May 29, 2009 marked the end of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno after 17 years. I was never a fan of Leno, and I felt NBC shenanigans resulted in him getting the job over David Letterman. The thing is, I’m not a fan of Letterman, either, …

This episode revolves around Cameron and the fact that his mind has been altered by a memory device.
Basically the team travels to a planet where the scientists have taken a Goa’uld weapon and turned it into a memory device. With this device, they could take memories from one …

At long last the action is back in Naruto as Kakashi activates his Sharingan(secret eye technique) and the fight between two Jounins(advanced ninjas) finally gets in full swing. This episode has some of the best scenes of Naruto so far as it goes back to the tried and true …

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 …

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 …

“At the end of the day, all you have are experiences.”
This quote is from the end of Dead Like Me: Curious George, and it’s the end of this show that is the first time I thought I might end up having some like for the main character of Georgia …

I absolutely love football. So, when Coach, a show about a football coach, is on TV, I�m sure to watch it.
To be honest, I only really watch when the earlier episodes of this show are on. When Craig T. Nelson (who plays Hayden Fox) was coaching at the college …

If you’re looking for a show to watch Tuesday nights, Law & Order Special Victims Unit is it. It has to be the best of the Law & Order franchise and I make sure never to miss an episode.
In addition to being a great crime drama, the storylines in …

Early on in M*A*S*H: Period of Adjustment from the eighth season of this masterful dramedy, B.J. Hunnicutt (Mike Farrell) gets a letter from his wife, telling him about how they met Radar O’Reilly at the airport as planned. At first, B.J. is happy, until he reads the part …

In Blacke’s Magic: Forced Landing, Leonard Blacke (Harry Morgan) wins a ghost town in a poker game, but owes a mortgage of $12,000 on it, not to mention some other debts which his son, Alexander Blacke (Hal Linden) has to deal with. The mystery begins when a plane …

I used to like watching The Tyra Banks Show, but it seems to be getting progressively unoriginal. There are a lot of things you can talk about on a talk show, but Tyra is starting to bore me, because lately her topics have been on dating, relationship problems, …

So far, Diagnosis Murder has done one two-part story each season and this third year is no exception. Diagnosis Murder: Murder on the Run: Part 1 aired in January 1996 with the conclusion airing one week later.
This is a good time to note another change to season three, …

CSI New York Season 2 Episode 22- Stealing Home
A very average episode for the show. There were a few interesting moments, but then the rest was not good at all. It began looking like a really good story, but it died in the middle. I don’t think it is …

In That Girl: Author, Author, Don Hollinger (Ted Bessell) attempts to write a comedy routine for his girlfriend, Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas) as she tries to make it onto the finals of Talent Showcase. Actually, while the overall show isn’t its best, there are some great moments in …

I was getting bored with my usual afternoon re-runs after work yesterday and decided to flip channels looking for something new. I came across the Garfield Show on Cartoon Network (or some channel like that).
I didn’t know they re-did the show in a 3-D format so I took the …

In 1981, Pippin: His Life and Times became the first staged Broadway show filmed for television. While Peter Pan had been recorded live, it was done at a network studio, whereas Pippin was done in the theater.
Returning to the character he portrayed when Pippin: His Life and Times …

This episode never aired on TV, and was never released in Japan at all, and that was probably for the best. For reasons unknown to me Viz Media decided to release this episode as a special on their first Naruto DVD release in America. At least this episode had …

Overall, I rather liked Highway Patrol: : Prospector. In this half hour police drama, a prospector thinks he has struck it rich when he ends up with a lot of money, only he didn’t come upon it properly. No, he didn’t steal it, but he finds it …

MacGyver: Silent World centers on a deaf woman named Carrie who is a friend of MacGyver’s and is having a lot of nasty nightmares that seem to end the way, in Mac being hit by a car and dying. The same footage is used repeatedly in the first …

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 …

Sponge Bob Square Pants is my three year old favoite cartoon, she is watching it as I write this. I have mixed feeling about this. Although there is nothing real alarming in this cartoon, the characters are not ones I would want my daughter to copy. The one that …

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 …

“Weight Loss” is a great episode of season five of the Office on NBC. It is a wonderful 42 minute episode with a very funny premise of everyone trying to lose weight for a company-wide summer contest.
True fans of the show will love all the little moments. …

From 1982, Fame: The Sell-Out focuses on a couple of unrelated plots. In the first, Bruno’s dad accidentally short circuits a piece of his son’s equipment at home and when he replaces it, he does so with the best. This upsets Bruno because his taxi-driving father is …

Well, I waited for the new Ghost Hunters episode last night and was finally rewarded. Unfortunately, I think I liked the re-runs leading up to it a bit better.
The first case was involving a family that was being terrorized by a spirit and I will admit there was some evidence …

The soap opera All My Children aired an episode on January 5, 2000 to celebrate its fortieth year on television. They did this by bringing back Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos as the Santos family. As Haley, Ripa then produces a TV special because Pine Valley as …

The first episode of the second series of Beast Wars is technically the fourth part in a six parter. This episode picks up directly where the second part of “Other Voices” left off and deals with the aftermath of that episode’s events. First of all, it is obvious that …

Kekkaishi Episode 3 has Yoshimori and Tokine meeting Yomi, a mysterious girl who knew Tokine’s father before he died. But nothing is as it seems and they don’t know her ulterior reasons for meeting them.
This episode was really good because it expanded on the world of Kekaishi and …

Ripped Pants was by far my favorite Spongebob Squarepants episode ever. Even after the first time I had ever saw it I knew it was going to be a classic. I have watched many of Spongebob countdowns with my two daughters on television before and this particular episode has …

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 Adam-12: Log 106: Post Time, Officer Jim Reed (Kent McCord) is worried about an upcoming handball match with another officer. We never find out what happened, but it makes for a quick, comic discussion. The recurring banter between Reed and veteran partner Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) …

The Girl Who Came Gift-Wrapped is a delightful 1974 made-for-TV movie which stars Richard Long as Michael Green, a wealthy publisher of a bachelor magazine. For his birthday, some friends send him a present — a gift-wrapped girl, better known as Sandy. Karen Valentine plays the bubbly, …

The wonderful Bernard Fox makes another appearance in this great comedy series in April 1964. In The Andy Griffith Show: The Return of Malcolm Merriweather, Fox plays the amicable gentleman’s valet, who comes back to Mayberry to say hello as he makes his way around that part of …

I have a strange and most likely unhealthy fascination with this show. The scenery is definitely part of it (Hawaii is beautiful, and an interesting locale for this sort of show). But it is Dog and his family that make the show so unusual and unique.
Dog is …

When it comes to season finales, or at least summer finales, you think the show Monk would leave its best episode for last, in an effort to keep you wanting more.
Mr. Monk Gets Hypnotized is not one of the best episodes I’ve seen.
Really, nothing about this episode is unique …

In this episode we get to see Chuck as a normal person who is not really good at his new SPY job. Although he tries really hard he manages to mess up things. I guess that’s the way most of us would behave if we were in his place. …

Last night’s new episode of The Simpsons “Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words” probably wasn’t as funny as I expected it to be. However, I’m going to give it points for creativity.
The episode starts out with Homer starting a business where he helps couples break up. This storyline was …

As The Cleaner: Chaos Theory went on, I kept wondering who it was who was playing William Banks’ old friend, Quinn. He was so familiar; finally realized it was Jeff Fahey. He was perfect for the part, but with the look he had, I didn’t recognize him.
The …

I’ve always wanted to like CSI: New York because Gary Sinese is such a talented, dynamic actor. I actually do like, but I’ve never been hooked into it. I watched it more the first season when Sinese’s character was more in mourning over his wife, who had …

Star Trek: A Taste of Armageddon is an interesting episode that tackles the futility of war and becoming complacent with the costs of war. The Enterprise visits a world where war is coldly conducted by computer. As shocking as it seems, when a hit is made and …

Gary Unmarried is the show that Professor Payne left Ghost Whisper to star in. His new name is Gary, and I can’t remember the last name. I just know that he’s just as cute in jeans and a tee-shirt as he was in a suit and tie.
Now if the …

I was curious and tuned into Oprah yesterday when the topic, and it is a long one, was ‘The 82-Pound Actress: Ellen’s Wife Portia de Rossi & the Secret That Nearly Killed Her’. Why they did a title that was that long, I don’t know. It’s almost …

Sadly for me, To Kill a Traitor was the 13th and final episode of The Young Rebels, a really terrific show that focused on the historical days of the Revolutionary War. At the heart of the show were four young people, all giving their all to beat the …

One of the things that is most noticeable about M*A*S*H: It Happened One Night is just how much Jamie Farr’s role on this hit comedy series has expanded. His Corporal Klinger character has really expanded, which is logical since he’s now in the opening credits. He really …

This is a great show, especially for teenaged girls. It is no longer airing new episodes, as the show ended in 2007, but you can usually catch reruns on various networks, and DVD seasons are readily available at most major retailers.
The show follows a single mother named Lorelai Gilmore, …

One of the things that made the news a lot back in 1970’s was the existence of nudist camps. This comes to play in CHiPs: Crash Diet when a van driven by a man but full of naked women are pulled over by Jon and Ponch. One …

Synopsis: Spongebob is dancing around the Krusty Krab while working and is discovered by a talent agent who offers him an audition as a backup dancer. Squidward, who is predictably jealous, decides to wear Spongebob out so he can take the sponge’s place at the audition.
What I liked about …

When I first saw the Mork & Mindy episode “Mork’s Best Friend” I was just a kid and thought it was a great show. After seeing it again today, I have to say, by today’s standards, it’s a bit lame.
Mork adopts a caterpillar as a pet and treats it …

It’s another story about Mars, a planet that science fiction author Ray Bradbury loves to write about. This is the second story within just a few weeks that has a Martian theme and there’s another one within a few weeks forward. From January 1992, the show and …

Kate Gosselin has been announced as a contestant on season 10 of Dancing With The Stars. Even though the show hasn’t even premiered yet, there’s a lot of buzz about all of the Kate haters. I personally don’t have a problem with her, because she’s a mother, …