Summer is a time for playing outside, sitting on the beach, going for a swim, taking a stroll in the park with a significant other while… oh, who am I kidding… Summer is for one thing: warm, entertaining television. And with the 2010-2011 television at an end this week, it’s time to look ahead to the wonderful crop that is set to begin at the top of next month. So with that, I present to you 10 Summer Shows Not To Miss! (But beware of some spoilers.)

Beverley Barlowe uses the stolen DED device and the Bridge device (someone needs to come up with better names for these things) to send Dr. Grant back to 1947. Of course things don’t go according to plan and both Grant and Jack are sent back to the past while Allison appears to be fatally wounded in the present. Jack and Grant break time traveler protocol by purposely altering the past in an attempt to save Allison from her tragic fate.

Jack, Allison, Jo, Fargo, and Dr. Grant all begin to hallucinate. Each is followed and provoked by a specter from the past that they have unresolved issues with (Jack sees Nathan Stark!); Beverly Barlowe manipulates Dr. Grant, convincing him to sabotage a weapon being developed at GD.

Synopsis: Townspeople—including Zoe, home from Harvard—are transformed into concrete statues when their skin comes into contact with a compound developed by an archeologist trying to falsify the results of a dig. On the romance front, Henry attempts to win Grace’s heart with a grand romantic gesture and Jack surprises Allison by asking her out on a date.

Synopsis: Thanks to S.A.R.A.H., an emotion-generating program infects all artificial intelligence in Eureka—Deputy Andy falls in love with Jo and “Tiny,” that glitchy robot from earlier this season, chases down Jack, Kevin, Dr. Grant, and Fargo, who are all on a camping trip. Meanwhile, Henry begins to fall in love with Grace and feels obligated to tell her the truth about the Bridge Device.

Review: The beginning of this episode was an unabashed Subaru ad—Tiny rampages behind the guys, their car spins out, cut to close-up of the Subaru logo. It was so insanely blatant that it was hilarious and so bold that I actually kind of admire it. When it comes to product placement, Eureka is a frequent and shameless offender.

Synopsis: Objects from the 1940s mysteriously materialize throughout town while Warehouse 13’s Claudia Donovan (Allison Scagliotti) visits.

Review: Claudia Donovan on Eureka! How cool was that? No, really. How cool was it? I don’t watch Warehouse 13, so I have no idea if her appearance was supposed to be exciting or if it was just a gimmick. But speaking as a completely objective person with absolutely no allegiance to Warehouse 13, this cross over episode was tastefully done—Claudia’s presence in Eureka felt natural (even if she was a bit gabby) and because her arrival wasn’t the central focus of the episode, I wasn’t distracted by how gimmicky the whole thing may or may not have been. The bizarre chemistry she had with Fargo was enough to make me want to check out Warehouse 13, if only to find out how a self-possessed quipster like her could be attracted to a wormy supergeek like the Fargonator. Eureka’s writing staff, however, lose creativity points for titling this episode “Crossing Over.” I’m sure they thought that they were being clever—a cross over episode about objects “crossing over” from the past to the present called “Crossing Over”—but they were wrong.

Synopsis: In “All the Rage,” a glitch in a crowd-calming ray developed by a disgruntled scientist (Wil Wheaton) starts a rage epidemic at Global Dynamics and in “The Story of O2,” a cloud of self-propagating oxygen endangers the town during their Space Week Festival while Sheriff Carter visits Zoe at Harvard.

Review: I’d like to apologize to the faithful Eureka fans for neglecting my Eureka review duties for the past two weeks. But, in a way, my irresponsibility was kind of a good thing because it has given me the opportunity to veer away from the usual review format and compare and contrast the two episodes that I missed, paying special attention to the guest stars, the emotions underpinning all of the quirk, and those trivial subplots that seem to pop up in every episode.

Jack, Allison, Henry, Jo, and Fargo adapt to the alternate timeline brought into existence by their excellent adventure. Meanwhile, “Tiny,” a bug-like, robotic probe that Tess has been working on, goes haywire; everyone suspects sabotage.

Unlike that excruciating “artifact” story arc from season 2, the high concept, time travel plot framing season 4 is fun, exciting, and already full of promise.

A recap of the past two episodes of Eureka: “Have an Ice Day” and the season three finale “What Goes Around, Comes Around.”

A recap of the past two episodes of Eureka: “Shower to the People” and “You Don’t Know Jack.”

After the people in Eureka build a landing platform in their sleep and a ship from the past lands there, we learn that it was a project that Henry worked on 20 years ago come back home. Moreover, everyone is shocked to discover his dead wife Kim as the ship’s occupant.

Competition hits Eureka when the resident bowling team goes head-to-head in a game with their arch rivals from Area 51. However, intramural pranks result in Eureka’s team turning green after being exposed to gamma radiation.

Once again, crazy things start happening in the little town of Eureka. Strange physical disturbances lead some to speculate about ghosts haunting areas of the town.

While Sheriff Carter (Colin Ferguson) is out of commission for fitness training, Jo Lupo (Erica Cerra) gets a chance to be acting sheriff.

Global Dynamics brings in a new robotic sheriff named Andy to keep the peace. However, when bizarre accidents start happening in Eureka – seeming to target Sheriff Andy – Jack starts investigating as a civilian.

If you also noticed the purple goo that Zoe slipped on a few weeks back, you’ll be vindicated in thinking that it was going to be a significant plot point.

Jack’s sister Lexi seems to be causing a stir in town as most of the single male population has taken a shine to her. She also seems to be the target of affection of an incompetent superhero patrolling the town of Eureka.

We continue our Fall TV Preview with a look at the best shows that Tuesday night has to offer…

Since we here at FSR are too cool for school, we are getting our wallets ready for TV on DVD month. So we put our heads together and assembled the essential DVD sets to prepare you for the fall.