Captain’s log: stardate unknow The Doomsday Machine sent me on many adventures when I was a child. Written by Norman Spinrad, this episode had an original airdate of 20 October, 1967. Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and the stalwart crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise encounter terror in space. They arrive in a destroyed planetary system, and discover…
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Quantum Leap (1990/1991) – A Little Miracle and Runaway
Sam (Scott Bakula) is Reginald Pierson, the valet of one Michael Blake (Charles Rocket), a Scrooge-like character in Quantum Leap’s take on A Christmas Carol. A Little Miracle aired 21 December, 1990 and was penned by Sandy Fries and Robert Wolterstorff. It’s Christmas Eve, 1962, and Sam is feeling a little flustered serving Blake, who…
Star Wars: The Weapon of a Jedi (2015) – Jason Fry
Ahh Star Wars… I’m writing this on the 12th, so haven’t seen The Force Awakens yet, but you’d better believe I am damned excited, and am trying to get my hands on the new, ever-expanding, now canon universe that exists outside the film in the form of books and comics. So I dug into…
Magnum, p.i. (1985) – Deja Vu
Season 6 of Magnum, p.i, gets underway with this two-hour opener, that sees Thomas (Tom Selleck) and Higgins (John Hillerman) travelling to England to oversee the staffing and opening of Robin Masters’ recently purchased castle, which he’s promptly named, Robin’s Keep. Deja Vu was written by Bellisaro and Chris Abbott and had an airdate of…
Lost Girls (1999) – Andrew Pyper
Every one has been suggesting that if I liked all the other Andrew Pyper books I’ve read to date (and I have) that I desperately need to read his first novel, Lost Girls. Well I finally did! And like his other novels, I enjoyed this one as well. I love how he balances the…
Toronto After Dark: Tales of Halloween (2015) – Various
The opening night film for the 10th Annual Toronto After Dark Film Festival was the anthology film, Tales of Halloween, featuring familiar names behind and in front of the camera, the collection which slowly won over the audience, is amusing, bloody and reminds the viewer that Halloween is supposed to be fun. Boasting names like…
Fringe Toronto: Hamlet… A Puppet Epic
So this morning I took in a Fringe Kids event, I mean it was Hamlet. And puppets. Hamlet WITH puppets. How could I resist? Presented by the puppet company Shakey-Shake and Friends, here in Toronto, this company, both human and puppet, are making their home in the George Ignatieff Theatre for the course of the…
The Scarlet Gospels (2015) – Clive Barker
I’ve been looking forward to this book since I first heard Barker was working on it. I’m a fan, and I couldn’t wait to see what happens when two of his most iconic creations meet in what he promised would be the final tale of the Cenobite known universally as Pinhead. But the Hell…
The Greatest American Hero (1981) – The Beast in the Black and The Lost Diablo
This week’s installment of The Greatest American Hero allows me to revisit an episode I hadn’t seen since I was a kid, which freaked me out at the time. Juanita Bartlett writes The Beast in the Black, which aired 9 December, 1981 and brought our heroes into spooky territory, or at least it was to…
M is for Magic (2007) – Neil Gaiman
I love the way Neil Gaiman writes. Anytime I try to be creative, I read something he does, and I’m simply gobsmacked. I’m always happy to curl up with one of his books, and this collection of short stories is no exception. Composed of ten stories, and one poem, this collection is a fairly…
The Mind Reels 