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TNN has a ST:TNG marathon in the afternoon yet again.
Tigers at White Sox (WGN, 1pm).
Steve Buscemi guest stars as Gordon Pratt in the “End Game” episode of Homicide: Life on the Street (Court TV, 3pm). Great episode. Watch closely.
Classic Conversations: Tony Gwynn (ESPN Classic, 3pm).
Tony Gwynn gets his 3,000th career hit on 7/6/99 in a Padres/Expos game (ESPN Classic, 4pm).
One of a kind Tree Houses (HGTV, 4pm).
100 Greatest Dance Songs (VH1, 4pm-9pm).
Eggplant episode of Good Eats (Food Network, 5:30pm).
Cannes Film Festival Closing Ceremony (Bravo, 6pm and 11pm).
John Ritter crosses the country in seach of TV trivia, lore, locations, etc. on TV Road Trip (Travel Channel, 7pm-9pm; 10pm-midnight).
New episode of Nero Wolfe (A&E, 7pm and 11pm).
Yankees at Red Sox (ESPN, 7pm).
The two-part episode of Doc (PAX, 7pm-9pm) that honored the people who died on September 11th. FWIW, my parents liked this episode (I haven’t seen any episodes of this series). Billy Ray Cyrus stars as a former country doctor who now works and lives in New York City.
If you were busy watching Alias (ABC, 8pm) or The X-Files or something else during the regular season and missed Law & Order: Criminal Intent (NBC, 8pm), now’s a great time to check this show out. Among my favorite series this year and the best of the new shows this past season. Griffin Dunne guest stars in this episode as a lawyer who likes (and likes to kill) petite women.
Reruns of Alias (ABC, 8pm) and The Practice (ABC, 9pm). Miss these shows during the regular season? Now might be a fun time to catch up. Alias is fun, more fun than (another show of it’s ilk) 24. (Alias episode is “Reckoning,” wherein Syd goes undercover in a mental institution).
Rerun of Law & Order (NBC, 9pm). Episode is “Undercovered,” from this season.
Both parts of “The Best of Both Worlds” episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNN, 9pm-11pm). Ah, good times. Remember when Picard got assimulated? Yup, me too.
Rerun of this week’s episode of The Shield (FX, 9pm).
Anyone else think that the new show Miracles sounds just like Mysterious Ways (PAX, 10pm)? I’m just saying.
Eric Stoltz guest starred in the season finale of Law & Order: Special Victim’s Unit (USA, 10pm).
Rerun of the season finale of 24 (FX, 10pm).
Monday, May 26, 2002
Best Bets | Daytime | Primetime | Late Night
Spider-Man cartoon (ABC Family Channel, 6am-8am).
Expect plenty of classic war movies on both TCM and AMC all day.
And, of course, there are lots of marathons (many noted below).
Star Trek (Sci-Fi, 6am-10pm).
Law & Order (A&E, 7am-3am).
JAG (USA, 7am-8pm).
Ed, Edd ‘n Eddy (Cartoon Network, 7am-4pm).
Baywatch (TNN, 8am-8pm).
Morey Amsterdam and Rose Marie guest star on Caroline In The City (WGN, 8:30am).
Jennifer Lopez, Billy Campbell on The View (ABC, check your local listings).
Saturday Night Live (E!, 9am-7pm).
The Christopher Lowell Show (Discovery, 9am-5pm).
The X-Files (FX, 10am-). Episodes are “The Host” (10am), “Musings of A Cigarette Smoking Man” (11am), “The Post-Modern Prometheus (Noon), “Bunghoney” (1pm), “Bad Blood” (2pm), “Triangle” (3pm), “Arcadia” (4pm), “The Unnatural” (5pm), “Small Potatoes” (6pm), “Home” (7pm), X-Files: Fight The Future (FX, 8pm), “War of the Coprophages” (10:30pm), and “X-Cops” (FX, 11:30pm) My favorites from this list? “The Unnatural,” “War of the Coprophages,” “Post-Modern Prometheus,” “Bad Blood,” and “Small Potatoes”. Though all of ‘em are pretty good (and stand alone, actually).
Trading Spaces (TLC, 11am-2am).
I forget whether I mentioned it when Remington Steele switched timeslots, it now airs weekdays at Noon on PAX.
Follow That Food (Food Network, Noon-7pm).
Marlins at Mets (ESPN2, Noon).
Diamondbacks at Giants (ESPN, 3pm).
Cardinals at Astros (ESPN2, 3pm).
Linda Dano, Josh Duhamel, Mimi Hines on a new Rosie O’Donnell Show (syndicated, check your local listings).
Oprah’s book club looks at Sula on a rerun of Oprah (syndicated, check your local listings). Includes an interview with Toni Morrison.
Pilot movie of the brilliant TV series China Beach (VH1, 4pm). Dana Delaney, Marg Helgenberg, Robert Picardo, Concetta Tomei, Brian Wimmer, Michael Boatman, Jeff Kober, Nan Woods all star in it.
Cubs at Pirates (WGN, 6pm).
Yankees at White Sox (ESPN2, 7pm).
Tom Brokaw narrates and hosts a look at events in the Pacific during World War II: The Price for Peace (NBC, 7pm-9pm).
Law & Order (TNT, 7pm-11pm).
TV Tales: Saturday Night Live (E!, 7pm-9pm).
Daryl and Yvonne discover a joint in Sydney’s jacket on The Hughleys (UPN, 7pm). One of the funniest sitcoms on the air, it’s a pity UPN didn’t pick it up for next season.
Boston Public (FOX, 7pm) really got good this year, IMHO. This is a rerun of “Chapter 28,” for those keeping score, originally aired in early December. Ronnie (Jeri Ryan) gets involved in a statuatory rape case, Principal Harper’s daughter gets into trouble involving drugs. Lynn Whitfield guest stars.
Willie Nelson and Friends: Stars and Guitars (USA, 8pm-10pm, 11pm-1am). A concert from Nashville, Tennesee.
I missed a lot of episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond (CBS, 8pm) during the regular season because I was watching other things (Angel, Ally McBeal), but I did see this very funny episode involving the family’s Christmas letter. Did I mention it’s very funny? And that this is still one of the funniest sitcoms on the air? It’s on the list of shows I want to catch this summer.
A “psychic hacker” causes Cordelia to have very traumatic visions in the “That Vision-Thing” episode of Angel (WB, 8pm).
Jon Bon Jovi, French Stewart, John Michael Higgins guest star in an episode of Ally McBeal (FOX, 8pm) that wasn’t written by David E. Kelley. From January of this year– Ally buys a house, Ally meets the boring Jon Bon Jovi character for the first time.
Now that was a ballgame: Game 6 of the 1991 World Series: Braves/Twins (ESPN Classic, 8pm and midnight). At the Metrodome in Minneapolis. My parents were at that game (I stayed home so my Mom could go, but went to game 7 with my Dad).
TV Tales: M*A*S*H (E!, 9pm).
Rockies at Padres (ESPN, 9pm).
Hall and Oates on Musicians (Bravo, 9pm and midnight). Yes, really.
Ernest Borgnine guest stars in a new episode of Family Law (CBS, 9pm). Show has been cancelled, but there were two remaining episodes yet to air (including this one).
The early episodes of Crossing Jordan (NBC, 9pm) weren’t very good. Like this rerun of the third episode involving the murder of a corrections officer in prison. But you can still see the promise of the show, especially in the supporting characters. Once the series stopped showing too much of Jordan’s Dad and Jordan herself, it started to get somewhere.
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart isn’t on at all this week.
Debra Messing, Wilco on a rerun of The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 10:35pm).
The Rock, Chris Matthews, Glenn Lewis on a rerun of The Tonight Show (NBC, 10:35pm).
Josh Hartnett, Bob Balaban, Greg Behrendt on a rerun of Late Night with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:35pm).
Ben Affleck, Chris Webber, Angelique Kidjo on a rerun of The Late Late Show (CBS, check your local listings).
Jay Thomas, Jane Seymour, Arlen Specter, Tavis Smiley on a rerun of Politically Incorrect (ABC, check your local listings).
Sofia Vergara, The Corrs, N.E.R.D. on a rerun of Last Call with Carson Daly (NBC, check your local listings).
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