Junior Apprentice Episode 1 began by introducing the viewers to the 10 contestants selected from 28,000 applicants to vie to be Lord Alan Sugar’s junior apprentice. Now I remember watching the first regular Apprentice and found it very interesting. Sugar operates differently from Donald Trump and for …

I have seen a little bit of the show, “I Love New York”, and a few episodes of “Flavor of Love.” Both shows are completely exploitative of women. And this newest show, “I Love Money” seems to be the worst of them all. …

I had to get ready for bed so I missed part of the Ghost Hunters episode “Spirits on the Water” last night. But, from what I saw, it was somewhat interesting.
The TAPS team was asked to investigate two separate ships that were supposedly haunted. The first one turned out …

The Time Machine is the eight episode of the Upright Citizens Brigade’s first season, and this is an episode that really highlights some of the best aspects of the show. Unique ideas drawn to absurdity (for example the whole “hole in the sheet” thing), hilarious sketches and all …

This review is about a show that is near and dear to my heart. I don’t often get “hooked” on a tv show, much less feel the need to watch the episodes over and over. In fact, more often than not, I turn the channel to a …

That Girl: When in Rome gives Ann Marie the part of her lifetime, only to have it come tumbling down in one quick stage direction, that being that the part includes a nude scene.
There’s some wonderfully funny stuff in this half-hour entry from season two of this hit ABC …

From November 1961, The Andy Griffith Show: Opie’s Hobo Friend had a superb guest star. Buddy Ebsen appeared as David Browne, a hobo who is befriended by Opie Taylor (Ron Howard).
Ebsen’s laid back manor and easy going acting ability really sells the audience on Browne being a hobo. …

A couple of months after the second season of CHiPs ended, NBC put together a special two-hour event called The Greatest Adventures of CHiPs. I’m not sure what the intent was, if they just needed to feel a time slot and thought this was a way to do …

The fourth season of MacGyver came to a close with an episode called Unfinished Business. Oddly, this is a bit of a clips show. Clip shows are done to help keep back cost, with most of the action related to the clips somewhat sedate and with the …

The Jerry Springer show has run its course and needs to be taken off the air for good and the re-runs never need to be seen again. I can’t understand how this show was so popular for so long.
I can’t stand this show because the show is stupid and …

David Clark, CEO of Best Western Hotels in the United Kingdom, goes undercover in this first episode of Undercover Boss’ second season. I actually wasn’t aware that this show was airing in the UK. We in America had its first season of the series as well. …

Life After Tomorrow was a television special done recently to look back and honor the hit Broadway stage play, Annie. Who doesn’t know this little iconic redheaded orphan and her dog, Sandy? She’s been a comic book, a movie, and a comic strip at one point or …

That Girl: Ten Per Cent of Nothing Is Nothing is okay, but not great, especially since it has some issues. The first issue for me is that we’ve got another case of the rotating agent for Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas). The problem is that they’ve never said …

I have seen advertisements for the show Burn Notice before but, for some reason, just never got around to watching it. I think it’s because it didn’t look like it would be anything overly special.
However, Friday night, my wife and I were watching TV and, just as we were …

The 28th episode of season four, Highway Patrol: Illegal Entry concerns something that is very topical today, illegal immigrants coming from Mexico into the United States. Martin Garralaga guest stars as Pablo Diaz. He is transported to the United States illegally. The show also features Michael …

Fred Dryer starred in Hunter, a show I watched occasionally when it was first run on television. This episode, No Good Deed Ever Goes Unpunished, was from season 5 and guest starred Louise Latham and John Anderson.
It begins with Dee Dee McCall (Stephanie Kramer) showing up late for …

There are just too many reality shows on the air these days. This show is a spin-off so to speak of the other reality show, “Hogan Knows Best.” I didn’t watch that show because I had no desire to. But after hearing about all the …

This episode had a lot going for it. You had escaped convicts, a deadly virus, a government cover up, all the makings of a blockbuster mini-movie. Yet somehow, the whole was less than the sum of its parts.
I was going to nitpick the idea that …

I like the voiceovers which begin these The Lazarus Man episodes. They let us know Lazarus’ state of mind and what he’s thinking at the moment. It’s a bit more than a basic who and what monologue.
This episode is called The Palace of Dreams and it is an …

Peter’s con-man father returns asking for the Ghostbusters’ help. It turns out that he’s dug up an ancient relic in Alaska that is purportedly the prison of an ancient demon from Inuit legend. The team is skeptical, but the fact that Pete’s dad mentioned the demon by …

One day, Monica is going into the bathroom because she wants to take a bath, and Chandler is making fun of her because he thinks that baths are not that great. He doesn’t really know what baths are really like because he has never even taken one, so he …

Gareth Malone returned with a new project in The Choir: Boys Don’t Sing. This was a follow up to the first The Choir project when he formed a choir out of a high school where kids didn’t sing much and did enough to get them to China to …

First, I don’t know if the last word of this title was offensive or might have been thought of sensitive, so I just cut it out of the title and the rest of the review. If you have seen the episode, you will understand what the word is, so …

“Double Date” was an interesting episode of Justice League Unlimited, season one. Essentially, the episode features Black Canary and Green Arrow fighting against Huntress and the Question. There is sexual tension in each couple, and the women clearly do not like each other, for whatever reason. …

The 1985 crime drama series, Street Hawk presents as its third episode, The Adjuster, a show which guest stars Marjoe Gortner. I’m not a fan of Gortner’s, to be honest. He’s a little too quirky and off-kilter for my tastes. I’ve always been surprised that his …

I really have one major thing to say about The Virginian: Vengeance Is the Spur. I like the Alias Smith and Jones remake better. Seriously, it’s the same show with minor changes. I actually remember back in the seventies reading about how if a show seemed …

The Reel World of Frank Buck concerns a documentary maker who wants to get footage of Buck in action in this episode of Bring ‘Em Back Alive from 1985. Bruce Boxleitner stars as Buck, but I’m not impressed with him at all. He’s never been an actor …

In this episode, it starts off with a girl and her parents watching the latest on an epidemic or virus that is only affecting the adults; killing them. The news anchor reports there is an evacuation for all the people under eighteen years old and the girl does not …

From season 10, M*A*S*H: Snappier Judgment is the conclusion of a two-part episode that began with property and equipment from the 4077th disappearing, including a new Polaroid camera given to Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda) and B.J. Hunnicutt (Mike Farrell). Accused of the crime is Corporal Max Klinger (Jamie …

Cold Case Files is beginning its new season in a few weeks, and this viewer literally can not wait! This show is just outstanding, if you ask me. Not only is it always interesting because it evaluates murder mysteries from over fourty years ago, which I always …

It’s the holiday season in Remington Steele: Etched in Steele, and the Remington Steele Agency is going through a slowdown. That is, until Laura Holt gets in an uproar over her fictional detective whose identity has been assumed by a mysterious man. It seems that Steele has …

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Hot Line, show nine of this hit science fiction program, deals with a Russian rocket that goes astray and is headed for splashdown near San Francisco. The Seaview is ordered by the White House to assist the Russians to find the …

Just this title told me that it had something to do with either Timmy or Jimmy. While I like both characters, having just episodes about them have been hit and miss episodes in general. They haven’t really come up to par with …

What do you buy for your boss’ anniversary? That’s the problem that plagues Officer Jim Reed (Kent McCord) in Adam-12: Anniversary. Jim had the misfortune to take on the challenge for his watch, and that becomes the topic of most of the show’s conversation when not dealing …

Alias Smith and Jones: Stagecoach Seven is one of my favorite episodes for this hit ABC western series. One of the reasons for that is that Randolph Mantooth (Johnny Gage on Emergency!) guest stars as Dan Loomis. Actually, the cast is really very good in this show …

Star Trek: One of Our Planets Is Missing is the third episode of the animated TV series that aired on morning television in 1973. I felt that this outing was very suspenseful. It’s amazing how easy it is to get involved in this tales and really feel …

The Amazing Race took the teams to India once again. Watching the reactions to this country is always emotional. In particular, it was Luke who had the most dramatic and emotional reaction. It’s hard seeing kids eating garbage and running around naked. His tears were …

The Scorched Feather is the 22nd episode of the second season for this black and white TV western series which stars Richard Boone as Paladin, gunfighter for hire. The guest star of note in this specific episode is Lon Chaney who plays William Ceilbleu. Written by Bruce …

Sir Alan Sugar, the UK’s Donald Trump only more to the point, mixed up the teams in this third episode of The Apprentice UK. Now, the men and the women had to work together. He also appointed the team leaders himself, choosing Matthew and Adele. Adele …

The first season of How I Met Your Mother was so great that I’m not surprised it got picked up for a second season and then subsequent seasons later. The show follows a man named Ted and his friends as they live and work in Manhattan. The point of …

Guitarist Jim Lindsey returns to Mayberry in this May 1961 outing, The Andy Griffith Show: The Guitar Player Returns. Just like the first show earlier in the year that centered on this character, I’m not a big fan of this episode. It’s okay, and it’s ten times …

A monster of the week episode should, by all accounts, be difficult to pull off, what with the X-files being closed and all. Still, we manage to get a classic one here. The “flukeman” has become one of the iconic X-files monsters and, after watching this episode, …

I’ve never seen the Sherlock Holmes TV series that starred Ronald Howard before, so this is very new to me. I have seen several different actors in the role of the famous London detective, but none has ever topped Basil Rathbone. From the first episode of this …

Top Chef: Just Desserts: Cocktail with a Twist was a volatile hour, thanks to one of the contestants. Sometimes the chefs really do overpower the theme of the episode.
The quick fire challenge featured Elizabeth Falkner and was to create a dish that celebrates penny candy. This led to …

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: 2nd Gig Episode 10 has Togusa trying to help a woman who is in a domestic dispute as he can’t stop the man who killed her, he is taken to trial.
I liked this anime a lot, and it’s one of my favorites, …

Due South: Asylum starts out intriguingly with the fake Ray calling Fraser at the Canadian Consulate and saying that something’s come up and he won’t be able to come over later. The next thing we know, there’s a shooting going on and fake Ray takes off running, throwing …

I think Deal or No Deal has now lost some of its appeal for people. I remember when it first started, I wanted to watch every show and see every box opened. I thought right from the beginning it looked a very low-key setting with the wooden floors and …

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 …

Secret Ballot opens on Halloween with Don Hollinger arriving in costume to tease his girlfriend, Ann Marie, better known as That Girl. The season three story actually has nothing to do with Halloween, but it was a nice way to acknowledge the event without devoting an entire episode …

In Star Trek: The Immunity Syndrome from season two, the Enterprise crew has a run in with a strange creature that is already suspected of being the cause of the deaths for the Vulcans serving aboard the Intrepid. Here are a few thoughts about this hour long episode:
–Kirk …