From October 1963, The Andy Griffith Show: The Haunted House is a classically funny episode of this comedy series which features Griffith as small town sheriff, Andy Taylor. Andy is more common sense oriented than most of the others we meet in this rural community of Mayberry, North …

Junior Apprentice Episode 3 had the two teams of apprentice wannabes, Instinct and Revolution, going to a crystal store where they were told their task was to make and sell cupcakes. Once again, Lord Alan Sugar changed things up by switching two of the players, taking Arjun and …

CSI New York Season 2 Episode 13 - Risk
Yet another great episode of the show. In this episode the team must find the killers in two very different cases. In the first case, Danny sees a body on a the subway tracks while taking a ride home. The …

Tales of the Gold Monkey: A Distant Shout of Thunder was all about fears, which is part of the human equation. In fact, after all was said and done, and the radical native with ancient beliefs dealt with, there was this moment of sympathy and regret that was …

Im not much of a tv person but one of the shows I do watch when I watch tv is the show that Metal Show on vh1 classic. It’s a show that features comedians Don Jameson,Jim Florentine and Radio DJ Eddie Trunk. I really like how this show combines …

I haven’t seen the Simpsons episode “Brush With Greatness” for a while, but finally got to see it again tonight. It’s not quite as great as I remember it, but it still turned out to be funny.
Marge is asked to paint a portrait of Mr. Burns for an exhibit …

The beauty of The Twilight Zone: Ninety Years Without Slumbering belongs to one person and one person only — Ed Wynn, who portrays Sam Forstmann. Sam is a kind older man living with his daughter and her husband. He has with him an old grandfather clock, a …

Team Azula is forced to visit Ember Island while Lord Ozai has an important meeting. Zuko sees it as a waste of time, but the girls think it will be beneficial.
They are given shelter by two elderly women named Li and Lo, who are a bit off, but …

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Brand of the Beast, the 14th outing of the 3rd season, brings back the concept of the werewolf. They did this in a previous show in which guest star Charles Aidman reverted into a werewolf. Now Admiral Nelson (Richard …

The Suit Life of Zack and Cody is a Disney Channel show. I love Disney Channel. They have a variety of shows and most of them are comedy. In this particular series, it tells the life and adventure of two twins living in a luxurious hotel called The Tipton. …

That Girl: The Apartment has some great scenes in it. Basically, Don Hollinger is going out of town so he lets his girlfriend, Ann Marie, use his apartment since hers is being sprayed for pests. It’s the perfect setup for merriment, and we get a lot of …

The third season of The Simpsons isn’t exactly the best season in the show’s history, but it’s far from the worst too. When you watch the earlier seasons now, it can sometimes be hard to compare the characters to how they look and sound now. That problem doesn’t appear …

“Desert Cantos” isn’t as bad as “Alpine Fields” or “Earthlings Welcome Here” but it isn’t as good as say “The Good Wound”, it is a rather ‘tame’ follow-up to that latter episode though. Following the destruction of the covert factory in the middle of nowhere, a company funeral is …

Well, that was an OK episode of Family Guy last night, but not one I was overly impressed with either.
In The Kiss Seen Around the World, Meg develops a crush on the local TV anchorman and accepts an unpaid internship just to get close to him. However, while there, …

Direct Television is a great thing. We switch to direct a long time ago, and now we have it in four rooms of the house. It is a lot cheaper than many of the others, and you still get a lot of the channels, which you can choose. They …

Conduit is an episode of the X-Files from season one. The X-Files is a show that ran on Fox in the 1990s. It was very well known and very popular. The stories revolved around to federal agents, Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, who investigated strange happenings …

The Nemesis episode of The Fugitive is one of those I really like a lot. We meet Lt. Gerard’s son, Phil, Jr. The two have been driving back home from taking Gerard’s mother home when the police detective gets word that Richard Kimball has been spotted …

Every Time She Smiles is the episode of MacGyver where we first meet the fast-talking Penny Parker, a character played by Teri Hatcher (now of Desperate Housewives fame) who would recur on multiple episodes of the series. Off the show, it’s said that she and star Richard Dean …

There wasn’t much on TV last night and my wife was playing a computer game so I ended up watching a re-run of the show South Park. I have not watched this show on a regular basis in years and really don’t know who half the characters are any …

Now this has got to be the best ever television comedy series ever made, not just coming out of the United Kingdom, but ever!
I simply love the “Nick” character and reckon the entire sitcom would be a whole lot less appealing without Nick. While all the other characters are …

Have Gun - Will Travel: The Return of Roy Carter is written by Gene Roddenberry in his pre-Star Trek days. I have to give the show credit here, too, because it brought back characters regularly for follow ups; at least, that’s what has been happening in the first …

I stopped watching CSI for a long time, although I had always been an avid fan. It was just that I had not much chance to watch TV with all the writing I was doing. So I guess I felt lucky to have been able to catch this …

We needed an extra television in our home, and being on a tight budget we bought the 13inch Citizen JCTV1372SC Colour Television for $89.99 CDN from our local supermarket. I had bought other Citizen electronic products before, including a small stereo that had a really great sound so I …

The Winds of War: On Location featurette gives a very nice insight into what it was like to shoot this mammoth mini-series. To film the series, it took 14 months, and to scout the locations, several years. There is a review of what it was like to …

Castle is a TV crime genre that stars former Firefly star, Nathan Fillion. It is a great show for anyone who likes crime dramas. I like it for another reason. The premises.
The premises of this show is that a mystery writer is called into help on …

Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Hunted is an episode that is not quite as powerful or meaningful as “The High Ground” is, however, it too speaks of an important message that is worthy of being discussed and not simply cast aside. It is a relevant message and …

To Boldly Go … Season Two featurette includes some great comments about some of the classic episodes which aired during the second season of Star Trek. This includes the wonderful and most popular episode, The Trouble with Tribbles, which just about everyone calls the one and only comedy …

This particular show, Sonar Story, the tenth outing of the adventure series’ fourth season, felt very slow and dull to me. So much of it was underwater, but it wasn’t showing sea life or some natural phenomenon of the ocean; rather, it was Mike Nelson tracking down heroin …

This show apparently follows singer Monica in her quest for completing a new single. I heard this was going to be a reality show series about Monica. But in fact, this is really a show Bryan Michael Cox put together to emphasize the necessities of putting together …

The 15th episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea’s fourth season was called Terrible Leprechaun and aired in January 1968. The main guest star was Walter Burke, portraying a duo role as Mickey Moore O’Shaunessy and Patrick Moore O’Shaunessy. These two are, as the title …

I don’t watch this Supernatural television series, so I don’t even know the setup of the story. All I really know is that it’s a science fiction series that airs on the CW network at the moment. However, I had to watch this episode because Michael Shanks …

It seems like Amaerica’s Funniest Home Videos has been around forever and it almost has. It started back in 1989 and has been around in one form or another since then. While I do not watch it on a regular basis, after all how many times can …

“Infamous” is the episode of Smallville originally airing on March 12, 2009. This episode had Clark revealing his true identity to the world in an attempt to prevent the sleazy reporter Linda Lake from being the first to reveal his powers.
Pros: That was one of those “what …

Black Gold is the reality series that airs on TruTV, which is what used to be Court TV. If that seems odd, I agree. However, this is the third season for this true life series that focuses on the oil well business.
I’m really not sure why I …

It’s amazing how one episode on an on-going series could change the relationships of pretty much every character on the show.
The Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode “Lover’s Walk” is one of those episodes.
This episode shows us the return of Spike, only this time he’s without his lover Drusilla because …

I was able to watch a bit of TV at lunch today and put on a re-run of the show Monk; Mr. Monk and the Class Reunion.
It had been a while since I saw this episode and I have to say it was definitely entertaining.
Basically, Monk returns to his …

Since Law & Order SVU wasn’t on last night, I was able to watch the early show of Ghost Hunters as they explored the Mark Twain House in Connecticut. This turned out to be an interesting episode.
For one, they had a lot of personal experiences. Normally, I don’t count …

Finally the forty-five minute mark in the first part of the Chuunin Exam is reached and it is time for the tenth question, but before he gives it out the instructor decides to tell the remaining candidates a story. He takes off his head band and hat to reveal …

We watched the Monk series finale last night and I have to say it wasn’t quite as good as I thought it would be. But, it did have a few twists that I didn’t expect so it still managed to win some points.
First, the case was way too easy …

After seeing the St. Augustine Lighthouse episode minutes before, the Ghost Hunters episode Domani’s and The County Jail proved to be a bit of a disappointment.
The TAPS team checked out a restaurant in New Jersey that Dave Tango recommended. The investigation really turned up very little, other than a …

If you’re looking for a show to watch Tuesday nights, Law & Order Special Victims Unit is it. It has to be the best of the Law & Order franchise and I make sure never to miss an episode.
In addition to being a great crime drama, the storylines in …

This latest instalment of the superb series, The Universe, provides one of its most hypothetical episodes yet.
In this instalment, “Space Wars”, our favourite experts talk us through what war would be like in outer space. There’s rogue moon colonies, alien civilizations threatening the earth and potential solutions to protect …

May 29, 2009 marked the end of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno after 17 years. I was never a fan of Leno, and I felt NBC shenanigans resulted in him getting the job over David Letterman. The thing is, I’m not a fan of Letterman, either, …

Denise Bauer is representing a client who’s wife was killed in a fire. The wife had cancer and had few days to live. Denise’s client wanted to sue a car company because their SUV caused the fire that killed the wife of Denise’s client. Denise’s client does not want …

M*A*S*H: Captains Outrageous centers on Father Francis Mulcahy, played wonderfully with mild perfection by William Christopher. Though Mulcahy has given one-hundred percent of himself to helping out at the 4077th and with the children at the orphanage, he continues to be passed over for promotion. He’s a …

Freddy Moore is on a rampage. He’s the tool pusher, or supervisor of the evening shift that actually starts at 2 p.m. He’s out for a promotion, so he’s having the crew complete a lengthy ‘to do’ list. Freddy’s just not my cup of tea. …

Maybe I’m just old, or maybe there was just too much going on, but I found the pilot movie for Private Eye to be very confusing in its set up. The first half hour just left me wondering who was who and what was what. It did …

That Girl: Absence Makes the Heart Grow Nervous is the first of a two-part story where Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas) gets her first Broadway role. She’s very excited about it, and her boyfriend Don Hollinger (Ted Bessell) is very supportive, even though it means that Ann will be …

Can you believe this time Gilligan was not the trouble maker, but Mrs. Howell was. And in this episode we see the vulnerable and sentimental side of her. She focuses on her matchmaking talents which is not the best for the welfare of the Castaway group. Here she does …

A lot of people love the rain, but would they love it if it rained every day, and not just a drizzle, but a real downpour? That’s a question to ponder as you watch the cable TV show, The Ray Bradbury Theater, and it’s sixth season episode, The …