Classic Coverage looks back on the episodes of past shows from a modern perspective.
“Krusty was originally supposed to be Homer’s secret identity” is one of those facts that every hardcore Simpsons fan is completely unsurprised to find in one of those “25 Things You Never Knew About The Simpsons” videos on Youtube, alongside … Continue reading The Simpsons, Season Six, Episode Fifteen, “Homie The Clown”
Tommy Mayfield (John Stride) and Sir George Carrington (John Carson) are watching a test flight of Mayfield Industries’ newest fighter plane, the Mayfield Kestrel. Although it outclasses the German ME-109, Sir George explains that the government isn’t too keen on … Continue reading Poirot (Classic): S01E08 “The Incredible Theft”
To Boldly Sew is a recap of DS9 episodes, with a specific focus on the fashions of the many aliens and other characters that make up the series. Feel free to discuss matters of plot and general Star Trek things in … Continue reading To Boldy Sew: Star Trek Deep Space Nine S01E19: “In the Hands of the Prophets”
If you wanted to make a collection of Simpsons episodes themed around the town of Springfield as protagonist, this would absolutely have to be part of it. Bart is our initial window into the problem of the week, but technically … Continue reading The Simpsons, Season Six, Episode Fourteen, “Bart’s Comet”
To Boldly Sew is a recap of DS9 episodes, with a specific focus on the fashions of the many aliens and other characters that make up the series. Feel free to discuss matters of plot and general Star Trek things in … Continue reading To Boldy Sew: Star Trek Deep Space Nine S01E18: “Duet”
On a small cruise ship headed to Alexandria, Col. Clapperton (John Normington) is being henpecked nearly to death by his overbearing wife, Adeline (Sheila Allen), though that doesn’t stop him from making time with another woman, Ellie Henderson (Ann Firbank) … Continue reading Poirot (Classic): S01E07 “Problem At Sea”
I have what I like to call a Cowboy Bebop sense of pacing. I like it when an episodic work – most obviously TV, but also music albums or comics or to an extent books – studies one idea with … Continue reading The Simpsons, Season Six, Episode Thirteen, “And Maggie Makes Three”
To Boldly Sew is a recap of DS9 episodes, with a specific focus on the fashions of the many aliens and other characters that make up the series. Feel free to discuss matters of plot and general Star Trek things in … Continue reading To Boldy Sew: Star Trek Deep Space Nine S01E17: “Dramatis Personae “
Season 6 Directed by David Maloney Written by Terrance Dicks and Malcolm Hulke Last time out we wrapped up one important era when we finished with the missing episodes, but that was more of a retroactively relevant serial. Quality wise … Continue reading Doctor Who (Classic): S06E07 “The War Games”
It’s amazing how we keep getting further and further out of reality and yet still hit not only some great commentary on America but some great universal themes. The Stonecutters, as a parody of institutions like the Freemasons, seem almost … Continue reading The Simpsons, Season Six, Episode Twelve, “Homer The Great”
Pamela Lyall (Francis Low) hurries through a crowded bazaar on the Italian (more about that in a minute) island of Rhodes, pursued by a fellow tourist, one Major Barnes (Timothy Kightley). Seeking to ditch the would-be companion, she runs smack … Continue reading Poirot (Classic): S01E06 “Triangle At Rhodes”
To Boldly Sew is a recap of DS9 episodes, with a specific focus on the fashions of the many aliens and other characters that make up the series. Feel free to discuss matters of plot and general Star Trek things in … Continue reading To Boldy Sew: Star Trek Deep Space Nine S01E16: “The Forsaken”
Arrowverse Review Index There will be no This Week In The Arrowverse column today, as no new episodes of the Arrowverse TV shows aired during the past week. Instead, I’ve decided to take a look back at where this franchise … Continue reading Arrow – Season 1, Episode 1: “Pilot”
This is remembered as a mediocre episode with a great first act, and I am deeply frustrated that I can’t go against the grain, because that’s an accurate assessment of it. I never expect this show to have anything specific … Continue reading The Simpsons, Season Six, Episode Eleven, “Fear Of Flying”
On a third floor flat in Whitehaven Mansions, Ernestine Grant (Josie Lawrence) is in the process of moving into her new place; she signs for the delivery of her furniture and casts her eyes upward, at the loud tango music … Continue reading Poirot (Classic): S01E05 “The Third Floor Flat”
To Boldly Sew is a recap of DS9 episodes, with a specific focus on the fashions of the many aliens and other characters that make up the series. Feel free to discuss matters of plot and general Star Trek things in … Continue reading To Boldy Sew: Star Trek Deep Space Nine S01E15: “If Wishes Were Horses”
The thing I’ve really grown to like about this show while doing this project is how good it’s gotten at flowing from one theme to another without feeling totally disconnected. One of my first complaints about the show was all … Continue reading The Simpsons, Season Six, Episode Ten, “Grampa Vs Sexual Inadequacy”
Somewhere in Brighton, old man Antony Gascoigne is on his deathbed. His housekeeper Mrs. Hill phones his nephew, a music hall director named George Lorrimer (Richard Howard) to tell him the news, to which Lorrimer reacts with about as much … Continue reading Poirot (Classic): S01E04 “Four and Twenty Blackbirds”
To Boldly Sew is a recap of DS9 episodes, with a specific focus on the fashions of the many aliens and other characters that make up the series. Feel free to discuss matters of plot and general Star Trek things in … Continue reading To Boldy Sew: Star Trek Deep Space Nine S01E14: “Progress”
Season 6 Directed by Michael Hart Written by Robert Holmes After ninety-seven arduous episodes, we have finally come to the end. Not of the season or of the Second Doctor’s era (I’d hardly call them arduous, but we have one … Continue reading Doctor Who (Classic): S06E06 “The Space Pirates”
Oh dear. I wasn’t looking forward to this episode. Last time I watched this episode was a few years before the Harvey Weinstein scandal, and even then it was weird and uncomfortable not in a way that challenged my beliefs … Continue reading The Simpsons, Season Six, Episode Nine, “Homer Badman”
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