The second show of the fourth season of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea guest starred Vincent Price and was called The Deadly Dolls. I actually loved the opening teaser where the Seaview crew was being amused by a puppet show of sorts in which Admiral Nelson, …

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Fires of Death is the first entry of this hit science fiction series’ fourth and final year on the air. In this season opener, the Seaview and its guest, Dr. Turner, have a tall order, to stop a volcano from erupting. …

One of the final episodes of the first season, The Andy Griffith Show: The Inspector began with a classic scene of Barney playing checkers against himself. Now it’s a hoot, but haven’t we all done something like this before? I think that’s why it works so well. …

The Andy Griffith Show: A Plaque for Mayberry has one of my favorite crazy Barney Fife scenes. It’s right at the beginning of this first season episode, when town drunk Otis Campbell (Hal Smith) is ready to be released from his latest incarceration, only Deputy Fife thinks he …

The Andy Griffith Show: Barney Gets His Man deals with Barney’s insecurities as a deputy. He may talk big, but he’s usually more scared than not. In this case, Barney becomes intimidated by a man he starts to give a ticket to for littering and then accidentally …

This is another favorite from season one of The Andy Griffith Show. It’s a wonderful half hour of entertainment referred to as Andy Forecloses. There’s humor and drama both, as well as a whole lot of friendly warmth. I absolutely love this half hour of comedy.
One …

Elinor Donahue gets a featured part in The Andy Griffith Show: Ellie Saves a Female when her Ellie Walker, female druggist, takes on the case of Frankie Flint (Edris March). The farm girl is bulging to be a young woman, but as the only child of a widowed …

After being run out of Ba Sing Se, Sokka suggests that they go back. Surprisingly, he dons a positive attitude and actually rallies the group. Toph lampshades this by suggesting that Sokka was brainwashed.
It takes some convincing, but the King finally comes around to seeing the truth. …

Team Avatar is bent on finding Appa. The original Ju Dee returns to try and dissuade them, but Aang is fed up and doesn’t care anymore.
The group comes across Jet, who offers to help them find Appa. Katara, still mad at his betrayal from season 1, is hesitant …

This episode shows us what Appa’s been up to since he was kidnapped back in “The Library”. Things didn’t really go so well for him.
He was kidnapped, traded, sold to a circus where the ringmaster was abusive, he managed to escape that only to find that his friends …

This episode breaks the format a little in that we don’t get one narrative, rather a series of small stories that focuses on each of the main characters.
We get one for Katara and Toph that has them bonding after Katara invites her for a girls day out. The …

ABC Family has apparently had enough success with its “Secret Life of an American Teenager” to decide to follow that with another lifetime-movie like series, this time centred not around the issue of teenage pregnancy, but that of teenage obesity. Curiosity made me view the pilot and the most …

As is the case with many other viewers of ‘The Wire’, the next project undertook by David Simon was to be met with equal parts enthusiasm and scrutiny. The brilliance of ‘The Wire’ ensured there would be lofty expectations for ‘Treme’, but the fact that this show is quite …

I really loved the prolonged introduction of all of the contestants. The show spent several minutes having the designers meet in groups, little by little. They chatted, and we listened. They met at airports, train stations, and on ferry
boats. They met two at time and …

Ba Sing Se is under siege and it’s up to the newly named Team Avatar (that is much easier to type out than “Aang and crew”) to stop it. The King thinks he has the situation under control, sending out a platoon of his best troops, but Ty …

After Aang’s latest trip into the Avatar state, he becomes worried about the lack of control and decides to abandon all emotion. It starts off rather subtle, but becomes more obvious as the episode progresses, until he flat out explains the reasons for his detachment.
Katara is naturally …

Well, my wife is once again spending her Thursday nights watching Project Runway on Lifetime. This started last night with the season 8 premiere of the series. And, unfortunately, I think the series is continuing to get worse and worse every year.
First of all, the contestants this year seem …

Produced in 2004, the War and Remembrance: The Making of War and Remembrance featurette opens with one of the promotional ads for this lengthy mini-series which aired on ABC in 1988. From there, viewers are introduced to Dan Curtis who produced, directed, and co-wrote the mammoth war picture. …

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 …

In the War and Remembrance: The Music of War and Remembrance featurette, Bob Cobert, who did the music for both The Winds of War and the sequel, War and Remembrance, talks about his history with producer Dan Curtis, the producer, director, and co-writer of the mini-series, and how he …

Kevan Collins, CEO for just four months at Tower Hamlets, steps up to the plate in this episode of Undercover Boss - UK. Now I’m a bit handicapped by my American perspective because I haven’t a clue what they were talking about in terms of how this Tower …

The War and Remembrance: The Making of War and Remembrance 2 featurette somewhat picks up where the first ‘making of’ piece left off. Because of the length of this epic mini-series, the DVD release came in two parts, so this second extra spoke more to what went on …

The Beast: The Complete First Season DVD Set contains three disks in slim packs, 2 in the first and one in the other. There is a ‘play all’ option for the episodes, which I consider to be crucial. Each of the first two disks has four episodes …

The Incredible Mr. Limpet is a wonderful film from Warner Brothers that combined live action with animation. It’s a terrific tale of Henry Limpet, played by Don Knotts, who is a man who loves fish and then finds one day that his wish comes true. He falls …

On the DVD for War and Remembrance, Producer/Director/Writer Dan Curtis did commentary for selected scenes. With 30 hours of footage, it’s understandable why he didn’t do a full commentary. Instead, as a bonus feature really, Curtis talks over several scenes that are clipped together into this featurette …

Sea Hunt’s second show of the third season was Water Nymphs. About the first thing I noticed is that this was going to be a flirtatious show with series star Lloyd Bridges, who places bachelor diving expert, Mike Nelson. He’s doing some underwater photography in the opening …

Season three of Highway Patrol continues with this episode called Efficiency Secretary, which is all about a dedicated secretary who suddenly switches to the wrong side of the law. There really isn’t a lot of time devoted to why she’d make this change, and that’s something I wish …

The third season of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea begins with this episode entitled Monster from the Inferno. The major guest star is Arthur Hill, who ends up in contact with our first sea monster of the year. This one is pretty intelligent and isn’t …

The latest episode of Cupcake Wars, Film Festival Faceoff, was focused on the Los Angeles Film Festival opening night. I do like how this competition series ties in to some event opening that day or the next. It’s fun to see the realm of the cupcake put …

It was a very spontaneous decision to watch the first episode of Masterchef that was on the Fox network last night. I dislike Gordon Ramsey greatly. He’s a loudmouth, obnoxious man, at least that’s how he presents himself to be on television. I just can’t stomach …

Have Gun - Will Travel: The Bird of Time, an episode which aired early in the western’s sixth season on the air, went right into the action, avoiding one of the traditional San Francisco openings. I always lament the lack of the fancy Paladin beginnings. They add …

This was the second episode of Don’t Stop Believing, a British TV series that pits singing and dancing groups against one another. In each episode, six teams compete. One is voted in by the viewers and then one other is given the wildcard by the judges.
My limitation …

Hawthorne: Final Curtain was an okay episode, but I was more frustrated by it than anything else.
First, let’s take a look at what the title, Final Curtain, was referring to. One of the doctors from back in the day who had worked at James River Hospital shows up. …

From November 1957, Highway Patrol: Safecracker was the fourth outing of this police drama’s third season. It was actually a very calm show, I thought. It was easy to watch with nothing that really screamed ‘I’m great’ and nothing that moaned of it being horrible. It …

From January 1960, Sea Hunt: Hot Cargo deals with Mike Nelson leading the first underwater flotilla command for the Coast Guard, which is a bit of a twist. We’ve seen Nelson on reserve duty for the Navy, which is logical since he’s an ex-Navy frogman, but what we …

Unfortunately, I missed the fourth outing of Dancing with the Stars - Australia last week, so couldn’t review it. I learned from the highlights here that Jobeth was knocked off, which was a shame. That information tucked away, it was time for a new round of competition …

From January 1960, Sea Hunt: Mr. Big had deep sea diver Mike Nelson (Lloyd Bridges) doing a form of spy duty again, but I didn’t mind this outing as I have some of the past shows that felt more like spy dramas than underwater adventure shows.
In essence, Nelson helps …

Highway Patrol: Temptation, a third season 1957 episode that focuses on the service of the California Highway Patrol, was an okay episode with some high and low points. As always, the show starred Broderick Crawford as Chief Dan Mathews. In this episode, he’s on the trail of …

Sometimes I love America’s Got Talent, and sometimes it bores me. I’m not fond of any of the judges, who make no sense in who they put through or buzz out. It’s not that I like David Hasselhoff, but I miss him. I’m not a fan …

Have Gun - Will Travel: Beau Geste, the fifth episode of the sixth and final season of this western series, is one I’ve seen a couple of times in recent history, but which I just can’t grab onto for some reason. Something about it doesn’t work in retaining …

Trick Shot Showdown was the 7th episode to air of the Top Shot competition series that pits top gun and rifle shooters against one another. They accomplish this by first having a team competition — blue team versus the red team. Now in my view, the blue …

This show takes a look back at the choir that Gareth Malone developed and trained from students of Northolt High School and actually made them successful enough to compete in a world competition in China. They didn’t make it through to the second round there, but they performed, …

We’re still in 1980, October 3rd to be specific, when Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Death from the Past rolls around. The show began with a teaser that included World War II action in 1945 and an underwater lab of sorts which is being attacked. …

There’s danger board the teaser ends on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Creature, the 15th episode of its third year on the air. It’s another leafy deep sea monster, and this one makes a yucky, screeching sound, too. It’s not long before it essentially …

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Brand of the Beast, the 14th outing of the 3rd season, brings back the concept of the werewolf. They did this in a previous show in which guest star Charles Aidman reverted into a werewolf. Now Admiral Nelson (Richard …

From December 1966 comes this 13th episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea’s third season on TV. The outing is entitled The Lost Bomb. Earlier in the season, shows had extra focus on two of the more visible crewman, Kowalski (Del Monroe) and Patterson (Paul …

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Plant Man, the 12th show to air in its 3rd season, featured guest star William Smithers in a dual role as both John Wilson and Ben Wilson, brothers who are both scientists and who communicate telepathically. Naturally, they are an …

The 11th episode of its third season on the air, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Haunted Submarine, gives us another same-o, same-o, which I really don’t like. By this I mean that yet again, Richard Basehart plays two roles. He’s Admiral Harriman Nelson as …

Episode 10 of season 3, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Deadly Invasion guest starred Warren Stevens as Sam Garrity. Apparently, Earth is being invaded by mini spaceships.
Below are some thoughts about this episode:
–Since when would they bring a shell like object just recovered to the control …

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Death Watch, episode 9 from season 3, stars Richard Basehart as Admiral Harriman Nelson and David Hedison as Captain Crane. Crane was always my favorite as I just adored Hedison. He certainly had the look, voice, and demeanor to …