Beautiful images, taken from all of the NASA Apollo space missions, are collected in this 1989 documentary. It’s a small step for a man – to reach the remote and press “record.”

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THE AMERICANS By David Bianculli

A series of dangerous moves and counter-moves puts both the KGB and FBI on high alert – but FBI agent Stan (Noah Emmerich) is distracted by something else. Specifically, by Nina (Annet Mahendru), his Soviet mole, to whom he’s become dangerously attracted.

2013

Mar

PSYCH By David Bianculli

Maggie Lawson, as Juliet, gets to play opposite some very interesting guest stars in this series – guest stars who play her relatives. Playing her con-man father, in a previous episode, was William Shatner. Tonight we meet her stepdad, Lloyd, played by Jeffrey Tambor. And he doesn’t exactly play well with others – at least not with Henry, the show’s resident old crank, played by Corbin Bernsen.

2013

Mar

FORBIDDEN PLANET By David Bianculli

This landmark 1956 science fiction movie is best known, perhaps, for introducing the iconic Robby the Robot, and perhaps for spinning the plot of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest into a futuristic adventure film. But in addition to all that, I like it for two other reliable pleasures: watching Leslie Nielsen play it straight as the romantic lead, and watching Anne Francis as… well, I could just stop the sentence after “watching Anne Francis.”

2013

Mar

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MR. ROGERS By Christy Slewinski

This week, on March 20, Fred Rogers would have turned 85...

2013

Mar

NCAA BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT By David Bianculli

The “First Four,” as the games for final qualifiers looking to make it into this year’s NCAA basketball tourney are called, feature eight teams who have to win one “play-in” game to advance to spots held for them in the final bracket. Two games are shown tonight, two more tomorrow, all on TruTV. (Get used to finding basketball in unusual places this month). Tonight’s games: North Carolina AT&T vs. Liberty at 6:40 p.m. ET, followed by Middle Tennessee vs. S

2013

Mar

NEW GIRL By David Bianculli

This episode is a follow-up to “the kiss,” in which Jess (Zooey Deschanel) and Nick (Jake Johnson) stopped being platonic roommates – but only for one long, revealing, impulsive passionate embrace. On tonight’s new episode, Jess, once again, gets mushy – but this time it’s because her brain’s a little mushy, too, a side effect of her pain meds.

2013

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HOW WE INVENTED THE WORLD By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This new series about interconnected scientific discoveries asks how the smartphone was made possible by, for example, Frankenstein’s monster, movie star Hedy Lamarr, and the Titanic? There’s no need asking, though how they invented How We Invented the World. In theory, it’s a ripoff of James Burke’s classic science series of the 1970s, Connections.

2013

Mar

SMASH By David Bianculli

The biggest diva on this show, right now, is the one played by guest star Sean Hayes, who’s playing a popular comic actor with a huge ego and a sudden compulsion (fed by Megan Hilty’s Ivy) to take acting seriously. Is the transition working? Based on this point in the rehearsals for Les Liaisons Dangereuses, the answer is a resounding no. And over at rehearsals for Bombshell, and for the other show within this show, Hit List, things aren’t so great, either.

2013

Mar

JUSTIFIED By David Bianculli

I’ve seen the previews, so calling this week’s show an explosive episode is by no means an exaggeration. There’s one point where a lot of things, in the words of those Farm Film Report guys from SCTV, “blow up real good.” Could you expect any less, with Boyd and the Detroit mob on one side, and Raylan and the elusive Drew Thompson on the other? What a show.

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