The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.: Pirates was a bit of a disappointment for me. I always expect pirate themes to have a real edge to them, some real swashbuckling swagger and color. When I don’t get that, it colors things negatively. I just don’t feel …

Wipeout is not a show that jumped out at me by just seeing the commercials. In fact, the only reason I began watching this show is because I randomly stopped on it while channel surfing.
Wipeout is a reality game show that puts contestants through four rounds of obstacle …

There will never be jokes that will ever top those based on Cold War politics in the 1970s and 1980s. And, conveniently, the Mork & Mindy episode “Mork and the Immigrant” manages to take advantage of that.
There are a couple things about this episode that stand out. First, you …

Brisco and Lord Bowler go to Brisco’s hometown where Brisco ends up becoming the temporary sheriff in The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.: Showdown. This show was somewhat nice, giving us another glimpse into the past of the colorful Brisco. There were some definite highlights that make …

It’s so hard to write much good about the season six episodes of Stargate SG-1. Without the Daniel Jackson character, the team just wasn’t there. He was the heart and soul of the SGC.
Stargate SG-1: Redemption is the first episode of the sixth season. This is …

M*A*S*H: Life with Father is one of those shows that makes me stop and shake my head. During the entire half hour show, Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson) is all upset because of a letter from his wife. Actually, at first he’s happy about it because she tells …

Columbo: Murder Under Glass has a cooking theme, and this one doesn’t thrill me. Frenchman Louis Jourdan is full of his usual charm and sophistication as Paul Gerard, who is the killer of the episode. He’s involved in what they call a pre-affair with Eve Plummer. …

Episode date: Monday April 3, 2006 which aired on ABC. This episodes showcased two families both unlike the other. One family was a strict christian home where the wife of the home does practically everything. She cooks, cleans, washes…everything within the home. The daughter of this christian family also …

Imagine if you found out your better half was dying of a terminal illness. A revelation like that is bound to do all manner of things to your mind, but you probably wouldn’t react like Jill Tyrell, the monstrous but somehow lovable lead of this terrific comedy. After finding …

This production piece called Designing the Final Frontier was another very intriguing look inside the world of Star Trek. It focused on the design elements, of course. Matt Jeffries is interviewed in late 2002. A few things stuck out in my mind.
One was the naming of …

Another legal drama debuted this year in USA Network. Fairly Legal is a story about a lawyer switching careers to become a mediator. It stars Sarah Shahi as Kate Reed, the lawyer with an epiphany. The show opens just after the death of her father who was the founding …

This is another good episode to The Cleaner. It’s called To Catch a Fed. In it, William Banks is surprised to see the new truck of his dreams show up on his doorstep. It’s a gift, but it comes with a catch. The gift-giver is a …

Trigun Episode 9 has Vash, Meryl and Milly on a bus travelling across the desert. Vash spots a man sitting next to a broken down motorcycle and they pick him up. He introduces himself as Nicholas D. Wolfwood, a traveling priest who is very grateful to them …

I always thought The PJs was a really funny show. It’s a funny animated show about people living in the projects. Eddie Murphy does voice over acting for this show. I think the show is very funny, but some people think it is raceist. I don’t think it really is …

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 …

Have you watched Being Human because if you haven’t you really should catch the next series! It’s fabulous.
Being Human is one of the best BBC dramas to be released in a long while. The storylines are compelling and the characters, despite some of their rather off-putting traits, …

It is time in Bikini Bottom for the fry cook games and Spongebob Squarepants has been training for this for months. He is so excited and Mr. Krabs has been telling him how important it is for him to win and beat the Chum Bucket. The Chum …

Patricia Medina reprises her role from The Lady as Diana Coulter as she invites Paladin to her wedding in Have Gun - Will Travel: The Return of the Lady. What we learn is that she and Paladin have had a relationship, but she got a little tired of …

Billy Blackburn’s Treasure Chest Rare Home Movies and Special Memories Part 1 is absolutely a wonderful look at Star Trek, the original series from a personal vantage. For those who don’t know, Blackburn was in many episodes of the series as a recurring character and as many different …

“Lucy Meets Orson Welles” is an episode of “I Love Lucy”. In this episode, Orson Welles makes a special appearance, and with his appearance, comes one of the series’ few “serious” scenes where the lines aren’t being delivered with the intention of getting laughs. This scene plays out when …

The season finale from the ninth year of this super series is called The Life You Save and it focuses on Major Charles Emerson Winchester III (David Ogden Stiers), who is almost killed by a sniper. He’s fine at first and then he sees the hole in his …

The Star Trek: Voyager episode, “Critical Care” is easily one of my favorites of the series because it tackles a very serious and real issue: rationing healthcare. In this episode, the Doctor is kidnapped and sold to a world where a computer determines who gets what care based on …

I have a couple of episodes of Highway Patrol in my personal video collection, but I haven’t seen the series in years. Now one of the cable networks is rerunning it, and it’s a great opportunity to watch this groundbreaking series again. As many of the so-called …

In Stargate SG-1: Cure, we get more history of the Tok’ra. In fact, we meet their queen, who has been used as a laboratory rat of sorts for ages by the Pangorans, who claim ignorance once the discovery was made.
It becomes a bit of an ethical debate. The …

Shark Week aired on the Discovery channel back in August. It is repeated, with slightly different programming, every year. This episode was about the sharks that became extinct millions of years ago. The program featured interviews with different paleontologists in the field. On the rocky outcrops of Montana …

The show is over. Emerald Point N.A.S.: Episode 22 — The Wedding is the final episode of this navy drama. The sad part is that no one knew that at the time of the taping. Therefore, it has that typical cliffhanger ending that would never be …

As the episode opens, the Doctor awakens to find himself on a reality show. Rose is both shocked and amused to find herself as a contestant on The Weakest Link and Jack is on a makeover show.
It’s revealed that after the TARDIS crew dropped the Slitheen egg off …

Spongebob is at the beach in Bikini Bottom one day and accidentally gets ice cream on his nose. Well, Larry who is the main lifeguard at the beach, sees this and assumes that Spongebob is really a lifeguard. Before he can even get a chance to explain to Larry …

Futurama is one of those poor shows that never really got its chance. The show was added to the Sunday night lineup on FOX, as part of its all cartoon night. It was just different enough that fans of The Simpsons and King Of The Hill could never quite …

On Cowboy Bebop, sometimes the people you love harbor deep secrets and even deeper feelings. As Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, Edward, Faye Valentine, and Eine land on Ganymede, Jet has some unfinished business to handle. Episode Ten “Ganymede Elegy” is a episode focused mainly on Jet Black and his …

Due South: Some Like It Red has a site that really astounds me — Constable Benton Fraser in women’s clothing. He goes undercover in a girls’ school run by nuns in order to try and get some information about a missing girl.
Michele Scarabelli guest stars as Sister Anne, …

OH. MY. WORD!!!! If you haven’t seen this series yet, you are definitely missing out! I suggest you immediately find it and watch it! Zoo is a 2015 TV series based on the James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge book of the same title. I would describe this series as an …

Judicial Indiscretion is a very nice suspenseful made-for-TV movie that I enjoy watching quite a bit. It was made for the Lifetime channel. The movie opens innocently enough with Judge Monica Barrett being told by a friend that her name as been thrown in the hat as …

I actually watched the very first episode of the original Big Brother in America. That first season was nothing like this show is today. For me, that’s a negative. I actually still find that first cast endearing, and I often wonder where they are today and how …

I have seen the premiere of this show and have some mixed feelings. I know that obesity is a big issue in this country (lame pun). But I am having a hard time believing that the people behind this show aren’t trying to somehow exploit overweight …

Dirty Sexy Money is a show about a guy called Nick. Nick’s dad was a lawyer who worked for a family called the Darlings. When Nick’s dad dies in a plane crash Nick takes on the Darlings as clients and in the meanwhile tries to figure out …

Well, I didn’t know what to expect from last night’s season premiere of Bones last night; mostly because, how last season ended really made me think the show would start going downhill in a hurry.
I’m still not convinced that isn’t the case. But, I will say the episode “The …

The leading character of Sailor Moon is Usagi Tsukino, who lives a normal high school life until she meets a talking cat named Luna. Through her, Usagi discovers that the world is in endangered by the Dark Kingdom which had destroyed the Kingdom of the Moon long ago. This …

Breakthrough with Tony Robbins Episode 1 is a reality TV show where self help author Tony Robbins helps people find a breakthrough to their problems. In the first episode he helps Frank and Kristen Alioto because Frank is depressed because he is in a wheelchair.
This episode was very …

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 …

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Who Watches the Watchers is an episode that might seem somewhat offending and close-minded to some, while others will applaud its stance and attitude on the delicate subject of religion. In this episode, Captain Picard remarks that a culture that believes in Gods …

Desperate Housewives is a show that started with tremendous promise. Marc Cherry’s brainchild had everything that an audience could possibly want, love, sex, hilarious antics, and a good old fashioned murder mystery. Add a collection of a talented veteran actresses to boot and you have yourself a recipe for …

From September 1992, the cable television series The Ray Bradbury Theater presented a show called By the Numbers which starred Ray Sharkey. The action begins with a lot of military like shouting, but then transports us to a train. It’s weird right off the bat as one …

Presented on Thanksgiving Day in the United States, Kaleidoscope on Ice was the best ice skating show I’ve watched in years. Now that may be because one of my favorite favorites, Scott Hamilton, skated for the first time in six years. Scott has survived two different cancers …

This is a switch to the normal Gilligan’s Island running. The Professor isn’t the one coming up with crazy inventions, this time a bizarre doctor, Dr. Boris Balenkoff, introduces hypnotic jewelry and in this case rings. The doctor has a completely sinister, but at times in a strange way …

I missed the first couple minutes of the That 70s Show episode entitled Surprise, Surprise. But, even with missing the first part of it, I saw enough to know this was a pretty funny episode.
Basically, there are two main stories in this episode. First, Kelso ends up sleeping with …

OK, not only was the lastest episode of House “Not Cancer,” entertaining, it had to be one of the grossest episodes I’ve seen recently; a good combination for network television.
This episode was interesting because you have a series of people dying after receiving an organ transplant from the same …

This episode of The Beast called My Brother’s Keeper was directed by Lisa Niemi, wife of series star Patrick Swayze. The producers had been wanting her to direct an episode all season, but she was there to support her husband as he battled cancer while starring in the …

Homer fakes his death so as to avoid a cleaning drive on Saturday. The news of his fake death reaches everyone and so all the people of the town come to visit Marge to pay their condolences. Marge is very upset that Homer wasted $600 to fake his death. …