The Outer Limits (1963) 1.24

Moonstone

starring Ruth Roman, Alex Nicol, Tim O'Connor

written by William Bast, Lou Morheim, Joseph Stefano

directed by Robert Florey

An expeditionary mission stationed on the Moon finds a large, perfectly round rock buried under some debris. They try to cut it open but their lasers can't make a dent in it. They soon find out that it is a spaceship of sorts that is inhabited by five refugees from the planet Grippia.

Star Trek (1966) 2.13

Obsession

The crew of the Enterprise encounters a creature on the planet Argus X that Kirk encountered 11 years earlier. The creature, which resembles a cloud of smoke, attacked the crew of the USS Farragut, killing 200 crew persons including Captain Garrovick. Kirk has been haunted by the experience ever since.

The Enterprise is due to meetup with the USS Yorktown but Kirk insists on delaying the meeting until the smoke creature has been stopped. The Enterprise pursues the smoke creature when it leaves Argus X. They chase it until it turns and attacks the Enterprise. Phasers and photon topedos prove to be ineffective against the creature.

It gets into the Enterprise and almost kills Ensign Garrovick, the son of Kirk's former commanding officer. Once the creature has left the Enterprise they follow it across the galaxy. On the planet Tycho IV, Kirk and Garrovick set a trap for the creature.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) 1.30

Never Again

starring Phyllis Thaxter, Louise Allbritton, Warren Stevens

written by Gwen Bagni, Irwin Gielgud

directed by Robert Stevens

Karen (Phyllis Thaxter) wakes up in a hospital bed. One of her hands is bandaged. She doesn't recall how she got there. Her head hurts. She struggles to remember what she can. She remembers that she had a drinking problem that she was trying to quit. She had been sober for four weeks. Jeff (Warren Stevens), her boyfriend, insisted on taking her to a party mostly populated by his coworkers.

There was lots of drinking at the party. Karen tried to endure but people kept pushing drinks on her. She wound up throwing a drink in the face of Renee (Louise Allbritton), the hostess, who was flirting with Jeff. Karen ran off. Jeff ran after her. They talked and she decided to return to the party with him. She thought it couldn't get any worse than it already was, but it did.

Tales of the Unexpected 2.02

Skin

starring Derek Jacobi

directed by Herbert Wise

Tattoo artist Drioli (Derek Jacobi), in 1913, commissions the painter Soutine to paint a portrait of Josie, Drioli's wife, on his back and then tattoo over the painting. Decades later, in 1946, after Soutine has become famous, Drioli discovers that the tattoo might make him rich.

Thoughts

This episode could stand to be restored. There are quite a few moments where the video was kind of fuzzy or hazy.

Bleach (2018)

Bleach (2018)

starring Sota Fukushi, Hana Sugisaka

directed by Shinsuke Sato

108 minutes

This was basically an abbreviated version of the first arc / season of Bleach. It took 20 episodes of the anime to tell this story. There were a number of stories from the first season of the anime that were not included in this movie.

On the whole I wasn't thrilled by this movie. I liked most of the characters but fast tracking the plot did not help. Some characters were different, at least in appearance, but the ones that stood out like a sore thumb were Renji and Byakuya, They should have looked considerably more impressive than they did. They should have been godlike and they weren't.

Star Trek: The Next Generation 1.11

The Big Goodbye

Stressed out over an upcoming meeting with the a very picky alien race, the Jaradans, Captain Picard takes some time off and spends it on the Holodeck. It takes his mind off his work but things get a bit messy in the environment into which he steps: San Francisco, CA in 1941. He assumes the identity of Private Investigator Dixon Hill and gets hired by Jessica Bradley, who believes someone is planning to kill her.

A Man on the Inside 2.01

Orientation

Charles, still working for Julie, takes a job investigating the theft of a laptop from Jack Berenger the president of  Wheeler College. The school is on the verge of receiving a huge donation from mega-rich alum Brad Vinick and Berenger doesn't want anything to screw it up. 

Charles is set up as a visiting professor of engineering, his actual area of expertise, and quickly meets several of his colleagues. Berenger throws a reception for Vinick where Charles meets the mega-rich alum and some more of his new colleagues.

Pacific View manager Didi hires Julie to perform some background checks. Julie suspects that Didi is up to something.

The episode ends with the disappearance of the portrait of Vinick that the school was planning to display prominently. The portrait is found minutes later, on fire in a trashcan, outside the building where the reception was being held.