TV Reviews
That Girl: That Script
In That Girl: That Script from the fifth and final season of ABC’s delightful comedy series about an aspiring actress, Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas) has her heart set on buying the rights to a novel and having it turned into a movie that she would star in herself. …
Anuna: Christmas Memories
Frankly, I’ve never heard of Anuna in my life, but as I was doing some TV surfing, I ran across this show called Anuna: Christmas Memories. Apparently, it was made in 2008 and Anuna is an Irish group. It sounds like they are headed up by a …
Bones: Fire in the Ice
Wow, two new episodes of Bones in a row and both aren’t half bad.
While not as good as the first one, which involved a murder at a circus, the episode “Fire in the Ice” still managed to be interesting.
You have a fireman who played hockey against Booth who is …
Law and Order: Criminal Intent Season 1, Episode 20
For many of us, the thought that our spouse is cheating is a horrible thought. With the internet though, cheating has become much easier. That is a little fact of life that a poor suburban woman learns in this episode of Law and Order Criminal Intent. When her son …
Jdrama: Nobuta wo Produce
This japanese series is about a guy named Shuji, a popular superstar at his high school. Meanwhile, he forms unexpected friendships with Akira and this girl named Nobuta. She is often picked on and made fun of because of her scary appearance and quiet nature. Thus Akira and Shuji …
Inspector Gadget (TV Show) - The Amazon (Episode)
“The Amazon” is an episode that’s from the “Inspector Gadget” television series. This is sort of a special episode as it features the man that installed the gadgets that Inspector Gadget now utilizes, Professor Von Slickstein. Dr. Claw kidnaps the scientist and hauls him off to the Amazon Jungle …
The Cleveland Show “Once upon a Tyne in New York”
The Cleveland Show episode “Once upon a tyne in new york” aired last night, 3/21/2010. The plot centers around Cleveland Brown whose new wife is complaining that he has let himself go since they got married 3 months ago. Cleveland talks to his friends at the …
Chip N Dale’s Rescue Rangers
Chip N Dale’s Rescue Rangers is a great show about Chip and Dale the chipmunks who solve crimes and mysteries. The show is just great and one of my best childhood memories. If you like cute little chipmunks, then you are going to love this show. The music in the …
The Cleaner: To Catch a Fed
This is another good episode to The Cleaner. It’s called To Catch a Fed. In it, William Banks is surprised to see the new truck of his dreams show up on his doorstep. It’s a gift, but it comes with a catch. The gift-giver is a …
Doctor Who: Season 3, Episode 10: The Family of Blood
This episode picks up where the last left off, with John Smith being forced to comply to an order that makes absolutely no sense to him made by beings that he has no seeming familiarity with. Kudos to Martha for turning the tables the way she did. …
The Vampire Diaries Season 2 Episode 1: “The Return”
When I last saw the little town of Mystic Falls Virginia last season of The Vampire Diaries, the townspeople were trying to pick up the pieces after a vampire unveiling turned sour, killing not only vampires but humans as well.
Elena Gilbert had just saved her vampire boyfriend Stefan and …
I miss my “Friends”!!!
I know that it was everywhere and I know that people began to find it annoying, but I absolutely love “Friends”!!! I miss it so much. I watched every single episode of every single season in less that 10 days. I just went out and rented Season 6 again! …
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Chain of Command, Part Two
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Chain of Command, Part Two is one of the series’ darkest episodes and also one of the show’s best. In this episode, a captured Captain Picard is interrogated, humiliated and tortured by a member of the Cardassian military while Captain Jellico works on …
Zoo - The TV Series (2015)
OH. MY. WORD!!!! If you haven’t seen this series yet, you are definitely missing out! I suggest you immediately find it and watch it! Zoo is a 2015 TV series based on the James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge book of the same title. I would describe this series as an …
Supernatural: 99 Problems TV Show
I don’t watch this Supernatural television series, so I don’t even know the setup of the story. All I really know is that it’s a science fiction series that airs on the CW network at the moment. However, I had to watch this episode because Michael Shanks …
The Andy Griffith Show: The Return of Malcolm Merriweather TV Show
The wonderful Bernard Fox makes another appearance in this great comedy series in April 1964. In The Andy Griffith Show: The Return of Malcolm Merriweather, Fox plays the amicable gentleman’s valet, who comes back to Mayberry to say hello as he makes his way around that part of …
Adam-12: The Tip
For me, one of the things that stands out about Adam-12: The Tip is that Chuck Courtney has an uncredited part as bad guy, Russell Simms. I’m not sure why he didn’t make the end theme credits, but for some reason, Adam-12 had a habit of not crediting …
That Girl: No Man Is a Manhattan Island
In That Girl: No Man Is a Manhattan Island, Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas) appears on a game show where her success depends on knowing her neighbors. I actually had a problem with how this introductory scene went because we’ve seen Ann with a lot of her neighbors, and …
M*A*S*H: Bombed
M*A*S*H: Bombed has the 4077th being bombed by friendly fire. It makes for a lot of humor as the regulars end up in all kinds of crazy situations and have to deal with more than just the usual silliness.
One of the major things that happens is that …
Alias Smith and Jones: Return to Devil’s Hole
Alias Smith and Jones: Return to Devil’s Hole continues the pattern in this first season of separating the two stars of this comical western series. They are together only at the beginning and at the end. As I’ve said before, that’s not a pattern I enjoy or …
That 70s Show: Eric’s Birthday
I’ve been watching a lot of the later That 70s Show episodes lately. But, I have to say the original episodes are still the best. Proof of this is the episode entitled “Eric’s Birthday.”
This is one of the great episodes, before Eric and Donna become a couple (well, actually …
Whoopi: Sticky Fingers TV Show
Whoopi: Sticky Fingers, from November 2003, features Whoopi Goldberg’s character of Mavis Rae being arrested for shoplifting. What led into the tale was Mavis shopping with Nasim (Omid Djalili) and talking about how she was being watched for shoplifting because of her race and that it superceded Nasim’s …
The Andy Griffith Show: Opie’s Rival TV Show
This is the show that just has never made sense to me. It’s the third season of The Andy Griffith Show, and we’ve already had four or so episodes that deal with Sheriff Andy Taylor’s relationship with Nurse Peggy McMillan. During this time, little Opie Taylor (Ron …
Seinfeld: The Soup Nazi
One of the more famous Seinfeld episodes is the one entitled “The Soup Nazi.” And, to be honest, with you, it’s definitely memorable but I’m not sure if it is my favorite episode of the series.
This one focuses on a soup kitchen that everyone on the show frequents. It …
The Wayans Bros TV show
The Wayans Bros is one of the best shows I have seen in a long time! I just love this show! Marlon and Shawn are The Wayans Bros. Marlon is so funny because he makes the funniest faces and he also has a funny voice. The jokes on The Wayans …
The Andy Griffith Show: The Loaded Goat TV Show
In January of 1963, The Andy Griffith Show aired a show called The Loaded Goat. The funny thing to me is that because of the way the show is edited for television in reruns, I had stopped watching this episode. I never knew the outcome of the …
Emerald Point N.A.S.: Episode 5
Emerald Point N.A.S.’s fifth episode opens with the sad news that Celia (Susan Dey) has lost her baby. As sometimes happens, ultimately this leads to marital bliss going bye bye. Then again, there wasn’t a lot of bliss at the moment in her marriage to Jack Warren …
The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
Ok. So I know this show is a classic or something and I sort of remember watching it when it was originally aired. But I don’t understand how everyone thinks Will Smith was the best character of the show. I really don’t think he carried the show. He was …
The Twilight Zone: What’s in the Box TV Show
The Twilight Zone: What’s in the Box is a crazy thirty minutes focused on the evils of television, or maybe it’s just focused on an evil television. Sterling Holloway, whose unique voice makes him a unique performer, guest stars as a TV repairman who performs some special alterations …
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Deadly Creature Below! TV Show
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Deadly Creature Below! was the 16th show to air during the 1965-1966 TV season, which was the second year of this sci fi series about the nuclear submarine, Seaview. The Seaview should have billing: it’s a vital part of what makes …
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Primeval
OK, I officially can’t wait until we finish the fourth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This season has been absolutely terrible and the episode “Primeval” didn’t exactly help matters.
This episode has the final battle with Adam. Early on, we learn he wants to create more human/demon cyborgs. That …
Stargate Atlantis: The Prodigal
Stargate Atlantis: The Prodigal, a fifth season episode, begins with Woolsey confronting Ronon about not filing mission reports. It then shifts to Sheppard and McKay racing remote control cars down a corridor where they run into Teyla who is trying to get her baby to sleep. It’s …
Scrubs: Our Drunk Friend
This episode had a lot of the same problems that the first episode had.
I think the biggest problem though was that it was rehashing territory already covered. I mentioned that the last episode did similar things, but this episode does practically the exact same thing with an alcoholic …
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Episode 12 (Anime)
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Episode 12 actually has two stories in it. The first is about Tachikoma, one of the robots, running away and the other story is about Section 9 looking into s msn’s disappearance.
Although this wasn’t one of my favorite episodes, I still …
Sea Hunt: Kelp Forest TV Show
From September 1959, Kelp Forest, a show from Sea Hunt’s second season, really didn’t do much for me, and the reason why is that there’s nothing new in this show, including the guest stars.
Here’s the thing. Actor Ted de Corsia has been in multiple episodes of Sea Hunt. …
Scrubs show
I started watching this show a while back. At first I didn’t really like it but the more I watched I started to really enjoy it. Now it’s a show I watch all the time. I just wish they would come out with a new season. It’s pretty funny. …
Sea Hunt: Underwater Narcotics TV Show
Sea Hunt: Underwater Narcotics, the 34th show to air in season three back in August 1960, surprised me a little in that it was almost a lesson on drugs. It dealt with marijuana, or rather, a hybrid form of the drug which Mike Nelson (Lloyd Bridges) discovers underwater.
The …
Stargate SG1: The First Commandment
This episode dealt with a Colonel from Stargate Command who actually fell for the, “You’re a God,” rhetoric that primitive people always spouted when teams came through the Stargate.
Seems another Stargate team was sent to a planet and never returned. When SG1 arrives, they find out from one …
Destination Truth: King Tut’s Curse/Swamp Ape
The more I see the show Destination Truth, the more I find myself liking it. None of the episodes have lived up to the first one I watched but they are still pretty close.
Last night’s episode “King Tut’s Curse/Swamp Ape” was probably the best thing I watched last night.
The …
American Dad S03 E04
In this Episodes, Stan got so upset about Francine Chinese Adopited Parents, He Decided to go to the Adopion Serivce and After Hacking into the computer there. He went to South Carolina and Meet Francine Real Parents. Stan was happy but Francine still refused to see them and doesn’t …
IRT Deadliest Roads: Death is a Blind Corner Away TV Show
IRT Deadliest Roads: Death is a Blind Corner Away was certainly a hold your breath hour. The thing is that we know nothing fatal is ever going to happen. I just don’t see this series or any version of Ice Road Truckers showing a catastrophe that involved …
Justice League Unlimited Season One: Panic In The Sky
“Panic In The Sky” is the 24th episode of Justice League Unlimited, season one. By this episode, the plot has really hit the breaking point, as six of the “original seven” Justice Leaguers turn themselves in to federal custody, leaving the rest of the team to fight off …
The King of Queens
To be honest, I never watched “The King of Queens” before they started showing syndicated episodes of it in the afternoons on one of local television stations. Since that time, however, my day is not complete unless I see this show. Everybody in the cast is talented …
Diagnosis Murder: Murder on the Run: Part 1 TV Show
So far, Diagnosis Murder has done one two-part story each season and this third year is no exception. Diagnosis Murder: Murder on the Run: Part 1 aired in January 1996 with the conclusion airing one week later.
This is a good time to note another change to season three, …
The Andy Griffith Show: A Wife for Andy TV Show
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 Secret Life of the American Teenager
Hey, you should be proud of me. A new television series came on TV and, not only did I watch it, I actually got to see the first episode of it (that rarely happens).
But, after watching The Secret Life of the American Teenager on ABC Family, I really find …
Smallville: Odyssey
“Odyssey” is the first episode of season eight of Smallville. This is the first ever episode that did not feature the character of Lex Luthor. Although this is a huge blow to the show, at the least this episode shows that the writers are willing to introduce some …
CHiPs: Pilot
The pilot for CHiPs aired on September 15, 1977 and introduced the world to the lives of two California Highway Patrol officers, Jon Baker and Frank Poncherello, played by Larry Wilcox and Erik Estrada. On the surface, they were different as night and day, but they were partners …
Comcast - Programming
This review is focusing solely on the programming offered by Comcast Cable in the Northern California region and particularly in Sacramento.
Since coming to Sacramento the last time, Comcast Cable has done very little to increase its channels offered. Let me explain that originally, we had Sacramento Cable. …
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