The Virginian: Portrait of a Widow guest stars Vera Miles as a widow, Maggie Menken. While visiting back east with Betsy (Roberta Shore), she meets Charles Boulanger, a charming French painter. He surprises Maggie and Betsy by returning to Medicine Bow with them.
John Gavin portrays Boulanger, who …

Well, Whatever with Alexis and Jennifer from September 16, 2010 began with yet another attempt by Alexis to be a fashion plate. How is she supposed to be relatable if she is trying to look like a Fashion Week model? This is especially hard when her hairdos …

“The Most Extreme”, on Animal Planet, is a show you can watch with your kids, because it will fascinate and educate both adults and children. Every episode deals with certain special characteristics animals have and they narrow it down to a list of ten animals that exhibit the …

Highway Patrol: Motorcycle A was one of the more interesting first season outings for this half-hour crime show that centers on the California Highway Patrol. However, while it’s interesting, I cringed at many elements of it.
First of all, the owner of the care, Bernie Sills (played by Jack …

In Performance at the White House: Paul McCartney aired on PBS and it surrounded Sir Paul McCartney being awarded The Gershwin Prize for Lifetime Achievement in song writing for popular music. It’s a prestigious award and an honor McCartney takes quite seriously. Following are some observations about …

I watched this show a little while ago and was kind of interested. At first I didn’t realize that it was actually a prank show. The daters (usually the women) are actually actresses hired by BET to make the dates unbearable. The dates can take all …

Like I mentioned before, I took the time to watch some movies on the Lifetime Movie Network this past weekend. One of the films I ended up watching was called “Best Friends” and it turned out to be a decent movie.
The film starts out with two women who are …

I finally got a chance to sit down and watch the Family Guy episode Death Lives in its entirety the other night. When I started watching it, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from it because I had seen bits and pieces and it didn’t look as funny …

This show takes a look back at the choir that Gareth Malone developed and trained from students of Northolt High School and actually made them successful enough to compete in a world competition in China. They didn’t make it through to the second round there, but they performed, …

Mad Men is witty and refreshing.
Mad Men is AMC’s latest television series based on advertisers in New York City. It’s based in the 1950’s with “Ad Men” as they call themselves, attempting to find new ways to sell companies.
I had heard bits and pieces of the show from …

The 1985 crime drama series, Street Hawk presents as its third episode, The Adjuster, a show which guest stars Marjoe Gortner. I’m not a fan of Gortner’s, to be honest. He’s a little too quirky and off-kilter for my tastes. I’ve always been surprised that his …

This show is about a girl who had a car accident and after she wokes up from the coma she doesn’t remember anything about her life and herself. So now she has to learn everything about herself and most of the things she learns she doesn’t like, so she …

Stargate Atlantis: Outsiders is the twelfth episode of the last season of this science fiction series. The drama begins when Colonel John Sheppard’s team goes to a planet where Dr. Carson Beckett is working. Beckett is feeling good about what he’s doing, like he’s making a difference, …

The Lifetime Television movie “Write & Wrong” is a courageous examination of aging in a medium that is perpetually young. Byrdie is an oscar-nominated who is told that her characters are too old and her themes are too stale for the 18-28 crowd that the new (read almost fetal) …

The second episode of the third season of the NBC ninety-minute western series The Virginian is called The Dark Challenge. Doug McClure, who plays Trampas, is the primary lead in this outing, though most of the regulars appear at various points. There’s even a song performed by …

I am engrossed in the UK version of Celebrity Big Brother 2010 which, as I write, has been running for just over a week on Channel 4, with a couple more weeks to go. This is the very last one so I am trying to appreciate it before …

As I mentioned in another review, I was watching a few re-runs of Star Trek the Next Generation this past weekend and came across a couple that I hadn’t seen before. One of these was the episode entitled “First Contact.”
This one was actually a bit interesting to me because …

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 …

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 …

This award winning show is based on the real life cases of Alison Dubois (a successful medium), having read her books I was eager to see how her life would translate in television land. Patricia Arquette plays the part of Alison Dubois really well and I’m glad …

Macross Plus Episode 4 begins with Sharron taking control of all the computer systems and using them against Isamu who is trying to stop her and rescue Myung.
This was the best episode because it brings the story to a good conclusion while showing off the excellent fight …

My daughter ended up watching another episode of the 1980s show Faerie Tale Theater this past weekend; Goldilocks and the Three Bears. And, much like other episodes of the show, this one proved to be pretty entertaining for pretty much everyone in our family.
They kept the same basic plot …

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, …

After Father Abel Nightroad’s death, things take an very depressing turn. If you do not like depressing episodes, this might not be one for you. But, if you like action and comedy mixing it up, then you have just struck gold on your hunt. Trinity Blood: Episode twenty-three: “Crown …

As Zuko continues to acclimate to the group, Sokka inquires about where prisoners would be held. Zuko tries to dodge the question in an attempt to protect Sokka’s feelings, but Zuko eventually caves and says that war prisoners would likely be taken to a prison called the boiling …

A UFO convention? A transvestite blogger somehow linked to the three-dot symbol? Are you kidding me? I’m beginning to wonder if the writers of this show were severely desperate for ideas here. Alan Park, our transvestite blogger, is the worst part of the entire episode. I don’t know about …

M*A*S*H: End Run from the fifth season of the successful Korean War comedy series is another one that I can pass on as an overall story.
Once again, the engaged Margaret Houlihan (Loretta Swit) challenges her ex-amour Frank Burns (Larry Linville) about handling their break up. What I don’t …

Back in 2003, Whoopi Goldberg starred in a TV show for the NBC network. It was, naturally, a situation comedy. Now I’m not all that fond of modern sitcoms because the humor is too provocative for my tastes. I wanted to watch this, though, because I …

I first discovered Guiding Light when I was young I can’t even remember how old I was. I used to watch it on every holiday, and during the entire Summer of vacation. As I got older and began to do teenage things my faithfulness faltered as cable television and …

The Defenders: Las Vegas v. Reid is the second show of this new law series that is as much comedy as it is drama. For example, in the opening tease, the first bit has the series leads, Jim Belushi and Jerry O’Connell, standing below the big, bold billboard …

My wife and I were bored yesterday and wound up watching television. After surfing through some channels, we ended up with the show “Running in Heels.” It was OK but nothing special.
The show basically is a behind-the-scenes look at the fashion magazine industry with us getting an introduction to …

When I first heard that HBO was running a show on NFL training camp, I thought it would just be another boring and poorly portrayed image of the NFL. Was I wrong, this documentary by NFL films has to be one of the best I’ve seen. It was not …

Monsters Inside Me is an American factual TV show on the Discovery Channel about medical conditions that have affected people as the result of some kind of infection.
I find the show both scary and fascinating as the thought of some kind of organism living in your body is like …

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 …

Steven Culp and Kelly Lynch guest starred in The Cleaner: Rebecca. This was another solid episode with a lot of drama to it which I enjoyed watching. Both Culp and Lynch are excellent performers and they bring a lot to the table. Lynch is especially riveting …

After purchasing the other 3 seasons on box set I had fallen in love with the way it was layed out and shown so when I brought home this product I was really very excited. I had already watched the whole of this season and couldn’t wait to see …

Now that I have a 1 month old, I find myself up at late hours taking care of her. As a result, I end up looking for something on TV to help me stay awake.
One of those things I came across was Classic AWA Wrestling on Espn Classic. I …

Phoebe convinces Monica to come to Mike’s piano bar to listen to him play and to make fun of people singing karaoke. Monica has always wanted to go, but she knows that as soon as she gets there Phoebe is going to try and convince her to sing, …

I’m still trying out No Ordinary Family but I’m not sure that I’ll be sticking with the full season. There are elements of the show that I like. It’s different in that it’s not a family gaining super powers who then all become super heroes. Rather, …

Sometimes after watching a show like this one, I wonder why does not all anime come in this format. I’ll admit, I’ve almost didn’t see it at all - the pace is rather slow in the beginning and I’ve almost stopped watching before it got its hooks into me. From …

The Grover Allen Story from season seven of Wagon Train is a little different from the other stories. It revolved around Grover Allen, a seemingly mild-mannered man who suddenly turns murderer, killing his boss with a bomb. Oddly, the episode is filmed as part comedy, with several …

M*A*S*H: The Grim Reaper has Captain Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda), chief surgeon at the 4077th unit, so incensed at Colonel Victor Bloodworth, played by Charles Aidman, that he actually gets into a fight with him at the bar. I’m just not into the shows where Hawkeye gets violent. …

The Not-So-Interesting Beginnings is the beginning of a six-part documentary of the British comedy troupe, Monty Python. The overall title of the hours of recall is Monty Python: Almost the Truth - The Lawyers Cut. To be up front, I’ve never been a fan of this group …

Season nine of Stargate SG-1 comes to a dramatic close with an episode entitled Camelot. Naturally, it’s a cliffhanger with the conclusion being the opener of the tenth season.
The worst thing about the episode is Claudia Black’s return as Vala, standing very pregnant as she watches destruction unfold. …

The show is over. Emerald Point N.A.S.: Episode 22 — The Wedding is the final episode of this navy drama. The sad part is that no one knew that at the time of the taping. Therefore, it has that typical cliffhanger ending that would never be …

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. …

Wild Kingdom, from Mutual of Omaha, is a long-running nature show which is currently appearing on Animal Planet. This show features animals from around the world, and traces their stories as they struggle to survive in the wild. In the episode entitled Return of the Fire Cat, …

Highway Patrol: Plant Robbery is not a story I like to watch really. By happenstance, I’ve seen it a couple of times, and neither viewing was all that pleasurable, simply because there’s no one in the story I like. In other words, none of the characters really …

Today was the first time I’ve seen the Monk episode “Mr. Monk is at Your Service” and thought it was one of the funnier episodes I’ve seen recently.
This episode has Monk going undercover as a butler (or as he refers to it, a house manager) because Natalie suspects the …

From April 2004, Scott Bryce returns as Stan the Republican in Whoopi: Strange Bedfellows. This is Bryce’s second appearance on the half hour, NBC comedy that stars Whoopi Goldberg as Mavis Rae, the owner of Hotel Lamont. The half-hour show centers around two different plots.
First, there is …