Amazing Stories 1.04

Mummy Daddy

starring Tom Harrison

written by Earl Pomerantz, Steven Spielberg

directed by William Dear

Harold (Tom Harrison), an actor, rushes off the set of a movie, Mummy's Kiss, after learning that his wife is about to give birth. Harold doesn't have time to change and is still in full mummy makeup. He gets lost and spooks some of the locals. They come after him thinking that he is a real mummy. Harold bumps into Ra Amin Ka, a real mummy, While running from the mob that wants to kill him. Harold eventually makes it to the hospital about the same time that Ra Amin Ka arrives on set where nobody bats as eyelash at his appearance.

Wonder Woman (2011)

Pilot

Wonder Woman aka Diana Themyscira splits her time between fighting crime and running Themyscira Industries. She goes after businesswoman Veronica Cale after another teenage athlete almost dies after using performance enhancing drugs provided by Cale's company. Cale denies having anything to do with the problems the athletes have experienced. 

Wonder Woman takes a blood sample from a man whom she believes works for Cale. Lab results on the sample turn up negative but Wonder Woman later interrogates the man while he is in the hospital. She learns from him where Cale's lab can be found. he breaks into the lab and fights her way through about 20 men who are there to stop her. The lab gets shut down but Diana Themyscira finds herself under investigation by the Unites States Department of Justice. Leading the investigation in her ex, Steve Trevor who is now married.

Bataan (1943)

Bataan (1943)

starring Robert Taylor, George Murphy, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Nolan

directed by Tay Garnett

114 minutes

Sgt Bill Dane (Robert Taylor) leads a team of about a dozen men (two Filipino and the rest American) in early 1942 as they first blow up a bridge (in the Philippines) and then prevent the Japanese from building a new bridge to replace it. The officer in charge let's Dane take run the small unit shortly before he is shot and killed by a Japanese sniper. Dane and the others dig in and do their best to hold their position, as ordered. The superior numbers of the Japanese troops proves to be too much. One by one the men are killed directly or indirectly by the enemy troops. Dane contemplates having the unit pull out but deicides that orders and orders.

The Phil Silvers Show 4.34

The Bilko Boycott

Corporal Henshaw decides he's had enough of Bilko making money off the men in the platoon. Henshaw starts a gamblers anonymous group which is so successful that Bilko has to look elsewhere for victims. He turns to the women stationed at Camp Fremont. He sweet talks his past way past Major Allenby, the commanding officer of the WACs. He doesn't run into any trouble until he goes to collect from the women's barracks and gets trapped there when it is put under quarantine.

Thoughts

I really enjoyed this episode. I like the plot twists and the way the story evolved.

Adventure Time 5.21

The Suitor

Braco the suitor, tries to woo Princess Bubblegum but she is busy with scientific research. Braco is encouraged by Peppermint Butler to keep trying to the point that he gets horribly deformed in the quests he undertakes. Princess Bubblegum isn't interested so, sensing Braco's dogged approach to courting her, she creates a robo-duplicate of herself and sends it off with Braco, who seems satisfied with it.

Thoughts

Finn and Jake show up briefly in this episode.

This was fun and weird which isn't unusual for this show.

The Good Place 1.08

Most Improved Player

Michael evaluates Eleanor to try and determine if she is really there by mistake. He asks Janet to retrieve Eleanor's file but Janet is still in the process of rebooting. No matter what he asks for she brings him a cactus. Michael tries interviewing Eleanor but doesn't find it to be very helpful. He also talks to Tahani and Jianyu. Janet finally finds Eleanor's file.

Michael pulls Eleanor back into his office for another chat and learns about an awful thing she did. He calls the Bad Place and they send Trevor (on a train) for Eleanor. Eleanor is given a few minutes to say goodbye and then is put on the train. Chidi confesses to Michael that he was the one who killed Janet. He also tells Michael that he was helping Eleanor to improve. Michael decides that he needs to evaluate Eleanor again. He pulls her off the train just as it is about to leave the Good Place.

Un Village Français 6.06

Le Groupe

or The Group

Lucienne is very happy to have found Kurt. She does everything she can to keep him alive. She focuses on him to the point that she doesn't notice when the other German soldier, the one Doctor Larcher was brought in to save, dies. She takes Kurt to her bedroom and hides him there. She does her best to change his bandages. Her father finds out about it. He warns her that it won't be good for her if anyone finds out that Kurt is German. She has a plan for how to deal with that.

The Germans who are occupying the school depart very early the next morning. No one sees them leave. The Resistance walks into town, led by De Kervern, Antoine, and Anselme. They run into the militia who are there to get the trucks that Schneider promised them. A gun fight erupts. De Kervern is wounded and taken prisoner. The militia take him to the school which they claim for their own. Doctor Larcher was getting ready to leave but they make him stick around and bandage up De Kervern.