The first thing we learn in this episode is that Lois Lane (Erica Durance) is a hard drinker on par with Marion Ravenwood. When the drinking game has a rough end, she finds herself arrested when one of the aggressive guys she was playing against ends up paralyzed. We know she’s not at fault, but…
Star Trek: #9 Promises to Keep (1984)
Script writer Mike W. Barr starts part one of an eight-part arc, with Promises to Keep. DC Comics continues to boldly go with its ongoing Star Trek series. This issue, which was on the racks until December of 1984, featured pencils by Tom Sutton, and inks by Ricardo Villagran. The pair also delivered the cover,…
Cult of Chucky (2017) – Don Mancini
Don Mancini wrote and directed the last film entry in the original Chucky series. And let me say, I love that opening with Alex Vincent returning as Andy, and what he and Chucky (voiced by Brad Dourif) are up to. Nica (Fiona Dourif) is being held in a mental health hospital because of the events…
Taken (2002) – Charlie and Lisa
Leslie Bohem’s UFO epic continued with its sixth episode on 9 December, 2002. It opens with the aliens arriving in a ship to reclaim the crashed vehicle from the Roswell crash over a bridge with both the Crawfords and the Clarkes as witnesses, amongst others, military and civilian. The climax of the last episode. Eric…
Get Smart (1969/1970) – Is This Trip Necessary?, Ice Station Siegfried, and Moonlighting Becomes You
Is This Trip Neccessary? was written by Dale McRaven and debuted on 12 December, 1969. Is there something in the water? It seems everyone at CONTROL is suffering bad dreams, and it may be because KAOS is putting something in the water at the Dartfoot Spring Water Company. It will be up to Maxwell Smart…
Carl’s Doomsday Scenario (2021) – Matt Dinniman
Book 2 of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series picks up where the first installment left us, Carl, Princess Donut, and Mongo the raptor have just made it to level three of the Dungeon World that was once Earth. It was converted into an 18-level dungeon, where the last survivors of the planet have to work…
Taken (2002) – Maintenance
Leslie Bohem continues the UFO narrative in the ‘Steven Spielberg presents’ mini-series, Taken. This episode marks the halfway point of the show, and first aired on 6 December, 2002. The narrative moves into the 1980s. Eric Crawford (Andy Powers) has cemented his role as the head of the government’s UFO program, based out at Groom…
Synchronic (2019) – Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead
I think when COVID rolled around, Benson and Moorhead fell off my radar. And that’s unfortunate because I liked everything by them that I had seen to that point. On the flipside, it not means there are a couple of titles of theirs that I need to catch up on, with Synchronic being one of…
Curse of Chucky (2013) – Don Mancini
Child’s Play writer Don Mancini, who has penned all of the entries so far, continues to guide us through Chucky’s (voiced by Brad Dourif) murderous adventures. Like the previous entry, Seed of Chucky, he also directs this one. Curse of Chucky didn’t get a theatrical release; it was straight-to-video, the first in the series to…
Smallville (2005) – Unsafe, and Pariah
Unsafe debuted on 26 January, 2005. It was written by Steven S. DeKnight and Jeph Loeb. Alicia Baker (Sarah Carter) is back. Supposedly cured, she’s been released from the mental institution. But the first thing she does is go to see Clark (Tom Welling). For now, she’s unable to teleport, thanks to some low-tech solutions….
The Mind Reels 