What to Watch Right Now

Miss Emily Grierson has recently died at the age of seventy-four. She was the reclusive town spinster and the last in line of a southern aristocratic family after her possessive father passes away. Her creepy old house and relationship with a northerner cause much gossip in the town, but it's not until after her death that her disturbing secret is unearthed.

A recap of the Black Panther Party's often distorted history and an expose of apparent governmental plots that hastened its demise.

A two hour prime time television spectacular, commemorating the golden jubilee of the CBS TV Network.

Studying the anaconda along the Amazon River.

Report on the impact on the families living in the area of the explosion at Chernobyl power station in April 25/26, 1986, which released ninety times as much nuclear radioactivity as the Hiroshima bomb. Children are more susceptible to radiation sickness than adults, and, as a result of damage to their immune systems, doctors witnessed a massive increase in recurrent infections in children, a state of affairs known locally as "Chernobyl AIDS". The Soviet authorities denied huge increases in leukemia and other cancers, but medical files were confiscated and classified as secret. In 1990, the computerized records of 670,000 people exposed to the radiation were stolen in Minsk.

A unique one-hour biography of the most notorious gangster in history.

Filmmaker Rick Sebak takes his cameras across the country in search of the various hot dogs people enjoy. We see the Super Duper Hot Dog stand and its variety of toppings and sauces. There is an in-depth study of the Chicago-area hot dog stands, in particular the Superdawg. Other hot dog establishments in all of their shapes forms and gimmicks (think the Varsity restaurant's "WhaddyahaveWhaddyahaveWhaddyahave?") Then we come to the New York City area and Gray's Papaya and Nathan's Hot Dogs, where each has their own method of cooking and serving their franks. The annual Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest is also featured.

Apollo 15 was deemed In The Mountains of the Moon and had astronauts David R. Scott, Alfred M. Worden, and James B. Irwin. In this footage, are the standup EVA, the three traverses of the lunar surface, film taken from the Lunar Rover, hammer and feather test of Galileo's theory on falling objects in gravity fields, Worden's EVA, subsatellite launching, X-ray pulsar observations, splash down with one parachute collapsed.

Living next to each other for more than fifty years, eight neighbors warm up to the camera as they get to know their new neighbor, filmmaker Sarah Price.

In this cutting-edge urban underground Hip Hop cartoon show, Fonz and Mike take control of a TV station to bring you irreverent humor, comic interviews with recording artists and animated shorts from a Hip Hop perspective.

Arkelope is an animated short that takes a pointed look at endangered species and human indifference. When a middle-aged couple come across a nature documentary on the decline of the arkelope while channel-surfing, they learn that although the species has managed to survive a variety of natural disasters, it is now in imminent danger of extinction due to man's short-sightedness. With a serious yet funny approach, this little film illustrates human passivity in the face of the ubiquitous TV set.

The Bat Thumb must stop another villian from taking over his precious city, only this time he will have to stop No Face in the hardest battle to date.

A collection of the funniest routines from Billy Connolly's three decades of stand-up comedy.