The Best of the Electric Company
March 10, 2006
The 1970s were a great time to be a kid. You had the holy quartet of kids’ shows: Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, Zoom and The Electric Company. Anyone who remembers watching the Electric Company knows the show’s catchy theme song that starts off...
The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder: Punk & New Wave
March 7, 2006
The Tomorrow Show first aired on NBC in October 1973 in the late night time slot after The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and lasted until January 1982. In that time, Snyder had a number of musicians from the Punk and New Wave scenes on his show. As...
The Rockford Files: Season 1
February 23, 2006
I have fond memories of watching The Rockford Files as a child whenever I would stay at my grandparents’ house. My grandfather loved the show. Even though he never verbalized it to me, I think he admired Jim Rockford (Garner) as a stand-up kind of guy...
Dark Shadows
February 20, 2006
While the original Dark Shadows in the late 1960s was very campy, the show’s creator, Dan Curtis, decided to make the ‘90s incarnation a more serious take in the Hammer horror tradition. He is the godfather of TV horror with an impressive resume that...
Dark Shadows: The Revival
February 20, 2006
While the original Dark Shadows in the late 1960s was very campy, the show’s creator, Dan Curtis, decided to make the ‘90s incarnation a more serious take in the Hammer horror tradition. He is the godfather of TV horror with an impressive resume that...
Charmed: Season 3
February 19, 2006
The third season of Charmed marked the last one for Shannen Doherty. Officially, she left due to “creative differences” with rumours abounding that they were with Alyssa Milano. Seeing as how Milano was one of the show’s executive producers, it...
Test the Nation
February 19, 2006
There are so many ways to play the BBC’s interactive television quiz show Test the Nation. You can use the Internet, your digital T.V. remote, text messages, pen and paper, you can be on your own, against your family and every quiz is a different theme....
Scrubs: Season 2
February 14, 2006
If it ain’t broke don’t fix it. With the exception of monkeying around with the theme song (slowing it down to squeeze in more cast credits – it lasted two episodes), Bill Lawrence and his writers maintained the formula that made their sitcom Scrubs...
Aeon Flux: The Complete Animated Collection
February 13, 2006
MTV wanted to branch out in the 1990s and get away from music programming. In particular, they wanted to produce late night programming for a young adult audience. The result was a collection of animated shows collectively known as Liquid Television....
Arrested Development: Season 2
February 10, 2006
lot of mistaken identity humour. It’s an understatement to say that the Bluth family is extremely dysfunctional. Buster is the ultimate mama’s boy with a very dependent relationship with his mother. Lindsay and Tobias don’t relate to each other...
