The story of how Santa became the jolly figure we know today is told in the classic animated tale, Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town. This is another of my all-time holiday favorites. I watch it at least twice every season, if not more. The story …

This episode had to do with Alice, the magical mirror and Lewis Carroll, I really like similar stories because they aren’t only interesting but also educational. What happened is that the secret agent Myka got stuck in the mirror while Alice gets into Myka’s body. Nobody realises what happened …

I was watching some repeats of Law & Order SVU last night and saw one I’ve seen before but have never seen the entire episode before “Streetwise.”
This is a halfway interesting episode because it starts out with an apparent rape and murder at a park that turns out to …

Fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer such as myself were delighted to hear Faith/Eliza Dushku would be continuing to act in the supernatural genre of television. She had turned down her own spin off from Buffy just to do Tru Calling. The Pilot is where us fans were holding …

As much as I like the show Psych, I was commenting to my wife the other day that the characters don’t seem to spend as much time trying to pretend he’s psychic than they did in the past. So, this episode, There’s Some thing about Mira, was really refreshing.
First, …

Fandom is divided over this episode, but I love it. To me, Star Trek: The Way to Eden is a hoot. It’s not an Emmy winner, no, but it is a solid, fun, and entertaining hour. Here are a few thoughts about this episode that stand …

Television will make a show about anything these days, especially if it’s cooking related. For some reasons, America is fascinated and entranced by anything that gives us food. Thus, we now have Cupcake Wars which has four individuals vying to be king, or queen, of the cupcake …

Sometimes it pays to stay home sick. If I wouldn’t have today, I would have missed a re-run of the Bones episode, the Man in the Mansion; an episode I didn’t see until tonight.
This one was actually somewhat interesting. The case itself isn’t overly unique. A millionaire is found …

From season 1 of Have Gun - Will Travel, The Hanging Cross was a magnificent holiday show. Written by Gene Roddenberry, this was a very different Christmas experience. In fact, the entire structure of the show was innovative in that it deviated from the standard opening.
The …

The ninth episode of the second season of the new Mission: Impossible was called Banshee. I loved the reincarnation of this series. With Peter Graves on board once again as Jim Phelps, it had quality. I also loved the original series star Greg Morris had his …

When Leverage started out its first season last year, it showed great promise. I was excited to watch because it sounded like Robin Hood to me. It also reminded me of The A-Team in the 80s which I followed diligently. Leverage revolves around a story about thieves who band …

MacGyver: Twice Stung has some really fun moments in it. It’s also the first time the term ‘MacGyverisms’ is used. Who knew it would become a cultural norm?
This season two episode has Mac and Pete trying to get back $400,000 that was stolen from a friend and …

Avery Brooks stars in the title role in A Man Called Hawk: Passing the Bar, the fourth show of this series only season. If the character sounds familiar, you probably watched Spenser for Hire because this program is a spin off from that one. In fact, author Robert …

“A Jock Strap In Hell” is the fifth episode of season six of the CBS sit-com Two And A Half Men. This episode was great for the first 15 minutes but went downhill during the rest of the episode. The ending was just weird.
The show opens with …

This episode was the premiere for season 4 and concluded what was started in the last episode of season 3.
Jack, Sam and Teal’c return home after saving the earth from the replicators. While they believe they have gotten rid of the replicators one survived and landed in a …

Every time I watch Big Bang Theory I like it more. This is a smart show which manages to be almost constantly funny. In this episode Sheldon needs to find a ride because Leonard is working nights for a couple weeks.
Sheldon is almost always funny, but watching him in …

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: 2nd Gig episode 1 is the beginning of the second season of the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex anime. Section 9 is still disbanded but they’ve gathered at the site of a terrorist hostage takeover and await Aramaki’s orders …

Band of Brothers Episode 4 Replacements has Easy Company joined by replacements for their lost comrades at Normandy and they parachute into the Netherlands as a part of Operation Market Garden. Sergeant Denver “Bull” Randleman is left behind after they engage in a firefight with the enemy and …

Fearne and—¦Peaches Geldof is the second in the three part television series where Fearne Cotton trails a famous —˜it’ girl to see what their lives are really like. I was interested to watch this as personally I have not found Peaches Geldof to be a very likeable person …

From 1958, The Veil: Summer Heat is the story of a man who witnesses a murder in an apartment across the way from his. Think Rear Window and you have the basic idea of what this is about, at least initially. When the police investigate, the apartment …

Back to One is the eleventh episode of The Cleaner’s first season on A&E, and it’s a mixture of home life and another addiction story.
At home, Melissa tells William that she has been studying real estate and wants to get her license. He’s happy for her, though he’s …

Matt Nix, creator of the USA Networks series Burn Notice, has hit on a winning formula with his newest show “The Good Guys” on Fox. The series had a preview episode a week before the series premier and so far this show has been absolutely stunning.
The basic premise follows …

From October 1982 is Remington Steele: Steele Waters Run Deep, episode 3 of the series. Part of the action in this hour is the fake Remington Steele (Pierce Brosnan) wanting to be a real part of the agency and not just a figurehead, so to speak. …

Brian Keith guest stars in Laramie: The General Must Die as Whit Malone, an old friend of Slim Sherman’s who shows up at the ranch one day. He and Slim recall old times, enjoying their liquor as they do. Unfortunately, the reunion is a bit of a …

One of my favourite TV programmes is Auf Wiedersehen Pet the first episode in the series is called “if I were a carpenter”. This episode is the very first episode and shows three of the main characters Oz played by Jimmy Nail, Dennis played by Tim Healy and …

The plot of That Girl: Those Friars really doesn’t matter. What does matter is the joy of seeing Danny Thomas guest starring on his daughter’s highly successful TV series. He’d done a cameo on an earlier episode that was just delightful, but this part was a little …

This show is about a girl who had a car accident and after she wokes up from the coma she doesn’t remember anything about her life and herself. So now she has to learn everything about herself and most of the things she learns she doesn’t like, so she …

I have mixed feelings about the show Big Brother. Sometimes I like the show and sometimes I can’t stand it. For those of you who do not know about Big Brother, it is a reality TV show, where 12 people go into this house and the whole nation watches …

From season two of Due South comes White Men Can’t Jump to Conclusions, which has Constable Benton Fraser believing in a youth who has been set up by his friends to take the fall for a shooting. They mystery begins with simple sounds, the sounds of gunfire that …

One of the strangest things about this show was the direction that they took with Dinah. It hasn’t been “bad” exactly, just very bizarre. It seems like they could have just used Dinah in her more traditional Black Canary persona. This episode seems like it is …

Mary’s Little Lamb is a vintage cartoon from the golden age of television, back when things were so much calmer and a whole lot less violent. Lambs didn’t transform into robots; they were just there to be loved.
In this little story, it’s essentially a talent day at Mary’s …

This episode brought in Mr. Miracle, the world’s greatest escape artist, and Big Barta, as well as the villain Granny, who is fighting for apocalypse since Darkside has been defeated. Their mentor is kidnapped by her and they come to the league for help.
The league isn’t willing to help …

Have Gun - Will Travel: The Gladiators was from the third season of this hit western series. Though black and white, the half-hour series holds up very well. This particular episode has a great message and is relevant in any era. That’s because stupidity, vainness, and …

OK, sometimes the show Seinfeld takes a joke a bit too far to the point where it is still funny but also very unrealistic. The episode “The Sponge” is one of those.
The main plot is the episode focuses on the discontinuance of the Today Sponge, apparently Elaine’s favorite form …

Highway Patrol: Portrait of Death is the 7th episode of the fourth year, airing back in November 1958. Police dramas were different then. This show which has been considered a leader from early television is rather tame and has some real staging and directing problems. However, …

I have a new love. It’s the Imagination Movers on Playhouse Disney. The “mover’s”, as their known among their followers, are a group of 4 men that work in a factory. This factory consists of hundreds of rooms that seem to exist for each problem that …

I really love these ‘away’ episodes of Adam-12 when they fill in or substitute in areas that aren’t their normal patrol. In the case of this show, Substation, Officers Pete Malloy and Jim Reed are assigned to the International Airport. It’s supposed Los Angeles International Airport. …

Ghost Hunters is a show that is beginning its third season, and it is definitely a television show that I hope will be on for a long time. The Sci-Fi Network runs the hour long documentary every Wednesday evening. Ghost Hunters features TAPS (The Atlantic Paranormal Society) and they …

Spacelift: Transporting Trek into the 21st Century is a really interesting and intriguing featurette about how Paramount Studios created the remastered Star Trek series for DVD release. The digitally enhanced three seasons of this legendary series was released circa 2004. I was totally enthralled in how this …

In this episode, the night students have come to the midpoint of the experiment and it is pledge time.
The episode begins with Essie trying to find helpers to decorate for the pledge ceremony and Merrill let it be known that Drew will be the speaker and he is shocked …

The season finale of Burn Notice was an episode called Lesser Evil, which guest starred Michael Shanks, famous as Daniel Jackson on Stargate SG-1. This was Shanks fourth appearance on the USA hit drama, and he was awesome. It was the conclusion of an arc that was extremely …

When I was younger, my family used to spend one evening a week watching the show Buck Rogers. It was a long time ago, however, and I didn’t remember a whole lot about it. So, when I had an opportunity to watch it on DVD (via instant watch), I …

In this episode the Simpsons (Homer, Lisa and Bart) eat too many sweets from trick or treating and each have nightmares.
Lisa Nightmare The Monkey Paw
In this story the family visit Morocco where they meet a man at a market place who claims to be the former president …

In celebration of their one-hundredth episode, the powers that be at Stargate SG-1 produced a show that was a tribute to the people who put the show together, week after week. There are a host of cameos by the crew and background people who work on the show. …

From January 1982, The Fall Guy: No Way Out had a fairly good opening sequence. Though the main story is always about Colt Seavers (Lee Majors) chasing down some bail jumper, we most always get a fun stunt segment to remind us that he’s normally a stunt man.
In …

Season 6 begins with the fading out of Major Frank Burns and the fading in of Major Charles Winchester in M*A*S*H: Fade Out, Fade In. There really just wasn’t any use of the Burns character anymore.
For the entire stint of the show, Frank had been a bumbling, cowardly …

Prison Break is a TV series that is now in it�s second season. The first season, I was captured by the desire to know if Michael was going to be able to save his brother’s life and actually break out of prison. I would not miss a …

This episode picks up where the last left off, with the fire tribe locating both Aang and Kitara as well as the local tribe. The tribe views it as Aang’s fault and exiles him. He takes responsibility and agrees to go. Kitara stands up for him …

Bravo had done it again. Oh yes they have. Most Reality shows i’ve seen end with my favourite part of the show…..the Reunion…oh yes oh yes…the Reunion. Bravo’s Real Housewives of Atlanta is no less. That show just never disappoints. Would you believe, with all the drama….from Kim having …