TV Reviews
The Andy Griffith Show: Barney and the Cave Rescue TV Show
The Andy Griffith Show: Barney and the Cave Rescue was a part of the series fourth season, airing in January 1964. The actual half hour tale is a mix of comedy and a smaller amount of unusual drama.
Basically what happens is that Barney gets his nose out …
Columbo: Make Me a Perfect Murder TV Show
Columbo: Make Me a Perfect Murder is a memorable outing for the famous detective mainly because of the superb cold and calculating performance of Trish Van Devere. She’s actually the traditional lady scorned, both personally and professionally, and she is out to get her revenge.
Van Devere portrays Kay …
That Girl: Don and Sandy and Harry and Snoopy
That Girl: Don and Sandy and Harry and Snoopy introduces Don’s sister, Sandy, played by Cloris Leachman. That surprised me. I hadn’t thought of Cloris as being the Hollinger type. She was quite bubbly here, playing a widow who had found a new romance with an …
Wagon Train: The Old Man Charvanaugh Story
Escorting a family to a settlement, Flint is joined by a concertina playing wanderer who is really a ruthless bandit. McCullough and the family are left to wander without proper clothing or supplies.
Wagon Train was one of the longest running and most successful television westerns. Originally, it focused …
Boston Legal Season 2 Episode 3
Alan Shore was heartbroken when Tara dumped him. Denny Crane wanted to help Alan get over Tara and decided to go to Canada to go fishing. While fishing in Canada, another fisherman recognized Alan Shore. He was a lawyer in Canada who is currently fighting against the opening of …
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 …
Star Trek: This Side of Paradise TV Show
Star Trek: This Side of Paradise is one of the most well known episodes in which we see another side of the rational and logical Mr. Spock, played so aptly by Leonard Nimoy. It’s safe to say that this Spock is not like the normal Vulcan we see. …
The Fall Guy: Guess Who’s Coming to Town? TV Show
By the time of The Fall Guy: Guess Who’s Coming to Town?, Doug Barr’s Howie Munson’s doing more in the stunt world. He’s done a few jobs that we’ve seen as the series has gone along, and in this show, he’s now flying planes, although he slams Colt …
Babylon 5 Season 1, Episode 9: And the Sky Full of Stars
This episode focuses on the 24 hour blank spot in Commander Sinclair’s memory before the end of the war. It’s set off when two men manage to sneak aboard the space station and reveal that they have plans to target Commander Sinclair. I figured it was an …
Centennial: The Wagon and the Elephant
Centennial: The Wagon and the Elephant is all about Levi Zendt and the Amish ways. Levi has a touch of rebellion in him and when he gets falsely accused of something and is shunned, he doesn’t take it lying down. Gregory Harrison plays Levi admirably.
We also meet …
The Simpsons Season 2 Episode 2
The Simpsons family are watching TV. Homer notices an ad, which claims to have made a miracle breakthrough in solving bald problem. Homer falls for this ad immediately and decides to get that treatment. However when he goes to collect that treatment, it turns out to be very expensive. …
Cowboy Bebop Episode 9
Cowboy Bebop Episode 9 begins with a satellite hovering over Earth that begins using its lasers to draw pictures on the surface. Spike, Jet and Faye decide to investigate because there’s a bounty out on the culprit and they rely on an eccentric hacker, a girl calling herself …
Dollhouse
Dollhouse is a television show that aired on Fox. At first I wasn’t too interested in the show, it seemed too scientific and filled with jargon. The basic premise being people sign their lives over to a corporation for five years and in that five years their …
Duck Dodgers season 1 episode 9: The Green Loontern
I’m a huge Green Lantern fan, so when I found out that an episode of “Duck Dodgers” (a show I’m also a fan of) crossed over and had Dodgers joining the Corps to battle Sinestro, I had to track it down. It was as geektastic as I hoped. …
Spontaneous Combustion
This episode of South Park is really great and very funny. The episode starts with the boys getting kicked out of a general store because they are trying to buy an �erection� to give to Kyle�s dad so his parents will stop fighting. And the jokes just get …
NBC TV Series: Life
An interesting premise: a good cop wrongly convicted of murdering his friends and their son. He goes to prison for a life sentence, but DNA evidence exonerates him and he is released after twelve years. he is then reinstated as a police detective assigned to investigate homicides. While catching …
The Ray Bradbury Theater: Exorcism TV Show
From November 1990, The Ray Bradbury Theater: Exorcism is somewhat of a science fiction comedy that pits two women against each other in an election. It all relates to the Ladies Honeysuckle Harmony Lodge of which Clara Goodwater is president, thought Elmira Brown wants to be. The …
The Andy Griffith Show: The County Nurse TV Show
It’s been a while since Sheriff Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith) has had a romance, so the producers figured that at this point in the second season, it was time to stir things up a little bit. Thus, in March 1962, they presented viewers with The Andy Griffith Show: …
Surviving the Cut: Navy EOD TV Show
I definitely enjoy the Surviving the Cut. It educates the everyday viewer about the military elite and all that they have to do to get there. Well, not all because actually some of it is classified. The cameras frequently have to shut off to avoid showing …
Digimon: Digital Monsters
Digimon (Digital Monsters) was an anime television series which began in 1998, it was aired on Foxkids, now on Jetix. In Australia, Digimon was aired on Channel 10 on Cheez TV, which is now known as Toasted TV. Digimon is one of the unique and very few shows I …
Top Chef: Covert Cuisine TV Show
Top Chef: Covert Cuisine was unique in that for the elimination challenge, the dinner was actually held at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia. It’s not often a TV show is going to get inside the C.I.A. for something like this, so that was pretty intriguing.
The …
The Simpsons Season 3 Episode 13 Radio Bart
The episode begins with Homer yelling at Lisa for dancing. But then himself is attracted to the dancing. He is so engrossed in the dance, that when Lisa asks him for money to buy Bart a present he gives her $110. Then on the TV an ad is shown …
Throw Down with Bobby Flay
You know, I really don’t spend a great deal of time watching the Food Network on cable. But, after watching the show, Throw Down with Bobby Flay, I think I might find myself watching more often.
For those of you who haven’t seen the show, Flay is supposedly a famous …
Wagon Train: The Stark Bluff Story
Wagon Train: The Stark Bluff Story just didn’t do anything for me at all. This is an episode from season seven of Wagon Train. It was one of the ninety minute, color episodes. Scott Miller as Duke Shannon gets the brunt of the story, and frankly, …
House MD
I am sure, its not because I am a nurse by profession that’s why I enjoy this TV series a lot! I mean, yes, there are a lot of medical
jargons used in their scripts, but it’s not the medical terms which would entice the watchers to anticipate the …
Shear Genius
Last night, while waiting for the new season of Project Runway to start, I came across a show I didn’t even know existed; Shear Genius.
While the premise of the show, I admit, is a unique one; I’m not sold on the program.
The point behind the show, as I can …
Beauty and the Geek
Beauty and the Geek is a cool concept, it revolved around a bunch of geeky guys and hot women. They pair up and participate in challenges and get eliminated.
I enjoyed this show for what it was. A social experiment designed to make fun of the differences between …
Highway Patrol: Stripped Cars TV Show
From Highway Patrol’s second season in 1957, Stripped Cars gave viewers a bit of something new, and that came by the unique crime scenario.
The action in this story surrounds George Bennett, the driver of a car carrier when he’s attacked and killed. Bennett was just in the way, …
Highway Patrol: Dan Sick TV Show
Dan Sick was the 38th episode of Highway Patrol’s third season, and it focused on Chief Dan Mathews, as played by Broderick Crawford, becoming ill quite suddenly. Though I have issues with how the show proceeded in spots, it was actually an enjoyable half hour that had me interested …
Destination Truth: Island of the Dolls/Lusca
After watching Destination Truth last week for the first time, I couldn’t wait for last night’s episode “Island of the Dolls/Lusca.” It did not disappoint.
Even my wife, who didn’t get a chance to watch the show with me last week, was impressed.
The first case on this one was definitely …
G. Garvin’s Cooking Show (TV One)
I really wanted to like this cooking show as I love to watch shows where people are getting down in the kitchen. I also like the fact that there is a black man on television who embraces being in the kitchen. In any case I …
Cowboy Bebop Episode 1
Cowboy Bebop is a Japanese anime space western, about a bounty hunter named Spike Spiegel and his pilot named Jet Black. They travel through space collecting bounties in their ship the Bebop. The first episode has Spike tracking down Asimov Solensan, a man who sells a drug …
Trinity blood episode 1 Flight Night
Trinity blood episode 1: Flight Night is a example of an post-apocalyptic vampire story done right. With a dash of humor and some thirteen cubes of sugar, Trinity blood manages to deliver a engaging story and endearing characters, such as Father Abel Nightroad. After Armageddon, vampires or “Methuselah” were …
Beat the Bailiff (BBC)
I got into financial difficulties many years when I was a mature student with a mortgage to cope with as well. I am still suffering the repercussions now and it is true what they say, that debt can become a vicious cycle. Therefore, I really enjoy programmes …
Fact or Faked Paranormal Files (series)
I’m a sucker for horror movies and have been ever since I can remember. I started watching some horror movies that would frighten most adults in the worst way before I reached age five, and had read most of Stephen King’s novels by the time I was eleven. Therefore, …
Hannah Montana
Like I have said in my previous reviews I have three children so I am forced to watch the variety of childrens television on the market today. I absolutly love Hannah Montana. The show is very humorous and somewhere in the show I find my self cracking up. I …
The Ray Bradbury Theater: On the Orient, North TV Show
Consider The Ray Bradbury Theater: On the Orient, North, Bradbury’s version of Murder on the Orient Express, which is even referenced at the very beginning of the episode. It features Magali Noel as Minerva Halliday who offers to help someone described only as ‘the ghastly passenger’. Frankly, …
M*A*S*H: The Price
M*A*S*H: The Price has a cute first few seconds with Colonel Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan) riding back into camp on his horse, Sophie, and singing a cowboy song. As a lover of the western and cowboy world, I found the entire thing to be really adorable.
A big part …
Stargate: Infinity: Who Are You? TV Show
It’s a common piece of advice, a cliche even, that things aren’t always what they seem. That’s the first lesson of Stargate: Infinity: Who Are You? which is the children’s animated version of the hit science fiction series, Stargate SG-1, only there’s very little that really resembles that …
Outlaw: In Re: Tyler Banks TV Show
Outlaw: In Re: Tyler Banks was another good episode for this sadly now-canceled TV series that stars Jimmy Smits as ex Supreme Court Justice Cyrus Garza. Garza grew tired of looking at the big picture at the expense of the individual, so he resigned from the Court and …
Here Come the Brides: A Man’s Errand
Here Come the Brides: A Man’s Errand is a cute show from the first season of this family drama. It’s a show that shows growth for the character of Jeremy Bolt (Bobby Sherman), the youngest of the Bolt brothers who own Bridal Veil Mountain. In this episode, Jeremy …
Invisible man season 1 episode 4 Ralph
This is my favorite episode of the show Invisible man. That one of the older shows, at least 8 years old as I can remember and I used to like it a lot so now when I got the chance to re-watch it I took it. It would be …
Time Warner DVR
DVR provided from Time Warner is a great service for a cheap cost. The special feature enables viewers to rewind and pause live programming. I have to say that this a very cool and helpful feature. You can never miss part of the big game or your favorite show …
The Waltons TV Show
My favorite TV show ever is The Waltons.
I just love the serenity of the setting, the lifestyle. Although they were not wealthy they were the richest family to me. I still love to watch it, and it is on for 2 hours every morning. Luckily I am an early riser …
M*A*S*H: Operation Friendship
M*A*S*H: Operation Friendship is a show about human reaction and interaction. It revolves around two things that happen that have friends and co-workers altering their natural behavior. The catalyst is a generator that malfunctions, causing a slight explosion. Just in the nick of time, Corporal Max …
Glee [Season 5 - Episode 3]
Hello, I never actually expected that I would write about glee, never in my entire life actually, but this episode was astonishing. Now, let me tell you why this episode was better than all of the other ones. I know that Cory Monteith[Finn] died and that is a sad …
tvN’s Love Rescue Show
Another great show I like watching in the Korean cable channel tvN is their show called Love Rescue. It’s not a dating game show. It’s a reality TV show where a distressed girlfriend or sometimes boyfriend calls up the show and wants to see if their partner is truly who …
Best Dance Crew MTV
Mtv is a very nice TV channel. I have viewed a few episodes of best dance crew. This is presented by Randy Jackson. It was nice to watch it. They have presented this programme in a very interesting manner and thus, it is very entertaining and a pleasure to …
Quincy M.E.: Hot Ice, Cold Hearts TV Show
Everyone is celebrating the fourth of July as Quincy M.E.: Hot Ice, Cold Hearts commences. This is a first season outing and is, in fact, the fourth episode. Jack Klugman plays the title role and is the coroner for Los Angeles in this series. He’s also …
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