TV Reviews
The Apprentice UK - Episode 4
The fourth episode of The Apprentice UK was all about selling, and what a venue the two teams had. Impact and First Forte were each given locations inside the famed Harrod’s Store. The locations were deemed the same in potential for attracting customers. Staff were allowed …
Naruto Episode 22 Subbed
Another new character steals the show in this episode, and that is a good thing. This character, Rock Lee, is another Konoha gennin but is older than Naruto and team. Rock Lee challenges Sasuke to a fight and easily dispatches a hasty Naruto and then begins his fight with …
Gilligan’s Island - High Man on the Totem Pole TV Show
This episode has quite a few ups and downs. Gilligan goes around all depressed through most of the episode. Actually its agonizing to watch him obsess what he thinks is his heritage, related to head hunters. And he deduces this solely on his resemblance to the likeness of the …
Adam 12 - Log 174: Loan Sharks
The third season of the great police drama Adam-12 began in September 1970 with Log 174: Loan Sharks. The first thing that’s really noticeable is the new introduction. This is the one that ends with the police car rolling into a lot right towards the viewer and …
Columbo: A Deadly State of Mind TV Show
George Hamilton guest stars as Dr. Mark Collier in Columbo: A Deadly State of Mind. Hamilton appeared in another episode later that I prefer over this one, which is a okay, but not as good as the other one. This show is all about the power of …
Smallville: Crossfire
This episode introduces Mia Dearden, a young woman who will eventually become the sidekick of Green Arrow named Speedy, which Ollie calls her as she’s driving his car. Honestly, I”d rather see more of the heroes that have already been introduced as opposed to constantly bringing in new …
Blacke’s Magic: Prisioner of Paradise
Alexander Blacke (Hal Linden) and his father, Leonard (Harry Morgan), take off for the island of San Marcos in Blacke’s Magic: Prisioner of Paradise. The reason for the visit is the arrest of long sought criminal. Michael Constantine played the small role well. He didn’t have …
Seven days season 3 episode 18 The Final Countdown
This episode was supposed to be very tense and very unpredictable but it wasn’t.
Original time line: North Korea lunches a test missile and all the nuclear units in the USA are alerted, but the Koreans inform America that the missile is just a test and the alert ends. …
Diagnosis Murder: Murder by the Book TV Show
Diagnosis Murder: Murder by the Book revolved around a new book that was written in part by an old friend of the Sloans. To Mark’s shock, the book isn’t about recipes but sex stories. That results in some funny moments, but the real story is about the …
Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Episode 1.2: Rising Malevolence
Yawn, yawn, yawn. After the last episode, “Ambush”, and now this one, you just can’t help but ask yourself how this could get any worse than it already is. The second episode of the season, “Rising Malevolence”, depicts Anakin Skywalker and his apprentice, Ahsoka Tano (who is a cute …
Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Grand Opening
The third season of Curb wraps up in style as the restaurant finally opens, Larry insults and injures a particularly harsh food critic, Cheryl gets caught in a car wash and a foul mouthed tourettes suffering French chef causes concern for the investors.
While the third season has been …
Monster (Anime)
Sometimes after watching a show like this one, I wonder why does not all anime come in this format. I’ll admit, I’ve almost didn’t see it at all - the pace is rather slow in the beginning and I’ve almost stopped watching before it got its hooks into me. From …
Shaq’s Big Challenge
Shaq’s Big Challenge is the best inspiration I have ever seen for kids. Overweight and extremely introverted, I wish Shaq witnessed the growing rate of obesity when I was in school. Maybe I wouldn’t have had to spend my time finding the right clothes to cover up …
The Universe: The Earth
The Universe delivers another thrilling and informative instalment, this time with the focus on something closer to home than the usual subject matter.
This episode focused on our own blue world; the Earth. That mightn’t sound the most thrilling focus, considering the other destinations this series investigates, reminding us of …
Criminal Minds Season 3 Episode 12
Two young girls disappear and a mutilated body is found- the head and the hands of which are cut off, making identification impossible. Two sets of parents are anxiously waiting for the news, to see if it were their child who survived. The only way to identify whose body …
Wagon Train: The Sam Spicer Story
Another Wagon Train episode from season seven was The Sam Spicer Story, which guest starred Ed Begley and Clu Gulager. The story focuses on teenager, Barnaby West, as played by Michael Burns. He’s a recurring character on the show, appearing in many of the episodes almost like a …
Due South: Mojo Rising
Due South: Mojo Rising was big on voodoo, and those shows aren’t my favorites to watch, regardless of the show. I’m not sure what the fascination is with this type of show, but sooner or later, it seems like every dramatic show on the air does some show …
Yo Gabba Gabba
Yo Gabba Gabba is, ostensibly, a children’s show, but I find myself drawn into it just as much as my children.
The basic premise is that DJ Lance Rock has friends who come to life when he removes them from his boom box and says the magic words “Yo …
Paris Hilton My New BFF
MTV has gone reality TV crazy and now they have given Paris another reality show where contestants are now vying for the spot to become Paris’ new BFF. What exactly is BFF really? As far as I know, the acronym BFF is Best Friend Forever, so that would mean, …
Monsters Inside Me (TV Show)
Monsters Inside Me is an American factual TV show on the Discovery Channel about medical conditions that have affected people as the result of some kind of infection.
I find the show both scary and fascinating as the thought of some kind of organism living in your body is like …
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Fool for Love
Well, it only took a couple of seasons but we are finally finding out a bit more about the vampire character Spike. In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode Fool for Love, we get a lot of flashbacks to his past. We learn he was called William the Bloody …
Word World
This is a children’s show on PBS/KCET. The concept is interesting, and unique. In this world, words equal objects. What I mean is that if one puts the letters B A R N together, the word actually becomes a barn, with the letters still clearly visible. …
CSI Season 12 Episode 8 (TV Series)
I enjoyed episode 8 of season 12 of CSI very much. I thought that it was a very thought-out and well constructed episode. As far as I see it, it could have been made into a very good movie. The cases were very original and you couldn’t guess who …
Have Gun - Will Travel: The Siege TV Show
Have Gun - Will Travel: The Siege, the 28th episode of the 4th season, was a show that focused on a gang of sorts who demanded to be paid protection money; otherwise, they threatened to poison the water wells. It’s a scary concept that we can actually identify …
Justice League - Twilight, Part One
Justice League - “Twilight”, Part One is an episode that follows up on the events that played out in the series finale of Superman: The Animated Series. Although the episode only is a follow-up in the respect that this is the first time Darkseid appears since the finale, Superman …
Highway Patrol: Train Robbery TV Show
From November 1958, Highway Patrol: Train Robbery was the 8th outing of the fourth TV season, and it really was different. I love fresh shows, things that weren’t done before. Granted, that isn’t always easy, but it can be done. The premise of this half hour …
The Universe: The Inner Planets
It’s time for the spotlight to fall on Mercury and Venus in this DVD instalment of The Universe, one of the History Channel’s finest series’.
All the usual experts on hand to offer illuminating information and engage the audience with things we never knew, bringing their enthusiasm to the everyman …
Peep Show - Channel 4 - Series 7
I hadn’t realised that it had been a year since the last Peep Show series had finished so I was extremely ready for the new series to begin. Episode one, watching Mark become a further was good, it offered some typical Peep Show moments, but there was part of …
Fireball XL5: The Granatoid Tanks
In Fireball XL5: The Granatoid Tanks, the Granatoids are looking for a home. They are a very destructive race, and it’s up to XL5 to save the day, once they realize there’s danger out there.
What is special about this episode is that we’re celebrating Venus’ birthday, so we …
Fallen movie
I have seen a lot of movies and television series about how good triumphs over evil, but this one takes that game to a higher level. What will you do if you discovered that your friend is an angel who have been sent from heaven to make sinners atone …
Stargate SG-1: Full Alert
Stargate SG-1: Full Alert is about midway through the eight season of this science fiction series, and it’s a pretty good one.
One of the best scenes is early on when Jack and the team discuss the crisis of the moment. Jack gives Teal’c his assignment, and he leaves. …
Have Gun - Will Travel: Love of a Bad Woman TV Show
Love of a Bad Woman is the 28th episode of Have Gun - Will Travel’s third season and it has a fun opening with Paladin playing chess. I really like these scenes of San Francisco life more than I do the gunfighter stories much of the time. …
House TV Episode: Family Practice
Synopsis: Cuddy’s mom falls ill and Cuddy insists that House figure out what is killing her even though her mom refuses to let him diagnose her.
What I liked about this episode: I have gone on record before saying I hate this whole relationship thing between House and Cuddy and, …
Wagon Train: The Mavis Grant Story
Wagon Train is one of the most respected westerns in the history of television. Originally, it aired as a black and white, sixty-minute show in which Ward Bond starred as Major Seth Adams, the wagonmaster. Later on, when Bond died, he was replaced by John McIntire as …
Spongebob Square Pants Series
I admit that I watch cartoons and to be honest I’m a bit choosy when I watch because I only want to tune in to a good and humorous cartoons and I hate a show that is full of nonsense. While my sister is watching television I watched with …
Ghost Hunters Season 1
OK, my wife and I just finished watching the last two episodes of the first season of the show Ghost Hunters. Rather than reviewing those, I figured I would take a minute to recap what I thought of the entire season. And, unfortunately, the answer to that is “not …
Adam-12: Log 165: Once a Cop
I really get a kick out of this 1971 episode of Adam-12 called Log 165: Once a Cop. This is the 19th episode from season three and it has some very entertaining story elements, including the fact that our heroes go on foot patrol for a while, something …
The Simpsons TV Episode: The City of New York versus Homer Simpson
Last night, I was watching a re-run of the Simpsons and was thrilled to learn it was one of my favorites; The City of New York versus Homer Simpson.
This is easily one of the funniest episodes from this series. Homer and his buddies are drinking after work and Barney …
Adam-12: Log 36: Man Between
Adam-12: Log 36: Man Between is the eighteenth episode from the third season of the TV series which stars Martin Milner as Officer Pete Malloy and Kent McCord as Officer Jim Reed.
There’s a very high strung story as part of this half-hour show. Peggy Webber guest stars as a …
Avatar: The Last Airbender Episode 16 (Animated)
Avatar: The Last Airbender Episode 16 begins with Aang, Katara and Sokka going to a Fire Nation town to a festival where Aang hopes he can learn firebending, they run into a young man who helps them escape and they learn that he serves a firebending master.
This episode was …
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Ted Knight TV Show
As was the case for most of these shows, the The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast honoring Ted Knight as the Man of the Hour was put on at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. What I liked about the hour was that it did include some of Knight’s …
On Demand Television
I opted to purchase On Demand Television in my home. As a result, I have wound up getting four hundred some odd television channels that I thought I would never utilize. I suppose I underestimated the the addictive nature of being spoiled enough to have such a …
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: 2nd Gig Episode 3
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: 2nd Gig Episode 3 has Section 9 investigating Mr. Todokoro, who is rumored to be managing former Secretary General Yakushima’s assets. He’s worried about a thief named Cash Eye stealing his money during an exclusive high society party.
This episode was pretty …
M*A*S*H: A Night at Rosie’s
After two days of non-stop surgery, Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda) secedes from the war in M*A*S*H: A Night at Rosie’s. Rosie’s is the bar just outside the camp. While Hawkeye is whining about his fate and being stuck in the middle of the Korean War, a stranger …
Stargate SG-1: The Shroud
Stargate SG-1: The Shroud is a wonderful episode, thanks to the return of Richard Dean Anderson as General Jack O’Neill. It’s not just Jack’s presence, but his friendship with Daniel that makes the show a great one.
Daniel is discovered on a planet as a Prior. He’s beamed …
Stargate SG1: A Matter Of Time
This episode begins with an SGC team running away from something and trying to get home. Their voices are distorted as if in slow motion.
Back at SGC, Jack and Sam are discussing wormholes. She is trying to explain the concept but Jack is not understanding, as usual. …
Thriller: The Incredible Doktor Markesan TV Show
From the second season of Thriller came this episode entitled The Incredible Doktor Markesan, featuring Bewitched’s Dick York as Fred Bancroft and Carolyn Kearney as his wife, Molly. The extra thrill about this hour long anthology episode is that host Boris Karloff appears as Doktor Konrad Markesan, which …
Doreman
The Hungama is a kid’s channel where they telecast the cartoon show or serial called Doreman. The Doreman is a very interesting, entertaining and funny cartoon serial which my children love to watch. In this cartoon serial there is a robot future cat, and his friend Nobitha …
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