Party Down 2.03

Nick DiCinto's Orgy Night

The Party Down team caters a recently divorced man's orgy night. None of the guests realize that's what is supposed to be going on. Roman offers to help get people in the mood. Ron does nothing but act sad because he just got dumped. Kyle gets rejected by one of the women Nick hired to stand around topless. Lydia is interested in Nick but gets nowhere with him.

Thoughts

This was an okay episode. The topless women were a little distracting. I laughed a few times. Not my favorite episode but not bad.

10/14/26 - 22:10

The Twilight Zone (1959) 1.29

Nightmare of a Child

starring Janice Rule, Shepperd Strudwick, Terry Burnham

written by Rod Serling

directed by Alvin Ganzer

Schoolteacher Helen Foley (Janice Rule) finds a little girl (Terry Burnham) sitting on the steps outside her apartment. She invites the little girl in for some hot cocoa. The girl, whose nickname is Markie, knows things about Helen. Markie runs off, out the back door to the apartment when someone else comes the door, a man named Peter Selden (Shepperd Strudwick).

Mr. Selden knows Helen but she doesn't remember him. He knew her mother. He killed her mother. He's there to finish the job he started years ago when he murdered Helen's mother.

All Night Long (1962)

All Night Long (1962)

starring Patrick McGoohan, Keith Mitchell, Betsy Blair, Paul Harris

written by Paul Jarrico, Nel King

directed by Basil Dearden

91 minutes

Drummer Johnny Cousin (Patrick McGoohan) wants to break away from band leader and pianist Aurelius Rex (Paul Harris). He wants Rex's wife Delia to sing for his band. Cousin knows that Rex doesn't want her to work anymore. Johnny, at a party celebrating Aurelius and Delia's first wedding anniversary, manipulates Rex, Delia, and Rex's road manager Cass (Keith Mitchell) to make it look like Cass is irresponsible and having an affair with Delia.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 2.24

The Collaborator

Vedek Bareil visits Deep Space Nine in the days leading up to the election of the new Kai. Information surfaces that he might have been the one responsible for helping the Cardassians to locate and destroy a camp of Bajoran resistance fighters during the war. Kira, who loves Bareil, is tasked with finding out the truth.

Vedek Winn also visits the station. She seems to accept that Bareil will be elected Kai but she also does things to irk Kira. 

Kira gets some help from Chief O'Brien, Odo, and Quark in accessing old records to see what she can learn about what happened on board the space station years before. The trail of information points to the fact that the records she seeks were destroyed by Vedek Bareil. She believes at first that this means that he was the one who helped the Cardassians. She passes what she had learned on to Vedek Winn.

Tales from the Crypt 2.06

The Thing from the Grave

starring Miguel Ferrer, Teri Hatcher, Kyle Secor

written and directed by Fred Dekker

Photographer Devlin Cates (Kyle Secor) earns the ire of Mitch Bruckner (Miguel Ferrer) after he shows an interest in and then starts an affair with Stacy (Teri Hatcher), Mitch's girlfriend. Mitch kills Devlin but the photographer mysteriously comes back to life and comes after Mitch.

Thoughts

This is not a very good episode. It looks like it was made on a very tight budget based on the way it was shot. The characters are paper thin. It felt like all three of the leads were just reading their lines. I'm not sure how this episode could be made better but as is it does not work for me.

Black Angel (1946)

Black Angel (1946)

starring Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre

written by Roy Chanslor

directed by Roy William Neill

81 minutes

Catherine Bennett (June Vincent) turns to composer and pianist Martin Blair (Dan Duryea) for help after her husband is tried and convicted of murdering his ex-wife. Their investigation leads them to nightclub owner Marko (Peter Lorre). They put together an act and and get jobs singing and playing the piano in Marko's nightclub in the hopes of figuring out how Marko killed Martin's wife. Things don't go exactly as planned.

Nocturne (1946)

Nocturne (1946)

starring George Raft, Lynn Bari

written by Jonathan Latimer

directed by Edwin L. Marin

87 minutes

Los Angeles Police Detective Joe Warne (George Raft) suspects that composer Keith Vincent's death was not a suicides as everyone else and the evidence seems to suggest. His investigation leads him to actress Frances Ransom (Lynn Bari) who has an alibi that doesn't hold up when he goes to verify it. He gets fired from the LAPD after he keeps investigating and steps on the toes of people who have pull with city's government.