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SALON'S TV PICKS FOR
THURSDAY, DEC. 10, 1998
BY JOYCE MILLMAN

S E R I E S

On Friends (8 p.m., NBC), Ross is a little tense, Joey keeps screwing up when he tries to cover for Monica and Chandler, and Rachel steals Phoebe's thunder in a literature course. Roz asks Frasier for a loan, then squanders it, on Frasier (9 p.m., NBC). As the hospital celebrates its 100th anniversary on ER (10 p.m., NBC), Carter reluctantly plays tour guide for a 100-year-old woman who was born there, and Hathaway cares for a boy who is being stalked by a stranger. 48 Hours (10 p.m., CBS) has a scheduled segment on modern royalty.

S P E C I A L S

ABC reruns 1968: The Whole World Was Watching (9 p.m., ABC), a news special chronicling such tumultuous events as the Tet Offensive and the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. Now that Rick Schroder has gotten off to a decent start on "NYPD Blue," it probably wouldn't hurt his credibility if viewers saw him in Ebenezer (9 p.m., TNT), a new cable western based on "A Christmas Carol" and co-starring Jack Palance as Scrooge. Or would it?

T A L K

Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan and cast of "You've Got Mail"
David Letterman (CBS) Meg Ryan, Whitney Houston
Jay Leno (NBC) Gwyneth Paltrow, Roberto Benigni, R.E.M.
Charlie Rose (PBS) Helena Bonham Carter
Politically Incorrect (ABC) Elizabeth Perkins, filmmaker Lloyd Kaufman
SALON | Dec. 10, 1998

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Blue Glow for Wednesday, Dec. 9, 1998