It’s time to dive into the fifth and final season of The Twilight Zone. The Complete Series on blu-ray, available from Paramount Pictures unveils the first three episodes of the season this week, as the series returns to a twenty-five minute runtime per episode as opposed to the fifty minute episodes of the previous season….
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The Twilight Zone (1961) – The Arrival, The Shelter and The Passerby
The Twilight Zone: The Complete Series from Paramount Pictures takes me further this week, as we move deeper into Season 3. First up is The Arrival, penned by series creator, Rod Serling, this episode had its debut on 22 September, 1961. Grant Sheckly (Harold J. Stone) is an aviation investigator, but even he’s not sure…
Home Alone (1990 ) – Chris Columbus
I return to the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film book and venture back into the family genre. And despite the fact that it’s May, it’s apparently time for a Christmas movie. I’m a little bit divided on this one. It has so much working for it. It’s written and produced by John Hughes,…
The Twilight Zone (1961) – A Penny for Your Thoughts, Twenty Two and The Odyssey of Flight 33
Paramount Pictures plunges me further into The Twilight Zone: The Complete Series on blu-ray. First up is A Penny for Your Thoughts. Written by George Clayton Johnson, the episode premiered on 3 February, 1961. When bank clerk Hector B. Poole (Dick York) tosses a coin to a newspaper vendor it lands on its edge and…
Quantum Leap (1992) – Ghost Ship and Roberto!
Sam (Scott Bakula) finds himself in the pilot seat in Ghost Ship, the first episode for review this week. Written by Donald P. Bellisario and Paris Qualles, it first aired on 4 March, 1992 and takes place on 13 August, 1956. En route to Bermuda, Sam is Eddie Brackett, an inexperienced co-pilot, and finds all…
Magnum, p.i. (1987) – Murder By Night and On The Fly
It’s time for a classic noir whodunnit in the first episode up this week. Murder By Night originally aired 14 January, 1987 and was written by Robert Hamilton. This episode sees Magnum (Tom Selleck) as a private investigator in the 1940s, nosing around the murder of a newspaper publisher, Maxfield. All the familiar faces…
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015) – Christopher McQuarrie
Tom Cruise returns to the big screen as IMF agent Ethan Hunt in the action-packed Mission: Impossible series. Over the past few films we’ve seen Tom and by extension Ethan becoming more of a team player, sure, he and his character are center stage but he’s begun to rely more on being part of…
Magnum, p.i. (1983) – Legacy From a Friend and Two Birds of a Feather
Thomas (Tom Selleck) tries to deal with the death of a friend in the first episode this week, Legacy From a Friend that originally screened on 10 March, 1983, and was penned by Robert Hamilton. And… this one was directed by the Rockford Files’ Stuart Margolin! When his friend is found dead, drowned. Magnum…
Flash Gordon (1936) – Frank Stephani
As my exploration of the pulp heroes of science fiction continues with the Sci-Fi Chronicles book, I thought I should have a look at one of the original Flash Gordon serials starring Buster Crabbe. And let me tell you this… It was so much more fun than I thought it would be! I grew up…
Airwolf (1984) – Flight #093 is Missing and Once a Hero
Stringfellow Hawke (Jan-Michael Vincent), Dominic Santini (Ernest Borgnine) and Caitlin O’Shannessy (Jean Bruce Scott) take to the sky again this week, and this time they take on two elements that seemed to permeate 80s culture… Plane hijackings, and Vietnam M.I.A.s. First up is Flight #093 is Missing, which aired 17 November, 1984. It was…
The Mind Reels 