Any fan of the original Shining movie will know Stephen King wasn’t best pleased with Kubrick’s adaptation, and in this mini-series, King has the chance to rectify those issues and bring in ignored elements of the book.
The story is the same, the Torrence family spend the winter in …

Star Trek Voyager season 3 episode 6 is called Remember. It is rightly so in that Torres begins have odd dreams that are more vivid than any she has ever experienced in her life before, shortly after taking on some passengers from another race. Through a joint effort Janeway …

I really liked this episode even better than the first Wrongway Feldman episode. This second show gives an explanation why Wrongway is the way he is. His name Wrongway suggests he instinctively takes the opposite direction so there really is not too much surprise he does not like the …

J. Michael Straczynski returns to the helm with this episode, a pretty good signifier that this will be a solid episode. It opens with Egon about to perform a test on Slimer and assuring him that it won’t hurt. Venkman has the same reaction that I did …

Stargate SG-1: Serpent’s Song is an interesting entry in the SG-1 second season. Peter Williams returns as Apophis, seeking asylum from the Tau’ri of all people. Unable to leave the injured Goa’uld behind, SG-1 brings him back to Earth. Then things really start to heat up, …

I had really high hopes for The Philanthropist when I first saw the commercials. It looked like an exciting action/adventure show with a real human element, and important moral message. The pilot lived up to those expectations. Telling the story of a billionaire who suddenly snaps …

Highway Patrol: Plant Robbery is not a story I like to watch really. By happenstance, I’ve seen it a couple of times, and neither viewing was all that pleasurable, simply because there’s no one in the story I like. In other words, none of the characters really …

Diagnosis Murder: Love Is Murder has Steve Sloan (Barry Van Dyke) unlucky at love once again. The man has bad choice in women, when he can find one, and as this series progresses, he finds a lot of them. Oddly, a lot of them are some kind …

“The Most Extreme”, on Animal Planet, is a show you can watch with your kids, because it will fascinate and educate both adults and children. Every episode deals with certain special characteristics animals have and they narrow it down to a list of ten animals that exhibit the …

The Family Guy spin off picks up steam in its second episode as Cleveland becomes more centred in his new life.
When new stepdaughter Roberta reveals there’s a Father/Daughter dance at her school, Cleveland offers to step in and take her to save her the disappointment of her real …

Synopsis: After seeing Spongebob receive a kiss from his grandmother before work, his friends begin picking on him and calling him a baby. As a result, he decides he wants to be more adult.
What I liked about this episode: I think the part where he tells his grandmother he …

You can probably guess the basics of The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.: And Baby Makes Three from the title. Right in the middle of a Dixie Cousins performance which Brisco and Bowler are happily watching, Pete Hutter shows up and gives her a baby to watch for …

In the 4th episode of the 3rd series, the lads travel to Warwick to visit Taras sister who is at University there. The purpose behind the visit is for Tara and Simon to have some time away in order to sleep together and lose their virginity. Nervous Simon seeks …

Mary Morris plays Matilda in The Ray Bradbury Theater: There Was an Old Woman. She has a visitor who just sits there and listens as she talks and talks, telling him some story about a little girl named Emily. As I listened, I wonder if this was …

Power Marketing is probably one of the best remembered of the Upright Citizens Brigade episodes. There is, after all, a lot of memorable stuff in this one (including the whole pennies thing). My favorite part of the episode is actually the Power Marketing sketch, for which the …

I could tell by the way the first episode began that Lost was going to be a great hit for the producers at ABC.
The story begins as a plane crashes into a lost island, several hours off the original course, making it difficult to envision a rescue. We are …

This episode brings 24 back, still in ghost form and guiding 21. 21’s really become a competent character. For most of the season, the joke was that he thought he had, as the trope says, taken a level in badass, but it turns out it’s starting to …

Miss Rosemary lasted one episode, and I believe Hilda Mae was in two shows. Now, at last, we meet Barney’s true love, Thelma Lou. They’ve apparently been dating, but he’s having a time of it trying to talk with her about anything other than police business.
Here are …

Well, yesterday’s episode of Hogan’s Heroes (on TV Land) was definitely an interesting one; at least more interesting than I thought it would be.
The episode, called “The Merry Widow” had Hogan and his team trying to smuggle out information relating to a new landmine. However, they get caught digging …

From February 1964, veteran actress Gladys Cooper portrays an elderly and lonely woman, Elva Keene, in The Twilight Zone: Night Call. The half hour is mostly Cooper’s. In this show, she’s a little crotchety, a characteristic derived from decades of living alone and having never married. …

The first story of the second season of Highway Patrol was called The Search and aired in October 1956. It’s a pretty basic story, I’m afraid. It’s all about a murderer who is trying to avoid capture. He’s a charming sort and manages to get people …

The 39th show of Highway Patrol’s second season on the air was called Rabies. I don’t like the title because I’m an animal lover, and I don’t want to see any animal hurt. It’s just something I don’t enjoy seeing. At any rate, the show opens …

In 2002, the M*A*S*H 30th Anniversary Reunion aired, reuniting the majority of cast and crew members for the first time since the groundbreaking series had gone off the air. Mike Farrell did the introduction at the very beginning and then it went to a wonderful, casual discussion with …

M*A*S*H: Snap Judgment is the first part of a two-part episode that focuses with items being stolen from the 4077th. In this first installment, Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda) and B.J. Hunnicutt (Mike Farrell) are sent a brand new Polaroid camera by the grateful father of a patient. …

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 …

The Amazing Race is a cool show. There are so many things I like about this one. Basically the premise is a bunch of couples embark on a race around the world for a million dollars. They have challenges in every country and the couple that …

The Twilight Zone: Long Live Walter Jameson is one of the shows I really don’t like much. A big part of that is the primary guest star, Kevin McCarthy, who is one of those boring actors in my opinion. I realize he’s done a lot, but for …

For me, Stargate SG-1: Red Sky shows how far Jack has progressed. In season four, there was a lot of criticism about how the Jack and Daniel friendship had been shoved to the side, and also how the show was veering away from exploration and turning into a …

I am a big fan of glee but this episode was just mediocre to me. Neil Patrick Harris guest starred and he was great in this episode. He was really the only highlight of this episode. His acting was great and he sang a great …

I have to keep reminding myself that Diefenbaker the wolf is a regular and isn’t going to have a sad ending, but I have to admit it’s hard. I’m just a huge animal lover and can’t stand seeing anything bad or sad happen. Due South: Pizzas and Promises …

NCIS ended with a bang in Season three and that was literally. While Gibbs is meeting with a supposed informant, his team waits for him on the dock. They are waiting for him when an explosion occurs on the boat.
Gibbs is lucky - he suffered some burns …

Fullmetal Alchemist Episode 7 begins with Ed Elric receiving his State Alchemist pocket watch and returning to the Tucker Estate. Shou Tucker’s assessment is coming up and he has to produce new research or have his State certification as an alchemist revoked.
This is a very dark and …

The Andy Griffith Show: The Perfect Female is a delightful show. First, this is a good time to mention that one of the changes from this comedy series’ premier season on TV and this second year is that Elinor Donahue, who had played Andy’s girlfriend Ellie Walker, left …

In The Fugitive: Detour on a Road Going Nowhere, convicted wife-murderer Richard Kimball is working at a country lodge when the finger gets pointed at him for a theft. This brings the police lurking, so Kimball hightails it away, taking the bus that travels to the remote location.
This …

Criminal Minds: Remembrance of Things Past began with what I thought was just a ridiculous, poorly shot scene. Days of Our Lives’ Mary Beth Evans portrayed Candice DeLilly with Michael Spound of Hotel fame as her husband, Sam DeLilly. I actually enjoyed seeing them. I can’t …

As I was remembering the popular series “Renegade” recently, I also remembered the television series “Forever Knight” that used to air on local television around that same period of time. When the series “Forever Knight” started to air on the local television channel that brought it in the nineteen …

As I mentioned in another review, I had an opportunity to watch some re-runs on TV last night. The first re-run was for the Simpsons but the other one was a re-run of Family Guy that I had not seen before yesterday called Family Goy.
This episode meant well, but …

My daughter wanted to watch Scooby Doo yesterday evening after school. Fortunately for her, I was able to find an old episode of The New Scooby Doo Movies on one of our channels. This one also happened to be one I hadn’t seen before, The Ghost of the Red …

A short while ago, I commented that the later Simpsons Treehouse of Terror episodes aren’t anywhere near as good as the earlier versions.
I was wrong.
I got a chance to see Treehouse of Terror XV last night and was very impressed with the quality of the Halloween special that has …

Star Trek: The Slaver Weapon is a December 1973 episode of the animated Star Trek series which featured the wonderful voices of just about the entire live action cast. This is one of the more serious shows in term of topic and tone. It all surrounds a …

The concept behind The Fall Guy: Colt’s Angels is that Colt Seavers (Lee Majors), his cousin Howie (Doug Barr), and co-worker Jody (Heather Thomas) pretend to be bikers in an attempt to capture the gang’s leader. They look pretty funny in that get up that they wear. …

Well, I obviously have watched the show Law & Order SVU a bit too much in my lifetime because the cases are becoming a bit too easy to solve.
Last night’s episode, Sugar, was a good example of this.
I didn’t even get to see the first few minutes of the …

“Baby Shower” is a more romantic episode of the Office, which airs on NBC on Thursday nights. The episode features the return of Jan, Michael’s ex-girlfriend. Michael is all excited beause he thinks Jan is going to let him be involved in her baby’s life, even though Jan …

This episode of Project Runway was definitely worth watching this week. Rather than getting to work with their choice of fabric, the designers were forced to use denim; more specifically, Levi denim taken from blue jeans and other denim outfits.
Of course, you have the usual trash talking throughout the …

I really like the show Felicity. i feel like to accuratly portays what its like going through your four years of college, with new friends new boyfriends breakups and make ups. Its a really fantastic program that i enjoy watching over and over again. It comes on the WE …

I really loved this action show that starred Keifer Sutherland who played the role of Jack Bauer. He is a member of the counter terrorism unit in Los Angeles. I have been watching this TV series ever since it started playing on air. The show is action packed and …

Death of the Megabeasts is an educational special about giant extinct animals that lived in Australia. It seems like a strange idea for a documentary, but the program was very well done. The research that went into the documentary was very thorough and CGI animation was used to …

My wife was hogging the computer this morning so, rather than being able to place an update on Facebook, I was on the couch watching early morning re-runs while having breakfast. One of the episodes was a Happy Days re-run called Who Gives a Hootenanny.
This is a later episode …

Prison Break is a show aired by Fox TV and is about a pair of brothers. The older brother Lincoln is convicted for the crime of murdering the president when he really didn’t, so he got framed. His brother Michael, is what one would call a genius. He setup …

Well, that was a cute episode of the cartoon Phineas and Ferb. I wasn’t expecting much from an episode entitled Raging Bully and about thumb wrestling but it ended up being much better than I expected. In fact, I think it was downright entertaining.
Basically, in this episode, Phineas finds …