TV Reviews
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Heart Of Glory
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Heart Of Glory is easily one of my favorite episodes from the first season of the show and of Star Trek in general. What makes this episode just so good for me? Well for one, this episode offers a story that is thoroughly …
Jeremiah: The Touch
For me, Jeremiah: The Touch felt like a Stargate SG-1 reunion. I realize that shows filmed in Vancouver tend to use the same actors, but sometimes it just reeks of a certain cast. The Touch featured a number of performers who had been on SG-1 and every …
Columbo: Last Salute to the Commodore TV Show
I don’t really remember watching this show, Columbo: Last Salute to the Commodore, but I’m sure I did. It’s just fallen out of my brain, and I believe the reason for that is that it’s quite possibly the worst episode of Columbo ever. It’s dull, not just …
A Man Called Hawk: Intensive Care
A Man Called Hawk: Intensive Care is a change of pace in that it’s your classic stand off in a public place, complete with hostages. It all begins with an armored car robbery that really wasn’t handled very well. In the first place, that robbery was horribly …
The Real Ghostbusters: Season 1, Episode 11: Citizen Ghost
After an episode that made direct reference to the “Ghostbusters” movie, it is only natural that they make an episode to show what happened between the battle with Gozer and the present. The episode is shown in flashback as a reporter interviews Peter as part of a story …
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Time Bomb TV Show
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Time Bomb is the second episode of the second year that this wonderful Irwin Allen science fiction series was on the air. Following are some observations about this 1965 episode:
–The opening shot in the theme is a bit different in what …
Simpsons TV Episode: Skinner’s Sense of Snow
I had the Simpsons on yesterday afternoon and, for a change, the channel wasn’t showing a repeat that I had seen several dozen times before. Instead, they had a newer episode (at least for me) called Skinner’s Sense of Snow.
This episode was a bit bizarre at times and I …
South Park TV Show
This show is a show that will do it’s best to be raunchy, disgusting and down right offend every walk of life. This show is a waste of the air waves and is an embarrassment to society. It is sad that humanity has gone so low as …
Have Gun - Will Travel: Deliver the Body
The reason I like Have Gun - Will Travel: Deliver the Body is because this first season episode guest stars James Franciscus as Tom Nelson, a young frontier lawyer. He’s so young here. I have always enjoyed this actor and this is a nice-size role for him. …
That Girl: A Limited Engagement
From season 5, That Girl: A Limited Engagement just may be the most dramatic show from the entire five years. It’s also quite probably the best episode from the entire run as well. While there are laughs, the show isn’t full of them. They’re there as …
Due South: Letting Go
Due South: Letting Go is the final episode of this series for the first season, and it continues to resolve the events of Victoria’s Secret, Part 1 and Part 2. The good news is that Diefenbacker is all well now and staying with Fraser as he recovers. …
Law and Order: CI Season 1, Episode 16
If you watch this episode now, it’s hard to miss the guest star as he later turned up as one of the main characters on “Lost”, the television show. The episode picks up with a man asking about his ex-girlfriend, a woman that he seems to be infatuated with, …
Undercovers: Not Without My Daughter TV Show
Undercovers: Not Without My Daughter aired in October 2010 as part of this spy series first season on NBC TV. On the whole, I’m liking the concept of the show, but there are parts of it that need to be energized and varied or it risks becoming far …
Christmas Night (The Little King) cartoon
The Little King - Christmas Night is a vintage cartoon presented by SoGlow. I actually watched several holiday comics from the golden age today, and this was probably not only the most simplistic of the bunch but my least favorite.
The story revolves around a king who seems a …
Battlestar Galactica: Sometimes a Great Notion
I was as excited as any fan for the return of Battlestar Galactica, but I also knew that this first episode wasn’t likely to be a fun episode. That isn’t to say that it isn’t good, it was an excellent episode, but I can’t say that I enjoyed it.
This …
Highway Patrol: Motorcycle A TV Show
Highway Patrol: Motorcycle A was one of the more interesting first season outings for this half-hour crime show that centers on the California Highway Patrol. However, while it’s interesting, I cringed at many elements of it.
First of all, the owner of the care, Bernie Sills (played by Jack …
The Simpsons Season 3 Episode 3 When Flanders failed
Ned invites The Simpsons for a barbecue party. Homer decides to stay at home while the rest of the family goes. However he finally ends up at the party. Ned announces that he is opening his “Left-handed” store. Homer is jealous of him and wishes that Ned goes bankrupt. …
Highway Patrol: License Plates TV Show
The 29th episode of Highway Patrol’s first season was a nice show called License Plates. I say nice because I really enjoyed it. It entertained me and brought me smiles, which I appreciated. That’s mainly because of the interaction between California Highway Patrol Chief of Police …
Home and Garden Television
I just love HGTV. If you are into making your house nice or being creative, this is the channel for you. The ideas that I have gotten from this channel are just unbelievable. The painting and decorating shows are a real help. They show you …
I Eat 33,000 Calories a Day
I was really disgusted when I watched this program. I am not trying to talk badly about fat people. But these shown in this TLC show have all admitted to having food addictions. What I wonder is why no one has addressed the food addiction …
Pokemon (TV Show) - Ash Catches a Pokemon (Episode)
“Ash Catches a Pokémon” is the third episode of the “Pokemon” television series and this episode is one that does a good job of showing off the dynamic that quickly begins to build between the Ash and Misty characters. This is the first episode where Ash and Misty actually …
Ice Road Truckers: A Legend Meets His End TV Show
Ice Road Truckers: A Legend Meets His End had two story segments that held my interest more than the others. Traditionally, this show follows several truckers as they work the ice roads or, in the case of this season, dangerous roads. There really aren’t that many ice …
Reliance DTH, Big TV
BIG TV is a DTH (Direct to Home) service from Reliance, a Anil Ambani group.
I have been using this service since three months and I must say I am very satisfied with it.
The setup comes for Rs.1490 which is the price of the settop box and with this you get …
The Real Ghostbusters: Season 1, Episode 51: Hard Knight’s Day
Normally, I really like it when the show incorporates literature and mythology into the plot lines. As such, you’d think that I would’ve been able to get behind this episode as it centers around Arthurian lore. Yet somehow, this episode didn’t work for me as much as …
Warehouse 13 season 1 episode 11 Nevermore
This episode was about the feather and a book written by Edgar Allan Poe. Poe was writing mostly mystical works so that was greatly incorporated here with getting to know Myka’s family and the involving of Macpherson, Artie’s old partner.
Myka’s mother calls her she thinks that Myka’s father is …
A Man Called Hawk: Never My Love
A Man Called Hawk: Never My Love opens with Angela Bassett, who recurs on this series as Bailey Webster, a friend of Hawk’s. Bailey is an intelligent, strong, and self-assured character, only she shows here that she’s also very dumb. This show isn’t back in the 60’s; …
Death Note Episode 7
Death Note Episode 7 has Raye Pember’s fiancé arriving in Japan in search of L to help him with the Kira investigation, meanwhile Light befriends her, hoping to learn her real name to write her name in the Death Note and kill her. Meanwhile L tells the police …
M*A*S*H: Hawkeye
For all intents and purposes, M*A*S*H: Hawkeye is a one-man soliloquy as Hawkeye Pierce, traveling alone in a jeep, swerves to avoid hitting some Korean children and ends up turning over the vehicle and getting a bad hit in the head. Realizing that he might have a concussion …
Emergency!: Cook’s Tour
Emergency!: Cook’s Tour is a fun little show. When I watch it, it’s not really any one story that stands out, but it’s more the feel of the firehouse that is the heart of the show. Fire department cooking is almost legendary, and this show deals with …
The Choir: Boys Don’t Sing TV Show
Gareth Malone returned with a new project in The Choir: Boys Don’t Sing. This was a follow up to the first The Choir project when he formed a choir out of a high school where kids didn’t sing much and did enough to get them to China to …
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
One of the funniest shows on television is “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”. I caught the show in its first season and I really didn’t pay it much attention. Finally when I got with my current boyfriend I spent more time watching it because it is one of …
Emerald Point N.A.S.: Pilot Part 1
I remember back in the early 80’s when Emerald Point N.A.S. was about to air. I was very excited about the series for a number of reasons. My favorite reason for wanting to watch it was Richard Dean Anderson, who played Lt. Simon Adams. He sure looked …
Have Gun - Will Travel: The Puppeteer TV Show
Have Gun - Will Travel: The Puppeteer was a bit of a strange outing for this western. Then again, it’s not the first time that Have Gun - Will Travel has done strange.
There is actually something weird about a show that continues to do some odd parodies. …
The Office, NBC
As someone who had seen the U.K. version of the hit NBC Television show ‘The Office’ I didn’t know what to expect at first when the United States decided to do their own version of this comedy. Wondering how it would play out, I tuned in to the first …
Spongebob Squarepants Season Three - Snowball Effect
It is actually snowing in Bikini Bottom, because there is an iceberg that is over the town. This rarely happens so Spongebob and Patrick try and take advantage of the situation and have a snowball fight with each other. They are having a lot of fun in the yards, …
Stargate SG-1: Full Alert
Stargate SG-1: Full Alert is about midway through the eight season of this science fiction series, and it’s a pretty good one.
One of the best scenes is early on when Jack and the team discuss the crisis of the moment. Jack gives Teal’c his assignment, and he leaves. …
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Price of Doom TV Show
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Price of Doom, the fifth show of this successful sci fi series, opens with a blizzard in Antarctica. It also brings us our first real sea monster story, a device that would become more the norm than the unusual. …
Bring ‘Em Back Alive: A Switch in Time
Bring ‘Em Back Alive: A Switch in Time has a couple of decent moments in it, but mostly, it lacks cohesion and entertainment values.
In the opening scenes, for example, the big star is Fanny the chimp. Fanny’s in several episodes, and in this one, she gets to cause …
Masterchef: Episode 1 TV Show
It was a very spontaneous decision to watch the first episode of Masterchef that was on the Fox network last night. I dislike Gordon Ramsey greatly. He’s a loudmouth, obnoxious man, at least that’s how he presents himself to be on television. I just can’t stomach …
M*A*S*H: Good-Bye Radar: Part 1
M*A*S*H: Good-Bye Radar: Part 1 is the beginning of a two-part swan song for Gary Burghoff as Radar O’Reilly. Burghoff was the only member of the television cast who had also been in the theatrical film, so this was a big deal when he decided to leave the …
Spongebob Squarepants Season Three - Wet Painters
Mr. Krabs decides to hire Spongebob and Patrick to re-paint his house, just because he is too lazy to do so and he knows that he can pay them cheaply. But he warns the two that they have to do a good job and not drip anywhere because it …
2009 UAAP Cheerdance Competition
We watched the 2009 UAAP Cheerdance Competition on television and I was very much entertained. This cheerdancing competition is open to the university members of UAAP (Philippines). This competition has been done annually for the last fifteen years, and slowly the quality of the cheerdance has improved.
This year though, …
Batman: The Brave and the Bold: The eyes of Despero
This is one of the highlights of the series. It has that perfect blend of light hearted humor, silver age wackiness, and serious superheroism that makes any hero story worthwhile.
The galactic menace Despero seeks to take control of the corps and it’s up to Batman, Guy Gardner, G’nort, …
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers: Heritage TV show
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers: Heritage is a neat hour of family drama that centers on saving a piece of the past for the future. In this story, Hannah McFadden (Terri Treas) becomes determined to save an old school from being knocked down and destroyed in favor of …
TV Episode for House: Black Hole
I got a chance to watch bits and pieces of last night’s House episode. From what I saw of it, it was a pretty interesting show.
This time around, House and his team have to figure out what is killing a high school girl before all her organs start failing. …
Neon Genesis Evangelion episode 5
In a episode focused on an obscure person, is it not more essential for one to know themselves before they know about others? In the case of Rei Ayanami, there may be no answers in sight or their may have never been answers to her being in this shattered …
M*A*S*H: The Smell of Music
M*A*S*H: The Smell of Music is a story of a war within a war. It has little to do with the Korean War that is the stage for this wartime comedy, but rather it’s about a battle of wills between Swamp-mates Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda), B.J. Hunnicutt (Mike …
Project Blue Book, TV Series (2019)
In my opinion, The Blue Book is one of the most interesting series of at least the last 5 years. What are its principal merits?
Dramatic and scenic authenticity, no comic relief - you won’t find here any cardboard heroes, saving the world by clutching their fingers in the wings …
The New Gidget
The New Gidget was the second television series for the Gidget character. The first time around it was a teenage Sally Field in the role, with Don Porter as her father. Gidget is all grown up now and married to her longtime sweetheart. First seen the …
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, …
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