Sunday, July 26, 2026

Shōgun 1.04

The Eightfold Fence

The ship carrying Blackthorne, Toranaga, and the others arrives in Anjiro, the same town where Blackthrone was brought when his ship arrived in Japan. Yabushige's forces give Toranaga a great welcome but Toranaga doesn't stay for very long. He orders that Hatamoto (Blackthorne) be given a house in the town.

Fuji, whose husband was ordered to kill himself in the first episode, is given to Hatamoto. Mariko also stays in his house. Blackthorne does not sleep with either woman. He asks and learns that the other men on the Erasmus, ship which brought him to Japan, which is still off the coast of Anjiro, were taken to Edo.

Saturday, July 25, 2026

To Be or Not to Be (1942)

To Be or Not to Be (1942)

starring Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack
written by Edwin Justus Mayer
produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch

99 minutes

A troupe of Polish actors in Warsaw at the beginning of the Second World War help Lieutenant Sobinski (Robert Stack), a bomber pilot, intercept Professor Siletsky, a Polish spy who is working for the Germans, from handing over the details he has about the Polish Resistance.  The troupe of actors are led by Joseph Tura (Jack Benny) whose wife Maria (Carole Lombard) began an affair with Sobinski just before the war began. The actors lure the professor into a trap but once he realizes that it is a trap, he tries to shoot his way out and winds up dead. Joseph impersonates Siletsky but things get a bit tricky after the Germans discover Siletsky's body.

Ballard 1.04

Landmines

Ballard's team gets a new lead that helps them to narrow down the number of vehicles that they need to check. Parker gets her reserve badge. Colleen searches for the parents of Yulia, the dead cleaning women who worked at the motel. Ballard and Rawls drive out into the hills in search of a suspect. They find him but Ballard doubts that the suspect has anything to do with the Pearlman or Wilson murders. It was his car and what little profile they had of him that led her to believe that he might.

Chastain, Ballard's ex-partner dies in a car accident. Ballard goes to the funeral but only after Laffont urges her to do so. Laffont and Parker also attend the funeral. 

Teen Titans 5.05

Snow Blind

The Teen Tians, responding to a distress call they received, arrive in a snowy town that has been destroyed. The survivors of the attack are wary of the strangers. One of the men explains that the one who caused the destruction was from the town. The Teen Titans go looking for him in the T-Ship but it gets damaged in a fight with the man who devastated the town.

Friday, July 24, 2026

Kraft Suspense Theatre 1.05

A Hero for Our Times

starring Lloyd Bridges, John Ireland, Geraldine Brooks, Sandra Church
written by David E. Lewis, Andy Lewis
directed by Ralph Senensky

Mason Etheridge (Lloyd Bridges) is getting ready to leave the apartment of Ruth Evans (Sandra Church), with whom he is having an affair, when he looks out the eindow and sees a woman get murdered. He calls the police, tells them what he saw, but hangs up before giving his name. He is spotted by the killer, whom he saw but not clearly.

Mason returns to his wife Doris (Geraldine Brooks) and their three children. He tries to go on with his life but starts to have second thoughts about not stepping forward to provide testimony after a janitor gets arrested and put on trial for the murder. Mason is certain that the janitor wasn't the man he saw. The height, hair color, and age are all wrong.

Thursday, July 23, 2026

Star Trek (1966) 2.08

I, Mudd

The Enterprise and it's crew are forcibly transported to distant Class K planet they had never visited before. Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Uhura and Chekov are all ordered to beam down with Norman, an android who, disguised as a member of the crew, is the one who programmed the Enterprise to travel to this planet. On the surface of the planet they meet the man behind the android, Harry Mudd.

Mudd, surrounded by androids who look like identical beautiful women named Alice, explains to Kirk and the others how he got to this planet and why he summoned them. The androids, who come from the Andromeda galaxy, want more people to study. The people who made them are all gone. Kirk and the others try reasoning with Harry and the androids but it gets them nowhere. Harry makes plans to leave but at the last minute he finds out that the androids don't intend to let him leave. 

20,000 Leagues under the Sea (1954)

20,000 Leagues under the Sea (1954)

starring Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Peter Lorre, Paul Lukas
written by Jules Verne, Earl Felton
directed by Richard Fleischer

127 minutes

Sailor Ned Land (Kirk Douglas), and scientists Pierre Aronnax (Paul Lukas) and Conseil (Peter Lorre), the sole survivors of a submarine attack in the Pacific Ocean, become the reluctant guests of Nemo (James Mason), captain of the Nautilus, the submarine that sank the frigate on which they were traveling at the time. Aronnax develops a fascination with Nemo but Land and Conseil chafe to get back to dry land as soon as possible. They ultimately get their wish after the navies of the world locate Volcania, Nemo's island base.