The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast kept on trekking from Las Vegas, Nevada by honoring Mr. T of The A-Team. Now why would they do this? In my opinion, it’s one of the NBC self-promotion shows. The dais was full of NBC stars and not many had …

The Dean Martin Comedy Hour put game show host Monty Hall on the hot seat for this edition of the series that dealt with roasting noted celebrities. Hall is best known for Let’s Make a Deal, though he’s done some acting and a few other game shows in …

Lucille Ball has been on the celebrity roast shows as a roaster of the honoree, and this was her turn on the hot seat in The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast, taped in Las Vegas. Dean Martin, as always, is the roastmaster. He pretends to be drunk, which …

The great Kirk Douglas was the honoree who was roasted on this edition of The Dean Martin Comedy Hour. I like to see performers of his caliber in the hot seat. Usually someone like Douglas means more appropriate people on the dais, though not always.
One of my …

And away we go! It was Jackie Gleason’s turn to be honored as the Man of the Hour on the The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast which took place in one of the showrooms in Las Vegas. The dais did include some Honeymooner alumni, and I was happy …

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Gabe Kaplan was another one of the famous roast shows that Martin’s variety show evolved into for a while. Kaplan, of the series Welcome Back Kotter, was the Man of the Hour before the usual Las Vegas audience. I’m not a big …

Believe it or not, even tennis guru Bobby Riggs was worthy to be the Man of the Week on The Dean Martin Comedy Hour. It’s amazing who they honored, and that’s not always good. Martin had a few good opener zingers, including some about the big Billie …

As was the case for most of these shows, the The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast honoring Ted Knight as the Man of the Hour was put on at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. What I liked about the hour was that it did include some of Knight’s …

The Dean Martin Comedy Hour: Carroll O’Connor honored the All in the Family star as Man of the Week for a merry bit of entertainment with a number of decent humor routines and unusual dais members. It wasn’t often in those days that you’d find the head of …

Well, even Hugh Hefner got into being The Man of the Week for this The Dean Martin Comedy Hour edition. A lot of these original roasts have been repackaged under the moniker of The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts, the evolution of the roasting a bit murky for many. …

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast continued with the Man of the Hour, Dan Haggerty, best known as Grizzley Adams. The dais featured a few performers known for playing similar outdoor characters along with the usual suspects of ridiculous ‘why bother’ comics.
To be honest, this was the most boring …

Danny Thomas was the Man of the Hour for an edition of The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast, taped in Las Vegas. The only one on the dais that I knew of with a true connection to Thomas was Milton Berle. It’s not that he doesn’t know the …

The MGM Grand in Las Vegas was the site of The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast in which Betty White was The Woman of the Hour. She was one of the few women to be roasted. Aside from her co-stars in her then-current The Betty White Show — …

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast presented a 90-minute roast of the legendary George Burns. Filmed in Las Vegas, there were a lot of comics on the dais, which isn’t surprising.
What made this fun is that Burns was in control the whole way. When Gene Kelly stood and …

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast roasted the Woman of the Hour, Angie Dickinson, in this show taped in front of an audience in Las Vegas. Dickinson had one of the better dais groupings of the show. She looked beautiful, of course. She truly has been a …

On this evening, Joe Namath was the Man of the Hour being roasted in The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast. Namath was one of four people who were roasted twice during these events. This was his second time in the hot seat. As often was the case, …

Again from the MGM Hotel in Las Vegas, The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast honored another celebrity, that being Jack Klugman who starred in The Odd Couple and later Quincy M.E.
Overall, I was disappointed with this outing for the roast show. I didn’t feel like there was much of …

From 1978, The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast honors Frank Sinatra. Once again, it was filmed in Las Vegas. In this lengthy roast, I would have liked to have a few others I associate with Sinatra present, but as often happened, there was a slew of NBC-dictated comics …

Bob Hope was the Man of the Hour for this episode of The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast, and boy were there some influential beings on this dais, including then Governor Ronald Reagan and General Omar Bradley.
Reagan was actually very funny. Oddly, I liked him as an actor, but …

The Man of the Hour was Sammy Davis Jr. on this Las Vegas taped edition of The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast. Unfortunately, it wasn’t as good as it could have been. I am a huge fan of Sammy’s. I loved his acting, his singing, and his …

Johnny Carson is the Man of the Week on this edition of The Dean Martin Comedy Hour, a special version of Dean’s variety show. It begins with a terrific zinger by Dean about Johnny’s marriages. What a great way to start out.
Doc Severinsen had a super bit …

From the fourth year of Laramie, one of the best TV westerns ever produced, was Gun Duel. It begins by bringing Jess Harper, beautifully played by Robert Fuller, into the town of Laramie to be acting sheriff for a weekend while Sheriff Mort Corey (Stuart Randall) tends to …

Jack Benny was the Man of the Week for this edition of The Dean Martin Comedy Hour. Benny was a hoot, a terrific comedian and actor. I thought he was great and always enjoyed watching him. He was definitely worth being one of this show’s honorees.
It …

Ralph Nader was all over television back in his heyday, promoting consumer awareness and advocacy. It makes him a decent selection as the honoree as the Man of the Week on The Dean Martin Comedy Hour because he’s easy to make fun of and with.
Unfortunately, I really didn’t …

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast honored the poetic Muhammad Ali on this edition of The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast. Naturally, Howard Cosell was there. You can’t roast Ali with Cosell. Those two were their own version of the old Martin and Lewis comedy team.
When Cosell spoke …

Baseball manager for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Leo Durocher was the Man of the Week on this episode of The Dean Martin Comedy Hour, which has been repackaged as The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast for distribution. Actually, Durocher was retired at the time of this get together.
It was …

This show was the second time that Redd Foxx was an honoree as a celebrity to be roasted on The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast. Taped at the MGM in Las Vegas, Foxx was the Man of the Hour. Now I’m not a fan of Redd Foxx at …

Basketball great Wilt Chamberlain was the Man of the Week for this outing of The Dean Martin Comedy Hour, an event that is often sold as The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts.
Another basketball player of the day, Happy Hairston, was one of the roasters. He actually had some good …

Then California Governor Ronald Reagan was given the honor of being the first official Man of the Week on The Dean Martin Comedy Hour. Now some of these shows have been repackaged under the title of The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts, which were filmed in Las Vegas. …

It’s a Woman of the Week for The Dean Martin Comedy Hour. That’s an unusual occurrence as there really weren’t that many women celebrated in these roasts that took place over the years. The lucky female was none other than Hungarian Zsa Zsa Gabor. Naturally, the …

Odd becomes odder when Truman Capote was the subject of a celebrity roast on The Dean Martin Comedy Hour. Capote was eccentric, that’s for sure, so he was easy to make fun of.
Ted Knight got a few laughs early on, and then it was Audrey Meadows’ turn. …

Taped in Las Vegas, it was Valerie Harper as the Woman of the Hour in this edition of The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast. For me, it had a slow start. I didn’t think Dean Martin’s opening had much spark to it, and Rich Little’s Henry Kissinger impression …

Whoopi: Once Bitten focuses on Mavis Rae (Whoopi Goldberg) having been bitten by Rita’s ferret. While Mavis has to get her insurance company to authorize treatment and spends hours in the emergency room waiting, Courtney takes the ferret to the vet and gets treatment right away. It …

In a post 9/11 world, things were a bit crazy with the color alert system and concern about unknown packages of any kind. This episode of the new sitcom, Whoopi, which was called Don’t Hide Your Bag, took advantage of American’s fear of terrorism. It puts what …

Back in 2003, Whoopi Goldberg starred in a TV show for the NBC network. It was, naturally, a situation comedy. Now I’m not all that fond of modern sitcoms because the humor is too provocative for my tastes. I wanted to watch this, though, because I …

I liked a few things about Kung Fu: The Legend Continues: Challenge, starring David Carradine as Kwai Chang Caine and Chris Potter as his son, Peter Caine, who is now a police detective. It’s the father and son relationship and the journey that evolves from the first to …

Most of Kung Fu: The Legend Continues: Pai Gow doesn’t impress me as much as most other episodes from the drama do. The series revolves around the reunited father and son, Kwai Chang Caine and Peter Caine, as played by David Carradine and Chris Potter, respectively.
The essence of …

David Carradine and Chris Potter starred in Kung Fu: The Legend Continues: Force of Habit. This first season episode is a bit intense and tackles the subject of abuse. It begins with Detective Marty Stramm (Kim Coatest) who is upset that his son won’t fight back against …

Kung Fu: The Legend Continues: Sunday at the Hotel with George was an episode I was waiting for, one in which Peter Caine’s two fathers meet for the first time. Peter has recently been reunited with his father, Kwai Chang Caine, and that’s the essence of this entire …

Kung Fu: The Legend Continues: Shadow Assassin has a couple of different dramatic angles to the plot. In part, there’s another serial killer on the loose, known as the Shadow Assassin. This comes to the front over some book that reveals secrets, not unlike having magician ‘how …

Kung Fu: The Legend Continues: Initiation Part 2 concludes the pilot for this police drama and adventure series that updates and continues on the legacy that began with the original Kung Fu series in the 1970’s. In this TV show, David Carradine and Chris Potter star as a …

Kung Fu: The Legend Continues: Initiation Part 1 is the first part of the pilot for this TV Show that brings back some of the philosophy of the 70’s show, Kung Fu. David Carradine stars as Kwai Chang Caine, the grandson of the Caine from the original series. …

PBS created a sensation and really has a hand in the development of the Irish songstress group known as Celtic Woman. This is one of the earlier specials called The Greatest Journey and features five of the women who have comprised this group over the last few years, …

Remington Steele starring Pierce Brosnan and Stephanie Zimbalist was a really fun show that I enjoyed watching for most of its run. The Steele Framed episode was the fifth episode of the second season and actually began with the two leading characters celebrating the one year anniversary of …

Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer: Dead on a Dime was an episode from the first season of this private eye detective drama. It guest starred Barbara Horan and Allan Miller. I’ve always enjoyed seeing Miller, dating back to the late 60’s when he was one of the main …

The Prisoner: Checkmate is the conclusion, at last, to this updated renovation of the science fiction show that Patrick McGoohan brought to us in the 1960’s. That show was all from McGoohan’s mind and while it had an ending, a lot of people say that no one really understood …

Things are getting closer to their ultimate end in The Prisoner: Schizoid, which is the fifth of six episodes. The big change between this modern version of The Prisoner and the one given to the world by Patrick McGoohan in the 1960’s is the addition of 2’s son, …

Six is forced to undergo blink matchmaking technology, designed to get him more connected to the village. He’s rebellious, until the blink match is a look-alike for Lucy, the woman in dated in New York City. That’s the premise of The Prisoner: Darling, the fourth of six …

From 2009, this third entry of the The Prisoner is called Anvil. In it, 2 (Ian McKellen) wants Six (James Caviezel) to work for him. This time, he agrees.
The job in question is to seek out dreamers, people who dream of life outside of the village. …

The Prisoner: Harmony is the second of six episodes of this updated science fiction show. The one thing it definitely retains when compared to the sixties original is the strangeness of it all. The Village is still there, but it’s less bright and vibrant than the old …