Wonder Woman – Season 1, Episode 8: “The Pluto File”
The dad from The Brady Bunch as a suave terrorist? Dr. Bellows as a scientist who creates earthquakes? The Bubonic Plague? Oh, my we are in an oddly prescient episode of Wonder Woman today. Shall we dive in? At a secret testing facility, Dr. Bellows from I Dream of Jeannie is setting off explosions to […]
DALLAS — Season Two, Episode 17: “The Red File, Part I”
Oh, my! I love and hate this episode. I wish Julie had stuck around longer, but when you cross J.R. AND the Cartel … well, clearly your life expectancy on this show (in fact your life expectancy, period) goes down! Julie and J.R. are having a lovely stroll on a pier and apparently, they’ve been […]
Wonder Woman – Season 1, Episode 7: “Wonder Woman vs. Gargantua”
Ready for some damn, dirty apes? Or maybe just one? It’s possibly the first season’s craziest episode … and we’ve already seen Wonder Woman win a beauty pageant! Strap into the invisible jet … we are heading to Africa to start this week’s Retro Recap! The captions tell us we are in Nazi-held Africa and […]
DALLAS — Season Two, Episode 16: ” Julie’s Return”
Is Jock having an affair? Did J.R. forge his daddy’s will? Are we about to see what’s REALLY in the Red File, once and for all?!?! Let’s saddle up and down to SouthFork! We don’t waste any time building up Julie’s reappearance. She’s on the phone to Victor at the Cattleman’s Club asking him to […]
Wonder Woman — Season One, Episode 6; “The Feminum Mystique, Part II”
After the build-up of last week’s introduction to Drusilla/Wonder Girl, this week, we dive right into the action as we wrap up “The Feminum Mystique, Part II!” Younger readers may not be aware of The Feminine Mystique, the 1963 book by Betty Friedan, which is recognized as helping kick off the second wave of feminism […]
DALLAS – Season Two, Episode 15: “For Love or Money”
The cat’s out of the bag … and J.R. finds out about Cliff and Sue Ellen – and we see Kristin for the first time and it’s NOT the Kristin we’ll grow to love/hate. And we meet Sue Ellen’s golddiggin’ momma! Buckle up … the broncos are kickin’ down at the ranch! It’s breakfast and […]
Wonder Woman – Season 1, Episode 5: “The Feminum Mystique)”
SQUEE! It’s time to recap the best Wonder Woman episode of the first season … and the TV introduction of one of my fave heroines ever, Wonder Girl! I came a little late to Wonder Girl. I was devouring Justice League of America comics and never knew about the Teen Titans until a back-up story […]
DALLAS – Season Two, Episode 14: “Home Again”
SouthFork is in danger … and this time it’s Miss Ellie who’s ready to give away the ranch! How can it be? Let’s head out to the swimming pool and enjoy this week’s Retro Recap of Dallas! Sue Ellen and Miss Ellie are picking out a room to be the nursery. This feels premature, since […]
Wonder Woman – Season 1. Episode 4: “Beauty On Parade”
Whoo-hoo! This one is … well, perhaps “Sexism On Parade” would be a better title. It’s as if someone from the network went in to the writer’s room and said, “What’s better than a star-spangled bathing suit? A whole bunch of 70s-style bathing suits pretending to be 1940s-appropriate!” Buckle up those invisible seatbelts — here […]