DVD Review: The Fugitive – Season Two, Volume One
As I wrote in a review of The Fugitive – Season One, Volume Two, I believe the series stands out as a television masterpiece; Creator Roy Huggins, producer Quinn Martin, and all of the actors involved came together to create one of the finest dramas in television history. More than forty years after the series […]
DVD Review: Hawaii Five-0 – The Fourth Season
For me, Hawaii Five-0 still remains one of the coolest cop shows in television history. Though the series ceased production in 1980 after a very successful twelve year run on CBS, Hawaii Five-0 continues to run in syndication throughout the world and selected episodes of the show can be seen on demand via streaming media […]
DVD Review: Drawn Together – Uncensored! Season Three
Comedy Central’s Drawn Together was originally conceived as a cartoon spoof of reality television series such as Big Brother and The Real World–eight distinctly different characters are flu8ng together and forced to put up with each other . Throughout many strange and outright bizarre adventures, the eight roommates push each other’s buttons and tear each […]
DVD Review: Gunsmoke: The Second Season – Volume 2
Gunsmoke is one of the most beloved shows in television history. The series ran on CBS from September 10, 1955 to March 31, 1975 for 635 episodes. Gunsmoke actually began as a radio show in 1952 and remained on the air until 1961. On radio, actor William Conrad (Cannon), played marshal Matt Dillon and was […]
Peggy Lee and Judy Garland Duet
With a slew of new Peggy Lee releases due out later this month, I’ve been listening to the upcoming Lee releases and drawn back to one of my other personal favorites, Judy Garland. Miss Garland often said how much she admired Peggy as a singer/songwriter and Peggy expressed her admiration for Judy in kind. In […]
DVD Review: Father Knows Best – Season One
Does father know best? When Father Knows Best debuted as an NBC radio series on August 25, 1949, the question mark was part of the title; only after the series moved to CBS television on October 3, 1954 was the question mark removed. The concept of actor Robert Young and his friend and Eugene Rodney, […]
Get Smart Trailer
Get Smart is an upcoming 2008 film adaptation of Mel Brooks and Buck Henry’s hit 1960s spy parody television show Get Smart. The film will star Steve Carell as Maxwell Smart and Anne Hathaway as Agent 99. Alan Arkin will play the Chief. Masi Oka, Terence Stamp, Dwayne Johnson and Dalip “The Great Khali” Singh […]
DVD Review: Love American Style – Season One, Volume Two
Paramount has recently released a three DVD set containing the remaining twelve episodes of the first season of Love American Style. The anthology series which usually consisted of three vignettes really broke the mold as far as what had been seen on television up to that point. Couples, married or unmarried were shown kissing in […]
DVD Review: Walker, Texas Ranger: The Complete Fourth Season
As almost everyone who knows me will tell you, I am a bona fide television junkie. I watch old shows, new shows and everything in between. Oddly enough, in my more than thirty years on this earth I had never watched a single episode of Walker, Texas Ranger until June of 2007 when Walker, Texas […]
DVD Review: The Love Boat: Season One, Volume One
During the 1970’s and 80’s Aaron Spelling produced shows dominated the television landscape. At one point during the 1984 season, Spelling had seven series running on the ABC network, which generated more than one-third of the networks revenues. Some critics dubbed ABC “Aaron’s Broadcasting Company.” One of those series, The Love Boat, became a solid […]