Julie (Faye Grant) and Kyle (Jeff Yagher) have their work cut out for them in the first episode this week, as the battle for Earth and its people continue with V – The Series. Written by David Braff, the episode first aired on 15 February, 1985. It seems a deadly epidemic has broken out, and…
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Unsolved Murders: True Crime Cases Uncovered (2019) – Amber Hunt & Emily G. Thompson
DK Canada’s latest release invites you to investigate the darker corners of the human psyche, as authors Hunt and Thompson take you through twenty of the most gruesome unsolved murders that have haunted society since their occurrence. I think all of us, to some degree or another, are fascinated by the darkness within the human…
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1995) – Through the Looking Glass, and Improbable Cause
Station log: stardate unknown Robert Hewitt Wolfe and Ira Steven Behr take us back to the Mirror Universe with this episode that first aired on 17 April 1995. Sisko (Avery Brooks) ends up there and finds himself recruited to save an alternate version of his wife, and convince her to join the Terran Rebels. The…
The Big Heat (1953) – Fritz Lang
The next big title in DK Books’ highly informative and entertaining The Movie Book is Fritz Lang’s iconic film M, which I have previously reviewed, but on the What Else to Watch list I came across a title I had’t seen or reviewed before and was eager to dive into, Lang’s 1953 cop noir Thee…
Star Trek: The Vulcan Academy Murders (1984) – Jean Lorrah
It’s been a while since I checked in with the non-canon universe of Star Trek, so I dived into the world of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy in this would-be murder mystery. Spock is preparing for some leave on his home planet of Vulcan. When an attack from a Klingon ship wounds one of the Enterprise’s…
Magnum, p.i. (1986) – All Thieves on Deck and This Island Isn’t Big Enough
It’s crime on a cruise ship in All Thieves On Deck! This episode aired 30 January, 1986 and was penned by Reuben Leder. When Higgins (John Hillerman) is busy with other things, including poor Apollo the dog who was shot when someone broke into the estate, he offers Magnum (Tom Selleck), T.C. (Roger E….
Magnum, p.i. (1985) – The Hotel Dick and Round and Around
Magnum (Tom Selleck) tries to grow up a little this week in The Hotel Dick; written by Reuben Leder, this one aired 17 October, 1985. Feeling age beginning to creep up on him, and even admitting to Higgins (John Hillerman) needing glasses to read, he leaves the estate behind, trying to shed his perceived beach bum private…
Doctor Who (Tom Baker) – The Robots of Death
This week finds the Doctor (Baker) and Leela (Louise Jameson) in an interesting looking four part adventure, that just isn’t as exciting as one would like, but has lots of redeeming things I did like about it. The Robots of Death was penned by Chris Boucher and ran from 29 January to 19 February, 1977….
Laura (1944) – Otto Preminger
The recommendations in the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film book for the title Pandora’s Box allowed me a chance to see this classic, which I had never sat down to view before. Detective Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) is working the homicide of the lovely Laura (Gene Tierney) in this wonderful noir title. Brought…
