The first episodes of the Buck Rogers television series feature two top notch guest stars: Roddy McDowell in a minor role and Jack Palance in an OUTRAGEOUSLY campy appearance as a villain who has the power of mind control and is selling people into intergalactic slavery. This episode drags …

Columbo: Murder Under Glass has a cooking theme, and this one doesn’t thrill me. Frenchman Louis Jourdan is full of his usual charm and sophistication as Paul Gerard, who is the killer of the episode. He’s involved in what they call a pre-affair with Eve Plummer. …

I could tell by the way the first episode began that Lost was going to be a great hit for the producers at ABC.
The story begins as a plane crashes into a lost island, several hours off the original course, making it difficult to envision a rescue. We are …

The Virginian: Riff-Raff was half drama and half comedy. It guess starred Ray Danton and Don Durant, who both had some funny moments, but the real smiles came with Karl Swenson as Teddy Roosevelt. This was Teddy beginning his Rough Riders. In a comedy of …

What can I say about Bring ‘Em Back Alive: The Best of Enemies? Not much that is good, that’s for sure. This adventure series continues to be sub-par. Star Bruce Boxleitner didn’t have enough sparkle to keep the show dazzling along, and the co-stars were almost …

Nicholas Pryor guest stars as Major Nathaniel Burnham in M*A*S*H: Rumor at the Top from season ten. This is one of those shows that proves the old adage that assumptions are dangerous. They call it a rumor, but it begins with an assumption.
It comes down the line …

Highway Patrol: Trojan Horse, season 2’s 23rd episode gave California Highway Patrol Chief Dan Mathews a puzzle to solve. It seems the Jarmin Manufacturing Company had their substantial payroll stolen. The question is just how did the thieves get in and out of the guarded facility. …

I’m usually a fan of the show Family Guy. But, some episodes just aren’t very funny. The episode entitled Padre de Familia is a good example of it.
Ths one explores the whole illegal immigrant thing and Peter discovers he’s not a US citizen (he was born in Mexico and …

Last night’s episode of House was actually pretty decent for a change.
The episode, entitled “Remorse” had an interesting case involving a woman who turns out to have zero emotion and will do whatever it takes to get her way. She is dying and they team can’t figure out if …

Well, last night’s episode of House, Ignorance is Bliss, could have been one of the better episodes from the series. After all, you have a genius who is no longer a genius and is suffering a variety of health ailments that can’t be explained (except by his addiction to …

We pick up where the last episode left off, with the Doctor and crew trying to venture through a crashed ship that is infested with Weeping Angels. Sadly, this episode isn’t quite as good as its predecessor, but it is a worthy conclusion all the same. Where …

Family Guy’s 11th season had so many hits and misses, that it was almost painful to see. Strangely, when I saw the title of the 9th episode, Space Cadet, I honestly thought it was going to be about Chris dressing up in a spacesuit and asking Miss Lockheart out …

Sea Hunt: Recovery is one of my favorite episodes for this adventure series that deals with diving expert Mike Nelson, as played by Lloyd Bridges. At the beginning of the show, we get the usual Nelson narration to let us know what’s happening. In this segment, he …

Never Help the Devil is the 31st episode of the third season of Have Gun - Will Travel. It still amazes me how far down we’ve fallen, going from a glorious time when there were close to 40 shows in a season and now we think 13 works. …

Hawaii Five-O: Not That Much Different focuses on student protestors who confront a foreign official. The man decides to address the protestors and when shots ring out, one of the protestors is killed. At first, the assumption is that the shot was meant for the foreign representative, …

Stargate Atlantis: Remnants continues the exploits of the Atlantis team in the Pegasus Galaxy. In this 15th show of the farewell season, the opening scenes have my head spinning. There’s just way too much going on, all presented in very short segments. More time needed to …

When we have dinner, we like to watch some of the old sitcoms. One of our favorits is the Friends series.
We have always likes the interaction of the characters, Joey the soap star who is dim witted but kind hearted. Ross the scientist, from a well …

Finally, after a long wait, I manage to watch George Clooney on Ellen. I don’t know if all of this was staged, but George certainly got that “shock” look on his face when he was brought by these 2 famous baseball players inside Ellen’s studio. Halfway through, George …

I got to watch bits and pieces of last night’s Law & Order SVU episode Hardwired. For the most part, it was OK. But, it really wasn’t anything that stood out when compared to the other episodes I’ve seen of the show.
Basically, it had the same plot as others, …

Ok, I was in for another treat here. The episode is one of the best because Kurt Russell guest acts as a 15 year old jungle boy. My, I can not believe how young he is in this show. And Gilligan finally finds someone more playful and active as …

I enjoy ‘How Clean is your House?’ mainly because I find it very motivating when it comes to cleaning my own house. In each episodes, the team visits what the voice-over man calls a ‘filth offender’, someone living in a revoltingly dirty house. Although you or I …

The Game Season 4 aired on the BET network in January 2011. This is the fourth season in production of this show and I for one am glad that BET brought it back for another season. The Game is a sitcom about football wives and husbands. It follows a …

The second season of Family Guy starts on steady footing with this enjoyable tale that was one of the first to really go crazy story wise.
In a complete stand alone, the Griffin family prepare for the impending year 2000. While everybody prepares for an promising celebration at Quagmire’s …

This episode is great! You know there is not even one dull moment in the whole show, full of surprising events that keeps you guessing what will happen next. It plays as more an outrageous show and yes is unrealistic, but still good. Gilligan of course gets into trouble, …

Star Trek Voyager season 3 episode 6 is called Remember. It is rightly so in that Torres begins have odd dreams that are more vivid than any she has ever experienced in her life before, shortly after taking on some passengers from another race. Through a joint effort Janeway …

Comic Superheroes Unmasked is a documentary on the History Channel about this history of comic books and superheroes. It features interviews with many influential comic book authors and illustrators.
It was a very interesting documentary. Since I enjoy reading comic books, I found the documentary to be …

I still like the television series Monk. But, either I’m becoming a better detective myself or the show is becoming extremely predictable with easy-to-solve cases.
Mr. Monk Buys a House, the newest episode, is a good example of this.
From the first minutes of the show, we know who is killed …

The Black Tower - Part 2 continued to hold my interest fully, which is the first of the Dalgliesh murder mysteries to have that effect. Based on the P.D. James novel, this television version of the book stars Roy Marsden as Inspector Adam Dalgliesh and Pauline Collins as …

Homer wakes up and starts seeing all hints, that he should not forget something. He tries hard, what he should not forget,but just cannot remember. It is funny to see the hints he gets. Especially Maggie, who spits out the words, for Homer to rememebr. Marge tells him that …

Sam returns to the SGC in Stargate SG-1: Beachhead. She’s been at Area 51, but finally comes to help out with the latest crisis, by special request of General Landry. The only bad part about this is the vagueness of certain aspects of her private life, which …

My Name is Earl is one of the few television shows that I watch frequently. I’ve been a fan of Jason Lee’s for years now, since back before he was in the Kevin Smith movies, and seeing him on television every week is a secret thrill. During the second …

When a prisoner turns up dead in an elevator, Ziva has to prove that she did not kill him. To make matters worse, the dead man’s brother insists that he be returned to him, along with the heroin they obtained, or Jenny Shepherd will be killed.
Gibbs puts Gibbs …

South Park is often known for its irreverent humor. The newest episode, and the last new one of the decade, has the boys going to a water park.
After Butters pees in the pool, Kyle comes to the shocking realization that almost everybody does. No one …

I opted to purchase On Demand Television in my home. As a result, I have wound up getting four hundred some odd television channels that I thought I would never utilize. I suppose I underestimated the the addictive nature of being spoiled enough to have such a …

I have been an avid fan of Game of Thrones and now that the season is almost over, I am here to let you guys know how I thought about Episode 9 of Season 2’s Game of Thrones.
For all of you who still live in a cave and …

Just when I thought season 2 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer could actually go without a bad episode, I come across the one entitled “Halloween.”
To be fair, this isn’t really a bad episode. It’s just it’s an episode that’s been done before.
Basically, it’s the same Halloween episode other shows …

I don’t like it, and I’ll say that up front. MacGyver: Jack of Lies is the first appearance of the Jack Dalton character. This guy is the same kind of character that Tom Selleck dealt with on Magnum P.I., the annoying chum that he can’t help but …

I came in a bit late on the A-Team re-run The Duke of Whispering Pines this past weekend and I didn’t get to see the first few minutes of it. But, I did get to see the majority of this episode and, for the most part, it was pretty …

Synopsis: The TAPS team unveils their new van as they travel to Pennsylvania to investigate Penhurst Asylum (shut down in 1986 for abusing the inmates).
What I liked about this episode: As always, I love when they go to place that the average person might not have heard of and …

The fifth season of The Virginian brought about more change. Judge Garth, owner of Shiloh, has sold the ranch to John Grainger, who shows up with his two grandchildren, both young adults. As fate would have it, one of Grainger’s new neighbors has an ax to grind …

Perhaps it is the crazy entertaining ways of the host Alton Brown, or perhaps it’s my desire to be educated in the ways of the kitchen; but I thoroughly enjoy the show Good Eats. It airs on the Food Network a few times a day- each episode features a …

This is one of my favorite NCIS episodes of all time. I still cry when I watch this episode. It is so full of emotion that even though I know what is going to happen and know the dialogue almost word for word, I still find myself …

The Andy Griffith Show: Andy and Opie - Bachelors, which aired back in October 1962, was the second episode to include Joanna Moore as Andy’s girlfriend, Peggy McMillian. Like Mary Simpson, the last gal to have Andy’s affections, Peggy was a nurse. In her first appearance, we …

M*A*S*H: Private Finance deals with a wounded soldier, Private Eddie Hastings, who makes Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda) promise to send his money home to his parents, should he die, which he did. The problem is that the man had almost $9,000, which is an incredible amount. After …

“Reveille” opens with Gibbs having a weird dream about Ari. In it, he walks into autopsy and sees Ducky standing beside a body bag looking very sad and upset. Gibbs unzips the body bag and sees Kate lying dead with a gunshot wound in her forehead. …

Season four of The Andy Griffith Show continued with Hot Rod Otis on February 17, 1964. The basic premise of the half hour program has Andy and Barney worried when town drunk Otis Campbell (played beautifully by Hal Smith) buys a car.
First up, though, is some competition madness …

Hello, I just finished watching this anime. It was Japanese but I had English subtitles on to understand what they were saying. I’m not actively learning Japanese, but by doing this I found that I know a lot of Japanese already and can also understand a lot of it, …

Hawaii Five-0: Ho’apono was the latest episode of this crime drama to air. I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed the opening, not because of the big chase scene that was part of it, but because they showed us a famous old war ship. I totally …

A monster of the week episode should, by all accounts, be difficult to pull off, what with the X-files being closed and all. Still, we manage to get a classic one here. The “flukeman” has become one of the iconic X-files monsters and, after watching this episode, …