by Mark Murton Original Air Date: October 15, 1989 Directed by: David G. Hilier Cat Out Of The Bag Alert! This review contains MAJOR spoilers for this sketch. We strongly suggest you watch the sketch before reading the review! Synopsis: One segment of this comedy sketch show starring Gareth Hale and Norman Pace introduces a […]
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Sledge Hammer! – “Witless”
by Ted Davis Original Air Date: October 3, 1986 Directed by: Jackie Cooper This review contains Cartoonish Kitty Carnage Warnings! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: When irritated mob boss Don Phillip Souza (Al Ruscio) places a million dollar bounty on gun-loving, criminal-hating police detective Sledge Hammer […]
Dad’s Army – “Boots, Boots, Boots”
by Mark Murton Original Air Date: October 9, 1970 Directed by: David Croft Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: Captain Mainwaring (Arthur Lowe) implements an unpopular series of lengthy marches to achieve the three Fs – fast feet, functional feet and fit feet. In response, some of […]
Have Gun – Will Travel – “Fogg Bound”
by Ted Davis Original Air Date: December 3, 1960 Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen Synopsis: The successful capitalist gunslinger known as Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired by finicky and punctilious Phileas Fogg (Patric Knowles) to ensure that he maintains his timetable for his trip Around the World in Eighty Days – and to avoid the […]
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel – “Season One”
Original Air Date: March 17, 2017 Directed by: Amy Sherman-Palladino Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this series! Synopsis: Mrs. Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) is living a picture-perfect life until her husband leaves her and she stumbles into the bawdy world of nightclub comics. Kitty Cameo: In the pilot episode, […]
Matlock – “Santa Claus”
by Ted Davis Original Air Date: December 9, 1986 Directed by: Daniel Haller Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: Santa Claus in the person of down-on-his-luck Korea war veteran Tom McCabe (Pat Hingle) is arrested for murdering slimy slumlord Alan Rollins (Linden Chiles). Wily and folksy Ben […]
Call the Midwife – “Christmas Special”
Original Air Date: December 30, 2012 Directed by: Philippa Lowthorpe Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: With Christmas approaching, Chummy (Miranda Hart) is fretting over the Christmas pageant while Jenny Lee (Jessica Raine) tries to help a mentally lost elderly woman named Mrs. Jenkins (Sheila Reid). Kitty […]
That Girl – “Christmas and the Hard Luck Kid”
Original Air Date: December 22, 1966 Directed by: John Erman Synopsis: Working as a teacher before becoming an actress, Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas) feels sorry for one student named Tommy (Chris Shea) whose parents can’t make it home to spend Christmas with their son, so she volunteers to spend the holidays at the empty school […]
Happy! – “Destroyer of Worlds”
by Mark Murton Original Air Date: January 24, 2018 Directed by: Brian Taylor Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: Reunited, Sax and Happy make one last push to save Hailey. Blue and Isabella come to blows over a dark family secret and Amanda pursues a dangerous lead […]
Dr. Strange (1978)
by Ted Davis Directed by: Philip DeGuere Jr. This review contains an Implied Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, the evil and slinky sorceress Morgan LeFay (Jessica Walter) is returned to Earth by The Nameless One (David Hooks) to […]