Thursday, November 11, 2021

Happy Veterans Day! (+ A Geeky TV/Movie List)

To those who are currently serving and to those who have served in the past, I want to thank you for your service.

Happy Veterans Day!



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Season 3 episode 15: Eddie Begins

Description:

Eddie Diaz's journey to rescue a kid who is stuck in a well forty-five feet in the ground turns into a mission to save himself from his past. He reflects back on when he first enlisted in the military and his life afterwards.





A Different World


Season 3 episode 12: Here's to Old Friends

Description:

Dwayne's old friend comes to visit and convince Dwayne to come to his college because he believes one becomes the best by being with the best and starts to judge Dwayne's best friend Ron, While Colonel Brad Taylor and Mr. Vernon Gaines get people together for those who were once in the U.S. Army.

Season 3 episode 14: Pride and Prejudice

Description:

While shopping for her father's birthday present, a jewelry store clerk discriminates against Whitley. Civilians Dwayne Wayne and Walter Oakes go on a ROTC weekend trip with Colonel Taylor and Cadet Sergent Ron Johnson.

Season 3 episode 22: Soldier Boy

Description:

Awaiting an ROTC dinner where Colonel Taylor is to be roasted, Ron sweats bullets over the choosing of "Cadet of the Year".

Season 4 episode 12: War and Peace

Description:

Zelmer Collier (guest star Blair Underwood), a friend of Dwayne Wayne's who is battling ambivalence on the eve of his reserve unit's departure to the Persian Gulf.





Buffy the Vampire Slayer


Season 4 episode 7: The Initiative

Description:

Spike finds himself targeted by a group of commandos after he escapes from a military lab underneath the Sunnydale campus.

Season 4 episode 11: Doomed

Description:

While attempting to redefine her relationship with Riley, Buffy must also stop demons that are determined to reopen the Hellmouth.

Season 4 episode 13: The I in Team

Description:

Buffy teams with Riley after she is allowed access to the Initiative; Spike is targeted by commandos.

Season 4 episode 13: The I in Team

Description:

Buffy teams with Riley after she is allowed access to the Initiative; Spike is targeted by commandos.

Season 4 episode 14: Goodbye Iowa

Description:

Tension erupts between Buffy and an ailing Riley as they pursue Professor Maggie Walsh's killer.

Season 4 episode 19: New Moon Rising

Description:

Oz's return to Sunnydale leads to his incarceration by the Initiative and complicates the relationship between Willow and Tara.

Season 4 episode 20: The Yoko Factor

Description:

After joining forces with Adam, Spike drives a wedge between Buffy and her friends. Meanwhile, Angel's return to Sunnydale leads to a violent confrontation with Riley.

Season 4 episode 21: Primeval

Description:

Having gained control of Riley's mind, Adam sets in motion his plot to create an army of unstoppable soldiers and destroy the Initiative.





Columbo


Season 1 Episode 3: Dead Weight

Description:

Lt. Columbo is on the case when a war hero shoots and kills his business partner. An easily manipulated young divorcée is the only witness.

Season 4 Episode 3: By Dawn's Early Light

Description:

The commandant of a military academy murders the chairman of the board, who wants to oust him. Lt. Columbo takes up residence in the barracks to expose the killer.

Season 8 Episode 4: Grand Deceptions

Description:

After the head of a private paramilitary think tank who is embezzling funds murders a blackmailer, he has to match wits with the persistent Lieutenant Columbo.





Dark Angel


Season 1 episode 1: Pilot

Description:

12 genetically enhanced children escape from a military base that created them. 10 years later, after The Pulse, a magnetic bomb that destroyed every computer in USA, has struck, Max Guevara, one of the 12 escapees, is a bike messenger in (what's left of) Seattle and with cyberjournalist, Logan Cale, she tries to rid the world of crime and corruption, avoid her creators and uncover her past.

Season 2 episode 1: Designate This

Description:

Max escapes from Manticore with the help of an animal-human hybrid named Joshua, setting free multiple generations of laboratory experiments.





Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman


Season 2 episode 6: Operation Blackout

Description:

An army general is killed at a demonstration of the army's latest weapon, by that weapon. As Lois and Clark investigate they discover a terrorist plot to high-jack a satellite and that the person behind the plot just might be Lois' best friend from college and her supposedly dead boyfriend.





Movies

Captain America: The First Avenger


Description:

It is 1941 and the world is in the throes of war. Steve Rogers wants to do his part and join America's armed forces, but the military rejects him because of his small stature. Finally, Steve gets his chance when he is accepted into an experimental program that turns him into a super soldier called Captain America. Joining forces with Bucky Barnes and Peggy Carter, Captain America leads the fight against the Nazi-backed HYDRA organization.







Hailey Dean Mysteries: Death on Duty


Description:

Psychologist and former prosecutor Hailey Dean aids her friend Detective Garland Fincher in investigating the murder of his former Marine friend. With a growing list of suspects who each seem to have strong motives, Hailey uses her investigative skills, as well as her uncanny ability to read people, to read and follow the clues that will lead them to the killer. And, when the body of a female Marine shows up in the same park where Fincher’s buddy was found, the case takes a whole new turn as Hailey uncovers a conspiracy that puts her own life in danger as she pursues justice for the victims.





Wonder Woman


Description:

Before she was Wonder Woman, she was Diana, princess of the Amazons, trained to be an unconquerable warrior. Raised on a sheltered island paradise, when an American pilot crashes on their shores and tells of a massive conflict raging in the outside world, Diana leaves her home, convinced she can stop the threat. Fighting alongside man in a war to end all wars, Diana will discover her full powers…and her true destiny.

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