TV Reviews
House TV Episode: Baggage
Well, I thought the show House was finally starting to get things back on track a bit with the episode The Choice. But, then I watched the one called Baggage last night and realized it still hasn’t learned.
I used to watch this show religiously because I loved the medical …
Due South: The Deal
Due South: The Deal focuses a bit more on series regular David Marciano as Detective Ray Vecchio. In the episode, he comes across an old friend, who really isn’t a friend per se. The other man is a mobster, and even as a child, he was an …
Stargate SG-1: The Quest Part 2
Stargate SG-1: The Quest Part 2 was the beginning of the final ten episodes of SG-1 and the conclusion to the mid-season two-parter.
Here is the good and the bad:
–Daniel with Merlin is great. This is a reminder of who Daniel really is and why we love him. …
Bones TV Episode: The Woman in the Sand
There wasn’t much on TV this past weekend and my wife and I were too tired out to watch an actual movie so we decided to watch re-runs of Bones instead; starting with one that we had never seen before, The Woman in the Sand.
This episode, overall, proved to …
That Girl: Fur All We Know
Though the opening bit is rather cute, the rest of That Girl: Fur All We Know perturbs me on several levels. At the beginning of this show, Don takes Ann to a big party for the wealthy jet set. While he’s doing his business, he tells his …
Emergency!: Mascot
Emergency!: Mascot is really the first episode of the Emergency! series, the pilot movie having come before it. This is the show that introduces the regular Station 51 shift that we quickly grew to embrace. Real life fire department Captain Dick Hammer played, yes, Captain Dick Hammer. …
Seinfeld
Seinfeld is a comedy sitcom. I have been watching the re-runs of Seinfeld for years now and love the show as it always makes me laugh. This particular show ran for a little over ten years. It focuses on 4 best friends: Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer. Each character …
Adam 12 - Log 161
This is a fairly entertaining episode of Adam-12 that begins with the boys chatting as they drive along one of Los Angele’s freeways. The topic is dinner at the Reeds, where Pete had brought along his date, Donna. Donna is obsessed about how wonderful Jim and his wife …
Ghost Hunters: The Red Room
OK, the Ghost Hunters episode “The Red Room” turned out to be a big disappointment. I don’t mind watching the show and seeing them debunk various ghosts but it is pretty sad when they don’t even have anything they can debunk.
This one involved them making a trip to Louisiana …
CSI Season 2 Episode 11- Organ Grinder
CSI Season 2 Episode 11- Organ Grinder
It was a really nice episode but still, there was something in it, which gave me the feeling that things did not really add up, even at the very end when the crack the case. The thing I liked the best about this …
Stargate SG1: The Tok’ra Pts 1 & 2
This episode was the first in which the Tok’ra were introduced. Sam has undergone treatment to try and get some insight into Jolinar and what her memories, ie dreams, mean. When she sees an address being dialed in her memories, she asks that SG1 be allowed to …
To Boldly Go … Season Three featurette
The To Boldly Go … Season Three featurette continues the goal of giving fans a lot of insight and stories about the episodes that appeared in that season. There was, however, a bunch of conversation about the campaign that saved Star Trek from being canceled after two seasons. …
October Road Show
When ABC launched October Road as a mid-season replacement series last year, I was hooked from the very first episode. It starts out approximately ten years ago with two of the main characters in bed saying “goodbye - for now”. It seems young Nick Garrett is heading to …
How I Met Your Mother: Intervention
“Intervention” was a pretty funny episode of the CBS sit-com How I Met Your Mother. It actually addressed some of the issues a lot of fan are probably thinking that Ted is really rushing into things with Stella, considering she lives in New Jersey and has a young …
Untold Stories of the ER (TLC)
I had never heard of this show until I ran across it one Sunday evening. I was amazed that these ER stories were so graphic. I was also surprised by the light tone that the show seemed to have. With such weird and shocking …
Family Guy: The Fat Guy Strangler
You know, I could have sworn the show Family Guy has been on the air for a few years now. So, why is it, whenever I watch a re-run at 6:30 or 10:30 it is usually one of only about a dozen episodes?
Last night was one I have seen …
Max Headroom: Dream Thieves TV show
From 1987, Max Headroom: Dream Thieves reunites Network 23’s star investigative reporter, Edison Carter (Matt Frewer) with an old friend, Paddy Ashton (Mark Lindsay Chapman). Actually, Paddy was in competition with him for the Network 23 job but wasn’t chosen by Murray the producer (Jeffrey Tambor). When …
Stargate: Infinity: The Best World TV Show
Stargate: Infinity: The Best World has the cutie pie, Harrison, getting himself into some trouble with a female of the next world Gus Bonner and his team visit. However, it’s not the kind of female problem he dreams of having.
In this outing, the villains from the first …
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 …
Super Mario World - Send in the Clown
Super Mario World - “Send in the Clown” is my favorite episode of the cartoon series. Part of the reason I really enjoy this episode is because this episode actually features a fight between Mario and Koopa that resembles the battle at the end of Super Mario World. It …
The Twilight Zone: Mute TV Show
In another review I wrote a few minutes ago, I had said that the human mind is a powerful thing. That’s not exactly earth shattering news, but it is something that The Twilight Zone exploits and uses in many of its stories. It’s never done more so …
Anderson Cooper 360
“Anderson Cooper 360” is a live news broadcast on CNN and CNN International that is billed as a show that takes you beyond the headlines. Due to the skill of the primary anchor and reporter, Anderson Cooper, as well as his entire team of reporters and producers, I …
Adam 12 - Log 12
The “Log 12″ episode of “Adam-12″ is a very heart-wrenching episode, one I love a lot. The sentiment begins with a young girl, little Dawn Lyn, best know perhaps as “Dodie” on “My Three Sons”. She’s a small child named Charlie in this episode, left to fend …
Judge Judy TV Show
Have you been the victim of a small crime, do you need to take someone to small claims court to get the money they owe you? Don’t just take them to small claims court, take them on Judge Judy. Judge Judy is court TV show where people who have …
Have Gun - Will Travel: Incident at Borrasca Bend
The 27th episode from the second season of Have Gun - Will Travel is called Incident at Borrasca Bend, and it’s a pretty offbeat one at that. I’d call it a bumbling comedy outing that has limited appeal. A bearded Paladin ends up in the wrong …
Stargate SG-1: Past and Present
Talk about poorly placed timing, the powers that be at Stargate SG-1 made a very bad choice. My understanding is that the episode called Past and Present was supposed to be either earlier or later in the season. After being tossed around the season schedule, it had …
Mad Hungry with Lucina Scala Quinn: Lunch on the Go TV Show
Mad Hungry with Lucina Scala Quinn: Lunch on the Go featured pressed sandwiches, something Quinn says she likes to make for on the go activities. The half hour included a lunch that went beyond the sandwiches to include grilled veggies, like gas charged red peppers and squash.
She talked …
M*A*S*H: Yankee Doodle Doctor
M*A*S*H: Yankee Doodle Doctor features Ed Flanders, best known for the medical drama St. Elsewhere, as a film director for the Army who is making a documentary about the MASH units under the command of General Clayton (Herb Voland). Of course, it’s a very glossed over review that …
The Truth About George by P.G. Wodehouse
“The Truth About George” is the first episode in the “Wodehouse Playhouse” series I started reviewing recently. In this episode George Mulliner (John Alderton) a noted solver of crossword puzzles and notorious stammerer, falls in love with Susan Blake (Pauline Collins, cute as always and in all ways) whom …
Upin and Ipin the Series on Disney Channel Asia
The only time I can get my one-year-old son to sit still is every 4pm when back to back episodes of Upin and Ipin the Series is on at Disney Channel Asia. For those not familiar, Upin and Ipin is a Malaysian television series that centers on a pair …
So You Think You Can Dance - Top Eight Perform TV Show
This was the week when the top eight were scheduled to perform on So You Think You Can Dance. The first dance was the contestant with a pro and then the second time around, the contestants would be dancing with each other. Here are a few notes …
CSI AXN Cable Channel
I was not a fan of CSI from the beginning up until my uncle who, according to his wife was said to be a devotee of this program. In one of our conversations, she retorted “my husband never misses an episode of CSI and makes it a point to …
Stargate SG-1: Crusade
Stargate SG-1: Crusade is definitely not a favorite show. The biggest problem with it is that Claudia Black is back as Vala, and that’s a sure sign of disaster. The horrid premise has her in the Ori galaxy using a device to contact the SGC, and in …
Eureka Seven episode 42
As the chaos of the battle for control of the fate of the world continues, we are thrust in its perpetual turmoil, forced to make our decisions as fast as we can, against the very odds that were set into being only by god himself. This is the Ultra …
Ally McBeal
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 …
Beast Wars - Nemesis Part Two
Beast Wars - Nemesis Part Two is the final episode of the series and in several ways, it is also one of the most disappointing episodes of the series. I positively hated how several characters were killed off in this episode simply because they “needed to be” since the …
Hawaii Five-O: Face of the Dragon
Hawaii Five-O: Face of the Dragon is part medical drama and part spy caper. Combined, Hawaii Five-O: Face of the Dragon just doesn’t do a whole lot for me. I never have liked the opening scene. It sets up the drama naturally enough, but it’s just …
Stargate SG1: 2001 Season 5, Episode 10
While SG1 is visiting a planet, the Voliaans introduce them to a neighboring race, the Aschen. Little do they know that the Aschen are the very same people their future selves had warned them about.
When SG1 arrives back at the SGC and tells General Hammond the good news, …
Breaking Bad: Season 1, Episode 2: Cat’s In The Bag
This episode picks up where the last left off. With the two drug dealers dead, Walt and PInkman have to find a way to dispose of the bodies. You’d think that, since they’re in a vast desert, that this would be a fairly simple matter, but Walt …
M*A*S*H: Mad Dogs and Servicemen
In M*A*S*H: Mad Dogs and Servicemen, we meet Rosie for the first time. She gets a bigger part as the show continues. She’s been mentioned a time or two for having a place just outside the camp. This, though, is the first time that we see …
Gilligain’s Islnad - Feed the Kitty TV Show
Here we go with Gilligan and his affinity towards all living things. This quality in Gilligan says a lot about his character, and his respect for life. I really like this episode even if his feelings towards the king of the beast introduce a danger element to everyone or …
Chopped (reality competition)
This is a really interesting show in that it’s very quick. The contestants come in, and one of them is “chopped” after each course until one is left standing. This cooking show is great because there is a time element at each stage. There is …
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I’m a housewife, so almost of my time is stay at home, look after my kids and my house. I love d�cor my house, making it neat and tidy in my order. One of TV programs that I learn a lot from them about d�cor the house and how …
Family Guy: Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater
As one of the earlier episodes of Family Guy, “Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater” is among the more funny ones. It has a decent build up, and while the plot is not as out there as later episodes, its decent writing saves the day.
Lois’ aunt dies, and the family inherits …
The Simpsons: How I spent my Strummer Vacation
Well, that was an interesting Simpson’s episode. I haven’t seen “How I spent my Strummer Vacation” before but it turned out to be pretty cool.
Homer gets caught on camera dissing his family and, just when he thinks they couldn’t be any madder at him, they surprise him (because they …
Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Reunion
Curb Your Enthusiasm’s seventh season continues with this impressive episode as Larry David tries to commence work on a Seinfeld reunion in an effort to win back wife Cheryl.
It’s an entertaining episode; there’s a lot going on and several regulars and recurring characters appear. All of the Seinfeld cast …
Wagon Train: The Sandra Cummings Story
When I think about Wagon Train: The Sandra Cummings Story, my mind goes to the beautiful Rhonda Fleming and how much I know Robert Fuller, who plays Cooper Smith, just loved working with her. She certainly had him smiling for decades after this show was filmed.
Fleming plays the …
Mork & Mindy: In Mork We Trust
Well, this kind of sucks. I’ve been watching Mork & Mindy all day today and came across yet another episode that wasn’t very good; “In Mork We Trust.”
OK, maybe the premise of the episode was a good one and they just stunk at the execution. But, you have Mork …
The Office: The Convention
The plot of this season The Office has been moving quickly; stretching away from the basic formula, which succeeded in the seasons before but had began to get old. It is still the same show, but with many new elements.
In The Convention we see little of Jim’s new office …
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