Alex (Micheal J. Fox) learns the difference between countries fighting for honour, and two people playing chess for the love of the game in Checkmate. Written by Micheal J. Weithorn, it first aired on 30 January, 1986. Alex is gearing up for a showdown with a Russian chess champ, Ivan Rozmirovich (Albert Macklin) and despite…
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The Equalizer (1989) – Trial by Ordeal, and Silent Fury
A few years before Al Pacino declared the whole courtroom out of order, Robert McCall (Edward Woodward) got to do it in Trial by Ordeal. With an airdate of 1 March, 1989, the episode is actually a clip show. That statement can put a number of people off because clip shows can be really iffy,…
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1980) – Happy Birthday, Buck, and A Blast For Buck
Buck’s (Gil Gerard) birthday is coming up, and it’s his 34th or 534th, depending on how he feels about it. And he definitely feels the latter, as he’s moping around and just bummed that Earth is just a little too neat; the weather is always perfect, the architecture is just so, and there seem to…
M*A*S*H (1978) – Our Finest Hour Part 2, The Billfold Syndrome, and None Like It Hot
The second part of the clip show, Our Finest Hour, airing on 9 October, 1978 featured segments written by Ken Levine, David Isaacs, Larry Balmagia, Ronny Graham, and David Lawrence. We get glimpses of pranks, the many romances of Hawkeye (Alan Alda), the humanization of Houlihan (Loretta Swit), Radar’s (Gary Burghoff) really bad day, and…
M*A*S*H (1978) – Peace On Us, Lil, and Our Finest Hour Part 1
Bad news on the peace talks front leads Hawkeye (Alan Alda) to drastic action in Peace On Us. Written by Ken Levine and David Isaacs, this episode first aired on 25 September, 1978. Along with that news, is the reveal that they’ve upped the number of rotation points that need to be earned before surgeons,…
Moonlighting (1988) – A Womb With A View, and Between A Yuk and A Hard Place
The fifth and final season of Moonlighting got underway on 6 December, 1988 with A Womb With A View, written by series creator Glenn Gordon Caron and Charles H. Eglee. Bruce Willis pulls double duty in this episode, not only playing David Addison, but also Baby Hayes, as the story gives us a story from…
War of the Worlds (1989) – The Last Supper, and Vengeance is Mine
The war rages on this week, and Team Blackwood is seeking other experts who may be able to help. The Last Supper was written by Tom Lazarus and first aired on 6 March, 1989. Harrison Blackwood (Jared Martin), Norton (Philip Akin), Suzanne (Lynda Mason Green) and Ironhorse (Paul Chaves) are overseeing a gathering of supposed…
Miami Vice (1988) – A Bullet for Crockett, and Deliver Us From Evil
A Bullet for Crockett, which aired on 15 April, 1988, gives us the only Miami Vice clip show. The new material was penned by Peter Lance and Micheal Duggan from a story by Dick Wolf. When Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson) is critically wounded in a bust, the rest of the vice team, sit, worry and…
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1989) – Peak Performance, and Shades of Gray
Captain’s log: stardate 42923.4 Peak Performance, which aired on 10 July, 1989 was penned by David Kemper and is a very enjoyable episode that sees the Enterprise being assigned a round of war games overseen by master strategist the rather prideful Sirna Kolrami (Roy Brocksmith). Picard (Patrick Stewart) and Riker (Jonathan Frakes) are paired against…
The Mind Reels 