The ninth episode of the second season of the new Mission: Impossible was called Banshee. I loved the reincarnation of this series. With Peter Graves on board once again as Jim Phelps, it had quality. I also loved the original series star Greg Morris had his …

SG1 is once again teamed with the Russians when they discover the remains of Russian cigarettes outside a temple on P2X-338. When they return to the SGC, General Hammond tells them that the Russians are coming to help them, although Jack would rather take his team and go …

When I saw the previews for last night’s summer finale of Psych, I will admit I had some doubts about it. After all, it was an episode that had Shawn and Gus helping an international spy. It just seemed a bit unbelievable.
But, after watching it, I have to admit …

It used to be I would only tune into Cartoon Network for their Adult Swim line up after 9:30 at night. Now, I’m watching almost all the time in no small part to their show Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends.
Centering around a foster home for abandoned imaginary friends, the …

Well, another Simpsons episode and another one that indirectly teaches the importance of tolerance when it comes to other cultures and religions.
Mypods and Boomsticks was a great episode because it teaches the danger of stereotyping muslim people into the terrorist category. Bart befriends a boy from Jordan and, because …

M*A*S*H: Hot Lips Is Back in Town is another pivotal show for Margaret Houlihan (Loretta Swit) who gets her final divorce decree in the latest mail call. It hits her hard at first, until she decides that her life is the Army. Then she throws herself into …

The eighth episode of Richard Dean Anderson’s Legend TV series is called Bone of Contention, and apparently Pratt (Anderson) does sometimes get the girl, since that’s how the show opens. Actually, it’s a nice bit where Pratt is visualizing the climax of one of his novels. This …

I’m so amazed that I’m becoming a bit of a Boris Karloff fan. He just is so fun to watch, even if it’s just for a brief introductory scene as he does for this anthology series, Thriller. His openings give viewers a hint of what’s coming, but it’s …

Diagnosis Murder: Sister Michael Wants You guest stars Delta Burke in a delightful role as Sister Michael, an old friend of Mark Sloan’s who has a powerful punch and a lot of street know how. Sloan is portrayed by Dick Van Dyke, of course. In the story, …

“War of the Roses” is an episode of “The Beverly Hillbillies”. In this episode, Granny, Elly May and Jethro are determined to win the feud that they think they have with a neighboring castle. At the other castle, there’s a retired military man that’s a little to fond of …

The Devil You Know, from season 3 of Stargate SG-1, concludes the events begun in the prior episode, entitled Jolinar’s Memories. For me, this second part is so much more exciting to watch.
On a mission to rescue Sam’s father, Jacob, from hell, otherwise known as Netu, SG-1 become …

The collection Perfect Predators is a series of nature show specials on sharks. This was one of the editions of Shark Week, a yearly event on the Discovery Channel, which features a week of programs all about sharks. This episode, Perfect Predators, is an overview of information …

The Andy Griffith Show: Wedding Bells for Aunt Bee, a second season show that aired in April 1962, just isn’t a favorite of mine. I’ve never liked it, even though there are a couple of good scenes that I do like. It’s just the concept with all …

Miley Cyrus is perhaps one of the most amazing teenage girl whom brings her dad along to Ellen’s interview.
And this super cute and multi-talented including amazing singer gave a superb appearance on Ellen’s show. If you have watched Miley and Billy Ray Cyrus on Ellen, you would …

I was very happy to see that, at last, the third season to The Commish was online over at Hulu because I’ve been anxious to see the episode Rising Sun. The reason for that is that it includes a small role by my favorite, Michael Shanks of Stargate …

The 16th episode of the fourth season of the underwater series Sea Hunt was called The Defector, and it’s actually one of the spy type ones I like. Normally, the mission and espionage type of outings aren’t my favorites, and there are way too many of them on …

From December 1958, its fourth and final season on television, Highway Patrol: Confidence Game was somewhat entertaining. My only big peeve is that it’s another diner setup for the crime, and that’s something that Highway Patrol has done repeatedly over the years.
In the case of Confidence Game, we’re …

This was another great episode of the TV show Castle themed for Halloween. It wasn’t scary, it was more like a murder mystery. It was more snappy and witty than usual and I was laughing for the most part.
In this episode the police department encounters the world of the …

“The Flavin’ And The Mavin’” was a decent episode of the CBS sit-com Two And A Half Men, although the one-liners were not as clever as they usually are, and the ending of the episode was not going to be a surprise to anyone. I will give you …

“Look at that. One day we’ll be strangers in our own land.”
That’s actually the last line of this episode of Hawaii Five-O called, appropriately enough, Strangers in Our Own Land. It all has to do with development and protecting the land. It begins with the murder …

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 …

Roseanne is probably the worst TV show I have ever seen. It’s about a fat slob named Roseanne. She is not funny, her voice is annoying, and she is not pretty. How anyone could find this show funny is beyond me. Every time I see the show starting up I …

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 …

Highway Patrol: Reformation aired towards the back end of this police drama’s second season. I like the concept of this episode, though I think that some of the drama could have been enhanced to give more intrigue for the viewers.
Broderick Crawford plays the confident Chief Dan Mathews, head …

My wife and I were bored yesterday and wound up watching television. After surfing through some channels, we ended up with the show “Running in Heels.” It was OK but nothing special.
The show basically is a behind-the-scenes look at the fashion magazine industry with us getting an introduction to …

M*A*S*H: Guerilla My Dreams is a pretty intense episode which is also somewhat controversial in how it is played out. Alan Alda, who stars as Hawkeye Pierce, directed this intense episode. The show does include another cameo from Gary Burghoff as Radar O’Reilly. Burghoff has special …

The Twilight Zone: One More Pallbearer was an interesting show that wasn’t all that unique in presentation but which had a bit of a twist at the end. However, when you really think about it, the twist has been done a few times throughout the series. So, …

The wedding between Ann and Don is getting closer with the advent of Don’s stag party. We actually never get to see the wedding, and the shows after this just mention the upcoming nuptials. As always, Marlo Thomas and Ted Bessell are just superb in their portrayals.
In …

The Andy Griffith Show: Andy’s Vacation, a season four show that aired in March 1964, has some humorous elements to it, but it is also one of those plots that I am not really crazy about. I suppose it is because I am not big on the plots …

If you like talking on the telephone, you will just love this episode. Even if you don’t, the absolute hilarious scenes compensate for the main telephone theme. I really enjoyed watching the Professor come up with outrageous inventions and ideas to get them all rescued.
In the beginning there …

Synopsis: After making a guest appearance on Carly’s web show, her principal is fired and she puts together an effort to get him back.
What I liked about this episode: I don’t watch this show very often (we usually only watch it while waiting for Spongebob to come on for …

Next Food Network Star: Cooking for Eva Longoria was another interesting hour of competition for those still remaining. It’s not the cooking I’m that intrigued by as seeing how the chefs develop and evolve into TV stars because that’s really what they have to do.
In the opening challenge, …

Beast Wars - Other Victories is the third to last episode of the series and loosely leads up to the series finale. For example, in this episode, the Predicon base is destroyed by the arrival of Tigerhawk and in the next episode, Megatron orders Inferno, Quickstrike and Waspinator to …

One of my biggest guilty pleasures is watching series about people’s experiences with the supernatural, especially during Halloween time. The problem that I’ve had with many of these series though is that they’re extremely trite, hard to believe and not scary at all. I started watching Paranormal Witness because not …

“Exodus” is the beginning of the end of the season two parter. SG1 goes to meet the Tok’ra on their planet of Vorash using a Goa’uld mothership. Tanneth is surprised to see them with one, wondering how they got it. Jack tells him that it was …

I had the house to myself for a bit yesterday and found myself watching an old Batman television episode; “The Bookworm Turns.”
This isn’t my favorite 1960s TV program but it is good for a few laughs and I will admit the episode was somewhat interesting. Basically, you have the …

I’ve seen dozens of episodes of the show House but one of the most depressing episodes is the one entitled “Maternity.”
I’m an expectant parent so any show that involves sick babies is going to hit a nerve. This episode goes all out, creating an epidemic at the hospital involving …

Allison has another dream (she has them a lot, well I guess that’s the whole point of the show, isn’t it). In this dream she hears and sees the song “I Will Survive” playing loudly and she is dancing to it as if she was in a video clip. …

A body of a man is discovered on the Brooklyn bridge with only the evidence that he was about to propose marriage to a woman that night (an engagement ring is found in his jacket). The case becomes unusual when they try to discover whether he was refused and …

The last show of The Andy Griffith Show’s fourth year on the air was actually a pilot program called Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. which featured Jim Nabors as the always lovable Gomer Pyle.
Griffith is the one who found Nabors and put him on his show originally. At that point, …

Trigun Episode 23 begins with Vash in the town of Kansas in Southern Cornelia. Vash finds the monument stained with blood with Knives’ name. The Gung-Ho Gun Chapel confronts Wolfwood and makes him a Gung-Ho Gun and orders him to kill Vash.
This episode was excellent; it showed …

Last night was an episode of the Simpson’s that I’ve seen a couple of times and still think is somewhat funny; though not as funny as others.
“Pray Anything” has Homer discovering the power of prayer; where he thinks God is granting his every wish when it really is nothing …

Stargate SG-1: Family Ties is not really my style. It opens with Sam and Vala returning from a shopping trip, the two all decked out and drawing attention as they walk down the corridors of the SGC. I guess they wanted to show these two are friends. …

I have to admit, i wasn’t expecting much of this season. It starts four months after the end of season 3, when Dean was killed and sent to hell. Dean wakes up in a coffin, in the middle of a forest. He was liberted from hell. …

I don’t watch That 70s Show all that often any more but did catch a re-run of it yesterday afternoon that was pretty darn funny; “Sunday, Bloody Sunday.”
Kitty, Red and Eric have Red’s mom (played by Happy Days veteran Marion Ross) over for dinner. And, since her and Kitty …

From the Earth to the Moon - Part 6: Mare Tranquilitatis focuses on Apollo 11, the famous moon landing mission with Astronauts Neil Armstrong (Tony Goldwyn), Buzz Aldrin (Bryan Cranston), and Michael Collins (Cary Elwes). It’s also my least favorite episode for some reason. Maybe it’s because …

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Episode 25 has Batou on the run from the Umibozo squad sent to eliminate them. The Tachikomas break out of their reassignments to save Mr. Batou.
This was a great episode. And I was very impressed with the surprises in this …

Due South: Odds features Stephanie Romanov as a poker player named Denny Scarpa. Romanov is a lovely woman. In fact, she starred as Jacqueline Kennedy in Thirteen Days. Here, Scarpa’s card playing is called into question and is being staked out by Constable Fraser, the fake …

One of the SGC teams returns from a planet where an Ori Prior has been recruiting followers. Later on, one of the men becomes ill. Landry orders the other members to be placed under quarantine after Caroline tells him she thinks it is the same virus as …