Seven Brides for Seven Brothers: Christmas opens ten days before Christmas with Crane and Daniel coming upon a woman named Meg (Joanna Pettet )with three children in a run-down car that won’t start. Right after that Ford and Guthrie come upon a dead coyote by the river. …

Laramie: The Long Road Back isn’t really one of my favorite episodes, but that’s mostly because it’s an hour that focuses on John Smith’s character of Slim Sherman. I so much prefer the buddy shows in which Smith shares the western hour with Robert Fuller and his much …

Undercover Boss: DirecTV featured Mike White, CEO of this satellite company.
Now this is probably the first time I’ve watched with skepticism and that’s because I’ve heard so much negative publicity about DirecTV. Our local newscast has done numerous stories about DirecTV’s hard nose line about contracts. For example, …

This edition of Dancing with the Stars’ 11th season was dubbed TV Theme Week as all of the pairs danced to a TV theme song. Some of the highlights from my point of view follow.
–The first half hour of the show was nothing but a review given by …

This review is going to focus on an episode of the western series, Laramie, which I just love to pieces. The specific show is called Lost Allegiance and aired during the program’s final season on TV.
What I love about Laramie: Lost Allegiance could fill a book. There …

From March 1969, Eileen was a seventh season episode of The Virginian. The story involved a young woman named Eileen who visits Shiloh. The trip was arranged by her father, a friend of Clay Grainger. At the heart of the trip is the fact that Eileen …

The 28th episode of season four, Highway Patrol: Illegal Entry concerns something that is very topical today, illegal immigrants coming from Mexico into the United States. Martin Garralaga guest stars as Pablo Diaz. He is transported to the United States illegally. The show also features Michael …

Undercovers: Jailbreak has our catering couple once again leaving their business to take on a job for the Central Intelligence Agency. It’s all about a valuable hard drive that has disappeared. It needs to be found, but it’s a prisoner who apparently knows where the hard drive …

Top Chef: Just Desserts transitioned to a normal one hour time slot with this edition, which was dubbed Edible Fashion. Things have settled down a tad, but there is still plenty of action.
I really like Gail Simmons, who is the host of the reality competition show. She …

I have to say that for the most part, I am preferring the United Kingdom’s version of The Apprentice UK over the American one. It’s more how British Lord Alan Sugar handles the show. It’s not the same as Donald Trump, and he has more surprises, though …

Americas Next Top Model: Francesco Carrozzini begins with the models going to the Grammy Museum and freaking out at the various items there, especially one that had belonged to Michael Jackson. The winner of the opening challenge would be one of the Grammy gals who hand over the …

It’s a showdown between the final four to see which three will get to show at Fashion Week in the Part 1 edition of this season’s Project Runway Finale. We pretty much start with Tim Gunn making his pilgrimage to the homes of the designers to see how they …

The opening of Have Gun - Will Travel: Debutante, the 19th show of the sixth season, found Richard Boone’s Paladin in his finest duds at the Hotel Carlton in San Francisco. He’s attempting to romance a beautiful Armenian woman, and it’s quiet charming. What I love most …

Mad Hungry with Lucina Scala Quinn: Lunch on the Go featured pressed sandwiches, something Quinn says she likes to make for on the go activities. The half hour included a lunch that went beyond the sandwiches to include grilled veggies, like gas charged red peppers and squash.
She talked …

Black Gold, the show that airs on TruTV and follows the work crews of Big Dog Oil Rig 28, continued its third season with this sixth week episode that was a lot of yelling and shouting, combined with a tad of personal emotion.
One of the hot heads, Cheston, is …

The results show for the TV Theme Week edition of Dancing with the Stars’ 11th season opened tonight with an attempt to set up that possible upset that would keep viewers tuned in for the full hour. They did this by starting with the two lowest scoring couples …

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Sqweegel is yet another story about a serial killer on the loose. There is something that makes this one different, but it sure feels like CSI is having troubles coming up with new tales to tell.
The intrigue comes when it is realized that local …

The Apprentice: Rock the Catwalk made me wonder if maybe I were really watching Project Runway. Actually, parts of it had some very entertaining moments. This latest hour of Donald Trump’s very long job interview began with last week’s winning project manager, Clint, having a meeting with …

From its fourth season, the Brave Boy episode of Highway Patrol opened dramatically. In fact, from what we’ve seen in the past from this half hour police drama, the violence at the beginning was a little surprising. Not only that, the scene was also staged poorly. …

Alyson Michalka stars as law student and cheerleader scholarship holder, Marti Perkins, in Hellcats: Ragged Old Flag. In this outing, she has some division of unity between participating in a rather ridiculous football game between the girls volleyball team and the cheerleading squad or going on an important …

Alan Hale guest stars in Edge of Evil, from season four of the outstanding western TV series, Laramie. The robust Hale’s character appears jovial, but his Roger Canby persona is far from the hearty soul of the Skipper on Gilligan’s Island. However, Hale is the powerhouse of …

I really enjoy the opening of Laramie: The Stranger , a fourth year episode of this superb western series that stars John Smith as Slim Sherman and, my favorite, Robert Fuller as Jess Harper. The two are partners and co-owners of the Sherman Ranch and Relay Station in …

From December 1962, Have Gun - Will Travel: The Treasure is the 16th show of the sixth and final season. In San Francisco, the opening has Paladin (Richard Boone) talking about the 3 ingredients that are necessary for a good salad. He’s talking to Stewart, the waiter, …

Laramie: Day of Vengeance, a first year episode of this awesome western series, had some nice elements to it. The show stars John Smith and Robert Fuller as cowboys, Slim Sherman and Jess Harper, respectively.
One of the scenes I loved was when Slim arrived back at the ranch …

Highway Patrol: Cargo Hijack, a half hour police drama from the early years of television, was a show from its fourth and final season on the air, the 26th to be exact.
This episode is a story about a robbery team that doesn’t do their homework. Sheila Nolan (Cathy …

Have Gun - Will Travel: Unforgiving Minute, episode 20 of season six of the Richard Boone western series, does not have my beloved introduction that takes place in San Francisco. I’m not sure how many shows in this year were without them, but from what I’ve seen in …

The 27th episode from the fourth season of Highway Patrol was entitled Hitchhiker and aired in April 1959. The theme surrounded a hitchhiker who robbed those who stopped for him. It just proves that hitchhikers have always been a menace and a danger. What I chuckled …

Mad Hungry with Lucinda Scala Quinn Rustic Italian Recipes began with the approachable cook talking about gay pesto, as in fun food and good pesto and pasta to eat. I so often learn from Quinn, and that continues to fascinate me. This first segment was focused on …

Bryan Bedord, the CEO of Frontier Airlines, is center stage in this latest edition of Undercover Boss in the United States. This guy is gutsy. He’s heading up a business that has just merged three companies into one and asking all of them to take a 10 …

For the opening of IRT Deadliest Roads: Pushed to the Ledge, we saw American trucker Rick Yemm watching the little kids attending school. The action takes place in India, and these children do things differently. They are absolutely priceless when they sing, all lined up in three …

Teach - Tony Danza: Tested was the second show in this documentary series in which one time boxer turned actor and dancer Tony Danza is teaching English to a class of 10th grade students at Northeast High School in Philadelphia.
I remember hearing Danza talk about this before he actually …

Storm Over Shiloh was the 23rd episode of the 90 minute western The Virginian in its 7th season on the air. This is one of the more ensemble stories, meaning it’s one I tend to enjoy more than others. I’m really not very fond of shows where …

Rod Cameron appeared in numerous episodes of the Laramie TV western, and most all were memorable outings. In this one, called The Last Journey, he plays John Cole. He’s just been released from prison, and when he shows up with a shot marshal, Slim Sherman (John Smith) …

In Laramie: The Fatal Step, there is another strong guest cast to go along with the excellent partnership of John Smith and Robert Fuller as friends and co-workers, Slim Sherman and Jess Harper, respectively. I am just always amazed at the strong acting that was scene in this …

Dan Duryea is back in Laramie: The Mountain Men, and this isn’t one of the roles I prefer to see him in. He did several episodes of this series, though, including the very first episode, Stage Stop. Here he is Ben Sanford, the father of the mountain …

Laramie: The Lawless Seven has always been one of my favorite episodes. I just love the drama, the characters, the action, and the hint of romance that exists within the hour of this exciting western TV series. The focus in this particular episode is on Robert Fuller’s …

In Laramie: Siege at Jubilee, Jess Harper (Robert Fuller) and Daisy Cooper (Spring Byington) go on the stagecoach headed for Cheyenne so that Jess can see the dentist. He has a sore tooth, and Laramie’s doctor is gone for 6 weeks. Needing to set a good …

Lloyd Nolan is the primary guest star in Laramie’s 3rd season show, Deadly is the Night. Once again, he faces off with Jess Harper, as played by Robert Fuller. To me, Fuller is Jess Harper. He was born for this role, and to my knowledge, it’s …

Laramie: Handful of Fire opened dramatically with Slim Sherman delivering an urgent message to an Army colonel named Barrington, which he ignores. When pressed later, the colonel, a sergeant, and a lieutenant all lie about the orders, claiming that the dispatches Slim was carrying arrived too late. …

This show, Wolf Cub from Laramie’s third season, features Robert Blake as the title character, who in the opening teaser is saved from being hunted by Earl Droody. Droody is played by the artful Arthur Hunnicutt. This character actor was always entertaining.
There is a beautiful scene between …

Well the big news in The Runaway episode is that now Laramie has a school. As of season 1, it did not, and in season 2, it was the motivation behind Slim sending younger brother Andy (Robert Crawford Jr.) off to school in the east. Now there’s …

For Halloween 2010, the SyFy Network aired a six hour live broadcast (well, if you were on the east coast anyway) called Ghost Hunters Halloween Live. I tuned in for the entire marathon broadcast and below are a few of my reactions.
–The overall was too much of a …

Jess Harper (Robert Fuller) is acting as sheriff in Laramie as the action in this hour of Laramie begins. Entitled The Killer Legend, this is a very strong hour of programming and one that I just love to watch. Before the opening teaser ends, Jess finds himself …

The only real problem with the Dancing with the Stars results show for this 200th Performance week, the 7th week of the current season, is that it had to deal with election results break ins. I strongly suspect that is why the normal hour allotment was changed to …

From 1959, Confession was the 36th episode to air in the final season, its fourth, of the police drama, Highway Patrol. This half hour series starred Broderick Crawford as Chief Dan Mathews and William Boyett as his number one helper of sorts, Sergeant Ken Williams. For me, …

There are a lot of people who believe in ghosts or spirits or whatever you want to call the afterlife, or even just a transitional part of going from one phase to another. Then there are those who believe it’s all a bunch of hooey. Real or …

The first scene of the episode was great as far as letting the watcher know what the premise of the story is and gives a great pipe in for the turning plot. Two curious kids, a gas station, and monsters are a great way to start a scary …

I must admit that I haven’t seen such a good pilot for a long time. Most of the shows I watched had pretty weak pilots and mostly I made a remark that I wouldn’t have chosen that episode for the pilot one, but I really have no remarks nor …

This episode was a masterpiece but the idea of people playing Russian Roulette while other betting on who dies first is not only scary and terrible but disgusting too.
Don’s team has to investigate suicides of many man and they realise that something is wrong and that the suicides aren’t …

After hearing my friends praise Glee, the musical television show, for the past year or so, when Glee came back on television, I decided to give it a try. I had a general idea of what went on last season plot-wise, so it wasn’t too hard for me to …