The 35th show Highway Patrol from Season 3 was called Explosives and aired in June 1958. While it had action and drama, it also featured poor writing in my view, and maybe even more direction since I would think the director would have some power to make what …

Sea Hunt’s third season continued with episode 35 which was called The Sound of Nothing, airing in September 1960. This was another show that focused on the commonalities of space and the ocean. Sea Hunt referred to these similarities quite a bit in earlier shows, but it’s …

The latest episode of Surviving the Cut was called Special Forces Diving which dealt with the Special Forces Combat Diving Course. These personnel are already Special Ops trained, and that in itself takes a great deal of courage and strength. This is even more intense.
There were 53 …

From March 1962, the fifth season, Have Gun - Will Travel: Man Who Struck Moonshine is a show with a message about drinking too much. It’s veiled within a story of eerie happenings, but it is about being an alcoholic. It’s about a man with no confidence, …

Changing Lanes: Who Will Be in the Top 10? is the second show of this series that deals with Max Siegel’s Revolution Racing team’s quest to hire four drivers to race for them. It’s not just any four drivers, though, it’s four drivers designed to bring more diversity to …

The 15th cycle of America’s Next Top Model began this week with some changes, especially with the prizes. Cover Girl is still part of the big picture, but the prize are two layouts in Italian Vogue Magazine. Another change is that the goal for the year is …

The first episode of the two part Big Brother finale from its twelfth season aired on September 9, 2010. The show picked up where the previous one had ended, which was in the middle of an adventurous Head Of Household competition. Actually, it’s the first part of …

In Chasing Mummies: Cursed, which is the ongoing adventures of Egyptologist and archaeologist Zahi Hawass, Alice applies to be a fellow. She was on the show earlier when they lifted the stone from the ocean bottom. I liked her then, and I believe she performed reasonably well …

The third season of the half hour police drama, Highway Patrol, continued on with its amazing 36th episode, entitled Hostage Officer. I do love the early days of television, in the fifties and sixties where TV seasons lasted this long, and even longer.
In the case of Hostage Officer from …

Sea Hunt: Prima Donna was the 36th episode of the underwater adventure series’ third season on the air. Can you imagine that — 36th show, and that wasn’t even the last one. Boy, do I miss those days, which in this case was back in September 1960.
Actually, …

Laramie: Street of Hate, a first year episode of this awesome western series, featured an interesting guest star performance by Charles Bronson, who actually did a lot of television in the late 50’s and early 60’s.
In this hour, Bronson plays Frank Buckley, an outcast from Laramie who has been …

The Rachel Zoe Project: The Oscars and Figure Skater — Johnny Weir was another hour of watching the very self-absorbed and not all that likable Rachel Zoe. She’s a stylist, one of the best of those out there today. She also reportedly comes from humble beginnings, which …

Have Gun - Will Travel: Silent Death, Secret Death had some decent moments and yet didn’t really satisfy my entertainment criteria for a good TV Show. From March 1962, this 28th episode of the fifth season began in San Francisco where our resident gunfighter, Paladin, is asked to …

The Biography series, often presented on A&E but now more often and regularly shown on The Biography Channel, has produced some outstanding and informative hours of programming. Sometimes I learn a lot and at other times, it’s just entertaining. In the case of the biography on actress …

Ice Road Truckers: Convoy to Hell was a bit on the calm side, which is unusual for this reality series which airs weekly on the History Channel. Usually, the show has plenty of spice, but for whatever reason, the action seemed a bit tame. Then again, sometimes …

The second episode of The Virginian’s seventh season on the air from September 1968 was called Silver Image, and it was far better than I thought it was going to be. The show surrounded a widow of a rancher in Medicine Bow who was in the middle of …

Laramie: Midnight Rebellion features Robert Fuller as Jess Harper, and it’s a pretty dramatic hour for this superbly done television western. The ending has a lot of action and poignancy to it, and it does get intense at times.
However, let’s start with the opening scene from this show …

I really enjoy watching Laramie: Saddle and Spur from the first season of this terrific western TV series. It guest stars Beverly Garland, who is recognizable from shows like My Three Sons and The Scarecrow and Mrs. King. She’s really great in this episode as she plays …

Laramie: Hour After Dawn from season one presents some real inner conflict, especially for Slim Sherman, the rancher played by John Smith. As often happens, Slim has to sub for the sheriff when the man is injured and insists on Slim doing the job. Ultimately, the hanging …

I like the laid back manner in which Mad Hungry with Lucinda Scala Quinn is produced. Even though instructional cooking shows aren’t my thing, I find myself more curious than I would be normally because Lucuinda looks and sounds approachable. In this September 14, 2010 show, she …

The series premier of Mad Hungry with Lucinda Scala Quinn aired in September 2010. I’m not really into cooking shows unless they are of the reality type in terms of competitions, but I will admit that I liked Lucinda’s energy at the beginning of this show.
The show went …

This review focuses on the third episode to air of Masterchef, the newest cooking show to air on the Fox Network. All of the contestants who were given aprons in the first two hours of televised auditions, now have to be meted down to a workable group. …

Laramie: The Track of the Jackal from season 2 is one of my favorites because it is one that gives Jess Harper (Robert Fuller) some emotional angst. It opens by sending Slim Sherman (John Smith) on a trip while explaining that Jess is going to be the temporary …

Wanted: Dead or Alive: The Martin Poster could be called a star studded event. This premier episode of a new western television program starred Steve McQueen as bounty hunter, Josh Randall. Guest starring alongside McQueen were Michael Landon as Carl Martin, Nick Adams as Andy Martin, Warren …

Wanted: Dead or Alive: The Bounty, the third episode to air of this western series which starred Steve McQueen, aired in September 1958. Frankly, I had a really tough time getting into this outing. It began strangely in my opinion, and as it progressed, my attention wasn’t …

The second episode of the western series Wanted: Dead or Alive had bounty hunter Josh Randall responding to a telegram that asked for his help. In Fatal Memory, Randall travels to Fort Considine, a deserted post to see how he can assist his old friend, who had been …

The 38th episode of Sea Hunt’s third season was another one of these political intrigue shows that I really don’t like very much. I so prefer the almost non-existent ocean life shows or even the episodes focused on technological advances over these small fabricated country tales. The …

Dan Sick was the 38th episode of Highway Patrol’s third season, and it focused on Chief Dan Mathews, as played by Broderick Crawford, becoming ill quite suddenly. Though I have issues with how the show proceeded in spots, it was actually an enjoyable half hour that had me interested …

From year two, Laramie: Ride the Wild Wind includes the return of Bobby Crawford Jr. as Andy Sherman. In this second year, Andy was sent to school back east, but he shows up a couple of times to be a part of the story, as is the case …

The Andy Griffith Show: The Darling Baby aired in December 1964 and continued the saga of the popular Darling family. Once again, I have to say that I am not a huge fan of this story arc, but it is quite popular with fans of this highly successful …

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, …

The second episode of The Choir: Boys Don’t Sing was quite interesting to watch. I’m still left wishing they’d not tried to cover so much ground in such a short period of airtime, though. The events cover literally months and yet we see a great deal of …

It’s an interesting thing about The Virginian: Ah Sing vs. Wyoming, which was the 7th episode to air in season six. I had wondered if there had been any real context behind the story, a case of reality by taking a real situation and sticking it into an …

Hair Battle Spectacular: Shake It, Don’t Break was the latest hour of this crazy reality competition which is now down to five stylists whose speciality is creating fantasy hairdos. When I say fantasy, I mean crazy, far out, and nearly unimaginable updos that you can’t help but notice, …

America’s Got Talent: The Finals for 2010 was a pretty decent show, presented in an hour format. With four finalists, it easily could have been a rockin’ half hour event. I’m admittedly getting tired of all of the fluff that these shows do. I’m not fond …

This was the 39th and last episode of Highway Patrol’s third TV season, and it opened with a nice, long car chase with an officer trying to chase down an injured felon named Ellis Colton, played by Troy Melton. Eventually, Colton dumped the vehicle and sought shelter at …

From October 1968, The Virginian: Vision of Blindness was the 4th outing of this 90 minute western’s seventh season on the air. I’ve been watching a few more of these shows lately because David Hartman is now in the cast as David Sutton, one of the ranch hands …

The dramatic pilot to Jimmy Smits’ new TV series was somewhat interesting. For me, one of the reasons that Smits’ character of Cyrus Garza works is because he lets himself be a bit older here. I haven’t really liked the younger swag characters that he’s played since …

For the second time, a special telethon-like program called Stand Up 2 Cancer aired on several networks on September 10, 2010. With all three network news anchors — Brian Williams, Katie Couric, and Diane Sawyer — appearing together, the one hour event is unique in that it aired …

Airing on October 1, 1960 was the final show of Sea Hunt’s third season. Seasons were different back in the day, and they were much longer. This show, Man Overboard, was actually the 39th program of the year. Can you imagine? I do miss the …

In The Rachel Zoe Project: Zoe vs. Zoe, the baby battle continues, and it may just be heating up to a point of no return. At issue between successful fashion stylist Rachel Zoe and her husband and president of her company, Rodger, is their personal life (or lack …

When I last saw the little town of Mystic Falls Virginia last season of The Vampire Diaries, the townspeople were trying to pick up the pieces after a vampire unveiling turned sour, killing not only vampires but humans as well.
Elena Gilbert had just saved her vampire boyfriend Stefan and …

Friends is one of the most popular and viewed series of the 90s. A group of friends who always hang out in the coffee shop, Central Perk, and talk about their lives. It starred Jennifer Aniston(as Rachel Green), Courtney Cox(as Monica Geller), Lisa Kudrow(as Phoebe Buffay), Matt LeBlanc(as Joey …

Having ignored this show when it was originally aired, I stumbled across a repeat one evening on E4. I knew it was about four lads at school but that was about it. I must have turned on just at the right moment as I heard a characters reaction to …

Mystery Science Theater 3000 was a popular television show that began airing in the 1990s. The show features a cast consisting of a narrator and his robot friends, who comment in the background through old movies. Each episode features a movie, usually a little-known movie, and always …

When I saw the previews for last night’s summer finale of Psych, I will admit I had some doubts about it. After all, it was an episode that had Shawn and Gus helping an international spy. It just seemed a bit unbelievable.
But, after watching it, I have to admit …

From February 1964, Susan Oliver guest stars as a siren like female in The Andy Griffith Show: Prisoner of Love. She’s actually brought in by the state police to be held in the Mayberry jail for one night. The music that is used with her character is …

Frontline is a news show on public television. It features stories of current events from around the world. This episode of Frontline was about the earthquake that devastated Haiti last year. The quake registered a 7.0 on the Richter scale. Frontline said that earthquakes of …

I absolutely love my LG 720P LCD television set. Given to me as a surprise from a very special friend, I have faithfully been watching television magic on the 32 inch screen. The image quality of the screen is absolutely fantastic and very clear, conveying colors vividly and crisply …

Joss Whedon is one of those love him or hate him writers. I like him. I enjoyed Buffy and Angel, although I did find them to be a bit overpraised. Such is the case with a lot of things in geek culture.
One show in …