The 80s were a different time, and there are definitely some issues in this film that wouldn’t work today, some gender roles and sexism issues. But that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a lot of fun watching Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn play with one another on screen. Russell plays Dean, a single father of four…
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Family Ties (1982) – Pilot, Not with My Sister You Don’t, and I Know Jennifer’s Boyfriend
Family Ties premiered on 22 September, 1982. The pilot was written by series creator Gary David Goldberg and introduced us to the Keaton family. There’s patriarch, a former hippie, who manages a public television station Steven (Michael Gross), fellow hippie, and architect, Elyse (Meredith Baxter), son, and young Republican, Alex (Micheal J. Fox), popular but…
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1989) – Samaritan Snare, and Up the Long Ladder
Captain’s log: stardate 42779.1 Samaritan’s Snare written by Robert McCullough, first aired on 15 May, 1989. It’s not the best episode of the season by any standards, but it’s a fair sight better than the following one. While Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) and Wesley (Wil Wheaton) head to Starbase 515 in a shuttlecraft – Wesley…
The Mind Reels 