Four Star Playhouse 1.07

The Officer and the Lady

starring Charles Boyer

directed by George Jenkins

Andre, a pickpocket, runs into Fingers, an old friend. Andre wants to go straight. Fingers has other ideas. Andre meets Sidonie, a young woman. Fingers steals her purse while she is talking to Andre.

Andre (Charles Boyer) wants to return the purse, which doesn't hold any money. He changes clothes and pretends to be a soldier home on leave. He then goes to Sidonie's apartment and introduces himself to Jean, Sidonie's young son who has less than a month to live and has never met his father. He says that he is Jean's father. Sidonie is grateful.

The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House 1.02

Guardian Spirit

Kiyo is told that she isn't doing well enough in her efforts to become a maiko. It looks like she will have to leave but once everyone takes notice of her cooking skills that problem is pushed aside and she is made the Makanai, the cook for the house.

Thoughts

Once again I found myself pausing the show to look up terms that are not explained. The terms I looked up were all dishes that including Oyakodon, Tamago Kake Gohan, Omurice, and Senjyu Senbei.

I get the impression that this episode and the previous one might originally have been broadcast as one episode or intended to be broadcast that way.

The Night Strangler (1973)

The Night Strangler (1973)

starring Darren McGavin, Jo Ann Pflug, Simon Oakland

directed by Dan Curtis

Reporter Carl Kolchak (Darren McGavin) moves to Seattle where he runs a familiar face from Las Vegas, Tony Vincenzo (Simon Oakland). Tony is now working as an editor for a Seattle newspaper. He hires Kolchak and assigns him to cover a recent murder. The killer strangled an exotic dancer while she walking home late at night.

Researcher Titus Berry helps Kolchak establish a supernatural angle to the crime. Vincenzo refuses to buy the angle so Kolchak digs deeper (with a lot of help from Berry) and finds a pattern: every 21 years (going back to at least 1889) six women have been murdered in the same way (strangulation) within an eighteen day period. Vincenzo refuses to accept that the murders from decades ago have anything to do with the current string of murders.

Adventure Time 5.10

Little Dude

A wizard accidentally transforms Finn's hat into a sentient being. Finn names it Little Dude and it goes on a bit of a tear first through Finn and Jake's House and then the Candy Kingdom. Finn, Jake, and wizard attempt to prevent it from wrecking any more harm than it already has.

Thoughts

This was a fun episode although seeing inanimate objects come to life can be a bit scary, especially as depicted in this episode.

Steven Universe 1.37

Alone Together

Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl try to teach Steven some dance moves in the hopes that it will help him to fuse with one or more of them. Nothing seems to generate any fusion.

Steven teaches Connie how to dance and they wind up fusing into Stevonnie, accidentally. They love it. They show the Crystal Gems, who are a bit stunned that Steven merged with a human. Stevonnie leaves the house and runs around by themself. They get invited to rave where everyone is astounded by Stevonnie's dancing. The attention they get eventually proves to be a little too much and they split back into their individual selves.

Thoughts

This was a really neat episode. It wasn't exactly what I expected. There were no fights. All the action was of the dance variety.

Better Call Saul 6.08

Point and Shoot

The episode opens by the beach. Howard's shoes are there along with a few other belongings and his car. There is no sign of Howard's body

Lalo tells Saul and Kim to sit down, calm down, and listen to him. Lalo wants to send Saul to kill someone. Someone with dark skin and who wears glasses. He wants him to take pictures of the dead body and then return. He gives him one hour to do it. Saul begs and pleads and ultimately convinces Lalo to send Kim instead. Kim is horrified by the idea, she protests but Lalo agrees that she would look less suspicious than Saul.

Star Trek (1966) 1.29

Operation -- Annihilate!

The Enterprise arrives at Deneva where Captain Kirk's brother Sam lives with his family and where a generalized madness has stricken the inhabitants. Deneva isn't the first planet to afflicted by the bout of insanity. The source of the problem is unknown. A number of other colonies on other planets have been destroyed by the madness.

Kirk beams down with Spock, McCoy, Scotty, and two other crew members. They try contacting the colony before hand without much luck. They find Sam, Kirk's brother, dead. Aurelan, Sam's wife, and Peter, Sam's son, are still alive. Kirk and McCoy take them back to the Enterprise. Kirk tries questioning Aurelan, she responds but only with great difficulty and then she dies.