Emergency!: Cook’s Tour is a fun little show. When I watch it, it’s not really any one story that stands out, but it’s more the feel of the firehouse that is the heart of the show. Fire department cooking is almost legendary, and this show deals with …

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 …

I finally got a chance to watch the full Law & Order SVU episode entitled Raw last night. And, I have to say it was one that got my attention.
Basically, the episode starts out with a school shooting (those always disturb me a bit considering my oldest is in …

Stargate SG-1: Ripple Effect is hands down the best episode of the entire final two seasons of this series. While not perfect, it was fun, and it let us revisit with much-loved characters on the show.
In essence, SG-1 gets diverted to an alternate reality, as do numerous other …

Frank Parker is a NSA agent who works for a secret government project called backstep. When something bad happens he is sent back in time to try to fix thinks. In this episode Olga, Hooter and Franks are in a military base 600ft underground when a neutron bomb explodes …

There were more fireworks in the third installment of season 10’s The Apprentice. Donald Trump’s reality series is focusing this year on successful men and women who were unemployed because of the economic downturn. One thing of note is that at the end of the hour they …

Unlike the sub-par and very sad season 1 release of the Adam-12 DVD, Season 2’s release by Shout Factory is a huge success! The two-disc set is one-sided, versus the horrible 2-sided discs from season 1. The discs are highlighted with photographs and well marked, versus no …

Yogi Bear is one of my favorite TV shows ever! I just love this show and I find it to be very entertaining. I think Yogi is funny and his voice is really funny. BoBo is his little friend who travels the forest with Yogi bear. This show is funny …

Three girls survived the thousands of those who auditioned. Anya, Fatima and Whitney. Tyra Mail reads, ” Here are your lines. You’ve got some extra time. So don’t make me put you on blast!” The three girls had a Cover Girl commercial shoot. Saliesha from the previous cycle …

Synopsis: Benson and Stabler receive help from sex therapist Cap Jackson (Jeremy Irons) when a little girl’s body is found brutally murdered and stuffed inside a suitcase and the police begin to suspect a female rapist/killer.
What I like about this episode: I know he’s a guest star and was …

As I mentioned in another review, I was watching a few re-runs of Star Trek the Next Generation this past weekend and came across a couple that I hadn’t seen before. One of these was the episode entitled “First Contact.”
This one was actually a bit interesting to me because …

While the Buffy the Vampire episode School Hard isn’t the best episode I’ve seen of the series, I think it ends up being one of the more important ones for anyone who intends on watching the series from beginning to end because it seems to be setting up several …

Due South just isn’t holding my interest in its third season, or first season, depending upon how you look at it, incarnation. Strange Bedfellows is the episode being discussed for this review, but I never really got into it. There’s a lot of soap opera elements here …

Beast Wars - Other Visits, Part 1 continues the alien story arc that was first started early in the first season. Now, it seems, the aliens are once again back which sort of puzzles me because in the first season finale, the aliens stated that they were going to …

This episode of Desperate Housewives was a good one. There were five story lines going on. Gabby was missing single when staying with the gay couple on the block, Lynette’s daughter was feeling left out, Mrs McClusky might have cancer, bree has a new guy working for …

This could be considered one of the smaller episodes of “Justice League Unlimited”. No one is saving the world or even a city. Most of the characters don’t even have superpowers. This is about why people are in the league and it’s far better than the episodes where they …

The Prisoner: Fall Out is the final episode of this single-season series, and my understanding is that there was all kind of outrage because of how it ended. I’ve read that McGoohan actually left England to get away from the complaints. That’s hard to imagine, so …

Have Gun - Will Travel: A Knight to Remember from December 1961 has one of the fun openings that I really get a kick out of seeing. In the gambit, Paladin, played by Richard Boone, is fencing. He’s showing off a bit for a young lady, who …

Episode 2 of season 6 of Dexter ” Once Upon a Time” is another great episode of Dexter. The new season of Dexter has taken our friendly neighborhood serial killer on a different path than the previous ones. No longer stumbling around and trying to figure out the intricacies …

This episode has quite a few ups and downs. Gilligan goes around all depressed through most of the episode. Actually its agonizing to watch him obsess what he thinks is his heritage, related to head hunters. And he deduces this solely on his resemblance to the likeness of the …

Bart is dreaming of how he and his fellow school mates destroy the school on the last day. Homer promised Bart that if he would not get D in his grades he would get to go to Kamp Krusty. However Bart gets a D. Homer anyway sends him to …

Wagon Train: The Kitty Pryer Story is a really unusual story for this particular western It’s the story of a man, Victor Harp, who has committed bigotry. He confides the truth to the new wife, Kitty Pryer, and convinces her to travel west with him, claiming his …

We have been watching episodes of the 1980s series Faerie Tale Theater with our daughter. One of the episodes we watched was Rumpelstiltskin, a book I have read to my daughter but she didn’t remember.
The episode wasn’t too bad. You have Ned Beatty playing the king who insists that …

Stargate SG-1: The Shroud is a wonderful episode, thanks to the return of Richard Dean Anderson as General Jack O’Neill. It’s not just Jack’s presence, but his friendship with Daniel that makes the show a great one.
Daniel is discovered on a planet as a Prior. He’s beamed …

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 …

One day Patrick falls off of a cliff and the top of his head falls off and Spongebob is left to find it, and which he does frantically. I know that you are thinking that this is stupid, but it is really funny. Well, Spongebob reattaches the top of …

I like watching Police Women Of Broward County on the TLC network, because it is more a documentary-style show and not horrible reality TV. I love the fast pace and excitement level of this show, and how it profiles numerous women doing a job that some feel they …

I have always liked Star Trek: The Omega Glory, primarily for that big speech Kirk makes towards the end. I love the Kirk orations. They’re so patriotic.
Once again, the catalyst is a missing spaceship. In this case, it’s the Exeter. Actually, the ship and the …

From October 1972, the third season of Night Gallery, Sandra Dee starred in an episode entitled Spectre in Tap-Shoes. Dee actually plays a duel role, playing a pair of sisters, one of whom hung herself. That was Marion, the tap dancing sister.
When the other sister, Millicent, returns …

Have been watching an older game show on the game show network. It surprised me how entertaining it is. It has the host and six television stars on a panel. The host reads the questions, they are in comedic form with a blank the stars have to …

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Conspiracy is an episode that came late in season one and, while enjoyable and certainly commendable for doing something quite different from standard Star Trek fare, has a few glaring plot holes here and there that make the story a little less enjoyable …

This episode presents a dilemma that even the Doctor admits is going to be tricky. It seems the TARDIS crew is bouncing back and forth between two realities, one in which they are all on the TARDIS and another where five years have past and Amy is pregnant. …

I really enjoy watching this show in the morning. I enjoy the first twenty minutes of it the most. The host chat is definitely the highlight of the show, and I enjoy the new segment they have added to the end of the show, where Regis and Kelly read …

Major Gus Bonner and his team of adventurous cadets are surprised when they blast through the Stargate and arrive at the Great Wall of China, only it’s inside a large structure. Obviously, they aren’t really back on Earth as they first thought. Then they come upon an …

Burn Notice: Comrades brings us Michael Westen’s brother, Nate, who is far less interesting than Michael is. In fact, I don’t really care much about him. The two have a strained relationship that leaves you guessing about Nate’s true intentions the entire time.
I do like some of …

QVC which stands for Quality, value, and cost is a home shopping channel which I like to watch.
I really like “window shopping” that channel. They have some very nice reasonably priced merchandise.
I like all the hosts. I know they are salespeople, but I find they are not as …

“The Gungan General” is another gem in this season. It continues the plot from “Dooku Captured” where the Count has been taken away and imprisoned by space pirates while Anakin and Obi-Wan are trapped within a cave (thanks to the Count).
The pirates continue their belittling of Count Dooku …

From March 1982, The Fall Guy: The Snow Job has Colt Seavers (Lee Majors) and company in Aspen for a combination work and leisure trip. The opening teaser in the Colorado resort town has some very nice night scenes of skiers lighting up the slope. I really loved …

Season Five Episode 3
Bright Lights, Big City
Sandra Bernhard Guest Judge
In this episode, Heidi tells the designers they have worked really hard and deserve a treat and they will have a night on the town.
Everyone is in their rooms waiting for Tim to take them out and when he …

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 …

From the second season of the terrific western, Laramie, comes Two for the Gallows, a show that is part drama and part comedy. The series stars Robert Fuller as Jess Harper and John Smith as Slim Sherman. At this point in the series, Sherman is the owner …

Death Note Episode 34 begins with Aizawa becoming very suspicious of Light because whenever he meets with Kyomi Takada, they never use video surveillance, they only record the conversation. He devises a test to see whether or not they are exchanging notes during the conversation.
This episode was very …

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 …

“The Dick Van Dyke Show” episode “I Do Not Choose to Run” is part one of a two part story, which concludes with, “The Making of a Councilman”. In this episode, Rob is asked to run for the position of councilman on the New Rochelle City Council. Much of …

In the opening segment of Due South: Perfect Strangers, as the action begins, Royal Canadian Mountie, Constable Benton Fraser lands on top of Diefenbaker, his wolf dog, who milks every inch of his paw’s injury. Fraser thinks maybe he hasn’t been paying enough attention to the wolf. …

From November 1966, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Thing from Inner Space, which stars Richard Basehart as Admiral Harriman Nelson and David Hedison as my favorite, Captain Lee Crane, is the eighth show of the third season. The main guest star is Hugh Marlowe as Bainbridge …

This is a fun show that I think I learn a lot from. While a lot of the advice is not necessarily applicable to my life, it’s interesting to see what other people have done and what the solution is.
There is of course a certain sense of humour …

I wanted to introduce my oldest daughter to the show Futurama, starting with the first season (which I feel is more suitable than the episodes that air today). She didn’t get a chance to watch the pilot episode with me but we ended up watching the second episode, The …

The Andy Griffith Show: The New Housekeeper is the delightful first episode of this landmark TV series. This one deals with the arrival of Beatrice Taylor to take care of Andy Taylor and his son, Opie. Some of my thoughts on this episode follow:
–The opening scene is …

In watching this second episode of The Apprentice UK, I realized this was a director’s cut. I don’t know if that’s because it’s ‘on demand’ or if that is how the BBC America channel is airing it, but apparently, these aren’t necessarily as they are seen in Britain.
This …