Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Last Battle, episode 17, began with Admiral Nelson (Richard Basehart) being on board a commercial airplane bound for Washington. The scene was both amusing and frustrating. For example, I chuckled at the old stewardess outfit that was so typical of …

Jeremiah: To Sail Beyond the Stars has a more magical quality about it than any of the other episodes thus far in the series. In fact, I’d even call it poetic. When Claire (Missy Crider) talks about sailing beyond the horizon to see what is out there, …

It’s almost Christmas and there are plenty of Christmas specials on the air right now. Last night, one of the TV stations aired the half hour long special Frosty the Snowman and we decided to let our daughter watch it.
I have seen that special a couple different times but …

In The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.: Deep in the Heart of Dixie, Socrates has fallen for his boss’ secretary. Unfortunately, this whole part of the plot was pretty predictable and sadly for Socrates, I was right with my assumptions. It wouldn’t be a surprise to many …

Tom Hanson and Doug Penhall, two undercover Jump Street officers, go undercover at a school where stealing has turned into car jacking. When a Porsche goes missing from the local mall, the “McQuaid Brothers” are back in action.
Jump Street has man suspects in this episode. One boy …

This episode seemed to have a lot going for it. The story follows Mulder and Scully as they investigate a series of murders by seemingly different people who all manage to kill their victims with intercourse so intense that it causes a heart attack. It seems like a …

Even though the Law & Order SVU episode ‘Pure’ was made about two years ago, last night was the first night I had a chance to actually watch it. And, I have to say, I was really impressed by it.
Martin Short plays the bad guy; who at first seems …

Laramie: The Long Riders is one of my all time favorite shows from this high quality western series. It’s from season two and guest stars Dan Duryea as Luke Gregg. Robert Crawford Jr. also appears as Andy Sherman, home for a while on break from attending …

John Doe: Past Imperfect is a little strange on the surface. While this series continues to hold my interest, elements of it aren’t as strong as I’d like. For one thing, star Dominic Purcell tends to overact, especially during intense scenes. For me, it feels like …

The Twilight Zone: Of Late I Think of Cliffordville features Albet Salmi as a wealthy, egotistical, and annoying businessman named William Feathersmith. He lives for the challenge and in this program, he gets a shot at it.
Here are a few thoughts about The Twilight Zone: Of Late I …

Private Practice is the Grey’s Anatomy spin off that stands alone. When Addison first left to go visit Naomi in California I thought she would be returning to Seattle Grace but I was wrong. She stayed at Oceanside Wellness and the results have been amazing.
The fact that the divorced …

Avery Brooks returns in A Man Called Hawk: Vendetta, a 1989 outing that places him with a cousin played by Keith David. The cousin’s name is Jesse Turner, and he needs Hawk’s help. Who doesn’t? This show is primarily built from friends and family in need, …

Trigun Episode 14 begins with Vash the Stampede in a town called Promontory, Meryl and Milly decide to protect an elderly couple who own a geoplant where grass and trees grow on the desert planet of Gunsmoke.
This had to be the weirdest episode in the series so far, as …

My 19-month old daughter is a fan of the popular children’s TV series, In the Night Garden. We even bought some DVDs for her the other day. Then we saw the book version of the show and she instantly recognised the characters and smiled when she saw it. So …

When I saw the title of this show on VH1, I was really surprised because I thought it was about something completely different. But nevertheless, it was a special completely dedicated to gangster rap in Los Angeles. The feature was about NWA and their impact on America …

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 …

A Star Is Dead is the third episode of the drama Quincy, M.E. which starred Jack Klugman as the chief medical examiner for Los Angeles. We’re still learning more about the man and what makes him tick. One of the things mentioned here is how he quit …

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 …

Best known for her role as one of the kids on Eight is Enough, Connie Needham stars in Fame: To Soar and Never Falter, a first season entry for this series I so often enjoy watching. Basically, Needham’s character is Kathy Murphy, one of the students at the …

“The Beverly Hillbillies The Official Third Season” is a five DVD set that retails for just under fifty dollars. For a fifty dollars, fans of “The Beverly Hillbillies” classic situational comedy will be treated to uncut and excellent looking as well as sounding episodes, sponsors’ messages involving the cast …

When Monk producers got into a financial dispute with Bitty Schram, many fans criticized their decision to part ways with character Sharona Fleming. I wasn’t one of them.
While Sharona was an OK assistant to the crime fighting detective, I just never liked her character. She was a bit too …

In M*A*S*H: Dr. Pierce and Mr. Hyde, Hawkeye (Alan Alda) becomes exhausted but refuses to sleep. Even though he’s ordered to sit out a round or two of operating room activity, he continues to join in the surgery.
While he’s doing that, though, Hawkeye sets out on a quest …

Death Note Episode 1 begins in the world of the Shinigami, where they’re all bored with nothing to do except gamble and write names in their “death notes”, notebooks they use to write down the names of people in the human world and kill them. One Shinigami named …

When it comes to season finales, or at least summer finales, you think the show Monk would leave its best episode for last, in an effort to keep you wanting more.
Mr. Monk Gets Hypnotized is not one of the best episodes I’ve seen.
Really, nothing about this episode is unique …

This unusual episode shows what can happen when Earth sticks their collective noses into another world’s business, something Jack points out to Daniel at one point. Every time they go through the Gate, they impact the world they’re traveling to. This show, Icon, is really the first …

Hmm, I’m starting to think this season’s designers on Project Runway aren’t even close to being as good as designers from previous seasons.
Last night, they had a chance to really show off what they can do with really no limits as they were designing a stage outfit for Christina …

Columbo’s A Stitch in Crime from season two has been a show I’ve always remembered. Leonard Nimoy guest starred as a surgeon who attempts to kill his mentor via certain actions on the operating table, and the only one who believes that is Sharon Martin, a surgical nurse. …

Yukito Kunisaki is a traveler who is looking for the “girl in the air” of a family legend. His journey takes him to a small coastal town where he meets Misuzu, a girl eager to be his friend. A history of thousands of years begins to unfold after her …

Alias Smith and Jones: A Fistful of Diamonds is a fun little outing for this western series starring Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes and Ben Murphy as Kid Curry. This one has the two outlaws who are trying to go straight so that they can earn an amnesty …

I haven’t seen too many recent Simpsons episodes but I had a chance to watch a couple of them (in re-runs last night).
One of those, “In the Name of the Grandfather” was kind of cool.
I love how this episode starts out. The Simpsons end up buying a hot tub …

Richard Long, best remembered as Jarrod Barkley on The Big Valley, guest stars as David Gurney in The Twilight Zone: Person or Persons Unknown. It’s an interesting story in which Gurney wakes up after an evening out with his wife. The rub comes when the man discovers …

I was watching Christmas-related cartoons with my daughter yesterday and have to admit the Fairly Oddparents episode “Christmas Every Day” was pretty cool.
This show, which features a kid and his fairy godparents, usually has some cool wishes go bad. But, who knew having Christmas Day every day would be one …

The Virginian: Image of an Outlaw aired during season seven in October 1968. Don Stroud guest starred as Rafe Judson who happens to look just like a notorious outlaw named Wally McCullough. The question throughout the show is whether or not Judson is McCullough or if he …

So ends the second season and Billie Piper’s run as Rose Tyler. With an ominous prediction from Satan, I was expecting Rose to die, and the episode really plays up the possibility, with Rose’s voice over confirming it.
“Shockingly”, it turns out that the Beast was lying, or at …

Mr. Krabs decides to hire Spongebob and Patrick to re-paint his house, just because he is too lazy to do so and he knows that he can pay them cheaply. But he warns the two that they have to do a good job and not drip anywhere because it …

The Ray Bradbury Theater: The Dead Man aired originally on cable television on September 26, 1992. These stories all come from the mind of science fiction writer, Ray Bradbury. This particular tale is a very quiet one and is appropriately odd as so many of Bradbury’s stories …

The middle of the 1963-1964 season of The Twilight Zone was definitely the best. There’s a group of decent, entertaining shows that are surrounded by many more mediocre and cringed-filled episodes. I’m happy to say that this outing called You Drive was one of the interesting ones. …

I intended on watching a movie last night after the kids were in bed. But, my wife got the TV first and we ended up watching a mini Clean House marathon instead. Fortunately, I ended up liking some of the episodes that were on.
One of them, The Brooks Family, …

This is the very first pilot episode of Spongebob when it first came out. I think that this was a great first episode. Spongebob goes out to a local restaurant, The Krusty Krab, trying to get hired. He is asked to find a rare spatula, and …

Wheel of Fortune has been a staple of American culture for many years now. Everyone recognizes the big spinning wheel and Vanna White. I remember as a child trying to guess the phrase and pretending I had one and got to pick the prize package. Of …

Please, enjoy South Park as much as you like, but, please, be certain that the children cannot hear nor see the television when you do it! My husband and his delivery men all think this is about the funniest show on television. It isn’t that it doesn’t have …

I ended up finishing my Psych mini-marathon last night by watching the season 1 episode “He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not, He Loves Me; Oops, He’s Dead.” Yes, I know that’s a long title for an episode (something that is somewhat common with this series), but it turned …

M*A*S*H: Hey, Look Me Over is co-written by Alan Alda and Karen Hall. Hall is one of the show’s few female writers, and she seemed to have come along in the last couple of years and did a few episodes. It’s probably sad the number of female …

I’ve always liked M*A*S*H: The Army-Navy Game, even though I’m not a football fan at all. While the military is focused on the annual football game between the Army and Navy, the 4077th is focused on something else completely — an unexploded bomb that is in the middle …

Here Come the Brides: The Log Jam is a show that has moments that are fun, but it’s also one of the more frustrating episodes of this series for me. Basically, there haven’t been any proposals in Seattle recently when all of a sudden, Jeremy Bolt (Bobby Sherman) …

Last night, I was watching a re-run of the Simpsons and was thrilled to learn it was one of my favorites; The City of New York versus Homer Simpson.
This is easily one of the funniest episodes from this series. Homer and his buddies are drinking after work and Barney …

Sex And The City is a show that I missed during it’s HBO debut and run. I knew of the show, but just don’t watch enough TV to devote time for a series. When Sex And The City became syndicated on TBS, I began watching. Was I surprised! What …

Here Come the Brides: Wives for Wakando from Season 1 is one of the few I’m not all that crazy about. It’s good, but it just doesn’t quite make me smile as most of the other episodes do. In Wives for Wakando, Wakando and his band of …

The Red, White, or Blue episode from the second season of Due South begins with Benton Fraser and Ray Vecchio having a bit of a tiff stemming from all the publicity that Fraser is getting from helping to prevent the disaster that was the subject of the prior episode …

I have seen several of the Dairy Queen commercials that are airing on television and for me they do NOT make me want to go out and purchase anything they have. Take the woman dressed up as an ice cream and the man as the waffle bowl. She shows …