Doctor Who (1963) 13.02.01

Planet of Evil - Part One

The Doctor tries to transport himself and Sarah in the TARDIS from Loch Ness to London. They instead land on Zeta Minor roughly 30,000 years in the future. They land there in response to a distress call they receive. There is a scientific mission on the planet looking for resources. Most of the members of the mission are dead, killed by some unknown force. Two more are killed just before the Doctor and Sarah arrive, leaving just Sorenson, the lead scientist.

The two time travelers are found by a Morestran military mission who are there to check in on the scientific mission. The Doctor and Sarah are accused of killing the other members of the scientific mission. They attempt to escape only to find themselves attacked by a ghost like creature.

Bleach 47 / 3.06

The Avengers

Momo Hinamori goes looking for the Shinigami who killed Captain Aizen. Tōshirō Hitsugaya, captain of 10th Division, goes looking for Momo after he learns that she broke out of her cell. He talks briefly to his lieutenant, Rangiku Matsumoto, before starting to search for 5th division's lieutenant.

Ichigo continues to train by sparring with Zangetsu. He soaks in a hot spring once Yoruichi decides that he's trained enough for the day.

Hitsugaya runs into Gin Ichimaru and Izuru Kira. He accuses Ichimaru of murdering Captain Aizen but then Hinamori shows up and accuses Hitsugaya of murdering Captain Aizen. Hitsugaya is stunned but sees that she is too distressed to listen to reason. 

The Twilight Zone (1959) 1.23

A World of Difference

starring Howard Duff

written by Richard Matheson

directed by Ted Post

Arthur Curtis (Howard Duff) discovers, suddenly, one day that the world he knows isn't exactly what he thinks it is. He is actually an actor named Gerald Raigan. That's what everytone calls him when shooting stops on the movie. He doesn't understand why they keep calling him Gerry. He doesn't recognize Nora, the woman who claims to be his wife. He can't find the home he remembers. He doesn't recognize Brinkley, the man who claims to be his agent.

None of it makes sense to Arthur Curtis. It is like a bad dream for him. Nothing can dissuade him from believing that he is Arthur Curtis. He returns to the studio only to find that the set is being taken apart. He sits back down in the office he knows. His wife Marion enters. He's so happy to see her. He leaves the office with Marion.

Crash Landing on You 1.13

Episode 13

Se-ri and Jeong-hyuk talk about the plans for him to return to North Korea at the end of the World Games, in 5 days. He gives her a ring. He also bought one for himself. She is very moved by the gift. Seo-Dan's mother, Ko Myeong-eun, runs into a couple of women from the village when she returning home. They ask her a lot of questions. She tells them that Alberto (Seung-jung) is her nephew but they don't believe her.

Ko Myeong-eun runs into Alberto when she enters the apartment that was meant for Seo-dan and Jeong-hyuk. He explains that Seo-dan drank too much the night before. When the three of them sit down to eat he explains that he has a crush on Seo-dan even though he knows she loves someone else and is planning to marry that someone else.

Shōgun 1.03

Tomorrow Is Tomorrow

Blackthorne and the others leave Osaka by ship. They encounter many obstacles in getting out away from Osaka. At first it looks like Toranaga is staying behind but he employs a bit of subterfuge to get away from the castle. The deception is discovered before they reach the ships when the Catholic regents send a force to kill Blackthorne.

Buntaro, Mariko's husband, doesn't make it to the boats in time. They don't go back for him. He dies fighting. Once they get to the boat, the same one that brought Blackthorne to Osaka, they discover they have a new problem. There are lots of little fishing vessels in the water filled with men who look ready to board them if they try to get out of the harbor.

Four Star Playhouse 1.19

Shadowed

starring Dick Powell

written by Seeleg Lester, Merwin Gerard, Mary Synon

directed by Robert Florey

Burton Stroude (Dick Powell) learns that Del Martin, a woman with whom he had an affair years before, is on her death bed. He was single at the time but she was not. Del wants to see him one last time. He is hesitant to go. He didn't know that she was married when the affair began.

Rhoda, Burt's wife, already knows about Del Martin, but not because Burt told her. She knows because she opened a letter from Del to Burt, that arrived the day before. Burt and Rhoda talk about it a bit. It hurts her to know that he had such a relationship and never told her about it.

Ballard 1.03

BYOB

Ballard continues to work the Pearlman case but is forced to spend most of her time on another cold case. The victim was a fraternity pledge who died falling off a second floor balcony in 2006. There was an inconsistency in the injuries which seem to indicate to Ballard that Nick, the cold case victim, might have been involved in an altercation before falling off the balcony. The trail leads them first to some of the other pledges from that year and then to a couple women that Nick slept with.

Samira gets angry with Ballard over how she's handling the disappearance of a piece of evidence. Parker turns to her grandfather, who was also a police officer for advice. Ballard eventually admits she was wrong and that there are signs of a cover up.

Teen Titans 5.04

For Real

Control Freak escapes from prison and invades Titans Tower only to discover that the Teen Titans are not at home. He leaves but then the Titans East (Bumblebee, Aqualad, Speedy, Más y Menos) arrive at the tower. They are there to keep an eye on the place while the other Titans are off on another mission.

Pearl (2022)

Pearl (2022)

starring Mia Goth, David Corenswet

written by Ti West, Mia Goth

directed by Ti West

102 minutes

Pearl (Mia Goth) lives on a farm with her parents while her husband is in Europe fighting in the First World War. Her father is an invalid. Her mother, a german immigrant, is very strict. Pearl feels trapped. She meets a projectionist (David Corenswet) at the movie theater in town. He encourages her. She has a brief fling with him.

Pearl's mother eventually pushes a little too hard on her daughter. Pearl's life begins to unravel. Pearl turns homicidal. The movie ends with Pearl welcoming home her husband Howard.

Bleach 46 / 3.05

Authentic Records! School of Shinigami

Momo Hinamori (Lieutenant 5th Division) sits in her jail cell and flashes back to her days in Soul Reaper Academy with Renji Abarai (Lieutenant 6th Division) and Izuru Kira (Lieutanant 3rd Division). She recalls how they met, developed a friendly rivalry with one another, and took part in a training mission that didn't go as planned. Upper classman Shūhei Hisagi (future Lieutenant 9th Division), led them on the mission with a couple other upper classmen. The training area was in the Real World and supposed to be clear of Hollows.

Somehow a big Hollow got into the training area and killed a few Shinigami, including the two other upper classmen. Momo, Renji, and Izuru stepped forward despite having been told to get out of the area, and saved Hisagi from almost certain death. More Hollows appeared but then Sousuke Aizen (Captain 5th Division) and Gin Ichimaru (at that time Lieutenant 5th Division) showed up and dealt with the Hollows.

The episode ends back in the present with Momo, similar to Renji, deciding she's been languishing in a jail cell for too long.

The Outer Limits (1963) 1.20

The Bellero Shield

starring Martin Landau, Sally Kellerman

written by Joseph Stefano, Lou Morheim

directed by 

Richard Bellero (Martin Landau) creates a laser beam that enables an alien to travel to Earth. Richard is fascinated by the alien and shares all kinds of things with him but the alien's time is limited. Richard wants his father, the president of the Bellero Corporation to see the alien. He goes to find his father but Judith, Richard's wife who doesn't get along with her father-in-law, kills the alien before Richard returns his father.

Star Trek (1966) 2.07

Catspaw

Captain Kirk, Doctor McCoy, and Mister Spock beam down to Pyris VII in search of Scott and Sulu who have gone missing. Jackson, the only member of the away team to return, was dead when they beamed him back up. Kirk and the others find a castle surrounded by mists. Inside the castle they meet first Korob and then Sylvia. Scot and Sulu are both in the castle but seem to be under the control of Korob and Sylvia.

Kirk unsuccessfully tries to seduce Sylvia. She gets angry at him. Korob fears what might happen and helps Kirk to escape. Korob has the transmuter, a magic wand of sorts. Sylvia kills Korob but Kirk gets it from him and breaks it. The castle vanishes and the others who were under the control of Sylvia and Korob are freed. Kirk and the other beam back up to the Enterprise.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1.25

There Was an Old Woman

starring Estelle Winwood

written by Marian Cockrell, Jerry Hackady, Hal Hackady

directed by Robert Stevenson

Frank and Lorna Bramwell smell an opportunity when they learn about Monica Laughton, a rich elderly woman who lives in town. They go to see her but she seems to be hallucinating all sorts of things, including other guests in her home and the body of a relative for whom she says they are holding a funeral.

Frank gets increasingly agitated with the Mrs. Laughton. They wind of staying the night. Mrs. Laughton promises to be more cooperative in the morning. 

Harakiri (1962)

Harakiri (1962)

starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Ishihama, Shima Iwashita, Tetsuro Tamba

directed by Masaki Kobayashi

Hanshiro Tsugumo (Tatsuya Nakadai), in the year 1530, in an era when most samurai were being told that there services were no longer needed, knocks on the door of the powerful Iyi clan. He asks permission to end his life ritually and honorably via harakiri, in the clan's courtyard. They accept his request but before they allow him to go through with it, the man in charge tells him a story about Motome Chijiwa (Akira Ishihama), another samurai who visited the Iyi clan in the not too distant past with a similar request.

Amazing Stories (1985) 1.09

Guilt Trip

starring Dom DeLuise, Loni Anderson, Charles Durning

written by Gail Parent, Kevin Parent 

directed by Burt Reynolds

The Big Guy (Charles Durning) sends Guilt (Dom DeLuise) on a cruise because he's been working too had and screwing things up. Guilt meets Lovely (Loni Anderson) while on the cruise and falls in love with her.

Thoughts

This episode doesn't really go anywhere. I think it might have been a little too cute for it's own good. It didn't help that the characters were kind of paint by numbers.

Shōgun 1.02

Servants of Two Masters

The episode opens up with a flashback to one year prior, when the Taikō was dying but not quite dead. He calls for Toranaga and suggests to him that he could appoint him to be the sole regent while his son is still a minor. Toranaga advises against that course of action. The Taiko concurs.

Blackthorne is called before Lord Toranaga. Father Marin Alvito, a Portuguese priest serves as a translator. Blackthorne explains that England, his country, is at war with Portugal. The priest translates truthfully. The meeting is interrupted by a visit from one of the other regents, Lord Ishido. The result of the meeting with Ishido is that Blackthorne is thrown into a prison cell.

Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954)

Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954)

starring Victor Mature, Susan Hayward, Michael Rennie

directed by Delmer Daves

101 minutes

Demetrius (Victor Mature) a free man, who was once a slave, is sentenced to the arena after he refuses to help the Roman Emperor Caligula get his hands on Peter (Michael Rennie) or the robe of Jesus Christ. He refuses to fight at first, because he is a Christian, but subsequently decides that he will kill if his survival depends upon it. He continues to be a follower of the faith that Jesus espoused until his lover Lucia is killed by one of the other gladiators.

The Seven Samurai (1954)

The Seven Samurai (1954)

starring Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura

directed by Akira Kurosawa

207 minutes

The villagers of a small farming community hire a group of Samurai to defend their village from a gang of bandits who have promised to return once the grain has been harvested to take lion's share of what the villagers gather up.

There are basically three acts to this film. The first focuses on the recruitment of the samurai, the second on the preparation of the village for the return of the bandits, and the third on the fight with the bandits. There is a little more to the story such than that. Most notable to me was the maturation of the youngest of the samurai which is expressed both through his relationships with the other samurai and his romance with one of the women from the village.

Yojimbo (1961)

Yojimbo (1961)

starring Toshirō Mifune, Eijirō Tōno, Tatsuya Nakadai

directed by Akira Kurosawa

110 minutes

A rōnin (Toshirō Mifune), in 1860,  arrives by chance in a small town that would be in in the midst of a gang war if it weren't for the fact that both gang leaders are hesitant to brake the stalemate that currently exists. The rōnin sees an opportunity and, rather than leave town, plays both sides in the gang war off against one another. Eventually they get wise to what he is doing after he pushes his luck by helping a couple and their young son escape town.

Ballard 1.02

Haystacks

Ballard looks into the death of the cleaning woman from the motel, unofficially. Naylin, the detective working the case, gets prickly about her poking her nose around. She gets a picture of a possible suspect and tracks him down to a crack house. She captures him with some help from Parker and Rawls but he's got mental problems and not very helpful.

A tip from Councilman Pearlman combined with some DNA evidence leads Ballard to believe that Brian Richmond didn't kill Sarah Pearlman or Laura Wilson, a case that Bosch worked years before.

Ballard has a date with Aaron, her lifeguard friend. He sleeps over but the next morning she leaves before he gets up. She was called into a meeting with LAPD Captain Berchem and Detective Naylin. Berchem gives her a hard time for stepping on Naylin's toes but then hands the case over to her because she made some progress on it while Naylin did little to nothing with it.

The Twilight Zone 1.22

The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street

starring Claude Akins, Barry Atwater, Jack Weston

written by Rod Serling

directed by Ron Winston

The power goes out suddenly on Maple Street after an unknown object passes overhead. Nothing works including things that aren't plugged in like portable radios and cars. The residents don't suspect anything strange until really strange things start happening: cars starting by themselves, lights coming on in just one house. The residents of Maple Street grow increasingly paranoid as to whom they can trust.

The tension turns to hysteria when someone is spotted walking down the darkened street. One man brings out his shotgun. Another man takes it and shoots the approaching man, killing him. It turns out to be someone they all knew. Things get progressively worse as more weird things happen.

Bleach 45 / 3.04

Overcome Your Limits!

Ichicgo starts his training, under the supervision of Yoruichi, for his next bout with Byakuya Kuchiki. Zangetsu presents Ichigo with a field of swords. Ichgo must find the right one, while fighting Zangetsu, if he is to learn Bankai.

Uryū Ishida is taken to 4th Division's headquarters so that he can heal. There he meets Sado and Ganju who are alo recovering from they had. All three of them are kept in a jail cell. They start to compare notes.

Maki Maki runs into Yachiru Kusajishi, 11th Division's lieutenant. She wants to know why he is carrying Orihime over his shoulder. They return to 11th Division's headquarters where he tries to explain what's going on.

Star Trek (1966) 2.06

The Doomsday Machine

The Enterprise finds the USS Constellation badly damaged in L-370 a star system in which most of the planets have been destroyed. Captain Kirk, Doctor McCoy, Mister Scott and three other officers beam aboard the Constellation to try and figure out what happened. They only find one survivor aboard the Constellation, its captain, Commodore Matt Decker.

Decker is in shock and can tell them nothing at first. Once he regains his faculties he explains that he beamed the rest of the crew of the Constellation down to the third planet and stayed aboard by himself to deal with the thing that ravaged the Constellation and most of the rest of the L-370. The third planet was destroyed and the Constellation was damaged extensively by a device that Kirk says must be like a Doomsday device of old.

The American President (1995)

The American President (1995)

starring Michael Douglas, Anette Benning

written by Aaron Sorkin

directed by Rob Reiner

President of the United States, widower, and single father Andrew Shepherd (Michael Douglas) is in the midst of his third year in office when he asks lobbyist Sydney Ellen Wade (Annette Benning) to be his date for a state dinner at the White House. She accepts his offer and before long they are working the same end of a battle to get the votes to pass a piece of legislation through Congress and dating. One of the President's political rivals uses Andy and Sydney's relationship and rumors about her past to score points with the public. The President brushes it off until he realizes that he's about to lose Sydney because he won't stand up for himself. 

Four Star Playhouse 1.18

To Whom It May Concern

starring David Niven

written by Oliver Crawford, Wally Kline, Jack Hannum

directed by Robert Florey

Bingham (David Niven) has made plans to kill himself. He writes a letter explaining his reasons. He embezzled money from the bank where he works. He used it to buy some stock in but the value of the stock has dropped precipitously. He mails the stock certificates along with the letter but then sees a headline indicating that the company and it's stock price has rebounded.

Bingham rushes around desperately trying to intercept the letter. He makes numerous attempts. All seems lost and at the last minute he almost gets it back but he is oblivious to the fact that the letter is coming back to him due to insufficient postage and kills himself.

Shōgun 1.01

Anjin

The Erasmus, a Dutch ship, piloted by an English sailor (John Blackthorne) wrecks on the coast of Japan (near Ajiro) in 1600. The Portuguese are the only Europeans doing business in Japan. The Taikō has recently died leaving his young son and heir in the hands of five regents. Blackthorne is taken prisoner by the local ruler who passes him along to his uncle, Kashigi Yabushige.

A Portuguese priest denounces Blackthore and encourages Kashigi to execute him. One of the other surviving sailors from the Erasmus is executed in Blackthorne's place. Blackthorne is taken by ship to Osaka but before they get there the ship goes through a violent storm.

Teen Titans 5.03

Trust

Madame Rouge hunts down Wildebeest, an honorary member of the Teen Titans. Rouge was sent by The Brain in the hopes of getting Wildebeest's communicator. The communicator is destroyed in the fight and Wildebeest is no where to be found after the fight.

Hot Spot is the next of the honorary members of the Teen Titans to be targeted by Madame Rouge. She uses a less direct approach with him by changing her appearance so that she looks and sounds like Robin. The real Robin heads to Paris, Hot Spot's last known location. He finds Hot Spot but Madame Rouge confuses things by continuing to disguise herself as Robin. The two Robins fight. with Hot Spot occasionally getting involved in the brawl. 

The Outer Limits (1963) 1.19

The Invisibles

starring Don Gordon, George Macready, Dee Hartford, 

written by Joseph Stefano

directed Gerd Oswald

Two men, Planetta and Spain (Don Gordon), join a secret organization known as The Invisibles which is a front for an alien invasion of Earth. Planetta and Spain survive the indoctrination process, which kills another man who tried to join at the same time as them. Spain is secretly an agent of the GIA, tasked with infiltrating the Invisibles. He is sent by The Invisibles to Washington, DC to turn General Hilary J. Clarke.

Ballard 1.01

Library of Lost Sous

Detective Renée Ballard, head of the cold case office for the LAPD, works two cases. She wants to work one of the cases but she is pressured to work the other one. She has a team of people working with her, all volunteers. Two of her volunteers used to be police officers, Thomas Laffont is a former partner who is now retired and Samira Parker was a LAPD Robbery Homicide detective who quit the job out of frustration.

The other volunteers are civilians: Colleen Hatteras, Martina Castro, and Ted Rawls. Castro is an intern who is a university student who is there in part for college credit. Rawls, a friend of a City Councilman Jake Pearlman, is a local business owner. Councilman Pearlman wants Ballard to make some progress on the decades-and-a-half old murder of his sister Sarah.

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie

directed by Martin Scorsese

180 minutes

Stockbroker Jordan Belfort (Leonardi DiCaprio) makes it big on Wall Street, starts a company that grows from nothing into something big. He hires a guys who know nothing about the stock market and turns them into the core of his operation. Belfort's ambitions know no bounds. He, his company, and his employees break all kinds of laws in doing business. The FBI and the SEC eventually investigate him and his company. He stays ahead of them for a while but he continues to conduct business in the same manner despite knowing that he's taking big risks.

My Royal Nemesis 1.05

Forbidden Fruit

Cha Se-gye confesses to Shin Seo-ri that he feels something for her. She does not reciprocate the feeling and asks him to leave. He walks out angrily. He is in a nasty mood the next day and takes it out on his employees including Son Jae-han. Cha Dai-su learns a little bit about Shin Seo-ri from Son Jae-han. Mun-do learns that Cha Dai-su has decided to name Cha Se-gye as his heir. Kang Dan-sim meets with the fortune teller and tells her of how she was sold to pay off her father's gambling debts.

Cha Se-gye chooses to fight fire with fire after someone posts a video online that make casts him and Biojei in a bad light. He takes some advice from Son Jae-han when it comes to dating and uses it to try to impress Shin Seo-ri. He reveals what he did and why he did it but she is not impressed. It gets her heart beating faster than normal but she doesn't want to reveal that fact to Se-gye.

Bleach 44 / 3.03

Ishida, The Utmost Limits of Power!

Uryū Ishida's battle with Mayuri Kurotsuchi continues. Uryū is till outmatched and decides to do something that his grandfather warned him against, he removes the Sanrei Glove. He is imbued with great power. Kurotsuchi senses the amount of power that Uryū now possesses and releases the second level of his Zanpakutō. Even that proves to be insufficient to stop Uryū but Kurotsuchi poisons Uryū before transforming himself into green goo and slithering away.

Nemu Kurotsuchi, Mayuri's lieutenant who is still partially paralyzed, offers Uryū the antidote. He graciously accepts it but even after drinking it he is still in bad shape. He limps towards the Seireitei only to encounter 9th Division Captain Kaname Tōsen.