What Was the Last Television Episode You Watched?

[dask]

NCIS. Pretty good despite no Gibbs or Ducky.

 

[J-Sun]

"Where Is Everbody?" and "One for the Angels" - the first two Twilight Zone episodes. The first has one man with amnesia wandering through an empty town. It may not sound like much, but it's absolutely fascinating. The reveal isn't entirely satisfying, but works. The second has an old salesman making a deal with a rather modern and bureaucratic Death but it results in a young girl being put in mortal peril and a change of plans from the salesman. While it stretches plausibility a little at the critical point, it's really good overall. In both episodes, you can almost read the story while watching the show, if that makes sense. There's a common saying about media SF being at least a generation behind print SF but these do watch like a 1959 SF/F story would read.

Star Trek: TOS “Court Martial”

A crew member dies and Kirk is up for trial to defend his actions. Pretty decent episode.

Yep. My main problem is why the Starfleet brass would be so convinced an exemplary captain had gone bad, though the evidence does turn out to be overwhelming. My favorite part is probably Kirk's psychological journey as he actually has a moment of doubt (and should) but sticks to his belief in himself (as he definitely should).

All Creatures Great And Small. Just before that: Around The World In 80 Days. These have become Sunday night musts.

Is that the original Creatures with a Dr. Who or the new one? I've only seen one of the new ones - it seemed good but a little darker and more ponderous than the sort of "lighter on its feet" original. (Haven't read the books but I was under the impression the original show matched them fairly well.)

One of my favorites.

I think my favorite part (though you could easily argue that, logically, they should have kept a tighter guard) was how both the crew and the pilot were in a bind and trying to do what they saw as right, which led them into conflict but the conflict stayed basically friendly.

One night, last week was bizzaro world: Barney and Floyd ran out of gas on the way home from a fishing trip. They are kidnapped and held hostages by escaped convicts from a women's prison; and forced, at gunpoint, to Dance and Smooch.

Wow. I don't remember that one. Bizarro world sounds right.

The following episode, Thelma Lou refuses to accompany Barney to the Big Dance, unless Barney finds a Date for a visiting Ugly Cousin.
Andy has a previous engagement, so Gomer is enlisted as the Blind Date to the Big Dance. Really Bizarre hijinks ensue.
Who'd a guessed that Jim Nabors could cut a rug, so?

I do remember that one vaguely. Who'd think Gomer could sing like he does on records, either?

Person of Interest - Terra Ingonita
Reese decides to take a number on his own as it is connected to a cold case of the deceased Detective Carter. The episode is intercut with a stake out Reese and Carter did where they passed the time talking about their lives. But things are not as they first appear.

It's about time to give this whole series a re-watch. It had a bumpy start for me, but became one of my favorites.

 

[AE35Unit]

Whose Line is it Anyway US. Every night at 7pm, essential viewing

 

[Starbeast]

Sanford & Son Season 2: Episode 18 - Watts Side Story

Fred is up in arms when he discovers his neighbor, Julio's family is visiting and may move out to California. However, things really hit the fan when Fred learns that Lamont has asked Julio's sister, Maria out, something Fred is totally against.

 

[dask]

Is that the original Creatures with a Dr. Who or the new one? I've only seen one of the new ones - it seemed good but a little darker and more ponderous than the sort of "lighter on its feet" original. (Haven't read the books but I was under the impression the original show matched them fairly well.)

This is the new one. My wife’s watching the first season got me hooked. Never knew there was an older series until someone else at the Chrons mentioned it in another thread. I started to read the first book a long time ago but (ashamed to say) never felt compelled to finish it.

 

[J-Sun]

Technically, the last one was Chicago P. D., with the sergeant's CI trying to help them take down a drug ring which was okay but I have a hard time with a show centered on what are basically 3-of-5 dirty cops. What inspired me to post was the one before that. Chicago Fire was excellent, as our heroes had to deal with what was basically a dirty fire chief trying to get the new lieutenant thrown out of the force through deceitful means and everyone banded together to overcome bureaucratic inertia to save the day (along with several victims of various accidents and such). Viewers of SHIELD will recognize the new looey as Grant, who played both a good and bad guy there, and here plays a guy with a bad rep but who really seems to be a good guy. Fun episode.

And why is that there have been 6 trillion cop shows, 5 trillion doctor shows, some trillion lawyer shows, and only (that I know of) two firefighter shows? Emergency! and Chicago Fire are great*. We need more.

* At least so it seems to me so far, as I'm a relatively new adherent to Chicago Fire, having inexplicably failed to watch it before.

 

[KGeo777]

HEC RAMSEY "Hangman's Wages" - An outlaw is to be executed by electric chair but someone is killing random people to force his release. A kid (Lee Montgomery) is fond of the condemned and plans his escape--only to be thwarted by Richard Boone. The mystery of the murderous accomplices doesn't seem that suspenseful but the conclusion is ironically funny. It starts with the kid getting scolded for being too close to the seat of the electric chair and it ends with Ramsey telling him that he believes in merciful punishment so he will give the kid a suspended sentence. When the kid asks what that means, he replies: "it means you won't be able to sit down for a week"--and he drags him off for spanking.

I watched the pilot a few years ago. The one thing about it that I notice is that his co-star--who is a teacher turned lawman and wishy-washy bureaucratic--is quite dull. I have not see him anything else before or since.

 

[AE35Unit]

The Book of Bobba Fett.
Enjoying it so far

 

[pogopossum]

Around The World In 80 Days.
David Tennant okay so far, if somewhat bland. A part of the whole adventure is that he develops as it proceeds.
Passpartout (Ibrahim Koma) again okay.
Lots of adventure. It did offend me that they had to throw in the Paris Commune and an attempted assassination of the President of France in the first episode. Not exactly by the book. Nor was the addition of a woman reporter.
But good acting and staging. I'll keep watching even if it isn't original Verne.

 

[AE35Unit]

Around The World In 80 Days.
David Tennant okay so far, if somewhat bland. A part of the whole adventure is that he develops as it proceeds.
Passpartout (Ibrahim Koma) again okay.
Lots of adventure. It did offend me that they had to throw in the Paris Commune and an attempted assassination of the President of France in the first episode. Not exactly by the book. Nor was the addition of a woman reporter.
But good acting and staging. I'll keep watching even if it isn't original Verne.

Finished that last week, quite enjoyed it. There's a little sneak peek at the end, sort of

 

[Rodders]

Mandy was excellent. I also watched something called “The Other One” starring Ellie White. (Her father dies and she discovers that he had another family. Quite touching, actually. funny and well worth watching.)

This Time with Alan Partridge. Genius, just genius. Alan trumps David Brent as a comedy character in my opinion.

also on iPlayer, I’m currently watching Zapped. It’s not great, but it’s entertaining enough and its genre.

 

[CupofJoe]

Just started watching The Time Tunnel. It seems fairly standard Irwin Allen fare. I haven't made up my mind yet. I was a bit surprised that it only lasted one [long] season as in my youth I remember it being on TV a lot!

 

[dask]

Monday night, Antiques Roadshow , NCIS.

 

[Rodders]

Continued my binge of BBC iPlayer comedy with Zapped. Fairly funny and It had enough fantasy elements to satisfy my need to watch a genre show.

Now on to something called Ghosts.

 

[AE35Unit]

Richard Osman's House of Games

 

[KGeo777]

Ironside the pilot movie for the tv series.
He gets shot and crippled and then seeks to find who shot him.
I imagine that at the time it came out, it would have been inspiring for some people who had been in the same condition since it has him carrying on optimistically and solving crimes--fighting off crazy killers attacking him with a propane torch.

But in other ways it's subversive. He gives a speech to police cadets about how crazy and foolish it is to be a cop--that no one will thank you and you won't be well remembered after you get killed.
Lots of movies and tv shows of the time said "being a cop is not worth it."
The seeds were planted even then.


As another little glimpse into the future as it pertains to gender, Tiny Tim shows up. Oh boy did I (mercifully) forget about him. A little of him(or is it her?) goes a long way.


Also-there's a crazy beatnik woman who went mad because she was rejected by a young student she had a fancy for. They completely dismiss the possibility that there was anything between a teen male and a 30-year-old teacher. Taboo for tv.
Ironside taunts her by saying, "and then he turned 21 and he was never going to be interested in a 33-year-old!"

So that was an interesting time capsule of age attitudes.

 

[Justin Swanton]

Valley of Tears. The Israeli series on the Yom Kippur war. The Israeli army was caught off guard by the initial Syrian and Egyptian offensives and lost hundreds of tanks and thousands of men before they were able to mobilise their reserves and mount counteroffensives. The tank battles on the Golan Heights are especially impressive - they used real Centurion tanks firing live ammunition. The front line Israeli tank units were outnumbered 8 or 9 to one, sometimes more, and essentially fought to the last tank.

 

[Mouse]

The final of Junior Bake Off. I'm pleased they're changing the ages for the next series because the little 9 year old had no chance against the 15 year old and it doesn't seem fair somehow.

 

[Foxbat]

I agree the age range of Junior Bake Off needed to change. Kezia was a deserving winner but I was rooting for Lola. I didn’t really think she’d win because she was just too young to have the experience of the others. Still, she did brilliantly against three much older contestants.

 

[Mouse]

Kezia was amazing and I can totally see her with her own cake making business in the future but yeah, I wanted Lola to win.