Well, who knew Bart’s trouble making tendencies could be turned into something good? The Simpsons episode “Jazzy and the Pussycats” shows Lisa isn’t the only one in the family with the ability to be a talented musician.
This is actually a funny episode. Bart makes trouble at church and, embarassed …

Man, this show is good. The group comes across a professor who is looking for an ancient library filled with centuries worth of knowledge. Sokka convinces them to join him, thinking that they can learn about the fire nation to begin forming a strategy.
This episode is quite …

My family has been watching the show Family Guy for some time now (at least until our 5-year-old started repeating some of the stuff she shouldn’t have and we took a break from it) so we were interested when we learned there was going to be a spin-off starring …

In M*A*S*H: B. J. Papa San, B.J. Hunnicutt (Mike Farrell) latches on to a nearby Korean family whose father has taken ill. He ends up doing all kinds of things for them, including giving them supplies and fishing up their home, while cutting himself too thin, time wise. …

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: 2nd Gig Episode 10 has Togusa trying to help a woman who is in a domestic dispute as he can’t stop the man who killed her, he is taken to trial.
I liked this anime a lot, and it’s one of my favorites, …

While Soon-Tek Oh is an incredible actor and does his normal terrific job in Bring ‘Em Back Alive: The Warlord, it’s not enough to carry this show; at least, not for me. In this episode, Oh plays Yataki, the warlord, and he does a good job, as always. …

Whenever I am bored and in the mood for some noncommittal but somewhat thoughtful entertainment, I turn to my trusty X-Files. Although it has gone off the air nine years ago, there are nine seasons and countless episodes of this old favorite classic to wile away the dull hours. …

Stargate SG-1: Tangent is a very nice entry in season four of SG-1. It again divides the team up, but they are all focused on the same goal, and it’s full of angst and drama.
Jack and Teal’c are testing the new X-301 interceptor, which combines both American and …

In M*A*S*H: The Tooth Shall Set You Free, Major Charles Emerson Winchester III (David Ogden Stiers) has a nasty toothache but refuses to see a dentist, actually denying he’s in pain at all.
While the comedy portion of the show centers on Winchester, the drama is about the latest group …

So far, watching re-runs of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer every night has revealed two things about the show. First, Sarah Michelle Gellar is hot. Second, for every good episode of the series, there is at least two bad episodes.
The episode out of mind, out of sight was one …

Watch What Happens: Live is new to the Bravo Channel in 2009 and personally, I think it needs to go away and be a memory. I just wasn’t impressed at all by what I saw. The only reason I tuned in was to see who the Top …

It’s women’s poker night on Whoopi: Rita Plays Poker, starring Whoopi Goldberg as singer turned hotel owner, Mavis Rae. It’s a little different in having the ladies playing poker. In the beginning, though, one of the women, Diane (Leah Hocking), has to leave because she’s having contractions. …

I began watching the tv series “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” in it’s first season. I loved the show immediately, and have become an avid follower of the series.
My favorite thing about the series is the creativity. The cases all have such different circumstances, the writers tell the story beautifully. …

It had to happen sooner or later and as it turns out, it happened in the third season of this hit comedy series about the Korean War. In M*A*S*H: Iron Guts Kelly, a general arrives for a stopover at the 4077th. With General Kelly is his number …

I haven’t watch the show Star Trek the Next Generation in a long while. But, there was nothing better on TV tonight so I ended up watching an episode of it; Survivors.
This proved to be a pretty decent episode. The Enterprise comes across a planet that has been devastated …

This was the first episode in the 8th season (1970) of BBC’s Doctor Who and the first season broadcast in color and the first episode featuring the brilliant Jon Pertwee in the role of The Doctor.
The Doctor joins the crew of UNIT (United Nations Intelligence Task Force) to aid …

The newly ascended Dalek Sec makes his debut, and pretty much proceeds to steal the show. At first, it doesn’t seem like too much has changed. Sec’s initital assessment of mankind is less than positive. On the contrary, he seems to see a lot of Dalek in …

One of my favorite episodes, Alias Smith and Jones: Journey from San Juan, is a show I never get bored watching. From beginning to end, I enjoy the scenes. Nothing about it tires me, not even after seeing it numerous times over the years. It’s well …

Since I am British and since up until this election campaign we had never before had an American style live TV debate, I was extremely interested to see how this one would play out. ITV won the battle to stage the first of what will be three debates, and …

Top Chef: Just Desserts: Glee Club, hosted by the enticing Gail Simmons, had another extended program. For the second week in a row, the show was on for 75 minutes instead of the normal hour.
Pastry chef Sylvia Weinstock was a great judge during the quick fire challenge when …

Spooks returns for another run, picking up where the last one left off.
MI5 head Harry Pearce is still in the custody of his abductors, while his team try desperately to track him down. Elsewhere, former Spook and fan favourite Ruth, is brought out of hiding when she and …

Breakthrough with Tony Robbins Episode 4 deals with Scott and Mandy Smith who are dealing with Mandy’s panic attacks after their daughter died for a short time after she accidentally ran into the back of the car with her go cart.
This was a very sad episode because of …

It’s time for the annual company party, and the usually tight-fisted Mr. Burns surprisingly reserves the Springfield Air and Space Museum as the venue. Once all of the employees have greatly enjoyed themselves, Burns drops the bomb that he will terminate the company prescription drug plan. At …

From 1980, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe: Savage Says “What Are Friends For?” was the first one not directed and written by series creator, Steven J. Cannell, and it showed. While the essence of the wonderful characters of E.L. ‘Tenspeed’ Turner, played brilliantly by Ben Vereen, and Lionel Whitney, …

This episode started with a mixture of showing a classroom teacher and an FBI agent while doing a drug raid. It did a very good job at mixing both scenarios together as the teacher was explaining that a good leader has to trust in himself, and will thereby gain …

Star Trek: Metamorphosis isn’t in my top favorites, but it is a solid episode that gives us some history as well. The premise is that a shuttle from the Enterprise is heading back to the ship after picking up a rather opinionated and ungrateful Ambassador Nancy Hedford (Elinor …

The Burn Notice Season 2 DVD set is a four disk set containing all the episodes from the second season. Each disk has a nice color photo of one of the show’s four stars — Jeffrey Donovan, Gabrielle Anwar, Bruce Campbel, and Sharon Gless. This makes them …

One of my latest favorite shows is called Swift Justice. It is not your typical court show. It is much more casual than other shows like Judge Judy or Judge Alex. This show has heart, and the hostess is no nonsense.
The premise of this show is for Nancy …

This was the twenty ninth episode of the entire popular 1990s American television show “The X-Files”. It was also the fifth episode of the second season in the series. I think I would put this episode in my top thirty episodes of the entire series since I thought …

Unlike many Americans, I’m not obsessed with television. At least not to the point where I will plan my life around it; with the exception of Green Bay Packers games.
This week, I discovered a mini-series that actually has me clearing my schedule.
When I saw the previews for the Sci …

All the kids are assembled at The Simpsons house for a Halloween party. Marge begins to tell a story, in the dark, passing edible stuff and saying that this is a witch’s organs. Homer ruins it by eating the parts. Lisa then begins to tell a scary story about …

Ice Road Truckers: Convoy to Hell was a bit on the calm side, which is unusual for this reality series which airs weekly on the History Channel. Usually, the show has plenty of spice, but for whatever reason, the action seemed a bit tame. Then again, sometimes …

M*A*S*H: Dear Dad… Three simply refers to this being the third episode where we get a full out letter from Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda) to his father. These episodes are always so good to watch. They provide glimpses of life at the 4077th and allow a lot …

There were a few good moments in A Taste for Death - Part 3 as Inspector Adam Dalgliesh (Roy Marsden) continued to try and solve the circumstances surrounding the death of Sir Paul Berowne, who had died in a church.
The most fun portion was a scene in Dalgliesh’s office …

I do like the opening scene from John Doe: Shock to the System because it keeps the continuity alive of John wanting to be challenged. He doesn’t want to know everything, and like an earlier outing where he multi-tasked in a chaotic frenzy until there was something he …

I recently discovered I could watch the first season of the show Futurama on Netflix Instant watch and wasted no time doing so. I even started with the series pilot episode “Space Pilot 3000.”
Even though the show is still on the air, I rarely watch it. But, after seeing …

Just as the first episode of Season 3 had, the second show of the year, Log 35: Easy, Bare Rider, begins right in the middle of the action with no introductory banter between our two heroes of Pete Malloy and Jim Reed. However, this time around, the humor …

The Lazarus Man: The Catamount is the tenth episode of the series which aired in 1996. Here’s what I still don’t get about the main character. Lazarus has flashbacks which we see. I assume we’re seeing what he remembers. Well, I’ve heard ‘Presidential guard’ and …

Donald Trump’s prolonged job interview for the recession’s apprentice continued with The Apprentice: Broadway Boardroom. Like the title might seem to indicate, this challenge involved Broadway musicals.
Steuart worked as the project manager for Octane, while Liza piloted the female’s team of Fortitude. They are given a musical …

Sea Hunt: Legend of the Mermaid almost feels like a repeat or perhaps a sequel. Let me explain why this June 1958 outing feels a little quirky.
First, this is yet another episode about sponge diving. We saw quite a bit of that just a few weeks before …

Super Mario World - “A Little Learning” is not one of my favorite episodes of the series. That is actually an understatement as I really do not care for this episode. The plot simply did not quite interest me. In this episode, Princess Toadstool opens a school and the …

Kung Fu: The Legend Continues: Sunday at the Hotel with George was an episode I was waiting for, one in which Peter Caine’s two fathers meet for the first time. Peter has recently been reunited with his father, Kwai Chang Caine, and that’s the essence of this entire …

The characteristics and particularly the flaws and mistakes of politicians make for some great comedy material and I particularly love any comedian or comedy show that makes use of politics as material.
Late Night News, with leading local stand up comedian Loyiso Gola, is one such show and I love …

When Mr. Smithers wakes up in his messy apartment, he does not remember the night before. He enters his bathroom and finds Mr. Burns showering. He discovers that he is actually dreaming and wakes up suddenly. Mr. Burns is actually in a coma in the hospital, …

A Man Called Kane is the last episode of the second season of the 90-minute western, The Virginian. I wasn’t really crazy about, which surprised me a little. I’ve said before that growing up I didn’t like this show at all. I found The Virginian to …

The Discover wanderwall projector is a OK starting projector. The resolution is not too good. The brightness is not very goo making you need a very dark room to see it. When its a dark seen in the movie it makes any bright parts have a glow around them. …

This was a pretty good episode of CSI and one that I didn’t see when it originally aired on television because it was after I stopped watching the show. Sarah heads to another shift where she discovers the dead body of a homeless man and the rest of the …

I have always loved the Treehouse of horror episodes of Simpsons, even if some of them are a little beyond my liking. There are always three stories to watch and hope that one of them is funny. The whole beginning is with Professor Frink warning people about the episode, …

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Code of Honor is an episode that puzzles me. I do not know if the writers of the episode were deliberately trying to be racist or if they were driving at something else, but the way the episode is scripted makes me wonder. …

The third season of The Twilight Zone is a two-person show. For some reason, Rod Serling liked these introspective shows for the season premiers, and I’m not sure why. Season one focused on Earl Holliman’s character being in a town by himself, and season two had Robert …