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 …

Jeopardy is my favorite current game show. I like the challenge, because I find shows like Wheel of Fortune too easy. I also like that it asks trivia and knowledge questions. This makes me feel smart when I know the answer. I also like learning …

One of the interesting things about the old Mork & Mindy series is how it managed to look at normal everyday life and turn it into satire. The episode “Mork’s Greatest Hit” is a great example of this.
In our culture, we admire those who will use violence if it …

Have Gun - Will Travel: Gun Shy is episode 29 of the first season of this Richard Boone series about a gunfighter named Paladin. In it, Kam Tong gets a bit more action as Hey Boy since the story revolves around a chess set made from jade that …

The Fugitive: Tug of War from season two is an interesting show that pits two law enforcement types against each other. Both want to bring Kimball in, and it’s quite the guessing game as to who will be the victor as the show progresses.
Don Gordon guest stars as …

A lot of people love the rain, but would they love it if it rained every day, and not just a drizzle, but a real downpour? That’s a question to ponder as you watch the cable TV show, The Ray Bradbury Theater, and it’s sixth season episode, The …

Much like with “Humbug” we get a stand alone episode that puts a larger emphasis on humor than on eeriness or creepy atmosphere. Also like the aforementioned episode, this one works really well. This is in no small part, due to Peter Boyle’s portrayal of the titular …

Sometimes lost in the science fiction element of the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer is the ocassional message about being safe in an awkward situation. The episode Reptile Boy is one of them.
Along with the whole cult that worships snake man thing at the local university frat house, you …

I am always happy when a series I’ve been watching comes back on the air, but there are certain shows which carry more of that certain type of joy. “Lost” is one of them. The season premier of Lost; “Because You Left: The Lie” is two hours long and …

The teen-adult oriented cartoon comedy Family Guy is one of the funniest shows currently on the air. The creators of the show are absolutely genius.
The story revolves around the Griffin family. They are pretty much your typical American family yet they go through a lot of shenanigans. Every …

“Laugh and the world laughs with you”. That phrase does not always seem to alighn properly with Paris Hilton and Nicole Richey’s, The Simple Life, more often than not, does it? While this dynamic duo makes millions of dollars based upon their innate ability to function in …

This is a TLC show that started as a few specials narrated by the eldest of the eighteen Duggar children. This family is headed by Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, two very conservative people with strong Christian values.
The show documents the unique struggles of a family of this size. …

Split Robbery was the 13th show to air during Highway Patrol’s fourth and final year on television. The basic plot was that a couple of thieves robbed stores, taking wives of the store managers as hostages to assure they made a smooth getaway. It’s a little odd …

Stargate SG-1: Babylon may actually be one of the few episodes where Ben Browder really pulled his own as Mitchell on this series. I somewhat enjoyed Mitchell’s interaction with a new race called the Sodan. There was a chance for Mitchell to do stuff on his own, …

Centennial, the mini-series, is introduced to the audience by James Michener, the man who authored the novel on which the mini-series is based. It’s an easy and casual way to tell us what is in store.
1795 is when the story really begins with a brave and colorful Frenchman …

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: 2nd Gig episode 1 is the beginning of the second season of the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex anime. Section 9 is still disbanded but they’ve gathered at the site of a terrorist hostage takeover and await Aramaki’s orders …

It’s the fear of flying, and yes, actual flying, that is at the core of Whoopi: Airplane! from 2004. The ladies are playing their usual weekly poker game and the topic of their yearly getaway game came up. It had already been decided that they’d go to …

Star Trek Voyager season 3 episode 6 is called Remember. It is rightly so in that Torres begins have odd dreams that are more vivid than any she has ever experienced in her life before, shortly after taking on some passengers from another race. Through a joint effort Janeway …

Homer and Marge go to Bart and Lisa’s school for parent teacher’s meeting. While Lisa’s teacher praises Lisa, the same is not with Bart’s teacher who says that Bart needs to be disciplined before he ruins his life. Marge takes this seriously and tells Homer that it is about …

Reba Season 2 is one of those seasons where you can tell a show is struggling and trying to figure out where it’s going to go next. I was a big fan of the first season, but the second season was a little different and everyone seemed to grow …

Well, finally, I got another episode of Futurama that was actually pretty good. This one, entitled A Big Piece of Garbage, focuses more on the professor and his accomplishments; in particular, we are introduced to the smell-a-scope, a tool that allows you to smell things in space and ultimately …

There isn’t much on TV today so I found myself watching re-runs of Mork & Mindy most of the morning. It’s been a while since I’ve seen the show but the episode “A Mommy for Morky,” reminded me of everything that I missed about the series.
I don’t remember Mindy …

A few years ago, the Miss America Pageant started to redefine themselves, giving the pageant a new, more up to date look. They actually did a multi-week reality show to help the gals transition from the old, static type of pageant to a new, refreshed style and look. …

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: No Escape from Death, which aired in February 1967, was the 22nd outing for the third year that this science fiction drama appeared on TV. Richard Basehart starred as Admiral Harriman Nelson along with David Hedison as Captain Lee Crane. …

“Rugrats” was one of those animated series that I loved watching when I was much younger. I understand that it premiered in the early nineties, but I only started watching it on the cable television channel Nickelodeon in the late nineties. The series was interesting because of the unique …

Stargate SG-1: The Quest Part 2 was the beginning of the final ten episodes of SG-1 and the conclusion to the mid-season two-parter.
Here is the good and the bad:
–Daniel with Merlin is great. This is a reminder of who Daniel really is and why we love him. …

From its seventh season on the air, The Carol Burnett Show featured Steve Lawrence and Paul Sand, along with Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, and Lyle Waggoner. I’ve always liked Lawrence and his wife, Eydie Gorme. I remember watching this variety series when it aired and wishing the …

Children’s Revolution is the 5th episode of the first Upright Citizens Brigade show. It was also the first episode I had seen of the show in quite some time, after a several year hiatus as it was off TV. At the beginning of the episode I had …

Highway Patrol: Reformed Criminal stars Lee Roberts as a man transporting thousands of dollars when he has an automobile accident. This sics the California Highway Patrol on his trail. The kicker is that the man, Frank Wood, is really Frank McCauley, and he has a troubled …

Tales of the Gold Monkey: A Distant Shout of Thunder was all about fears, which is part of the human equation. In fact, after all was said and done, and the radical native with ancient beliefs dealt with, there was this moment of sympathy and regret that was …

From October 1973, Star Trek: The Magicks of Megas-Tu continues the animated adventures of the USS Enterprise, and this time, Captain Kirk and the crew find themselves being swept away to the magical world of Megas-Tu. It’s a place of magicians and wizards apparently, only the man named …

I’ve been a bit bored at home lately so I’ve been watching all the episodes of the long-time re-running show Gilligan’s Island from start to finish (not including the various movies after the last episode aired). This included the first aired episode Two on a Raft.
This is a cute …

When we got Direct TV, we ended up with several channels we never had before. And, as a result, came across a few television shows we had never knew existed.
One of those shows was a show called Seducing Cindy, which was airing on our reality TV channel. Since the …

In the prior episode of That Girl, Ann and Don had planned to visit the Maries in Brewster, but Don had to work. In this episode entitled Bad Day at Marvin Gardens, the Maries come to the city to spend the weekend with the couple, starting with a …

To be honest, I don’t really watch television game shows all that often. And, the show Deal or No Deal isn�t an obsession for me like it is for many of my co-workers. But, if I’m bored, I have no problem watching.
There are two things that are fascinating about …

A Taste for Death - Part 1 from the P.D. James novel was produced in 1988 and starred Roy Marsden as Inspector Adam Dalgliesh. Like most of these movies/mini-series that are made, this is a story with lots of little subplots and a lot of characters. It …

CSI: Hard Evidence for the Nintendo Wii duplicates the feeling and the style of the hit television show very well in my opinion. I enjoy watching the show and examining the clues with the characters, so I figured playing a game where I was in charge of solving the …

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 …

I like seeing Roddy McDowall getting some meat to his part and that’s exactly what happens in Tales of the Gold Monkey: Last Chance Louie. McDowall was a great actor, and while he loved to act and took on all kinds of roles that some might question, he …

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 …

Gene Simmons Family Jewels is an A&E reality show that follows KISS bassist Gene Simmons, live in love Shannon Tweed and their two children. I have to say that I’ve been addicted to this show since I had my cable cut back on almost two years ago. I am …

I like the show Numb3rs a lot. Some people say that it is just another police show…FBI sorry, in which good guys always get the bad guys. Well that’s not far away from the truth I admit but I still I don’t watch most of CSI and similar police …

Mayday is a really great documentary series examining real historical occurrences of passenger plane crashes of avoided disasters. The show usually follows the same structure at first they will other set the background to the story or take the viewer directly into the crisis of the situation. This …

The producers of Top Chef just never disappoint. The second episode of the season and they have me hooked. From time to time on the show in the past, they will have a group of persons separate and apart from the judges judge the chefs. For this episode …

This show appears on Fuse, a music-focused station. It’s a half-hour show that plays five videos centers around a theme, whether it’s the genre of the music, or some aspect of the videos themselves, like featuring extreme sports. The problem with this format is if you’ don’t …

It’s the holiday season in Remington Steele: Etched in Steele, and the Remington Steele Agency is going through a slowdown. That is, until Laura Holt gets in an uproar over her fictional detective whose identity has been assumed by a mysterious man. It seems that Steele has …

The Twilight Zone: The Midnight Sun is a neat little outing for this series, mostly because of the terrific twist that takes place at the end. I don’t watch this one a lot so if enough time has gone by, sometimes I forget and end up being surprised.
The …

Alyson Michalka stars as Marti Perkins in Hellcats: The Prisoner’s Song. This hour was full of drama and excitement, especially when Marti votes against her teammate and roommate, Savannah, when Savannah ends up in a face off with Alice over the video presentation style. Marti also has …

This is one of the highlights of the series. It has that perfect blend of light hearted humor, silver age wackiness, and serious superheroism that makes any hero story worthwhile.
The galactic menace Despero seeks to take control of the corps and it’s up to Batman, Guy Gardner, G’nort, …