Blue Glow

Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, Nov. 2, 1999

Published November 2, 1999 5:00PM (EST)

Series

On Buffy the Vampire Slayer (8 p.m., WB), Buffy attends a beer blast where the brew is laced with a demonic little something that brings out drinkers' primal instincts. Must be Heineken. JAG (8 p.m., CBS) goes "X-File"-y with an episode in which the officer in charge of a psychic research project is charged with manslaughter when a subject commits suicide. Dilbert (8:30 p.m., UPN) has its season premiere. Dilbert revisits the mall where Dadbert abandoned him as a child, causing lifelong emotional trauma. Buck Henry and Jeri Ryan provide the guest voices. Cordelia moves into a new apartment, which happens to be haunted, on Angel (9 p.m., WB). Jeremy's Y2K readiness test is a disaster on Sports Night (9:30 p.m., ABC). On Judging Amy (10 p.m., CBS), Amy presides over a child custody dispute between white foster parents and a black biological grandparent. Also, Maxine and a colleague (guest Marlee Matlin) disagree in a case involving a hearing-impaired child. Grace and Zoe meet their dad's new girlfriend, and Rick and Karen are thrown into close quarters when they travel to Eli's basketball tournament on Once and Again (10 p.m., ABC).

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Sports

Hockey:

Kings at Penguins (8 p.m., ESPN)

Basketball:

76ers at Spurs (8 p.m., TNT)

Lakers at Jazz (10:30 p.m., TNT)

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Talk

Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Luke Perry, Phil Collins

David Letterman (CBS) Lauren Holly, Rage Against the Machine

Jay Leno (NBC) Dolly Parton, Scott Foley

Charlie Rose (PBS) Kay Redfield Jamison, Pete Hamill

Politically Incorrect (ABC) Henry Louis Gates, Stephanie Miller

Conan O'Brien (NBC) Alan Cumming, Kevin Smith


By Joyce Millman

Joyce Millman is a writer living in the Bay Area.

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