The fourth episode for the 1970 television series, The Young Rebels, was called To Hang a Hero and dealt with the true story of Nathan Hale. Most everyone knows about Hale’s hanging as a spy by the British. His immortal last words were to the effect …

The Young Rebels: The Ring of Freedom, the second outing for this show about the Revolutionary War, tells a tale that is often discussed or portrayed in TV shows, and that is the happenings that surround the Liberty Bell. As most know, this symbol of American independence rang …

When NCIS goes to a park to investigate a naval officer’s death by bear, Gibbs discovers footprints and underwear that suggest a woman was with him. This leads them to discover a serial killer who has used the park and accidents to kill many women who look like …

NCIS is called in when a young son of a naval officer takes his entire class hostage and demands to see his mother, who happens to be dead. To make matters worse, a young girl has asthma and needs her inhaler.
When Cody Meyers, the boy who took his …

NCIS is called in when a naval officer’s body is found frozen in a pond. When they go to investigate, they find more than one body. Their investigation leads them to a local gang where they find the answers to their questions.
This was a very good episode, …

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. …

“Bloodbath” is an Abby-centric episode. When NCIS goes to a crime scene at a motel where there is tissue and blood all over the room, they wonder where the body may be. While Abby and McGee are going over some evidence, Abby smells almonds - cyanide. …

As usual, at the end of each season, Stargate SG1 writers fudge and take the easy way out for an episode, choosing to show us clips from previous episodes. While these clip shows are good for those who are just coming into the Stargate Universe, they are a …

I never really watched “The Sopranos” when it was on HBO, but, since A&E has been playing all the syndicated episodes, I’ve really gotten into it. Like the Corleone family in “the Godfather”, Tony Soprano and his various henchmen both repulse and fascinate. James Gandolfini is exceptional as the …

“Mother’s Day” was another episode of NCIS that delves into Gibbs’ past with Shannon and Kelly. This time it is because Shannon’s mother, Joanne, is involved as a witness in a murder of a naval officer to whom she was engaged. Gibbs wants to stay on the …

“Jurisdiction” is one of the better episodes of Season 7. Diane Neal of “Law And Order SVU” played Abigail Borin, a CGIS agent who was very much like Gibbs. Yes, she does the infamous ‘Gibbs slap’. Yes, she does not believe in coincidences. Yes, she …

NCIS ended with a bang in Season three and that was literally. While Gibbs is meeting with a supposed informant, his team waits for him on the dock. They are waiting for him when an explosion occurs on the boat.
Gibbs is lucky - he suffered some burns …

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 …

Damon Werth from Season 5’s “Corporal Punishment” returns in “Jack Knife.” Seems his friend (also from the previous episode)Heatherton has been driving a truck for a man Werth feels is to blame for Heatherton’s murder.
Werth wants to go undercover in order to help catch his friend’s …

“Black Water” was one of my favorite episode of NCIS. After all, it was trademark NCIS - it had a little humor, a little action, an interesting case to try and solve and a lot of team interaction. The perfect mix and what made NCIS the number …

Avatar: The Last Airbender Episode 18 begins with Aang, Katara and Sokka finally arriving at the North Pole and being welcomed by the Northern Water Tribe after a short confrontation. Sokka falls in love with the tribe’s princess while Katara wants to learn waterbending from a master who …

Avatar: The Last Airbender Episode 17 begins with Aang hearing rumors of Airbenders being seen in the Northern Air Temple, they go there only to discover that there aren’t any Airbenders but people who have settled in the temple and use flying machines to get around.
This episode was very …

Dancing with the stars is a lame, boring, pointless and unbearable show to watch. I have seen many shows that sucked but this show takes the cake. I think the concept is so dumb, having celebrities pair up and dance with professional dancers and than they are judged each …

Monday night raw is an awesome show too watch for so many different reasons. The big reason is that this show is full of shocking surprises and great matches. Monday night raw also has something different going on every week and that is have a guess host who is …

I am now a huge fan of TNA Impact and this show has made a lot of improvements over the last few years and now it is starting to get very entertaining. This show has a few good story lines and they are heading in the right direction with …

While SG1 is visiting a planet, the Voliaans introduce them to a neighboring race, the Aschen. Little do they know that the Aschen are the very same people their future selves had warned them about.
When SG1 arrives back at the SGC and tells General Hammond the good news, …

Waxer Thompson, the big, bad drug running kids is back from the pilot of 21 Jump Street. He is being transferred from juvenile to maximum security prison after killing another inmate over territory when the bus is in a wreck. One officer is knocked out and another …

“Orpheus 3.3″ was one of the saddest episodes of 21 Jump Street that I ever watched.
The concept of the episode is the fact that Hanson is ready to break up with is girlfriend, Amy. He tells Penhall that he hates doing that because he does not want to …

This episode brings up a large problem back in the 80’s when 21 Jump Street was very popular - AIDS.
There was very little known about AIDS back in the 1980’s. Parents were afraid to send their kids to school with children who had it. They were afraid …

Tom Hanson and Doug Penhall go undercover to bust the mayor’s son and his crew for dealing drugs. When Tom’s girlfriend finds out about this, she alerts the mayor to their plans. The mayor tells 21 Jump Street to back off and when they try to find …

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 …

“Best Years Of Your Life,” is a weird title for this episode about suicides, mainly teenage ones.
When Penhall and Hanson are undercover they arrest a young boy named Walker Stevenson. A few days later, after getting out of jail and talking to Hanson, Walker kills himself with a …

Hanson goes undercover at a school where people are burning books in protest of teaching creationism.
This episode had the great potential to tell a rivoting storyline…the debate between religion and evolution. At first, the writers were conveying the story well. A science teacher at the …

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 …

In this episode of 21 Jump Street, we find Penhall and his partner riding high after the bust of a hit man. They are immediately transferred from Intelligence to the Major Crime Unit.
Once they arrive, they are given a case involving a very well known sports writer who …

“Swallowed Alive” may be one of the most intense episodes throughout any season of 21 Jump Street.
While Fuller is gone on vacation, the higher ups send all of his men into juvenile lock-up in order to find out who killed an inmate. Or rather, who is …

Avatar: The Last Airbender Episode 16 begins with Aang, Katara and Sokka going to a Fire Nation town to a festival where Aang hopes he can learn firebending, they run into a young man who helps them escape and they learn that he serves a firebending master.
This episode was …

Avatar: The Last Airbender Episode 14 begins with Aang, Sokka and Katara aiding a man who is being attacked by a platypus bear and he tells them about a fortuneteller named Aunt Wu. They go to the village and discover that everyone believes Aunt Wu’s predictions and they …

Avatar: The Last Airbender Episode 13 begins with Sokka and Katara getting sick and Aang goes off in search of a cure, but is captured by the Fire Nation.
This episode was really exciting. It had a good plot and really good action scenes. It had plenty …

Avatar: The Last Airbender begins as Aang, Sokka and Katara arrive in a town and discover they’re broke and Skka decides to get a job. The fisherman recognizes Aang as the Avatar and asks him where he’s been for a hundred years. Upset, Aang goes off to …

Avatar: The Last Airbender Episode 15 begins with Aang finding a Water Tribe weapon and Sokka and Katara meet up with Bato, a member of the Water Tribe. Aang starts feeling left out because he’s not part of the culture and makes a very bad decision.
This episode was …

When I found out a couple weeks ago there would be an episode detailing the first case Booth and Bones had together, I was ready to watch it. It finally aired last night and I have to say I wasn’t disappointed.
There were a couple things I liked about this …

I am assuming that by now a lot of people have seen the American television series “Dog Whisperer”. The first time I saw it was when it when it was on National Geographic one day and I decided to watch it to see what it was about. Nevertheless, even …

Everyone is celebrating the fourth of July as Quincy M.E.: Hot Ice, Cold Hearts commences. This is a first season outing and is, in fact, the fourth episode. Jack Klugman plays the title role and is the coroner for Los Angeles in this series. He’s also …

Quincy M.E.: Who’s Who in Neverland is the second episode of this medical and crime drama which starred Jack Klugman as the chief medical examiner. In other words, he’s the head coroner and in diagnosing the cause of death, he always ends up in the middle of murder …

Checkmate: Terror in the East is the fourteenth episode of this series about a private detective agency. The story opens in the Middle East, and I was leery from the get go. I normally don’t like Asian focused plots. Ultimately, Chinatown is involved.
Early on, though, I …

The eighth episode of Checkmate was called Deadly Shadow. Checkmate, Inc. is a detective agency, fairly upscale in nature, run by Don Corey (Anthony George) and Jed Sills (Doug McClure). They’re assisted by a professor, Carl Hyatt, played by Sebastian Cabot, lovingly remembered for his subsequent portrayal …

Robert F. Simon guest stars as Morgan Gibbs in Have Gun - Will Travel: The Trial, a season three entry for this half-hour, black and white western. Gibbs hires Paladin (Richard Boone) to bring his outlaw son in alive. In an interesting twist, Gibbs actually wants his …

Episode 3 of 1987’s science fiction comedy series, Out of This World, is called The Nightmare. It’s an appropriate title since teenager Evie Garland (Maureen Flannigan) spends most of the show fretting about her nightmare. Evie is half-alien (as in out of this world, father from another …

Evie’s Thirteenth Birthday is the very first episode of 1987’s Out of This World, a half-hour weekly show that I just loved. It’s science fiction mixed with comedy, and it has a super cast.
It’s Evie Garland’s 13th birthday, and she gets an unexpected surprise. As it turns …

Death Runs Wild, featuring Anne Baxter, is the first episode of the detective drama, Checkmate. Checkmate, Inc. is actually the name of a private detective agency run by Don Corey and Jed Sills, as played by Anthony George and Doug McClure. The third regular is Sebastian Cabot, …

The Virginian: A Father for Toby was a very nice third season episode for this long running western series. Young Kurt Russell was the primary guest star, playing Toby Shea, a boy who had a lot of tall stories about his father, even as he lived at an …

The third outing of the short lived series, Mrs. Columbo, was called A Riddle for Puppets. Now this show has a few things going against it which led to its quick demise. The most obvious is that Kate Mulgrew, who stars in the title role, just …

This first season episode of Highway Patrol, Reckless Driving, is all about being in a hurry and ignoring the speed limit. All things considered, it’s as relevant today as it was back in 1955. People can still be careless idiots on the road. They were then, …

Machine-Napping is the second episode of Highway Patrol, which starred Broderick Crawford as the commanding Chief Dan Mathews. There’s no doubt this man is the leader of the California Highway Patrol.
At issue, and it seems odd for it to be a 1955 show, but it is, is a …