TV Reviews
Highway Patrol: Narcotics TV Show
This review will cover the episode called Narcotics, from the police drama, Highway Patrol. It was the 36th outing of the second season. If only they made that many shows today. Back in the day, seasons were long.
First of all, it was really neat to have …
Futurama TV Episode: Hell is Other Robots
I ended up watching one more episode of the show Futurama last night with my daughter (I told her I would before making her go to bed since I hadn’t seen her all day). The episode we watched; Hell is Other Robots, was OK. But, it wasn’t as good …
Centennial: The Crime
The most emotional portion of Centennial: The Crime is the demise of Oliver Seccombe. He was an interesting character because he did do some bad things, such as running out on Levi and Elly Zendt, leaving them to fend for themselves; , claiming not to be responsible for …
Tyra Show
Tyra Show is a talk show hosted by super model Tyra Banks. Her show has been on for a few seasons now and appears to be doing well. It was recently switched to CW network and now airs for 2 hours in the afternoon. I’m sure that Tyra fans …
The Dick Van Dyke Show (TV Show) - Odd But True (Episode)
“Odd But True” is an episode of “The Dick Van Dyke Show”. In this episode, while Rob is asleep on the couch, Richie and his friend notice that on his back are a number of freckles. Richie’s friend gets the idea to connect them and see if they form …
Spongebob Squarepants Season Three - Spongeguard on Duty
Spongebob is at the beach in Bikini Bottom one day and accidentally gets ice cream on his nose. Well, Larry who is the main lifeguard at the beach, sees this and assumes that Spongebob is really a lifeguard. Before he can even get a chance to explain to Larry …
The Andy Griffith Show: The County Nurse TV Show
It’s been a while since Sheriff Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith) has had a romance, so the producers figured that at this point in the second season, it was time to stir things up a little bit. Thus, in March 1962, they presented viewers with The Andy Griffith Show: …
Touched by an Angel: I Will Walk with You - Part 2
Touched by an Angel: I Will Walk with You - Part 2 concludes this wonderful series that starred Roma Downey, Della Reese, John Dye, and Valerie Bertinelli. The magic of this final show, which is set in a sad, tragic town whose children had been killed in a …
CHiPs: Rally ‘Round the Bank
CHiPs: Rally ‘Round the Bank has one element I’ve actually remembered for years, going back to when the episode first aired on February 3, 1979. In the episode, Frank Poncherello’s mother shows up unexpectedly for a visit. This creates some light humor at the beginning as Ponch …
Diagnosis Murder: The New Healers TV Show
This is one of those spoof like shows. Diagnosis Murder: The New Healers centers on a television show being shot at Community General Hospital where Dr. Mark Sloan (Dick Van Dyke) works. It’s bringing in some $10,000 a day, which makes Norman Briggs, the hospital administrator very …
Daytime TV: One Life to Live
One Life to Live is a long time soap opera on daytime television. I started watching it when I was a stay at home mother many years ago. When I went back to work, I had to stop watching but years later tuned in after starting to work from …
The Office: The Chair Model
Michal has broken up with Jan, and he has decided it is time to start dating. His plan is to convince someone in the office to set him up. How he does this is to tell everyone in the office that if they don’t give him the name and …
That Girl: Ann vs. Secretary
That Girl: Ann vs. Secretary is a great show. Don Hollinger (Ted Bessell) has yet another secretary. Apparently, Newsview has a secretarial problem because they just can’t keep the same gals hired. This professional helper, though, has a mission that doesn’t just include typing and dictation. …
Naruto Episode 3 Subbed
Following in the footsteps of the previous episode, episode 3 of Naruto is almost solely dedicated to comedic relief and character development. Also like episode 2, episode 3 is surprisingly fun, entertaining, and captivating. We finally get to meet some new major characters in the form of Naruto’s two …
Have Gun - Will Travel: Penelope TV Show
From December 1962, the 13th show of the sixth season, Have Gun - Will Travel: Penelope was an average episode in my opinion.
This particular program opened in San Francisco with Col. Oliver Lacey as played by Lawrence Dobkin studying Paladin who is engaged in a solo game of chess.
Lacey …
Spongebob Squarepants Season Three - Pranks A Lot
Spongebob and Patrick just love to get into mischief. They find themselves shopping one day at a local store in Bikini Bottom and buy some invisible spray. They can think of so many good ideas they can do with this, and they plan a lot of pranks …
M*A*S*H: Communication Breakdown
M*A*S*H: Communication Breakdown is one of only a few episodes penned by a woman. In this case, it was Karen Hall who gets the writer’s credit for this tenth season episode. Series star Alan Alda directed the episode. Both did great jobs.
There are two subjects in …
Here Come the Brides: The Crimpers
Here Come the Brides: The Crimpers isn’t really one of my favorite stories of this series, but it’s still a good one and has some memorable moments in it. The story starts with Jeremy Bolt (Bobby Sherman) being drugged and shanghaied while in Port Angeles on business, as …
Grown Your Own Drugs episode 2 flowers
Grow Your Own Drugs is the most radical title for a TV show I think I have ever seen. I just had to watch it because my curiosity was just killing me. I like gardening and herbs are one of my latest kicks I have gotten into learning about. …
Stargate SG-1: Double Jeopardy
Stargate SG-1: Double Jeopardy was Michael Shanks’ debut as a director. It was a daunting task that pretty much took care of any desires he had to direct more. Shanks likes to understand all aspects of show business, which is why he’s dabbled in writing an SG-1 …
Inbetweeners - Third Series -Episode 3 - E4
Now into the 3rd episode of this 3rd series and Simon now has a girlfriend called Tara. What makes Tara funny is that on the face of it she appears pretty and a cool kid, but as you watch the relationship develop you actually begin to see quite an …
Celebrity Apprentice Season Finale
Well, after waiting on pins and needles all week tonight the season finale Celebrity Apprentice was shown and I couldn’t be more disappointed. The whole season was exciting and watchers really didn’t know what was coming next but while the season finale promised to continue that them it really …
The Virginian: The Judgment
The Virginian: The Judgment is a flashback tale, told by Judge Henry Garth (Lee J. Cobb) to his daughter, Betsy (Roberta Shore), about something that happened ten years earlier. As a result, the show is Cobb-centric. Outside of Shore’s short bits in the opening and the ending, …
House: Poison
Ironically, my interest in the show House didn’t come during the first few episodes of the series; it was a show later in the series entitled “Poison.”
The interesting thing about this episode is they don’t have to solve one case, they have to solve two; even though both the …
Galapagos: The Islands That Changed The World
Oh my! Nature lovers, if you have yet to watch Galapagos: The Islands That Changed The World the documentary, what are you waiting for? Kids would love this. They should feature this on science centers with 3D effect, it would be so amazing. Notice nature at its …
Star Trek: Shore Leave TV Show
Star Trek: Shore Leave is an absolute classic. There are many great elements of the story, and in actuality, from the first time I saw this as a child back in 1966, I have kept one line of this show with me. It’s a line that struck …
Friends TV show - The one where Rachel quits
Rachel is very frustrated with her current job at the coffee house, because she just feels like she is never going to be able to do the job properly, and she is never going to be happy. Chandler was talking to her about her situation and he finally convinces …
Pokemon (TV Show) - Primeape Goes Bananas (Episode)
“Primeape Goes Bananas” is an episode of the “Pokemon” series. It’s primarily a comedy episode and it focuses on Ash’s attempts to get his hat back after the fight Pokemon Mankey steals it and refuses to give it back. Ash spends practically the entire episode attempting to attack Mankey, …
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Jonah and the Whale
The first episode of the second season of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was a show entitled Jonah and the Whale, and it brings with it some big changes as well as some subtle alterations. First, the show began airing in color. What a difference …
I Want To Work For Diddy (VH1 network program)
I cannot believe that Diddy has an entire show dedicated to finding someone to be his peon. I also cannot believe that people would actually clamor for this position. For instance, a message appeared on the red phone that Diddy’s car needed washing. …
Star Wars The Clone Wars: Destroy Malevolence (episode 4)
This is the final episode in the trilogy about the spaceship Malevolence commanded by General Grievous. The episode’s name pretty much gives away what the storyline is about: the Jedi destroying the ship. The episode stars Anakin, Obi-Wan and Padme. General Grievous, of course, also has a large part.
The …
Days of Our Lives
I’ve been watching Days of Our Lives for years. Since I was a kid actually since daytime programming isn’t very child friendly. So after all these years of watching Days of Our lives I have to say I hate this show.
The actors are terrible. As with …
THAT 70′S SHOW
This television close to real life 70’s show is something my son and I enjoy watching together. It relates to the 70’s in the way the characters are dressed and the cars they drive, but otherwise the teenagers act and think just like teenagers today. It is a …
Adam 12 - Log 36
On the whole, this episode of Adam-12 is a tad lacking for me. Not every show can be a winner. That said, there are elements in it that I enjoy very much, and it’s definitely still watchable and better than most shows on TV today.
The sub-plot that …
Trigun Episode 4
Trigun Episode 4 begins with the Meryl and Milly in a bar and they meet a girl named Stephany Bostalk voiced by Alexis A. Edwards, they are taken hostage by robbers who demand $$100,000, promising they will release the hostages. Vash the Stampede wanders in and is taken …
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.: Steel Horses
For me, the real star of The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.: Steel Horses is Comet the wonder horse. I adore Comet in this show. There are some really good scenes with him in this episode.
The show deals with Brisco getting a look at the coming thing, …
Fullmetal Alchemist Episode 2
Fullmetal Alchemist Episode 2 begins with Ed and Al confronting Father Cornelo about tricking his cult into believing he can perform miracles because he has a Philosopher’s Stone. They try to take it from him but he attacks them using the Stone. He then turns the people …
Dawson’s Creek
I think Dawson’s Creek is probably one of the worst shows I have seen in my life. This shows pisses me off. I can’t believe I ever saw this show before. The show is about a bunch of young people who live by a creek. And you guessed it one …
Spongebob Squarepants Season Four - Krusty Towers
Mr. Krabs has always been looking for a way to make extra money, so he decides that he is going to construct a hotel building to make more money. Squidward thinks it is a terrible idea, and he is really upset because he has to wait on the guests …
Chase: Repo TV Show
Chase: Repo is the second episode of this new dramatic TV series which stars Kelli Giddish as Annie Frost, a U.S. Marshal. The show begins with what appears to be a drag race, only it’s a murder in the making, one done by a recently released fugitive.
One of …
Make It Or Break It Season 1 Episode 17
This episode of Make It or Break It was great. It’s really got me looking forward to the next episode.
The girls are training for a National team training day where six of them get picked to go compete in China. Emily finds out her mum is dating …
The Cleveland Show “Once upon a Tyne in New York”
The Cleveland Show episode “Once upon a tyne in new york” aired last night, 3/21/2010. The plot centers around Cleveland Brown whose new wife is complaining that he has let himself go since they got married 3 months ago. Cleveland talks to his friends at the …
That Girl: The Mating Game
The classic game show, The Dating Game, is homaged in the final episode of the first season of That Girl. Called The Mating Game, Don Hollinger decides to do a story on the popular dating show and he wants to use Ann Marie as his guinea pig, though …
M*A*S*H: L.I.P. (Local Indigenous Personnel)
M*A*S*H: L.I.P. (Local Indigenous Personnel) is all about one of the 4077th’s personnel who is about to go home. He does have a problem, though. He’s been involved with a Korean woman for a long time and they have a baby. He wants to marry her …
Outlaw: S1, Ep 2 TV Show
Directed by Timothy Busfield, the second episode of Outlaw aired on September 24, 2010. In this series, Jimmy Smits stars as former United States Supreme Court Justice Cyrus Garza. Garza quit the bench to become a regular lawyer again. It’s really an interesting premise.
Guest star Ed …
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Mutiny TV Show
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Mutiny, episode 18 of season one, gives us something a little different at the beginning. Admiral Nelson, played by series star Richard Basehart, is checking out a new submarine, the Neptune. Naturally, things go mysteriously awry on the vessel.
Following are …
The Inbetweeners - Series 3 - Episode 5
Nearing the end of the final series of The Inbetweeners now and the fourth episode, was pretty good, though not as good as some of the others.
I found it a fast moving episode, rather than one that was full of really comical moments.
Wills mum has gone away with an …
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Nightmares
Nobody likes nightmares so the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode Nightmares is a great episode to watch if you like being creeped out a bit.
This one, again, doesn’t involve vampires. But, it does involve a kid in a coma who has an out of body experience and brings his …
Ghost Hunters: Ghostly Conversation
I was watching Ghost Hunters last night and got to see a more recent episode I haven’t seen before; Ghostly Conversation.
This one was somewhat interesting because they got to visit a really fancy hotel that was supposedly haunted by the princess that once owned it and frequented it; likely …
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