I didn’t intend on watching another episode of Star Trek the Next Generation last night because it was getting a bit late and I had some other things that needed to be done before bed. But, I ended up watching the first few minutes of the episode The Most …

Last night, I was flipping through channels on TV and came across a Star Trek the Next Generation episode that is among my favorites from the series (at least of the ones I have actually watched); Hollow Pursuits.
I like this episode for a couple of reasons. First, it has …

Saturday Night Live is a famous show that needs no introduction. This comedy sketch series has been New York City’s premier television event for decades. Each episode airs on a Saturday night and includes regular comedians who appear in every show as well as cameos by celebrities. Each episode …

From October 1990, The Ray Bradbury Theater: And the Moon Be Still as Bright guest stars David Carradine as an archaeologist named Spender who is part of an expedition to Mars. This is actually the third crew to reach the planet.
As part of the team searches the area, …

From season two, the Jettisoned episode of Sea Hunt occurs after Hurricane Teresa. This adventure series tends to use hurricanes a lot to help the plot of a show. In this case, during the hurricane a pilot had released a nuclear bomb into the ocean for safety …

The Winds of War: Cast and Characters featurette focuses on the obvious as the title relates, the cast and characters of this epic mini-series which captivated America to the point that it average a 54 ratings share, which is huge.
There were several interesting bits included in this featurette. …

The Winds of War: A Novel for Television featurette was a very interesting show to watch. I’m not a big fan of The Winds of War mini-series, but I recognize its popularity and certainly, I did watch it when it had its mammoth run on television years ago. …

Airing originally in January 1992, The Ray Bradbury Theater: Colonel Stonesteel and the ‘Desperate Empties’ was one of the better editions of this science fiction anthology series. This is an inspiring tale from the mind of Bradbury, a story that essentially is all about igniting imagination in youngsters.
Harold …

Don’t be fooled by this title: The Ray Bradbury Theater: The Concrete Mixer . It sounds like it could be a show that deals with children, construction, and such, but it’s really about the mixing of cultures, or perhaps the dangers of such. From January 1992, the …

The Winds of War: On Location featurette gives a very nice insight into what it was like to shoot this mammoth mini-series. To film the series, it took 14 months, and to scout the locations, several years. There is a review of what it was like to …

It’s another story about Mars, a planet that science fiction author Ray Bradbury loves to write about. This is the second story within just a few weeks that has a Martian theme and there’s another one within a few weeks forward. From January 1992, the show and …

I wasn’t real impressed with The Ray Bradbury Theater: The Day It Rained Forever, a story of this science fiction anthology series that originally was seen on television in November 1990. The acting was okay, but I wasn’t taken by the story. It was slow, lacked much …

From March 1961, Sea Hunt: Amigo was an interesting episode that I liked but have an issue with as far as the plot goes. Deep sea diving expert Mike Nelson (Lloyd Bridges) takes a job in San Carlos, Mexico to help extract fossils from a seemingly very difficult …

In 1981, Pippin: His Life and Times became the first staged Broadway show filmed for television. While Peter Pan had been recorded live, it was done at a network studio, whereas Pippin was done in the theater.
Returning to the character he portrayed when Pippin: His Life and Times …

From April 1961, Richard Boone returns as Paladin for another thirty minute western adventure in Have Gun - Will Travel: Long Weekend. I have one overwhelming thought on this show, or rather a word that I would highly associate with it, and that one word is windbag.
Roy Barcroft …

Season four of Have Gun - Will Travel brought this Richard Boone directed episode, The Shooting of Jessie May. Jessie May Turnbow is the subject of a newspaper article that Paladin (Boone) is reading while in his San Francisco hotel where he resides. Turnbow has built a …

This futuristic story that aired originally in January 1992 was called The Ray Bradbury Theater: Zero Hour. Overall, I thought it was a story that began with a lot of potential but then took a wrong turn and ended up a bit sour, at least for me. …

Dan Curtis is center stage for The Winds of War: Making The Winds of War featurette which takes interested viewers through the process of what it was like to make the outstanding television mini-series, The Winds of War and its follow up, War and Remembrance.
One of the intriguing things …

From the third season of Night Gallery, You Can Come Up Now, Mrs. Millikan was the main story shown. It was followed by a very short piece called Smile, Please.
You Can Come Up Now, Mrs. Millikan featured Ozzie Nelson as the eccentric inventor, Henry Millikan. Nelson’s wife, …

Have Gun - Will Travel: Fogg Bound from December 1960 is more of a humorous outing for this western series which starred Richard Boone as Paladin, the gunfighter for hire. The show is based on the Jules Verne creation, “Around the World in 80 days.”
The show opens with …

I rather enjoyed Have Gun - Will Travel: The Princess and the Gunfighter which is actually quite charming at points. Much of that is due to the presence of Arlene Martel, who at that point in her career went by the name of Arline Sax. Many viewers …

From October 1972, the third season of Night Gallery, Sandra Dee starred in an episode entitled Spectre in Tap-Shoes. Dee actually plays a duel role, playing a pair of sisters, one of whom hung herself. That was Marion, the tap dancing sister.
When the other sister, Millicent, returns …

From season four, Have Gun - Will Travel: A Head of Hair deals with Paladin, a kidnapped white woman, a Sioux guide, and the dangerous Nez Perce Indians. I have issues with this episode, though parts of it are also very good.
It opens with gayly when Paladin …

The television show “Sesame Street” has been on the air for years. I remember watching it when I was younger, and now that I run a day car and have kids here all the time, they love to watch it as well. Sesame Street has changed a …

Yukito Kunisaki is a traveler who is looking for the “girl in the air” of a family legend. His journey takes him to a small coastal town where he meets Misuzu, a girl eager to be his friend. A history of thousands of years begins to unfold after her …

The World is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, where each person can have the appearance, personality, sex and other characteristics they want for their character and where they can do practically anything people can do in the real world, also players have total freedom of movement as well …

It’s been two years since I first seen the first episode of 90210 and since then, I became addicted to the series. I was not able to watch the first 90210 series which was way way back, that was like a few years ago. I was not able to …

The leading character of Sailor Moon is Usagi Tsukino, who lives a normal high school life until she meets a talking cat named Luna. Through her, Usagi discovers that the world is in endangered by the Dark Kingdom which had destroyed the Kingdom of the Moon long ago. This …

My roommate is a huge fan of “The Boondocks”, while it certainly has its moments, the show is incredibly hit or miss for me. Luckily, this episode was more hit than miss.
The episode opens, introducing us to a juvenile delinquent named Lamilton Taeshawn, a young boy who has …

I have gotten re-hooked on the show A-Team recently and, growing tired of waiting for re-runs to air on TV, I ended up loading the first season of the show on my Netflix player.
One of the episodes I watched yesterday was really the third episode of the series (after …

Well, I finally had a chance to watch a Home Improvement episode while home at lunch (I got home in time, in other words, because the traffic wasn’t quite as bad as it normally is). I ended up seeing the one entitled Tool Man Delivers.
This one is actually kind …

From July 1989, The Ray Bradbury Theater: A Miracle of Rare Device is actually a pretty interesting story, though there are elements that I’m not as fond of. What happens is that two men, disheveled and obviously down on their luck, are traveling along a desert highway …

Paladin has another romantic evening interrupted by Hey Boy delivering a message in Have Gun - Will Travel: The Race. The message is a request for him to participate in a horse race. A kiss later, the girl is gone and Paladin prepares to leave. What …

File this one under weird and move on to the next. Actually, to be honest, The Ray Bradbury Theater: The Haunting of the New isn’t the worst of these that I’ve seen, but at the same time, this episode from the science fiction series third year is …

From August 1989, The Ray Bradbury Theater: The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone begins with Bradbury’s explanation that the story was spawned from his pondering over how he might respond if someone asked for his writing or his life. I don’t know if this tale is his answer, …

From August 1989, The Ray Bradbury Theater: A Sound of Thunder is a story about time travel and the implications of not following the rules. It’s pretty much that simple. That by itself I might enjoy, but sense the story utilizes hunting as its means of telling …

The Ray Bradbury Theater: The Pedestrian is an interesting show worth watching. I will restate here one of my complaints from another review and this is that I wish Bradbury, from who all of these stories emanate, gave us just a bit more of a setup from the …

From season three, airing in July 1989, The Ray Bradbury Theater: The Wind was one that I had a hard time focusing on and getting into. It was slow and somewhat boring. What is odd to me is that the topic should have had more punch throughout …

The Ray Bradbury Theater: The Lake aired in July 1989, and it’s turned out to be one of my favorites so far. This is the third season of Bradbury science fiction stories that aired, and it’s been pretty much a love/hate relationship for me. A show either …

From 1989, The Ray Bradbury Theater: To the Chicago Abyss concerns some future era when times are tough and food is precious. In fact, apparently very few are left who remember how life used to be, when everyone could go where they wanted and each fruits and vegetables.
I …

Originally having aired in August 1990, The Ray Bradbury Theater: Usher II guest stars Patrick MacNee as a man named Stendahl. It’s a futuristic yarn where the extremely wealthy Stendahl exacts revenge against those who were responsible for the banning and burning of books; more specifically, his library …

As respects the August 10, 1990 airing of The Ray Bradbury Theater: The Black Ferris, I’m going to start by saying that I went nuts trying to figure out where I’d seen the main young boy in this story. His real name, Zachary Bennett, was familiar but I …

Weird is weird and that’s pretty much how I feel about The Ray Bradbury Theater: Touched with Fire despite the fact that it has a guest cast that includes Barry More and Eileen Brennan. Basically the plot of this August 1990 science fiction outing has two aging and …

I’m not a big Bruce Weitz fan, but I have to admit up at the top that his appearance as Albert Brock in The Ray Bradbury Theater: The Murderer was outstanding. There was an energetic restraint to his performance, and while that may sound like a contradiction, it’s …

The Ray Bradbury Theater: Mars Is Heaven is the opener for the science fiction series fourth year on television. Airing in July 1990, it stars Hal Linden as Captain Black, the leader of the first Earth expedition to Mars. What’s shocking is that Black and his men …

The Ray Bradbury Theater: Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar! which aired in November 1989 must be Bradbury’s answer to every B-movie science fiction plot about Earth being taken over by space invaders, especially things like The Blob.
The story starts innocently enough with a boy named Tom …

Ray Bradbury writes a lot about humans becoming too caught up in technology. I’ve noticed that theme in several stories and it’s here in The Ray Bradbury Theater: The Veldt as well. This is all about relying too much on electronics and letting go of relationships and …

The Ray Bradbury Theater: Hail and Farewell is an interesting story that puts a new twist on living forever. We’ve seen it done many times. The Twilight Zone and the original Star Trek are two examples of shows that have dealt with this. However, this episode …

From its first season on the air, The Andy Griffith Show: Andy the Marriage Counselor was a solid outing, more for its side gag than for the actual plot in my opinion.
When the show starts, we see Deputy Barney Fife reading “The Art of Judo” after which he goes …

The title from this outing of The Andy Griffith Show no doubt comes from the classic movie, Arsenic and Old Lace, which was a tale of two somewhat ditzy but loveable sisters who had a funny look on life. That could also be said of the sisters in …