I wanted to introduce my oldest daughter to the show Futurama, starting with the first season (which I feel is more suitable than the episodes that air today). She didn’t get a chance to watch the pilot episode with me but we ended up watching the second episode, The …

Devoted to those of the 30’s and 40’s and filmed in 2006, Private Screenings: Child Stars was a wonderful discussion about a long ago era. Hosted by Robert Osbourne, this Turner Classic Movies’ special featured our guests — Margaret O’Brien, Jane Withers, Dickie Moore, and Darryl Hickman.
This discussion …

This review is about a show that is near and dear to my heart. I don’t often get “hooked” on a tv show, much less feel the need to watch the episodes over and over. In fact, more often than not, I turn the channel to a …

MacGyver: The Ugly Duckling takes Mac back to visit an old professor, who is then killed. He ends up helping a teenage computer geek who has successfully hacked into government systems. She eventually is kidnapped by weapons dealers who want her to do some hacking for them, …

I watched the Golden Girls on lifetime, tv for women yesterday, for the first time in many years. I love the Golden Girls again, They are funny, witty, and raunchy. I used to watch the Golden Girls a lot, but then I didn’t have cable, then I just plain …

Have Gun - Will Travel: The Yuma Treasure is a second season episode that was pretty good to watch. In the show, Paladin (Richard Boone) shows up at an Army fort in the middle of no where. He’s been asked to come there by the fort’s …

I never saw the original run of One Tree Hill when everyone was in high school. I only saw two episodes of the show when they in high school the rest I have seen in flashback from the shows current run. I didn’t actually begin to watch One Tree …

This show stars Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki who play the roles of Dean Winchester and Sam Winchester respectively. They are two brothers who hunt demons. Dean is a character who is easy to fall in love with. He is humorous even when he doesn’t intend to be! Sam …

Beachhead marks the return of Samantha Carter, played by Amanda Tapping. Amanda had not been in the first few episodes because she was on maternity leave. Samantha was supposedly at R&D, but she returns in order to shut down a beachhead situation caused by a Prior.
This episode …

The Andy Griffith Show: The Manhunt is another solid outing for the first season of this wonderful family television series. It’s a bit of a face off between this small town of Mayberry, its sheriff and his deputy, and the bigger state police of North Carolina and the …

I’m not a particular fan of The Equalizer. I tried watching it a few times when it was on originally, but it didn’t capture my fancy and neither did its star, Edward Woodward. He does have the look, very polished and whatnot, but he didn’t get my …

The Young and the Restless has been one of my favorite TV shows for the past 15 years. There is always a new twist. The writers find a way to incorporate mayhem and mishaps through the lives a few select families. The families are all rich, but some richer …

The History Channel’s highly intriguing and always entertaining science documentary series turns in another sensational offering with this in depth, but incredibly palatable look at parallel universes.
It’s not just the thing of science fiction apparently, in fact the raw science is all there and not only might there be …

A drama called Heros season is just like x-man. Normal people becomes a hero by finding out their ability. Even one guy who draws future turns his eyes into white to use his ability just like x-man’s snow woman. A girl who has healing power like a x-man’s main …

From season four of the terrific western series called Laramie is this episode called The Betrayers. Robert Fuller gets the primary focus of the hour in his starring role of Jess Harper. In the early years, most of the shows were buddy types, the stories revolving around both …

Last night’s re-run of the show Family Guy was and OK episode but not a great one. The episode; entitled “It Takes a Village Idiot” has Lois running for mayor against Adam West because she has concerns about him being too corrupt for the job.
The lead-in to the election …

I actually remember seeing stories about this episode when it was filmed. I believe shows like Entertainment Tonight had segments on the filming. The coverage of The Fall Guy: Charlie was focused on the opening scene, which supposedly took place in Reno, Nevada. I don’t know …

From March 1969, Eileen was a seventh season episode of The Virginian. The story involved a young woman named Eileen who visits Shiloh. The trip was arranged by her father, a friend of Clay Grainger. At the heart of the trip is the fact that Eileen …

Fans of Japanese cartoons- anime- no doubt looked forward to the premiere of the anime Naruto on Cartoon Network Saturday nights. However, devotees of the show are likely to be disappointed by its dub. To those unfamiliar with the process, the original Japanese language track is removed …

I am watching “Are you smarter than a fifth grader” from the beginning of the season, and I have to say that it is a fun show to watch. It looks funny, when a grown up guy falls into the traps of very easy questions, which little children can …

When I was a teenager Dawson’s Creek was a phenomenon and Katie Holmes was getting a lot of attention.
One the show I very much liked her. She was sweet but not sweet enough to be a walkover. In fact she was a character most girls related to …

I am watching Doraemon for many years,like about 12 years,and I have seen all of his episodes.When I was a kid,I just loved t watch this show,and till now I watch Doraemon.It is fun,and it is very relaxing.This TV show is about a futuristic cat called Doraemon,who came to …

Histories Mysteries: Cliff Mummies of the Andes is an episode of the popular series on the History Channel that presents the stories of little-known places and people in history. This show was about the way that ancient native peoples of the South American mountain chain buried their dead. Tribes …

I am not completely sure how long the hit reality show “Jon and Kat + 8″ have been going on on TLC. I think it might have started last year though and I can distinctly remember wanting to see the pilot of it when I saw it advertising; since …

The 52nd Grammy Awards was opened by Stephen Colbert, who won a Grammy later, but he was just horrible. He kept wanting to be cool and would ask his daughter if he was cool yet. It was a stick that got old real fast.
I wasn’t impressed by …

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 …

Much of Shroud for a Nightingale - Part 4 reminds me of an episode of Colombo. Actually, most of the production does. We have Chief Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh having numerous face offs with a chief surgeon of Nightingale Hospital, Stephen Courtney-Briggs (Joss Ackland). Their verbal battles …

Diagnosis Murder: Murder at the Telethon had Community General Hospital hosting its first annual emergency room telethon. It was raise money through the telethon or shut down. To me, it’s an amusing way to bring in some interesting guest stars, such as Dom Deluise. He plays …

From its fourth season, the Brave Boy episode of Highway Patrol opened dramatically. In fact, from what we’ve seen in the past from this half hour police drama, the violence at the beginning was a little surprising. Not only that, the scene was also staged poorly. …

This episode begins with an SGC team running away from something and trying to get home. Their voices are distorted as if in slow motion.
Back at SGC, Jack and Sam are discussing wormholes. She is trying to explain the concept but Jack is not understanding, as usual. …

The final episode of the sixth season, M*A*S*H: Major Topper, is pretty good. What I like about it is how it shows off the power of the mind. Most people just don’t realize how much the human mind can do. It’s capable of far more than …

My favorite part of Hawaii Five-O: Pray Love Remember, Pray Love Remember is about a third of the way in when McGarrett has a conversation with a young girl named Mioshi. McGarrett’s been investigating a murder at an educational institute and is still searching for clues. While …

The Return of the Sorcerer was the third season opener of Night Gallery, and it was just plain weird. This is not a show that I would expect for a season premier or any place vital. It was controversial and just plain sick.
Normally I like Vincent Price. …

Man, why does so many episodes take place in Florida? I’m beginning to wonder about the sanity of the state. This was a good episode though. The team was being invited to do interviews with a couple on death row. The husband had kidnapped and killed blond girls. His …

“Scent of a Monster: Chanela Will Steal Your Love” is the fifth episode of the Sailor Moon series and part of the episode’s story focuses on Luna becoming an accepted member of the Tsukino family. Even though this is only the fifth episode of the series, it still feels …

For the 3rd round of The Great British Bake Off, the contest was down to 6 cooks. This outing was held in Kent with the focus on bread. Also, only one baker will be eliminated from now on.
Challenge 1 was the signature bake where the bakers rely …

I remember watching David Letterman Talk Show Episode with Kate Winslet and it was during those glamor days surrounding the hype of the movie Titanic. It was such a very good episode and Kate is such a good talker.
I love watching her on talk shows and interviews …

The Virginian: Old Cowboy is not a new or novel idea. It’s been told in TV and movies for decades. I realize this is an older show, but even for the 60’s, it’s been told before. What is the focus is an old cowboy, a man …

On the surface, The Twilight Zone: The Man in the Bottle is like a wish come true. Haven’t we all secretly wished for a magic bottle with a genie inside who could make all of our dreams come true? That’s what happens in this episode, to Arthur …

M*A*S*H: Bulletin Board lets Trapper John McIntyre (Wayne Rogers) do the letter home routine. He’s writing to his daughter, Becky, about missing her birthday and regretting it. He then sets out to tell her about the 4077th. I have to think that what we saw …

While relaxing tonight and waiting for another show to come on, I was flipping through the ‘on demand’ options and came across The Closer with Kyra Sedgwick. I’ve heard about this show and was moderately intrigued by the concept, but I’ve never actually watched an episode. I …

Oprah is a great show. I really enjoy watching this show because I learn a lot. Oprah has some very interesting guests on the show that really do teach people many secrets. I really enjoy watching the show because it does really educated you about many things your doctor does …

Undercover Boss Australia featured the top man at the Veloia company. This was the 2nd show of the first season for the down under edition and it features Peter Murray, Director of Operations for this waste management and environmental services company.
One thing I noticed in the premier and …

Buffy’s final Halloween centric episode is something of a mixed bag. While it does a great job in continuing the pre-existing character and story arcs to great effect, the story itself is weak and lacking. It certainly doesn’t manage to capture the playful essence of the holiday previously seen …

Sitcom episodes that mainly revolve around husband and wife arguments usually don’t entertain me as much as episodes that feature some kind of other plot focus. In “Remember the Alimony,” an episode of “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” viewers are treated to a flashback to a time when Rob …

Today was the first time I’ve seen the Monk episode “Mr. Monk is at Your Service” and thought it was one of the funnier episodes I’ve seen recently.
This episode has Monk going undercover as a butler (or as he refers to it, a house manager) because Natalie suspects the …

The final episode of the third season of the groundbreaking comedy, That Girl, is called Sue Me, Sue Me, What Can You Do Me? and concerns something that a lot of people can easily imagine and maybe even identify with completely. It concerns a fall inside Newsview Magazine, …

I think Oprah Winfrey as a person is awesome. And I used to love watching Oprah TV Show pretty much, but lately I simply have lost interest. I don’t know; I feel very happy that someone as Oprah is very kind-hearted enough to feature lots of great and …

I am reviewing A Scandal in Bohemia, a Sherlock Holmes adventure from the boxed set Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, produced in 1983 by Granada Television. This series stared Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes, and David Burke as Dr. John Watson. In this episode, Holmes is employed by …