Gene Roddenberry tackles Eden yet again in Star Trek: The Apple. The series creator seems to love to show that books shouldn’t be judged by their covers and that living easy isn’t necessarily living. Man never quite finds paradise in Star Trek.
Another red shirt goes down before …

In M*A*S*H: Strange Bedfellows, Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda) and B.J. Hunnicutt (Mike Farrell) are frustrated by their Swamp mate, Major Charles Emerson Winchester III (David Ogden Stiers) who is snoring all of a sudden which is keeping them awake. The two want him to move out.
Ultimately, it’s suspected …

One of the most interesting new television shows that I’ve discovered recently is one called Brain Games that comes from time to time on the cable television channel National Geographic. I think that the reason why I like it so much and the reason it stands out is because …

Whoopi: Once Bitten focuses on Mavis Rae (Whoopi Goldberg) having been bitten by Rita’s ferret. While Mavis has to get her insurance company to authorize treatment and spends hours in the emergency room waiting, Courtney takes the ferret to the vet and gets treatment right away. It …

I thoroughly enjoy this series as it remind of such winners as ER and Hill Street Blues. The cast of unknowns and minor experienced actors is just perfect. I enjoy these characters and weekly root for such friends as Sully, Faith, Carlos, Kim, Boscorelli, …

Time travel always sounded so great to me. I actually have just one thing in my life that I would like to change and I know I wouldn’t have to do much to change it, just to go back in time to a certain point in my life and …

Having just discovered Confessions of a Teen Idol on VH-1 yesterday during a re-airing of its fourth episode, today I tuned in for the latest showing, Episode 5.
The standout for me here was Jaime Walters, of Beverly Hills 90210 fame (I mistakenly stated he was on Baywatch in my …

I never knew that this show was going to be so addicting. I was off of work on vacation for a couple of weeks and watched a couple of late night reruns and I was totally hooked. I started to collect the boxed sets in order so …

Well, that was a somewhat interesting episode of Hogan’s Heroes that was on at lunch today; “One Army at a Time.”
Basically, in this episode, they are trying to blow up a Nazi bridge. But, they are interrupted as they are making their way there and, because he is dressed …

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 …

The friends have always wondered about Phoebe, because she seems so mysterious. But what they didn’t realize is that she was married in another state to a gay ice dancer, and she didn’t even realize that she was still married to him. It is actually quite hilarious, because no …

“Bloodline” is the eighth episode of the eighth season of Smallville on the CW. This episode was a little light on action but served to further the eventual arrival of Doomsday, one of Superman’s greatest villians.
Clark is sent a mysterious crystal which sends him to the Phantom Zone. …

Overall Comedy Central is a pretty good channel. It could be a lot better though. Sometimes they play movies and shows that I think are stupid and not really all that funny. Occasionally though I will find a pretty good movie on that is quite funny. I think that …

Well, after waiting on pins and needles all week tonight the season finale Celebrity Apprentice was shown and I couldn’t be more disappointed. The whole season was exciting and watchers really didn’t know what was coming next but while the season finale promised to continue that them it really …

Watching Adam-12: Log 135: Arson reminds me a lot of what I’ve been hearing in the news lately. Studies show that human recollection of an observed event really isn’t as wonderful as was once thought. What we witness changes in our minds. That’s why many believe …

If you haven’t heard by now that owning a TiVo will change how you watch television, let me say it again.
TiVo will change how you watch television! I know it can be a hard sell when you notice the $13 per month programming charge (which is on top …

Richard Long, best remembered as Jarrod Barkley on The Big Valley, guest stars as David Gurney in The Twilight Zone: Person or Persons Unknown. It’s an interesting story in which Gurney wakes up after an evening out with his wife. The rub comes when the man discovers …

The Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode “Becoming,” which is the season 2 finale of the series, is a two part episode. Today I’m going to tackle it as one whole episode instead. And, I have to say, while a bit weak in some aspects, it really does set the …

There wasn’t much on TV last night so I ended up watching a re-run of Law & Order SVU on NBC called Penetration.
This wasn’t the first time I have seen this episode. I watched bits and pieces of it when it first aired but really wasn’t all that interested …

The fun part of Adam-12: The Adoption has nothing to do with the crime stories, but with a wager made between Pete and Jim. Jim wins the bet, so Pete takes the Reeds out for dinner. Jim was ready for it, too, not having eaten anything else. …

While shopping, Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas) befriends an eight-year-old black boy named David (George Spell) who steals a candy bar. Though the boy initially tells her he lives on Park Avenue, Ann scoffs at it, so he invents a story about living in a one-bedroom apartment filled with …

Once again, I ended up staying up late to watch Ghost Hunters (because the first airing of the new episode is on at the same time as Law & Order SVU so I end up watching the encore showing of it). And, I ended up a bit disappointed.
Well, actually, …

Homer decides not to go to church on Sunday. He tells her he wants to enjoy one day at home, after working hard in the office. So Marge and the kids go to church in the blistering cold. They are freezing while sitting in the church. Whereas Homer is …

This episode begins with Cryton creating a lobster diner in celebration of the Red Dwarf crew rescuing him from his old ship, but because he kept the diner a secret they already have plans to visit “Jane Austin World” in the virtual reality suite .I don’t know if this …

The Twilight Zone: The Lonely is one of the classic episodes of this series. I thoroughly enjoy it each and every time I see it. It’s the concept that makes it intriguing. Jack Warden is a convict, sentenced to live the rest of his life on …

A show that I have come to enjoy ever since its first season started back in 2005 is the CW series of Supernatural. The series revolved around two brothers, Sam and Dean Winchester, whose family have been hunters for years. When I say hunters, I don’t mean the kind …

This was not the Highlander we all know and love. The Duncan in this movie was dark and brooding and unsure of himself. The movie was choppy-it didn’t have a good flow. There wasn’t much information about the characters and how they all came together. It didn’t …

At long last the second part of the Chuunin Exam is about to begin and viewers can be heard taking a collective breath hoping for some action to finally start happening in the arc which showed so much promise as it was being introduced, but of course with a …

The Ray Bradbury Theater: Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar! which aired in November 1989 must be Bradbury’s answer to every B-movie science fiction plot about Earth being taken over by space invaders, especially things like The Blob.
The story starts innocently enough with a boy named Tom …

Ruben wants to jump from a building and kill himself because he has invented a personal phone that you can carry around and the investment failed. Everyone thinks that the idea is silly but Sam says to Ruben that he is ahead of his time because in future all …

One of the television series that I had begun watching very recently was “Breaking Bad”. While I had heard about it a few times, I had never really considered checking it out until one of my family members who has the same taste in television series like me managed …

Scrubs has, over been the years, become one of the most variable shows on television. The first three seasons are, in my opinion, some of the best seasons for any television show ever made, effectively blending wit, gut splitting humor, and enough raw emotion to, at times, completely cut …

It’s hard for me to decide if I like “Fringe” or not. On one hand I enjoy parts of the show. I’m a big science fiction fan and this reminds me more of the “X-files” than anything that has been on since. I’m certainly not the first person to compare …

Chandler has decided that he cannot take anymore of his new roommate Eddie, and he knows that he is going to have to get rid of him because he cannot take him anymore. He consoles his friends at the coffee shop on how he can tell his new …

Sense8 is an American Sci-Fi drama TV series with the ambition to do for TV what Matrix did for action films. Sense8 was written and produced by the Wachowskis, so if anyone could get away with such a claim it would be the creators of The Matrix themselves. I don’t …

This episode of Sea Hunt, the 20th show of its third year on the air, which was called Synthetic Hero, opened with diving expert Mike Nelson talking about how he stays away from sunken treasures, most of the time. I’m glad he added that disclaimer because the series …

This show is so good when it makes fun of itself and classic western moments. This opens up with Brisco County (Bruce Campbell) ready to showdown with some bad guys. Right in the middle of the face off, a boy rides up on a bike to deliver …

High School of the Dead is about a group of teenagers trying to survive a sudden zombie apocolypse. The show is directed by Tetsuro (Death Note, Black Lagoon) and is based on the hit manga series by Daisuke Sato. The show has yet to be dubbed and brought over …

I was a little surprised by Wagon Train: The Sam Darland Story because I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. This season six episode reminds me a lot of Boys Town and Father Flanigan, though there isn’t any connection. It’s just the idea that makes …

A reality show from Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs which airs on MTV is about individuals or a group of people who are vying for the opportunity to be one of the new rising stars or a part of a group whether buy group or girl group of five individuals. Many …

Lost is a television series on every Wednesday evening at 10 pm central on CTV. It gets better and better each time I see it. The mystery involved in this story is so intriguing, it reveals a different scenario for each character every episode. Basically, the passengers of an …

In this episode Lucy has her finances all in a mess, and suddenly she’s living in a dark house, with no phone. So, Ricky decides to hire a business manager. This episode is a perfect example of the usual episode arch.
The actor that plays Mr. Hickcox, the business …

This show is the great modeling reality tv show there is, Tyra Banks as the host only makes the show better as she is a retired professional model who was really great when she was still doing her profession. There are a lot of candidates here who are aspiring …

What better way to get in the holiday spirit than a classic episode of That 70s Show; “It’s a Wonderful Life?”
Ok, so this isn’t really a holiday episode; it just follows a similar tale to the classic movie. Eric, depressed over his break up with Donna, wishes he had …

The Good Wife: Cleaning House is a pretty good hour of drama in many ways. Below are a few things that stood out to me about this particular episode.
–There are some really good moments with Alicia’s former co-worker, Cary Argos (Matt Czuchry) questioning her over something that has …

Night Gallery was Rod Serling’s follow up to The Twilight Zone. While not as good, it sometimes has some very interesting tales. At other times, the stories are just so so.
The first story, The Diary, is in the middle of the road. It stars one of …

“The Beverly Hillbillies Ultimate Collection Volume 1″ is a DVD boxed set that contains four discs and a total of twenty-six episodes. This DVD boxed set was put out by MPI Home Video and those responsible for putting together this “Ultimate Collection” set did a truly superb job with …

Death Note Episode 32 has Mikami narrate about how he always believed in Justice and how he always admired Kira and why Light chose him to be the next owner and user of the Death Note. Meanwhile, he tries to contact Kiyomi Takada, a girl he knew from …

Diagnosis Murder: Shanda’s Song focuses on a weary rock singer who collapses on stage. As it turns out, she’s being stalked. and Dr. Mark Sloan (Dick Van Dyke) has quite a plan to lure in the evil doer. It’s a plan that involves his son, Steve (Barry …

One of the things that worked against Legend is that it was on the new UPN network. They didn’t have the stamina to let the series grow and really find its strength. Still, what we do have are a collection of tales in which actors Richard Dean …