Based on The Fifteenth Pelican by Tere Rios
Created by: Max Wylie, Harry Ackerman
Starring: Sally Field, Madeleine Sherwood, Marge Redmond, Shelley Morrison, Alejandro Rey, Linda Dangcil, Vito Scotti
Number of Episodes: 83 (3 Seasons)
ABC
TV on DVD: Saints
In Short: There’s this nun. She can fly.
Recommended: Yes!
SISTER JACQUELINE: You play cards often, Sister Bertrille?
SISTER BERTRILLE: No, I just learned about three weeks ago. Helped pass the time while I was in jail.
SISTER JACQUELINE: Prison?Â
SISTER BERTRILLE: Yeah, I was arrested at a free speech protest rally.
SISTER JACQUELINE: [voice over] It was at this point I had …

AKA: Tetsuwan Atomu
Created by: Osamu Tezuka.
Developed by: Tezuka Productions
Starring: (English dub)
Number of Episodes: 52
NTV/In Syndication
TV on DVD: Artificial Intelligence
In Short: And once again the day was saved, thanks to… Astro Boy!
Recommended: Yes!
DR. BOYNTON: Say you’re sorry!
ASTRO BOY: You’re sorry.
– “The Birth of Astro Boy” (01.01)
For some, their introduction to anime may have been Sailor Moon. Or Neon Genesis Evangalion. Or, hell, Pokemon. But for me, it was very early morning childhood viewings of Japan’s number one son, Astro Boy, flying to many a rescue with his rocket-propelled feet, long …

Created by: Glen A. Larson
Starring: David Hasselhoff, Willian Daniels, Edward Mulhare, Patricia McPherson, Rebecca Holden, Peter Parros, Richard Basehart
Number of Episodes: 90 (4 Seasons)
NBC
TV on DVD: Artificial Intelligence
In Short: Michael Knight and his futuristic car KITT solve crimes, plus defeat baddies of the human and motorized kind. Oh, did I mention the car can talk? IT CAN TALK!!!!
Recommended: Yes!
MICHAEL: Keep your scanners peeled, buddy!
– Almost every episode
Who wouldn’t want to drive around in a car that can talk? (Even one that does sound a little on the soft side.) I …

Created by: Joshua Brand, John Falsey
Starring: Rob Morrow, Janine Turner, Barry Corbin, John Corbett, Cynthia Geary, Darren E. Burrows, John Cullum, Peg Phillips
Number of Episodes: 110 (6 Seasons)
CBS
TV on DVD: Love
In Short: A Jewish doctor from New York is forced to move to small town Alaska. Hilarity ensues.
Recommended: HELL YES! (Mostly.)
JOEL: Of course, the one thing we all should have learned as children is that if there’s something that you want with all of your heart, with every fiber of your being, you’re certain not to get it.
– …

Based on Battlestar Galactica, created by Glen A. Larson
Also based on Battlestar Galactica (2004), developed by Ronald D. Moore
Created by: Michael Taylor & David Eick
Starring: Luke Pasqualino, Ben Cotton, Lili Bordán
Number of Episodes: 10 (1 Season)
TV on DVD: Web Series
In Short: A young William Adama gets a chance to prove himself on his first mission aboard the Battlestar Galactica.
Recommended: Yes
JENNA: You lookin’ for some action? [points to the Galactica] There’s the girl that’s going to give it to ya.
The long awaited (other) prequel to Battlestar Galactica (2004) finally saw the …

Created by: Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, Jed Whedon
Starring: Neil Patrick Harris, Felicia Day, Nathan Fillion, Simon Helberg
Number of Episodes: 3
CW – 2012
TV on DVD: Web Series
In Short: A supervillain tries to gain entry into the Evil League of Evil while wooing a sweet normal girl he met in a laundromat.
Recommended: Hell yes!
BILLY: I want to be an achiever. Like Bad Horse.
PENNY: The Thoroughbred of Sin?
BILLY: I meant Gandhi.
This is empirical evidence that every dark cloud has a silver lining. In 2007, a Writers Guild of America strike …

Written by: Dario Russo, Tait Wilson, David Ashby, Will Spartalis and Boris Repasky
Directed by: Dario Russo
Starring: “Franco Franchetti,” “Leombruno Tosca,” lots of hot girls.
TV on DVD: Web Series
In Short: Ever think Spider-Man should use his moustache as a weapon instead of his web slingers? Then this is the show for you!
Recommended: Yes!
HOT GIRL: Grazie, Italian Spiderman.
I don’t think that I need to remind anyone that most of the videos on YouTube are of animals doing ‘cute’ things, but once in a blue moon, a genuine viral hit has some creative …

Created by: Damian Kindler
Starring: Amanda Tapping, Robin Dunne, Emilie Ullerup, Christopher Heyerdahl, Ryan Robbins
Number of Episodes: 8 (1 Season)
Syfy – 2008
TV on DVD: Web Series
In Short: Dr. Helen Magnus and her daughter Ashley recruit Dr. Will Zimmerman to help her chase down various creatures that go bump in the night.
Recommended: Hell yes!
HELEN: Good doctors come and go. But the really great ones have always seen beyond the boundaries of science, beyond the known. The great ones dare to believe in the unbelievable.
Around the time Stargate SG-1 was winding down, a …

Created by: Greg Berlanti, Jon Harmon Feldman
Starring: Michael Chiklis, Julie Benz, Kay Panabaker, Jimmy Bennett, Autumn Reeser, Romany Malco, Stephen Collins
Number of Episodes: 20 (1 Season)
ABC
TV on DVD: Family
In Short: A family of accidental superheroes. See, accidental. So it’s not like The Incredibles at all!
Recommended: Kind of…
GEORGE: I need you to be cool. Can you be cool?
KATIE: Historically speaking, it’s not my strong suit.
– “No Ordinary Beginning” (01.20)
If there is a more unlikely couple ever on TV than Michael Chiklis and Julie Benz, I don’t think I have seen it. …

Created by: Steven Long Mitchell & Craig W. Van Sickle
Starring: Michael T. Weiss, Andrea Parker, Patrick Bauchau, Jon Gries, Jamie Denton and Harve Presnell
Number of Episodes: 86 (4 Seasons) plus 2 TV movies
NBC/TNT
TV on DVD: Family
In Short: A compelling but ultimate unresolved mystery involving attractive people, often in black leather.
Recommended: Yes…
There are Pretenders among us. Geniuses with the ability to become anyone they want to be. In 1963 a corporation known as The Centre isolated a young Pretender named arod and exploited his genius for their research. Then one …