Episode Spotlight: M*A*S*H, Season 1, Episode 17: Sometimes You Hear the Bullet

Frank Burns throws his back out and applies for a Purple Heart.  Meanwhile, Hawkeye Pierce meets, and later operates on, an old friend and struggles with the decision of whether or not to send an underaged soldier home. More than halfway through season 1, M*A*S*H wasn’t exactly killing in the ratings.  The show wasn’t quite

Episode Spotlight: The Return of Preston Giles (Murder She Wrote)

Out on parole, Jessica Fletcher’s first publisher, Preston Giles, tries to woo her back into the fold.  After another murder is committed, Giles ends up needing Jessica’s help when he becomes the prime suspect. By season seven of Murder, She Wrote, the show was already far and away one of the best loved and watched

Episode Spotlight: Star Trek Season 1: Episode 5: The Enemy Within

“Captain’s log, stardate 1672.1. Specimen gathering mission on planet Alpha 177. Unknown to any of us during this time a duplicate of me, some strange alter ego, had been created by the transporter malfunction.” The first of Captain Kirk’s Captain’s Logs of The Enemy Within serves as a relatively apt description of the episode in

Episode Spotlight: The Twilight Zone Season 3, Episode 19: The Hunt

“An old man and a hound-dog named Rip, off for an evening’s pleasure in quest of raccoon. Usually, these evenings end with one tired old man, one battle-scarred hound dog, and one or more extremely dead raccoons, but as you may suspect, that will not be the case tonight. These hunters won’t be coming home

Episode Spotlight: Murder She Wrote, Season 9, Episode 6: Night of the Coyote

Jessica Fletcher assists the sheriff of an old Western town in New Mexico solve a the murder of a museum owner.  In the process, she discovers that the modern mystery may be connected to another mystery of the past: the lost location of a stagecoach robber’s treasure. By season nine of Murder, She Wrote, the

Introduction to Episode Spotlight

When you try to get a friend of yours to watch a television show, typically, you describe the overall style and story of the series.  You give an outline of the characters, the points you like, the points you don’t, and you usually give them a list of episodes to check out first.  This is