TV Reviews
CHiPs: Down Time
Ponch has just finished restoring that burnt out car that he bought earlier in the season in CHiPs: Down Time. He’s so thrilled with it, but naturally, something is bound to happen, and it does. First, the vehicle promptly gets stolen by a trio of females, including …
The Virginian: Legacy of Hate TV Show
The fifth season of The Virginian brought about more change. Judge Garth, owner of Shiloh, has sold the ranch to John Grainger, who shows up with his two grandchildren, both young adults. As fate would have it, one of Grainger’s new neighbors has an ax to grind …
Highway Patrol: Motel Robbery TV Show
The eleventh episode of the second season of Highway Patrol was called Motel Robbery and, as the title indicates, focused on a three person robbery ring. The three had a great system set up where one of them would check in to a hotel and get the needed …
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Witch
The Buffy the Vampire Slayer Episode “Witch” is a good example as to why I feel the series should have been called Buffy the Demon slayer instead. As a fan of the show, I came to learn Buffy tended to fight more than just vampires.
The episode Witch is definitely …
That Girl: Little Auction Annie
Michael Conrad guest stars on That Girl: Little Auction Annie. Conrad can be sinister and menacing, and he gives off a strange aura in this episode to add to the mystery. The mystery comes from a box of assumed junk that Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas) buys at an …
Spongebob Squarepants Season Two: Bubble Buddy
One day while Spongebob was playing with bubbles, he decides to blow a bubble that is in the shape of a person. He is feeling lonely and doesn’t spend a lot of time with Patrick, and he has decided that he needs another friend. Well, he names his new …
Wild Kingdom: Return of the Fire Cat TV show
Wild Kingdom, from Mutual of Omaha, is a long-running nature show which is currently appearing on Animal Planet. This show features animals from around the world, and traces their stories as they struggle to survive in the wild. In the episode entitled Return of the Fire Cat, …
Due South: Starman
Rino Romano, who had been so much fun in the season one entry of Due South called The Man Who Knew Too Little, returns again as the same character, Ian MacDonald. Apparently, Ian had a happy ending after all, something we weren’t a hundred percent about at the …
CSI Miami
CSI Miami is one of several series about crime scene investigators in different cities in the US. The one from Miami is maybe my least favourite, for a couple of reasons.
The chef of the CSI, Horatio Caine, seems a bit more theatrical than the other CSI members. The way …
The Closer: About Face
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 …
Grey’s Anatomy Season 1 Pilot Episode A Hard Day’s Night Out
The Pilot episode will probably be one of my favorite episodes ever. It’s usually like that for pilot episodes. If it’s great then the succeeding episodes will be great too, some good but a few will be better. And for Grey’s Anatomy, I can say that the pilot episode …
Ellen: The Ellen Degeneres Show
I’m not a huge Ellen show fan, but it can be funny and I attended a taping of the show when I was in Southern California, because a friend really wanted to go, so I watch it a little more now then I did before that.
Ellen is your typical …
Rick and Steve
There are currently two seasons of the television cartoon series, Rick and Steve. The show airs on the LOGO network. The show is similar to other adult cartoon comedies like Family Guy or South Park.
I can’t stop laughing when I’m watching an episode. The truths the characters speak …
The Andy Griffith Show: The Rivals TV Show
The Andy Griffith Show: The Rivals, from April 1963, isn’t really my favorite show, but it does have some cute moments. I’m just not really into these young love and puppy love stories that much, and essentially, that’s what this is.
One of the most adorable scenes is at …
M*A*S*H: April Fools
The final show of the eighth season, and the last one to feature more than 20 episodes, is M*A*S*H: April Fools. Though it’s only March, the 4077th has begun its pranks early. All of these are pretty funny. However, Colonel Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan) asks his …
Stargate SG-1: Past and Present
Talk about poorly placed timing, the powers that be at Stargate SG-1 made a very bad choice. My understanding is that the episode called Past and Present was supposed to be either earlier or later in the season. After being tossed around the season schedule, it had …
NCIS: Dead Man Talking
“Dead Man Talking” was definitely one of my favorite NCIS episodes of Season one. It had humor, lots of emotion and a difficult case since one of their own had been murdered.
In the previous episode, “UnSEALed”, we saw one of the agents (not on Gibbs’ team) try to …
Dateline NBC (tv show)
Dateline NBC has started doing weekly segments on internet predators, and I think its really interesting. They work with this internet predator sting company who has people act like they are thirteen year old females looking for relations with older men. The men then show up at …
Doctor Who: Season 2, Episode 6: Rise of the Cybermen
An explosion in the TARDIS causes the crew to make an impromptu stop. The Doctor fears that since they were thrown out of the timestream, that they will be stuck in a void, but Mickey opens the door and finds that they are in London. Of course, …
Star Trek: Balance of Terror TV Show
Star Trek: Balance of Terror introduces earthlings to the Romulans. It does so by pulling on our hearts because the show opens with the one and only time that we almost saw a wedding on the ship. It seems odd to me that the couple to be …
Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Episode 1.7: Duel of the Droids
Episode 7, “Duel of the Droids”, picks up where “Downfall of a Droid” left off with the search for the missing R2-D2 whom is now being held captive at General Grevious’ secret listening post on a planet that resembles Bespin from “Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes …
Grey’s Anatomy
I have been a very big fan of Grey’s Anatomy on ABC from the beginning. I have watched all 4 seasons and loved every minute of it. It is the perfect show to curl up on the couch with your significant other and enjoy together. There is plenty of …
Dancing with the Stars: S11, Wk 2 Performance TV Show
For the second week of the current season of Dancing with the Stars, the stars danced either the quick step or the jive. Note, I don’t always agree with the judges, especially these three who I feel now pick favorites early and comment and score appropriately. Following …
The X-Files: Season 1, Episode 4: Conduit
After a one episode respite, the show returns to its UFO hunting roots and presents another case that involves the possible involvement of extra-terrestrial life. Like the pilot, this involves abduction, but even so, the story plays out far differently than the pilot, preventing the potential rehash this …
That Girl: The Other Woman
That Girl: The Other Woman is another good episode from the second season of this hit ABC comedy. Ethel Merman makes her second appearance of the season. Though the first one was the best of the two, this one has its own character and flavor to it.
One …
M*A*S*H: Requiem for a Lightweight
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 …
Doctor Who: Season 4, Episode 1: Voyage of the Damned
This Christmas special picks up right where “Last of the Time Lords” (or Time Crash if you count that short special”) left off, with the now companionless Doctor crashing into the Titanic. Well, it’s not THE Titanic, but a tourist space cruiser that just happens to resemble the …
Arrested Development TV Show
This has to be by far, one of the best tv shows I have ever seen. The tv series is hilarous! It has a growing fan base too. Arrested Development has three seasons. (Hopefully there will be more if they bring the show back). You can watch all of …
Hilary Swank on Ellen
Hilary Swank is such a darling. I was really psyched to watch her imitating Ellen and she did a real good job out of it. Not only is she having short hair, she is also very tall and beautiful, and at the same time embodies such a good …
Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Episode 1.3: Shadow of Malevolence
The third episode of the first season, “Shadow of Malevolence”, picks up from where “Rising Malevolence” left off in the ‘Malevolence’ series of episodes and follows Anakin Skywalker as he leads a platoon of long-range Y-wing bombers in an engaging strike on General Grevious’ battle spacecraft, the Malevolence, with …
The Twilight Zone: Of Late I Think of Cliffordville TV Show
The Twilight Zone: Of Late I Think of Cliffordville features Albet Salmi as a wealthy, egotistical, and annoying businessman named William Feathersmith. He lives for the challenge and in this program, he gets a shot at it.
Here are a few thoughts about The Twilight Zone: Of Late I …
MLB TV
Last year I wrote a review of the MLB TV service that allows people to watch or listing to Major League Baseball broadcasts. I enjoyed it so much that I subscribed again this year and have enjoyed it very much, particularly since I decided to change my baseball team …
Max Headroom: The Blanks TV show
I was quite surprised, and pleased, to see that Lisa Niemi returned as reporter Janie Crane in Max Headroom: The Blanks. After having virtually no lines in the prior show called War, in The Blanks she actually does get some decent dialog. I had no clue she …
Due South: The Promise
Apparently, Fraser’s driving is no longer questionable as in the opening scene of Due South: The Promise, he’s driving Inspector Meg Thatcher to an event. The long and short of it is that her broach is stolen by a street urchin. The young girl who stole it …
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: 2nd Gig: Episode 17
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: 2nd Gig Episode 17 has Major Kusanagi in Taiwan investigating Kuze’s identity. She rescues a boy named Chai from Yakuza thugs and he tries to see if she can get him a fully prosthetic body.
This was one of the more interesting …
The Prisoner: Arrival (2009) TV Show
Back in the 1960’s, Patrick McGoohan masterminded a very strange and peculiar show for British television that aired for one crazy season. It was an intellectual show that could easily stagger and boggle the mind of the average person. In 2009, AMC aired an updated version of …
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.: Stagecoach
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.: Stagecoach would have been better with a little different mix of stagecoach passengers. Basically, Brisco is taking a prisoner to Mexico on a stagecoach on which there is a killer. The viewers learn this first, thanks to a scene with Socrates …
60 Minutes TV Show
60 minutes is a great investigative news show that comes on CBS. The show usually focuses on a few different news stories every night and takes a deeper look at a the story, often from a different perspective than is generally portrayed in the news. The show has interviews …
Spongebob Squarepants Season One - Pizza Delivery
One day, a customer calls the Krusty Krab on the telephone requesting that he have a pizza delivered to his home. The Krusty Krab does not make pizza, but since Mr. Krabs is such a cheap skate he demands that Spongebob and Squidward prepare a pizza and deliver …
Stargate: Infinity: The Mother of Invention TV Show
Stargate: Infinity: The Mother of Invention has Ec’co falling for the survivor of a devastated world. Ec’co’s mostly been cast as the half breed having to deal with prejudice, but here he gets a chance to show there’s a bit more to his animated being.
Voiced by Moneca Stori, …
Biography Channel
I just love this channel! Actually this is a new additional channel from our cable television service provider. At first, I thought it was a quite boring channel because I had the idea that it only shows people in the past and, what do I …
Sex And The City
Sex And The City is a show that I missed during it’s HBO debut and run. I knew of the show, but just don’t watch enough TV to devote time for a series. When Sex And The City became syndicated on TBS, I began watching. Was I surprised! What …
Top Chef: Washington D.C.: Cold War TV Show
This latest season of Top Chef has been taking place in the nation’s capitol, Washington D.C. In this show, the quick fire challenge has the contestants cooking with some very exotic, unappealing foods, like Emu eggs, frog legs, and duck testicles. It’s just not appealing. Fifteen …
Stargate SG-1: Tangent
Stargate SG-1: Tangent is a very nice entry in season four of SG-1. It again divides the team up, but they are all focused on the same goal, and it’s full of angst and drama.
Jack and Teal’c are testing the new X-301 interceptor, which combines both American and …
Simpsons Treehouse of Horror XIII
As far as the Simpsons Treehouse of Horrors episodes go, most of the later ones are kind of dumb and don’t really have a whole lot to do with Halloween. One of the few exceptions to this is Treehouse of Horrors XIII.
The first skit on the show, where Homer …
Have Gun - Will Travel: Treasure Trail
Have Gun - Will Travel: Treasure Trail is the nineteenth episode from season two of this western about a gunfighter named Paladin, as played by Richard Boone. In this episode, Paladin stands in for a man who has one-fourth of a map that supposedly leads to a hidden …
MacGyver: Trumbo’s World
This episode opens up with a shirtless Richard Dean Anderson. Woman everywhere swooned. He immediately gets a hug from the woman he’s rescuing. That’s standard fare for this TV series.
The opening gambit was fun, with MacGyver and the woman geologist shooting the rapids, but it was …
Tales of the Gold Monkey: Mourning Becomes Matuka
Tales of the Gold Monkey: Mourning Becomes Matuka is the final episode of the one-season adventure series which starred Stephen Collins as Jake Cutter. The premise is that Princess Koji (Marta DuBois) blackmails him into going to work as her bodyguard after her regular bodyguard is injured …
The Fall Guy: Ladies on the Ropes TV Show
From February 1982, The Fall Guy: Ladies on the Ropes is one I’d just rather forget to be honest. There are some shows where either the topic or just the theme in which a story is placed doesn’t excite men, and this is definitely one of those.
Basically, Bail …
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