At about the 20-minute mark of "Charlie X," young Charlie Evans plays a very short, one-sided game of three-dimensional chess agai...

Lego's TOS bridge set includes some neat easter eggs, including your choice of alert condition lights for the top centre of the astrogat...

For the very first time, I have a tiny representation of the bridge of the USS Enterprise in my office. Building Lego's 1701 bridge took...

Steve Shives, one of my favourite YouTubers, posted an editorial today about how the end of the Cold War took away Star Trek 's central...

I'm going ape for my new movie shelves.   

  From 1960 to 1962, Boris Karloff hosted Thriller, an anthology of suspense and horror stories. Midway through the first season, early in 1...

 Something occurred to me while watching the first and second seasons of Columbo. In multi-part film and television stories--basically all f...

 Tonight I filled a shadow box with a few of the Twin Peaks items I've collected over the years. 

In 2012, CBS released three episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation on blu-ray disc, with reach episode remastered in high definition. Th...

Today I watched a fifth-season episode of St. Elsewhere , and who should turn up but Wil Wheaton? He plays a prodigy with an IQ of 160 who...

Someone set him up the bomb.  "Family Feud" is the 15th episode of the fourth season of St. Elsewhere. It's also the episode t...

I was playing with Gemini tonight and asked it to turn a collection of images of a prop from an old 1970s kid show into a futuristic ambulan...

During St. Elsewhere 's season three finale, Doctors Donald Westphall, Mark Craig, and Daniel Auschlander head to Cheers for beer.  Tele...

During the first season of  Twin Peaks , we see several characters watching Invitation to Love , a soap opera that seems as crazed and histr...

  Howie Mandel as Doctor Wayne Fiscus I've never been a fan of Howie Mandel. That's a me problem, not a Mandel problem. His particul...

Some of St. Elsewhere's Season Three Players. Fans of Babylon 5 might recognize Stephen Furst in the middle.  I guess you could say that...

  Terence Knox as Doctor Peter White Last month I finally started watching St. Elsewhere , the groundbreaking 1980s medical drama. I just fi...

One might toss some jacks; caltrops for kids Bounce ball on boardwalk Grab jack Second ground, grab two And so on Bonus points: ball colour ...

Today a lovely special edition of Tobe Hooper's adaptation of Stephen King's  Salem's Lot appeared on my doorstep. It comes wit...

SPOILERS AHEAD for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Episode Five, "Series Acclimation Mil"   I've had more than enough time to ref...