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- Filmmakers Sue Marx and Pamela Conn document the romance between Sue's father Louis Gothelf and Reva Shwayder, each in their mid-80s. Both artists and residents of the Detroit suburbs, they met on a group tour of England after being widowed, and quickly formed a strong connection over shared interests. The two discuss concerns over living together without being married; Louis also talks about his caring for his first wife during her ten-year struggle with Alzheimer's disease, while Reva talks about the deaths of two sons several years after her husband's death.
- A young boy's successful battle against cancer and his subsequent efforts to help other children overcome their fears of the illness.
- Documentary of Charlie Clements, a Vietnam War pilot who was convinced by his experiences in the war that he should become a doctor working behind enemy lines.
- After a young woman nominates her fiancé due to his oversized clothes (after a 70-pound weight loss) and habit of wearing swimming trunks and soccer jerseys in public, the team decides to make over both of them due to her frumpy style and collection of T-shirts.
- A 17-year-old girl runs away from her East Coast home, going west to Los Angeles to meet her biological father. She has learned from letters her mother kept that he was tragically separated from her before the girl's birth. On the road, she is protected and befriended by an independent-minded young drifter who helps her on her journey.
- After an acquaintance of hers gets cosmetic surgery to please her husband, Jill gets mad at Tim for suggesting that she could benefit from some improvements. On Tool Time, Tim and Al attempt to refurbish a table. Meanwhile, Brad and Randy challenge Mark to a series of games, with the loser having to do cleanup chores around the house.
- The three remaining families stop at the Roadkill Cafe in Seligman, then visit the Hoover Dam, where they compete in a reward challenge to build a small hydroelectric generator. After everyone continues to Las Vegas, the two fastest families in the reward challenge must compete in an urban challenge to locate the fathers in the city after they have been made to disappear by Penn & Teller. The first family to locate the fathers wins a stay at a deluxe casino hotel penthouse suite.
- Julian Berniers and his bride Lily leave Chicago to visit his two spinster sisters, Carrie and Anna, in New Orleans but Lily's jealousy combined with Carrie's possessiveness of Julian threaten to destroy the whole family.
- An adaptation of "The Wizard of Oz" that tries to capture the essence of the African-American experience.
- Everyone struggles to figure out what to give Mike for his 30th birthday, as he prepares to meet with a high school girlfriend atop the Empire State Building. Meanwhile, the mayor asks Carter to find out whether the mayor's nephew Stephen is gay.
- Allison dreams about and then meets a quirky bank teller, Mrs. Boddicker who apparently predicted her bank's recent robbery. Meanwhile, Joe's new job in San Diego puts a strain on the family and Allison must learn to cope in his absence.
- Courtroom drama about an adulterous pair who is charged with murdering the outraged husband of the cheating woman.
- A look at some of the last stone carvers working in the United States, those completing the sculptures adorning the Washington National Cathedral. They discuss their craft and the cultural forces which helped define it, as well as the fading use of stone ornamentation in architecture and the history of stone carving, and they tour the cathedral to point out the history behind some of the work.
- Production of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winning play about mankind's triumph over chaos, which wildly altered dramatic conventions in freely shifting between modern-day New Jersey and the ice age - the Antrobus family pets being dinosaurs; and having characters speaking directly to the audience and criticizing the way their own dialogue was written.
- Production of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winning play about mankind's triumph over chaos, which wildly altered dramatic conventions in freely shifting between modern-day New Jersey and the ice age - the Antrobus family pets being dinosaurs; and having characters speaking directly to the audience and criticizing the way their own dialogue was written.
- Production of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winning play about mankind's triumph over chaos, which wildly altered dramatic conventions in freely shifting between modern-day New Jersey and the ice age - the Antrobus family pets being dinosaurs; and having characters speaking directly to the audience and criticizing the way their own dialogue was written.
- Production of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winning play about mankind's triumph over chaos, which wildly altered dramatic conventions in freely shifting between modern-day New Jersey and the ice age - the Antrobus family pets being dinosaurs; and having characters speaking directly to the audience and criticizing the way their own dialogue was written.
- The program follows the progress in the relationships of two couples. One couple is seen from first meeting and strong attraction through courtship and marriage; the other, an older couple married many years, has seen a decrease in sexual activity and is followed undergoing clinical therapy to address the problem. There is also a study of sexual body language and the physical effects of attraction, and a look at the chronology of physical changes in sexual development from conception to adulthood.
- A foolish aristocrat's plans are spoiled by his servant, who can induce a trance-like state in his employer whenever he pleases, making him do the household chores and perform outlandish acts. The servant's biggest triumph comes on the day when his employer is due to sign a major contract, with several important guests present.
- Program looks at the human heart and circulatory system, with emphasis on 4 unusual cases and the medical treatments attempted to resolve them: A 6-year-old "blue baby"; a 16-year-old with a tangled growth of blood vessels around her spinal cord; a 41-year-old recipient of a coronary bypass; and a 61-year-old stroke victim suffering from a blockage of 2 arteries. The program begins with a look at the fetal development of the heart, including photography showing the beating heart of a weeks-old fetus.
- A woman pretends to be royalty in order to get aboard a cruise ship.
- A montage of 1950s B-movies, TV shows & vintage commercials create a nostalgic collage about aliens & monsters attacking America.
- Program looks at human reproduction - from conception through gestation and birth, with an additional look at 3 problem pregnancies: A woman with a weak cervix; a case where the placenta is misplaced on the fetus; and a woman having an incompatibility of Rh factors with her child. Significant footage of living embryos is featured.
- The story of a shepherd's single handed quest to re-forest a barren valley.
- Program focuses on medical treatments of various eye afflictions and injuries. Among the situations examined: An attempt to repair the torn retina of a 15-year-old who suffered a hockey injury; a man suffering from diabetic hemorrhages and cataracts has his eyesight restored by surgery; an infant with crossed eyes undergoes an operation to correct the problem; and a blind man is seen functioning through remembered sight.
- This leg of the journey includes a stop at the Little House on the Prairie in Kansas before the families engage in a reward challenge at a Kansas ranch, in which the fathers must compete in a hamburger barbecue cookoff, with the best three earning immunity from elimination. After a trip through a buffalo preserve in Oklahoma, there is an elimination challenge race in Amarillo, Texas.
- On a dark and stormy night, a traveler takes a room at a spooky hotel in the forest. As soon as the proprietor leaves, the room comes alive with ghosts and poltergeists who torment the man as he tries to unpack, eat, and go to sleep.
- An in-depth look at aircraft carrier combat operations during World War II. Real combat footage. Very strong and compelling.
- Sophisticated comedy with Larry and Kitty leaving their spouses for an interlude together.
- Tim agrees to build a house for Habitat for Humanity on his show, with famous athletes helping out, but Al and Jill challenge him by agreeing to lead a separate team (made up of women) to see who can build a house faster. Meanwhile, Brad doesn't know what to do after giving Ashley a locket he found, not telling her that it was lost by one of Jill's friends.
- An art director in the 1930s falls in love and attempts to make a young woman an actress despite Hollywood who wants nothing to do with her because of her problems with an estranged man and her alcoholic father.
- A red and white-striped top-hatted cat visits two children left home alone.
- A broadcast in honor of the 200th anniversary of the renowned Bolshoi Ballet. The company revives one of the most acclaimed triumphs in its history, Romeo and Juliet, featuring the original choreography of Leonid Lavrovsky.
- Program looks at examples of reconstructive surgery, including: a Louisiana woman has a breast rebuilt following a mastectomy; a woman has her malformed jaw reshapen; and a 25-year-old auto repairman undergoes surgery to repair his splintered skull after being pinned under a fallen car. The program begins with a study of human development in the womb.
- A look at uses of technological advances in replacements for body parts, including an artificial hand, and a voice restored through the use of lasers. There is an emphasis on technologies allowing the brain to operate these devices internally.
- With the help of a smooth talking tomcat, a family of Parisian felines set to inherit a fortune from their owner try to make it back home after a jealous butler kidnaps them and leaves them in the country.
- 1985– 56mTV-146.6 (220)TV EpisodeSurely one of the most profound and outrageous influences on the times following World War I, was the group of a dozen or so taste-makers who lunched together at New York City's Algonquin Hotel.
- Seven toy teddy bears of varying sizes suddenly come to life, getting in all sorts of merry misadventures.
- While working on a TV show in Los Angeles, famed Australian stuntman Grant Page helps an up-and-coming fantasy-themed rock band develop special effects and dangerous stunts for their act.
- A vulture, a gorilla and a hyena (with no small resemblances to actual dictators) bully the woodland animals, who eventually fight back, using the letter V as their victory symbol.
- Walter can't stand the singing of Phil Harris - unfortunately, he can't seem to escape it, even on the golf course. His golf partner sympathizes, but when Walter discovers that the fellow is Harris himself, he quickly realizes that Harris' appeal with female fans might be turned to his advantage - but only if Harris will play along.
- Some Chinese immigrants attempt to enter the U.S. illegally, with the principal story being the misadventures of one man who tries to have himself smuggled across the Mexican border in a barrel after customs inspectors search the steamship on which several of them arrived. His accomplice attempts to transport the barrel safely, but the runaway barrel meets with a train and a case of dynamite, among other obstacles. Another man tries to disguise himself as an Irishman to get around the anti-Chinese laws.
- Skippy, the mischievous son of a wealthy doctor, meets Sooky in poverty-ridden Shantytown, and together they try to save Sooky's pet from a cruel dogcatcher.
- The film is an artistically spare depiction of the Greek myth of Sysiphus, sentenced to eternally roll a stone up a mountain. The story is presented in a single, unbroken shot, consisting of a dynamic line drawing of Sysiphus, the stone, and the mountainside.
- Jill's globetrotting photographer sister, Carrie, comes to stay. Tim helps his brother, Marty, move house.
- A look back at 25 years of Columbia's series of newsreels chronicling the film industry and the lives of Hollywood stars. Clips from earlier films in the series are featured, along with a montage of film greats who have passed away in the intervening years.
- Several prominent actors are seen in their new roles as WWII military officers and enlisted men. Highlights include Robert Stack (a former amateur skeet shooting champion) displaying his remarkable skill as an artillery training officer; Tyrone Power as a Marine drill instructor; Rudy Vallee leading a military band; and Glenn Ford in the everyday grind of a Marine private.
- 2005– 1h 59mTV-PG7.5 (31)TV EpisodeFinalists Kelly Osbourne, Mya and Donny Osmond compete in their last dance to capture the mirrorball trophy. The season's eliminated contestants and some past inept favorites return with additional dances, Whitney Houston performs, Jeffrey Ross welcomes a new member to the Losers Club, and Jerry Rice has a dance-off against Michael Irvin.
- After a night of Waltz, Jitterbug and the first competition Mambo group routine, the remaining nine couples face their first Dance-Off double elimination as the eighth and ninth couples eliminated from the competition are announced.
- One of the four semifinalists is eliminated, and performances by Alicia Keys, Leona Lewis and the Bee Gees are featured, along with a number from the upcoming musical film "Nine". The pro dancers also discuss the work involved in performing their own separate dance numbers.