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As a favor to a close friend, Jessica travels to a town in Oregon and poses as her friend to investigate the suspicious circumstances under which the friend’s sister died. Will Stuart Whitman get all up in Jessica’s guts? I hope! Season 4, Episode 9: Trouble In Eden (November 22, 1987) Mary Rose Welch, a… Read more

Dr. David McCall (David Hayward, The Curious Case of the Campus Corpse) is a total slimeball. He’s stepping out on his wife, Emily (Pittsburgh royalty Lori Cardille), who is already mentally dangling by a thread. They buy a house from a perky real estate agent, Julianne (Carol Levy). It’s a real fixer-upper, mainly because it… Read more

While many fans hold the original 1987 film in high regard as a seminal piece of science fiction parody, Spaceballs: The Animated Series—often simply referred to as Spaceballs: The Series—is a fascinating, ambitious, and ultimately singular footnote in the Mel Brooks canon. Premiering in 2008 on G4 in the United States and Super Channel in… Read more

After years of fans wondering what truly happened to the legendary Tiva pairing, the NCIS universe finally delivers the answer in this high-stakes, international expansion of the beloved franchise. Picking up long after Ziva David’s (Cote de Pablo) supposed death, the narrative follows Anthony “Tony” DiNozzo (Michael Weatherly) as he navigates life as a single… Read more

Taylor Sheridan’s Special Ops: Lioness centers on the CIA’s “Lioness” program, a black-ops initiative that is as morally bankrupt as it is effective. The drill is simple: recruit female operatives to get close to the female relatives of high-value terrorist targets, maneuver into their inner circles and take out the bad guys before they can… Read more

EDITOR’S NOTE: Combat Academy was on USA Up All Night on February 10 and August 24 and 25, 1990; March 15 and August 3 and 30, 1991. When it comes to the youth-against-authority genre, you really can’t go wrong with Neal Israel. Just look at his resume. Beyond directing Bachelor Party, he wrote Police Academy, Moving Violations and Real… Read more

While Jessica was inquiring about her latest novel’s plot being plagiarized by a popular TV series, the show’s executive producer gets blown up by a bomb. Season 4, Episode 8: Steal Me a Story (November 15, 1987) Struggling TV writer Gayle Yamada finds herself in a tight spot when her producer Sid Sharkey demands she… Read more

We start in domestic bliss if your idea of bliss is a hot day with a father, Harlan (Joe Carafello), who acts like he’s one bad day away from an explosion. The family dynamic is basically a pressure cooker until they hit the $10 million lottery. Naturally, the dad keeps being a jerk, the mom… Read more

The night deputy, who has been paying attention to various Cabot Cove ladies, needs Jessica’s help when he becomes the prime suspect in his wife’s murder. Season 4, Episode 7: If It’s Thursday, It Must Be Beverly (November 8, 1987) Jessica and Sheriff Amos investigate the murder of the wife of Cabot Cove’s night deputy,… Read more

Directed by John Strysik (who also directed Darkside episodes like “Anniversary Dinner“) and written by Jule Selbo from a story by Ann MacKenzie, this feels like a standard, slightly muted 1980s kitchen-sink drama at first. We’ve got Flora (Helen Duffy), her oldest daughter, Libby (Loren Cedar), Libby’s fiancé, Max Smith (played by a pre-Dream On Brian… Read more