The New Sofa is an hour long, festive episode of the fantastic comedy The Royle Family, which was originally aired on Christmas Day 2008. Written by Craig Cash and Caroline Aherne, who play the gormless Dave and Denise in the series, The Royle Family is always quality viewing …

One of the most riveting episodes in season 2 of Stargate SG-1 is called Holiday. It’s a standout episode for Michael Shanks, who not only plays his usual character of Doctor Daniel Jackson, but also the part of Ma’chello, an aged and infirmed inventor of things to defeat …

Ally McBeal was a fun show about a girl who followed her boyfriend to law school, was dumped for another girl and now has a job at the same law firm the guy she was dumped by and the girl she was dumped for who is now his wife …

In this episode of The Prisoner, entitled Many Happy Returns, Number Six (Patrick McGoohan) wakes up to an unusual day. The usual happy greeting over the public address system doesn’t happen. There’s no cheerful music, and the residents of The Village aren’t anywhere to be found. …

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 …

Critics said that this was one of the more convoluted episodes thus far and, man, they were not kidding. This episode throws a lot at you. As you’re watching it, it all seems to flow and make sense, but looking back, it was an odd and twisty …

Stargate Atlantis: First Contact is the reason I’m reviewing this fifth and final season of this science fiction series. The series itself is not a favorite at all, but I adore guest star Michael Shanks so was able to get the fifth season set of the series. …

Trigun Episode 25 begins with Vash recovering in a small town, distraught over the fact that he killed Legato Bluesummers, he doesn’t know what he’s supposed to do and keeps asking Rem what he should do. Meanwhile, Meryl and Milly help him recover while they work digging for …

That is a good example for a well written episode and many people would agree with it. In this episode the BAU team travels to New York to help solve a case of a serial killer who does not go after the same type of victim. It is unusual for …

Glee is a relatively new show on FOX which previewed in May 2009 and began during the following Fall season. It is currently just past its tenth episode and is about to take its first hiatus.
Glee focuses around a star cast playing a group of kids with only one …

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 …

Fresh Meat II is a spin off tv show from a previous show called the Challenge. In the show a group of 13 girls and guys live together and compete for a chance to win $300 000. Each time there is a challenge, the winner chooses someone to go …

“Goodbye To All That” is a pretty cool continuation of the second season, much thanks to the new terminator baddie in this episode, a T-888 played by none other than Patrick Kilpatrick, making us feel like it’s the movie “Class of 1999″ all over again (for those of you …

I recently watched a couple of episodes of John and Kate plus 8. I like this show because it is different and unique. It’s not like a lot of shows on television today. It’s about a couple who had trouble getting kids. Well they ended up having eight kids. …

An episode that is all about Cameron? You got that right, “Allison From Palmdale” dives deep into the Cameron character, the deepest that any of the episodes have gone so far with her. Her chip begins to experience some memory issues as the memories of Allison, the girl which …

In Seven Brides for Seven Brothers: Gold Fever, the youngest McFadden brother, Guthrie, gets some time to show his stuff, and it’s good stuff. Young Guthrie is played by River Phoenix, who died way too young of tragic circumstances. Here, though, in 1982, we see the promise …

With the success of Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas a few years earlier, in 2004, viewers were given Mickey’s Twice Upon a Christmas, a compilation of several short animated stories that focus on the holidays. They entertain and delight, and they teach valuable lessons of living that apply …

This second season offering from the hit series Lost offers us a rare grouping of characters as Kate, Rosseau and Claire head off into the jungle to help the young mother fit the pieces together from her disappearance in the first season.
As the episode begins, Claire begins suffering …

I think I am one of those rare people who really finds that show ridiculous. There’s this bunch of 16 years old kinds who do a bunch of dumb stuff and they treat themselves as they were adults. I know that in my time there was Beverly Hills but …

Barry Corbin guest stars as Sgt. Joe Vickers in M*A*S*H: Your Retention Please. Vickers’ task is to try and get personnel to extend their tour of duty, which doesn’t go over very well with some of the regulars. It does, though, bring on some funny scenes, especially …

I remember back in the early 80’s when Emerald Point N.A.S. was about to air. I was very excited about the series for a number of reasons. My favorite reason for wanting to watch it was Richard Dean Anderson, who played Lt. Simon Adams. He sure looked …

The whole season of Heroes season 3 has been quite a ride. I guess there could never be any other series that would have this impact on me as the Heroes have. I followed through the first season, can’t wait for the 2nd season and now that I am …

Bart is obsessed with proving Lisa wrong that the toilet water goes in clockwise direction. however Lisa says that scientifically water in northern hemisphere movies in anti-clockwise, and water in southern hemisphere moves in clockwise direction. Bart is desperate to prove Lisa wrong. He phones up Australia and talks …

commented before that, while Make me a Super Model offered a few differences, it was pretty much the same show as other modeling shows that have been on television.
Further proof of this was offered in last night’s episode (number 2 overall). Like America’s Top Model, the models all …

Ice Road Truckers: Lisa’s Monster Megahaul was aptly named because a lot of the hour focused on Lisa Kelly’s assignment to work with Jack and Carrie on a heavy load assignment. Lisa’s my favorite on this show. I like her. She has intelligence and strength of …

In the depressed state of mind, not even the tallest of the surreal mountains can bury your strife, even as we write it into our own essence of our corrupted soul. This is the tale of an fallen sky, where one boy will try to run out on all …

What Not To Wear, is a TV show where friends and families nominate sombody they know, that has no style. If that sombody is chosen to go on the show, the fashion advisors (Stacy London, Clinton Kelly) will surprise the styleless person with a $5,000.00 visa credit card, …

Here Come the Brides: One to a Customer is an interesting episode from the first season of this ABC series which centers on a newcomer who wants to get married. The twist is that the man is Mormon and he doesn’t want just one wife, but four or …

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 …

I can’t say that I’m fond of Have Gun - Will Travel: Heritage of Anger. The main reason this episode of the half-hour western doesn’t work for me is that it all seemed too rush and too easy. A Mexican woman left her son with a couple …

Master Sergeant Woodruff, played by Sandy Kenyon, stiffs Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda) in a poker game. Since he’d stiffed B.J. Huneycutt (Mike Farrell) in the prior game, the captains tell Woodruff he can’t play with them anymore. To get back into their good graces, he offers to …

Sam is upto something very mysterious and he does not tell Dean about it. Meanwhile Sam gets a message from Travis another hunter, who tells them about some flesh eating person, who undergoes Metamorphosis. Travis claims to have killed the earlier one, but now his son is transforming into …

I can remember hearing my schoolmates talk about a television show called “Daria” when I was in high school. At that time, my cable company did not give us certain channels, so I was not familiar with the television show. There was even a certain girl at …

If you can’t tell from the title of this episode “Any Given Friday Night at 10PM, 9PM Central” this episode of Psych is about football. Now I’m not that big of a football fan, but I am a fan and I can understand where many of these jokes come …

On the channel TLC, I watched one of their shows that come on called Hoarders. It’s a quite interesting show about people who collect just about any thing and everything in their house. There homes get very cluttered and make for unlivable housing conditions. In the episode they …

The action in Due South: One Good Man is mostly personal for Royal Canadian Mountie Benton Fraser. He lives in a poor area of Chicago and is trying to improve the living conditions of his run-down building. In doing so, he gets the attention of a developer, …

The Christmas Visitor, which was a cartoon production from the golden age by Halas and Batchelor, was a variation on the telling of the classic A Night Before Christmas. The color offering actually begins very classically in this regard, with the narration right from the very familiar story.
It’s …

There’s a huge guest cast in Hawaii Five-O: The Box. Everywhere you turn, there was a familiar face, and that always makes a story more fun in my opinion.
Gerald S. O’Loughlin, Gavin McLeod, R.G. Armstrong, and Al Harrington are a few of the familiar faces in this cast. …

Like I mentioned in another review, my daughter and I were watching older Scooby Doo episodes last night that featured them teaming up with Batman and Robin.
The second episode we watched, The Caped Crusader Caper, was OK but not as good as the first meeting with Batman and Robin …

According to what I have read, season 8 of Full House was not meant to be the last season. The producers planned on doing one more season before ABC cancelled the show. It was then going to move to another network, but plans fell through. Die hard fans who …

From April 2004, Scott Bryce returns as Stan the Republican in Whoopi: Strange Bedfellows. This is Bryce’s second appearance on the half hour, NBC comedy that stars Whoopi Goldberg as Mavis Rae, the owner of Hotel Lamont. The half-hour show centers around two different plots.
First, there is …

It was the top three on American Idol on May 12th. The performers each sang two songs, a pick made by the judges and a choice of their own.
Danny Gokey did awesome. He sang a very upbeat song (Dance Little Sister) and ended with a ballad. …

“Washington vs. the Bunny” is an episode of “The Dick Van Dyke Show”. This is the first episode of the series to implement a weird but funny dream sequence, a technique that the television show would revisit in later episodes on occasion. In this episode, Rob is sent to …

I was trying to avoid watching Lost for the longest time, to avoid getting sucked into yet another television program that everyone in the world is watching and talking about. Circumstances, however, lead me to view the program once, and now, yes, I am hooked. Not only …

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. …

I feel no sympathy for the devil and it seems Spike Spiegel does not either. Cowboy Bebop: episode 6 demands this and more as the title is “Sympathy for the devil”. This episode quickly jumps into the feel of the smooth rugged blues, dancing only half step as it …

I would say that alot of the things that happen on this show are unrealistic. Such as the woman that your husband had an affair on you with and left you for probably would not be coming in to eat dinner with you or sit at your kitchen table …

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Time Bomb is the second episode of the second year that this wonderful Irwin Allen science fiction series was on the air. Following are some observations about this 1965 episode:
–The opening shot in the theme is a bit different in what …

Emergency!: Nurses’ Wild has some really wonderful moments in it, both on the humor front and the dramatic stage. This first season show confronts prejudice, of different styles. One story has Dr. Morgan (Ron Pinkard), who is an African-American, making a judgement on a hippie having a …

Alan Carr: Chatty Man is a pretty good show that is usually worth watching. Alan Carr has grown on me since he branched out with this, his own chat show, and I think he is a very funny guy. He will not mind me saying that he …