TV Reviews
The Golden Girls show
How on earth did some of the discussion on the Golden Girls manage to sneak by the censors? Maybe it was because the show featured four acclaimed actresses then in their golden years so the innuendo and raunchiness snuck by them or immobilized them completely. All I know is …
Family Guy: Running Mates
I watched the Family Guy episode “Running Mates” for the first time yesterday and found myself feeling unimpressed.
I’m not sure why, but this episode, which has Peter and Lois competing against each other for school board president just didn’t seem as funny as other episodes in the series. It …
The Sing-off
I didn’t intend on watching NBC’s new show The Sing-off. But, I took a shower last night and, when I came back in the living room, my wife had it on. So, I ended up watching one episode of it anyway.
It was an OK show but nothing special.
It was …
Justice League Unlimited: Chaos at the Earth’s Core
Justice League Unlimited: Chaos at the Earth’s Core begins with Stargirl, Her Stepfather in an armored suit and The Green lantern fighting a giant mutant space turtle who is attacking Tokyo, and it gets a bit silly from there.
Supergirl appears just as they are about to defeat the giant mutant …
The Andy Griffith Show: Alcohol and Old Lace TV Show
The title from this outing of The Andy Griffith Show no doubt comes from the classic movie, Arsenic and Old Lace, which was a tale of two somewhat ditzy but loveable sisters who had a funny look on life. That could also be said of the sisters in …
The Amazing Race: A Kiss Saves the Day TV Show
A Kiss Saves the Day was the second lap on the race around the globe in the Emmy award winning reality series, The Amazing Race. The teams ended up in Africa where people are everywhere; it’s almost like India. They all had a reaction to the abundance …
Bewitched
I have watched and loved Bewitched for a long long time. Those of you that don’t know the story must be living under a rock. It’s about a witch who marries a mortal and lives with him. They try to keep the fact that she is …
The Andy Griffith Show: Andy the Matchmaker TV Show
The Andy Griffith Show: Andy the Matchmaker is devoted to the concept of Barney’s insecurity and getting him a girlfriend. The first main bit of the show is a funny routine where Barney (Don Knotts) says he’s resigning as Andy’s deputy. One by one, Barney starts placing …
Masterchef: Episode 3 TV Show
This review focuses on the third episode to air of Masterchef, the newest cooking show to air on the Fox Network. All of the contestants who were given aprons in the first two hours of televised auditions, now have to be meted down to a workable group. …
Teach - Tony Danza: Homesick TV Show
Teach - Tony Danza: Homesick is the fourth effort into telling the story about this well known performer teaching for a year at a high school in Philadelphia. Danza had a lot of guts to take on this project, and I’m hoping that by the end of the …
Murder She Wrote
Why does everybody seem to die around Jessica Fletcher? This question plagued my childhood when watching Murder She Wrote, every Sunday before the dreaded school day Monday reared its ugly head, was tradition.Surely, someone would notice, be it the first Sheriff played by Tom Bosely or his replacement. …
Married With Children Episode 9.17: 25 Years and What Do You Get?
What a marked improvement over the last episode this was. Both plotlines brought laughs throughout. Heck, even Buck had some great dialogue. Which is impressive as, by and large, using voice over to convey animal thoughts, from what I’ve seen, is rarely effective.
It’s interesting how both …
Spongebob Squarepants TV Episode: Bummer Vacation
Synopsis: Mr. Krabs learns Spongebob has built up too much unused vacation time at work and faces a fine if he doesn’t allow his fry cook to take some time off. The only problem is, Spongebob really doesn’t want to.
What I liked about this episode: Spongebob is the exact …
The Beast: Mercy TV show
When The Beast aired originally, I reviewed most of the shows right away, but I missed a couple for one reason or another. Going back, this is now the last show to be aired. Mercy was show number 8 of this crime drama that starred Patrick Swayze …
Sea Hunt: Changing Patterns TV Show
Changing Patterns, the 31st outing of season 3 for Sea Hunt, revolved around a salvage operation; at least at the beginning. We learn this from the lead character, Mike Nelson, who told the viewers what was going on. It is still odd to me how the narration …
Reliance DTH, Big TV
BIG TV is a DTH (Direct to Home) service from Reliance, a Anil Ambani group.
I have been using this service since three months and I must say I am very satisfied with it.
The setup comes for Rs.1490 which is the price of the settop box and with this you get …
Here Come the Brides: A Jew Named Sullivan
Here Come the Brides: A Jew Named Sullivan from season one of this ABC series of the late 60’s allows us to really grow to love the Biddie Cloom character. Biddie is a bit of silly girl. She always wants to be in love. Outwardly, she’s …
MacGyver: Pirates
MacGyver: Pirates has some fun stuff in it. Actually the best part for me was when MacGyver was trapped on a sinking boat and had to try and get out before drowning. It was quite a challenge and made for an exciting scene.
There’s a good cast providing …
The Inbetweeners - Series 3 - Episode 1 - E4
So, The Inbetweeners returned for its long awaited third series this week. I was genuinely surprised at the anticipation surrounding this series as it’s rare that so many people seem so interested in one show on t.v. The last time I can remember so many people being so interested …
The Soup - E! Entertainment Television
I am very into pop culture. It’s my guilty pleasure. I secretly buy the glossy magazines and I watch all kinds of entertainment news. For a long time now I’ve been watching The Soup. First off, I have to admit that I have a serious crush on Joel …
The Real Ghostbusters: Season 1, Episode 5: Troll Bridge
The first few minutes of this episode had me worried that this was going to be a dud. We follow what is later to be revealed to be a troll as he goes off on his own and had “wacky adventures” in New York City. Luckily, we …
Highway Patrol: Scared Cop TV Show
Highway Patrol: Scared Cop felt very odd to me. The story revolves around one of the members of the California Highway Patrol. He’s an officer on the force who is due for promotion, but when we first meet him, he’s making a stop of a speeding car. …
Beast Wars: Transformers - The Complete Second Season
Beast Wars: Transformers - The Complete Second Season holds all thirteen episodes from the second season. Every episode looks crisp and clear, and the audio quality is impressive. There’s no grain or static or background noise to interfere with your enjoyment of these episodes. Unfortunately, what may interfere with …
Highway Patrol: Psycho Killer TV Show
Psycho Killer was the 30th show of Highway Patrol’s third season and aired in April 1958. It’s an unusual subject for this show. Though characters have been killed, this was a case of a serial killer, and they showed the lead in to a third killing. …
The X-Files Squeeze Episode
I thought the introduction for this particular episode of the popular 1990s American television show “The X-Files” was very creepy. I’m not sure if that was because I was watching it while I was at home alone, or because I was watching it recently online and not on television. …
M*A*S*H: Divided We Stand
Season two begins with M*A*S*H: Divided We Stand, which in many ways seems to be a quick study guide to the uninitiated of this military comedy. The opening has General Clayton (Herb Voland) discussing the personnel of the 4077th. This essentially provides an overview of the …
Oprah Winfrey
I tried to watch recently on two different occasions. I had a hard time getting through each episode. The first time, I gave her the benefit of the doubt; I thought it was just the topic that I was not very interested in. She was really …
Cold Case Files on CBS
Having always been a fan of most true crime dramas on the former Court TV, which of course is now known as Tru TV, I immediately liked the show “Cold Case Files” when it aired on CBS.
The show revolves around Detective Lilly Rush, played by Kathryn Morris, her boss, …
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 …
Tales of the Gold Monkey: God Save the Queen
Things are turning south for this show. While there is intrigue, I see indications of it going by way of Bring ‘Em Back Alive, and I think that’s a shame. In Tales of the Gold Monkey: God Save the Queen, Jake and Corky discover that someone they …
Bring ‘Em Back Alive: The Shadow Women of Chung Tai
It’s yet another romance for Frank Buck in Bring ‘Em Back Alive: The Shadow Women of Chung Tai. I doubt the real Frank Buck had a girl popping out of the woodwork every other week. Bruce Boxleitner fans may like it, but I’ve never liked
the notion of …
Trigun Episode 6
Trigun Episode 6 has Vash sitting in a restaurant eating while the town uses the reward money for the Nebraska Family to hire engineers to fix the Plant that malfunction. Plants were based on lost technology that helps them survive on the desert planet. A woman named …
Ghost Hunters: Judgment Day
I only got a chance to watch bits and pieces of last night’s Ghost Hunters episode “Judgment Day” because I was putting my daughter to bed around that time. But, what I saw of it was definitely interesting.
Too often lately, the episodes have depended on EVPs for their evidence …
House: Alone
Well, House’s original team finally left him and the episode “Alone” shows why a genius like him needs to have a group of other doctors around to bounce ideas off of. I guess staring at a board with a bunch of jumbled up information on it just isn’t enough …
Due South: The Duel
Due South: The Duel is another instance of Detective Ray Vecchio dealing with old friends, or rather, in this case an old partner and some menacing force that has a beef with him. Someone is challenging him to prevent all kinds of danger, such as an out of …
Glee TV show
Glee is a new TV show on it’s first season on Fox. There are really only a handful of shows on Fox that I enjoy and I try to avoid this network as much as possible because they have a tendency to cancel shows that I like, I’m hoping …
SmallVille
When I was a child, I just love to watch Superman, and till now I love to watch him. And this TV show called “Smallville” is based upon the day today life story of Superman. Watching his normal life is really cool, and I am watching this series from …
The Twilight Zone: On Thursday We Leave for Home TV Show
Another memorable episode, The Twilight Zone: On Thursday We Leave for Home is one that I enjoy watching greatly. It’s full of drama and some nice acting. The story is good, and it makes for great viewing.
It starts by introducing the viewers to a planet of survivors. …
Stargate SG1: Thor’s Hammer
Daniel is very excited about going on this mission and meeting Thor’s people. He believes they are a viking people who are protected by Thor’s Hammer, an electronic weapon of some kind that works against the Goauld. Teal’c adds that all Jaffa had been warned about going …
Justice League Unlimited: Hunter’s Moon
I often feel when watching Justice League unlimited that I am missing something. I don’t know if there are episodes, or past seasons which are not being shown or if there is an associated series which preceded it, but it is worst when they are dealing with Shayera.
Her …
The Prisoner: Fall Out
The Prisoner: Fall Out is the final episode of this single-season series, and my understanding is that there was all kind of outrage because of how it ended. I’ve read that McGoohan actually left England to get away from the complaints. That’s hard to imagine, so …
Stargate SG-1: The Fifth Race
Close to perfection: that’s what Stargate SG-1: The Fifth Race is. This second season episode is pivotal to the Stargate SG-1 lore, and it’s extremely well done.
In this show, Jack O’Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) accidentally downloads the knowledge of the Ancients. Unfortunately, he can’t process it. …
What Not To Wear Tv Show
What not to wear is a fun show on TLC that finds a fashion diaster and helps then pick a new wardrobe that makes them look better. In most cases the people who they pick to be on this show have some absolutly absurd fashion ideas, and think that …
Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV Episode: The Gift
My wife and I used to watch the show Buffy the Vampire Slayer when it was still on the air a few years ago. But, we didn’t start watching it until some of the later episodes (after she left college) and, because of that, missed episodes like one I …
Great American Landmarks
Are you looking to travel this summer? Maybe hit some of the nation’s favorite tourist spots? Well, before you go take a look at “Greatest American Landmarks”. This travel show guides you through some of the most recognized landmarks as well as some lesser-known ones.
The program gives the …
Buck Rogers - Vegas In Space
Welcome to the casinos of the future where perennial character actor and guest villain Richard Lynch is up to his evil ways. Buck Rogers is the man who knows how to win at 10 and 11 (the futuristic version of Blackjack) because he can use his brain as opposed …
CSI Miami
While I do really like most of teh CSI shows, especially the Las Vegas one, I sometimes find the main character of the Miami one annoying. It is weird how every woman he encouters is falling all over him, and how he seems to go out of his way …
Chris Farley E! True Hollywood Story (E! network TV show)
Chris Farley was one of the most lovable Saturday Night Live characters of all time. I didn’t realize just how lonely and sad he actually was. This E! True Hollywood story really depicted the life behind the actor who was known for his crazy antics. …
Scarface TV movie
Scarface starring Al Pacino is an excellent film to watch. It was recently on TV and I had to see it for the first time. It was released in 1983 but I never got to it. I thought that Scarface was very fast paced and filled …
Have Gun - Will Travel: Deliver the Body
The reason I like Have Gun - Will Travel: Deliver the Body is because this first season episode guest stars James Franciscus as Tom Nelson, a young frontier lawyer. He’s so young here. I have always enjoyed this actor and this is a nice-size role for him. …
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