Kathryn Hays was awesome in Star Trek: The Empath where she plays Gem. Hays has those big eyes; they were perfect for this role. She’s been on many shows over the years, but is best know probably for being on As The World Turns for the last …

Star Trek: Wink of an Eye gives Kirk more kissing to do, and I rarely like those shows. That’s probably why this isn’t on my list of ‘must see’ Treks. It’s okay, and it has it moments, but in some ways, it’s just a retread of an …

Star Trek: Plato’s Stepchildren has the Enterprise responding to a call for medical help on a planet with just a handful of inhabitants, though the residents are a couple thousand years old. The problem is that these people have become expert with their psychokinetic powers and bullies to …

Star Trek: The Tholian Web is another very good episode. It’s one I have enjoyed from the very first time I saw it and which I never tire of seeing to this day. It has heart and drama, so that draws me in. Here are some …

Someday I should rank my favorites of Star Trek and I think when I do that For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky will be in the top five. This show is so powerful when it comes to friendships. I remember loving it …

I’m not a huge fan of Star Trek: Day of the Dove, which essentially pits two crews against each other, and all because of some third entity. Essentially, it’s the Enterprise crew verses the survivors of a Klingon one. Here are some of my thoughts on this …

From 1968, Star Trek: Spectre of the Gun is a show I really do love. It’s a take on the events of the O.K. Corral with Wyatt Earp. Of course, it’s based more on the myth of what happened than the reality, but it’s still legend and …

Diana Muldaur returns for her second Star Trek appearance in season three’s Is There in Truth No Beauty? Airing in 1968, her character this time around is Dr. Miranda Jones, who is the telepathic interpreter for Medusan Ambassador Kollos. Kollos is all energy and looking at him …

Star Trek: And the Children Shall Lead is truly a show I’ve always remembered. I think it’s because as a kid Melvin Belli scared me to death. The famous attorney was somehow convinced to do this role where he plays this nasty being named Gorgan who …

Have Gun - Will Travel: The Misguided Father is a bit of a different episode; certainly, it began in a fashion that wasn’t the norm. It begins with Paladin (Richard Boone) discovering a friend of his dead. As a friend, he decides to take the body back …

The Virginian: Nobility of Kings wasn’t much of a favorite for me. It featured Charles Bronson as Ben Justin, a new rancher to the Medicine Bow area. He had a huge chip on his shoulder do and was one of those “I’ll do it myself” types, even …

Life Beyond Trek: William Shatner began with Shatner’s love of horses. I’ve known for years and years that he loved the equestrian way of life. I’ve seen him on talk shows and such discussing it and on other shows where he did some of what we saw …

In December 2003, Walter Koenig sat down and talked a bit about the influence of Star Trek in Life Beyond Trek: Walter Koenig. At first, I thought his was going to be very different than the intimate expose that Leonard Nimoy had done. That’s because the first …

This feature, Life Beyond Trek: Leonard Nimoy, is really fascinating. As the title indicates, it delves into Nimoy’s life beyond the famous Star Trek series. In his case, it doesn’t even involve acting. In this wonderful piece, the man shares with viewers his love of photography.
I’ve …

From the first season of the adventure series Sea Hunt, Lord Christobal is about a ship that had gone to the bottom after Hurricane Dora. There’s definitely a mystery involved in it, though, because a diver who had first find the ship, the Minerva, was killed. Now …

Sea Hunt isn’t a show I watched growing up, and I’ve never really been interested it, but lately I’ve started to give it more attention since it’s airing on television. It seems the first season which I’ve been watching was different from the fourth season and had a different …

This production piece called Designing the Final Frontier was another very intriguing look inside the world of Star Trek. It focused on the design elements, of course. Matt Jeffries is interviewed in late 2002. A few things stuck out in my mind.
One was the naming of …

Collectible Trek is a very information look at the world of Star Trek collectibles. This isn’t just a show and tell feature. It does much more than show an action figure and say how much it’s worth at the time this was filmed. It really hones …

One of the DVD extras for the Star Trek series is the Chief Engineer’s Log. It’s actually a little hard to watch for me. James Doohan was such a force. He died in July 2005, and this was an interview taped a year and a half …

For each of the three seasons of DVD releases for Star Trek, a segment of Billy Blackburn’s Treasure Chest Rare Home Movies and Special Memories was done. I think this third season one is my favorite.
The background for this footage is that Billy Blackburn always carried an 8mm …

Billy Blackburn’s Treasure Chest Rare Home Movies and Special Memories Part 2 was released as part of the second season DVD release. It continued a feature begun on the first season set that looked at the home movies Billy Blackburn took. While Blackburn’s name may not be …

Billy Blackburn’s Treasure Chest Rare Home Movies and Special Memories Part 1 is absolutely a wonderful look at Star Trek, the original series from a personal vantage. For those who don’t know, Blackburn was in many episodes of the series as a recurring character and as many different …

I really enjoyed the Reflections on Spock featurette which was done towards the end of 2003. It has some very interesting reflections by Leonard Nimoy, who played Spock. What caught my attention early on was Nimoy discussing his book, I am Not Spock and the controversy that …

Memoir from Mr. Sulu from early 2004 was another update on one of the people who made Star Trek the legend that it is, George Takei. Takei played Sulu, the helmsman. He’s always been very pro-Sulu, advocating for his character and his advancement. I love that …

The beauty of The Twilight Zone: Ninety Years Without Slumbering belongs to one person and one person only — Ed Wynn, who portrays Sam Forstmann. Sam is a kind older man living with his daughter and her husband. He has with him an old grandfather clock, a …

Okay, we’re starting to hit bottom with The Twilight Zone: A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain, a show that really pushes the button, not just on belief, but on storytelling. I don’t like it. I won’t go as far as to say it bores me, but …

The Twilight Zone: The 7th Is Made up of Phantoms is a little on the strange show, but since this entire series is about strange, I suppose that is okay. In short, what this episode revolves around are three National Guard soldiers, going about their business while on …

I have one word for The Twilight Zone: Probe 7, Over and Out, and the word is: rerun. If you want a phrase, it would be: been there, done that. While the story elements are different, this is a re-do of an earlier story called Two with …

The middle of the 1963-1964 season of The Twilight Zone was definitely the best. There’s a group of decent, entertaining shows that are surrounded by many more mediocre and cringed-filled episodes. I’m happy to say that this outing called You Drive was one of the interesting ones. …

The Twilight Zone: Ring-A-Ding Girl is actually one of my favorite shows from the series, which is surprising since it aired in the fifth year, one which is full of lesser quality productions. This one, though, I’ve always enjoyed and I never tired of seeing it. It’s …

The Twilight Zone: The Long Morrow is one of the decent season five episodes. In fact, I find it hard to watch, not because of the quality but because I feel so darn bad for the two main characters. It’s a real heartbreaker, one of those fate …

The season five weirdness continues with The Twilight Zone: The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross. It’s a show that focuses on a man who has the capability of exchanging characteristics with another. It’s a gift he uses for the purposes of improving his situation and to ultimately win …

The Twilight Zone: Black Leather Jackets is a show that actually misleads a little bit. I always go into to this show and think it’s going to be one thing and then it turns out to be another. The Black Leather Jacket titles can really spin you …

In my opinion, The Twilight Zone: Number 12 Looks Just Like You is one of the few bright spots in this final season of Rod Serling’s classic science fiction series. It’s sad that so many shows from this fifth year are duds. This one, however, is not. …

The Twilight Zone: I am the Night - Color Me Black is a show that centers on hate and the evil it brings. It’s really that simple. It evolves around a small town where a man is scheduled to be hanged that day. However, the …

From March 1964, The Twilight Zone: The Masks is another show that I’m not that fond of. This last season of The Twilight Zone was full of sub par outings that had no real joy in watching them. This one actually isn’t as bad as the shows …

The Twilight Zone: What’s in the Box is a crazy thirty minutes focused on the evils of television, or maybe it’s just focused on an evil television. Sterling Holloway, whose unique voice makes him a unique performer, guest stars as a TV repairman who performs some special alterations …

The Twilight Zone: Queen of the Nile is one of the few shows from season five that I enjoy. The main reason for that is the incredible Ann Blyth, who I’ve admired since my childhood. She’s a classic beauty and a talented actress whose career began when …

After years upon years of watching The Twilight Zone, there are maybe two or three that don’t immediately pop out at me where I don’t instantly know the story when it comes on TV. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge from season five is one of those. …

The Twilight Zone: Spur of the Moment from this show’s fifth and final season is okay, but not a big favorite. I actually tend to watch it more because one of the guest stars for the half hour is Roger Davis, and I tend to enjoy his work …

I can’t help but like The Twilight Zone: From Agnes - with Love because it features the adorable Wally Cox in it. Cox plays a computer programmer named James Elwood who takes over working with a computer named Agnes.
Now there is something important to recognize when you watch …

From February 1964, veteran actress Gladys Cooper portrays an elderly and lonely woman, Elva Keene, in The Twilight Zone: Night Call. The half hour is mostly Cooper’s. In this show, she’s a little crotchety, a characteristic derived from decades of living alone and having never married. …

Love of a Bad Woman is the 28th episode of Have Gun - Will Travel’s third season and it has a fun opening with Paladin playing chess. I really like these scenes of San Francisco life more than I do the gunfighter stories much of the time. …

As a series, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe was abnormal. It was filmed in 1980 under the banner of Stephen J. Cannell’s talents. It co-starred two prolific actors. Ben Vereen had made big time waves in the mini-series Roots. He was also known for great stage …

Star Trek’s Divine Diva: Nichelle Nichols featurette was a very nice look at the wonderful actress who brought Star Trek’s communication officer, Uhura, to life.
One thing that has always struck me about Nichelle is how much she cared about what she was doing. She doesn’t talk about it …

In 2007 for the 40th anniversary of this terrific, long lasting ideal, Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier aired on TV. I remember being excited about it because the two-hour event was hosted by Leonard Nimoy and because they were going to show a ton of Star Trek …

Spacelift: Transporting Trek into the 21st Century is a really interesting and intriguing featurette about how Paramount Studios created the remastered Star Trek series for DVD release. The digitally enhanced three seasons of this legendary series was released circa 2004. I was totally enthralled in how this …

Have Gun - Will Travel: Soledad Crossing was the last show of the fourth season. Perhaps that is why it opened with a huge kiss for series star, Richard Boone. His Paladin was having a nice time in his San Francisco hotel. What I did think …

Sea Hunt: Decoy was interesting because of how the story evolved. This story revolves around a deep sea diving expert, Mike Nelson, who is portrayed by Lloyd Bridges. He had to be in good shape since he’s in swim trunks and bare chested so much of the …

Highway Patrol: Missing Witness was one of the better episodes I’ve seen of this old time TV classic. The series revolves around the California Highway Patrol and the man in charge, Chief Dan Mathews, as played by Broderick Crawford. The show can be hard to watch sometimes …