The Cleaner: Here Comes the Boom has William Banks (Benjamin Bratt) trying to help the son of someone he helped in the past who has died. The boy’s father has returned, promising that he’s clean and is going to stay clean. Banks decides he has to test …

The incomparable Betty Davis stars in The Virginian: The Accomplice. Davis was one of those movie stars who didn’t appear to have qualms about television. If she did, something compelled her to do these shows as she was in a bunch of TV series from the beginning …

Stargate SG-1: Scorched Earth is another winner in the fourth season of this science fiction series. Here, SG-1 has recently finished transplanting the Enkarans to a new home world. As they celebrate with a feast, an Enkaran from a distant settlement intrudes, pleading for help.
The reason is …

Years ago, I got to watch Poltergeist when it first came out. It scared the crap out of me.
Now that I’m older, I finally got a chance to watch it again. And, while it didn’t terrify me like it did when I was younger, it still managed to be …

M*A*S*H: The Party is actually a very fun episode. It has a completely new plot that is exciting and touching. After a mail call where it’s suggested that B.J.’s wife write to Radar’s mom and Colonel Potter’s wife about jam and preserves, B.J. gets this idea to …

I instantly became a fan of this TV reality show the first time I watched it in Discovery Travel and Living. I’m not into tattoos but now I want to get one. But I want someone from Miami Ink to do the tattooing. This show chronicles the personal and …

Tyra Mail reads, ” In Rome, you must fight for the masses if you want to pose for the classes.”The girls arrived in this ancient ruins and there were gladiators fighting in ancient attires. They had a fight lesson with Alex Mariotti for their next photo shoot. The next …

Well, that episode of “That 70s Show” was pretty decent; Eric’s Burger Job.
Basically, the episode has Eric getting a job at “Fatso Burger” working as a cashier and doing other crappy jobs around the restaurant. He does it to prove to Red he’s responsible and, even though he hates …

The first time I saw the children’s show Yo Gabba Gabba, I thought wow, a weird looking man wearing an orange wig and playing with dolls; how creepy is that. ‘ But, after giving it a chance, I have to say it isn’t a bad show.
Not that I watch …

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 …

The guys are at a boxing match and after that they go on a party. Jimmy Kimmel shows up, he wants Vince to appear in his show. Ari is there too, he thinks that’s a good idea to promote Vince’s new movie —˜Heat on’ so Vince accepts the offer. …

Why does everybody seem to die around Jessica Fletcher? This question plagued my childhood when watching Murder She Wrote, every Sunday before the dreaded school day Monday reared its ugly head, was tradition.Surely, someone would notice, be it the first Sheriff played by Tom Bosely or his replacement. …

CSI Season 7 Episode 10- Loco Motives
I found it to be a very interesting episode. It was a bit different from the usual formula. To begin with, it presented the team with 3 different murders to solve, which seemed a bit overwhelming. But then used different methods to presents …

To me, The Office is by far one of the funniest sitcoms I’ve ever watched. It’s about an office (of course)which is named Dunder Mifflin that sells paper products. What I like most about the show, is simply the outrageous things Michael Scott says or does. Michael (who is …

House Detective, on HGTV early Saturday mornings gives you an insiders angle on what to look for when buying a home,not the positives, but the negatives. Home buyers,especially first time home buyers tend to look at the superficial things, the landscaping, the color on the walls, the color …

MASH was one of my all time favorite series and when it ended, I watched, with millions of other Americans as the Finale played. No one was really sure if we would ever see Hawkeye and the rest of the crew as they muddle through the day to day …

I have been taking the time to review individual Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes as I have time to watch them and plan to continue doing that. But, I wanted to take a few minutes to talk about the cult series itself.
Back when I was in high school and …

I actually watched the very first episode of the original Big Brother in America. That first season was nothing like this show is today. For me, that’s a negative. I actually still find that first cast endearing, and I often wonder where they are today and how …

Monster Episode 18 has Anna Libert being questioned by police and they ask her if she knows anything about Dr. Tenma, she says she doesn’t and leaves. She sees her former boss Mister Rosso and they have dinner together, where she learns the truth about his past.
This was …

Trigun Episode 3 begins with Meryl and Milly in Warrens City, still looking for Vash the Stampede, who is also in the city looking for a renowned gunsmith named Frank Marlon. He runs into the town drunk and befriends him; he finds out that the drunk is Frank …

Well, we finally had a House episode with plenty of drama that didn’t involve a possible relationship between House and Cuddy; about time.
“Last Resort” was actually a pretty good episode for this series. You have a desperate patient pulling a gun and taking people hostage until House can diagnose …

DC Cupcakes: Greek Festival is the third episode of a new series on The Learning Channel, a channel I’d pretty much stopped watching considering their insistence on stuffing the Gosselins down America’s throat. However, I’m liking this show. Here are some highlights from my point of view.
–Sophie …

I ended up watching a bunch of Psych episodes before bed last night (it was a late night for us because of the baby). One of them, “Who Ya Going to Call” was a bit on the predictable side.
Shawn and Gus are hired by a guy who thinks he …

A few years ago I was looking for a way to cut down my bills and find something cheaper than cable. I wasn’t watching all of those channels and I was paying almost one hundred to two hundred dollars for something that I was not watching all the time. …

I do not remember ever hearing of the animated series “The Batman” which is of course a modern day spin off of the comic book character, until I saw it being aired on local television recently. At first, I was hesitant to even give it a try since I …

And that’s all they wrote for Stargate Atlantis with this last episode, Enemy at the Gate. After just five seasons, the science fiction series was shown the door with a promise for a made-for-DVD movie that to this date shows little sign of being realized; at least, not …

The show, Sea Hunt: Underwater Curtain from May 1959, began harmlessly enough with diving expert Mike Nelson (Lloyd Bridges) in the ocean with a married couple, Ken and Joan, who were friends of his. The fun is cut short when a sort of alarm goes off, and shortly, …

The final episode of season three of MacGyver centers around martial arts master Ernie Reyes Jr. He’d just finished a season of his own TV show called Sidekicks that unfortunately only lasted thirteen episodes. In Murderers’ Sky, the fourteen-year-old Luke Chen is out to avenge his grandfather’s …

Jake Cutter (Stephen Collins) has another flame of the week, only this one comes in a nun’s habit. Played by Pamela Susan Shoop, Sister Teresa is the former Brigid Harrington, one of Jake’s old girlfriends. She and Sister Agnes (Elizabeth Huddle) are taking vaccinations to one of …

There was a time when I wouldn’t miss this awards show, but as Hollywood changed and what America watched changed, I lost interest. It never got as bad as the American Music Awards, but it came close sometimes. The thing about this particular awards show is that …

There are quite a few episodes whereby we see the Friends cast imitating Chandler Bing. He is one of the most weird and quirkiest of Friends’ cast character yet, and he is so charmingly sweet. And also the fact that Monica always is wanting to give him ‘face’ …

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 …

From October 1973, Star Trek: The Magicks of Megas-Tu continues the animated adventures of the USS Enterprise, and this time, Captain Kirk and the crew find themselves being swept away to the magical world of Megas-Tu. It’s a place of magicians and wizards apparently, only the man named …

Sea Hunt: Diamond River opens with an intriguing bit where diver Mike Nelson is working with a scientist in testing an underwater communication device called a hydra phone. I love the idea of this device which allowed clearer and easier communication between divers and those on a boat …

One Tree hill is one of those shows that took awhile to grow on me but after watching it for a awhile no I can honestly say that this show is great and the one of the things that I love about this show is that it had unexpected …

Come Dine With Me is one of those TV shows that I originally would have run a mile to get away from, but which I am slowly finding myself being drawn into. The setup is really pretty simple, in that a small group of chefs (amateur ones rather than …

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 …

MTV has gone reality TV crazy and now they have given Paris another reality show where contestants are now vying for the spot to become Paris’ new BFF. What exactly is BFF really? As far as I know, the acronym BFF is Best Friend Forever, so that would mean, …

Of all of the reality shows flooding television today, there was always one that was unique, fun, and heart warming. It is Ashton Kutcher’s social experiment “Beauty and the Geek.”
If you aren’t familiar with the show, it general pairs somewhat or totally unsocialized “geeks” with “beauties” who have …

I remodeled and updated my bedroom recently and wanted to try one these new sleek televisions I’ve been hearing so much about. I did a lot of looking around, I went from best buy to circuit city to wal-mart to name a few. The names I was familiar with …

File this one under weird and move on to the next. Actually, to be honest, The Ray Bradbury Theater: The Haunting of the New isn’t the worst of these that I’ve seen, but at the same time, this episode from the science fiction series third year is …

The Secret Life of… is a show that comes on the Food Network on Monday nights at 10 pm/9 central. I love this show! What it is is the host, Jim, picks a topic and then we get to learn all about it! We learn about it’s history, how …

War and Remembrance: A Living History aired a couple of weeks prior to the showing of War and Remembrance, the massive mini-series which continued the story of the Henry family from The Winds of War.
A Living History is narrated by Robert Mitchum which is interesting because I recall that …

Episode 7, “Duel of the Droids”, picks up where “Downfall of a Droid” left off with the search for the missing R2-D2 whom is now being held captive at General Grevious’ secret listening post on a planet that resembles Bespin from “Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes …

There is one thing that annoys me about the TV Guide network. When I want the channels to scroll faster, I realize just how slow it is. When I am actually trying to read what a program is about, it seems it flies up the …

Life gets crazy in science fiction, and that’s certainly true for Stargate Atlantis: Vegas which is a sort of homage to CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. There was a lot of buzz about this episode when it was done, so I was curious to see how it played out …

How can you not love Star Trek: More Tribbles, More Troubles? This 1973 animated follow up to the live series most popular The Trouble with Tribbles has Kirk and company once again dealing with Tribbles and Cyrano Jones. Actor Stanley Adams, who played the trader in the …

Breakthrough with Tony Robbins Episode 6 is the final episode of the miniseries and it’s a very good episode. Melissa Lawson won Nashville Star a couple years ago, but her life and Rick had an affair with another woman.
This was a good final episode and it ended on …

Joey thinks he is living the hot shot life when he gets this job as a major role in a soap opera, but what he didn’t know is that shortly after they introduce his character, they had plans to kill him off the show, leaving him unemployed. He is …

The girls arrived in Rome. Tyra Mail reads, ” you are now in Rome but this is no holiday. It’s going to be a lot of work if you want to become America’s Next Top Model. Head just around the corner, find the flag of Rome, and your new …