TV Reviews
Have Gun - Will Travel: Alaska TV Show
In Have Gun - Will Travel: Alaska, Richard Boone’s Paladin travels to Alaska when his friend sends him a letter requesting his help. The fun part of it is that the two play a game of chess through the mail. I think Family Affair did the same …
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Episode 7 (Anime)
Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex Episode 7 has Section 9 tailing Marcelo Jarti, a famous war hero and drug dealer who has come to Japan after supposedly being assassinated.
This was a very nice stand alone episode that was very interesting and entertaining to watch. The …
Prison Break Season 2 Episode 13
Prison Break Season 2 Episode 13
In this episode things are continuing to get complicated. But there are some funny moments as well.
Michael and Lincoln are captured by the police and are to be transported back to prison. This could have potentially ended the story for everyone. But since the …
Avatar: The Last Airbender: Book 2, Episode 7: Zuko Alone
As the title would suggest, this episode features only Zuko. Aang and his crew don’t appear at all, even Uncle Iroh only appears in the “previously on” segment.
Zuko wanders the country side, essentially minding his own business. While stopping for supplies he witnesses a young boy throwing …
A Man Called Hawk: A Time and a Place
A Man Called Hawk: A Time and a Place is the second episode of this short-lived TV series that focuses on the character of Hawk, hip talking dude we first met on Spenser for Hire. As I’ve said before, he should have stayed in Boston. This show …
M*A*S*H: Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Tom Sullivan, who is blind in reality, guest stars in M*A*S*H: Out of Sight, Out of Mind, a very nice show from early in the fifth season of this quality wartime TV series. Wounded and blinded as a soldier, his character provides support temporarily to Hawkeye Pierce (Alan …
M*A*S*H: Trick or Treatment
It’s Halloween at the 4077th in M*A*S*H: Trick or Treatment. There’s plenty of silliness, especially surrounding George Wendt’s character of Private La Roche. It is Major Charles Emerson Winchester III’s displeasure to have to deal with a couple of these more ridiculous situations.
Andrew Dice Clay also appears in …
Highway Patrol: Psycho Killer TV Show
Psycho Killer was the 30th show of Highway Patrol’s third season and aired in April 1958. It’s an unusual subject for this show. Though characters have been killed, this was a case of a serial killer, and they showed the lead in to a third killing. …
M*A*S*H: The Price of Tomato Juice
There are a few notable things about M*A*S*H: The Price of Tomato Juice from the fourth season of the medical comedy series. First, it’s just the fun of watching Radar O’Reilly (Gary Burghoff) trying to work some magic and get Colonel Potter (Harry Morgan) tomato juice for breakfast …
Justice League Unlimited Season One: The Ties That Bind
“The Ties That Bind” is a pretty bland episode of Justice League Unlimited, season one. The episode features Miracle Man, Big Barda and the Flash. Mister Miracle struck me as uninteresting, and Big Barda just seems to be a rip-off of Wonder Woman. Plus, the main villians …
Colin and Justin’s Home Heist
Television is saturated with home improvement and renovation shows so the only way not to become bored is to watch the ones that have some unique aspects to them or to be hosted by designers who have extraordinary skills and personalities. Justin and Colin certainly fit the description of …
Confessions of a Teen Idol - Episode 2
This show has such a campy, reality show title, Confessions of a Teen Idol, but if you give it a chance, there’s a lot of drama here about the human condition, and it’s not always pretty to look at it. Yet, for our own growth, looking at ourselves …
Have Gun - Will Travel: The Mark of Cain TV Show
Have Gun - Will Travel presented The Mark of Cain for its fifth season entry of Have Gun - Will Travel. Starring Richard Boone as Paladin, the show opens with a little girl making her plea for the gunfighter’s help. Little Anne Marie (Betsy Hale) has been …
In Plain Sight: Don’t Cry for Me Albuquerque
It comes on too late at night for me to watch it on a regular basis but the show In Plain Sight is slowly growing on me. It’s just too bad they had to take the tired old plot line where the main character gets shot; in the season finale …
Gilligan’s Island - Pass the Vegetables Please TV Show
This episode is rather interesting. I think the producer is presenting a real problem that we are fighting with in our world. The use of experimental growth experiments on our food. And he actually poses a real problem in an appropriate manner somehow intermingling the idea into a family …
The Good Life Series 3 Episode 5 Wind Break War
I have watched every episode of ‘The Good Life’ about ninety times as I was around as a kid in the 1970s, so I watched it first time round, and then I catch the repeats nowadays. This episode ‘Wind-Break War’ is one of my favourites. This is …
The Andy Griffith Show: Prisoner of Love TV Show
From February 1964, Susan Oliver guest stars as a siren like female in The Andy Griffith Show: Prisoner of Love. She’s actually brought in by the state police to be held in the Mayberry jail for one night. The music that is used with her character is …
Supernatural S3. Episode 2
The Kids are Alright is the second episode from the third season of Supernatural. Dean convinces Sam to go to a small town in Indiana where one of his ex-girlfriends live and he wants to see her before he dies. Once there they discover that there’s a demon in …
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 …
The Ray Bradbury Theater: The Emissary TV Show
From February 1988, The Ray Bradbury Theater: The Emissary is a show about a boy and his faithful dog. As a dog lover, I only want to ensure that nothing bad happens to the dog. The boy is named Martin and is played by Keram Malick-Sanchez. …
The Simpsons Season 6 Episode 1 Bart Of Darkness
It is summer time, and the heat is unbearable. Bart and Lisa pester Homer into buying a pool, which Homer willingly agrees. Because of the pool, the entire town’s kid’s come over to their place to swim. So Bart and Lisa’s popularity soars. However while performing one stunt Bart …
The Prisoner: The Chimes of Big Ben
There’s yet another Number Two in The Prisoner: The Chimes of Big Ben. This one is played by the blustery Leo McKern, who I remember best from his bumbling crook role in the Disney movie, Candleshoe. Number Two is about to welcome the latest arrival, Number 8. …
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Episode 55 (Anime)
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood concludes the battle with Sloth as izumi and Sig Curtis show up to help the Armstrong siblings take him out. Meanwhile Hoehenheim battles with Father underground.
This episode was fantastic and it just goes to show how Hiromu Arakawa wrote this excellent series that was made …
The Ray Bradbury Theater: The Dwarf TV Show
Season 3 of The Ray Bradbury Theater begins with a July 1989 episode called The Dwarf. He’s a writer who meets up with a fan named Aimee.
The action actually begins at the Mirror Maze where the dwarf (Machs Colombani) goes to look at himself in the mirrors. …
The Simpsons Season 6 Episode 11
Barney and Lenny play pranks on Moe but he takes it with a sporting spirit. However when Homer plays a prank, it back fires and he is banned from Moe’s bar. Homer is very upset. However he later decides to find a new bar. But his attempts go in …
Diagnosis Murder: Vanishing Act: Part 2 TV Show
Diagnosis Murder: Vanishing Act: Part 2 concludes the previous week’s story, beginning with Dr. Mark Sloan (Dick Van Dyke) getting away with a narrow escape.
One of the main focuses of this end of the two parter is medical resident Jack Stewart coming up close with his past. He …
The Choir - Episode 2 TV Show
The choir began nine months until the world choir competition in China, and in this second hour long show, viewers find out whether or not this group of amateur high school singers cut the muster and are accepted to participate in this event. The choir master, Gareth Malone, …
Falling Skies Season 4, TV Show
There are not very many TV shows that I stick with all the way through to their fourth season, but Falling Skies has been one of them. I’m not entirely sure that it is a good show but there has been enough to keep me loyal and hopeful - …
Star Trek: One of Our Planets Is Missing TV Show
Star Trek: One of Our Planets Is Missing is the third episode of the animated TV series that aired on morning television in 1973. I felt that this outing was very suspenseful. It’s amazing how easy it is to get involved in this tales and really feel …
Parking Wars: S4, Ep 2 TV Show
The second episode of Parking Wars’ fourth season began by following a ticketing agent in Detroit. That’s something the show added a while back, expanding their focus from just Philadelphia.
The Detroit parking ticket worker was Sonya, and after a nice, warm bit, the drama turned quite intense. …
Gilmore Girls tv show
This is was one of my favourite tv shows, it had 7 seasons and I was really disappointed when it actually ended last spring.
The show was about a woman Lorelai Gilmore who got pregnant when she was 16 and ran away from home because her mother was one of …
House: Painless
I really hate how they keep messing with the overall format of the show “House.” It is a great medical drama that keeps losing momentum because of all the dumb little side stories you have to contend with each week.
The episode “Painless” for example, has a great case in …
Mr. Monk and the Voodoo Curse
I got a chance to watch the new Monk episode Friday night “Mr. Monk and the Voodoo Curse.” It was somewhat interesting and pretty entertaining.
The case itself was a little too easy to solve. You have a bunch of people dying by mysterious means and each of them has …
Pokemon (TV Show) - Pokemon Emergency! (Episode)
“Pokemon Emergency!” is the second episode of the Pokemon television series and it picks up pretty much right where the previous episode, “Pokemon, I Choose You!” left off. This episode covers almost as much ground as the first episode does, and it really is an half-hour that goes by …
Nip Tuck Tv Series
This has been and still is my favorite television series, it features Dylan Walsh as Sean McNamara and Julian McMahon as Christian Troy as partners in the McNamara/Troy business with is plastic surgeon center, they have been best buddies ever since although they have different views in life, …
Breaking Bad: Season 1, Episode 1: Pilot
There’s been a lot of hype behind this show. I’ve heard nothing but universal praise for it by several people. Not only is it often said to be one of the best shows currently on the air, but many argue that it is the greatest show ever. …
Sleepy Hollow TV Show Episode Two: Blood Moon
After watching the first episode of the new Sleepy Hollow series, I’ve decided that I will become a regular viewer. I literally had a week to dwell and think on the previous episode I watched and kind of connect some minor pieces. To be honest and to the …
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Turn Back the Clock TV Show
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Turn Back the Clock, episode seven and one I have always been intrigued by, guest stars Nick Adams. We see him running through a jungle and then are surprised to find he’s being chased by a dinosaur. Okay, this show …
Stargate SG-1: The Fourth Horseman Part 2
Stargate SG-1: The Fourth Horseman Part 2 concludes the big middle of the season two-parter. At the end of Part 1, the character of Gerak enters the Council Chambers of the Jaffa. He’s their new leader, and he’s also now a Prior for the Ori.
Here’s my problem. …
Pushing Daisies Season 2: Episode 1 Buzzz!
Usually before an episode of Pushing Daisies begins, a Jim Dale narrated summary explains the show’s premise and any extra bits of information the viewer might need. It goes something like: Ned can bring dead things back to life for one minute by touching them; if he touches …
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 …
Law & Order SVU: Users
Last night’s episode of Law & Order SVU ended up being a lot like most of them; an interesting case but, for some reason, felt like something we had seen before.
This time around they are investigating the rape and homicide of a teenager who is found in a sleazy …
Friends - The TV Serial
Friends TV series started in 1994 and finally ended in 2004. It is one of the most popular TV shows of it’s time and many like me were sorry to see it end. There have been many reviews but I wanted to write this review as a tribute to …
Avatar: The Last Airbender Episode 6 (Animated)
Avatar: The Last Airbender Episode 6 begins with Aang and his friends arriving at an earth bending mining town where they discover that earth bending has been forbidden. Katara urges a boy named Haru to fight back and soon after he is arrested for earth bending. Katara …
Wodehouse Playhouse by P.G. Wodehouse
I love P.G. Wodehouse. I think I first discovered him through the 1990 British Television Series “Jeeves and Wooster” starring Stephen Fry as the well-known British gentleman’s gentleman and Hugh Laurie as the bumbling, fumbling Bertie Wooster. However, I may have discovered the books first. I’m just not sure.
Happily, …
Americas Most Smartest Model
My wife absolutely loves modeling contests on television. I’m not sure what she enjoys about them, but whenever a new one comes on, you can be sure we’re going to be watching it.
I personally find the competitions boring. You have a bunch of ex-models or designers judging wannabes that …
That Girl: What’s in a Name
That Girl: What’s in a Name is a re-do of the series pilot which had a somewhat different cast. In that version, aspiring actress Ann Marie’s boyfriend, Donald Hollinger, was also her agent. Her parents, Lou and Helen, were played by Harold Gould and Penny Santon. …
The Two Coreys: Episode 2.2 - Couples Therapy
Episode 2 of the second season picks up right after the last one left off with the conversation at the diner. In addition to the “rape” revelations between the two grown men, Feldman also brings up that Haim bad-mouthed him in a couple of recent interviews. The whole back …
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers: Gold Fever TV show
In Seven Brides for Seven Brothers: Gold Fever, the youngest McFadden brother, Guthrie, gets some time to show his stuff, and it’s good stuff. Young Guthrie is played by River Phoenix, who died way too young of tragic circumstances. Here, though, in 1982, we see the promise …
The Bad Girls Club
I have been watching “The Bad Girls Club” since the show originated a few seasons back, and I still can’t believe half of what I see on this show! I don’t watch every week, and usually can’t remember half of the girls’names, but for some reason, every now and …
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