The fourth season was ebbing towards its last fourth when Have Gun - Will Travel brought viewers a show called Everyman. It’s a bit of an odd tale, one mixed in the belief of the tarot cards, which is often controversial.
The San Francisco opening had Paladin (Richard Boone) …

Ransom aired towards the end of Sea Hunt’s second season. It’s all about the need to recover some computer memory tapes that are being held for ransom. Here are some thoughts on this half hour episode of the adventure series which starred Lloyd Bridges.
–Okay, firing into the …

Niko was the 17th episode from the fourth year of the underwater adventure series, Sea Hunt, which starred Lloyd Bridges as expert skin diver, Mike Nelson. The drama starts out very early in this show when Nelson and his partner, Frank Judd (played by Lane Bradford) discover two …

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Turn Back the Clock, episode seven and one I have always been intrigued by, guest stars Nick Adams. We see him running through a jungle and then are surprised to find he’s being chased by a dinosaur. Okay, this show …

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Sky Is Falling, the sixth show of the series, and it opens with what I’m sure is footage from some ‘B’ horror movie. It looked really familiar to me, but I can’t place it. It’s always a hoot to …

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Price of Doom, the fifth show of this successful sci fi series, opens with a blizzard in Antarctica. It also brings us our first real sea monster story, a device that would become more the norm than the unusual. …

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Mist of Silence, episode four, opens with a lot of action as we see an attempted murder of a Latin American President. I never really like this kind of thing, so when I see this type of opening, it makes …

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Fear-Makers, the third episode of the science fiction series, begins with an experiment that goes awry, costing lives and the destruction of another sub that Admiral Nelson (Richard Basehart) had built. It’s all about how far down the subs can …

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The City Beneath the Sea, episode two of season one, had the Seaview trying to unearth the mystery about two ships that have disappeared in the waters of Greece. Ultimately, Captain Lee Crane (David Hedison) does a bit of sleuthing, skin …

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Eleven Days to Zero gets it name from the fact that the nuclear submarine Seaview has just eleven days to stop a deathly disaster facing the planet. Following are some of my thoughts on the show:
–I love the magic of the …

The Choir is a British import in a way as it airs on BBC America. This is a reality program that has a man named Gareth Malone putting together a choir that he hopes will be good enough to perform at the World Choir Games in Japan in …

From The Virginian’s fifth season came a nice episode called Sue Ann. It’s notable for a couple of reasons, one of which is that it starred the terrific Patty Duke and second is that it was the return of Clu Gulager as Deputy Sheriff Emmett Ryker.
This is the …

Wounded, from season two of Highway Patrol, is actually an episode I enjoyed very much. In fact, it’s one of the best episodes in my opinion, and it’s certainly in the top ten for me. The reason for that is the premise of the show and also …

Sea Hunt: Proof of Guilt is one of the latter episode’s of the underwater adventure series’ second season on television. I actually thought it was pretty intriguing as well. The basic idea behind the half hour show is that diving expert Mike Nelson, as played by Lloyd …

Peanuts is more than a cartoon. It’s a way of life, entertaining adults and kids. It simply transcends so many boundaries. One of the more recent half hour television specials was called Lucy Must Be Traded, Charlie Brown, and it is full of funny moments as …

The choir began nine months until the world choir competition in China, and in this second hour long show, viewers find out whether or not this group of amateur high school singers cut the muster and are accepted to participate in this event. The choir master, Gareth Malone, …

Vengeance Trail was the 15th episode of the fifth season of The Virginian. This particular outing focuses quite a bit on newcomer, Don Quine, who plays Stacey Grainger. He’s just too wooden, and his character here is suddenly very idealistic compared to just weeks ago when he …

Highway Patrol: Gem Robbery, a second year episode of this police drama centers around a robbery of gems. The show opens with the robbery, though we don’t know at first what is happening.
Basically, a courier named Harris arrives and is supposed to be met by the gemologist’s secretary, …

Week 3 of Dancing with the Stars - Australia began with a big of a joke when they introduced one of the bottom 2 from last week as Jason Stevens, who had actually been voted off last week. Some caught it, but I’m not sure every did. …

Duct Tape Hour 2 aka: a Buster’s Cut episode of Mythbusters was terrific to watch. I still love the first hour, which came from curiosity of which MacGyver tricks might actually have worked, was a load of fun. They built a boat and lifted up a car …

Sea Hunt: Bionics, from April 1961, is from the fourth season of this adventure program. What I liked is that I finally figured out something. I never saw this show until ThisTV started airing it this year, but sometimes they air Sea Hunt at another time and …

A Conversation with James Drury is forty-five minutes of interesting comments and remarks from this actor who is mostly remembered for playing the title role in the 90-minute NBC western, The Virginian. Now I want to say off the bat that traditionally, I’m not a fan of Drury …

From August 1959, Sea Hunt: Underwater Unit is a second season outing of this half hour, black and white adventure show that circulates around Lloyd Bridges’ character of Mike Nelson, ex-Navy frogman who is considered one of the best skin divers out there. I mention all of this …

David Clark, CEO of Best Western Hotels in the United Kingdom, goes undercover in this first episode of Undercover Boss’ second season. I actually wasn’t aware that this show was airing in the UK. We in America had its first season of the series as well. …

Directed by Ida Lupino, who actually orchestrated many episodes of this western series, the fourth season episode of Have Gun - Will Travel was a semi-comical outing called The Gold Bar. I actually enjoyed this little twist of a tale that wasn’t exactly what was expected. We …

Toward the end of its second season, Highway Patrol presented an episode entitled Double Cross. It begins with a robbery and an old fashioned double cross that results in one of the robbers being murdered by the other. It’s not long before Chief Dan Mathews (Broderick Crawford) …

Highway Patrol: Reformation aired towards the back end of this police drama’s second season. I like the concept of this episode, though I think that some of the drama could have been enhanced to give more intrigue for the viewers.
Broderick Crawford plays the confident Chief Dan Mathews, head …

Days of Our Lives presented what turned out to be a month’s worth of drama and farewell to their beloved Alice Horton, as played by the late Frances Reid. This is unprecedented in daytime drama. Never before has a soap gone to this extent to celebrate a …

Underwater Park was an episode presented towards the end of Sea Hunt’s second season in 1959.
I really enjoyed the opening segment of Underwater Park because of the underwater footage. We have our show hero, Mike Nelson, ace deep sea diver, taking pictures as he comes in, through, and …

From season two, Highway Patrol: Convict’s Wife revolves around a man who escapes from capture and heads for his wife, from whom he’s separated. She wants to believe the best about him, but she’s essentially going her own way.
Anne Carroll played the wife, Betty Brandon, but I wasn’t …

This was the Top Seven Perform episode of So You Think You Can Dance. Following are the highlights, and low lights, from my point of view:
–Another injury, this time it’s Ashley. Last week we lost Alex, so it would be horrible to see another dancer go home …

I’ve said it before, and I may just say it again, but it amazes me how many shows of Highway Patrol revolve around the helicopter. The actual ‘copter’ word is used in numerous titles throughout the series’ run. I suppose in the late 50’s when this show …

Cupcake Wars: Survival of the Fittest refers to an event at the Natural History Museum. This is what the four contestants are vying for, the chance to have their cupcakes used for the big party; that and the price money as well as the recognition.
In the taste round …

From Highway Patrol’s second season in 1957, Stripped Cars gave viewers a bit of something new, and that came by the unique crime scenario.
The action in this story surrounds George Bennett, the driver of a car carrier when he’s attacked and killed. Bennett was just in the way, …

The 28th episode of Sea Hunt’s second season was called Underwater Ejection and focused on deep sea diver Mike Nelson, portrayed by Lloyd Bridges, hunting down nose cones from space craft. The man has some interesting jobs, that’s for sure.
Mike Nelson opens the show with an injury, which …

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Back for Christmas was classic Hitchcock. I pretty much love most all that this series has to offer. They weren’t all winners, but it’s hard not to enjoy something about each offering that came from this ingenious mind.
The story begins in England with a …

Expedition is a fourth year show from the underwater action adventure series, Sea Hunt. The show starred Lloyd Bridges as Mike Nelson, ex-Navy frogman and expert deep sea diving expert.
Robert F. Simon guest stars as Professor Aaron Halliday, Nelson’s old history professor. He calls Nelson to help …

In The Getaway, the 27th episode of Sea Hunt’s second season on television, Jan Harrison portrays Corrine Baker, a friend of deep sea diving expert Mike Nelson, as played by series star Lloyd Bridges. She’s kidnapped by men who stuck up a casino. Naturally, Nelson goes searching …

Have Gun - Will Travel: Long Way Home aired in February 1961 and featured a really nice guest cast which helped to elevate the show in overall success.
In the story, Richard Boone portrays Paladin, our heroic gunfighter. How I love the opening bits in San Francisco. There’s …

This was the week when the top eight were scheduled to perform on So You Think You Can Dance. The first dance was the contestant with a pro and then the second time around, the contestants would be dancing with each other. Here are a few notes …

I actually watched the very first episode of the original Big Brother in America. That first season was nothing like this show is today. For me, that’s a negative. I actually still find that first cast endearing, and I often wonder where they are today and how …

The 30th episode of season two of Sea Hunt was called Port Security and aired in July 1959.
John Zaremba, no newcomer to this adventure series, guest starred as Charlie Keller. He hires Mike Nelson (Lloyd Bridges) to assist in various attempts to get some drug smugglers. This …

Have Gun - Will Travel: Bandit is from the fifth year of this western hit series which features Richard Boone as Paladin, the gunfighter for hire.
The opening at the hotel has Paladin wondering how a woman could become so vile. It’s a very odd beginning but I guess …

From season 5 in 1966, The Virginian: Girl on the Glass Mountain was a fairly entertaining episode. I haven’t liked very many of the fifth season shows, but this one does okay. It revolves around a young woman who gets married and wants everything to be just …

Have Gun - Will Travel: The Tax Gatherer, a fourth year episode of this black and white western television series, had a lot of potential, but ultimately failed. The problem is that it’s party comedy and part drama, and it would have been better if it’ had stuck …

My daughter and I took the time to watch a Futurama episode Tuesday night and ended up watching the Season 1 episode Fry and the Slurm Factory.
I had seen this one before (a long time ago) and this was the first time my daughter had watched it. Both of …

I had seen the Family Guy episode that was on about a dozen times so I ended up flipping channels yesterday afternoon looking for something else to watch. After a minute or so, I came across one of my favorite Star Trek the Next Generation episodes; Elementary, Dear Data.
Basically, …

I once again sat down to watch an episode of Futurama with my oldest daughter last night. And, since it was the next one on the DVD, we ended up watching the season 1 episode entitled “Mars University.”
This one was an OK episode but not an overly great one. …

I don’t normally like the later episodes of That 70s Show; mostly because I can’t stand Donna’s replacement boyfriend (after Topher Grace left the series). But, I do like the episode that was on last night; We Will Rock You.
Basically, there are two main stories to this one. First, …

I had a chance to watch a bit of TV last night and ended up watching an episode of the Simpsons; Lisa’s Date with Density.
This one has a couple story lines that are actually pretty entertaining. First, Lisa finds herself having a crush on Nelson and, while I wouldn’t …