TV Reviews
Stand Up 2 Cancer 2010 TV Show
For the second time, a special telethon-like program called Stand Up 2 Cancer aired on several networks on September 10, 2010. With all three network news anchors — Brian Williams, Katie Couric, and Diane Sawyer — appearing together, the one hour event is unique in that it aired …
Here Come the Brides (pilot)
Here Come the Brides is one of my all-time favorite TV series. I just love it. It’s full of love, family, warmth, adventure, drama, romance, and even action. It’s the story of the Bolt Brothers and how they bring 100 brides from New Bedford, Massachusetts to …
Celebrity Apprentice - Season 2, Episode 2
Celebrity Apprentice - Season 2, Episode 2 brings up one very important question — why is Dennis Rodman participating in this process? He has shown no real desire to be there, even though he talks like he wants to be. It makes no sense. In this …
A Man Called Hawk: Vendetta
Avery Brooks returns in A Man Called Hawk: Vendetta, a 1989 outing that places him with a cousin played by Keith David. The cousin’s name is Jesse Turner, and he needs Hawk’s help. Who doesn’t? This show is primarily built from friends and family in need, …
Bliss (Oh! Oxygen TV series)
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 …
Family Guy: Chitty Chitty Death Bang
I hadn’t seen the Family Guy episode Chitty Chitty Death Bang until last night and have to say I missed out on a great one.
Everyone loves the baby Stewie and this episode focuses on his first birthday; or as he puts it, the first anniversary of his escape from …
Highway Patrol: Desert Town TV Show
I have to admit that I really enjoyed Highway Patrol: Desert Town because it had some real drama and the outcome was something that was difficult to predict. It’s not that we haven’t seen this kind of story before, but the action is mysterious and curious. It’s …
House MD
House MD is a show about a team of doctors that diagnose illnesses that other doctors can’t. This is a great show for a variety of reasons.
The actors in this are superb. Hugh Laurie is wonderful as quirky, grumpy House and his love interests Cameron and Cuddy …
Games
After going through a season filled with a great reality-based hiring process for new assistants, I really expected more from House�s final decision.
The fact he was forced to make his choice was a bit interesting but the doctors dealing with a drugged-out rocker who was more than likely …
How I met your mother Season 1 Episode 17 Life Among The Gorillas
Marshal begins work at Barney’s office. However Marshal’s office colleagues act very weird and in a nasty way with Marshal. They make fun of him, because he does not know how to remain cool, and stay with the flow. So Marshal finally becomes one of them, thus the Title …
The Twilight Zone: Two TV Show
The third season of The Twilight Zone is a two-person show. For some reason, Rod Serling liked these introspective shows for the season premiers, and I’m not sure why. Season one focused on Earl Holliman’s character being in a town by himself, and season two had Robert …
Heroes: A Clear and Present Danger
I’ve been waiting for the return of Heroes since it left. I for one have been enjoying the show right along. There have of course been weak moments just like any show but in general it has worked well as a show and this episode fixed several of the …
Star Trek: Plato’s Stepchildren TV Show
Star Trek: Plato’s Stepchildren has the Enterprise responding to a call for medical help on a planet with just a handful of inhabitants, though the residents are a couple thousand years old. The problem is that these people have become expert with their psychokinetic powers and bullies to …
Sky Digital Satellite Television
Sky digital television is brilliant. It is available in England and Ireland. There are many channels that you can watch with this service. The channels are received by attaching a dish to your property. This is a small dish. Channels are received to this …
That Girl: Leaving the Nest Is for the Birds
That Girl: Leaving the Nest Is for the Birds features Jerry Van Dyke in one of his better roles in my opinion. The brother of the amazing Dick Van Dyke, I’ve never been that impressed by Jerry. There are only a few roles that I’ve really enjoyed …
Doctor Who: Season 5, Episode 9: Cold Blood
This episode picks up where the last one left off, with the Doctor attempting to make contact with the Silurians so that a treaty can be negotiated. Suffice it to say, it does not go well. The Silurians aren’t the most reasonable species out there, at least at …
A Different World (TV sitcom)
This now defunct sitcom was one of my favorites. This is because I wasn’t quite ready for The Cosby Show to end. I wanted so desperately to follow Denise through her college experience and see what she would do and how she would react going off on …
The Andy Griffith Show: The Farmer Takes a Wife TV Show
The Andy Griffith Show: The Farmer Takes a Wife presents Andy and Barney with the task of helping ‘Big’ Jeff Pruitt find himself a bride, something he is anxious to do. Naturally, Jeff is pretty outlandish and finding a woman to be his wife isn’t going to be …
Fireball XL5: Space Immigrants
From 1962, Gerry Anderson’s Fireball XL5: Space Immigrants is a mixture of ‘rah, women’s lib’ and ‘oops, she can’t do it without her man’. Okay, that’s not the plot, but it’s how the plot made me feel. The adorable, sexy space doctor of medicine, Doctor Venus, is …
Friends season 1 episode 2
This episode is another great addition to the Friends season 1.In this episode I laughed so much, because so much funny thing is happening on this episode. This episode was named as “The Sonogram at the End”. The episode started showing all of the characters are sitting in …
MacGyver: Pilot
I have always loved Richard Dean Anderson so couldn’t wait to watch his new series, MacGyver, when it debuted in 1985. It was the beginning of real success for Anderson and the start of a new culture, one filled with MacGyverism and TV parodies like MacGruber on Saturday …
Six Feet Under (Series)
If you’ve neither seen nor heard of this show before, on the surface, it might seem like nothing more than a quirky sitcom. I myself have known people to write it off as a dysfunctional family living in a funeral home, but if they’d taken the time to watch at …
Futurama TV Episode: Hell is Other Robots
I ended up watching one more episode of the show Futurama last night with my daughter (I told her I would before making her go to bed since I hadn’t seen her all day). The episode we watched; Hell is Other Robots, was OK. But, it wasn’t as good …
Hawaii Five-O: Pray Love Remember, Pray Love Remember
My favorite part of Hawaii Five-O: Pray Love Remember, Pray Love Remember is about a third of the way in when McGarrett has a conversation with a young girl named Mioshi. McGarrett’s been investigating a murder at an educational institute and is still searching for clues. While …
Virgin Media Digital V-Box (and Remote Control)
When I first moved into my flat I had the option of either signing up for Sky TV or going for the Virgin Media cable network. At the time I opted to go for Virgin, largely because they offered a better package with a range of channels, a …
TV SHOW MONK
If you think you have problems with phobias or fears, you have NOT watched and appreciated the show called: MONK on television. He has xenaphobia, he is afraid of most everything! He is totally obsessive compulsive about everything! He needs to have a personal assistant with him at all …
Sea Hunt: Decoy TV Show
Sea Hunt: Decoy was interesting because of how the story evolved. This story revolves around a deep sea diving expert, Mike Nelson, who is portrayed by Lloyd Bridges. He had to be in good shape since he’s in swim trunks and bare chested so much of the …
Babylon 5: Season 1, Episode 7: Mind War
Now this is more in line with what I’ve come to expect from Babylon 5. The story is engaging and there are several angles to the story. While the episode could’ve gone with the traditional “psi cops are good guys trying to catch the rogue villain” route, …
Stargate SG-1: Memento Mori
What rally angers me about this review is that I can’t give it a zero, because I’d really like to. It is just one inch away from being about as low as this show could go.
In Stargate SG-1: Memento Mori, Vala disappears and the team is frantic to …
Babylon 5: Season 1, Episode 6: The Parliament of Dreams
Babylon 5 prepares to host a festival that will allow various races from across the galaxy to give a demonstration regarding their dominant religion. When the episode began, I was expecting some sort of tirade, but outside of Garibaldi’s comment about how it’s a bad idea, the script …
Legend: Bone of Contention
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 …
Adam 12 - Log 112
“Adam-12″, Log 112, is a satisfying episode with some humor and some drama, making it a well rounded show.
The humor aspect comes in with the set up early on, when Officer Pete Malloy gets hit inside a bar during a disturbance call. The key is that he never …
Jerry Springer
I was flipping through the channels the other day on the television set and I just had to stop and take a second look because I was sure that I was seeing things. Two girls were ripping at each other’s hair; one pulled a big hairball off of …
CSI Season 5 Episode 13- Nesting Dolls
I thought this episode was really interesting, just from the point of view of the human drama of it. I don’t know if the investigation was really that interesting or exciting. I do know for sure that the acting like a Russian part did not go well. It was …
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Death Ship TV Show
In 1966, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Death Ship aired. It was the 22nd show of the second season. Like always, this science fiction show starred Richard Basehart and David Hedison. It also included one of its larger guest casts in which those …
MTV’s From G’s to Gents
MTV has a brand new reality program called ‘From G’s to Gents, where they have taken the regular thub from the corner and thrown him in a reality tv setting hoping to transform these thugs into real high society gentlemen.
The recreation process is being overseen by P. Diddy’s former …
Days of Our Lives - Alice Horton’s Demise Week 1 TV Show
The Horton family has been the core of the Days of our Lives soap opera for decades. At the heart of the family are Tom and Alice Horton. Tom was played by MacDonald Carey , who passed away in 1994. His pictures and character name have …
Undercover Boss - Waste Management
Undercover Boss is an intriguing idea for a TV series. I don’t imagine it’ll be on for long, though. There aren’t enough big name companies who are willing to do what is required here. What happens is that a CEO goes undercover for a week. …
The Lazarus Man: The Conspirator
Episode 5 of The Lazarus Man is an episode called The Conspirator. It opens with Lazarus walking into a saloon where the men are discussing a conspiracy theory concerning the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. The men speculate that the bodyguards had to be in on it. …
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Showing currently and ongoing on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, this animated series is a work of art. How oftern will you see floating fries “Frylock”, a giant milkshake cup called “Master Shake” and a rolled up ball of meat names “Meatwad’ become superheroes. They all live together sharing a …
Deal or No Deal
I think Deal or No Deal has now lost some of its appeal for people. I remember when it first started, I wanted to watch every show and see every box opened. I thought right from the beginning it looked a very low-key setting with the wooden floors and …
Ghost Hunters: The Red Room
OK, the Ghost Hunters episode “The Red Room” turned out to be a big disappointment. I don’t mind watching the show and seeing them debunk various ghosts but it is pretty sad when they don’t even have anything they can debunk.
This one involved them making a trip to Louisiana …
Have Gun - Will Travel: Crowbait TV Show
Have Gun - Will Travel: Crowbait wasn’t all that exciting to watch. Richard Boone stars as Paladin in this half-hour western, and in going back and watching these black and white shows again, I’ve learned that some are amazingly forward thinking and fun to watch and others are …
Kaleidoscope on Ice
Presented on Thanksgiving Day in the United States, Kaleidoscope on Ice was the best ice skating show I’ve watched in years. Now that may be because one of my favorite favorites, Scott Hamilton, skated for the first time in six years. Scott has survived two different cancers …
Have Gun - Will Travel: Treasure Trail
Have Gun - Will Travel: Treasure Trail is the nineteenth episode from season two of this western about a gunfighter named Paladin, as played by Richard Boone. In this episode, Paladin stands in for a man who has one-fourth of a map that supposedly leads to a hidden …
Quincy, M.E.: Go Fight City Hall… to the Death TV Show
Quincy, M.E.: Go Fight City Hall… to the Death from 1976 is the pilot for this crime drama. It told a story not often seen on TV and that is the role of the medical examiner. Played by Jack Klugman, Quincy is a fighter. His personal …
High School Stories TV show
I have to admit that I was actually interested in watching this little TV show. This program features the real stories of high school students who have done pranks and have outrageous stories to share with the world. The show basically consists of Senior Week pranks in …
Diagnosis Murder: Sea No Evil TV Show
Meet the medical Baywatch, which is what Diagnosis Murder: Sea No Evil is. A swimmer goes out for a morning swim after smiling at a man she assumes is the lifeguard. Then she cramps up and he does all the right moves as he swims out to …
Masters of Horror: Sounds Like — TV show
Masters of Horror was a series of one-hour long independent horror movies, each one directed by a different person. The episode Sounds Like seems to be a modern retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s famous story The Telltale Heart. Larry is a married man who recently lost his …
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