Category: TV

As I mentioned before this is my attempt at watching every single U.N.C.L.E. episode ever, in celebration of the complete series on DVD. Today I’m looking at episode two, “The Iowa-Scuba Affair” – a pretty good episode that features a…

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This review is a good recap of the set that “streets” today…

As I mentioned yesterday, to celebrate the release of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., the complete series on DVD, I’m gonna do something a little crazy: I’m going to (re-)watch EVERY EPISODE, one a day, until I am done. All four…

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A while back I gleefully purchased The Complete Man from U.N.C.L.E. on DVD from Time-Life Home Video, and heartily digested many many episodes of one of my favorite TV shows. Well, tomorrow the set will be available for anyone to…

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First, the show was really really bad. I mean, seriously. I don’t know what was worse last night, watching the Emmys or watching Green Bay choke against Dallas on Sunday Night Football (through the magic of DVR technology, I did…

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Adam, you’re still on my bad side for not showing up for your DragonCon panel a few weeks back, but I can’t let that stand in the way of issuing you a happy birthday. Those fiendish criminals haven’t stopped you…

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This is a reel of promos from NBC promoting their new shows in 1965… with I Spy, Get Smart, U.N.C.L.E. and I Dream of Jeannie featured (Don Adams as Maxwell Smart appears and narrates it). Ah, they don’t make promos…

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The third season set of my favorite sitcom of all time The Odd Couple was released last week. Since I have not had a chance to pick it up yet, I am concerned at some comments on-line about the episodes…

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September 20th, 1977. A day that will live in infamy. The day that Arthur Fonzarelli, “The Fonz,” strapped on some waterskis and, still wearing his trademark leather jacket, jumped over a shark in a “very special episode” of Happy Days.…

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I almost forgot , today is the birthday of that world famous crime fighter Adam West. May he have many more. To celebrate, here’s Adam West in Pulp Fiction (kinda, NSFW language): [youtube]meIwLytkOX4[/youtube] Wally Wingert’s fantastic song about Adam West…

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The Robert Vaughn/David McCallum classic The Man form U.N.C.L.E. is one of my all time favorites. I did several regular postings at my old .mac-based blog last year about the legal problems that stymied different attempts to get the series…

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I was completely wrong. Sorry. At least I was right about the Lost finale. Enjoyed the finale, though not as much as I had hoped to.

OK, don’t read this if you have not seen the next-to-last episode of the Third Doctor Who series, The Sound of Drums, cause there be spoilers here. Seriously. OK, so the Master is back, he’s hypnotised the world in order…

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We are losing some greats, folks. I can’t help but mention that fact everytime I post an celebrity obit because, well, it’s true. I have the sense the talent pool for entertainers is getting to a low point, with a…

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