The story of how Santa became the jolly figure we know today is told in the classic animated tale, Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town. This is another of my all-time holiday favorites. I watch it at least twice every season, if not more. The story …

Larry David and company make a welcome return to our screens with the premiere episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm’s seventh season.
On the surface, things seem pretty typical. Larry once again finds himself at odds with the modern world and all who inhabit it. He finds himself pulled up …

Laramie: The Legend of Lily is an episode that focuses a lot on Jonesy, played with style by Hoagy Carmichael. Jonesy is completely star struck by Lily Langtree, who is coming to town to give a performance.
Constance Moore guest stars as Lily. She brings a refined grace …

Grow Your Own Drugs is the most radical title for a TV show I think I have ever seen. I just had to watch it because my curiosity was just killing me. I like gardening and herbs are one of my latest kicks I have gotten into learning about. …

A Man Called Hawk: If Memory Serves has an interesting premise, one I haven’t quite seen before, at least not in this type of presentation. The story revolves around Alex Chavin (Paul Butler), a Haitian man who remembers everything he hears and reads. It’s not a photographic …

This episode of That Girl is almost like the third pilot for the series. The first pilot had some different elements in it and wasn’t shown on network TV. The second pilot, referred to as a preview show, showed how Ann Marie met her boyfriend, Donald Hollinger. …

The third season of the underwater adventure series Sea Hunt presented its twenty-fifth outing with a show entitled Blind Spot. The name comes from something which happens to the lead character, Mike Nelson, fairly early in the half hour.
Unfortunately, this June 1960 episode, is another one that has …

A programme that me and Lyndsey like watching on an evening is Come dine with me. There is an episode on each night of the week. Each night one of the five contestants hosts a dinner party while the other four mark them out of ten the …

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 …

As the world slowly revolves on an dying axis, we can see the ultimate result of our actions take place and seed in the minds of our children who will become the root of tomorrow. As we pray our lonesome prayers to God above, we are forced to wonder …

Airing in February 1960, Sea Hunt: Cobalt Bomb, a third season story, had Mike Nelson, our ace diving expert, once again working in the Coast Guard Auxiliary. I suppose the reason for this was to give Nelson a chance to work in other areas, or come up with …

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Price of Doom, the fifth show of this successful sci fi series, opens with a blizzard in Antarctica. It also brings us our first real sea monster story, a device that would become more the norm than the unusual. …

Fireball XL5: Planet 46 premiered on October 28,1962 and introduced the United States audience to this British import from the mind of Gerry Anderson. It’s a science fiction series done not with actors, but with supermarionation. In other words, these are advanced puppets, and who knew they’d …

I’m the kind of person who is all about meditation and the benefits we can all reap from it, so when I discovered that the kid show: the Avatar is about a monk I thought it was one of the coolest things on TV. That’s one cool thing that …

The X-Files was a well-known TV show that ran in the 1990s. It featured actors David Coveney and Gillian Anderson as special agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. These two agents were assigned to the X-Files — cases that the FBI was investigating that concerned paranormal phenomena …

M*A*S*H: The More I See You is essentially a love story, a real one, for the show’s main hero, Hawkeye Pierce as played beautifully by Alan Alda. We learn that Hawkeye lived with a nurse during his residency. He really loved her and still does, but she …

I recently started to watch Billy the exterminator on A & E because it was right after Dog the Bounty Hunter which I absolutely love. I think that A & E has a lot of good reality shows, and I tend to watch a lot on this channel. Billy …

This episode of Dog the bounty hunter has to be my absolute favorite. Why might you ask? Well it shows a lot of Leland Chapman, which happens to be my favorite bounty hunter because he is just so drop down gorgeous, and he seems so funny. The fugitive that …

The latest edition of Shatner’s Raw Nerve featured psychic John Edward. This is the show where William Shatner has a one-on-one casual and unscripted conversation with someone, in this case Edward. I’ve found many of these shows to be pretty fascinating. This may be the first …

M*A*S*H: Requiem for a Lightweight is the third episode of this landmark TV series about the Korean War. Starring Alan Alda and Wayne Rogers, the show focuses on their characters of Hawkeye Pierce and Trapper John McIntyre. It’s all a lot of craziness and jocularity, while also …

One of my favorite old Sitcoms of all time is Home Improvement. It was one of those shows, that even though it did have a very long run, it was not quite enough for me. I wish it had stayed on the air for a few more years, …

In M*A*S*H: The M*A*S*H Olympics, Colonel Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan) decides that his personnel are too out of shape and decides to institute an Olympics. This coincides with the Helsinki Olympics that were going on at the same time as the events of this episode.
The unit divides into …

From February 1963, Laramie: The Fugitives was an episode from the show’s fourth and final season. This series is my all time favorite and it really should have gone on longer. Ratings were good, so it’s confusing as to why it was cancelled.
The show opens with Slim …

One of my current favorite television show is Blue Bloods, a police procedural drama that is set in New York. The story revolves around the Reagan family who are all in the business of the law —“ the men are police officers while the only daughter is a prosecutor. …

Everybody Loves Raymond is a great comedy sitcom. I like that this sitcom actually portrays real-life circumstances. The characters in Everybody Loves Raymond are down-right hilarious, especially Raymond and his dad. Raymond is married and has three children. He lives next door to his doting/nosy mother Marie and comical …

I came home for lunch today and my youngest daughter was watching Dora the Explorer on TV. Since it had been a while since I watched this show (my oldest daughter used to watch it religiously until she outgrew it), I decided to take some time and watch it …

After watching the last season two episode “Crescent Hills & Dr. Ellis” I was half expecting a big let down from the episode that followed it on the DVD “Waverly Hills.”
But, I will say, despite that anticipation, I wasn’t disappointed.
This episode brought the TAPS team to a run down …

As Due South: Call of the Wild: Part 1 opens, Constable Benton Fraser is ice fishing with his father. They talk about something being in the air, something that was going to change things. They’re right, especially since this was the first of a two-parter that ended …

After hearing my friends praise Glee, the musical television show, for the past year or so, when Glee came back on television, I decided to give it a try. I had a general idea of what went on last season plot-wise, so it wasn’t too hard for me to …

Rush is an Australian TV series set in Melbourne, Australia. I follow this series religiously because it is an eye-opener in terms of the differences between the police in the US and Australia. The accent is a bit difficult to follow, but after a while, you begin to understand …

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 …

Remember the TV sitcom years before, Dharma & Greg? I love this TV sitcom very much and have been missing it since. I wonder why there’s no more of this sitcom.
From the moment Dharma and Greg get to know each other right up to their marriage …

America’s Best Dance Crew is a dancing reality show from MTV that scours the nation trying to find the best dance crew in the country. The host for the show is Mario Lopez with his panel of judges who are JC Chasez from the boy band NSYNC, Lil Mama …

I was watching some re-runs of House this past weekend and happened to catch a season 1 episode called Occam’s Razor.
This episode reminds me exactly why my wife and I began watching this show to begin with. House has a patient brought into him that is dying and, after …

When I heard there was going to be another all star season of Survivor I was excited but I hoped it wasn’t going to be anything like the previous all star season and more like fans versus favorites. However when I ehard what the theme of this season …

The fact that it’s the fifth season really shows for The Twilight Zone. There are several shows in a row that I just don’t like, and The Last Night of a Jockey from October 1963 is another one of them. The stories had some good actors, but …

Martin is one of my favorite TV shows. This show is so funny and Martin Lawrence does a great job of acting in the show. Martin is so funny. His facial expressions along with his voice and jokes, make him a very funny man. I think this is one of …

CHiPs: Neighborhood Watch has a variety of interesting little stories that comprise the episode. One that I enjoy a lot involve the mischievous adventures of four neighborhood children, who keep ending up in trouble. They are quite believable in their antics. Robbie Rist, K.C. Martel, Lauri …

Ed Marinaro had the title guest starring role in 1987’s Private Eye: Nickey the Rose. He’s a mobster type of guy from circa 1956, living high and with a high profile lady on his arm. That would be Rita Marlowe, as played by Susan Blakely. She’s a …

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 …

This episode dealt with a Colonel from Stargate Command who actually fell for the, “You’re a God,” rhetoric that primitive people always spouted when teams came through the Stargate.
Seems another Stargate team was sent to a planet and never returned. When SG1 arrives, they find out from one …

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Episode 10 has Section 9 going after a serial killer named Marco Amereti, with Batou taking it personally.
This was a great episode because it gave Batou more character development and it was interesting. The animation was very nice and everything was …

Fireball XL5: Spy in Space reminds me of an episode of Bullwinkle where we see the evil characters of Boris and Natasha, only here they are called Boris and Griselda. They really are a couple of nutty buffoons. Boris is always getting them into trouble, making the …

Hawthorne: The Match was a very intriguing and sometimes difficult show to watch because the subject matter was emotional and just tugged at your heartstrings. The big issue centered around the need to find a kidney match for two little girls, twins, who both had the need. …

That Girl: I’ll Be Suing You is typical That Girl comedy. Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas) has borrowed her boyfriend’s brand new car, a lovely red convertible, to take a rubber tree plant to her parents, who live about 30 minutes outside of the city in Brewster, New York. …

One day while Spongebob was taking out the trash he noticed that there was quite a bit of graffitti on the garbage dumpster. He couldn’t believe that some people would do such a thing to the Krusty Krab’s property. He starts to read some of the things that are …

Street Hawk: Female of the Species had Dennis Franz as a guest star. I’m not crazy about him, so that really didn’t do much for me. I was more intrigued by Paul Rossilli, who played a wealthy, highly public figure named Steven Cavanaugh. Think John F. …

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 …

The West Wing was created by Aaron Sorkin, who previously had an excellent, under-rated series called Sports Night. The West Wing is a fictionalized account of the White House. Martin Sheen plays president Jeb Bartlett. While Bartlet is ever present, the focus of the show is …

During this episode Edwin Poole defended a man who was charged for murder. Several associates of the firm were worried because Edwin Poole obviously is not mentally well.Earlier that day, he barged in the office wearing only his tops without anything covering his bottom.
In another case, Alan Shore …