This cartoon, A Christmas Tree, is actually a translated title of a Russian cartoon made in 1959. It actually amazed me, considering the time in which it was made. I found it to be a warm, loving film about a young boy whose father was working in …

OK, Destination Truth is once again proving to be my favorite show on Wednesday nights. Last night’s episode, Alien Mummies/Lake Monster had to be one of the creepiest ones I’ve seen in a long time.
First, they end up going to South America to visit a mine (that was scary …

Laramie: The Track of the Jackal from season 2 is one of my favorites because it is one that gives Jess Harper (Robert Fuller) some emotional angst. It opens by sending Slim Sherman (John Smith) on a trip while explaining that Jess is going to be the temporary …

Justice League - “Twilight”, Part Two unfortunately is not quite as solid as part one, in part, because of the story and the dialogue. The story begins to develop holes in it as more is revealed, especially when Darkseid tells of how he will tear down the universe and …

From the last part of the second season, CHiPs: Quarantine gives the officers at the California Highway Patrol headquarters two different things to worry about. First, they think they have a bomb in the building. Second, the youngster who brought the possible pipe bomb into the building …

This latest instalment of the superb series, The Universe, provides one of its most hypothetical episodes yet.
In this instalment, “Space Wars”, our favourite experts talk us through what war would be like in outer space. There’s rogue moon colonies, alien civilizations threatening the earth and potential solutions to protect …

Venture Bros is quite possibly the best Adult Swim original show. It follows the adventures of a super-scientist, his two teenage sons and his bodyguard as they face assorted villains, including Dr. Venture’s nemesis, the Monarch. But while this may sound like a standard action-adventure series, it’s far …

In Part 2 of Cover Her Face, the 1985 multi-part adaptation of the P.D. James novel, the murder of Stavros Veludis is still being investigated.
The heavy concentration of the story, though, focuses on a beautiful young woman named Sally Jupp. She’s annoying as can be, but quite honestly, …

“Long Night’s Journey Into Day” is an episode from “The Dick Van Dyke Show” television series. Laura has the house to herself for a few days because Rob and Richie join Jerry, Millie and Freddie on a fishing trip. She would’ve gone too, only she has a cold that …

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Menfish is the 24th show to air in the second season of this successful science fiction program. This is a nice, high caliber guest cast, too, beginning with Gary Merrill as Admiral Roy Park and including John Dehner as Borgman. …

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Q Who? is a season two episode and is, I feel, one of the series’ best episodes and one of the greatest Star Trek episodes ever made. What makes this episode so enjoyable? Well, for one, it conveys the dangers of the unknown …

I�m not a huge fan of Family Guy. The jokes in it can be funny but they are a bit too crude for my taste. However, when the 100th episode was on the other day, I did decide to give it a chance. And, again, I was disappointed.
The idea …

This episode of Seven days is about Dr. Olga Vukavich and her sister. Once again in this season Parker is seduced or seducing woman. In first season he wasn’t with any woman while in this season he already had sex twice and in this episode he is very close …

The Andy Griffith Show: Cousin Virgil from season two just isn’t a show I’m that fond of. In fact, it’s one of a few episodes from the entire series that I will actually turn off. It just doesn’t work for me, and I simply don’t enjoy much …

Cowboy Bebop Episode 14 has the crew going after a man known as Chessmaster Hex after a series of Hyperspace Gate Tollbooth robberies that are connected to him.
This episode was really good, it was quirky and fun and interesting. It wasn’t really about the action as much as …

In 2010, Jeff Bridges finally won an Academy Award. Decades earlier, he was playing a young boy in his father’s TV series. The series was an underwater adventure show called Sea Hunt, and the star was Lloyd Bridges. Both of Lloyd’s sons, Jeff and Beau, had …

I don’t normally pay much attention to Spongebob Squarepants when my daughter has it on and usually just find something else to do instead. However, she had an episode on the other day, The Card, that was pretty funny.
Basically, Spongebob wants a rare card that Patrick has found and, …

Sanctuary is a new TV show on the SyFy channel. I was skeptical about the show at first. I mean the concept looked intriguing by the overall look of the show looked a tad too cheap for me, plus it was on the SyFy channel. I guess I should’ve …

Within the past year, I seem to have gotten farther and farther away from watching mainstream television shows, and I, for one reason or another, have become more interested in Court TV. Maybe I am just tiring of redundant television concepts, or maybe it is because I am …

Death Note Episode 30 begins with Near suspecting that Kira is on the Japanese task force and that he’s the new L. Meanwhile, Mello talks to Near about getting his photograph back and Near learns more about the Death Note.
This episode is pretty interesting because it shows …

Airing in September 1987, Max Headroom: Deities brings on the religious angle for those living in the Age of Video, which is when this series takes place. The set up is that the View Age church is getting too popular and will surpass catholics and 700 Club in …

Synopsis: Plankton, tired of always failing in his attempts to get a Krabby Patty, wishes he could spend just a day in Mr. Krab’s shoes just to see what it was like and uses an invention of his to do just that.
What I liked about this episode: This is …

Cowboy Bebop Episode 23 has Spike, Jet, Ed and Faye all after the leader of a strange cult after its members start committing suicide.
This was one of the weirdest episodes of the entire anime. It’s visually interesting but I got a little dizzy because the images were …

It’s Halloween at the 4077th in M*A*S*H: Trick or Treatment. There’s plenty of silliness, especially surrounding George Wendt’s character of Private La Roche. It is Major Charles Emerson Winchester III’s displeasure to have to deal with a couple of these more ridiculous situations.
Andrew Dice Clay also appears in …

I am always up for a good western (leftover from a father who loved a decent cowboy movie). Being a woman, not only do I appreciate a good western, I appreciate a good cowboy with bad boy appeal, you know the kind that romance novels are written around.
“Legends …

The well respected Gwen Verdon guest stars in Fame: Come One, Come All in which she plays Melinda MacNeil, the mother of Montgomery MacNeil (P.R. Paul). She’s an actress of note who suddenly agrees to give up a movie role in order to direct a play at the …

The Good Wife is television drama series. It is based on the scandal that Governor Spitzer went through. The main character is a woman who discovers her politician husband is cheating on her with prostitutes and is involved in bribery and corruption. He is sent to …

Imagine if you took the Jetsons, and instead of making them a family made them a group of mismtached peopl who crew a space ship. Throw in a litttle crude humor, and you have Futurama. Futurama is created by the same people who wrote the simspons, so it has …

This episode of Stargate SG1 delved further into Teal’c’s past. Teal’c had told Stargate command that he did not have any ties to his past life and was free to be a warrior for the Tauri but that was not really true. In Bloodlines, we find out …

We had to take my daughter to an open house at her new school last night so I didn’t get to watch my regular TV programs when I got home from work. I did, however, manage to catch a re-run of “That 70s Show” entitled Let’s Spend the Night …

The conclusion to A Certain Justice was better than Part 2, which I felt was a bit slow in this mystery crime story from P.D. James. This is the part where we get to the genius that the Commander Adam Dalgliesh is supposed to be. The puzzle …

Right away, this episode held big promises with comedy legends Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd speaking as themselves. It was supposed to be funny and entertaining. The episode hit rock bottom on both promises, fulfilling none of them.
Now that Cleveland has …

Ouran High School Host Club is probably one of the most favorite anime series I have ever watched and it’s one of the few shows I actually got to finish watching. It’s a funny anime, mixed with outrageous characters and cute romantic scenes that’s it’s bound to make you laugh, …

Produced in 2004, the War and Remembrance: The Making of War and Remembrance featurette opens with one of the promotional ads for this lengthy mini-series which aired on ABC in 1988. From there, viewers are introduced to Dan Curtis who produced, directed, and co-wrote the mammoth war picture. …

One day I was watching this show known as “Ghost Adventures”, maybe you’ve heard of it? well normally I don’t watch shows having to do with Paranormal Activity,but just for the heck of it I thought I would watch because I would hear my friends talking about this show.all …

I wish I could say that I really like this show. But because it’s called “Speeders” you know that no one is going to get arrested (not really.) There will be no high speed chases, lots of cursing, no blood—”or any sort of real drama. …

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 …

Make It or Break It? is ABC’s newest addition to its roster of family-centered shows. This one, however, centers on gymnastics, specifically on 4 girls’ of making it to Nationals and ultimately, the Olympics.
Having just finished seeing the Pilot episode, I can say upfront that this will be …

M*A*S*H: The Billfold Syndrome centers on Sergeant Jerry Nielson, played by Kevin Geer, who is one of the medics who brings wounded to the 4077th via a bus. He appears to a be a nice guy who is doing his best to help the injured soldiers. Then …

Star Trek: The Menagerie: Part II concludes this action. The Menagerie incorporates much of The Cage, the original pilot for this science fiction series. It was a great idea, and it fueled the desire for The Cage to be released as a show of its own. …

The Twilight Zone: Stopover in a Quiet Town is one of the better shows from this final season of this classic science fiction show from the mind of Rod Serling. It has a decent plot with an appropriate amount of suspense. You aren’t quite sure where the …

This That Girl episode focuses on more false assumptions, which often leads to fun. In ODPDYPAHIMCAISFSS, or as this crazy word stands for, Oh Don, Poor Don, Your Pants Are Hanging In My Closet And I’m Feeling So Sad, Don Hollinger’s mother comes to town for a visit, …

Synopsis: TAPS investigates both a private home in Massachusetts before visiting Philadelphia to investigate the reportedly haunted USS Olympia.
What I liked about this episode: This episode is essentially a throw back of some sorts because they are investigating someone’s private residence in an effort to help them cope with …

John Doe: The Rising is the final episode of this one-year episode and it essentially picks up not all that long after the last show ended. The topic in it was remote viewing, and John Doe (Dominic Purcell) was the subject. It’s actually a little disturbing to …

Synopsis: Josh Gates and his Destination Truth team travel to an abandoned city in Africa to capture evidence of the ghosts that reportedly haunt it. They then travel to Panama in an effort to find a creature that was photographed in 2009 that could be a brand new species …

The one thing which may be harder to deal with than House miserable is House happy. In this episode of House he is given antidepressants and they actually work, as a young dying girl finds out when he is smiling while telling her she is going to die.
Everyone already …

Beast Wars - Power Surge is an episode that focuses on Terrorsaur and his underhanded and ambitious personality that was hinted at in “Equal Measures”. In this episode, he comes across a power source that magnifies and intensifies his power immensely. Rather than report the find to Megatron, he …

I saw a Spongebob Squarepants episode yesterday I haven’t seen in a while “The Strangler” and found it to be as funny as I remembered it being.
If you haven’t seen this show and wonder why it is so popular, I suggest watching this episode. Spongebob turns in an infamous …

I just love HGTV. If you are into making your house nice or being creative, this is the channel for you. The ideas that I have gotten from this channel are just unbelievable. The painting and decorating shows are a real help. They show you …

I first saw this series when it was shown on the BBC about 5 years ago now. If you like classic period dramas then this is for you. Without giving too much about the storyline away it’s a gritty drama set in a mill town called Milton, …