TV Reviews
Friends Season Two - The one with the breastmilk
Ross is finally getting some time to spend with his son Ben, and he is learning to be a father quite quickly when he has him on his own. Since Carol has decided to breast feed their son, she has prepared some breast milk in bottles for him to …
Bones: The Man in the Mansion
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 …
Emerald Point N.A.S.: Episode 8
The eighth episode of Emerald Point N.A.S. aired on November 14, 1983 and dealt with a lot of transitions, like Glenn moving forward after his court-martial conviction and Celia trying to decide what she wants to do with her life. Her separated hubby Jack is in turmoil, wanting …
M*A*S*H: Letters
M*A*S*H: Letters is a wonderful episode from season nine. It’s a slow time at the 4077th, so the kids from Hawkeye Pierce’s (Alan Alda) home town of Crapapple Cove, send letters for the personnel to answer. Hawkeye hands them out with the regulars are getting multiples to …
Adam 12 - Log 1
Adam-12 is quality TV. In fandom, it’s part of what many call Webb TV, shows produced by the late Jack Webb. He had a knack for drama that was straight forward and yet still entertaining, and Adam-12 is a perfect example of that.
One thing that I notice …
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: …And Five of Us Are Left TV Show
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: …And Five of Us Are Left, the third episode of the second season of this series which stars Richard Basehart and David Hedison, puts forth an intriguing and somewhat thought provoking ‘what if’ story that begins with an event from World …
Fireball XL5: Space Pirates
Fireball XL5: Space Pirates tickles me pink. Anytime I see a group of puppets being used in a different plot device, it makes me smile. In this case, Gerry Anderson had the beautiful Venus, a space doctor, visiting the Jonathan Zero, Jr., the son of Commander Zero. …
The Steve Wilkos Show
I love to watch television talk shows at times and one of them is the Steve Wilkos show. Every since watching him on the Jerry show I have been a fan of his. Since he has started his own show I have been watching it all the time. It …
Stargate SG-1: Citizen Joe
Essentially, Stargate SG-1: Citizen Joe is the annual clips show. This time it revolves around a lot of non-SGC personnel. It opens with a barber named Joe Spencer showing up at Jack’s home and threatening him with a gun. It’s a funny bit on the surface. …
Two and a Half Men
Two and a Half Men is a family situation comedy that has been making viewers laugh since 2003. With its slightly off beat, but yet mostly normal, cast of characters who get great scripts, you almost wish they were your family. That is if you do not want …
Games
After going through a season filled with a great reality-based hiring process for new assistants, I really expected more from House�s final decision.
The fact he was forced to make his choice was a bit interesting but the doctors dealing with a drugged-out rocker who was more than likely …
Royal Palm Estate
“Royal Palm Estate” was a Jamaican soap opera from the nineties which used to be aired on Sunday evenings on the local channel CVM. I became a very big fan of the television series even though I was still too young to be watching those things. However, since there …
Entourage season 2 Episode 7 The Sundance Kids
The boys are going to the Sundance film festival where they will see the final cut of Walsh’s Queen Boulevard. Shauna waits them there, E goes to the toilet where he runs into Harvey Weingard and they start talking about the difference between managers and agents, E says that …
Due South: The Man Who Knew Too Little
An intriguing little episode from the first season of Due South is called The Man Who Knew Too Little. I like the plot about a witness to a crime who at first admits he saw what happened and can identify the villains. In reality, though, while he …
Highway Patrol: Dead Hunter TV Show
Highway Patrol’s third season of police drama surrounding the California Highway Patrol continued with its tenth episode entitled Dead Hunter. This show aired in December 1957, so it’s vintage television for sure. What’s good about it is that it’s both out there on the internet to be …
Vampire High Season 1 Episode 17
In this episode, there is something wrong with Dr. Murdoch and Merrill is the only person who is will to find out.
The episode begins with Merrill and Dr. Murdoch in a conference about a fictional story she wrote and all of a sudden he starts hearing things and starts …
Fame: Reunions
Fame: Reunions begins with a really fun dance class segment where the group is dancing to an African beat and then the comic, Danny Amatullo (Carlo Imperato) slips and practically knocks down the entire class. I liked this opening bit quite a lot.
The title of the show relates …
Family Guy - Padre de Familia
Peter Griffin is the best! And I say this unequivocally…and this is proven in the episode Padre de la Familia, where Peter becomes a part of a pro-American campaign….trying especially to rid the US workforce of non-Americans….He proceeds to visit his mother to obtain a copy of his birth …
Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer: Dead on a Dime TV show
Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer: Dead on a Dime was an episode from the first season of this private eye detective drama. It guest starred Barbara Horan and Allan Miller. I’ve always enjoyed seeing Miller, dating back to the late 60’s when he was one of the main …
Charmed Season 1 DVD
The TV Show Charmed is now on DVD. I have a tendency to do everything backwards. To learn thing backwards. And I actually started with Season 8 of Charmed. I had watched a few episodes off and on through-out the run of Charmed on the WB. But never …
The Fugitive: Tug of War
The Fugitive: Tug of War from season two is an interesting show that pits two law enforcement types against each other. Both want to bring Kimball in, and it’s quite the guessing game as to who will be the victor as the show progresses.
Don Gordon guest stars as …
In Performance at the White House: Paul McCartney TV Show
In Performance at the White House: Paul McCartney aired on PBS and it surrounded Sir Paul McCartney being awarded The Gershwin Prize for Lifetime Achievement in song writing for popular music. It’s a prestigious award and an honor McCartney takes quite seriously. Following are some observations about …
Star Trek Fan Collective:Borg
Star Trek fans voted online for their favorite Borg episodes, and this collection is a most own for any Star Trek fan, and a welcomed addition to any Star Trek collection. There are fourteen episodes, on four discs presented in stardate order, all featuring the Borg. The fans …
Crime 360 show
I myself love the little mystery shows. I really don’t know why or how, but they grab & keep my attention. But one show that keeps me interested in it is Crime 360; this show is so educational, & so amazing. I never knew about what …
M*A*S*H: Pressure Points
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 …
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Shape of Doom TV Show
The 20th episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea to air in its second season on the air is called The Shape of Doom. As always, the cast is headlined by Richard Basehart as Admiral Nelson and David Hedison as Captain Crane.
Kevin Hagen, perhaps best known …
MacGyver: The Eraser
Joe Santos stars in this second episode of the second season of MacGyver, entitled The Eraser. Santos plays Jimmy Kendall, a just released felon who is forced by a mobster to make a hit. The object of the hit is Michael Simmons, played by Morgan Stevens. …
Iron Chef America
Iron Chef America is a spin off the original Iron Chef that premiered in Fiji. The show is a food competition show that puts the best chefs in the field against up and coming chefs.
Iron Chef America originally started out with four Iron Chefs: Cat Cora, Bobby Flay, Masaharu …
Laramie: Ride the Wild Wind TV Show
From year two, Laramie: Ride the Wild Wind includes the return of Bobby Crawford Jr. as Andy Sherman. In this second year, Andy was sent to school back east, but he shows up a couple of times to be a part of the story, as is the case …
Here Come the Brides: A Dream That Glitters
Here Come the Brides: A Dream That Glitters features the colorful talents of Will Geer as Benjamin Pruitt, Candy’s grandfather. The title comes from his personal dream, one that Candy and her true love, Jeremy, eventually work hard to bring about.
The opening scene had some fun to it …
The Twilight Zone: Hocus-Pocus and Frisby TV Show
Sitting around, chatting, and listening to fanciful tall tales. That’s the delight and center of The Twilight Zone: Hocus-Pocus and Frisby from 1962. It’s a fun story that includes some harmless stories and some naive aliens, as in aliens from outer space.
Here are a few thoughts about …
Remington Steele: Thou Shalt Not Steele TV Show
One of the reasons for watching Remington Steele: Thou Shalt Not Steele from November 1982 is that the episode guest stars Cassandra Harris, who is perhaps better know as being Mrs. Pierce Brosnan. The British actress sadly passed away years ago of cancer, but shows like this show …
Collectible Trek featurette
Collectible Trek is a very information look at the world of Star Trek collectibles. This isn’t just a show and tell feature. It does much more than show an action figure and say how much it’s worth at the time this was filmed. It really hones …
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Hot Line TV Show
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Hot Line, show nine of this hit science fiction program, deals with a Russian rocket that goes astray and is headed for splashdown near San Francisco. The Seaview is ordered by the White House to assist the Russians to find the …
Venture Bros: The Better Man
This episode focuses on the triad. Orpheus discovers that the outrider, the same man who stole his wife, is able to travel between worlds and resolves to attempt to do the same.
We see the return of the master, who tries to give Orpheus some advice while …
Ghost Hunters Season 3, Part 2 DVD
Ghost Hunters is one of my favorite shows on television, and I gladly grab the different sets when they are released. That said, there are a few major problems with this set.
1-The transfer onto DVD isn’t the best. It actually looks worse here than it does on television, …
Jeff Corwin Experience: A Wild Man in Borneo (tv show)
Jeff Corwin animals experience is a television show on animal planet network. Jeff Corwin is very personable host. He is quite funny and always entertaining. He travels to exotic locations to find strange wild animals, handle them, and display them for the show. In this …
The City on MTV
I was really excited to watch the spin off reality show of The Hills on MTV called The City. The City is a show based in New York City that features Whitney Port in her big move from L.A. to the fashion mecca working in the DVF fashion …
Highway Patrol: The Seventh Green TV Show
Highway Patrol’s 18th show from its third year was a little different, and I liked that quite a bit. As the name might indicate, The Seventh Green, which aired back in February 1958, opened with Chief of Police Dan Mathews (Broderick Crawford) playing a round of golf with …
Medium: Where Were You When…? TV Show
Where Were You When…? is the latest episode from Patricia Arquette’s spirit oriented drama, Medium. This show is close to being cancelled now that CBS has reduced its series order to just 13 shows. I still enjoy the show, but there are redundant parts and with …
Star Trek: Operation - Annihilate! TV Show
From April 1967, Star Trek: Operation - Annihilate! is the final show of the first season of this science fiction classic from the mind of Gene Roddenberry. It finally gives us a relative of one of the regulars, even though he dies before we meet him. What …
The Cosby show
If you are looking for a great comedy old show then turn to Nickolodean Tv and Nick at Night. The reruns of the Cosby Show are fantastic. Especially during the summer months when they run marathons which is an entire 8 hours of one show after another. …
Absolutely Fabulous
This is a weird show for me. On the one hand I like it but on the other there are so many things wrong with it I feel a little silly for liking it. Absolutely Fabulous is an English show and that means all it’s humor is …
Have Gun - Will Travel: Fandango TV Show
I just love the title of this fourth season episode of Have Gun - Will Travel. It’s called Fandango, which in this case means tomfoolery. It intrigued me from the start.
Leonid Kinskey has a bit part as Yevgeny. He was playing chess with Paladin in San …
The Beast: Capone
The Capone episode of The Beast stands out because it featured Lou Diamond Phillips as an agent who is deep under cover. The problem is that the man has been in his role for four very long years, during which his wife divorced him. In essence, as …
The Simpsons TV Episode: The Cartridge Family
Last night, I finally got to get my Simpsons fix by watching a re-run on network TV. And, I was glad to see it was an episode I have seen in the past and loved; The Cartridge Family.
The episode starts out making fun of soccer (and how Americans think …
Spartacus:Blood and Sand
The new TV series, Spartacus: Blood and Sand is a TV series that can be seen on the STARZ channel. However, a couple of the first episodes have been leaked and let me assure you, they do not disappoint. There has been a ton of blood, sex, and violence …
The Forgotten - Diamond Jane
In this second series of this new ABC drama which stars Christian Slater, I find myself more into the story of the dead body than I was the regular characters who make up what is called The Forgotten Network. This network helps the police to identify dead bodies …
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