While Julie (Faye Grant) confronts allegations of treason, Donovan (Marc Singer), Elias (Micheal Wright) and Tyler (Micheal Ironside) could be walking into a trap when they agree to help a small mining town take on some Visitor backed villains. The Overlord was written by David Abramowitz, and first aired on 30 November, 1984. The town…
Category: Did You See That?!? (Tv & Film)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) – Peter Weir
Mired in legend, and psuedo-history (there were and are many discussion about whether or not this event actually happened), Peter Weir’s adaptation of Joan Lindsay’s haunting novel of historical fiction is the next film recommendation from DK Canada’s The Movie Book. Set in the 1900s the tale is set at the Appleyard Girls’ School in…
Star Trek: Voyager (1996) – False Profits, and Remember
Captain’s log: stardate 50074.3 A bit of a sequel to The Next Generation episode The Price, False Profits was written by Joe Menosky from a story by George Brozak. This episode first debuted on 2 October, 1996. The crew of the Voyager come across a pair of Ferengi, Kol (Leslie Hordan) and Arridor (Dan Shor)…
Miami Vice (1987) – By Hooker By Crook, and Knock Knock… Who’s There?
John Schulian pens the teleplay for the first episode up this week, taking his cues from a story by Dick Wolf. It first aired on 20 March, 1987, and was directed by Don Johnson. Sonny Crockett (Johnson) has some problems this week, when the woman he is romancing, and possibly falling for… which is pretty…
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1996) – Looking for par’Mach in All the Wrong Places, and …Nor the Battle to the Strong
Station log: stardate unknown Ronald D. Moore pens this episode that first debuted on 14 October, 1996. Worf (Micheal Dorn) agrees to help Quark (Armin Shimerman) in an attempt to help woo back the Ferengi’s Klingon ex-wife, Grilka (Mary Kay Adams), last seen in The House of Quark. Worf is stunned by her appearance and…
Teen Wolf (1985) -Rod Daniel
Just before he began work on Back to the Future, and while he was riding high on a television sitcom with Family Ties, Micheal J, Fox made a werewolf movie that is the next recommendation from DK Canada’s highly enjoyable, Monsters in the Movies. More about an analogy for fitting in, and standing out, the…
I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957) – Gene Fowler Jr.
Before he had a Little House on the Prarie, or traveled on the Highway to Heaven, Micheal Landon was a Teenage Werewolf, and I got to go on the prowl with him as I settled in for this 50s era classic, and the next recommendation from DK Canada’s Monsters in the Movies. Landon plays Tony,…
V – The Series (1984) – The Sanction, and Visitor’s Choice
The battle for Earth continues this week, along with a healthy dose of melodrama, as I continue exploring V – The Series. Up first is The Sanction, written by Brian Taggert, who worked on The Final Battle, this story first aired on 16 November, 1984. Mike Donovan’s (Marc Singer) son, Sean (Nicky Katt) is being…
The Shark is Still Working (2007) -Erik Hollander
Oh Jaws. There’s never not a good time for me to watch this movie, so I was delighted when it showed up in DK Canada’s The Movie Book. But having reviewed it for the blog previous to this I moved onto the What Else to Watch list, and there were only a couple of titles…
Star Trek: Voyager (1996) – The Chute, and The Swarm
Captain’s log: stardate 50156.2 Kennth Biller pens the teleplay for this episode from a story by Clayton C. Harris. Debuting on 18 September, 1996, this is very much a Harry Kim (Garrett Wang) and Tom Paris (Robert Duncan McNeill) story that sees their friendship continuing to grow. In this episode the pair find themselves wrongly…
