Star Trek (1966) 2.01

Amok Time

Doctor McCoy talks to Captain Kirk about Mister Spock's erratic behavior. Kirk witnesses Spock throwing a bowl of soup at Nurse Chapel. Spock asks Kirk for some time off, on Vulcan. Kirk agrees to let him have some time off on Vulcan as requested but he also asks him if anything is wrong. Spock doesn't want to talk about it.

A message from Starfleet forces Kirk to change course and head for Altair VI. Kirk relays this message to Ensign Chekov. Not long after that Kirk learns that Spock had Checkov change course and that the Enterprise is now headed for Vulcan. Kirk has Spock go to sick bay. Doctor McCoy examines him. The Enterprise changes course for Altair VI and then back to Vulcan after Kirk learns from McCoy that if they don't get to Spock to Vulcan soon that he might die.

Steven Universe 1.46

Open Book

Steven and Connie step into Rose's Room and try writing a new ending to the Spirit Morph Saga. Steven uses the room's magic to make himself look like Archimicarus. Connie dresses up like Lisa, the other main characters from the series. Things get weird but then Steven realizes that the Connie he's talking to isn't the real Connie. He runs from fake Connie and eventually finds the real Connie but it isn't until after Steven admits that he liked the ending to the story as is that fake Connie disappears.

Thoughts

Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl are not in this episode.

This was fun and not terribly consequential.

Red Beard (1965)

Red Beard (1965)

starring Toshirō Mifune, Yūzō Kayama

directed by Arika Kurosawa

185 minutes

in Japanese with English subtitles

During the early to mid 19th century, a young doctor, Noboru Yasumoto (Yūzō Kayama), is sent to visit an older more established doctor, Kyojō Niide aka Red Beard (Toshiro Mifune). Yasumoto's fiancée recently broke off their engagement. Yasumoto had hoped to land a choice job. He is fresh from medical training and doesn't realize that he is expected to work under Niide until he arrives there.

The Good Place 1.07

The Eternal Shriek

Michael announces his departure. Tahani decides to throw a going away party for him. Eleanor decides, after learning that Michael can't leave without Janet's help, that they must do away with Janet. Chidi tries to talk Eleanor out of killing Janet. She won't be swayed but then Chidi accidentally kills Janet.

Chidi has some flashbacks to his life before he died. Janet returns from the dead but without all her memories. Eleanor tells Michael the truth, that she got mixed up with someone else.

Thoughts

The title of the episode refers to something that Michael says about his planned retirement from the Good Place.

Un Village Français 6.05

L'Homme sans nom

or The Man Without a Name

Schneider, the German commander, orders Blanchon, the commander of the French militia to kill the Jewish prisoners. Blanchon refuses. Schneider is about to order to tell his men to kill the prisoners when Marchetti shoots Schneider point blank. Chaos erupts at the train station. Marchetti grabs Rita and their son and gets them out of there.

Hortense gets questioned by the American commander. She sticks to her story that she just met the German with whom she was picked up. They lock her up with several other women, one of whom is Jeanine Schwartz. They talk. Hortense feels better but before long Jeanine betrays Hortense, revealing to the Americans who she is and the identity of the man with whom she was picked up.

The Outer Limits (1963) 1.16

Controlled Experiment

starring Barry Morse, Carroll O'Connor

written by Leslie Stevens

directed by Leslie Stevens

Phobos (Barry Morse) travels to Earth where he enlists the assistance of Deimos (Carroll O'Connor) in a controlled experiment. Phobos is there on official business from Mars. He has been tasked with gaining a better understanding of humans, specifically why they violently kill one another. He a high tech gadget to determine where a murder is about to take place. He observes the murder over and over again with the help of a second device which allows him to wind time backwards.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1.19

The Derelicts

starring Robert Newton, Phillip Reed

written by Robert C. Dennis, Terence Maples

directed by Robert Stevenson

Inventor Ralph Cowell (Phillip Reed) murders the eccentric Alfred J. Sloane, his business partner, to whom he owes $10,000 and 50% of the profits he has made for the sale of his invention. Cowell leaves Sloane's body in the park where they met to talk business, thinking that no one will know that it was he who did it. Peter J. Goodfellow (Robert Newton), a person of no fixed abode, sees Ralph murder Sloane and finds the IOU that Cowell signed.