Dick Van Dyke is back for episode two of Diagnosis Murder, this one entitled Amnesia. This was a show I rarely missed in its first run. The show begins with a neat scene between Dr. Mark Sloan and his detective son, Steve, who is played by Van …

After debuting the character of Dr. Mark Sloan on Jake and the Fatman and then doing a few TV movies, Dick Van Dyke brought the entertaining physician to weekly television with Diagnosis Murder, which debuted in 1993.
The other regulars were Scott Baio as medical resident, Dr. Jack Stewart, Victoria …

From Jake and the Fatman’s fourth season, It Never Entered My Mind served as the first instance when viewers were graced with seeing the multi-layered character of Dr. Mark Sloan. Sloan would go on to be the center of a few made for TV movies and then ultimately …

In 1973, after the live action had been off the air for several years, an animated version of Star Trek hit the Saturday morning lineup.
The plus of this series was that all of the performers from the live action show returned. Having the original actors voice their characters …

The Star Trek television series has always been a favorite of mine. It’s among the best ever in terms of talking about the human condition and ideals. Gene Roddenberry created this wonderful show which has spawned several spin offs and several movies. This original series starred …

For me, the celebrity guest stars are a big part of the fun with this TV series, and I especially love it when it’s done more uniquely than just having Colt Seavers (Lee Majors) bumping into them on the set. That’s why The Fall Guy: The Meek Shall …

Have Gun - Will Travel: Odds for Big Red, the fourth show of season five, gets right to the action, and I question it. It is funny to me that Paladin has a lot of imperfections. Maybe that’s why the show worked. He’s almost an anti-hero, …

I mentioned in my last review for The Fall Guy that one of the things that is ironic about this show is that it focuses on a stunt man and as a result we see some incredible stunts. At the same time, it’s not really fictional stunt man …

Since Slash has made his new solo album and everyone has cited it as a very good album. Slash and Myles Kennedy were filmed for a live MTV launch program to promote the album as well as play some classic Guns N’ Roses hits live. I watched this concert …

Hello, I just finished watching this anime. It was Japanese but I had English subtitles on to understand what they were saying. I’m not actively learning Japanese, but by doing this I found that I know a lot of Japanese already and can also understand a lot of it, …

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What attracted me to this anime was the music. Composer Yuki Kajiura together with Kalafina’s vocals, the combination is pretty much magic. Upon hearing this, you can feel the supernatural theme that acts as an extension of the anime, thus giving people a hint of what the anime …

Anyone who watched the TV Series 24 is probably by now very much aware of how addictive it really is. It is probably due to the fact that the show is taking place in real time during a 24 hour period. This way, every episode is connect to the …

Backstage has for many, many years been an invaluable resources for actors. It began as a print publication, but not, as the technology advances, it has too found its way to the internet. I have started using it only recently, but I can already see what a great resource …

A few years ago, I ended up almost accidentally watching the show House when it first came on the air. And, I immediately fell in love with it.
I don’t normally like medical dramas (I never saw an episode of ER) but this one was something different because it was …

When we ordered Direct TV a couple months ago, we decided to set it up in our oldest daughter’s room too; just so we could watch some more adult programming rather than cartoons all the time.
She recently discovered a show on the television station called Sprout. For the most …

I was looking forward to seeing the one-off drama ‘Worried About the Boy’ and I think it was one of the best things on television lately. It re-enacts the story of how Boy George, of Culture Club fame, rose to fame back in the early 1980s but I …

Normally I am not the type to watch shows that take place in different eras; I like modern day shows and movies. However, Spartacus: Blood and Sand might be one of the greatest series I’ve ever watched and I am hoping they make another season. For one, the acting …

I highly recommend this show to everyone. This is a great show with clever dialog and wonderful acting. The main character, Tara, played by Toni Collette is a woman who suffers from multiple personality disorder. She has a handful of personalities we get to see …

Tenspeed and Brown Shoe: Savage Says: “There’s No Free Lunch” is the second regular episode of this detective drama, which is really a comedy in drama’s guise, that stars Ben Vereen and Jeff Goldblum.
Here are a few observances about this hour of entertainment which, by the way, was both …

After a very successful TV pilot movie, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe hit the air with its first regular show. It had the very long and snazzy title of The Robin Tucker’s Roseland Roof and Ballroom Murder. One thing you can say about this private eye dramedy (half …

I can’t describe how disappointing it was to receive this Tenspeed and Brown Shoe DVD set. The show itself is a good one. While the series consisted of a TV movie pilot and just twelve episodes, it was a terrific blend of comedy and drama and had …

Lloyd Bridges is the star of Sea Hunt: The Big Dive, an episode that focuses on a man trained by Bridges’ deep sea diver character of Mike Nelson. Don Either guest stars as Tom Gale, who surprises and angers Nelson when he decides he’s going to attempt to …

Highway Patrol continues its first season with a show called Blast Area Copter. I suppose the title serves the show in that for a large portion of it Broderick Crawford’s Chief Dan Mathews riding around in it. Actually, elements of the story are more interesting than it …

The Virginian: Jennifer is the seventh show of the fourth season, and it was a show that was necessary due to the departure of Roberta Shore as Betsy Garth. With all those cowboys on Shiloh Ranch, they needed a woman. Thus, Judge Henry Garth (Lee J. Cobb) …

One of my very favorite episodes of The Twilight Zone has always been The Trade-Ins, a 1962 episode that touches my heart and soul. It revolves around an elderly couple who go to a company where you can actually buy new bodies. Now wouldn’t that be cool …

Another memorable episode, The Twilight Zone: On Thursday We Leave for Home is one that I enjoy watching greatly. It’s full of drama and some nice acting. The story is good, and it makes for great viewing.
It starts by introducing the viewers to a planet of survivors. …

I Sing the Body Electric is one of my very favorite episodes of The Twilight Zone. Actually, this work has been done as a movie and TV show, and I haven’t seen a version I don’t like. This story goes from when the grandmother is conceived of …

Now The Twilight Zone: Young Man’s Fancy is quandary. What can you say about a mommy’s boy who never grows up? It’s bad enough when he stays attached to her apron when she’s alive, but to cling on when she’s dead, is an entirely other story.
From May …

The Twilight Zone: The Dummy is another episode of this science fiction series that doesn’t appeal to me. I tend to turn it off if it comes on TV. All of these shows with ventriloquist dummies all tend to be a little too out there because …

What to say about The Twilight Zone: Steel. This episode aired on October 4, 1963 is one of the half-hour shows from the final season of this superb science fiction series. The problem for me is that the show in its last two years had a lot …

The Twilight Zone returns to its half hour format after a questionable fourth season of hour long episodes with a show called In Praise of Pip. In the past, I haven’t been much of a fan of this episode, but the last time I watched it, I enjoyed …

From May 1963, The Twilight Zone: The Bard is not a show that I like very much. It never captures my interest or draws me into any part of the story. Usually when this episode pops up on television, I change the channel or even turn the …

The Twilight Zone: Living Doll is yet another one of those shows that make me shudder from the start. I’m not interested, I don’t like it, and I hate watching it. It was a nightmare sitting through it even one more time before doing this review.
Living Doll …

The fact that it’s the fifth season really shows for The Twilight Zone. There are several shows in a row that I just don’t like, and The Last Night of a Jockey from October 1963 is another one of them. The stories had some good actors, but …

The Twilight Zone: A Kind of a Stopwatch follows a man named McNulty is chatters away annoyingly and who ends up in the possession of a mysterious stopwatch that has the unique ability to stop time. All McNulty as to do is press the button and time pauses. …

The Twilight Zone: Nightmare at 20,000 Feet is one of the classic episodes that people love to see. It’s an intriguing mystery that leaves you going ‘whoa’. The story surrounds Bob Wilson (William Shatner in his second Twilight Zone appearance), a man just recovered from a nervous …

Highway Patrol: Taxi has comedian Joe Flynn playing a vicious robber and killer. I’m so used to seeing Flynn as a funny man that this is almost shocking to me. I don’t believe in all these decades that I have seen him play this kind of character. …

The Twilight Zone: Uncle Simon is a show that I can’t stand watching. It just feels like it doesn’t matter, like it’s a show that makes no sense. It’s just out there. There isn’t a message really; it’s just a piece of drama that has a …

From November 1963, The Twilight Zone: The Old Man in the Cave has its moments, but it’s not really a favorite episode. It’s more odd than appealing, and I’ve never found it to be all that satisfying as entertainment goes.
Apparently, some bomb has gone off, and the world …

I’ve always wanted to like CSI: New York because Gary Sinese is such a talented, dynamic actor. I actually do like, but I’ve never been hooked into it. I watched it more the first season when Sinese’s character was more in mourning over his wife, who had …

I’m not real big on The Twilight Zone: The Jeopardy Room, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have its own allure. In fact, the show is different. It’s also very confined with a lot of inaction and I don’t really have the patience for that kind of …

Goodness, it’s another show about ventriloquists and their dummies. I just do not like these episodes of any show, and it’s a letdown to see one on a good show like The Twilight Zone. Never the less, that’s what viewers got in April 1964 with the episode …

This May 1964 story is probably more relevant today than ever. The Twilight Zone: The Brain Center at Whipple’s features Richard Deacon as the CEO of a company who becomes fascinated with the capabilities of machinery, especially when it comes to machines taking over the work of people. …

From May 1964, The Twilight Zone: Mr. Garrity and the Graves is another weird outing of this series. I’m afraid this once great series has taken a big nose dive with this fifth and final year worth of shows. So many are retreads and so-so works. …

There is something strange about the episodes of The Twilight Zone that aired these last season of the series. They are strange, even for being strange. The Encounter aired in May 1964, and it has two men inexplicably having a crazy encounter that leaves both in shambles.
For …

The Twilight Zone: Stopover in a Quiet Town is one of the better shows from this final season of this classic science fiction show from the mind of Rod Serling. It has a decent plot with an appropriate amount of suspense. You aren’t quite sure where the …

As I understand it, Roberta Shore, who played Betsy Garth on The Virginian from the beginning, left the series to get married and retired from show business. In this fourth season, her character would be turning 20, so that’s definitely marrying age. I am very glad they …

The Twilight Zone: The Fear aired at the end of May in 1964, making it one of the last episodes ever of what is definitely a groundbreaking, superb series overall. Unfortunately, not all the shows in this final year were worthy of the series title. The Fear …

The Twilight Zone: Come Wander with Me feels like it’s this science fiction series answer to the folk singing of Peter, Paul, and Mary. It guest stars Gary Crosby as a folk singer who ends up in an obscure place in the backwoods. He hears the hum …

The final episode of Tenspeed and Brown Shoe was called Diamonds Aren’t Forever. It’s really a shame this show didn’t catch on because both Ben Vereen and Jeff Goldblum were amazing to watch. The show was clever and witty, and while there was some ham and camp …