Leo Gordon returns to The Andy Griffith Show playing an ex-con named Luke Comstock in this 1963 episode entitled High Noon in Mayberry. The main comedy thrust comes from the wrong analysis of Barney Fife (Don Knotts) when reading a letter that his friend, Sheriff Andy Taylor (Griffith) …

The Andy Griffith Show: Man in a Hurry is absolutely one of the must see episodes of this classic comedy series. It’s arguably the best, or at the very least, in the top 10 of all time best outings for this series.
Man in a Hurry is all about …

From January 1963, The Andy Griffith Show: Barney and the Governor starts out with Deputy Barney Fife (Don Knotts) taking the opportunity to ticket a car for illegal parking. He doesn’t realize until others are watching and he’s in the process of writing the ticket that the car …

The Andy Griffith Show: One-Punch Opie aired in December 1962 and is one of those that deals with a childhood crisis, which means that Ron Howard is at the center of all the hub bub.
The issue is a new boy in Mayberry named Steve Quincy. He’s a bit …

The Andy Griffith Show: The Bank Job aired back in the show’s third season, which was 1962-1963. The episode is a vehicle for Don Knotts as Deputy Barney Fife. Everyone knows how Barney is when he gets something in his mind. He gets overzealous, and that …

The Andy Griffith Show: Aunt Bee’s Medicine Man, from March 1963, begins with a funny bit in which no lines are spoken. It’s all Don Knotts as Barney Fife trying to spruce himself up to look like Rock Hudson. His guide is a large magazine photo of …

Someone finally fit the bill that the producers of The Andy Griffith Show were looking for. I think Aneta Corsaut was super as Helen Crump, Opie’s teacher, but I’m really not sure why she was better than Joanna Moore. Whatever the reason, we meet Miss Crump for …

From February 1963, The Andy Griffith Show: The Great Filling Station Robbery deals with a troubled teenager. Andy gets him a job at the gas station, working with Gomer Pyle (Jim Nabors) while the owner, Wally, is out of town. The problem comes when there’s a robbery …

It was just a few shows back where we got to see Opie Taylor (Ron Howard) stand up to a bully on The Andy Griffith Show. This time around, it’s not a bully that the young boy has to deal with it, but a new friend who is …

The Andy Griffith Show: Rafe Hollister Sings is quite the entertaining half hour episode of this successful comedy series from the early sixties. I love the songs, the lightheartedness of it, and the comedic beats which are family oriented, meaning this show is enjoyable for all ages. …

The Andy Griffith Show: Class Reunion, which aired in February 1963, was a rather nostalgic, almost melodramatic episode. It clearly set the end to any notion of Andy and Nurse Peggy, who is now a non-factor.
The show began with Barney Fife (Don Knotts) bringing some things over to …

Surviving the Cut: Ranger School is often hard to watch. This show airs on the Discovery Channel, and it’s a really deep and sometimes difficult insight into the training that men go through to become part of the elite military training force. The show opens with 338 …

Bernard Fox makes his first appearance as Malcolm Merriweather in this March 1963 episode of The Andy Griffith Show called Andy’s English Valet. It’s a charming entry that eventually has Malcolm working as a valet for Andy and Opie (Ron Howard).
Here are a few notes of things that …

In March 1963, the Darlings didn’t just come, they arrived, and they did it in their own unique style. The show was The Andy Griffith Show: The Darlings Are Coming, and it was the first of several shows that would feature this folk singing family from the hills.
Denver …

In The Andy Griffith Show: A Wife for Andy, Barney gets on another kick that his friend and cousin, Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith), needs to get married. It’s a theme he comes back to a lot, but this is the first time that it involves Helen Crump (Aneta …

The Andy Griffith Show: The Rivals, from April 1963, isn’t really my favorite show, but it does have some cute moments. I’m just not really into these young love and puppy love stories that much, and essentially, that’s what this is.
One of the most adorable scenes is at …

From April 1963, The Andy Griffith Show: Barney’s First Car is exactly what this show title says. Deputy Barney Fife (Don Knotts) decides to buy a car so he can be more independent. He plans to spend a whopping three hundred dollars for a used car. …

The Andy Griffith Show: Mountain Wedding from April 1963 once again features Briscoe Darling (Denver Pyle) and his backward hill family. Quite frankly, I’m not that big of a fan of the Darlings. While the shows are entertaining and good quality, for whatever reason, they don’t really …

From April 1963, The Andy Griffith Show: Dogs, Dogs, Dogs is one of my absolute favorite episodes from all the years of this highly successful TV series. There are some great lines and lots of dogs, and as an animal lover, I love a good dog show like …

From May 1963, The Andy Griffith Show: The Big House is the final episode of the third season, and it’s a pretty good one. It focuses on Andy, Barney, and Gomer, and that means one thing: good comedy.
The basic story has a couple of robbers being captured by …

Daytime television wouldn’t be the same if it didn’t include All My Children. All My Children has been a daytime tv staple in many people’s homes for many years. With characters like Erica Kane, Adam Chandler, Tad Martin and Liza Colby, Pine Valley is still just as interesting today …

One Life to Live is a long time soap opera on daytime television. I started watching it when I was a stay at home mother many years ago. When I went back to work, I had to stop watching but years later tuned in after starting to work from …

I began watching General Hospital back when Luke raped Laura. I was in high school then and watched it for many years afterward. I lost track of the show when I returned to work when my children got a little bit older. When I began to work from home, …

MASH was one of my all time favorite series and when it ended, I watched, with millions of other Americans as the Finale played. No one was really sure if we would ever see Hawkeye and the rest of the crew as they muddle through the day to day …

I started watching this show a few months ago and I absolutely love it. It comes on very early in the morning (around 5:00 a.m. on TNT) so usually I try to check it out whenever I am awake. The premise of the show is very simple. …

I actually missed this fourth episode when it aired originally, but I’m happy to say that I’ve finally been able to see it. Even though going in, I know who won, there’s still the other groups, and I’m curious to see how my views line up with the …

I first saw the VH1 show “Undatable” advertising about two or three weeks ago, and as silly as the show sounds, I actually made plans to watch all three parts since the idea of the show did sound interesting to me. Nevertheless, after watching VH1 shows like their “100 …

For me, the best shows from the underwater adventure series, Sea Hunt, are those that deal with the ocean and the sea life within it. I love the shows that show this life and those that deal with technology. Unfortunately, the show often takes a cloak and …

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 have so very much enjoyed the handful of 1954-1955 episodes of Sherlock Holmes that I’ve seen. This TV series starred Ronald Howard as the famous detective. I really like his smooth portrayal of Holmes. This specific entry is the 14th episode of the series and …

Sea Hunt’s third season saw an episode called Cross Current as it’s 19th outing. Airing in May 1960, this show had some very interesting movements in the water, with Mike Nelson drifting and being turned and tossed. We’ve seen some of this before, but I love the …

Foster Child was the 19th episode of season three for the often dramatic TV series, Highway Patrol. From February 1958, this show follows a young boy through a very difficult day. The boy is playing with a friend next door, when that boy makes a tragic decision. …

Gareth Malone returned with a new project in The Choir: Boys Don’t Sing. This was a follow up to the first The Choir project when he formed a choir out of a high school where kids didn’t sing much and did enough to get them to China to …

The Andy Griffith Show: The Bed Jacket is a really delightful episode that I just love to watch. This third season show was a family bit surrounding Aunt Bee’s birthday. She has her heart set on this beautiful bed jacket, but naturally, she won’t just come out …

Top Chef: Covert Cuisine was unique in that for the elimination challenge, the dinner was actually held at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia. It’s not often a TV show is going to get inside the C.I.A. for something like this, so that was pretty intriguing.
The …

Chasing Mummies: Robbed go right to the action with the famous archaeologist, Zahi Hawass, making a discovery of a previously unearthed sarcophagus with a mummy inside of it. I do enjoy the history that I learn from this show, and actually, I like watching to see how the …

The August 18, 2010 episode of Big Brother was the Power of Veto episode, and it was the most fired up episode of the season. In fact, I think there were more fireworks than just about any other episode.
What brought about the increased volume was that Brendon opened …

The fifth episode of Don’t Stop Believing was highly energetic and entertaining. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to see the fourth week, which I regret.
Below are a few notes about the six choirs who performed in this episode:
Funky Little Choir — They were okay, but for me, they were …

This is the big moment, the big show, for Orchestra United. It’s just the fourth episode, but apparently, that’s all there is. I’m just stunned that an entire year has gone by since 75 high schoolers were brought together to form the band. For that, we’ve …

Ice Road Truckers: The Ace Vs. the Ice was the latest installment of the 2010 season. It was a good one. My highlights, and questions, are below:
–This is the second time we’ve had a segment with Lisa about her meals. I’m not sure what the producers …

The 11th show of the fifth season, Have Gun - Will Travel: The Brothers was a good one, full of surprises. In the show, Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired to bring back accused murderer, Bram Holden, for trial. However, it’s not an easy task, beginning with Paladin …

I’m really enjoying watching a few of these very vintage episodes of Sherlock Holmes. From the early days of TV broadcasting, this series starred Ronald Howard, who fits as Holmes with a wonderful naturalness. Alongside him is Howard Marion-Crawford as Dr. Watson. Like the star, Marion-Crawford …

Have Gun - Will Travel: A Drop of Blood, from December 1961, was a follow up to an episode done the year before. They brought back the two main stars from that show, Martin Gabel and Roxane Berard, as well as one other performer from that show.
Regina Gleason …

Highway Patrol’s 18th show from its third year was a little different, and I liked that quite a bit. As the name might indicate, The Seventh Green, which aired back in February 1958, opened with Chief of Police Dan Mathews (Broderick Crawford) playing a round of golf with …

This episode of Sea Hunt, the 20th show of its third year on the air, which was called Synthetic Hero, opened with diving expert Mike Nelson talking about how he stays away from sunken treasures, most of the time. I’m glad he added that disclaimer because the series …

Highway Patrol: Revenge was a fourth season episode, the 23rd of this final year, in fact. The best thing about it to me was the guest star appearance of a young Robert Conrad, who played a spiteful and troubled man named Tommy Chugg.
He was so intense, with eyebrows …

“K-ON!” is the anime series that I am currently hooked on and I strongly recommend it to anime lovers who enjoy watching series that are funny, enjoyable, exciting and educational. The fact that this anime also has lots of great songs in it is another bonus! The first time …

For me America’s Next Top Model is very entertaining and informative to watch. Aspiring models can learn a lot from the show, everything a person needs to know to get hired for a modelling job is being thought in the show. I think that’s the best modelling show so …

The Australian version of Dancing With The Stars is getting down to the wire. This week they were down to five celebrity dancers. What I enjoy a lot about this Aussie version is the music, the costumes, and I also have an appreciation for the camera angles, …

Watching The Next Food Network Star finale tonight was interesting, and I should have known better than to have fallen for their slick editing job. I’ll explain what I mean about that shortly.
The three finalists were Herb, Aartie, and Tom. I like all three, but my clear …