TV Reviews
M*A*S*H: 5 O’Clock Charlie
M*A*S*H: 5 O’Clock Charlie is all about a Korean pilot who is, fortunately, bad at his job. He flies over the camp every day, trying to take out an Ammo dump. While the Majors Burns (Larry Linville) and Houlihan (Loretta Swit) want a big gun to guard …
The Simpsons Season 6 Episode 1 Bart Of Darkness
It is summer time, and the heat is unbearable. Bart and Lisa pester Homer into buying a pool, which Homer willingly agrees. Because of the pool, the entire town’s kid’s come over to their place to swim. So Bart and Lisa’s popularity soars. However while performing one stunt Bart …
Monsters Inside Me (TV Show)
Monsters Inside Me is an American factual TV show on the Discovery Channel about medical conditions that have affected people as the result of some kind of infection.
I find the show both scary and fascinating as the thought of some kind of organism living in your body is like …
Family Guy TV Show
I’ve watched a fair amount of this cartoon show. I remember the early days of the show, and I remember how funny I thought it was. It’s still funny in my opinion, but I’m not as intrigued with it as I used to be.
I think a big part …
Steve Wilko Show
I know that a lot of people used to watch the Jerry Springer Show, well on that show was a gentlement, and I used the word acordingly a gentleman named Steve Wilko. He was a former police officer and a former marine.
when he took over the show …
The Ray Bradbury Theater: Let’s Play Poison TV Show
The Ray Bradbury Theater: Let’s Play Poison aired in February 1992, and to be honest, I thought it was going to be a lot better than it proved to be. In fact, what began with some potential for real intrigue and storytelling ended up being a huge disappointment …
Have Gun - Will Travel: The Puppeteer TV Show
Have Gun - Will Travel: The Puppeteer was a bit of a strange outing for this western. Then again, it’s not the first time that Have Gun - Will Travel has done strange.
There is actually something weird about a show that continues to do some odd parodies. …
Avatar: The Last Airbender: Book 1, Episode 10: Jet
After camping out, Sokka decides that the group should hoof it for awhile. He explains that he believes the fire nation is able to find them because Appa is too noticeable when they’re airborne. The group teases him about it, despite the fact that it’s a pretty …
Ren & Stimpy
Ren & Stimpy is a cartoon about a dog and a cat who are best friends and roommates. Each episode they go through different things and sometimes they gain, sometimes they lose. Ren is a Chihuahua dog and Stimpy is an alley cat, no particular breed. I think that …
Make Me a Super Model (Episode 6)
Every week I watch Make Me a Super Model, I have to ask myself exactly where they found the women in this competition. They are all pretty but none seem to be super model material. The male contestants have simply dominated this show.
Katy is finally gone. This isn’t really …
So You Think You Can Dance: Finale Part 1 TV Show
It was a great finale night for So You Think You Can Dance. This was the last performance show of the season for the final three dancers: Kent, Lauren, and Robert. All three are so solid, and I have to agree with producer and judge, Nigel Lythgoe, …
Untold Stories of the ER (TLC)
I had never heard of this show until I ran across it one Sunday evening. I was amazed that these ER stories were so graphic. I was also surprised by the light tone that the show seemed to have. With such weird and shocking …
The Andy Griffith Show: The Bookie Barber TV Show
As The Andy Griffith Show: The Bookie Barber opens, young Opie Taylor (Ron Howard) is arguing with Aunt Bee (Frances Bavier) about getting a haircut. He says he can still see out of his eyes, so he doesn’t need one yet. Alas, things don’t go his way …
Band of Brothers episode 5 “Crossroads”
Band of Brothers episode 5 Crossroads has Easy Company facing off with German resistance and is centered on Richard Winters who has been promoted and has to give a detailed report of the battle.
This episode was really intense and the war scenes in it were insane. You …
Big Brother 10
My wife and I have watched the CBS reality television show Big Brother since it started up in the summer of 2000. Since then, CBS has aired it every summer, usuallys starting in July. Because of the recent writers’ strike, CBS aired it this spring and also …
Wagon Train: The Mavis Grant Story
Wagon Train is one of the most respected westerns in the history of television. Originally, it aired as a black and white, sixty-minute show in which Ward Bond starred as Major Seth Adams, the wagonmaster. Later on, when Bond died, he was replaced by John McIntire as …
The Real Ghostbusters: Season 1, Episode 2: KillerWatt
Now this is how you make a Ghostbusters episode! No ridiculous comic relief that doesn’t work, but a crisis that tests the Ghostbusters’ abilities and an opponent who forces them to think outside the box.
The opening scene establishes the threat as a city worker is seemingly attacked …
The Young Rebels: Suicide Squad TV Show
From 1970, The Young Rebels: Suicide Squad continues the events of the Revolutionary War. It was one of my favorite shows during that TV season, and I was so glad to be able to see so many of these shows again recently.
This episode is fun because Jeremy and …
Beverly Hills 90210
I think Beverly Hills 90210 is probably one of the worst TV shows ever made. I hate soap operas, so with more reason I hate this show. It’s a show about a bunch of young collage age kids who have sex with other and everyone. Seriously that is just …
M*A*S*H: Morale Victory
Every now and then, the powers that be at this incredibly wonderful wartime comedy give us a show dealing with how down and out the personnel can get. M*A*S*H: Morale Victory is one of these episodes. The troops at the 4077th are tired of the war going …
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Mr. T TV Show
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast kept on trekking from Las Vegas, Nevada by honoring Mr. T of The A-Team. Now why would they do this? In my opinion, it’s one of the NBC self-promotion shows. The dais was full of NBC stars and not many had …
Death Note Episode 10
Death Note Episode 10 involves Light and L having a “friendly” tennis mach. L is just trying to be friendly while observing Light to see how he behaves, while Light is trying to figure out how to not let L suspect that he is Kira.
This episode was really interesting. …
Beast Wars: Transformers - The Complete Second Season
Beast Wars: Transformers - The Complete Second Season holds all thirteen episodes from the second season. Every episode looks crisp and clear, and the audio quality is impressive. There’s no grain or static or background noise to interfere with your enjoyment of these episodes. Unfortunately, what may interfere with …
Friends Season Two - The one where Heckles dies
The neighbor below Monica’s apartment has always been a pest to them. He always thinks that they are stomping on the floor, so he is always hitting his broom on the ceiling to keep them quiet. They are so annoyed with him at some times, just because they feel …
VH1’s I Want to Work for Diddy
VH1 has a new reality show called ‘I Want to Work for Diddy’. Here we go again, everybody wants to have a reality show, and this one isn’t even Diddy’s first reality program, I guess her can’t get enough of showing off to the world who he is and …
That Girl: That Senorita
There’s an odd thing that I noticed in That Girl: That Senorita. It’s the fifth season and while things began to ease up in the fourth season, in this one things are definitely looser in tone and style. It’s a sign of the times in which That …
Painkiller Jane TV Episode: Season 1 Episode 1: Pilot
The Sci Fi Channel’s “Painkiller Jane” television show is based loosely on Jimmy Palmiotti’s comic book of the same name. There was a made for television movie of the same name which did lead to the TV series order, but the back story is not a contiguous piece …
Seven days Season 1 Episode 19
Frank Parker is a NSA agent and in each episode he is sent seven days back in past to stop something bad from happening.
This time a poison is gets spilled in the Colorado River and that causes death of many people. Of course, the backstep unit gets the authorization …
TV Show: 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo
What this show is about: Scooby Doo accidentally opens a chest that releases 13 evil ghosts that had been held captive and, as a result, is on a mission to capture them all again; with the help of Shaggy, Daphne, Scrappy Doo and a little orphan kid (I think …
Babylon 5 Season 1, Episode 1: The Gathering
I had never watched Babylon 5 back when it was on the air. After hearing a lot of good things recently, I decided to add it to my Netflix queue. It was added to instant watch and I was finally able to sit down and start watching …
From the Earth to the Moon - Part 6: Mare Tranquilitatis
From the Earth to the Moon - Part 6: Mare Tranquilitatis focuses on Apollo 11, the famous moon landing mission with Astronauts Neil Armstrong (Tony Goldwyn), Buzz Aldrin (Bryan Cranston), and Michael Collins (Cary Elwes). It’s also my least favorite episode for some reason. Maybe it’s because …
The Simpsons Season 6 Episode 13
Homer and the kids are busy watching “Nightboat”-The crime solving boat. however Marge interrupts and says that they should talk, since it is family talking day. However nobody knows what to talk. Lisa then suggests to look at the photo album. From the pictures, Lisa then asks why are …
Sea Hunt: Operation Greenback TV Show
Sea Hunt: Operation Greenback was an interesting show. I actually kept wondering if it was done a bit like MacGyver which always kept something back when explaining how to make something that could be dangerous. In this episode, Mike Nelson, the expert deep sea diver played by …
Music Lounge Late Night Music Video Show
Now there used to be a time when I stayed up way past what is generally perceived to be normal bed time, even for fully grown man such as myself, just to watch quality music videos well into the early hours of the next morning. Sadly though, those days …
The Feminist and the Fuzz movie
Back in its day, The Feminist and the Fuzz was quite the made-for-TV movie, its topic relevant to its era. Back in 1971, women’s lib and equality was a huge subject for debate. Though serious and often dramatic, The Feminist and the Fuzz was a comedy surrounding …
Naruto Shippuden Episode 4 (Anime)
Naruto Shippuden Episode 4 begins with Garra battling Deidara while Naruto and Sakura try to get the bell from Kakashi Sensei.
The story finally gets going and starts to get interesting. I enjoyed this episode because the fight scenes were nicely animated and it looked really good. The …
Banana Split Show
There have been a lot of things going on over the television, new shows coming up, and old ones suddenly stopped being shown; Well I am here to actually talk about the new funny show they have at ABS-CBN company. This show is called Banana Split; starred by 5 …
Tila Tequila
Tila Tequila is a reality show which has now had two seasons. Warning: Spoilers; The first season bobby won, but he could not deal with her fame, so they had to let it go. The second season, she chose Kristy, who then did not want her, so instead of …
The Bad Girls Club Season Four
I have been watching reality television every since the real world Hawaii came out. I have since then been a fan of reality television. Now a days the whole television scene and entertainment is surrounded by reality shows. I was sitting up at home one day skipping through the …
Red Dwarf: Future Echoes
In this second episode of the classic British Sitcom Red Dwarf, Dave Lister (Craig Charles) and his holographic and not so chum, Arnold Rimmer (Chris Barrie) find themselves experiencing some strange occurences on the lost in deep space and drifting mining ship Red Dwarf. Suddenly the crew is experiencing …
Mirai Nikki (animation)
One of my new favourite Japanese animated series is Mirai Nikki or “Future Diary” as it is known in English. When it begins we meet a young man, Yukiteru Amano, or Yuki, whose main past time is observing the world around him and writing a stream of consciousness in …
M*A*S*H: The Merchant of Korea
I enjoy watching M*A*S*H: The Merchant of Korea. It’s a fun show that is prompted by a letter to B.J. Hunnicutt (Mike Farrell) from his wife, telling him that land they’d always wanted is available for sale. She just needs him to send her $200. …
MacGyver: Pilot
I have always loved Richard Dean Anderson so couldn’t wait to watch his new series, MacGyver, when it debuted in 1985. It was the beginning of real success for Anderson and the start of a new culture, one filled with MacGyverism and TV parodies like MacGruber on Saturday …
House TV Episode: Help Me
Well, it took us a long while to watch the season 6 finale of House. But, I can tell you, after watching it finally last night, I honestly am kind of glad I missed it the first time.
This show gets worse and worse every season. The cases are taking …
Star Trek: The Menagerie: Part I TV Show
What do you do when you have a perfectly good pilot that has never been seen by a TV series’ audience? You incorporate it into the show the viewers are watching. That’s what Gene Roddenberry did back in 1966. His first pilot for Star Trek, the …
CSI New York Season 2 Episode 21- All Access
CSI New York Season 2 Episode 21- All Access
A well written Episode of a great show. In addition to the usual crime solving and mystery story, this one also features Kid Rock as himself. The show starts with his performance and that really pumps the energy right from …
Highway Patrol: The Sniper TV Show
From November 1957, Highway Patrol: The Sniper was the 7th episode of the third season. This half hour police drama stars Broderick Crawford as Chief Dan Mathews. In this show, Mathews and the California Highway Patrol deal with a sniper shooting at various cars as they pass by. …
The Twilight Zone: The Shelter TV Show
From 1961, the third year of this classic science fiction series, The Twilight Zone: The Shelter is another one that focuses on the human condition; specifically, the desire to survive no matter the cost.
The setup has a bunch of neighborhood friends enjoying dinner together as they celebrate one of …
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