Television Page
Television Page
(and links to other sites with television info)
Last updated 21 April 2020
Everyone else has a web page, why not the networks?
TV Guide Online will give you the grids for the next two weeks. You can do searches and customize the grids for the channels you have (and get rid of the ones you never watch). They claim they will eventually have it set up so you can have them email you your daily schedule.
Zap2It has a better set of listings. You can see six hours at a time (instead of the mere two that TV Guide shows) and they make better use of space in their window.
Excite has has their own TV listings as well.
Yahoo has has yet another set of customizable TV listings, though I've run into a few problems getting it to display correctly.
The only good to come out of the UK is Samantha Fox,
Blackadder,
Coupling,
Monty Python,
Red Dwarf, and Rolls Royce automobiles.
Check out my much-talked-about
Red Dwarf Episode Guide for the hit Sci-Fi comedy series.
Oh, and here's a medium-quality sound-bite of the theme song.
If you like the hit FOX series "The Simpsons", you'll want to
check out this nice big list of Simpsons
WAV files for yourself.
Everyone in the Simpsons universe has four fingers, yellow skin, and a huge overbite.
The annual Halloween specials are usually the best material.
The episodes aren't as interesting if they are heavy on plotlines focused on Marge or her sisters (or Lisa Simpson, to a lesser degree) but you can't argue with the show's staying power.
Family
Guy
is one of the great politically incorrect cartoons of our time.
Seth McFarlane did the voices of Peter (the father), Stewie (the infant), and Brian (the dog). That is amazing in itself, as none of them sound anything like each other.
Peter has a New England accent, Stewie has a British accent, and Brian has a well-schooled mid-American accent.
Peter worked at the Happy-Go-Lucky Toy Factory for his homosexual boss, Mr Weed.
Peter is married to Lois (voiced by Alex Borstein), the woman he fell instantly in love with when he first saw her at her Aunt's summer house where he was working as a towel boy.
He spends many an hour with his neighbors at a bar known as the Drunken Clam.
Stewie is bent on world domination.
He despises Lois and has an adversarial relationwhip with the dog as well.
Although he is only one year old, he is well-spoken and a master inventor.
He is the only member of the Griffin household who appears to be gay.
Brian is a well-read dog who speaks and walks upright.
He has a love of alcohol and has a crush on Lois.
The other children, Meg (voiced by Mila Kunis) and Chris (voiced by Seth Green), are a lot less interesting than the rest of the family.
The neighbors include Joe Swanson (a muscular cop confined to a wheelchair), Glen Quagmire (a sex-starved bachelor pilot who has the hots for Lois), and Cleveland (a soft-spoken black character who owns a deli).
The mayor of the town is Adam West (voiced by Adam West).
Other recurring characters are Death, Joe's wife Bonnie, his son Kevin, Cleveland's wife Loretta, their son Cleveland Jr, and the news anchors Tom Tucker and Diane Simmons, along with Asian reporter Tricia Takanawa.
The entire series has been released on DVD and I highly recommend it!
I'm overjoyed that the DVD sales were enough to bring back new episodes of this outstanding comedy.
South
Park
has been fairly consistently funny throughout its run on Comedy Central.
The South Park movie was a bit light on laughs and heavy on musical numbers, but it had its funny moments as well.
Sometimes it can be hard to understand what Eric Cartman, Stan's sister Shelly, or Kenny McCormick are saying, so it might help to watch it with the closed captioning on.
Officer Barbrady is one of the more annoying characters, and at times they have stretched the "Jimmy stutters" joke to where you're just wishing they'd get on with the rest of the episode.
DuckMan
is another of the great politically incorrect cartoons of our time.
Cornfed is (naturally) my favorite character, followed closely be Duckman,
Fluffy and Uranus.
While I am probably in the minority, I don't really care for any of the
characters which make up DuckMan's family (Bernice, the sister of his dead
wife, Ajax, his oldest son, Charles and Mambo, his mutant youngest sons,
and Grandmama, his mother-in-law) I think they could either develop the
characters more (his family is rather one-dimensional) or move them further
into the background and have the storylines center on his life at the office.
I would love it if the Cartoon Network (or someone else) would commission some new episodes of this great series.
There are also a series of columns written by Duckman (or at least the
same people who write his lines on TV) at T@P
Online
Heh heh heh... Like check out the Beavis
and Butt-Head episode guide.
You used to be able to watch them weeknights on MTV, back when the
station played music videos (most of which sucked) for about three hours
a day.
Now they don't play videos at all.
Huh huh huh... you said... wait, you didn't say anything I can parse into
a double-entandre.
They've recently released the series on DVD, but they had to remove all the music videos, since they couldn't get the rights to them (which sort of makes the DVDs worthless).
Here is Nick Sayer's Ren and
Stimpy episode guide.
I can hardly contain myself!
Happy happy! Joy joy!
The series was pretty good when it first appeared on Nickelodeon (despite the constant censoring by the network).
When the new episodes started airing on SpikeTV, they were awful.
Completely unfunny and not even the depth of the plots of the original run of episodes.
Yeah, the plots were thin.
Yeah, no one watched it for anything but the T&A, but that's what the
1970s were all about (or have you forgotten about Wonder Woman, Three's
Company, etc?).
Yeah, I wrote an episode
guide for it back in the 1980 and early 1990s.
A couple years back, Terry Chambers wanted to help expand on the "plot"
summaries.
It is not yet complete, but is still impressive. One of these days we may
actually find enough free time to finish it! :-)
I've got the entire nine seasons on Super VHS tapes.
I created my own episode guide until Dean Adams made a better one. :-)
I lusted after Christina Applegate until she cut her hair short. ;-)
I watched the short-lived spin-off "Top of The Heap".
I even watched the cheap Warner rip-off "Unhappily Ever After".
For all your Married... With Children information, check out the Bundyland
home page.
It was the best non-animated comedy on TV in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
If you liked Cheers, Frasier, Flying Blind, Married... With Children, and Larroquette... this is better than all of them.
Sure, the show would be even better if they got rid of Ross and Phoebe, but the great characters of Joey, Chandler, Rachael, and Monica overshadow the bad characters.
The best theme songs for television shows have to be (in no particular order):
Only the first has lyrics (and the full-length version is excellent).
The latter two could almost bring a tear to your eye when accompanied by
an excellent episode. They both had great writing. Bill Bixby will be missed.
In the mean time, here is a Moonlighting
episode guide I created when the series went off the air.
My theory is: you can't have TOO much Science Fiction on TV.
That's why I didn't mind Space Rangers and Time Traxx and all the other
low-budget SF shows on.
There's room for 'em all. I'm a big Star
Trek fan, but I like Babylon 5
as well.
Check out the episode
guide and other info that have been collected.
And here's some Babylon
5 sound files as well.
Always wanted one of those 18" dishes with the good sound and great picture? Here's more info on DBS/DSS. The only reason I got rid of mine is that I needed nine receivers (since you can't record one channel while watching another).
Here is a big
honking list of episode guides that various people have put together.
Here is a slightly
smaller list.
If you have any comments, I can be reached via email at
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