Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Solar Opposites 2.01

The Sacred Non-Repeating Number

Korvo has fixed the space ship. They try leaving but there is too much extra weight aboard the space ship so it crashes back on top of the roof of the house. Korvo discovers that there is another family of Shlorpians on Earth. Korvo and Terry find them hiding in the sewers of London. Kabronius Zelvod, Tivo, and Damasculon live in fear of the people of Earth. They only go out at night to scavenge for food. Korvo takes a liking to them. Terry and Jesse do not.

Yumyulak stays behind while the others go to London. He goes back to high school and thinks that the cool kids finally like him. They convince him that they want him to host a party.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1.20

And So Died Riabouchinska

starring Claude Rains
written by Ray Bradbury, Mel Dinelli
directed by Robert Stevenson

Police Detective Krovitch discovers something stranger than murder when he investigates the death of a man named Ockham whose body was found in the basement of a theater. Krovitch learns that Ockham was there to see John Fabian (Claude Rains), a ventriloquist. Alice, Fabian's wife, was having an affair with Mel Douglas, his manager. That wasn't why Ockham came to see Fabian or why Ockham was murdered. 

Tuesday, May 5, 2026

Star Trek (1966) 2.02

Who Mourns for Adonais?

written by Gilbert Ralston
directed by Marc Daniels

The Enterprise is approaching the planet Pollux IV when a huge hand reaches out and grabs the ship. The crew of the Enterprise unsuccessfully tries to break loose. A man's face appears on the view screen. He explains that he wants Captain Kirk to come down to the surface of the planet with some of his officers. Kirk doesn't like it but feeling as though they don't have a choice he complies with the orders.

Captain Kirk, Doctor McCoy, Chief Engineer Scott, Lieutenant Carolyn Palamas, and Ensign Chekov beam down to the surface of Pollux IV. There they are greeted by a man who calls himself Apollo and claims to be one of the Greek gods of old. 

Doctor Who (1963) 13.01.01

Terror of the Zygons - Part One

The Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith, and Harry Sullivan return to Earth. The TARDIS sets down in the wilderness in Scotland. They get a ride to the nearest town from the Duke of Forgill. There they meet up with the Brigadier who explains why he summoned the Doctor back to Earth. A couple North Sea oil rigs belonging to the Hibernia Oil Company have been recently been destroyed under mysterious circumstances.

The Duke of Forgill makes it very clear that he cares nothing for the oil company before leaving. Mr. Huckle, the local manager for the oil company, tells the Doctor, the Brigadier, Sarah, and Harry what he knows about the disasters. He's convinced that something weird is going on. 

Monday, May 4, 2026

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.

Sunday, May 3, 2026

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.

Saturday, May 2, 2026

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.