Jennifer (Tina Yothers) and a friend, Simon (Jason Naylor) have a school project to work on together about teens in the workplace and have gotten a job at a fast food restaurant, Chicken Heaven. Unfortunately, Simon is completely smitten with Jennifer and can’t concentrate on the job at hand. Written by Katie Ford the episode…
Tag: 1989
Family Ties (1989) – The Wrecker’s Ball, My Best Friend’s Girl, and ‘Til Her Daddy Takes the T-Bird Away
While Mallory (Justine Bateman) discovers a new passion for massage, Elyse (Meredith Baxter) is troubled to learn that the first building she ever designed is scheduled to be torn down. It’s the Keatons versus City Hall in The Wrecker’s Ball. Written by Douglas Wyman and first aired on 12 February, 1989. Even as the family…
Family Ties (1988/1989) – Heartstrings: Part 3, Basic Training, and Deja Vu
Steven (Michael Gross) is out of surgery and has been moved to recovery, and soon enough the family brings him home. Alex (Micheal J. Fox), Mallory (Justine Bateman), Jennifer (Tina Yothers) and Andy (Brian Bonsall) work to make him comfortable and work to slow things down around the house so that Steven can recover. Written…
Star Trek: The Next Generation – Masks (1989) – John Vornholt
Set during the events of season two of The Next Generation, John Vornholt’s novel, Masks, is a bit of a basic tale, but does give Captain Picard a bit of a romance. The Enterprise arrives at the planet Lorca, transporting ambassador-at-large Fenton Lewis to open diplomatic relations with the inhabitants. This seems kind of odd,…
Star Trek: The Next Generation – Power Hungry (1989) – Howard Weinstein
Howard Weinstein delivers his first Next Gen novel with Power Hungry. Set squarely in the second season of the series, Weinstein shows that he has a pretty solid handle on the characters, and explores an environmental theme that sounds very familiar to the way we are treating our own planet. The Enterprise is on a…
The Church (1989) – Michele Soavi
Lamberto Bava stepped out of the director’s chair for Michele Soavi, but remained heavily involved in the production alongside Dario Argento. It was originally supposed to be a third entry in the Demons series, but Soavi wanted to make a slightly more elevated picture, and Demons 3 was forgotten to tell a different kind of…
Star Trek: The Next Generation – Strike Zone (1989) – Peter David
Peter David delivered his first Star Trek novel with Stroke Zone. Originally planned to be a novel in The Original Series catalogue, it was changed and updated to take place near the beginning of season two of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Beverly Crusher is at Starfleet Medical, Dr. Pulaski has taken over as the…
Star Trek: The Next Generation – Survivors (1989) – Jean Lorrah
The fourth novel in The Next Generation series from Pocket Books is set between the events Arsenal of Freedom and Skin of Evil and gives Tasha Yar more story time than she received in her only season on the show. It also fills out some of her backstory, and while nothing contradicts the established canon,…
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Micheal Myers (1989) -Dominique Othenin-Girard
So it was bad enough that Carpenter delivered a script he didn’t believe in that made Micheal Myers/The Shape into Laurie Strode’s brother in Halloween II. Then things got worse when they continued with the Myers tale in Halloween 4 by introducing little Jamie (Danielle Harris) as Micheal’s niece and new target upon his return…
Road House (1989) – Rowdy Herrington
Patrick Swayze plays Dalton, a lethal but zen bouncer in the cult-favorite, Road House, which also features the famed blind Canadian guitarist Jeff Healey as the bar band of the Double Deuce. Dalton is hired by Tilghman (Kevin Tighe) to help change his bar, the Double Deuce, into something a little more profitable. It has…
The Mind Reels 