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.

Star Trek: The Next Generation 3.24

Ménage à Troi

Commander Riker and Counselor Troi and her mother are abducted by Ferengi captain Daimon Tog. Lwaxana Troi finds Tog repulsive but he is infatuated with her and her telepathic abilities which he hopes to use to make money. She has no interest in changing her mind but in the interest of getting herself, her daughter, and Commander Riker away from the Ferengi ship on which they are being held against their will, Lwaxana feigns interest in Tog.

Amazing Stories (1985) 1.03

Alamo Jobe

starring Kelly Reno

written byb Joshua Brand, John Falsey, Stephen Spielberg

directed by Michael D. Moore

Fifteen year old Jobe starts seeing strange things while serving at the Alamo in 1836 when it was under attack by Mexican General Santa Anna's army. Jobe sees people in late 20th century clothing walking through the battle. He tries to warn them that they are in danger by being there but they don't see or hear him. Colonel Travis gives Jobe a message to get to General John Lefferts on Suttlecock Road.

Jobe leaves the Alamo and finds himself in San Antonio in 1985. He looks for Shuttlecock Road. He takes a horse someone has left unattended and rides around town. The police chase him for a while. He's about ready to give up when he finds first Shuttlecock Road and then a store named Lefferts Antiques. The owner claims to be the great-grandson of General Lefferts. He thanks Jobe for the letter. Jobe heads back to the Alamo.

Paths of Glory (1957)

Paths of Glory (1957)

starring Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready

directed by Stanley Kubrick

88 minutes

French Brigadier General Mireau (George Macready), in the midst of the First World War, indignant after one of his regiments fails to achieve, what was deemed from the outset to be an unachievable goal, insists on court martialing three rank and file members of the regiment. Major General Broulard (Adolphe Menjou) agrees with Mireau's reaction to the defeat and thinks it will be good for morale if three soldiers are executed. Colonel Dax (Kirk Douglas), the regiment's commander, who was present on the battlefield at the time of the attack insists on defending the three men in what turns out to be nothing but a show trial in which he is given no opportunity to provide the three soldiers with a proper defense.