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.

Bleach 38 / 2.18

Desperation! The Broken Zangetsu

Sado is down for the count and almost dead. Eighth Squad Captain Shunsui Kyōraku decides to leave Sado there and orders Nanao Ise, Eighth Squad's lieutenant, to have him transported to a jail cell.

Ichigo runs from 11th Squad Captain Kenpachi Zaraki in fear. He tries stopping to fight but each time he stops and fights he feels the fear return. It isn't until he senses that Sado is near death that he remembers why he is there and how he has people counting on him. It is only then that he finds the strength to stand and fight.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1.14

A Bullet for Baldwin

starring John Qualen, Sebastain Cabot, Phillip Reed

directed by Justus Addiss

A file clerk named Stepp shoots and kills Nathaniel Baldwin, his boss, after Baldwin fires him. They are the only ones in the office at the time. Stepp closes up the office and goes home. He expects that he will get arrested. The next day at 10:30 AM he gets a call from the office asking him why he isn't in yet. He is surprised but rushes into the office. Baldwin is there and looks very much alive.

The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' (1970)

The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' (1970)

narrated by George Roy Hill

directed by Robert Crawford Jr.

42 minutes

George Roy Hill, director of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, goes over the process of making the movie. Paul Newman and Paul Newman were also interviewed for this feature but for the most part it is Hill that does the talking. All of the images in the film are either taken from the movie or footage show on location of the while someone is talking over it. There are no shots of people talking directly into the camera.

Hill talks about the casting, the music, the cinematography, the stunts, and other challenges that he, the cast, and the crew encountered while making the movie. It isn't as polished as documentaries are today but I found it to be very informative. I really enjoyed getting to see how some of the scenes and stunts were shot.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford

directed by George Roy Hill

Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) and the Sundance Kid (Robert Redford), robbers of banks and trains, find themselves on the run from a posse hired by the owner of the Union Pacific railway. Their only refuge is the home of Etta Place, Sundance's gal. They decide, after a long chase during which they were doggedly pursued by the posse, to move to Bolivia. Etta goes with them.

They try to make a living robbing banks in Bolivia. Etta, the only one of the three who speaks Spanish, functions as their translator in everything including bank robberies. News of their exploits spreads.

The Outer Limits (1963) 1.11

It Crawled Out of the Woodwork

starring Scott Marlowe, Kent Smith

directed by Gerd Oswald

Professor Stuart Peters goes to work for NORCO, a west coast research lab. He is killed and then later revived during his first day on the job. The killing is done by an unknown energy source over which the scientists at the lab have some degree of control. He is revived and kept alive with a pacemaker. Everyone else at the lab is in the same condition, alive but only thanks to a pacemaker.

Star Trek: Lower Decks 2.05

An Embarrassment of Dooplers

The Cerritos is tasked with taking a Doopler emissary to Star Base 25. Dooplers have a tendency to duplicate when they get embarrassed. Everything goes fine until Captain Freeman says something negative about the emissary not realizing that he is standing nearby. He starts duplicating and pretty soon there are Doopler emissaries everywhere. The Cerritos is barred from docking at Starbase 25 until the situation with the Dooplers is resolved.

Mariner and Boimler secretly beam over to Starbase 25 in the hopes of sneaking into the legendary Captains After-Party. They get side tracked when Malvus an old acquaintance of Beckett's recognizes her.

Steven Universe 1.36

Warp Tour

Steven thinks he sees comething while he and the other Crystal Gems are warping back to their house in Beach City. They try to convince him that he didn't but he persists. He can't sleep the night after they get back. He fears that whatever he saw is going to come and attack him.

The next night Steven sees an orb crash through the roof of the house. He tries to stop it but it does something to the warp pad and then uses it. Steven and the orb disappear via the warp pad. Steven gets tossed out of the warp stream.

Steven is rescued by the others. They no longer doubt him. They arrive in Galaxy Warp and then hide when they see someone come through the Homeworld Warp, which was broken until the orb and dozens more like it fixed it.

Adventure Time 5.09

All Your Fault

Finn and Jake travel to the Earldom of Lemongrab on behalf of Princess Bubblegum. They find things in disarray as there is no food. Lemongrab and Lemongrab 2 have used some information Princess Bubblegum left behind to make all their food into sentient beings. Finn and Jake give them the seeds that they brought with them but the Lemongrabs mash the seeds together and then turn that into a sentient being.

Thoughts

I enjoyed this episode but it was another weird one. There were all sorts of really strange characters in the Earldom of Lemongrab.

Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)

Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)

starring Charlize Theron, Art Parkinson, Matthew McConaughey

directed by Travis Knight

102 minutes

Kubo (Art Parkinson), a one-eyed, 10-year-old, street performer with magical abilities that are linked to his shamisen (Japanese stringed instrument) goes on a quest with talking monkey (Charlize Theron) and a human-sized samurai beetle (Matthew McConaughey) after his mother is killed by her sisters. He seeks his deceased father's armor, helmet, and sword but his aunts and the Moon King (his maternal grandfather) do everything in their power to stop him.

The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House 1.01

Change

Kiyo and Sumire, friends, both 16 years old, move to Kyoto where they hope to become maiko, apprentice geishas. Sumire takes to the training very well. Kiyo does not. She instead finds herself applying her cooking skills when the middle-aged woman who usually cooks for the house (where they live with several Maiko and Maiko hopefuls) cannot do her job.

Thoughts

This show is based on a manga called Kiyo in Kyoto: From the Maiko House. There was also an anime series based on the manga. The anime series has the same name as the manga and consisted of 12 episodes. This live-action series consists of 9 episodes.

True Detective 1.08

Form and Void

Marty interrogates Steve Geraci, after showing him the videotape that he showed Marty in the previous episode. They learn from him that his predecessor, Sheriff Childress, is the one who buried the Fontenot case.

Rust and Marty continue to work the case. Their work leads them to an old house in the middle of nowhere. Marty checks the house. The only person inside is a woman. He wants to use their phone but it doesn't work.

Rust looks around the grounds. He spots the man with the scarred face. The man takes off running. Rust follows him into a building buried by nature. Rust eventually catches up to him but the scarred face man gets the drop on Rust, almost kills him. Marty who by then has gone looking for Rust, shows up, distracts the man with the scarred face. Marty almost gets killed but Rust recovers in time  to shoot the man in the head.

Heavy Metal (1981)

Heavy Metal (1981)

90 minutes

This animated anthology consists of seven stories. They all have to do with the Loc-Nar, a sentient, glowing, green orb. In the first story a man brings it home with him from a trip in space. He wants to show it to his daughter but when he takes it out of the case it kills him. It then proceeds to tell her stories  about itself.

Harry Canyon - A taxi driver (Harry Canyon) tries to help a woman who is being pursued by gangsters who want the Loc-Nar and know that she is the only one who knows where to find it.

Star Trek (1966) 1.28

The City on the Edge of Forever

Doctor McCoy accidentally injects himself with a heavy dose of cordrazine. The effects of the drug drive him a little crazy. He starts screaming, accusing those around him of being killers and assassins. He escapes from the bridge of the Enterprise and makes his way to the transporter room. He knocks out the transporter chief and beams himself down to the surface of the planet around which the Enterprise is orbiting.

Kirk, Spock, Scottie, Uhura, and a two man security detail beam down. They find a roundish gateway that calls itself the Guardian of Forever. It shows them scenes from Earth's past. Kirk and Spock's conversation with the Guardian is interrupted by McCoy who is located by a couple members of the landing team. He still has yet to recover from the madness that has gripped him. He continues to scream about killers and assassins and then jumps through the gateway and vanishes.

Schitt's Creek 5.04

The Dress

Moira spends $3,700 on a dress for the red carpet premiere of The Crowening. Johnny is stunned by how much she spent on it. Meanwhile he discovers that the motel needs a new hot water heater and he will have to pay big bucks to get it and get it installed.

David and Stevie go to Elm Valley to visit the botanical gardens but it turns that Stevie had an ulterior motive. She wants to hook up with Emir again. David is hurt.

Alexis makes friends with Shannon, who works with Ted and hooked up with him once after Alexis left him at the altar.

Suspense 3.03

Edge of Panic

starring Louisa Horton, Patrick McVey, Haila Stoddard

directed by Robert Stevens

Alice Martin (Louisa Horton), convinced that her husband Harry (Patrick McVey) has been framed for murder, steps up to prove him innocent. The evidence seems to be pretty convincing until Alice does some sleuthing of her own and discovers that Jean Mulligan (Haila Stoddard), the woman with whom Harry was boozing it up on the night of the murder, isn't the victim but the murderer.

Bleach 37 / 2.17

Motive of the Fist

Sado squares off against two different Shinigami. The first fight, against Tatsufusa Enjōji of 8th Squad doesn't last very long at all. Sado just slugs him and he goes flying off into the sky. The second fight,  against 8th squad captain Shunsui Kyōraku is a different story. Sado throws quite a bit at him with out much success. The fight goes on long enough that Sado takes a few minutes to recall one of his early adventures with Ichigo, before Rukia entered their lives, and what his life when he was sent to live with his grandfather in Mexico.

Crash Landing on You 1.08

Episode 8

Seo-dan tries talking Jeong-hyuk into forgetting about Se-ri, but he isn't ready to give up on Se-ri. Seo-dan similarly isn't ready to give up on Jeong-hyuk. She winds up talking to Seung-jun and levels with him that she knows who Se-ri really is. Seung-jun tells her he has a plan so that they can both get what they want.

Jeong-hyuk leaves the hospital early. He goes looking for Se-ri. He gets some help from a specialist in power lines who gives him an idea of where to look. He finds the house where Seung-jun and Se-ri are staying.

The Twilight Zone (1959) 1.11

And When the Sky Was Opened

starring Rod Taylor, Jim Hutton

directed by Douglas Heyes

Colonel Forbes (Rod Taylor) goes to visit Major Gart (Jim Hutton) in the hospital. Both were crew members aboard X-20, a spaceship. Everyone seems to believe that it was just the two of them aboard the X-20 but Forbes remembers that there was a third crew member, Colonel Harrington. Forbes recounts what he recalls about the past 24 hours to Gart but Gart doesn't recall Harrington. He's mystified by Forbes' story but then Forbes leaves the room and disappears and Gart is the only one who remembers him. Not long after that he's gone too.

Adventure Time 5.08

Mystery Dungeon

Tree Trunks, Lemongrab, Ice King, Shelby, and Neptr wake up in a dungeon. They face numerous challenges but eventually make their way out of it. They find out near the end of their trip through the dungeon that it was Ice King that brought them together. He needed some inspiration for his Fionna and Cake fanfic and hoped to get it on this trip with them.

Thoughts

Finn and Jake show up in the last minute or two of this episode. Ice King's beard gets singed off just before he and his companions exit the dungeon.

I enjoyed this episode very much. It is wacky. I love how they get from one room to the next and then out of the dungeon.

Steven Universe 1.35

Lion 3: Straight to Video

Steven discovers a portal within Lion into another world. He can't breathe in that world but he finds a video cassette that his mother made for him. He watches it with Sadie. The video was shot by his mother but is mostly of his father. Towards the end his mother turns the camera around and speaks directly to Steven.

Thoughts

I would say this is a good episode. I don't love it but once more is revealed, as I assume it will be, then I might appreciate this episode more.

Star Trek: Lower Decks 2.04

Mugato, Gumato

Rutherford and Boimler hear a rumor that Mariner is actually a spy and believe it. All three are sent with Shaxs on an animal control mission to deal with some Mugatos, uni-horned white apes. They uncover a clandestine Ferengi operation but Boimler and Rutherford lose their cool when they think they see Mariner kill Shaxs.

Tendi is given a mission by Doctor T'ana to get DNA samples from the last 10 crew members that have yet to provide samples. Captain Freeman deals with a merchant whose ship comes apart when the Cerritos tries to stop it from leaving the area.

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

starring James Stewart, Doris Day

directed by Alfred Hitchcock

120 minutes

Ben (James Stewart) and Jo McKenna (Doris Day) are visiting French Morocco with their son when he is kidnapped by another couple. They learn that Hank, their son was kidnapped in order to keep them quiet about a plot to murder a prime minister who will be visiting London in the next couple days. Ben and Jo head to London. They say nothing when questioned by first the French authorities in Marakesh and then Scotland Yard in London about what's really going on.

True Detective 1.07

After You've Gone

Rust and Marty talk over a few beers. Rust explains that he feels that they have unfinished business. He is referring to the case of Dora Lange. Rust is convinced that there was a third man in addition to Reggie and Dewall Ledoux, and he might still be out there. Rust's word and his impressions aren't enough to convince Marty. It isn't until Rust shows Marty some evidence he stole from one of the Reverend Tuttle's homes, some pretty horrific stuff, that Marty gets on board.

Marty goes to see Maggie. He asks about their girls. He also wants to know about what she told Detectives Gilbough and Papania. Later in the episode she goes to see Rust.

The Trouble with Harry (1955)

The Trouble with Harry (1955)

starring Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Mildred Natwick, Shirley MacLaine

directed by Alfred Hitchcock

99 minutes

Captain Wiles (Edmund Gwen) is out hunting in the woods in Vermont when he runs across the body of Harry Worp. He assumes that he must have shot the man accidentally. He tries to hide the body but people keep running across it while he watches from behind a tree trunk. Miss Gravely (Mildred Natwick) is one of them. The captain is trying to drag the body into the woods when she shows up. They chat, make a date, and then she goes on her way.

The Phil Silvers Show 4.28

Ritzik Goes Civilian

Sgt Ritzik gets out of the Army earlier than Bilko anticipated. Bilko can't stand to see him go, for the usual reason: one less person with whom to gamble. Mrs. Ritzik has her husband take out a loan against his life insurance policy and buy a road side diner. The venture does not prove successful. Bilko shows up just in time to help out Rupert and Emma. He talks the man who sold them the diner into repaying the Ritziks or else get a lot of bad publicity for ripping off an army veteran. 

Thoughts

There was a dream sequence in which Bilko, influenced by something Henshaw and Barbella told him, dreams that everyone he knows is poor but he is rich. It looked like A Christmas Carol, but without Christmas. Colonel Hall and some of the men from Bilko's platoon (Fender, Mullen, Paparelli) show up in the dream sequence.

This was fun. I enjoyed this episode. It wasn't great but it works.

The Wrong Man (1956)

The Wrong Man (1956)

starring Henry Fonda, Vera Miles

directed by Alfred Hitchcock

105 minutes

Jazz musician Manny Balestrero (Henry Fonda), goes to inquire about borrowing some money against his wife Rose's (Vera Miles) insurance policy. She needs some dental work and the Balestreros are short on cash. Not long after that he is accused of robbing the insurance company at gun point, as well as several other businesses in his neighborhood.

The employees who were present at the time of the robberies, most notably the ones at the insurance company, all insist that he was the robber. The police arrest and charge him with the crimes. Rose, plus his sister and brother-in-law, rally around him and get him out on bail.

Star Trek (1966) 1.27

The Alternative Factor

The Enterprise is rocked by an phenomenon of unknown origin that almost destroys the universe. Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock descend to the planet they were observing when the phenomenon occurred to investigate something that appears to have materialized on the planet at the same that the phenomenon occurred.

Kirk and Spock find Lazarus, an injured man on the planet. They take him back to the Enterprise where he is attended to by Dr. McCoy. Once the man has recovered he explains to Kirk what he was doing on the planet, about his fight with a thing that destroyed the world from which he came.

Doctor Who (1963) 12.X

Tom Baker in Conversation

(with Matthew Sweet)

65 minutes

The interview is divided into 6 segments with the following titles

1. Bill Slater’s Wife 
2. God Willing
3. Friends in Space
4. Less Than Perfect
5. Diminishing, Returns
6. Curating

Schitt's Creek 5.03

The Plant

Alexis arranges to bring in Emir Kaplan, a travel blogger, to review the motel. Stevie pretends to be a guest at the motel so that she can talk to Emir about how much she loves the motel. Emir and Stevie get along, have a meal together, and then she decides that she can't continue to pretend. She tells him the truth.

Jocelyn feels overwhelmed with being the mother of an infant and left our of the Jazzagals.

Patrick decides that he needs a new place. He brings David along which he misinterprets to mean that Patrick wants them to move in together.

Thoughts

This episode was a lot of fun. I enjoyed all three subplots. All three made me laugh.

Four Star Playhouse 1.06

The Island

starring David Niven

directed by Robert Florey

George Masterson, the owner of a South Pacific island and the company that employs most of the natives, is suspicious of Dr. Sydney Bartel (David Niven), the company doctor assigned to the island. George gives Sydney a couple days to clear out but then George gets sick. He needs Dr. Bartel's help to recover and tries to keep Dr. Martel from treating him. Dr. Bartel sedates and treats George, thus saving his life. 

Thoughts

I wasn't terribly moved or impressed by this story. It isn't bad but I didn't find the central conflict to be engaging.

Bleach 36 / 2.16

Kenpachi Zaraki Approaches!

Tenth Squad Lieutenant Rangiku Matsumoto visits Fifth Squad Lieutenant Momo Hinamori while she sits in her jail cell. Rangiku brings her the last thing that Captain Aizen wrote before he was murdered. Rangiku offers Momo some advice about proper behavior given the current circumstances. Momo starts to read the note after Rangiku leaves.

Ichigo, Ganju, and Hanataro are overwhelmed by the spiritual pressure they feel. They try running from it but it gets them nowhere and merely exhausts them. Ichigo stops when he hears someone calling to him, Eleventh Squad Captain Kenpachi Zaraki. He looks up and sees Zaraki. He turns to Ganju and tells him to get out of there with Hanataro and go find Rukia, so that they can rescue her.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1.13

The Cheney Vase

starring Patricia Collinge, Darren McGavin

directed by Robert Stevens

Lyle Endicott (Darren McGavin) is fired by his boss. He wiggles his way into a job as a caretaker for Martha Cheney (Patricia Collinge), an elderly artist who is confined to a wheelchair. She has a vase that is extremely valuable. He wants to get his hands on the vase. He takes over her life in the hopes of stealing the vase, killing her (if necessary), and selling it to someone in Germany (who is willing to pay top dollar for it).

Crash Landing on You 1.07

Episode 7

Se-ri misses her flight out of North Korea. Instead she drives Jeong-Hyuk to the nearest hospital and stays there while is operated on and then convalesces. Seung-jun wonders what happened to Se-ri. He runs into Seo-dan in the village where Jeong-hyuk lives. She is there looking for Jeong-hyuk. 

Cho Cheol-gang hears about the incident on the road. Once his people have found Jeong-hyuk he goes to the hospital to arrest him. Jeong-hyuk's father, who is a high level government official, shows up just in time to prevent Cheol-gang from arresting his son.

Se-ri sticks around as long as she dares but eventually leaves the hospital with Seung-jun, barely avoiding running into Cheol-gang. Seo-dan finds out who Se-ri really is. Se-ri's parents have her declared dead and one of her brother's placed in charge of the family business.

Moonlighting 3.09

The Straight Poop

Rona Barrett visits the office of the Blue Moon Detective Agency. She brings a camera crew with her. She wants to get to the bottom of what's going on in the office, between David and Maddie. She tries interviewing David but he tells her that he will need to talk to Maddie. Rona Barrett relents and goes to talk to Maddie. She asks Maddie about her relationship with David, how they met, how things are going between them, and how she feels about him.

Rona Barrett leaves Maddie's office and talks to Agnes DiPesto for a few minutes. She asks her what it's like working for Maddie and David and about her relationship with the two of them. She goes to see David after talking to Agnes. She asks him about what it's like working with Maddie.

Double Indemnity (1944)

Double Indemnity (1944)

starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson

directed by Billy Wilder

107 minutes

Insurance salesman Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) teams up with Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck), the unhappy second wife of one of his clients to murder her husband and collect the loot. Everything goes to plan up to a point. Neff murders her husband and then they dump the body in such a way as to make it look like he fell from a moving train.

Walter's boss, Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson), suspects foul play. His investigation into the death of Mr. Dietrichson causes the murderous pair to ultimately turn on one another.

The Phil Silvers Show 4.27

Bilko the Butler

Bilko goes to the USO in the hopes of getting invited to the home of a rich family and marrying their daughter. He gets invited to the home of a rich family for a meal but the invitation comes from the butler. The family isn't home at the time.

Things start to look up for Bilko after he volunteers to help the butler and the made serve at a big dinner. He overhears a big stock tip and runs to the phone and calls Barbella and Henshaw. The stock turns out to be no good but he can't reach them to tell them to avoid investing the money.

Thoughts

Colonel Hall wasn't in this episode. Most of the other regulars on this show only showed up very briefly at the beginning and end of this episode.

This was a fun episode. I enjoyed it quite a bit. Bilko at his best.

Steven Universe 1.34

Watermelon Steven

Steven accidentally creates a bunch of watermelons that look like people. He doesn't know what to do with them. Something Greg says makes him decide to sell them. He sets up a table on the boardwalk. Pretty soon he has sold all but one of them. That's when he learns that the watermelons are sentient. They all start coming to life. Steven runs around town getting the watermelons back from the people he took them from.

Thoughts

This is a weird episode. I'm not sure what to make of it. I laughed a few times but I wouldn't call it a favorite or even say that it is an upper tier episode.

Adventure Time 5.07

Davey

Finn changes his appearance and starts calling himself Davey to avoid having to deal with some of his fans. Jake doesn't like it. He tries to get Finn to revert to his old self by pretending to be a criminal but that just gets Jake arrested. Finn, still disguised as Davey, rescues Jake from jail and then then reverts to being Finn.

Thoughts

Finn's disguise made him look like a balding middle aged man.

I like this episode. It made me laugh.

Star Trek: Lower Decks 2.03

We'll Always Have Tom Paris

Tendi and Mariner go on a mission to retrieve a family heirloom for Doctor T'Ana. It is their first mission together. They get the heirloom but then Mariner breaks it. They go to great lengths to try and get it fixed. Their plan falls apart and they return to the Cerritos with the broken heirloom.

Boimler isn't recognized by the ship's computer. He goes to great lengths to get around on board the ship without it recognizing him. He can't even get doors to open for him. He has a commemorative plate that he wants Tom Paris to sign but by the time Boimler meets Lieutenant Paris he (Boimler) looks kind of odd and Paris beats him up because he thinks that Boimler is an intruder.

True Detective 1.06

Haunted Houses

Marty beats up the two young men who were caught having sex with his daughter. He seems to gives them an option before he does it: take the beating or else get charged with statutory rape. They seem hesitant so he makes the decision for them.

Rust continues to investigate cold cases, in 2002, cases that he thinks might be linked to the murder of Dora Lange. He gets in trouble for doing that. He doesn't get Marty involved in or keep him apprised of what he is doing. Among the people he talks to are the girl who they found locked up in Ledoux's home and the revival tent minister from the third episode. Eventually he gets in trouble with Salter, their boss, for working these cases on the side.

Taken (2008)

Taken (2008)

starring Liam Neeson

directed by Pierre Morel

94 minutes

Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) decides, despite having lots of doubts, to let his daughter Kim go to Paris with her friend Amanda. Kim says she wants to visit the museums in Paris but actually she and Amanda have plans to spend their time overseas traveling around Europe to see U2 concerts. Kim and Amanda are kidnapped, not long after they arrive in Paris. The people who kidnapped them have no interest in ransoming them. They just want to sex traffic them to whomever will pay them the most money.

Studio One 5.34

The Laugh Maker

starring Jackie Gleason, Art Carney

directed by Paul Nickell

Reporter Bill Berkson (Art Carney) is sent to Hollywood to write a profile of a rising star, comedian Jerry Giles (Jackie Gleason). Berkson and Giles don't exactly click. Berkson sees how things go for Giles on and off camera. He's there when Giles gets his big break and sees how he treats people. Giles loves to be loved and it annoys him when Berkson doesn't laugh at his jokes.

Berkson continues to follow Giles around as he starts to work on his television show. The assistant director on the show is Peggy Trent, who used to be in a relationship with Bill. He tries to renew that relationship but she is more interested in her career. She doesn't care for Giles at first but once she sees him do something nice for a friend of hers she changes her attitude toward Jerry.

Bleach 35 / 2.15

Aizen Assassinated! The Darkness which Approaches

Fifth Squad's Lieutenant Momo Hinamori screams when she sees Captain Aizen dead, pinned to the wall. She remembers what Tenth Squad's Captain Tōshirō Hitsugaya told her the day before about Third Squad Captain Gin Ichimaru. She attempts to strike Ichimaru down but Third Squad Lieutenant Izuru Kira steps between her and his captain and parries her strike. Momo unleashes her Zanpakutō. Izuru quickly follows suit but Captain Hitsugaya steps in and breaks up the fight before it can go any further. He orders those standing around to lock up both lieutenants.

Doctor Who (1963) 12.05.X2

Cheques, Lies and Videotape (2009)

28 minutes

In 1983 the BBC released Revenge of the Cybermen on videocassette. It was the first Doctor Who story to be made available to the public in this format. Prior to the official release of Revenge of the Cybermen (on videocassette) fans had been trading videocassettes of episodes that other fans had tapes at home. A half dozen fans who lived through that time remember tell stories and recall what it was like.

The Twilight Zone (1959) 1.10

Judgement Night

starring Nehemiah Persoff

directed by John Brahm

Carl Lanser (Nehemiah Persoff) is aboard a ship headed across the Atlantic, bound for New York City, in 1942. All he can remember is his name and that he was born in Frankfurt, Germany. He has no memory of boarding the ship or anything beyond his name and place of birth. The captain and some of the passengers try asking him questions. He seems to know something about German submarines but beyond that he's a blank slate.

Schitt's Creek 5.02

Love Letters

Moira returns from the film shoot in Bosnia. She finds some love letters that another woman wrote to Johnny. She doesn't want to ask him about them so she shows them to everyone else in town instead. Eventually Johnny finds out about the love letters and confronts Moira.

Rose Apothecary is held up by a man wearing a ski mask. David and Stevie are the only ones in the store at the time. There's no money in the register so they give the robber wine and cheese and other products. Patrick doesn't find out about the robbery until later.

Alexis admits to Ted that she got rid of some of the gifts he gave her when the split up.

Star Trek (1966) 1.26

Errand of Mercy

The Enterprise is on its way to Organia when it is attacked by a Klingon warship. Captain Kirk knew that relations with the Klingons were on the decline but war had yet to be declared when the Enterprise was attacked. The Enterprise returns fire and destroys the Klingon ship.

Kirk and Spock beam down to Organia in the hopes of negotiating with the people who live there. They warn the leaders of Organia that the Klingons are on their way and that it would be far better to make an alliance with the Federation than to become a vassal of the Klingon Empire. The Organians refuse to accept that they are in any danger.

The Avengers 4.21

A Touch of Brimstone

Steed and Peel investigate a series of incidents in which diplomats and leaders from other countries have been humiliated via practical jokes. It is all harmless until a foreign diplomat gets electrocuted. Steed and Peel’s work leads them to the Hellfire Club.

Peel catches the eye of Cartney, leader of the Hellfire Club, and gets to attend one of the club’s parties. Darcy, a member of the Hellfire Club, interrupts the party. He feels guilt over what happened to the dead diplomat and wants answers from the club’s leadership. He doesn’t get answers but a meeting is called at which he is murdered.

Steed applies for membership in the Hellfire Club. They warn him that they are dedicated to evil but Steed insists that he wants to be a member. He passed their tests and is accepted into the club.

Adventure Time 5.06

Jake the Dad

Jake tries to be the perfect father to his and Lady Rainicorn's five kids. He uses the manual that he got from his mother. He stays up all night keeping an eye on the kids but then he can barely keep his eyes open the next day. He tries reading a book to them about a fox that likes to eat babies but then realizes that it is wildly inappropriate. He throws the book away but then a fox finds it and shows it to some other foxes.

Thoughts

I didn't realize that Lady Rainicorn was about to have babies. I don't know if any hints were dropped in earlier episodes.

Finn is in this episode but this one is mostly about Jake.

This was a lot of fun. I loved the parts with the foxes.