’s not the best, the …

“These reality shows are getting out of hand,” I used to say. But then this one reality show came along and focused on the women of the world who are responsible for their own dating failures. At first I wondered whether they would pick …

Marge is the super lady. She is superb at being a housewife and mother. She is so good at her work, that the family is very dependent on her for everything. Seeing Marge work so hard, Homer decides to pamper her with a nice relaxing treatment. So whilst the …

If there was ever an example of a trifling sitcom, this is it. I hate that I am saying this about a show that pairs a young girl with her father in a single-parent environment. Typically, black single parents on television are usually women. But seeing …

One of the owners of White Castle went undercover as a new employee in Undercover Boss. Dave Rife was the brave soul who spent a week in his White Castle operations and learned first hand how things really are in his restaurants.
I was fascinated with how their sliders …

The only real problem with the Dancing with the Stars results show for this 200th Performance week, the 7th week of the current season, is that it had to deal with election results break ins. I strongly suspect that is why the normal hour allotment was changed to …

That was a strange episode and I really liked it. I wonder if those things are based on real things that happen in New York City or is it just a pure imagination. I guess to come up with something believable you have to base it on something real, …

The Cleaner: Five Little Words is an intriguing episode from the show’s first season. It’s one that is full of flashbacks where we see some of what William Banks (Benjamin Bratt) has gone through as he battled drugs in the past. We get to see how he …

Sea Hunt: Bionics, from April 1961, is from the fourth season of this adventure program. What I liked is that I finally figured out something. I never saw this show until ThisTV started airing it this year, but sometimes they air Sea Hunt at another time and …

I never really watched this show until the re-runs started airing on the TV Guide channel. Then I watched an episode featuring Adrienne Curry and Chyna Doll, amongst others. The idea of placing “fallen off” celebs in a household to see how they get along …

I love dance shows. And I love programs that show the dancing skills of different kinds of people. Mario Lopez and his dimples host the show. And the contestants appears to come from all walks of life. Like many different dance show competitions …

From November 1957, Highway Patrol: The Sniper was the 7th episode of the third season. This half hour police drama stars Broderick Crawford as Chief Dan Mathews. In this show, Mathews and the California Highway Patrol deal with a sniper shooting at various cars as they pass by. …

After watching the first episode of the Game of Thrones, I am truly hooked. I really liked how the characters were presented, how the story unfolds, and how they all really wanted a taste of that iron throne.
Game of Thrones Episode 2: The King’s Road now continues to …

Alan Alda directed M*A*S*H: Dear Mildred, a fourth season episode of this long running comedy series. I’m not positive, but I believe this is the first show Alda directed. It’s a familiar theme, the letter home, and this time it’s written by Colonel Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan) …

I was so thrilled to receive Here Come the Brides - The Complete First Season DVD set recently. This family drama is one of my all time favorite shows, and one of its stars, Bobby Sherman, is one of what I call my core group actors. My …