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 …

Patrick Swayze returns to episodic television for the first time since his short-lived 1982 series The Renegades, in this A&E TV drama, The Beast. The show airs Thursday nights at 10pm and is then rerun several times throughout the week.
A&E has gone all out in promoting this series, …

Originally airing on January 9, 1983, Voyagers!: Buffalo Bill & Annie Oakley Play the Palace is the 12th episode of the series, and it’s a royal one, with a story revolving around Queen Victoria and her daughter; more specifically, who her daughter will marry.
What is so fun about Voyagers! …

M*A*S*H: Dr. Winchester and Mr. Hyde is one of those shows that I want to like, but because I love animals I have a hard time really enjoying it. This is even though it all turns out okay. It’s just the thought that perturbs me.
The comedy portion …

I am a huge fan of 1980’s hair bands. So when I bought satellite tv and it came with a huge list of music channels, I was extatic to find out that a whole channel was dedicate to music from big hair bands from the 80’s.
I have always …

Have Gun - Will Travel: Return to Fort Benjamin is a season three episode of Richard Boone’s half-hour show in which he stars as gun for hire, Paladin. In this case, Paladin is approached in San Francisco by two Indians. The Indian chief wants his son to …

I just finished watching all one hundred and twelve episodes of the Japanese animated series Yu Yu Hakusho, and I’m happy to say that it’s at the top of my list of one of the best Japanese action animation I’ve ever watched. If you are or ever were a …

I ended up stumbling across the A-Team episode Mission of Peace early Sunday morning. And, because I had missed the first few minutes of it, I found myself watching mainly in an effort to figure out what the heck was going on.
Overall though, it was a pretty decent episode.
Basically, the …

Ghost In the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Episode 20 has Tougasa remembering something about the Laughing Man logo and Section 9 investigates a new lead in the case.
I liked this episode because it had plenty of surprises, the twists keep getting better and better and the story is so …

The Jerry Springer show has run its course and needs to be taken off the air for good and the re-runs never need to be seen again. I can’t understand how this show was so popular for so long.
I can’t stand this show because the show is stupid and …

In this episode, the Simpson family go to the renaissance fair where Homer embarrasses Lisa and she wanders off and comes across a fortune teller’s booth. Lisa is sceptical at first until the fortune teller tells the names of her family members, convinced, Lisa is then told her future …

Gotham is a new TV show on Fox that I have given into the hype and decided to watch. I had heard about it while browsing one evening online. I figured I would give it a chance. I will be honest and say that I am a batman fan. …

At the opening of John Doe: Doe Re: Me, the amnesiac John Doe actually tries psycho therapy to find out something about his past. I liked this segment and especially how it ended, which I won’t spoil. I thought it was a marvelous sign of the time …

Beast Machines - The Reformatting is the first episode of the Beast Machines series and it is a good one! I think the writers did a superb job of conveying a sense of confusion that the viewers could share with the characters, that have no idea what is going …

Wagon Train: The Clara Beauchamp Story is from the first season and is the thirteen episode. Nina Foch, considered a fine dramatic actress, plays the title role. She’s an Army wife stuck in an unhappy marriage. She’s miserable and an alcoholic. He’s miserable and no …

I find Friends Episode: Ross Angry at Joey Over Rachel very funny and heartwarming. There the two friends, Joey and Ross, and Ross is super angry at Joey for proposing using his grandma’s ring the more. And Joey feeling guilty and all that, decides to explain things to …

The Cable television show ‘Ghost Hunters’ has been on the Sci-Fi Channel for quite some time, since 2004. The basis of the show is a team of investigators investigate hauntings using the latest scientific technology. They will stay at an alleged haunted site for 1 night (which …

Star Trek: The City on the Edge of Forever is probably the most classic and well produced episode in the entire original series. It’s received much acclaim over the years and is fondly thought of by fans. From April 1967, this episode features Joan Collins as Sister …

Murder by the Book is one of the early editions of the Columbo police detective shows. I remember mostly for Martin Milner’s appearance. There’s a great directorial shot early on that shows a car, Columbo’s, driving on the road and then it focuses up to the tower …

This episode was another fine edition of “Friends” season 1. This episode they showed that a massive blackout happened in the New York, and Chandler got stuck in an ATM vestibule with a Victoria’s secret model, and he called the others by using that models cell phone, there a …

So, the WB and UPN has decided to join companies. Theyre now calling it the CW. The CW has will be premiering, i think, September 18. They will include shows from both networks. I’ve seen the TV Guide channel, and they had som info about what shows will be …

The big plot of Fame: Tomorrow’s Farewell, which is the third episode of the musical drama series, deals with the School for the Performing Arts being evaluated by the school board. This lends to a lot of conflicts between the teaches and the board and it also presents …

Star Trek: Beyond the Farthest Star is the first of the animated Star Trek episodes produced in 1973. It takes a little getting used to, seeing the quirks of the animated series, as in more animated characters from other species, but the essence of Trek is still there.
The …

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ethics is really a very enjoyable and thoughtful episode that effectively explores two sensitive topics and presents both sides of each topic equally: assisted suicide and testing experimental procedures on patients that, in one case, is willing, and the other case, too injured …

In 2002, the M*A*S*H 30th Anniversary Reunion aired, reuniting the majority of cast and crew members for the first time since the groundbreaking series had gone off the air. Mike Farrell did the introduction at the very beginning and then it went to a wonderful, casual discussion with …

Interested in the paranormal? Are you a skeptic when it comes to ghosts? Are you looking for documented proof of an afterlife? If you have not yet watched Ghost Hunters, this show is for you.
Ghost Hunters was created by two men–Grant Wilson and Jason Hawes. …

South Park likes to be up to date as far as the stories they cover in their episodes, and this episode seems to take it up a notch. The episode revolves around Ike seeing dead celebrities, and the ghost of Michael Jackson possessing him. It satires the fact that …

I had a chance to watch a bit of TV last night and ended up watching an episode of the Simpsons; Lisa’s Date with Density.
This one has a couple story lines that are actually pretty entertaining. First, Lisa finds herself having a crush on Nelson and, while I wouldn’t …

The third story arc of the anime series Katekyo Hitman Reborn is the Varia Arc. This arc is Season 2, which runs from episode 34 to episode 65, and it introduces Varia and its members, the Vongola rings, and the guardians that will protect the boss of the Vongola …

Unlike many Americans, I’m not obsessed with television. At least not to the point where I will plan my life around it; with the exception of Green Bay Packers games.
This week, I discovered a mini-series that actually has me clearing my schedule.
When I saw the previews for the Sci …

I don’t get many opportunities to watch the show Cold Case. But, i took part of the day off to take my daughter to the fair (which was ruined by the rain) and ended up watching a re-run of it today “Volunteers.” It was pretty decent.
The show starts out …

Stargate SG-1: Upgrades is often described as just two little words — Tok’ra Spice. As I’ve said before, with a new producer at the helm, the show was no longer the great show of exploration and character dynamics. Now it was a soap opera, and early in …

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd Gig episode 5 has Section 9 going after an assassin who is trying to kill the Prime Minister for ignoring the refugees.
This episode is very well done because we finally see the person behind the Individual 11 group that we …

I don’t think I would believe you if you said that you haven’t heard anything at all about Supernatural. It is definitely one of the most popular TV shows at the moment and personally, I am a big fan of the show.
The show is about two brothers - Sam …

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 …

Bliss (Oxygen TV series) - I had never heard of this series until I started perusing Netflix and ran across it. I had heard of female erotica before, but didn’t think much of it. I’m not a fan of the Lifetime channel, and thought …

Synopsis: Spongebob and Patrick are asked to watch Sandy’s pet worm Wormy while she is away. While she’s gone, Wormy turns into a butterfly and, not knowing what a butterfly is, the two friends assume it is a monster.
What I liked about this episode: If this episode had just …

I have to say I hated it when the series House killed off Amber last season. But, I liked how they incorporated her death into the season premiere, Dying Changes Everything.
There’s nothing like seeing a popular character going through a state of mourning to really move you and seeing …

Double Divas is a reality show that runs on Lifetime about two business women, Cynthia Richards and Molly Hopkins, who run a lingerie store catering to women with larger breast cups.
When I first saw the previews for this show I honestly didn’t know what to expect, but there was …

The Virginian: The Mountain of the Sun combines incredible courage and a love story. It combines for an average tale for this western TV series. I’m really not that crazy about this episode. This is a 90-minute show and this story is an hour one, so …

In this second episode of the short-lived series, Sable, entitled Hunt, Jon Sable’s girlfriend, Eden Kendell (Rene Russo), gets a job offer that would require a move to New York. She wants Jon to go with her, but he’s not eager to uproot himself and leave behind his …

Stargate SG-1: Solitudes has some great moments in it and continues to be an episode I think of fondly. There’s a lot of angst in it, and we see the determination to survive and to never give up on many of the team’s faces.
A Stargate malfunction tosses Jack …

Willow’s girlfriend Tara has been around for some time now but has always been a bit vague in terms of her past. That’s why I actually liked the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode Family.
We learn a bit more about Tara’s family, a group of witches who seem to treat women …

Star Trek Voyager season 3 episode 6 is called Remember. It is rightly so in that Torres begins have odd dreams that are more vivid than any she has ever experienced in her life before, shortly after taking on some passengers from another race. Through a joint effort Janeway …

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 …

It’s the final ride for Bruce Campbell, Julius Carry, and Christian Clemenson as The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.: High Treason: Part 2 concludes the single season run of this series. A mix of adventure, science fiction, action, drama, romance, and just about everything else, this TV program …

Harper’s Island is a new show on CBS that follows the events taking place around a wedding party that has come to the island. The island itself has quite a gruesome history; years ago a serial killer did away with several of the residents including the mother …

After the tragedy of Apollo One, things around NASA were a little shaky. This is shown throughout From the Earth to the Moon - Part 3: We Have Cleared the Tower when preparations are underway for the Apollo 7 mission. The mission commander was Wally Schirra, played …

From April 1967, Star Trek: Operation - Annihilate! is the final show of the first season of this science fiction classic from the mind of Gene Roddenberry. It finally gives us a relative of one of the regulars, even though he dies before we meet him. What …

MacGyver: Early Retirement has more of MacGyver on the ice, playing hockey with Pete in a neat little segment, especially when Pete stops three of his shots from scoring. Can we say Mac is a pouter? It was funny. The reason for the excursion for the …