Due South: Hawk and Handsaw from season one of this somewhat unique drama has Royal Canadian Mountie Benton Fraser (Paul Gross) pretending to be insane and entering a mental institution where he suspects things aren’t right. It has some nice moments, like when Fraser talks about when his …

Christmas must be around the corner. I say this because I was flipping channels last night and came across the Simpsons Christmas episode “Miracle on Evergreen Terrace.” Fortunately, I had time to actually watch it for the first time in more than a year.
Of all the Simpsons episodes that …

Stargate SG-1: Seth is another episode that some of the actors of the series thought was pretty bad. The whole premise seemed weak to them, the idea of a Goa’uld still living on Earth and having achieved nothing but a tiny cult like following seeming ludicrous. Still, …

Have Gun - Will Travel: The Gospel Singer from season five opens with Hey Boy (Kam Tong) advising Richard Boone’s Paladin of a potential job. I’ve noticed that Hey Boy tends to bring Paladin ideas for his jobs all the time now. I guess Paladin doesn’t like …

In M*A*S*H: A Full Rich Day, Hawkeye Pierce sends another letter home to his dad, only this time it’s not written, but spoken on a tape recorder. I love the opening explanation of how Hawkeye ended up with the recorder. It’s pretty funny.
One oddity about this show …

Fireball XL5: Hypnotic Sphere is one of 39 episodes of this supermarionation puppet series from Gerry Anderson. What I enjoy is that the puppets really do have some great personalities. They’re pretty well rounded, all things considered.
In this show, there’s a neat scene where Professor Matt Matic …

I’ve heard about “Burn Notice” that is airing on the USA Network, but I never caught a full episode until tonight, when Michael Shanks guest starred on the show for the first time. Michael is my second favorite actor of all time, so there was no way I …

I called it! I totally called it! This episode has Katara and Zuko going to find the people responsible for her mother’s death. Even Aang attempts to crack a joke, saying that it’s her turn to take a field trip with Zuko, only to be met with dead …

This edition of Cupcake Wars was a competition whereby the winner would be presenting their cupcakes on display at an OK Magazine matchmaking party. Cupcakes are apparently becoming a hot and trendy thing around the country, something that fascinates me to a point. I’ve always loved cupcakes, …

Martin Milner gets the lead in “Adam-12″s Log 73 episode. In it, his character of Pete Malloy is attending a local college, where the students are unhappy about many of the policies in place. Anne Helm, who has a steady body of quality work, plays one of …

Joan Blondell and Robert Alda guest star That Girl: Just Spell the Name Right and are great to watch. Blondell is a high caliber and always makes her roles shine. I’ve always respected how she kept her career going by taking on character roles and such. …

I absolutely love a good zombie movie. So, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode “Dead Man’s Party” wins points with me simply because it reminded me a bit of Night of the Living Dead.
Of course, it didn’t win enough points for me to consider it a great episode.
First of …

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 …

Top Chef: Just Desserts: Cocktail with a Twist was a volatile hour, thanks to one of the contestants. Sometimes the chefs really do overpower the theme of the episode.
The quick fire challenge featured Elizabeth Falkner and was to create a dish that celebrates penny candy. This led to …

We ended up watching a couple Christmas specials last night since nothing else was on and because my daughter was able to stay up a bit because her school was cancelled for a snow day today.
One of the ones we watched was a classic; Charlie Brown Christmas. It’s not …

Twas the Night Before Christmas is the classic holiday tale as told by Father Mouse, better known as George Gobel. Father Mouse has a geeky mouse son, Albert, who doesn’t believe in Santa Claus. He wrote a letter that upsets Santa Claus and results in all the …

Well, actually, the title is a misnomer, and I’m not sure that I agree with the decision for the One of Six Voted Off episode of So You Think You Can Dance.
The five dancing competitors opened the show with an entertaining, Bob Fosse number. I liked this routine, …

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 …

Due South is the story of a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman, Constable Benton Fraser, who travels from the Yukon to Chicago to track down the killer of his father. One thing leads to another and once the case is solved, he ends up staying in Chicago and working at …

Somebody’s stealing Larry’s newspapers—¦and a neighbourhood get together for Cedar provides the ideal opportunity to nail the culprit.
Meanwhile, a registered sex offender has moved into the neighbourhood and despite some initial apprehension, Larry is soon charmed and endeared toward the man and Cheryl is outraged to discover Larry …

Trigun Episode 9 has Vash, Meryl and Milly on a bus travelling across the desert. Vash spots a man sitting next to a broken down motorcycle and they pick him up. He introduces himself as Nicholas D. Wolfwood, a traveling priest who is very grateful to them …

Now there hasn’t been much to say on the positive front regarding comedy on television within the past couple of years. Shows like Friends, Will and Grace, and That 70s Show, upon their end, left a trail of not so great, mediocre comedy’s in their wake. We even saw …

Dean Jagger is the power behind The Twilight Zone: Static. He’s an older gentleman, living in a boarding house where his old girlfriend and other old friends live. He becomes disenchanted with television and the tripe he perceives the movies, shows, and commercials to be. That …

Stage Fright is episode 3 of the 7th and final series of Only Fools and Horses. A local club owner gets in touch with Del boy as he is stuck for an act to perform on his dear old mum’s birthday the following evening. Without Raquel’s knowledge, …

I’m not a particular fan of The Equalizer. I tried watching it a few times when it was on originally, but it didn’t capture my fancy and neither did its star, Edward Woodward. He does have the look, very polished and whatnot, but he didn’t get my …

I am a huge fan of 1980’s hair bands. So when I bought satellite tv and it came with a huge list of music channels, I was extatic to find out that a whole channel was dedicate to music from big hair bands from the 80’s.
I have always …

The only time I really watch Danny Phantom is when my cousins come over. They are ages three, six, eight and ten. I think it’s a pretty cool show from what I’ve seen. I also like some of the messages it teaches kids. There was one episode when there …

This morning, my wife showed me a clip of the show South Park on her Facebook page. The clip was from an episode relating to Facebook; You Have 0 Friends. And, I thought it was pretty funny.
Well, I was flipping channels tonight and came across some episodes of South …

I rarely get a chance to watch the newer episodes of the show Futurama. But, the kids were in bed last night and my wife was busy on the computer so I ended up finally watching a couple of them; including the one entitled The Duh-Vinci Code.
This episode was …

This was a really nice episode guest starring Nelly Furtado. She did a good job, I didn’t even expect her to do that well.
In this episode the team investigates two separate murders, where no one is eager to talk. In the first case, a professional shoplifter is suspected in …

In Week 11 of The Apprentice - UK, Sir Alan Sugar’s quest to find a new apprentice had nothing to do with the competitors participating in a task. Rather, much like Donald Trump’s American version does, this was the interview show. Bringing in two trusted business people …

When NCIS goes looking for a mole in the Pentagon, they find a dead Lieutenant instead. All fingers point to the dead Lieutenant and her suicide, however, NCIS is not convinced it was a suicide.
This was a very interesting case and one that I could not figure out. …

This is the newest TV series that has rocked the whole nation. It’s actually about several people who have super power abilities and how their destinies are tied together. When NBC started advertising their new series, my husband and I were so excited. We love the unexplained, and this …

Fullmetal Alchemist Episode 8 begins with Ed distraught over the death of Nina Tucker after he finds the remains of her Chimera form blown up from the inside. Assigned to look over Shou Tucker’s research he refuses and hands over his State Alchemist watch. He decides to …

I didn’t realize there were so many women in the world who were willing to kill their husbands, boyfriends, and rivals in order to get what they want in the world. Some of the women featured on the show have killed abusive husbands and stepfathers. Others have …

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast honored the poetic Muhammad Ali on this edition of The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast. Naturally, Howard Cosell was there. You can’t roast Ali with Cosell. Those two were their own version of the old Martin and Lewis comedy team.
When Cosell spoke …

Doctor Who, the series that follows the nameless Time Lord known simply as “the Doctor” as he travels through time and space, reached a third season during the lifetime of the Doctor’s tenth incarnation (he regenerates into a new body when he dies, this making the tenth body he …

Dateline NBC recently ran a segment on how false and scandelish infomercials are. They acutally came to find out that infomercials, many of them, hire washed up acresses to “claim” that some usually partially false product has worked remarkably for them. When Dateline interviewed these actresss, they confessed …

Back to One is the eleventh episode of The Cleaner’s first season on A&E, and it’s a mixture of home life and another addiction story.
At home, Melissa tells William that she has been studying real estate and wants to get her license. He’s happy for her, though he’s …

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Deadly Amphibians aired as the 13th outing for this fun science fiction show’s fourth season on television. As the title indicates, the challenge for the crew of the nuclear sub are invaders in the form of these creatures. Actually, it’s …

I do have a few comments and reactions about Fireball XL5: The Day the Earth Froze, which is one of 39 total black and white programs coming from the mind of puppet pioneer Gerry Anderson. One of which is that this show really has a thing for ice …

How can you not love The Girls Next Door, a show based on the girls and Hugh Hefner. I love this show. It’s mind candy. My fiance thinks it’s funny that I’m female and I have to watch the show every time it’s on. I even have a season …

Triggun Episode 18 begins with a flashback over 100 years before the first episode, Vash confronts his twin brother Knives after he murdered Rem’s last relative in July City. They fight and Knives activates Vash’s Angel Arm, which destroys July and puts the $$60,000,000,000 reward on his head. …

This has got to be one of the best switches I have seen on “House” so far. The story involves a supermodel who punches out another model and then collapses on the catwalk. They discover heroin in her blood and so at first they assume it is that, and …

When Noreen Weckerley, Kenny Weckerley’s sister (from the pilot episode) shows up at Jump Street and tells Hanson that Kenny needs his help, Tom goes undercover at an in-patient adolescent abuse center to check out his claims of mistreatment.
When he gets a friend to pose as his mother and …

Big Brother is a “reality” television show that centers around a group of people forced to live in a house with no television, no telephones and no contact with the outside world for three months. The final person left in the house at the end of the three months …

Definitely one of the best of the three year run, Star Trek: The Ultimate Computer is terrific. It’s one I’ve never forgotten and it’s a show that has a lot of layers to it. The basic plot is that Richard Daystrom (William Marshall), a one time wunderkind …

I watched this a week or two on the computer. It is one of the episodes to the show CSI: Las Vegas. Overall it is was an alright episode. It was better than some of the episodes they have been showing but not as great as they used to …

In this tenth offering of the unique western, Legend, Ernest Pratt gets caught with his pants down and an angry father after him. Oops! Things go from bad to worse when in the getaway, one of Bartok’s fancy weapons is shot off the contraption that Pratt is …

“Battle Aboard the St. Anne” is an episode of the “Pokemon” television series and it is the first part of a three episode story arc. This episode is an entertaining one for a number of reasons. First of all, this is the first time that the Team Rocket organization …