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- James Burke explores key moments in Western History where new knowledge in science changed the way the modern Western world thinks.
- Chris works at an agency writing TV commercials. One day on his train commute, he suffers a heart attack. Chris and his wife vow to reconsider what is important to them after he is released from the hospital.
- The first of a very short series, since it would become a TV series in 1949, based on the radio program that ran on CBS from 1944 through 1949. The premise of the program was intended as a satire and parody version of the "intellecutual" quiz shows on radio in the 40's, such as "Information Please" and "The Quiz Kids." The show---radio,film and TV (for those who seem to be convinced that the TV program popped up on its own in 1949 and there were no other incarnations)--- was "emceed", as it was, by long-time Vaudevillian Tom Howard, whose function was to ask a simple question of the panelists, i. e., ..."from what kind of mines do we get gold," "who came first,Henry VIII or Henry I", "what do the letters 'U.S.'stand for on United States mail boxes" and such. No question in the history---radio, film, TV---of the show was ever answered correctly by panelists George Sherlton, an old vaudeville-hoofer pardner of Howard's; Lulu McConnell, a performer with a sawblade voice who pre-dated all of the Booths and Barrymores in show business; and Harry McNaughton, a Britisher who looked down on johnny-come-latelys such as Stan Laurel and Charlie Chaplin. The panel usually spent an amazing amount of time trying to determine just exactly what the question was before taking off on tangents not remotely connected to the question. "It Pays To Be Ignorant"---on radio-films and TV-- was somewhat of a family affair as it was written by Howard's daughter Ruth and her husband Bob Howell, while Tom Jr. orchestrated the music.
- An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
- The history of the major Golden Age of Hollywood film company, RKO Pictures.
- 198754m8.5 (26)TV EpisodeThis hour's episode gives valuable background on the making of the popular Astaire-Rogers musicals at RKO in the 1930s, with clips of some of the dance numbers, and interviews with participants including the two stars.
- This is an expedition/travelogue, disguised as a documentary with a plot. The 'plot' is that this Howard Hill expedition has come to Africa in search of a legendary tribe of "Leopard Men' (a term used in RKO's 1946 "Tarzan and the Leopard Woman", which just happened to be available as a re-release at the time), and the booming voice of narrator Westbrook Van Voorhis would mention 'The Leopard Men' from time to time, but they did not find any 'Leopard Men', and did not expect to find any 'Leopard Men', but they did find tribes of tall natives and a friendly-but-shy tribe of short natives (Pygmies). It allows Mr. Hill to show off his legendary skills as an archer, especially when the jungle denizens menace the members of the expedition, and sometimes even when they didn't. It is a time capsule in that it shows Africa as it was and wasn't, and gets into native food-hunts, life-styles, customs and living-habits.
- Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'
- Barber Sweeney Todd returns to London to uncover the past, along the way meeting pie shop owner Mrs. Nellie Lovett, and begins to start his life of crime.
- A package film of Halloween-themed cartoons, one of which being Trick or Treat (1952).
- The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.
- 1954–19971hUnrated8.2 (45)TV EpisodeWalt Disney takes a look at the story of the creation of Donald Duck and his later career.
- The story of Orson Welles' short and highly controversial career at R.K.O.
- Three World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
- We learn about the actresses of RKO studio. Stories are focused on movies with Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers and Lucille Ball and their impact on RKO in the 1930s.
- A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses, and duplicitous dames.
- Ricky Gervais entertains a live audience in his first stand-up routine.
- A young woman, named Kate rushes to get ready for her job as a clown entertainer. She finally arrives to work and her boss is furious. He tells her that Nathan covered her shift again and she can pick up her last and final pay check. Kate walks outside. She is upset about the loss of her job and is still dressed in full clown costume. She sees a bench and sits down to catch her thoughts. A black van speeds around the corner and screeches to a halt in front of her. Three male clowns are in the van open the door and yell toward Kate, "Nathan!" Kate is confused, and looks behind her. The men pull her into the van and they drive off. Inside the van the head clown begins to talk about the plan and everyone's responsibilities. Kate remains silent as she listens. The head clown then begins to pull out hand guns and ammunition, handing them out to the robbers. Kate realizes she is going to be a part of robbery. She must decide whether she should turn them in or continue with the plan since she needs the money.
- A documentary account of the hardships and adventures encountered by an American couple seeking the ruins of an ancient Mayan city in the jungles north of the Guatemala-Mexico border.
- When Errol tries to buy his wife a television receiver, she thinks he is philandering and gets all the wrong ideas.
- In this "Jamboree" short, Johnny Long, his violin,and his orchestra provide the novelty music for regular band vocalists Helen Young and Gene Williams (III). The Four Teens are also on hand. This 1942 short was reissued on 31 October, 1947.
- 19871h8.0 (33)TV Episode
- A film crew goes to a tropical island for a location shoot, where they capture a colossal ape who takes a shine to their blonde starlet, and bring him back to New York City.
- The daughter of a convicted German spy is asked by American agents to gather information on a ring of German scientists in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?
- A young writer recalls her ups and downs of growing up as one of four children to Norwegian immigrant parents in 1910s San Francisco.
- The ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the Deep South at the turn of the twentieth century.
- A documentary about the Kon-Tiki expedition of the Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl.
- Mickey and Donald ride in a trailer pulled by Goofy, who doesn't realize his car has separated from the trailer as they travel down a mountain.
- Donald Duck, in a battleship made of ice, goes to war against his three nephews, who fight back from their ice fort.
- While wandering in the Limberlost forest with her bear Cubby, young, mischievous Laurie-Lou Duncan meets Freckles, an unemployed orphan who is on his way to the nearby Mr. McLean Lumber Company. Laurie-Lou introduces Freckles to Mary Arden, her pretty schoolteacher, who then introduces him to McLean. At Mary's urging, McLean employs Freckles to guard the vast Limberlost against timber thieves. With Laurie-Lou's help, Freckles learns about the forest and gradually becomes comfortable in his new surroundings. At the same time, Mary gives Freckles botany books to read and, attracted to him, encourages him to visit her at home. After McLean runs into Jack Carter, a convicted timber thief, at Laurie-Lou's mother's general store, he alerts Freckles and his other workers to keep a careful watch on the trees. Carter, who gives Laurie-Lou wooden soldiers that he has carved, is actually hiding out in the Limberlost with fellow bank robbers Al Waters, Butch and Lefty. While McLean and his lumberjacks are cutting down a tree that had been marked by would-be timber thieves, Laurie-Lou ties Cubby to a log to prevent him from eating her candy. When Laurie-Lou realizes that the tree is going to fall near Cubby, she rushes to untie him but is pulled away by Freckles just as the giant trunk is descending on her. Cubby survives his injuries, and a relieved Laurie-Lou is able to participate in Mary's school variety show. Later Laurie-Lou, desperate to have Carter carve her a captain for her wooden doll collection, hides in his car one afternoon and rides with him to his cabin. Carter, whose photograph has just appeared in the newspapers, keeps the innocent Laurie-Lou at the hideout, unsure of what to do with her. Eventually Freckles shows up and spots Laurie-Lou in the cabin. Carter and his men capture Freckles, but Freckles executes a surprise escape and, after being shot, locks himself with Laurie-Lou in a back room. When Laurie-Lou discovers Al's machine gun in the room, she shows Freckles how to load and shoot it. Although suffering, Freckles confronts Carter and his men, who have hacked their way into the room with axes, and holds them at gunpoint until Mary and an F.B.I. agent arrive on the scene. After Laurie-Lou congratulates Freckles for his bravery, Mary tells him that she loves him, and the young couple kiss.
- A tour of the Disneyland theme park.
- RKO's contribution to film noir and social drama.
- Howard Hughes' purchase of RKO has a devastating effect on the studio.
- Looks at the challenges facing gay artists in Hollywood past and present.
- While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby.
- In 15th-century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
- Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
- As a thunderstorm approaches, birds, mice and other creatures try to stay safe and dry in an old mill.
- A series of eight famous pieces of classical music, conducted by Leopold Stokowski and interpreted in animation by Walt Disney's team of artists.
- A chronicle of the ambitions, dreams, and disappointments of aspiring actresses who all live in the same boarding house.
- An American dancer comes to Britain and falls for a model whom he initially annoyed, but she mistakes him for his goofy producer.
- A group of professors working on a new encyclopedia while living in a Manhattan mansion take in a mouthy nightclub singer who is wanted by the police to help bring down her mob boss lover.
- In a small town, a brewing romantic rivalry with a local tough and a school-teacher culminates in a terrifying ride in the night.
- Animated version of the fairy tale of the Russian boy Peter and his hunt for a raiding wolf, presented to the music of Sergei Prokofiev.
- Two reel comedy starring Gene Krupa as an Orchestra leader trying to make it in New York.
- Leon's beautiful blonde maid threatens to quit on the eve of a big party Leon is giving, and, to persuade her to stay, he gives her the fur coat belonging to his wife (Dorothy Granger). The latter views this action as a piece of bad news and Leon gets yet another object lesson regarding the exchange of one problem for a worse problem.
- The show takes a look at how scientists are preparing for a flight to the moon, beginning with a live-action segment and then going into animation as the rocket ship takes off to film the backside of the moon.