The Tick (2016) 1.07

Tale from the Crypt

The Tick can't find Arthur. He finally checks Arthur's apartment. He finds Overkill and Dot there but Arthur is nowhere to be found. The trio go back to Overkill's sentient boat and come up with a plan. Tick stays in the boat. Overkill and Dot go looking for signs of Arthur in a cemetery.

Arthur is chained up. The Terror plays the drums. Arthur escapes with some help from Ms. Lint, although it turns out she is doing it because the Terror told her to. Arthur gets out of his cell by using the key that Ms Lint gave him. He finds the flying suit and puts it on. 

Dot Finds a sign of Arthur. The Tick comes flying in and breaks into the Terror's underground lair, which is below the cemetery. Dot stays outside to keep watch while the Tick and Overkill go looking for Arthur in the underground lair.

Doctor Who (1963) 15.05.04

Underworld - Part Four

The Doctor, Leela, Idas, and the crew of the R1C break into the P7E. The crew of the R1C fight with the guards while the Doctor, Leela, and Idas go after the golden cylinders which contain the race banks of the Minyan people.

The seers decide to release Herrick and give him the golden cylinders. A temporary truce is declared. Herrick returns with the others and the cylinders (which turn out to be fakes) to the R1C.

The Doctor finds the real golden cylinders and has a chat with the oracle, the P7E's computer. It doesn't give up the golden cylinders willingly. The Doctor, Leela, and Idas return to the R1C. The fake golden cylinders are bombs, according to K-9's analysis. The Doctor returns them and comes back with all the Trogs.

The R1C blasts off and leaves the planet. The P7E blows up.

Invincible 2.01

A Lesson For Your Next Life

Angstrom Levy, a scientist who has the power to travel between dimensions, breaks the Mauler Twins out of the detention facility where they are being held. He wants their help. He has grabbed alternate versions of himself from other dimensions. He wants to know everything that his alternate selves know.

Invincible is still recovering from the fight with his father, from the end of the previous seasons. He wants to work for Cecil but Cecil tells him to cool his heels. He isn't ready to trust Mark just yet. Cecil eventually changes his mind. The New Global Guardians aren't as effective as he would like them to be. He brings in the Immortal to train them.

Invincible is sent to stop the Mauler twins. Cecil doesn't know that it's them but the energy readings coming from their new lab are off the charts. The Maulers have built a device that should help Levy to learn everything that his alternate selves know. He has altruistic motives but Invincible's interference changes things.

Levy bore no ill will towards Invincible, until now.

Moonlighting 1.05

Next Stop Murder

Ms. DiPesto wins a ride on J.B. Ballard's Murder Mystery Train. Maddie and David take Agnes to the train station. They escort Agnes on to the train but then they get stuck on the train and are unable to disembark before it takes off.

The planned murder mystery doesn't go exactly as planned. Ballard turns up dead. Agnes and Roy, one of Ballard's employees, get interested in one another. David and Maddie try to solve the mystery. More than one of the other passengers is suspected of killing J.B. until David solves the mystery.

There is a struggle when the killer tries to escape. David and Maddie chase the killer on to the roof of the train, while it is still moving.

The Phil Silvers Show 3.14

Bilko F.O.B. Detroit

Bilko and his men are sent to Detroit to pick up some new trucks. They are supposed to be back at Fort Bazter in no more than two days. Bilko comes up with an excuse to stay longer. The owner of the company that manufactured the trucks sees right through Bilko's scheme and momentarily gets the upper hand. The tables turn once again when Bilko talks the company owner into one of his hairbrained schemes and turns the tables back in his own favor.

Thoughts

This was not a brilliant episode. It doesn't really go anywhere, other than Detroit.

Lady Snowblood (1973)

Lady Snowblood (1973)

starring Meiko Kaji

directed by Toshiya Fujita

97 minutes

Yuki is raised and trained to get revenge on the people who killed her father and raped her mother. One of them is already dead, killed by Yuki's mother who was later sent to prison where she died giving birth to Yuki.

Yuki, once she is an adult, seeks out the remaining two men and one woman.

Each of the three people she seeks presents their own challenge.

Training Day (2001)

starring Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke

directed by Antoine Fuqua

122 minutes

Jake's (Ethan Hawke) first day working for Alonzo (Denzel Washington), a decorated undercover LAPD detective, doesn't exactly go as he thought it would. He quickly finds himself butting heads with Alonzo and getting bullied into doing things that he otherwise would not. Before he knows it, Alonzo is asking Jake to kill another cop. Alonzo has his reasons for doing what he does and eventually these reasons become clear.

Thoughts

This is the second time I have seen this movie. The first time was about 21 years ago in early Nov 2002. That time it was a Netflix rental. This time I watched it on Tubi. I don't recall exactly what my reaction was to the movie in 2002.

The Tick (2016) 1.06

Rising

Arthur (and the Tick) and Overkill can't come to an agreement about what to do with Ramses. Overkill injects him with a truth telling serum which helps them to learn where the Terror's hideout is located. Arthur wants to turn Ramses over to the Feds, AEGIS, and let them handle the rest. Overkill disagrees with this approach but lets them walk out with Ramses.

Ms. Lint talks to the Terror. She thought he was killed 13 years ago. She was his right hand at the time. She has a hard time grasping why he didn't tell her that he was still alive. The Terror doesn't understand why she didn't kill Ramses years ago.

Dot decides that she needs to start hanging around with Arthur, in order to protect him. Arthur says no but Dot starts to gather some gear.

Arthur and the Tick get distracted and lose track of Ramses. The villain uses a RPG like weapon to try and kill a bus full of innocent civilians. Arthur and the Tick save everyone aboard the bus. The story goes viral.

Ms. Lint finds and kills Ramses. Arthur gets kidnapped by the Terror.

Orange Is the New Black 6.13

Be Free

Chapman finds out that she has been granted early release. Flores is also among those granted early release. Chapman has mixed emotions. She wants out but she doesn't want to leave Vause.

Flaca talks Cindy into covering the kickball game with her.

Barb and Carol get their respective gangs geared up for the kickball game. They each tell their people that they want there to be violence and lots of it.

CO Alvarez announces that the betting pool will have to end early because Mendoza found Luschek's score sheet.

Aleida comes to see her daughter. Daya is high at the time and it shows. Aleida confronts Hopper about what she witnessed, once she gets backto his place.

Doctor Who (1963) 15.05.03

Underworld - Part Three

The Doctor reverses the blowers. The noxious gas is sucked out of the caverns. The Doctor heads back to the R1C once he has recovered from the effects of the gas. He sends K-9 to find the crew of the R1C.

The Doctor, Leela, and Ilas go looking for Idmon, father of Ilas, who is due to be executed. They use a back entrance to get into the P7E. They are spotted and captured by the guards and brought to the chamber where Idmon is about to be executed. Ilas interferes with the ceremony and saves his father's life.

Jackson and the other crew members of the R1C show up just in time to help the Doctor, Leela, Ilas, and the other Trogs (workers) escape from the guards of the P7E. Herrick gets captured but everyone else gets away.

Moonlighting 1.04

The Next Murder You Hear

A late night radio talk show host is murdered while broadcasting. David suggests that he and Maddie should try to solve the case even though no one has hired them to do it. Maddie is reluctant but eventually she comes around.

Maddie and David discover that the "murdered" talk show host faked his own death. He has been having an affair with Laura, whose husband owns the radio station. The plan was to convince her husband that he was dead and then they could go on with their affair. The plot thickens when Arthur, the owner of the radio station, turns up dead.

The Phil Silvers Show 3.13

Bilko at Bay

Bilko plans a trip to New York with Corporals Barbella and Henshaw. They make arrangements to stop at the homes of the men in the platoon in order to save money on food. Everything is going well until they get to Altoona, the home of Private Doberman. Mrs. Doberman runs a boarding house and has two men staying in her boarding house.

The two men staying at Mrs. Doberman's boarding are pretending to be on a vacation filled with fishing but they are actually bank robbers. They are waiting for the third member of their gang to show up.

Body and Soul (1947)

Body and Soul (1947)

starring John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Hazel Brooks

directed by Robert Rossen

104 minutes

Charley Davis (John Garfield) aspires to be a professional boxer. His father, the owner of a small candy store, is killed by mob violence. Charley's mother does not approve of her son's chosen life style but Charley is determined.

Charley meets and falls in love with Peg (Lilli Palmer), a painter. She, unlike his mother, tries to be supportive. Charley has his heart set on making it in boxing to the point that he accepts an offer from Roberts, a fight promoter, to fix some fights. Charley can't see the dangerous path he is taking, even after Ben Chaplin, another boxer, gets seriously injured.

Charley's devotion to his career drives a wedge between himself and Peg. He starts hanging out with Alice (Hazel Brooks) who like him seems most interested in money. Charley eventually goes back to Peg after Ben dies. The climax of the film is a fight in which Charley has to defend the championship belt. He has already made a deal with Roberts to throw the fight and has to decide whether to honor that deal or be true to himself.

The Tick (2016) 1.05

Fear of Flying

Arthur gets the wings out and starts to fly but he had trouble controlling the suit. He calls Dot and gets her to put the Tick on the phone. Arthur explains the situation and that he needs help. He doesn't want Dot to know what's going on.

The Tick and Dot get in her car and go out looking for Arthur. Overkill becomes aware that Arthur is flying over the city but he doesn't know who he is at first. Ramses and several of his men are using a tracking device to follow Arthur's flight path.

Arthur is pulled out of the sky by Overkill while he is trying to land near a water tower. The Tick and Dot arrive near the water tower moments later. The Tick and Overkill almost get into a fight but then Ramses shows up with his men. Overkill and the Tick fight with Ranses and his men.

Orange Is the New Black 6.12

Double Trouble

Barb and Carol do not fight. They are eventually let out of the cell and returned to their respective parts of the maximum security section of Litchfield. They both start planning for war once they get back home.

Linda gets Fig's help in organizing a video shoot. It is all part of a branding campaign to improve what used to be MCC (and is now PCC) look better. Linda tasks Fig with ranking all the employees. Fig turns the work over to CO Hopper. 

Baddison continues to give Chapman a hard time. Chapman has a plan but Vause tries to talk her out of it, once she hears what it is. Chapman goes ahead with her plan and approaches CO Hopper. She tells him about the heroin that Baddison planted in her cell. He is confused but she doesn't get a shot or sent to the SHU.

Doctor Who (1963) 15.05.02

Underworld - Part Two

The Doctor's plan works. The R1C, the spaceship, blasts its way out of the debris that is forming around it. The crew uses the last of the fuel to escape from the debris. They pick up the signal from the P7E and follow it. They crash through the soft crust of a planet. They sink below the surface until they find the solid core of the planet.

There are people living down there. Some of the people are workers, others are guards. The crew goes out to do to a little reconnaissance. They insist that the Doctor and Leela stay behind in the R1C. The Doctor only hesitates briefly once the others have left before heading out for a look around.

The Doctor and Leela are spotted by the guards but manage to get away. Idas, one of the workers, runs away from the guards. He gets into the R1C. The Doctor and Leela find him there and try to help him. The Doctor heads out again even though it is clear that the area around the R1C is being fumigated. He collapses after being overcome by the smoke, while tinkering with some machinery he finds.

Invincible 2.00

Presenting Atom Eve

This is the story of Samantha Wilkins, the girl who became Atom Eve, how she got her powers, and what happened to her real mother. Samantha's birth mother was part of a government experiment to create a super-weapon. Samantha was supposed to be the super-weapon. Dr. Elias Brandyworth, the scientific head of the project, experienced a change of heart when Samantha's mother was close to being ready to give birth.

Dr. Brandyworth broke Samantha's mother out, of the government lab where she was being kept, and took her to a normal hospital. She died but Samantha survived. She was switched with another child and was raised by the Wilkins who never knew the truth about Samantha's origins.

Moonlighting 1.03

Read the Mind -- See the Movie

David and Maddie have been hired by SRT, a company that is developing a weapon for the US military. They get fired after a test goes horribly wrong. David is ready to move on but Maddie, who found the work, insists that they figure out what went wrong.

She has dinner with the president of SRT's number one competitor. She asks him how he found out what SRT was developing. He tells them he found out from a psychic. Maddie and David visit the psychic. David steals the psychic's appointment book which reveals that Brian, the current head of SRT, has been visiting the psychic.

David and Maddie return that night and stake out the psychic's home. They learn that night that the psychic has been helping Brian to convince his aging father, who owns SRT, that Vivian, Brian's sister, is incapable of running SRT.

Maddie and David are spotted while surveilling the house. They flee by undressing and jumping into the pool. Later that night they get a call from Vivian. She asks them to meet her at SRT. She tries to kill them with a laser gun but ends up bringing down a piece of the ceiling on herself.

The Seventh Seal (1957)

The Seventh Seal (1957)

starring Max von Sydow

directed by Ingmar Bergman

96 minutes

Swedish with English subtitles

Antonius Block, a knight, and Jof, his squire, return from the Crusades and discover how the plague, the Black Death, has changed the land they left ten years before. The knight meets Death but he is not ready to go just yet. He challenges death to a game of chess.

Block and Jof are traveling back to Block's castle. Along the way they collect a few people who travel with them (an actor, an actress, and their child; a blacksmith and his wife; a teenage girl whom Jof saves from a predatory priest). They also cross paths with a young woman who has been accused of being a witch and is to be sacrificed for causing the plague, as her captors put it. 

Block encounters Death more than once. Each time they meet their game gets a little closer to ending. 

Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1.20

And So Died Riabouchinska

Police Detective Krovitch (Charles Bronson) investigates a murder at a vaudeville theater. The prime suspect is John Fabian (Claude Rains), a ventriloquist, who has an odd relationship with his dummy.

Thoughts

I watched this one our of curiosity. I wasn't won over by it. Bronson's acting left something to be desired. Rains was a little better but the script didn't give them a lot to work with. The twist at the end of the story wasn't exactly what I was expecting but it also felt like a bit of a reach.

Our Hospitality (1923)

Our Hospitality (1923)

starring Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts, Natalie Talmadge

directed by Buster Keaton, John G. Blystone

74 minutes

Silent

Willie McKay (Buster Keaton) travels back to his parents hometown with full knowledge of what might await him there. His father was killed by the Canfields, a rival family, when Willie was just an infant. Willie meets Virginia Canfield on his way back to his ancestral hometown. It isn't until later, after he is smitten by her, that he discovers who her father is and that he and her brothers want to kill him.

Virginia invites Willie over for dinner. Joseph Canfield (Joe Roberts) wants to kill him but insists that as long as he is a guest in their house neither he nor his two adults sons will attempt to kill or bring any harm to Willie.

Why Be Good? (1929)

Why Be Good? (1929)

starring Collen Moore, Neil Hamilton

directed by William A. Seiter

84 minutes

Silent

Pert Kelly (Colleen Moore) meets Winthrop Peabody, Jr. (Neil Hamilton) while they are both out partying. She has just won a dance competition. He is the one who handed her the prize. He is celebrating one last time before starting a new job at his father's department store. They have a great time together make plans to meet again the next night.

She gets in late, oversleeps the next morning, and gets to work late the next morning. She is sent to the manager in charge of tardiness only to discover that it is Winthrop. He is hesitant to fire her for showing up late but then his father does. It takes some convincing, and some gifts but Winthrop wins Pert back.

She loves the gifts, mostly clothes. She comes from a less privledged background than he does. Her father balks at the way she is being showered with gifts. She fights back. Her mother steps in on Pert's side of the argument and her father relents.

Winthrop invites her out again. This time he decides to test her to see how far she is willing to go for him. He wants to know if she can be bought. He almost loses her again.

Orange Is the New Black 6.11

Well This Took a Dark Turn

Hopper shows Aleida what he found, the drugs he had him unknowingly smuggling in to Litchfield. He's had enough of her act. She's had enough of his and goes stomping out of his home.

Chapman continues to lead the practice sessions for the kickball team. Baddison gets more and more annoyed with her and tries to frame her by planting drugs in one of her shoes but Chapman gets lucky and evades detection during a search by the COs.

Suzanne and Doggett team up to try and figure out who is trying to kill Berlin. They overlook one of the inmates they question but something they say clicks with Berlin. She confronts the other inmate and then frames the other inmate for trying to kill her.

Doctor Who (1963) 15.05.01

Underworld - Part One

The TARDIS avoids getting sucked into a space nebula by teleporting onto the nearest spaceship. It is a Minyan spacecraft and has been traveling throughout the universe for 100,000 years. The four remaining crew members are searching for the P7E, a spacecraft which carries the only hope for their rebirth of their people.

The Minyans (Jackson, Herrick, Orfe, Tala) react negatively when they discover that they have crossed paths with a Time Lord. They have some knowledge of the Time Lords whom they refer to as gods. They use a pacifying ray on Leela when she threatens to shoot them with a weapon (Liebemann laser) she found in the store room in which the TARDIS materialised.

The spaceship starts to veer into the nebula. The Doctor offers to help. He hooks K-9 up to the ships computer and K-9 gets the spaceship to veer away from the nebula.

Jackson has the ship change course when they pick up the signal of the P7E coming from within the nebula. The Doctor tries to convince Jackson to not head back into the nebula but the captain won't listen. The ship is quickly surrounded by smaller bits of debris which cling to the hull. The thickness of the debris increases quite quickly. Herrick tries firing the ship's main gun but it doesn't seem to do any good.

UFO Robo Grendizer 3.14

Death at 400 Meters Below Sea Level

or Undersea Base of Death - 400 M!

or La mort vient de la mer (Death comes from the sea)

An earthquake beneath the sea causes problems for the Vegans. One of their undersea monitoring stations gets pushed to the surface. They send a saucer beast to destroy it. The saucer beast also destroys a passing ship.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

starring Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Brian Tyree Henry

directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson

140 minutes

Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld) has still not told her father about her life as Spider-Woman. He thinks that Spider-Woman killed her friend, Peter Parker. She leaves her universe once again and joins an association of Spider heroes. They are led by Miguel O'Hara (aka Spider-Man 2099).

Gwen is given a mission to keep an eye on the Spot, a new villain who live in the same universe as Miles Morales (Shameik Moore), whom she hasn't seen since the events of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018). Instead of keeping an eye on the Spot she looks up Miles and spends time with him. It isn't until it is too late that she realizes her mistake.

Moonlighting 1.02

Gunfight at the So-So Corral

Maddie comes in for her first day at the Blue Moon Detective Agency only to find that no one is doing anything that resembles work. She is ready to call the whole thing off when David tells her that there is a client arriving at their offices in 20 minutes. David rushes out, grabs Farley Wrye, who was sitting in the reception area of another business, and presents him as their new client.

Wrye explains that he is dying and that he is looking for his son, Michael. He offers to pay them $10,000 if they can find him before he dies. They take the case and go looking. The only clue they have is that the father thinks Michael maybe in a shady line of business.

David and Maddie go to a bar in a rough section of town. David asks the bartender if he has seen Michael Wrye. The bartender reacts violently when he hears the name. He pulls them into a back room and explains to them that Michael Wrye is a hitman.

Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)

Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)

starring Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, Calvin Lockhart

directed by Ossie Davis

97 minutes

New York police officers Gravedigger Jones (Godfrey Cambridge) and Coffin Ed Johnson (Raymond St. Jacques) are on the scene when Reverend Deke O'Malley (Calvin Lockhart) runs off with $87,000. He took the money from people in Harlem whom he promised a place on a ship that was going to take them to a better place.

They money is seemingly stolen from O'Malley during a rally he was holding on the street. Gravedigger and Coffin Ed chase the thieves who are themselves being pursued by O'Malley. The chase for the missing cash doesn't end with the car chase that started it.

O'Malley goes missing but Jones and Johnson are on the job searching for him and investigating others who might know something about the theft.

Orange Is the New Black 6.10

Chocolate Chip Nookie

Aleida starts to sneak stuff into the prison with Hopper but she doesn't tell him about it. Daya knows how to find it as she is part of the cleaning crew. She passes the drugs along to Daddy who distributes them.

Luschek has trouble keeping the dance exercise class going. He needs Mendoza to help teach the class but she is too scared of Baddison to do that. 

Luschek gets pressure from inmates and correctional officers to have an inter block kickball tournament in the yard. The inmates want some time outside and the correctional officers are hoping that a fight will break out that will juice the betting pool.

Zirconia takes advantage of her new found place in Baddison's gang and gives Mendoza and Flores a hard time.

Carol and Barb get the backstory spotlight. They kill their little sister after their parents decide that the family should move to Texas because their little sister needs more gymnastic training. Barb and Carol lock her in a car and push it into a frozen lake.

The Tick (2016) 1.04

Party Crashers

The tick survives the fall from a dozen or more stories. It finally sinks in that Arthur no longer has the suit so Overkill leaves. He takes Arthur's files with him.

Arthur invites the Tick to stay at his place over night. The next morning Arthur discovers that the Tick has invited a homeless man, Tinfoil Kevin, to stay with them. Arthur tries to explain why that is not okay. The Tick does not understand.

Miss Lint tries to figure out how to activate the suit, without success. She finally realizes, with some help from her ex-husband with whom she does not get along, that the suit is imprinted on Arthur so only he can activate it.

Arthur goes to a birthday party for Walter, his stepfather. Dot is at the party. She reminded him about the party. The Tick, despite being told not to, shows up at the party. He gets along quite well with Walter.

Miss Lint finds Arthur, at the party. She has brought the suit with her. She wants him to activate the suit and then transfer the ownership to herself. Arthur tries to comply with her demands but then he changes his mind and takes off running in the suit. The episode ends with Arthur jumping off a balcony to escape from Miss Lint. The wings in the suit activate but Arthur has trouble controlling them.

Doctor Who (1963) 01.02.X

Creation of the Daleks (2005)

18 minutes

This documentary short is all about the creation of the Daleks, not the story but the creatures.

People who appeared in this documentary short include:

• Sidney Newman
• Richard Martin, director
• Verity Lambert, producer
• Raymond Cusick, designer
• Michael Summerton, Dalek operator
• Brian Hodgson, BBC Radiophonic Workshop
• David Graham, Dalek voice artist

Topics discussed in this short include

• working with Terry Nation
• building the Daleks
• Dalek voices