Saturday, August 1, 2026

Libeled Lady (1936)

Libeled Lady (1936)

starring Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy
directed by Jack Conway

98 minutes

Connie Allenbury (Myrna Loy) sues the New York Evening Star for $5 million after they publish a story saying she was trying to steal another man's husband. Warren Haggerty (Spencer Tracy), editor of the NY Evening Star, is about to get married to Gladys Benton (Jean Harlow) when he finds out about the lawsuit. He postpones the wedding and hires Bill Chandler (William Powell) to help him turn the tables on Miss Allembury.

Teen Titans 5.06

Kole

The Teen Titans find Doctor Light in the Arctic Circle harnessing the power of the Northern Lights. They fight with the supervillain who is considerably more powerful than when they last battled him. The ice on which Doctor Light and the Teen Titans are standing breaks. They crash through the ice and wind up in a world where it is considerably warmer than expected.

Friday, July 31, 2026

Star Trek: The Next Generation 5.21

The Perfect Mate

The Enterprise transports Ambassador Briam of Krios to a ceremony between the Valtese and the Briosians. Two Ferengi are taken on board during the trip when their ship reaches a critical state. The Ferengi interfere with a gift from the Kriosians to the Valtese. The gift was Kamala, an empathic metamorph who was in stasis until one of the Ferengi interfered with the stasis field.

Kamala is to be the mate of Alrik of Valt. Her physiognomy makes her extremely attractive to men with whom she comes in contact. Ambassador Briam insists that she stay in her quarters. Captain Picard, prodded by Doctor Crusher, allows her out of her quarters but then has to rescind that order when she proves to be too distracting for any man with whom she comes in contact.

The Outer Limits (1953) 1.21

The Children of Spider County

starring Lee Kinsolving, Kent Smith, John Milford
written by Anthony Lawrence
directed by Leonard J. Horn

The Space Agency Investigative Service sends John Bartlett (John Milford) to Spider County to talk to Ethan Wechsler (Lee Kinsolving) hoping than Ethan is the key to solving the mysterious disappearance of four scientists. Ethan is in police custody and accused of committing murder at the time that Bartlett departs for Spider County. Ethan never knew his father but a mysterious man (Kent Smith) claiming to be his father shows up and helps Ethan get away from the police.

My Royal Nemesis 1.06

One Magical Night

The episode opens with a brief flashback to a date that date that Cha Se-gye had with Mo Tae-hee.

Seo-ri wakes up in the hospital. She thinks at first that she's in heaven. Once she discovers the truth she goes looking for Cha Se-gye. They wind up leaving the hospital together. Son Jae-han drives the car. Baek Gwang-nam is with them. News has spread by then of the incident on the airplane. Mun-do and others in the family know about it. 

The foursome drives to the hotel. Cha Se-gye and Shin Seo-ri go their separate ways. Her agent meets with her. Gwang-nam runs into Ji-hyo while running an erand. She thinks that he is Seo-ri's mysterious boyfriend, even though he doesn't quite look the part.

Thursday, July 30, 2026

Star Trek (1966) 2.09

Metamorphosis

Captain Kirk, Mister Spock, and Doctor McCoy are returning to the Enterprise in the Galileo from peace negotiations on Epsilon Canaris III with assistant Commissioner Nancy Hedford when they encounter a mysterious force that brings them to a planetoid with a breathable atmosphere. They left the peace negotiations, which were incomplete, because Commissioner Hedford had contracted Sakuro's Disease. She isn't showing any symptoms yet but she needs immediate medical treatment. 

They find Zefram Cochrane, a human living on the planetoid. He was marooned there more than a century before. The Companion, the mysterious force that brought the Galileo there, restored Cochrane, who was in his 80s when he arrived there, to his youth. It kept him from aging. It won't let any of them go because Cochrane needs other humans to keep him company and because it can't leave the planetoid.

Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) 1.26

Whodunit

starring John Williams
written by C. B. Gilford, Francis Cockrell, Marian Cockrell
directed by Francis Cockrell

Author Alexander Arlington (John Williams) arrives in heaven where he learns he was murdered. He has no memory of the incident. He writes mystery novels and desperately wants to know how it happened and who did it. The archangel Wilfred, who is checking Alexander in offers to let him relive his last day on Earth so that he can find out who did it and why. Alexander accepts the offer and moments later wakes up in his bed  the morning of the day he was murdered.