Have Gun - Will Travel: Ella West starts a little differently with Paladin (Richard Boone) arriving in Abilene, so we don’t get the normal San Francisco beginning. Variety is good, though, so it’s nice to get a shake up in the opening scene. That doesn’t necessarily mean …

I have been watching the TV show “top gear” for a while now and it is one of my favorite shows on TV. Even if you aren’t interested in cars or racing you can be entertained by this show. Most car shows on TV are very factual and …

There’s good news and bad news about Diagnosis Murder. The good news was that it was back for another year. An Innocent Murder is the first episode of the show’s third season. Now depending on your preferences, some of the bad news might be deemed good …

This is regarded as a classic episode, and that regard is well warranted. The episode does everything just about perfectly. It builds up tension and suspense, gives the characters a unique adversary, and allows the characters to really shine as they are pushed to the edge by …

This was a surprisingly traditional episode of the show. I don’t mean that in the sense that it was a “monster of the week” formula show, but that the plot itself is surprisingly mundane. Yeah, there’s a bit of science fiction, what with the reverse aging procedure, …

Aspiring actress Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas) gets an obscene phone call one night and calls the police. Soon, a police detective is at her door. This is a cute scene with Ann trying to get the detective to prove his identity a number of different ways. …

This episode wraps up all the loose ends from part 1. Sokka manages to come up with another escape plan.
This episode has quite a few plot twists. Mai’s arrival was sort of expected, but it was still pretty well done. Her following in the …

Rod Serling’s Night Gallery was made up of a collection of different stories, some just a few minutes long, and others more detailed. This show is made up of three entries — Death in the Family, The Merciful, and Class of ‘99, and Satisfaction Guaranteed.
Death in the Family …

The 12th outing for the underwater adventure series Sea Hunt was called The Aquanettes, and one thing I loved about it is that it was mostly under the water. Those are always such intriguing episodes.
In this March 1961 half hour program, Mike Nelson is training three women for …

From October 1992, The Ray Bradbury Theater: The Handler was a bit on the weird side, though not so odd that it turned me off. Even as I state this remark, though, I know that it’s not the kind of show that normally appeals to me. I’m …

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 …

The next season six episode is called The Other Guys, and it’s supposed to be somewhat of a comedy with the focus on a couple of geek scientists who attempt to rescue SG-1, who have apparently been abducted by a Goa’uld. Only, SG-1 doesn’t want to be rescued and …

When I first saw the description of Monday’s House episode “Private Lives,” I thought it was going to be similar to another episode we have seen on the show, where a person uses the internet to get an alternative diagnosis.
As it turns out, it was a pretty interesting episode.
The …

The New Sofa is an hour long, festive episode of the fantastic comedy The Royle Family, which was originally aired on Christmas Day 2008. Written by Craig Cash and Caroline Aherne, who play the gormless Dave and Denise in the series, The Royle Family is always quality viewing …

Well, actually, the title is a misnomer, and I’m not sure that I agree with the decision for the One of Six Voted Off episode of So You Think You Can Dance.
The five dancing competitors opened the show with an entertaining, Bob Fosse number. I liked this routine, …

Colonel Makepeace come through the stargate and makes a mad dash for General Hammond’s office. He interrupts a meeting between Major Davis and General Hammond to tell Hammond what he has learned about SG1. While scouring their planet, they ran into a few Tok’ra who filled him …

InuYasha Episode has InuYasha trying to take the Sacred Jewel Shard from Kagome. He is forced to wear an enchanted necklace that makes him obey Kagome.
This was a pretty good episode and I liked it. InuYasha is a decent anime and it’s off to a good start. …

Criminal minds is a TV show that will run its eleventh season this year. Eleventh season! There are not many TV shows that can brag with eleven seasons. I saw a few episodes of this show in the past few years but never entire episode, just pieces of an …

90210 is a television remake of the original series Beverly Hills 90210. When I heard a remake was being made I was excited to see my favourite characters back on screen in their previously much loved roles. Sadly the worst thing about 90210 was the previous characters. …

From its third year of televising, Sea Hunt presented a show called Cindy, which was the 18th to air. The show was all about the attempts to rescue a little girl who has managed to get trapped inside an underwater mine.
One of the unusual aspects of this show …

I really enjoy watching the History Channel’s Ice Road Truckers series, especially this season. I think one of the reasons is that there is a little less emphasis on Hugh Rowland, known as the polar bear. His ridiculous and near constant use of profanity just turns me …

The Andy Griffith Show: Andy and Opie, Housekeepers is another comical outing that is highly entertaining. This is what television comedy should be. It’s suitable for the entire family and it’s full of genuine laughs.
–This is the first show that includes actress Hope Summers who becomes a …

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. …

Good Luck Charlie is Disney’s recent television show, and it’s a lot different from their other ones. For example, in this show, no one is famous. No one lives on a ship, and nobody can see the future. That’s what I like about this. Good Luck Charlie follows a …

The most I had heard about Criss Angel is that he was a paramour of Cameron Diaz’. But other than that, I had no idea who he was. Since his little romance with her dissolved (after about two minutes) I had the opportunity to catch …

The Andy Griffith Show: Briscoe Declares for Aunt Bee, which originally aired in October 1963, is not one of my favorite episodes. As well as the actors play their roles, I’m not a big fan of the Darling family, a mountain clan who occasionally come to Mayberry and …

DC Cupcakes: Pupcakes was the second outing for this series about a couple of sisters and their relatives who run a highly successful cupcake bakery in Washington D.C., specifically in the Georgetown segment.
The focus in this thirty minutes of cooking drama is on two things: the need to let …

From season one, Have Gun - Will Travel: The Five Books of Owen Deaver, Richard Boone’s Paladin heads to a frontier town called Three Winds to help out a dead friend’s son. The son is trying to bring Philadelphia law to the town, and it’s a recipe for …

This week’s “Legend of the Seeker” was far better than past episodes. “The Legend of the Seeker” is based on Terry Goodkind’s sword of truth series of books, and for the first time watching an episode felt like it was really connected to the book.
I’ve been trying to be …

Two and a Half Men stars Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer
As a remake essentially of “The Odd Couple,” this show could have easily been a bust, but something makes it a winner. The writing is substandard as it is easily seen as a copy of many …

Robbie Coltrane is the big cheese as Dr. Eddie ‘Fitz’ Fitzgerald in Cracker: True Romance Part 2. However, for me, his cheese is poisoned. I wasn’t impressed for one second with the acting or the character. He was a major turnoff.
The final scene makes me dislike …

Waxer Thompson, the big, bad drug running kids is back from the pilot of 21 Jump Street. He is being transferred from juvenile to maximum security prison after killing another inmate over territory when the bus is in a wreck. One officer is knocked out and another …

Okay first things first, this is an obvious rip off of peter pan. On episode seven of Trinity Blood, we are taken to the magical land of “Never Land”. You guessed it, “Never Land” is the title of this miraculous episode. Basically, Father Abel Nightroad and Father Leon Gracia …

In this particular documentary from Louis Theroux, we see him attempting to bag an interview with Michael Jackson, which he never does because Michael gave his exclusive interview to Martin Bashir instead. We all know how badly that turned out. Ironically, Michael had wanted someone who would …

I had some concerns about the show House when I found the first episode “Broken” was going to focus solely on Hugh Laurie’s character while checked into a mental institution. But, after watching the 2-hour season premiere last night, I will say I was impressed by it.
The episode does …

This episode was certainly a drastic shift from others that had come before it. While humor would occasionally spring its head in the form of some deadpan quipping or a funny comment from Frohike, we never really saw it manifest itself to this extent. Even more impressive …

A ghost chase leads the team to a chemical plant. While they do capture the spirit, it results in the destruction of the lab and the four covered in a mysterious substance that they can’t identify. They are eventually able to wash it off, but the substance …

I’ve watched CSI: Crime Scene Investigation from the beginning. The show tends to have a decent amount of turnover, but their most difficult loss was that of William Petersen as Grissom, who departed midway through last season. I loved the way his exit was done, though, with …

The Veil: The Crystal Ball takes a bit of getting used to. I felt it had the slowest start of all of the episodes of this anthology series. It also is one that feels more like a contrived soap opera than anything else. I was disappointed …

MacGyver: Easy Target started with a twist — MacGyver and Pete bickering from a weekend ski outing that hadn’t gone as planned. It got worse when Mac’s jeep ran out of gas, which caused more bickering. It was quite fun to watch. Mac and Pete split …

This is another one of the great animated cartoons starring Charlie Brown, Linus and Snoopy. In this one, we learn how Charlie Brown got Snoopy: he bought him for five dollars from the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm. We also discover that Snoopy has a large family of brothers and …

White Collar’s newest episode, “Front Man” was the best yet. I found myself feeling completely intrigued and my eyes were glued to the screen. Just beware that if you read on my review has spoilers.
What made this episode unique was the action in it. It had …

Season three comes to a tragic close with M*A*S*H: Abyssinia, Henry. I remember this episode so well, and the plot has long been documented by the producers as to why the story evolved as it did. What this show should have been entitled is, “McLean, What On …

Last night’s episode of Models of the Runway was OK but it is starting to get a bit on the predictable side again. With so few challenges left, I doubt they will force the designers to change models and I doubt the designers will do so by choice.
That one …

Highway Patrol: Runaway Boy is an okay show that has the California Highway Patrol trying to track down a runaway youngster. The boy, Jimmy Adams (Brad Morrow), is afraid of having an operation which he badly needs in order to protect his eyesight.
Richard Devon plays a hitchhiker named …

” Still Crazy All These Years”
In this episode Alan Shore ( James Spader ) tried to secure the release of his ex girlfriend who was confined in a psychiatric hospital for medical treatment because she tried to kill him. Alan Shore’s ex girlfriend Christine has an intermittent explosive disorder. …

I really enjoy this show - I like the idea of using statistics and other forms of math to solve major crimes, and actually have a friend of mine who works in crime profiling, which I think is pretty cool.
The relationship between the characters is that Don Epps, an …

The 28th episode of season four, Highway Patrol: Illegal Entry concerns something that is very topical today, illegal immigrants coming from Mexico into the United States. Martin Garralaga guest stars as Pablo Diaz. He is transported to the United States illegally. The show also features Michael …

This episode is a little too confusing for me. Is he a nice guy? A villain? Just who is this Lazarus man? That’s the premise of the show, I suspect. However, I missed Part 1, so the setup of this drama from the late …

Warehouse 13 is a show about two secret service agents who look for artefacts that can affect human behaviour. In each episode they solve a different case but the warehouse itself holds a mystery that will probably be solved by the end of the season, at least I hope …