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SALON'S TV PICKS FOR
THURSDAY, SEPT. 3, 1998
BY JOYCE MILLMAN

S E R I E S

Tennis great Billie Jean King is profiled on a new Biography (8 p.m. EDT/9 PDT, A&E). Rachel wanders down memory lane after she receives her invitation to Ross' wedding on a clip-filled rerun of Friends (8 p.m., NBC). Frasier (8:30 p.m., NBC) reruns the episode where a newly sexy Lilith seeks comfort after her most recent husband leaves her for a man. A well-scripted farce. Fox Files (9 p.m., Fox) reports on people who flirt with danger for fun. On the next to last prime-time rerun of Seinfeld (9 p.m., NBC), George keeps showing up for work at Play Now after he's been fired, Kramer hires a personal assistant to help him run Kramerica Industries and Jerry's juvenile ways cost him yet another relationship. ABC News Summer Thursday (9 p.m., ABC) updates a report on the 1996 murder of an Oklahoma cheerleader. On a rerun of ER (10 p.m., NBC), Benton and Carla clash over Reese's baptism and Michael Rapaport guests as a burned security guard. Ted Koppel finally escapes from the big house as Nightline in Prime Time (10 p.m., ABC) concludes. This episode is about capitol punishment. 48 Hours (10 p.m., CBS) updates a 1997 report on spinal cord injury research that includes a profile of Christopher Reeve.

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On Vis-a-Vis (check local times, PBS), two black police officers, one from Philadelphia and one from Soweto, South Africa, discuss crime, racism and social ills.

T A L K

Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Matthew Perry, Marian Wright Edelman (rerun)
David Letterman (CBS) Ray Romano
Jay Leno (NBC) Jerry Seinfeld, John F. Kennedy Jr. (rerun)
Charlie Rose (PBS) Barry Levinson, Paul Thomas Anderson (rerun)
Politically Incorrect (ABC) Rob Reiner, Bobcat Goldthwait (rerun)
Conan O'Brien (NBC) Matthew Broderick, Emeril Lagasse (rerun)
SALON | Sept. 3, 1998

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