Weekend, July 4-7, 1997_|_BY JOYCE MILLMAN
F O U R T H * O F * J U L Y What a country! What a TV schedule! A 13-hour Batman Marathon (7 a.m., FX) features 26 episodes of the campy series starring Adam West, Burt Ward and a who's who of celebrity villains. Fireworks, Old Glory and Kenny Rogers: Why, it must be A Capitol Fourth (check local listings, PBS). The Boston Pops, conducted by hammy Keith Lockhart (aka Lord of the Pops) does its annual Independence Day concert, live from the banks of the River Charles in Pops Goes the Fourth! (4:30 p.m. PDT/7:30 p.m. EDT, A&E). Patrick Duffy and Timothy Busfield run down What's Right with America (8 p.m., CBS), a salute to the Bill of Rights. Samuel L. Jackson narrates the documentary The Journey of the African-American Athlete (8 p.m., HBO). Celebrate Roswell Day with the 1975 TV movie The UFO Incident (7 p.m. EDT/8 p.m. PDT, Sci-Fi Channel), starring Estelle Parsons and James Earl Jones as abductees Betty and Barney Hill. Will Smith and Bill Pullman make the world safe for (human) democracy in the pyrotechnic epic Independence Day (9 p.m., HBO). S P O R T S Wimbledon tennis: Men's Semifinal (9 a.m. PDT/Noon EDT Fri., NBC); Women's Final (6 a.m. PDT/9 a.m. EDT Sat., NBC); Men's Final (6 a.m. PDT/9 a.m. EDT Sun., NBC). Baseball: Pirates at Cardinals (3 p.m. Fri., ESPN); Yankees at Blue Jays (7 p.m. Fri., ESPN); Mariners at Angels (10 p.m. Fri., 8 p.m. Sun., ESPN). WNBA: New York Liberty at Houston Comets (8 p.m. Fri., Lifetime). S E R I E S 3rd Rock from the Sun (8 p.m. Sun., NBC) repeats its entry into the "Greatest Episodes of All Time" list -- the one where the Solomons check into a hotel and discover room service. The X-Files (9 p.m. Sun., Fox) reruns the parody episode "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space,'" in which Charles Nelson Reilly plays an author who writes a bestseller about an alien visitation. Watch for Alex Trebek as a Man in Black. The new kids' game show Figure it Out (6 p.m. Mon., Nickelodeon) is a junior version of "What's My Line?" with grown-up celebrity panelists trying to identify a kid contestant's hobby, talent or invention. Olympic swimmer Summer Sanders hosts. Ruby Wax (8:30 p.m. Mon., Fox) visits Sarah Ferguson, Tom Hanks and Tammy Faye Bakker. S P E C I A L S William Shatner hosts TV Guide Looks at Science Fiction (8 p.m. Sat., USA). Beck, Sheryl Crow, Smashing Pumpkins and Radiohead are among the performers on the Independence Day Concert from the Glastonbury Festival (11:30 p.m. Sat., ABC). Kids talk about space exploration and the possibility of extraterrestrial life in Nick News Special Edition: Are We Alone? (8:30 p.m. Sun., Nickelodeon), which is not to be confused with Aliens: Are We Alone? (9 p.m. Sun., Discovery), a look at NASA's SETI project. Anjelica Huston stars as the devoted mother of an autistic child in the 1993 miniseries Family Pictures (9 p.m. Sun., Mon., ABC). World of Discovery (8 p.m. Mon., ABC) reruns "Lion: Africa's King of the Beasts." Cynthia Gibb plays a newlywed reporter who develops a little problem while researching a story on gambling in the new TV movie High Stakes (9 p.m. Mon., Lifetime). T A L K The only fresh lineup Friday belongs to David Letterman
(CBS), who hosts Martin Short and the triumphant return of Manny the
Hippie. On Monday, the guest list includes Tim Robbins on a new
Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated); Rosie O'Donnell and Cracker on a rerun
of David Letterman (CBS); French Stewart and top NBA draft pick Tim
Duncan on a new Jay Leno (NBC); and Erica Jong and Mary Chapin
Carpenter on a new Tom Snyder (CBS). All times are EDT unless noted. Check local listings. BLUEGLOW FOR Thursday, July 3, 1997 Bookmark http://www.salonmagazine.com/media/blueglow.html |
