It’s a good thing that the secret Peacekeeper installation, Gamak base is so close, because Aeryn (Claudia Black) is in need of some serious medical assistance following their run-in with the Peacekeepers in the previous episode. Nerve was written by Richard Manning, and it was first broadcast on 7 January, 2000. John Crichton (Ben Browder)…
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Magnum P.I. (2019) – The Man in the Secret Room, and He Came By Night
Magnum (Jay Hernandez) is still smarting and sulking after the break-up with Abby and takes some temporary work as the head of security for a hotel taking over for a former p.i., Russ (Lee Majors!). It’s not too long before he finds himself embroiled in another mystery, with The Man in the Secret Room. Written…
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974) – Jun Fukuda
These stories just get more and more out there! Delightedly so! This Godzilla adventure brings in secret Interpol agents, invading aliens, an imposter Godzilla,a new kaiju to add to the mythos, an Okinawan prophecy and a very rare non-terrestrial element, space titanium! There’s a lot going on in this one, and not a lot of…
Mission: Impossible (1969) – Robot, and The Double Circle
Barney (Greg Morris) shows a talent for robotics, Leonard Nimoy gets to wear a number of disguises and prosthetics, not only as Paris, but other characters, Lee Meriwether continues her work with the IMF as Tracey, and Larry Linville makes another appearance as a baddie in The Robot. Written by Howard Berk, this episode debuted…
Mission: Impossible (1969) – The Glass Cage, and Doomsday
There’s a lot going on in The Glass Cage, the first episode up this week as I continue my journey through Mission Impossible: The Complete Series. Written by Paul Playdon from a story by Alf Harris, the episode first debuted on 2 February, 1969. I was absolutely delighted to see that it also featued Larry…
Mission: Impossible (1968) – The Cardinal, and The Elixir
John T. Dugan puts the IMF team through their paces in this episode he wrote, The Cardinal, which first aired on 17 November, 1968. Phelps (Peter Graves) and his team are asked to sneak into a country behind the Iron Curtain (which looks amazingly like Southern California) and deal with General Zepke (Theodore Bikel), a…
M*A*S*H (1976) – Mulcahy’s War, The Korean Surgeon, and Hawkeye Get Your Gun
Father Mulcahy (William Christopher) gets a moment or two to shine in Mulcahy’s War. Written by Charlie Hauck, this episode was first broadcast on 16 November, 1976. While Hawkeye (Alan Alda), B.J. (Mike Farrell) and Frank (Larry Linville) work on an injured corporal and his friend, Corporal Cupcake (a German Shephard) who set off a…
M*A*S*H (1973) – The Ringbanger, Sometimes You Hear the Bullet, and Dear Dad, Again
Leslie Nielsen guest stars as Colonel Buzz Brighton in The Ringbanger, which was written by Jerry Mayer, and first aired on 21 January, 1973. Hawkeye (Alan Alda) and Trapper (Wayne Rogers) click with one of their patients, Brighton, but are soon troubled to learn that his unit suffers the highest casualty rate, with the least…
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1996) – Apocalypse Rising, and The Ship
Station log: stardate unknown Robert Hewitt Wolfe and Ira Steven Behr pen the season five opener that sees Sisko (Avery Brooks) going to Starfleet Command with Odo’s (Rene Auberjonois) belief that Gowron (Robert O’Reilly), the leader of the Klingon Empire, is a changeling. Hearing this, and after some debate, Sisko is given the orders… expose…
Spellbound (1945) – Alfred Hitchcock
A film starring Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck directed by Alfred Hitchcock can’t be anything but a winner, and is my next stop on the What Else to Watch list from DK Canada’s The Movie Book following their recommendation of the title, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. The ever-appealing Bergman plays psychiatrist, Dr. Constance Petersen,…
The Mind Reels 