John Doe: Past Imperfect is a little strange on the surface. While this series continues to hold my interest, elements of it aren’t as strong as I’d like. For one thing, star Dominic Purcell tends to overact, especially during intense scenes. For me, it feels like …

Dean Jagger is the power behind The Twilight Zone: Static. He’s an older gentleman, living in a boarding house where his old girlfriend and other old friends live. He becomes disenchanted with television and the tripe he perceives the movies, shows, and commercials to be. That …

I got home in time last night to watch some re-runs of That 70s Show, including one I haven’t seen before; Backstage Pass.
This one was actually a pretty funny episode; well at least part of it was.
I wasn’t a huge fan of the part involving the friends trying to …

Chip N Dale’s Rescue Rangers is a great show about Chip and Dale the chipmunks who solve crimes and mysteries. The show is just great and one of my best childhood memories. If you like cute little chipmunks, then you are going to love this show. The music in the …

Peter Falk returns in Columbo: Mind Over Mayhem, a pretty intriguing entry from the third season of the crime drama. There’s a very recognizable and talented guest cast, too.
The show opens with Neil Cahill (Robert Walker, Jr.) talking about a new, groundbreaking theory. Only there’s a problem …

As the time draws its final line, Ion Fortuna can no longer resist his blood lust triggered by Radu’s sinister electromagnetic bullet that awakened Ion’s vamperic instincts to an raging boil. On Episode 9: “A start of an pilgrimage” of the delicious horror Christian series known as Trinity Blood, …

Walker Texas Ranger was a series from 1990’s that is still shown in syndication.
Martial Arts star Chuck Norris plays Cordell Walker, a Texas Ranger.
In the earlier episodes, Chuck Norris, Walker and his partner Trivet(Played by Clarence Gilyard), were the ones going after criminals along with Prosecutor Alex Cayhill ( …

M*A*S*H: Ping Pong quite honestly isn’t one of my favorite shows, though it does have a couple of interesting elements to it. Overall, though, it was a little slow for me, even with the dramatic bits that were included in this half-hour episode.
There’s a beautiful Korean wedding that …

I’ve been watching Criminal Minds from the beginning, but I find that I am agreeing more and more with Mandy Patinkin who starred in this series originally and then left the show because it was too dark and upsetting. Sometimes I only half watch the shows which are …

In late 1983, the pilot episode of Masquerade aired, and I really enjoyed it. There were actually only a few episodes aired. It just didn’t last long, and I recall being very disappointed by that. The show starred Rod Taylor as a CIA-type intelligence agent who …

I got home early enough to watch a re-run of the Simpsons on TV. The one that was showing was one I have seen before and still think is one of my favorites; The Old Man and Lisa.
Basically, Mr. Burns discovers he has been making a number of bad …

Mr. Krabs starts to dig threw other people’s trash to hold a sale and make some money. I think that is so funny because it just goes to show how cheap he really is. He convinces Spongebob to buy a really ugly hat he found in the …

I have this fascination with extreme living conditions—”that is, homes that are either extremely strange or extremely expensive (or both.) This program on the Travel Channel focused on the bathrooms around the world that have some kind of weird conditions. For instance, at a Japanese steak …

Martin Milner gets the lead in “Adam-12″s Log 73 episode. In it, his character of Pete Malloy is attending a local college, where the students are unhappy about many of the policies in place. Anne Helm, who has a steady body of quality work, plays one of …

Kate Winslet on Ellen was a good watch. She was dressed in a black coat or jacket and she looked particularly decent and sweet. Though she has a British accent, she was such a down-to-earth person and spoke about her husband and friendship with Leo very lovingly. …

From July 1989, The Ray Bradbury Theater: A Miracle of Rare Device is actually a pretty interesting story, though there are elements that I’m not as fond of. What happens is that two men, disheveled and obviously down on their luck, are traveling along a desert highway …

The Winds of War: On Location featurette gives a very nice insight into what it was like to shoot this mammoth mini-series. To film the series, it took 14 months, and to scout the locations, several years. There is a review of what it was like to …

One of the DVD extras for the Star Trek series is the Chief Engineer’s Log. It’s actually a little hard to watch for me. James Doohan was such a force. He died in July 2005, and this was an interview taped a year and a half …

This is a series that I am really glad to have picked up on. I am currently watching season 2 of Dexter because season one enticed me to keep it on my Netflix DVD queue. The show introduces you to its main character: Dexter Morgan. He is …

Hawaii Five-O: One for the Money is a psychological drama surrounding one family. It’s never been a favorite of mine, but it does have some good acting in it.
Jeanette Nolan guest stars as the wealthy aunt of two men, played by Farley Granger and Paul Collins. Collins …

Nova is a show that I really enjoy. It is an educational show on public television (public television is a station where it is not for profit and relies on donations from the public) Nova always has interesting science stories on it. This episode was about the paleontology (the …

This episode is rather interesting. I think the producer is presenting a real problem that we are fighting with in our world. The use of experimental growth experiments on our food. And he actually poses a real problem in an appropriate manner somehow intermingling the idea into a family …

From 1992, The Ray Bradbury Theater: Some Live Like Lazarus opened in a very intriguing way. We, the viewers, walk up to a house where a woman is seated on her porch. She greets us and says she’s been expecting us. Naturaly, we want to know …

Early on in The Virginian: The Golden Door, Judge Henry Garth (Lee J. Cobb) gives his daughter “a nerve tonic” which instantly makes her feel better. I have to wonder what a western version of a nerve tonic is. That really has little to do with the …

Undercover Boss: DirecTV featured Mike White, CEO of this satellite company.
Now this is probably the first time I’ve watched with skepticism and that’s because I’ve heard so much negative publicity about DirecTV. Our local newscast has done numerous stories about DirecTV’s hard nose line about contracts. For example, …

From March 1988, Probe: Now You See It… makes me chuckle. The fun part about the lead character of Austin James (Parker Stevenson) is that he is responsible for some great inventions. One of his creations is what I’ll call the talking elevator. It greets you, …

As far as Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes go, the episode Passion is one of the creepiest and saddest ones I’ve seen.
In this episode, we get a full understanding of what Angelus is capable of when he’s seeking to drive someone insane. First, he enters Buffy’s house and Willow’s …

I watch this show every week. I love the combination of horror, gore, medicine and science as well as police work. It is like a CSI episode but with less drama and humor. I actually prefer the Bones style of show to the CSI ones. I …

For Week 9 of The Apprentice - UK, the two teams are assigned to sell subscriptions for a text messaging service at an upcoming football game (for the Americans in the bunch, translate that to soccer). The event will happen at a match that features one of the …

Breakthrough with Tony Robbins Episode 5 begins with Tony Robbins helping out John Rodriguez, a man who lost his wife after she was killed in a random shooting and John became depressed and homeless.
I liked this episode a lot because John learned that he can do things, even if …

M*A*S*H: Souvenirs focuses on the issue of wartime souvenirs. In this case, helicopter pilot Willie Stratton, played by Michael Bell, gets locals and kids to scavenger for him, collecting all kinds of trinkets and souvenirs which he then sells and makes a huge profit from. The problem …

In this episode Lisa reminds Bart that it will be her birthday and that every year he forgets, hearing this Bart vows to give her the best present ever. Meanwhile Homer is forced to wear a pink shirt to work when Bart washes his red hat in the white …

This show apparently follows singer Monica in her quest for completing a new single. I heard this was going to be a reality show series about Monica. But in fact, this is really a show Bryan Michael Cox put together to emphasize the necessities of putting together …

I have to say, even though later episodes of House have been kind of weak lately, the one last night, “The Social Contract” was actually pretty good.
This one had a patient who had some sort of disease that caused him to say whatever he was thinking, regardless of whether …

In The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.: Deep in the Heart of Dixie, Socrates has fallen for his boss’ secretary. Unfortunately, this whole part of the plot was pretty predictable and sadly for Socrates, I was right with my assumptions. It wouldn’t be a surprise to many …

The TV series Friends is an absolute must watch in my opinion. This show is for anyone! It doesn’t matter how old you are even if you are young or old. My whole family loves this show too! I watch hours and hours of Friends everyday without getting …

Lloyd Nolan is the primary guest star in Laramie’s 3rd season show, Deadly is the Night. Once again, he faces off with Jess Harper, as played by Robert Fuller. To me, Fuller is Jess Harper. He was born for this role, and to my knowledge, it’s …

“Brothers of Nablus” opens with our heroes Sarah, Derek, John, and Cameron arriving home to find all of their cash and credentials missing. They were robbed. Derek gets a clue source from his ex-lover Jesse about whom she believes might have been responsible for the robbery. The clue leads …

With the X-Files shut down, it seems like it would be difficult to continue the plot. If nothing else, you would expect the status quo to quickly reassert itself. Interestingly enough, this episode does neither of these things. It does indeed pick up after the events …

Last night’s episode of House is everything that has gone wrong with the show over the years. They had an interesting case involving a teenager who had something happen to her the night before but nobody knows what because she can’t tell the truth about what happened. Yet, even …

DVR provided from Time Warner is a great service for a cheap cost. The special feature enables viewers to rewind and pause live programming. I have to say that this a very cool and helpful feature. You can never miss part of the big game or your favorite show …

Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Survivors is one of my favorite episodes of the entire series. The reason it is one of my favorite episodes is because this episode really has a great deal going for it: an well-crafted and intriguing mystery, some exciting ship to ship …

Mrs. Columbo: The Valley Strangler is from the second season of this mishandled crime adventure drama. I’d forgotten that in this second season they’d divorced the Columbos. I think that is also why it failed. They even had her going back to using her maiden name …

A Certain Justice - Part 2 was a bit slower for me than part 1 was. This story is from the P.D. James novel and uses the familiar character of Commander Adam Dalgliesh. As an American, I assume commander is a detective. That seemed to be …

Another case in Florida! And I again feel less safe in my own home! A team are kidnapping women, torturing, raping and then killing them. The worst part is they send a DVD to the mother of the woman with the torture on camera. The first girl they find …

OK, sometimes the show Seinfeld takes a joke a bit too far to the point where it is still funny but also very unrealistic. The episode “The Sponge” is one of those.
The main plot is the episode focuses on the discontinuance of the Today Sponge, apparently Elaine’s favorite form …

While not on the same “end of the world” level as the previous two episodes, this episode managed to give the team a pretty interesting challenge that tested their abilities as much as any deity ever did. It starts with the team attempting to bust a ghost at …

This episode really impresses the fact the castaways are alone and isolated. There is the world and then the castaways. The world has no idea where they are or even know about their island, uncharted. So I also feel a bit alone while watching it. The representation of the …

Got to admit, after a disappointing episode before hand (Something Blue), we finally got an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer that is very memorable; “Hush.”
I mean, how many other series have attempted to do an entire episode where none of the actors could speak a word (in this …

Mr. Krabs makes a deal with Spongebob and Squidward that if he learns the names of all the customers in the restaurant, he will give them a prize. They are both so surprised that Mr. Krabs is going to actually give them something that they start to scurry around …