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TV Land To Celebrate 50 Years of Warner Bros. Television Hits
With 50-Hour Programming Marathon
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TV Land salutes Warner Bros. 50th anniversary with a 50 hour
programming marathon featuring episodes from Warner Bros.
television library, including the iconic superhero Wonder Woman.
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NEW YORK, NY USA 06/07/2005
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NEW YORK, June 7 /PRNewswire/ - Prepare to relive some of
the funniest,
happiest and most emotional moments from the past 50 years of
television as TV
Land presents a special 50 hour programming marathon featuring
landmark
episodes from the Warner Bros. television library. Beginning
Saturday, June
11th at 6am (ET/PT) through - Monday, June 13th at 8am (ET/PT),
TV Land
viewers will be treated to a 50th anniversary salute to Warner Bros.
Television featuring milestone episodes of Dallas, Eight is
Enough, The
Waltons, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Full House, in addition to
the rarely
seen episodes of Sugarfoot, Love, Sidney, John Larroquette and
many more.
Warner Bros. television programming has helped define the medium
throughout
every decade with the best westerns (Cheyenne), classic soaps
(Knots Landing),
memorable dramas (China Beach), iconic superheroes (Wonder Woman)
and shows
that turned actors into stars (Welcome Back, Kotter).
"We're thrilled to present this momentous marathon to our
viewers," states
Larry W. Jones, President, TV Land Nick at Nite. "These special
episodes will
bring back a lot of memories for television fans and we're happy
that Warner
Bros. chose us as their television partner."
Warner Home Video is also celebrating the 50th anniversary
of Warner Bros.
television with a yearlong promotion. This campaign will feature
DVD debuts
of series from every decade of Warner Bros. Television's history
including
many of the shows featured in the Nick at Nite marathon.
Hand-picked by TV Land, episodes in the marathon include:
Saturday, June 11th
6:00am Cheyenne #7117 (Episode #75) - Dual at Judas
Basin
This lavishly produced series starring Clint
Walker was
Warner Bros. first foray into television and
one of three
rotating Western series presented under the
banner "Warner
Bros. Presents." Cheyenne Bodie, Tom
"Sugarfoot" Brewster
and Bronco Layne match wits and bullets with
trapper Pike
Hanson, suspected of selling guns to
Indians. One false
move could be the end of their friend as
they play the
dangerous game of pinning the crime of
murder and treason
on a clever crook.
7:00am Bronco #6857 (Episode #27) - Flight from an
Empire
A spin-off of Cheyenne, this second in the
Western line-up
under the title "Warner Bros. Presents,"
features ex-
Confederate Army Captain Bronco Layne
wandering the West
in search of adventure. In this episode,
Bronco hires
refugees from the fallen Maximillian empire,
but has to
contend with bandits who are convinced a
mother and son
know what happened to $5 million in missing
gold.
8:00am Sugarfoot #1 - Brannigan's Boots
Action rides shotgun with humor in the
adventures of Tom
"Sugarfoot" Brewster in this third series in
the Western
line-up of "Warner Bros. Presents." Crooked
politicians in
Bluerock appoint Tom sheriff after noting
his poor
shooting aim. Tom, however, takes the job
seriously. When
a pretty girl who is watching him says he's
not man enough
to fill her father's boots, Tom sets out to
prove her
wrong and find her father's killer.
9:00am Maverick #5 - Gun Shy
Mixing traditional Western adventure and
good-natured
humor, this series stars James Garner as
Bret Maverick,
the man TV Guide named the best dramatic
actor of the
1950s. This spoof of Gunsmoke focuses on
Marshal Mort
Dooley (Ben Gage), a grim man with a gun
aimed at all
gamblers in general - and Maverick in
particular.
10:00am Wonder Woman #15 - Anschluss '77 (SEASON TWO
PREMIERE)
A super heroine from a lost tribe of Amazon
women, Wonder
Woman is called upon to battle a new and
more terrifying
Nazi menace when she and Steve Trevor are
assigned to
investigate a reunion of expatriate Nazis on
a small
tropical island.
11:00am The Adventures of Superman #36 - The Face
and the Voice
Everyone's favorite superhero fights a
never-ending battle
for truth, justice and the American way.
Superman is so
popular that a new feature film is currently in
production. In this episode when a
gangster's face is
altered to look like Superman he perpetrates
crimes and
lays the blame on our hero.
11:30am F Troop #37 - The Great Troop Robbery
A phony medicine man tries to blame his
thefts on Agarn
when he suffers a temporary memory loss in
this classic
Western comedy that features a crew of
hilarious, bumbling
cavalrymen somewhere west of the Missouri in
post-Civil
War days. This series was so popular it
attracted comedic
guest stars such as Milton Berle, Paul
Lynde, Don Rickles
and other comedy greats.
12:00pm Mayberry RFD #1 - Andy and Helen Get Married
Andy and Helen get married and Aunt Bea
becomes Sam's
housekeeper in the spin-off of the
tremendously popular
The Andy Griffith Show.
12:30pm Chico and The Man #43 - Too Many Crooks
Freddie Prinze broke new ground for Latinos
on TV co-
starring with Emmy Award winner Jack
Albertson. They play
an unlikely duo that work in a repair garage
in East Los
Angeles. When Ed (Albertson), not knowing
that he gave a
handout to a crook, finds out that that
money is what they
are after, all kinds of crooks from the
neighborhood
coming to him for a handout as well.
1:00pm Welcome Back Kotter #2 - The Election
It's the instant comedy hit that made a star
out of John
Travolta and popularized the characters of
Horshack and
Mr. Kotter. In this episode, Barbarino
(Travolta) is
running for Student Body President but his
campaign turns
into a disaster.
1:30pm Alice #30 - Sixty Minutes Man
In this series starring Linda Lavin, Alice
(Lavin)
suspects that a diner regular is really an
incognito
mobster. This sassy show about a
hard-working single mom
lasted an astounding nine seasons and broke
the mold for
women in sitcoms.
2:00pm Waltons #1 - The Foundlings (FIRST EPISODE)
In this heartwarming family drama that won
10 Emmy Awards,
two Golden Globes and numerous other awards,
the Waltons
take a young, abandoned girl into their
home. After
seeing a doctor, they discover the girl is deaf.
3:00pm Scarecrow and Mrs. King - #1 The First Time
(PILOT)
Special Agent "Scarecrow" enlists the aide
of Amanda King
(everybody's favorite "Angel" Kate Jackson),
a divorced
mother of two, for assistance in finding a
leak in a D.C.
organization. Mrs. King is then offered a
job with IFF and
continues to assist Lee "Scarecrow" Stetson
(Bruce
Boxleitner).
4:00pm Sisters - #1 Moving In, Moving Out, Moving
On (PILOT)
Sela Ward won her first Emmy for this series
about four
very different sisters that received five
Emmy and two
Golden Globe nominations. Reed sisters Alex,
Georgie,
Teddy and Frankie are brought together by
the sale of
their family home, an event that disturbs
their recently
widowed mom.
5:00pm Life Goes On #1 - (PILOT)
Patti Lupone and Kelli Martin star in this
critically
acclaimed, heartfelt drama about the daily
struggles of a
family coping with Down Syndrome. When
Corky tries to
mainstream into the 9th grade, the same
grade as Becca,
she worries that her brother may stop her
from getting to
the boy she really wants, Tyler Benchfield,
a star on the
football team.
6:00pm Jack and Bobby Episode TBD
What if you could watch the next great
American president
grow up? Oscar and Emmy-winner Christine
Lahti stars in
this critically acclaimed series from master
storytellers
Greg Berlanti (Everwood) and Thomas Schlamme
(The West
Wing).
7:00pm John Larroquette #1 - (PILOT)
Five-time Emmy Award-winner John Larroquette
stars as a
recovering alcoholic who takes the job of
night manager in
a seedy bus station, where a robbery and a
missing bus
test his resolve to stay sober.
7:30pm Murphy Brown #1 - Respect (PILOT)
The classiest comedy about the world of
broadcast news
garnered 62 Emmy Award nominations and 18
wins including
Best Comedy. Series star, Candice Bergen
was nominated
for seven Emmy Awards and won five. When
Murphy returns
to FYI after "drying out" at the Betty Ford
Clinic, she
discovers the show underwent changes while
she was gone,
including the addition of a beauty queen to
the anchor
desk and a new young executive producer. In
her first week
back she isn't sure whether she still has
her edge.
8:00pm Fresh Prince of Bel Air #7 - Def Poet's Society
Will Smith became a household name in this
Emmy and Golden
Globe- nominated series about a streetwise
kid from
Philadelphia who moves in with relatives in
Bel-Air. Will
joins his prep school's poetry club at his
Uncle Philip's
insistence, but he must enlist Geoffrey's
help when he is
called on to present a poem at a reading.
8:30pm Full House #1 - Our Very First Show (PILOT)
One of ABC's biggest comedy hits for eight
years starring
Bob Saget and John Stamos, it features Danny
Tanner
(Saget), widowed father of three young and
rambunctious
girls, who recruits his two buddies to move
in and help
him raise his kids.
9:00pm Eight is Enough - #11 Trial Marriage
Dick Van Patten stars as the father of eight
very
independent and different children in this
often comical,
always touching drama series. This episode
introduces
Betty Buckley as Sue "Abby" Abbott. Tommy
breaks his
ankles at a touch football game and will
miss school for
five weeks, while Mary moves in with her
boyfriend, a
young psychiatry student.
10:00pm Eight is Enough: Wedding
This made-for-television reunion film finds
eldest son
David on the brink of marriage to a
divorcee. However,
some of his sisters would prefer to see a
reunion with his
ex-wife Janet.
12:00am Falcon Crest - #68 Ashes to Ashes (SEASON
THREE FINALE)
In one of primetime's juiciest soaps, the
rich and greedy
fight for power and sex in this saga that
takes place the
winery Falcon Crest. At the charred
springhouse, the
coroner, after inspecting a ring and bone
fragments,
positively identifies the remains as
Julia's. In a note to
Lance, Julia's last request is to have her
ashes scattered
in Italy.
1:00am Scarecrow and Mrs. King - #1 The First Time
(PILOT)
Special Agent "Scarecrow" enlists the aide
of Amanda King
(everybody's favorite "Angel" Kate Jackson),
a divorced
mother of two, for assistance in finding a
leak in a D.C.
organization. Mrs. King is then offered a
job with IFF and
continues to assist Lee "Scarecrow" Stetson
(Bruce
Boxleitner).
2:00am Waltons #1 - The Foundlings (FIRST EPISODE)
In this heartwarming series, the Waltons
take a young,
abandoned girl into their home. After
seeing a doctor,
they discover the girl is deaf.
3:00am Wonder Woman #15 - Anschluss '77 (SEASON TWO
PREMIERE)
Wonder Woman is called upon to battle a new
and more
terrifying Nazi menace when she and Steve
Trevor are
assigned to investigate a reunion of
expatriate Nazis on a
small tropical island.
4:00am Valerie - #24 Bad Timing
This family-friendly series launched the
career of teen
heartthrob Jason Bateman (Arrested
Development). When
David prepares for a romantic tryst with an
old childhood
girlfriend, Valerie tries to prepare him for
manhood.
4:30am John Larroquette #1 - Pilot
John Larroquette, starring as a recovering
alcoholic,
takes the job of night manager in a seedy
bus station,
where a robbery and a missing bus test his
resolve to stay
sober.
5:00am Perfect Strangers #51 - The Lottery
It's a comedic clash of cultures when a
Mediterranean
immigrant comes to live with his
distantly-related
American cousin in this fish-out-of water
buddy comedy.
When Balki (Bronson Pinchot) insists on
buying a lottery
ticket, Larry thinks that it is just a waste
of money for
something he can't possibly win. But during
the draws,
Larry (Mark Linn-Baker) realizes that Balki
picked the
right numbers and won $28 million but Balki
can't remember
where he hid the ticket.
5:30am Head of the Class #22 - The Secret Life of
Arvid Engen
(SEASON ONE FINALE)
This popular comedy was the flip side of
Welcome Back
Kotter, with overachieving honor students
instead of
underachieving "sweathogs." In this episode,
Arvid starts
to daydream about Lori and it affects his
schoolwork.
Sunday, June 12th
6:00am 77 Sunset Strip #6615 (Episode #36) - The
Kookie Caper
The prototype glamour detective series made
Ed "Kookie"
Burns a teen idol. In this episode, Kookie
befriends a
pretty teenager who is kidnapped, making him
think that
she is a runaway heiress and causing Bailey
and Spencer to
become involved.
7:00am Surfside Six #7211 (Episode #3) - The Clown
Before Don Johnson made Miami "cool" in
Miami Vice, Troy
Donahue and friends were headquartered on a
houseboat
crusading to keep Miami crime-free. When a
hated
dictator, living in exile in Miami, is
murdered during a
birthday party for his son, Lt. Snedigar
thinks he has an
open-and-shut case against Pepe the Clown,
who performed
at the party. But Pepe insists he was not
at the party
and Dave has to prove to the skeptical
policeman someone
else went to the party in Pepe's costume.
8:00am Hawaiian Eye #1 - Total Eclipse
They called it "77 Sunset Strip of Hawaii"
as a trio of
detectives found intrigue and adventure on
the exotic
islands of Hawaii. In this episode Jean
Morgan hires
Tracy to find solid proof of her innocence
while her
stepson, Tony Morgan hires Tom to find
conclusive proof of
her guilt.
9:00am FBI #3 - The Monster
Based on actual F.B.I. cases and told with
full Bureau
cooperation, this exciting series focuses on
true stores
of counterfeiting, extortion and organized
crime. In this
episode, case file #76-3342-J- Francis
Jerome - Escaped
Federal Prisoner.
10:00am Harry O #38 - Past Imperfect
David Janssen stars as Harry Orwell, an
ex-policeman
pensioned from the force after an injury and
now solving
only cases that interest him. Harry's
girl-next-door is
none other than Farrah Fawcett. In this
episode, a
woman's former boyfriend returns from prison
and wants the
old suitcase he left with her, which he
claims is worth
$300,000.
11:00am Spenser For Hire - #18 In A Safe Place
Before Law & Order, before CSI, there was
Spenser for
Hire, starring TV favorite Robert Urich,
which spun off no
less than four made-for-TV movies. Spenser
and Susan look
for a Mexican labor organizer who has
suspiciously
disappeared.
12:00pm Love, Sidney #1 - Surprise Party (SERIES FINALE)
Tony Randall stars as a middle-aged
commercial artist who
helps raise his best friend's daughter. In
this episode,
an opera star agrees to perform at Patti's
birthday party,
mercifully replacing Sidney's terrible clown
act.
12:30pm The Hogan Family - #54 Animal House (SEASON
FOUR PREMIERE)
It's the family-friendly series that
launched the career
of teen heartthrob Jason Bateman (Arrested
Development).
When college freshman David steals a rival
school's
mascot, the fierce creature gets loose and
it's every
Hogan for himself. Meanwhile, Mark and
Willie enroll Sandy
in a computer dating club.
1:00pm Perfect Strangers #51 - The Lottery
When Balki (Bronson Pinchot) insists on
buying a lottery
ticket, Larry (Mark Linn-Baker) thinks that
it is just a
waste of money for something he can't
possibly win. But
during the draws, Larry realizes that Balki
picked the
right numbers and won $28 million but Balki
can't remember
where he hid the ticket.
1:30pm Head of the Class #22 - The Secret Life of
Arvid Engen
(SEASON ONE FINALE)
In this episode, Arvid starts to daydream
about Lori and
it affects his schoolwork.
2:00pm Waltons #12 - The Dust Bowl Cousins
The Walton's distant cousins arrive on the
mountain and
immediately upset everyone's lives with
their shiftless
dishonest ways.
3:00pm Scarecrow and Mrs. King #66 - All The
World's A Stage
Amanda takes a role in a play by an American
playwright to
find out why the Soviets want to back the
production.
4:00pm Sisters #49- Dear Georgie
Georgie is hired to write an advice column
for the local
newspaper; John thinks Teddy has fallen in
love with him;
Alex and Frankie accuse Truman of cheating
on their
mother.
5:00pm Life Goes On #22 - The Spring Fling
Becca finally gets asked to the dance by
Tyler, but she
has already accepted an invitation from
someone else. She
breaks it off with the first guy, but then
feels guilty
and dances with him.
6:00pm Third Watch #48 - After Time
From the creator of ER comes the
action-packed high energy
drama about New York City street cops,
paramedics and
firefighters. It's September 21, 2001 and
the squads
continue to battle through their emotions
and their
misgivings about their hero status, while
working double
shifts and spending every free moment at
"the pile"
searching for the missing. Kim returns to
work and teams
up with Doc, which allows an emotionally
frayed Alex to
return to paramedic duty; an exhausted Sully
attempts to
co-exist with his prospective in-laws while
he waits for
an opportunity to marry Tatiana.
7:00pm Eight is Enough #21 - The Return of Auntie V
Tom's eccentric sister, Auntie V, returns
for another
visit with the Bradfords and surprises Tom
and Abby with a
new house as a wedding present. The kids are
excited, but
as they fix up their old house for sale they
begin to fall
in love with it again. Nancy wants to expand
her horizons
by going on a cruise with Auntie V meanwhile
she falls for
the estate agent who is trying to sell the
Bradford house.
8:00pm Full House #45 - Tanner's Island
Danny takes the Tanners to Hawaii in honor
of their two
year anniversary of becoming a family.
8:30pm Fresh Prince #58 - A Night at the Oprah
When the Banks appear on Oprah's show and
fail to invite
Will on stage, it may cause Philip to lose
an election.
9:00pm Murphy Brown #84 - The Queen of Soul
In this episode Murphy has a chance to
interview the
"Queen of Soul". When Aretha's train is late, a
disappointed Murphy misses the opportunity
to meet her
idol. Guest starring: Aretha Franklin.
9:30pm John Larroquette #62 - Cosmetic Perjury
When Eggers consults a plastic surgeon for a
breast
reduction, John considers a nip-and-tuck
when fearing he
looks older than his 45 years.
10:00pm JR Returns: A Reunion Movie
Dallas was one of the longest-running
primetime soaps in
TV history. Years after J.R. Ewing lost
Ewing Oil and
apparently committed suicide, we learn that
he is alive
and well. He returns to Dallas, and plots
what could be
his greatest scheme: Bringing his family
back together and
regaining control of Ewing Oil from
arch-enemy Cliff
Barnes. Will he be successful?
12:00am Dallas #54 - A House Divided
This is the second highest-rated television
program of all
time, which posed the question, "Who shot
J.R.?" The
cartel members and J.R.'s banker are
financially ruined
after the nationalization of the Asian
fields. Seth Stone,
one of the cartel members, kills himself.
J.R. threatens
to drive Kristin and Alan Beam out of town
and he wants to
put Sue Ellen back into the sanitarium. Pam
and Bobby
leave Dallas when Bobby learns that J.R.
shut down an oil
field to stop Cliff from having his revenge
based on an
agreement between Digger and Jock which
Cliff has found
among Digger's papers. Then as the episode
draws to a
close, J.R. is shot.
1:00am Knots Landing #1 - (PILOT)
Running 14 years, Knots Landing is one of
the longest-
running dramas in television history. Gary
and Val move
to their new home in Knots Landing that Miss
Ellie Bought
for them, and then get acquainted with their new
neighbors. Sid's 18-year-old rebellious
daughter from a
previous marriage, Annie, is visiting the
Fairgates and is
causing havoc among the family. Val attempts
to fix
Annie's relationship with her father.
2:00am Falcon Crest #69 - Requiem
At first light, Melissa and Cole wait at the
rescue base
as the helicopters arrive with the survivors
of the
crashed plane. Angela disembarks, relaying
the news that
Philip Erikson is dead. The co-pilot and
Michael Ranson
were also killed in the crash. Richard
insists that the
cartel was responsible for the crash, while
Chase
maintains it was sabotage.
3:00am Scarecrow and Mrs. King #66 - All The
World's A
StageAmanda takes a role in a play by an
American
playwright to find out why the Soviets want
to back the
production.
4:00am Waltons #12 - The Dust Bowl Cousins
The Walton's distant cousins arrive on the
mountain and
immediately upset everyone's lives with
their shiftless
dishonest ways.
5:00am The Hogan Family - #54 Animal House (SEASON
FOUR PREMIERE)
When college freshman David steals a rival
school's
mascot, the fierce creature gets loose and
it's every
Hogan for himself. Meanwhile, Mark and
Willie enroll Sandy
in a computer dating club.
5:30am John Larroquette #62 - Cosmetic Perjury
When Eggers consults a plastic surgeon for a
breast
reduction, John considers a nip-and-tuck
when fearing he
looks older than his 45 years.
Sunday, June 13th
6:00am China Beach #24 - The Unquiet Earth
This riveting drama chronicling unsung
heroines of the
Vietnam War received 21 Emmy nominations and
four wins
including Best Supporting Actress for Marg
Helgenberger
(CSI) and Best Actress for Dana Delaney.
McMurphy and
K.C. are kidnapped by the Viet Cong and
taken underground
into a warren of tunnels, where their
captors expect
McMurphy to operate on their wounded leader.
7:00am La Femme Nikita #88 - Four Light Years Further
In this series based on the French film,
Peta Wilson stars
as a reluctant government assassin whose life is
controlled by a mysterious agency. Michael
and Nikita
have been traveling from place to place,
keeping one step
ahead of Section One's attempts to find
them. When George
is eliminated from the picture after leaking
intel to Red
Cell in order to discredit Section One, the
newly-
empowered Operations and Madeline finally
track down
Michael and Nikita.
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With 50-Hour Programming Marathon
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TV Land salutes Warner Bros. 50th anniversary with a 50 hour
programming marathon featuring episodes from Warner Bros.
television library, including the iconic superhero Wonder Woman.
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NEW YORK, NY USA 06/07/2005
http://www.prnewswire.com/
NEW YORK, June 7 /PRNewswire/ - Prepare to relive some of
the funniest,
happiest and most emotional moments from the past 50 years of
television as TV
Land presents a special 50 hour programming marathon featuring
landmark
episodes from the Warner Bros. television library. Beginning
Saturday, June
11th at 6am (ET/PT) through - Monday, June 13th at 8am (ET/PT),
TV Land
viewers will be treated to a 50th anniversary salute to Warner Bros.
Television featuring milestone episodes of Dallas, Eight is
Enough, The
Waltons, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Full House, in addition to
the rarely
seen episodes of Sugarfoot, Love, Sidney, John Larroquette and
many more.
Warner Bros. television programming has helped define the medium
throughout
every decade with the best westerns (Cheyenne), classic soaps
(Knots Landing),
memorable dramas (China Beach), iconic superheroes (Wonder Woman)
and shows
that turned actors into stars (Welcome Back, Kotter).
"We're thrilled to present this momentous marathon to our
viewers," states
Larry W. Jones, President, TV Land Nick at Nite. "These special
episodes will
bring back a lot of memories for television fans and we're happy
that Warner
Bros. chose us as their television partner."
Warner Home Video is also celebrating the 50th anniversary
of Warner Bros.
television with a yearlong promotion. This campaign will feature
DVD debuts
of series from every decade of Warner Bros. Television's history
including
many of the shows featured in the Nick at Nite marathon.
Hand-picked by TV Land, episodes in the marathon include:
Saturday, June 11th
6:00am Cheyenne #7117 (Episode #75) - Dual at Judas
Basin
This lavishly produced series starring Clint
Walker was
Warner Bros. first foray into television and
one of three
rotating Western series presented under the
banner "Warner
Bros. Presents." Cheyenne Bodie, Tom
"Sugarfoot" Brewster
and Bronco Layne match wits and bullets with
trapper Pike
Hanson, suspected of selling guns to
Indians. One false
move could be the end of their friend as
they play the
dangerous game of pinning the crime of
murder and treason
on a clever crook.
7:00am Bronco #6857 (Episode #27) - Flight from an
Empire
A spin-off of Cheyenne, this second in the
Western line-up
under the title "Warner Bros. Presents,"
features ex-
Confederate Army Captain Bronco Layne
wandering the West
in search of adventure. In this episode,
Bronco hires
refugees from the fallen Maximillian empire,
but has to
contend with bandits who are convinced a
mother and son
know what happened to $5 million in missing
gold.
8:00am Sugarfoot #1 - Brannigan's Boots
Action rides shotgun with humor in the
adventures of Tom
"Sugarfoot" Brewster in this third series in
the Western
line-up of "Warner Bros. Presents." Crooked
politicians in
Bluerock appoint Tom sheriff after noting
his poor
shooting aim. Tom, however, takes the job
seriously. When
a pretty girl who is watching him says he's
not man enough
to fill her father's boots, Tom sets out to
prove her
wrong and find her father's killer.
9:00am Maverick #5 - Gun Shy
Mixing traditional Western adventure and
good-natured
humor, this series stars James Garner as
Bret Maverick,
the man TV Guide named the best dramatic
actor of the
1950s. This spoof of Gunsmoke focuses on
Marshal Mort
Dooley (Ben Gage), a grim man with a gun
aimed at all
gamblers in general - and Maverick in
particular.
10:00am Wonder Woman #15 - Anschluss '77 (SEASON TWO
PREMIERE)
A super heroine from a lost tribe of Amazon
women, Wonder
Woman is called upon to battle a new and
more terrifying
Nazi menace when she and Steve Trevor are
assigned to
investigate a reunion of expatriate Nazis on
a small
tropical island.
11:00am The Adventures of Superman #36 - The Face
and the Voice
Everyone's favorite superhero fights a
never-ending battle
for truth, justice and the American way.
Superman is so
popular that a new feature film is currently in
production. In this episode when a
gangster's face is
altered to look like Superman he perpetrates
crimes and
lays the blame on our hero.
11:30am F Troop #37 - The Great Troop Robbery
A phony medicine man tries to blame his
thefts on Agarn
when he suffers a temporary memory loss in
this classic
Western comedy that features a crew of
hilarious, bumbling
cavalrymen somewhere west of the Missouri in
post-Civil
War days. This series was so popular it
attracted comedic
guest stars such as Milton Berle, Paul
Lynde, Don Rickles
and other comedy greats.
12:00pm Mayberry RFD #1 - Andy and Helen Get Married
Andy and Helen get married and Aunt Bea
becomes Sam's
housekeeper in the spin-off of the
tremendously popular
The Andy Griffith Show.
12:30pm Chico and The Man #43 - Too Many Crooks
Freddie Prinze broke new ground for Latinos
on TV co-
starring with Emmy Award winner Jack
Albertson. They play
an unlikely duo that work in a repair garage
in East Los
Angeles. When Ed (Albertson), not knowing
that he gave a
handout to a crook, finds out that that
money is what they
are after, all kinds of crooks from the
neighborhood
coming to him for a handout as well.
1:00pm Welcome Back Kotter #2 - The Election
It's the instant comedy hit that made a star
out of John
Travolta and popularized the characters of
Horshack and
Mr. Kotter. In this episode, Barbarino
(Travolta) is
running for Student Body President but his
campaign turns
into a disaster.
1:30pm Alice #30 - Sixty Minutes Man
In this series starring Linda Lavin, Alice
(Lavin)
suspects that a diner regular is really an
incognito
mobster. This sassy show about a
hard-working single mom
lasted an astounding nine seasons and broke
the mold for
women in sitcoms.
2:00pm Waltons #1 - The Foundlings (FIRST EPISODE)
In this heartwarming family drama that won
10 Emmy Awards,
two Golden Globes and numerous other awards,
the Waltons
take a young, abandoned girl into their
home. After
seeing a doctor, they discover the girl is deaf.
3:00pm Scarecrow and Mrs. King - #1 The First Time
(PILOT)
Special Agent "Scarecrow" enlists the aide
of Amanda King
(everybody's favorite "Angel" Kate Jackson),
a divorced
mother of two, for assistance in finding a
leak in a D.C.
organization. Mrs. King is then offered a
job with IFF and
continues to assist Lee "Scarecrow" Stetson
(Bruce
Boxleitner).
4:00pm Sisters - #1 Moving In, Moving Out, Moving
On (PILOT)
Sela Ward won her first Emmy for this series
about four
very different sisters that received five
Emmy and two
Golden Globe nominations. Reed sisters Alex,
Georgie,
Teddy and Frankie are brought together by
the sale of
their family home, an event that disturbs
their recently
widowed mom.
5:00pm Life Goes On #1 - (PILOT)
Patti Lupone and Kelli Martin star in this
critically
acclaimed, heartfelt drama about the daily
struggles of a
family coping with Down Syndrome. When
Corky tries to
mainstream into the 9th grade, the same
grade as Becca,
she worries that her brother may stop her
from getting to
the boy she really wants, Tyler Benchfield,
a star on the
football team.
6:00pm Jack and Bobby Episode TBD
What if you could watch the next great
American president
grow up? Oscar and Emmy-winner Christine
Lahti stars in
this critically acclaimed series from master
storytellers
Greg Berlanti (Everwood) and Thomas Schlamme
(The West
Wing).
7:00pm John Larroquette #1 - (PILOT)
Five-time Emmy Award-winner John Larroquette
stars as a
recovering alcoholic who takes the job of
night manager in
a seedy bus station, where a robbery and a
missing bus
test his resolve to stay sober.
7:30pm Murphy Brown #1 - Respect (PILOT)
The classiest comedy about the world of
broadcast news
garnered 62 Emmy Award nominations and 18
wins including
Best Comedy. Series star, Candice Bergen
was nominated
for seven Emmy Awards and won five. When
Murphy returns
to FYI after "drying out" at the Betty Ford
Clinic, she
discovers the show underwent changes while
she was gone,
including the addition of a beauty queen to
the anchor
desk and a new young executive producer. In
her first week
back she isn't sure whether she still has
her edge.
8:00pm Fresh Prince of Bel Air #7 - Def Poet's Society
Will Smith became a household name in this
Emmy and Golden
Globe- nominated series about a streetwise
kid from
Philadelphia who moves in with relatives in
Bel-Air. Will
joins his prep school's poetry club at his
Uncle Philip's
insistence, but he must enlist Geoffrey's
help when he is
called on to present a poem at a reading.
8:30pm Full House #1 - Our Very First Show (PILOT)
One of ABC's biggest comedy hits for eight
years starring
Bob Saget and John Stamos, it features Danny
Tanner
(Saget), widowed father of three young and
rambunctious
girls, who recruits his two buddies to move
in and help
him raise his kids.
9:00pm Eight is Enough - #11 Trial Marriage
Dick Van Patten stars as the father of eight
very
independent and different children in this
often comical,
always touching drama series. This episode
introduces
Betty Buckley as Sue "Abby" Abbott. Tommy
breaks his
ankles at a touch football game and will
miss school for
five weeks, while Mary moves in with her
boyfriend, a
young psychiatry student.
10:00pm Eight is Enough: Wedding
This made-for-television reunion film finds
eldest son
David on the brink of marriage to a
divorcee. However,
some of his sisters would prefer to see a
reunion with his
ex-wife Janet.
12:00am Falcon Crest - #68 Ashes to Ashes (SEASON
THREE FINALE)
In one of primetime's juiciest soaps, the
rich and greedy
fight for power and sex in this saga that
takes place the
winery Falcon Crest. At the charred
springhouse, the
coroner, after inspecting a ring and bone
fragments,
positively identifies the remains as
Julia's. In a note to
Lance, Julia's last request is to have her
ashes scattered
in Italy.
1:00am Scarecrow and Mrs. King - #1 The First Time
(PILOT)
Special Agent "Scarecrow" enlists the aide
of Amanda King
(everybody's favorite "Angel" Kate Jackson),
a divorced
mother of two, for assistance in finding a
leak in a D.C.
organization. Mrs. King is then offered a
job with IFF and
continues to assist Lee "Scarecrow" Stetson
(Bruce
Boxleitner).
2:00am Waltons #1 - The Foundlings (FIRST EPISODE)
In this heartwarming series, the Waltons
take a young,
abandoned girl into their home. After
seeing a doctor,
they discover the girl is deaf.
3:00am Wonder Woman #15 - Anschluss '77 (SEASON TWO
PREMIERE)
Wonder Woman is called upon to battle a new
and more
terrifying Nazi menace when she and Steve
Trevor are
assigned to investigate a reunion of
expatriate Nazis on a
small tropical island.
4:00am Valerie - #24 Bad Timing
This family-friendly series launched the
career of teen
heartthrob Jason Bateman (Arrested
Development). When
David prepares for a romantic tryst with an
old childhood
girlfriend, Valerie tries to prepare him for
manhood.
4:30am John Larroquette #1 - Pilot
John Larroquette, starring as a recovering
alcoholic,
takes the job of night manager in a seedy
bus station,
where a robbery and a missing bus test his
resolve to stay
sober.
5:00am Perfect Strangers #51 - The Lottery
It's a comedic clash of cultures when a
Mediterranean
immigrant comes to live with his
distantly-related
American cousin in this fish-out-of water
buddy comedy.
When Balki (Bronson Pinchot) insists on
buying a lottery
ticket, Larry thinks that it is just a waste
of money for
something he can't possibly win. But during
the draws,
Larry (Mark Linn-Baker) realizes that Balki
picked the
right numbers and won $28 million but Balki
can't remember
where he hid the ticket.
5:30am Head of the Class #22 - The Secret Life of
Arvid Engen
(SEASON ONE FINALE)
This popular comedy was the flip side of
Welcome Back
Kotter, with overachieving honor students
instead of
underachieving "sweathogs." In this episode,
Arvid starts
to daydream about Lori and it affects his
schoolwork.
Sunday, June 12th
6:00am 77 Sunset Strip #6615 (Episode #36) - The
Kookie Caper
The prototype glamour detective series made
Ed "Kookie"
Burns a teen idol. In this episode, Kookie
befriends a
pretty teenager who is kidnapped, making him
think that
she is a runaway heiress and causing Bailey
and Spencer to
become involved.
7:00am Surfside Six #7211 (Episode #3) - The Clown
Before Don Johnson made Miami "cool" in
Miami Vice, Troy
Donahue and friends were headquartered on a
houseboat
crusading to keep Miami crime-free. When a
hated
dictator, living in exile in Miami, is
murdered during a
birthday party for his son, Lt. Snedigar
thinks he has an
open-and-shut case against Pepe the Clown,
who performed
at the party. But Pepe insists he was not
at the party
and Dave has to prove to the skeptical
policeman someone
else went to the party in Pepe's costume.
8:00am Hawaiian Eye #1 - Total Eclipse
They called it "77 Sunset Strip of Hawaii"
as a trio of
detectives found intrigue and adventure on
the exotic
islands of Hawaii. In this episode Jean
Morgan hires
Tracy to find solid proof of her innocence
while her
stepson, Tony Morgan hires Tom to find
conclusive proof of
her guilt.
9:00am FBI #3 - The Monster
Based on actual F.B.I. cases and told with
full Bureau
cooperation, this exciting series focuses on
true stores
of counterfeiting, extortion and organized
crime. In this
episode, case file #76-3342-J- Francis
Jerome - Escaped
Federal Prisoner.
10:00am Harry O #38 - Past Imperfect
David Janssen stars as Harry Orwell, an
ex-policeman
pensioned from the force after an injury and
now solving
only cases that interest him. Harry's
girl-next-door is
none other than Farrah Fawcett. In this
episode, a
woman's former boyfriend returns from prison
and wants the
old suitcase he left with her, which he
claims is worth
$300,000.
11:00am Spenser For Hire - #18 In A Safe Place
Before Law & Order, before CSI, there was
Spenser for
Hire, starring TV favorite Robert Urich,
which spun off no
less than four made-for-TV movies. Spenser
and Susan look
for a Mexican labor organizer who has
suspiciously
disappeared.
12:00pm Love, Sidney #1 - Surprise Party (SERIES FINALE)
Tony Randall stars as a middle-aged
commercial artist who
helps raise his best friend's daughter. In
this episode,
an opera star agrees to perform at Patti's
birthday party,
mercifully replacing Sidney's terrible clown
act.
12:30pm The Hogan Family - #54 Animal House (SEASON
FOUR PREMIERE)
It's the family-friendly series that
launched the career
of teen heartthrob Jason Bateman (Arrested
Development).
When college freshman David steals a rival
school's
mascot, the fierce creature gets loose and
it's every
Hogan for himself. Meanwhile, Mark and
Willie enroll Sandy
in a computer dating club.
1:00pm Perfect Strangers #51 - The Lottery
When Balki (Bronson Pinchot) insists on
buying a lottery
ticket, Larry (Mark Linn-Baker) thinks that
it is just a
waste of money for something he can't
possibly win. But
during the draws, Larry realizes that Balki
picked the
right numbers and won $28 million but Balki
can't remember
where he hid the ticket.
1:30pm Head of the Class #22 - The Secret Life of
Arvid Engen
(SEASON ONE FINALE)
In this episode, Arvid starts to daydream
about Lori and
it affects his schoolwork.
2:00pm Waltons #12 - The Dust Bowl Cousins
The Walton's distant cousins arrive on the
mountain and
immediately upset everyone's lives with
their shiftless
dishonest ways.
3:00pm Scarecrow and Mrs. King #66 - All The
World's A Stage
Amanda takes a role in a play by an American
playwright to
find out why the Soviets want to back the
production.
4:00pm Sisters #49- Dear Georgie
Georgie is hired to write an advice column
for the local
newspaper; John thinks Teddy has fallen in
love with him;
Alex and Frankie accuse Truman of cheating
on their
mother.
5:00pm Life Goes On #22 - The Spring Fling
Becca finally gets asked to the dance by
Tyler, but she
has already accepted an invitation from
someone else. She
breaks it off with the first guy, but then
feels guilty
and dances with him.
6:00pm Third Watch #48 - After Time
From the creator of ER comes the
action-packed high energy
drama about New York City street cops,
paramedics and
firefighters. It's September 21, 2001 and
the squads
continue to battle through their emotions
and their
misgivings about their hero status, while
working double
shifts and spending every free moment at
"the pile"
searching for the missing. Kim returns to
work and teams
up with Doc, which allows an emotionally
frayed Alex to
return to paramedic duty; an exhausted Sully
attempts to
co-exist with his prospective in-laws while
he waits for
an opportunity to marry Tatiana.
7:00pm Eight is Enough #21 - The Return of Auntie V
Tom's eccentric sister, Auntie V, returns
for another
visit with the Bradfords and surprises Tom
and Abby with a
new house as a wedding present. The kids are
excited, but
as they fix up their old house for sale they
begin to fall
in love with it again. Nancy wants to expand
her horizons
by going on a cruise with Auntie V meanwhile
she falls for
the estate agent who is trying to sell the
Bradford house.
8:00pm Full House #45 - Tanner's Island
Danny takes the Tanners to Hawaii in honor
of their two
year anniversary of becoming a family.
8:30pm Fresh Prince #58 - A Night at the Oprah
When the Banks appear on Oprah's show and
fail to invite
Will on stage, it may cause Philip to lose
an election.
9:00pm Murphy Brown #84 - The Queen of Soul
In this episode Murphy has a chance to
interview the
"Queen of Soul". When Aretha's train is late, a
disappointed Murphy misses the opportunity
to meet her
idol. Guest starring: Aretha Franklin.
9:30pm John Larroquette #62 - Cosmetic Perjury
When Eggers consults a plastic surgeon for a
breast
reduction, John considers a nip-and-tuck
when fearing he
looks older than his 45 years.
10:00pm JR Returns: A Reunion Movie
Dallas was one of the longest-running
primetime soaps in
TV history. Years after J.R. Ewing lost
Ewing Oil and
apparently committed suicide, we learn that
he is alive
and well. He returns to Dallas, and plots
what could be
his greatest scheme: Bringing his family
back together and
regaining control of Ewing Oil from
arch-enemy Cliff
Barnes. Will he be successful?
12:00am Dallas #54 - A House Divided
This is the second highest-rated television
program of all
time, which posed the question, "Who shot
J.R.?" The
cartel members and J.R.'s banker are
financially ruined
after the nationalization of the Asian
fields. Seth Stone,
one of the cartel members, kills himself.
J.R. threatens
to drive Kristin and Alan Beam out of town
and he wants to
put Sue Ellen back into the sanitarium. Pam
and Bobby
leave Dallas when Bobby learns that J.R.
shut down an oil
field to stop Cliff from having his revenge
based on an
agreement between Digger and Jock which
Cliff has found
among Digger's papers. Then as the episode
draws to a
close, J.R. is shot.
1:00am Knots Landing #1 - (PILOT)
Running 14 years, Knots Landing is one of
the longest-
running dramas in television history. Gary
and Val move
to their new home in Knots Landing that Miss
Ellie Bought
for them, and then get acquainted with their new
neighbors. Sid's 18-year-old rebellious
daughter from a
previous marriage, Annie, is visiting the
Fairgates and is
causing havoc among the family. Val attempts
to fix
Annie's relationship with her father.
2:00am Falcon Crest #69 - Requiem
At first light, Melissa and Cole wait at the
rescue base
as the helicopters arrive with the survivors
of the
crashed plane. Angela disembarks, relaying
the news that
Philip Erikson is dead. The co-pilot and
Michael Ranson
were also killed in the crash. Richard
insists that the
cartel was responsible for the crash, while
Chase
maintains it was sabotage.
3:00am Scarecrow and Mrs. King #66 - All The
World's A
StageAmanda takes a role in a play by an
American
playwright to find out why the Soviets want
to back the
production.
4:00am Waltons #12 - The Dust Bowl Cousins
The Walton's distant cousins arrive on the
mountain and
immediately upset everyone's lives with
their shiftless
dishonest ways.
5:00am The Hogan Family - #54 Animal House (SEASON
FOUR PREMIERE)
When college freshman David steals a rival
school's
mascot, the fierce creature gets loose and
it's every
Hogan for himself. Meanwhile, Mark and
Willie enroll Sandy
in a computer dating club.
5:30am John Larroquette #62 - Cosmetic Perjury
When Eggers consults a plastic surgeon for a
breast
reduction, John considers a nip-and-tuck
when fearing he
looks older than his 45 years.
Sunday, June 13th
6:00am China Beach #24 - The Unquiet Earth
This riveting drama chronicling unsung
heroines of the
Vietnam War received 21 Emmy nominations and
four wins
including Best Supporting Actress for Marg
Helgenberger
(CSI) and Best Actress for Dana Delaney.
McMurphy and
K.C. are kidnapped by the Viet Cong and
taken underground
into a warren of tunnels, where their
captors expect
McMurphy to operate on their wounded leader.
7:00am La Femme Nikita #88 - Four Light Years Further
In this series based on the French film,
Peta Wilson stars
as a reluctant government assassin whose life is
controlled by a mysterious agency. Michael
and Nikita
have been traveling from place to place,
keeping one step
ahead of Section One's attempts to find
them. When George
is eliminated from the picture after leaking
intel to Red
Cell in order to discredit Section One, the
newly-
empowered Operations and Madeline finally
track down
Michael and Nikita.
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