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 …

Last night, I had a chance to watch a Simpsons episode I haven’t had a chance to see in its entirety before “Behind the Laughter.” I have to admit it was kind of funny.
This episode treats the Simpsons family as a real family and takes you behind the scenes …

The Devil and Homer Simpson
In this segment Homer sells his soul for a donut while at work and the devil appears in the form of Ned Flanders. Homer signs the contract to seal the deal, but before finishing the treat he realises that if he doesn’t eat the rest …

I was watching Law & Order Criminal Intent last night and have to say, even though I’m still not a huge fan of the Jeff Goldblum addition to the cast, I did like the episode “Major Case.”
The pairing of Nichols and Eames was definitely interesting though I think Goren …

The episode starts with a woman in a red dress. She is crying and her son asks her to come in his room and sing the Sandman song to him, the woman refers to the boy as Sammy.
Say Tyler wakes up in his armchair and he listens to a …

In the first scene we see a bunch of hippies dancing and hanging around. Detectives Tyler and Carling are there to investigate on the crime scene. A war vet was killed. While they are walking Carling explains to Tyler that the problem with politicized youth is that they do …

Sam Tyler is a police detective who got hit by a car and from 2008 he found himself back at 1973 but not as a kid as he originally was in 1973 but as a police officer. He tries to find out what happened so at the beginning of …

The episode starts in a really interesting way, not because of the event that takes place but what’s interesting is the dialogue between the 2 protagonists. This is the first episode of this show and the producers want us to remember the names of the characters so as they …

As every other Psych episode this one starts with a past memory of Shawn and his Dad from 1987. Little Shawn and Gus were on a school trip and Shawn was determined to visit Aquaworld and ride a dolphin. Of course, Shawn dad catches them and stops them in …

Dad teaches Shawn that when you are deprived one of the common senses the other kick in, so he want Shawn to tell him what he can hear. He makes a few movements and throws Shawn’s report in the trash because Gus wrote it for him.
Shawn and Gus arrive …

A global space station has been launched into the space and the first crew is just about to be sent there. The crew is made of Lt. Col. Sergei Potenkin, Major Gene Hastings played by Robert Knepper, we know him from Prison Break. The third member of the crew …

The episode starts with the scene in which we see Parker talking to himself, but there are actually two Parkers, one is eating the chicken and drinking beer and the other tells him that the bubbles in the beer are going upside down and that his addition to the …

It’s another two-part episode for this hit comedy series. That Girl: I Didn’t Have the Vegas Notion Part 1 has Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas) co-starring in a play in Las Vegas, so Don Hollinger (Ted Bessell) goes with her for the opening night. It starts out with …

That Girl: Kiss That Girl Goodbye from the fourth season of this ABC comedy has Don Hollinger (Ted Bessell) being offered a new position at a larger company, run by Robert Harrison (Mark Miller). The catch is that he’d have to move to Paris, France for 18 months.
What …

That Girl: Fix My Screen and Bug Out guest stars Michael Callan, who plays Bobby Miller, the old boyfriend of Ann Marie’s. Callan is a charming man, and he plays a lot of these kind of characters. He’s not a bad guy here by any means. …

That Girl: Shake Hands and Come Out Acting from season four brings back Billy DeWolfe as Jules Benedict, who runs a workshop that Ann Marie has been participating in for years. DeWolfe is a charming actor of great ability. He often plays his parts with a British …

For one of the few times that I can remember in this show, the opening of That Girl actually references something that happened in the show just prior to it. Ann Marie and Don Hollinger meet Harry Cook, played by William Schallert, at a party. He recollects …

I’ve talked a bit about the fashion in season’s four That Girl, and that’s why I get a kick out of the fact that in the first moments of That Girl: The Snow Must Go On, Don Hollinger walked into Ann Marie’s apartment and teased her about her new …

That Girl: Hearing Today, Gone Tomorrow is a very good episode. I remembered this one. It always makes me laugh. The general premise is that Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas) is up for a commercial for a car product to be shot outdoors in the current snow …

Hypnotism is at the center of That Girl: At the Drop of a Budget. It opens with Ann Marie asking her boyfriend, Don Hollinger, to put her on a budget. Though he’s afraid it’ll lead to a fight between them, he goes along. The story takes …

Season four of That Girl rolls on with Nobody Here But Us Chickens, which is the famous show when Ann Marie has to play a chicken. The first thing I noticed, though, is that horrible tie, or whatever it is, that Ted Bessell is wearing as Ann’s boyfriend, …

The most disappointing thing about season four’s That Girl: My Part Belongs to Daddy is that for just about the first time, or maybe just the second, they used an interior car scene that was clearly done on the stage. In the past, they’ve done more location shoots …

That Girl: Mission Improbable Part 2 begins with the usual review of things that happened in the prior week’s opening episode where actress Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas) agrees to spy on a sleep wear manufacturer’s competitor. She goes to work as a seamstress for the competitor, though she …

That Girl: Mission Improbable Part 1 opens up the fourth season of this fun-filled comedy series starring Marlo Thomas as Ann Marie and Ted Bessell as Don Hollinger. These two have a marvelous chemistry that is a joy to watch. Sometimes you wonder how Donald puts up …

That Girl: I Didn’t Have the Vegas Notion Part 2 continues the action begun the week before in Part 1, picking up with the shocker of a last scene. It’s a largely predictable story to anyone who has been around the block with movies and TV shows, but …

That Girl: Ten Per Cent of Nothing Is Nothing is okay, but not great, especially since it has some issues. The first issue for me is that we’ve got another case of the rotating agent for Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas). The problem is that they’ve never said …

In That Girl: I Am Curious Lemon, Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas) takes care of her cousin’s daughter for a week. The young girl’s name is Caroline, and she’s played by Cindy Eilbacher. I first remember seeing Eilbacher with her sister, Lisa, in an episode of Alias Smith …

That Girl: Opening Night is pretty funny. Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas) is appearing in her first Broadway play, and she’s ultra excited and nervous. On the day of the performance, she’s trying to get her nerves under control. While she asked her boyfriend to come to …

There’s a small problem with the continuity of That Girl: Fly by Night in terms of Ann flying. She acts petrified from the beginning, but she’s been on planes to California at least twice and to Las Vegas, which was just this season. She also went …

Directed by Ted Bessell, That Girl: That Meter Maid continues the fourth season of this groundbreaking and liberating television comedy series. I’ve long remembered this episode. It was fun and cute. I’m not sure I’ve ever noticed that Bessell was the director. That made me …

Overall, I enjoyed That Girl: Stocks and the Single Girl from season four of this hit ABC series. It had some great laughs in it, and it entertained me fully for the full half-hour or so. That said, while this is a different take on the rich …

I’m not sure at what point Marlo Thomas decided that this fourth season would be the last of That Girl, but I’ve noticed all season long that there was an additional warmth between Ann Marie and Donald Hollinger. It’s hard to put into words, but it’s a comfort …

The first and most noticeable thing about That Girl: They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They? is that Bernie Kopell has also gone mod, which is something I’ve commented on with season four of That Girl. As of this episode, Kopell’s Jerry Bauman has long, extended sideburns and he has …

That Girl: Gone A-Courtin’ once again has Seymour as Ann Marie’s agent. This is probably my number one pet peeve about That Girl, the rotating agent that flip flops from being the mostly unseen Seymour and then a guest starring agent that serves some comedic purpose in the …

It’s time for the alumni to get together in That Girl: The Reunion. The subject of the fourth season episode is Ann’s obligation to organize her class reunion. She’s fine with that at first. After all, the worst part of it is choosing a restaurant, since …

That Girl: The Night They Raided Daddy’s has Lou Marie (Lew Parker) telling his daughter, Ann, that he’s going to retire. Not believing that her father is ready to get out of the restaurant business, Ann does some digging and finds out that the restaurant has been having …

M*A*S*H: Exorcism begins with a telling bit when a Korean salesman sets up shop to get rid of his wares. He’s also put up a spirit post to keep all the bad spirits away. When Colonel Potter (Harry Morgan) tells the company clerk to get rid of …

M*A*S*H: The Grim Reaper has Captain Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda), chief surgeon at the 4077th unit, so incensed at Colonel Victor Bloodworth, played by Charles Aidman, that he actually gets into a fight with him at the bar. I’m just not into the shows where Hawkeye gets violent. …

In 2007, NBC launched a musical competition show called The Singing Bee. The host was Joey Fatone, who was hot off his comeback success in Dancing with the Stars. I really enjoyed that show, much better than rival Fox’s Don’t Forget the Lyrics. Unfortunately for me, …

In That Girl: Easy Faller, Don Hollinger (Ted Bessell) is planning on enjoying a weekend of skiing with Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas) in Stowe, Vermont, only she’s not eager to learn how to ski. While trying to make her feel comfortable with the use of the skis themselves, …

Watching House with his non-existent bedside manner and amazing diagnostic skills often makes me wish he was my doctor. There are people to make up for his lack of bedside manner. When I go to the doctor in reality they may or may not have a bedside manner and …

Hosted by Shelley Long, Memories of M*A*S*H from 1991 is a look back at this long running dramedy; that is, a situation comedy that was as much drama as it ever was comedy. The show lasted for 11 seasons before voluntarily leaving the airwaves, so there is a …

In 2002, the Biography Channel did a very nice review of the M*A*S*H comedy series called M*A*S*H: Television’s Serious Sitcom. The smash show ran for 11 seasons on CBS. Narrated by Bill Mumy, numerous then-current interviews were done with many of the show regulars and powers that …

In 2002, the M*A*S*H 30th Anniversary Reunion aired, reuniting the majority of cast and crew members for the first time since the groundbreaking series had gone off the air. Mike Farrell did the introduction at the very beginning and then it went to a wonderful, casual discussion with …

The M*A*S*H folks assigned to putting out a complete DVD set really did a powerful job. This magnificent set is called M*A*S*H The Martinis & Medicine Collection and includes 36 disks. It comes in a sturdy denim-like case. It actually looks like a book with four …

Though filmed at the beginning of the season, the final episode of this groundbreaking, long running TV series was M*A*S*H: Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen. It attracted millions of viewers. I’m not sure if it’s still number one, but I think it is; if not, it’s still in …

M*A*S*H: As Time Goes By is probably the best show in some ways ever done in the history of this groundbreaking show. It’s certainly memorable. This is the final regular episode of M*A*S*H. However, the movie that would follow it was actually filmed earlier in the …

M*A*S*H: Give and Take has some intriguing story elements to it that hold the viewer interest and make this eleventh season episode worth watching. This is actually the second to the last episode, and I don’t think it’s an accident that they aired this show when they did.
The …

In M*A*S*H: Friends and Enemies, Colonel Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan) is reunited with his best friend, Colonel Woody Cooke, played by John McLiam. While Potter is happy to see him, he’s not so happy when Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda) gives him an unfavorable report about Cooke. In …

M*A*S*H: Say No More focuses on a wounded soldier at the 4077th. This brings the soldier’s father to the camp. General Addison Collins, played John Anderson, is gung-ho military. He’s everything that Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda) detests, and one thing Hawkeye can’t stand is watching General …