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SALON'S TV PICKS FOR
THURSDAY, OCT. 29, 1998
BY JOYCE MILLMAN

S E R I E S

In case you missed it Sunday, there's another showing of this year's "Treehouse of Horror IX" Halloween episode of The Simpsons (8 p.m., Fox), featuring guest appearances by Jerry Springer, Ed McMahon and Regis and Kathie Lee. Scary! A six-episode Celebrity Deathmatch marathon (8 p.m., MTV) begins with David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson taking on Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. Teri Hatcher plays the neurotic new girlfriend on Frasier (9 p.m., NBC). Halloween comes to ER (10 p.m., NBC) with some tricks and treats.

S P O R T S

Hockey:
Red Wings at Blues (8 p.m., ESPN2)

S P E C I A L S

Weather permitting, John Glenn becomes the oldest person to travel into space as the Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off (1 p.m., CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, Fox News Channel, Discovery Channel). The new TV movie Inferno (8 p.m., UPN), starring Jonathan "Mr. UPN" LaPaglia, is a thriller about a solar flare heading for Los Angeles. The Masked Magician will be unmasked (or so they claim) on Breaking the Magician's Code 4 (9 p.m., Fox). The made-for-TV thriller Wes Craven Presents 'Don't Look Down' (9 p.m., ABC) (yes, that's the title) stars Megan Ward as a woman who develops a fear of heights after her sister falls to her death. Somebody wants her to suffer a similar fate -- but who? Charlayne Hunter-Gault examines the political and ethical implications of the global economy in Globalization and Human Rights (check local times, PBS).

T A L K

Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Christian Slater, Backstreet Boys
David Letterman (CBS) Holly Hunter, Hunter S. Thompson, Garbage
Jay Leno (NBC) Roseanne, Tate Donovan
Charlie Rose (PBS) Oprah Winfrey
Politically Incorrect (ABC) Tom Arnold, Frances Fisher
Conan O'Brien (NBC) Ray Romano, Trey Parker, Reese Witherspoon
SALON | Oct. 29, 1998

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