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TV Picks Oct.12-18, 2008
BY Daniel J. Engler
October 12-18, 2008 Issue |
Posted 10/7/08 at 12:40 PM
SUNDAYS,
FRIDAYS
Feeling and Healing Our Emotions
FAMILYLAND TV At 3:30
a.m. Sundays and 10 a.m. Fridays, Dr. Philip Sutton and Apostolate for Family
Consecration cofounder Jerry Coniker discuss ways we can recognize our emotions
and deal with them.
MONDAY,
9 p.m.
Discovery Investigates: Siberian Apocalypse
DISCOVERY CHANNEL Three
scientists visit the remote Tunguska River region of Siberia to try to settle
the still-undetermined cause of the massive explosion that hit there at 7:17
a.m. on June 30, 1908. Whether an asteroid, meteorite, comet or something else,
the “event” left no crater but knocked down millions of trees in an area 50
miles across.
TUESDAY,
8 p.m.
Nova: Space Shuttle Disaster
PBS Astronauts,
relatives and accident probers discuss the space shuttle Columbia’s
disintegration over Texas during re-entry on Feb. 1, 2003, and the loss of the
seven crew members. Advisory: TV-PG.
WEDNESDAY,
9 p.m., live
Third Presidential Debate
MAJOR NETWORKS This
third and final debate between John McCain and Barack Obama is to take place at
Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. The topics will be domestic and economic
policy.
THURSDAY,
8 p.m., live
Life on the Rock
EWTN Tonight’s guest is
Billy Valentine, head of Catholic Students for McCain at the Franciscan
University of Steubenville, Ohio.
THURSDAY,
8 p.m., 11 p.m.
Polar Bears Uncovered
ANIMAL PLANET Grown-up
male polar bears can weigh 1,500 lbs. and stand almost 10 feet high, but as
newborns, they are just 14 inches long. This show gives us a cub’s-eye view of
starting life in an ice den and growing up in the Arctic. TV-G.
FRIDAY,
5:30 p.m.
If Walls Could Talk: Norman Rockwell House
HOME & GARDEN TV
This episode takes us to the Arlington, Vt., home where the late artist Don
Trachte Sr. hid the original of Norman Rockwell’s painting “Breaking Home Ties”
(1954) behind a wall and hung in its place a copy he had painted. Houses in
Lebanon, Ind., and Wallace, Idaho, are also visited.
SATURDAY,
8 p.m.
Black Blizzard
HISTORY Adding to
Americans’ misery during the Great Depression, a years-long drought turned
over-farmed fields in the Midwest into dust mounds, and that in turn, spawned
“black blizzards”: gigantic and violent dust storms that buried roads and cars
and deposited six-foot sand and dust drifts in their wake. Advisory: TV-PG.
Dan
Engler writes from
Santa Barbara, California.
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