Weekly TV Picks
SUNDAY, OCT. 1
Hell’s House
Familyland TV, 3:30 p.m.
Early in their careers, Pat O’Brien and Bette Davis starred in this 1932 movie drama about a youth wrongly convicted of crime and sent to a cruelly run reformatory.
SUNDAY, OCT. 1
The Queen Family
PBS, 10:30 p.m.
Subtitled
“Appalachian Tradition and Back Porch Music,” this 30-minute documentary tells
the story of Irish American musician Mary Jane Queen, 92, and her eight
children in western
MONDAY, OCT. 2
The Real West:
Stagecoach and
the Pony Express
History Channel, 7 a.m.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 4
Secrets of the Dead:
Umbrella Assassin
PBS, 8 p.m.
Communism’s
100 million murder victims to date include exiled Bulgarian journalist Georgi Markov, 49, slain in
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 4
EWTN, 10 p.m.
Historical
film footage and interviews tell how Bishop Giuseppe Nicolini
and Father Aldo Brunacci, following secret orders
from Pope Pius XII, hid many Jews in the monasteries and convents of
German-occupied
THURSDAY, OCT. 5
Life on the Rock
EWTN, 8 p.m.
Guests Greg and Jennifer Willits lead Rosary Army, a group that makes and gives away all-twine, knotted Rosaries, one per family. The group distributes thousands of these to military personnel, prisoners, hospital patients and others, and offers online rosary-making workshops and videos.
THURSDAYS, OCT. 5-26
Remaking
American Medicine
PBS, 10 p.m.
This four-part weekly series explores how to protect patients from medical mistakes and infections and how to improve relationships between doctors, patients and families.
SATURDAY, OCT. 7
I Missed Flight 93
A&E, 6 p.m.
Three people booked onto United Flight 93 on Sept. 11, 2001, tell how they came to miss the plane that day and thus avoid the fatal hijacking. Advisory: TV-PG.
Dan Engler writes from
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- October 1-7, 2006