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Western Movies Schedule

Tuesday, 12-1
7:30a The Gene Autry Show (E17)
8:00a Cheyenne (E49)
9:00a Maverick (E96)
10:00a Smoky TVPG
11:50a Ride In The Whirlwind G
1:20p The Left Handed Gun TVPG
3:10p Escort West TV14
4:30p The Gene Autry Show (E56)
5:00p Cheyenne (E17)
6:00p Maverick (E92)
7:00p Maverick (E93)
8:00p They Died With Their Boots On TVPG
10:30p The Left Handed Gun TVPG
12:15a Heaven's Gate R
4:00a Ride In The Whirlwind G
5:30a Prairie Outlaws TVPG
Wednesday, 12—2
6:30a Navajo Kid TVPG
7:30a The Gene Autry Show (E18)
8:00a Cheyenne (E50)
9:00a Maverick (E97)
10:00a The Big Country TVPG
12:50p Toughest Man In Arizona TVPG
2:30p The Undefeated G
4:30p The Gene Autry Show (E57)
5:00p Cheyenne (E18)
6:00p Maverick (E94)
7:00p Maverick (E95)
8:00p Captain Apache PG
9:40p The Big Country TVPG
12:30a The Undefeated G
2:30a Outlaw's Son TV14
4:00a Captain Apache PG
5:35a Lightning Raiders TVPG
Thursday, 12—3
6:30a Saginaw Trail TVG
7:30a The Gene Autry Show (E19)
8:00a Cheyenne (E51)
9:00a Maverick (E98)
10:00a Man Of The East PG
12:10p Top Gun TV14
1:30p The Tall T TV14
2:50p Black Fox: The Price Of Peace TV14
4:30p The Gene Autry Show (E58)
5:00p Cheyenne (E19)
6:00p Maverick (E96)
7:00p Maverick (E97)
8:00p Man Of The East PG
10:10p The Tall T TV14
11:35p A Town Called Hell R
1:10a Black Fox: The Price Of Peace TV14
2:45a Man Of The East PG
5:00a The Alamo: Thirteen Days To Glory TVPG
Friday, 12—4
7:30a The Gene Autry Show (E20)
8:00a Cheyenne (E52)
9:00a Maverick (E99)
10:00a Frontier Fugitives TVPG
11:00a Ride Out For Revenge TV14
12:20p Pocket Money PG
2:05p The Alamo: Thirteen Days To Glory TVPG
4:30p The Gene Autry Show (E59)
5:00p Cheyenne (E20)
6:00p Maverick (E98)
7:00p Maverick (E99)
8:00p The Indian Fighter TVPG
9:30p Pocket Money PG
11:15p Death Rides A Horse TV14
1:15a The Alamo: Thirteen Days To Glory TVPG
3:40a The Indian Fighter TVPG
5:10a Ride Out For Revenge TV14
Saturday, 12—5
6:30a The Gene Autry Show (E59)
7:00a The Magnificent Seven (E5)
7:50a Bret Maverick (E15)
8:45a Cimarron Strip (E8)
10:00a The Cowboy And The Indians TVPG
11:15a The Left Handed Gun TVPG
1:00p Red River TV14
2:40p Shadowheart PG13
4:40p Bad Man's River PG
6:15p The Left Handed Gun TVPG
8:00p McLintock! TV14
10:05p Shadowheart PG13
12:05a South Of Heaven, West Of Hell R
2:00a Bad Man's River PG
3:35a McLintock! TV14
5:40a Return Of The Lash TVPG
Sunday, 12—6
6:35a Oklahoma Territory TVPG
7:45a The Return Of A Man Called Horse PG
10:00a The Undefeated G
12:00p Pack Train TVG
1:05p Doc PG
2:45p Man With The Gun TVPG
4:15p Gunsmoke: To The Last Man TVPG
5:50p The Return Of A Man Called Horse PG
8:00p The Wonderful Country TV14
9:40p Man With The Gun TVPG
11:10p The Undefeated G
1:10a Gunsmoke: To The Last Man TVPG
2:45a The Wonderful Country TV14
4:30a The Last Round-Up TVG
5:50a Jack Slade TV14
Monday, 12—7
7:30a The Gene Autry Show (E21)
8:00a Cheyenne (E53)
9:00a Maverick (E100)
10:00a Annie Oakley TV14
11:35a The Legend Of Butch And Sundance TV14
1:05p Take A Hard Ride PG
2:50p Alias Jesse James TVPG
4:30p The Gene Autry Show (E60)
5:00p Cheyenne (E21)
6:00p Maverick (E100)
7:00p Maverick (E101)
8:00p The Tall T TV14
9:20p Take A Hard Ride PG
11:05p Annie Oakley TV14
12:40a Alias Jesse James TVPG
2:15a The Tall T TV14
3:35a Gun Belt TV14
5:00a Top Gun TV14
Tuesday, 12—8
6:20a Gaucho Serenade TVPG
7:30a The Gene Autry Show (E22)
8:00a Cheyenne (E54)
9:00a Maverick (E101)
10:00a Overland Pacific TVPG
11:15a Rebel In Town TV14
12:40p Return Of Sabata PG
2:30p Bronco Billy PG
4:30p The Gene Autry Show (E61)
5:00p Cheyenne (E22)
6:00p Maverick (E102)
7:00p Maverick (E103)
8:00p Far And Away PG13
10:30p Heaven's Gate R
2:10a Return Of Sabata PG
4:50a Rebel In Town TV14
Wednesday, 12—9
6:10a War Drums TV14
7:30a The Gene Autry Show (E23)
8:00a Cheyenne (E55)
9:00a Maverick (E102)
10:00a Gene Autry: White Hat, Silver... TVPG
10:30a Zane Grey's Robbers' Roost TVPG
12:00p Pack Train TVG
1:05p Savage Land PG
2:45p Pocket Money PG
4:30p The Gene Autry Show (E62)
5:00p Cheyenne (E23)
6:00p Maverick (E104)
7:00p Maverick (E105)
8:00p Pancho Villa PG
9:35p The Indian Fighter TVPG
11:05p Calamity Jane TVG
12:50a Pocket Money PG
2:35a Ride In The Whirlwind G
4:00a Southwest Passage TV14
5:20a Home In Wyomin' TVPG
Thursday, 12—10
6:30a Overland Riders TVPG
7:30a The Gene Autry Show (E24)
8:00a Cheyenne (E56)
9:00a Maverick (E103)
10:00a Deadly Shooter TV14
11:40a Gunsmoke: To The Last Man TVPG
1:15p The Gambler, Part III: The...
2:50p The Gambler Part III: The Legend...
4:30p The Gene Autry Show (E63)
5:00p Cheyenne (E24)
6:00p Maverick (E106)
7:00p Maverick (E107)
8:00p The Return Of A Man Called Horse PG
10:10p Shadowheart PG13
12:10a The Gambler, Part III: The...
1:45a The Gambler Part III: The Legend...
3:20a The Return Of A Man Called Horse PG
5:30a Check Your Guns TVPG
Friday, 12—11
6:30a Tornado Range TVPG
7:30a The Gene Autry Show (E25)
8:05a Cheyenne (E57)
9:00a Maverick (E104)
10:00a Border Badmen TVG
11:00a Top Gun TV14
12:15p The Big Country TVPG
3:05p Man From Del Rio TV14
4:30p The Gene Autry Show (E64)
5:00p Cheyenne (E25)
6:00p Maverick (E108)
7:00p Maverick (E109)
8:00p Barquero R
10:00p The Big Country TVPG
12:50a Pioneer Woman TVG
2:10a Man From Del Rio TV14
3:35a Barquero R
5:30a Border Badmen TVG
Saturday, 12—12
6:30a The Gene Autry Show (E64)
7:00a The Magnificent Seven (E6)
7:50a Bret Maverick (E16)
8:45a Cimarron Strip (E9)
10:00a Barbed Wire TVPG
11:10a Alias Jesse James TVPG
12:45p Rebel In Town TV14
2:05p From Noon Till Three PG
3:50p Far And Away PG13
6:20p Alias Jesse James TVPG
8:00p Bronco Billy PG
10:00p From Noon Till Three PG
11:45p Heaven's Gate R
3:30a Far And Away PG13
Sunday, 12—13
6:00a Bronco Billy PG
8:00a Stars Over Texas TVPG
9:00a Rebel In Town TV14
10:20a A Bullet For Sandoval PG
12:00p Down Mexico Way TVPG
1:20p Follow The River PG
3:00p Bandido TVPG
4:40p Day Of The Outlaw NR
6:20p A Bullet For Sandoval PG
8:00p The Indian Fighter TVPG
9:30p Bandido TVPG
11:05p Blood Red R
12:40a Day Of The Outlaw NR
2:15a The Indian Fighter TVPG
3:45a Follow The River PG
5:20a Mustang TV14
Monday, 12—14
6:35a The Lawless Frontier TVPG
7:30a The Gene Autry Show (E26)
8:05a Cheyenne (E58)
9:00a Maverick (E105)
10:00a Valley Of Fire TVG
11:05a Overland Pacific TVPG
12:20p They Died With Their Boots On TVPG
2:45p Smoky TVPG
4:30p The Gene Autry Show (E65)
5:00p Cheyenne (E26)
6:00p Maverick (E110)
7:00p Maverick (E111)
8:00p The Big Country TVPG
10:50p They Died With Their Boots On TVPG
1:20a The Gambler, Part III: The...
3:00a The Gambler Part III: The Legend...
4:35a The Big Country TVPG
Tuesday, 12—15
7:30a The Gene Autry Show (E27)
8:00a Cheyenne (E59)
9:00a Maverick (E106)
10:00a Savage Land PG
11:45a Where The Hell's That Gold?!!? PG
1:15p The Gambler, Part III: The...
2:50p The Gambler Part III: The Legend...
4:30p The Gene Autry Show (E66)
5:00p Cheyenne (E27)
6:00p Maverick (E112)
7:00p Maverick (E113)
8:00p Pocket Money PG
9:45p Where The Hell's That Gold?!!? PG
11:15p The Honkers PG
1:00a Savage Land PG
2:40a Montana TVPG
4:00a Pocket Money PG
5:45a The Honkers PG
Wednesday, 12—16
7:30a The Gene Autry Show (E28)
8:05a Cheyenne (E60)
9:00a Maverick (E107)
10:00a Death Rides A Horse TV14
12:00p Down Mexico Way TVPG
1:20p Dakota TVPG
2:50p Annie Oakley TV14
4:30p The Gene Autry Show (E67)
5:00p Cheyenne (E28)
6:00p Maverick (E114)
7:00p Maverick (E115)
8:00p My Darling Clementine TVPG
9:40p Alias Jesse James TVPG
11:15p Death Rides A Horse TV14
1:15a Annie Oakley TV14
2:50a Colorado Serenade TVPG
4:00a My Darling Clementine TVPG
5:45a Take A Hard Ride PG
Thursday, 12—17
7:30a The Gene Autry Show (E29)
8:05a Cheyenne (E61)
9:00a Maverick (E108)
10:00a McLintock! TV14
12:10p Oklahoma Territory TVPG
1:20p The Gambler: The Adventure...
3:00p The Gambler: The Adventure...
4:30p The Gene Autry Show (E68)
5:00p Cheyenne (E29)
6:00p Maverick (E116)
7:00p Maverick (E117)
8:00p Far And Away PG13
10:30p McLintock! TV14
12:40a The Gambler: The Adventure...
2:20a The Gambler: The Adventure...
3:50a The Black Whip TVPG
5:10a Another Man, Another Chance PG
Friday, 12—18
7:30a The Gene Autry Show (E30)
8:05a Cheyenne (E62)
9:00a Maverick (E109)
10:00a The Treasure Of Ruby Hills TVPG
11:15a Jack Slade TV14
12:50p The Undefeated G
2:50p Gunsmoke: The Long Ride TVPG
4:30p The Gene Autry Show (E69)
5:00p Cheyenne (E30)
6:00p Maverick (E118)
7:00p Maverick (E119)
8:00p The Left Handed Gun TVPG
9:45p The Undefeated G
11:45p Another Man, Another Chance PG
2:05a Gunsmoke: The Long Ride TVPG
3:45a The Left Handed Gun TVPG
5:30a Saginaw Trail TVG
Saturday, 12—19
6:30a The Gene Autry Show (E69)
7:00a The Magnificent Seven (E7)
7:50a Bret Maverick (E17)
8:45a Cimarron Strip (E10)
10:00a Romance Of The West TVPG
11:00a Promise The Moon TVPG
12:35p Where The Hell's That Gold?!!? PG
2:05p Billy Two Hats PG
3:50p They Died With Their Boots On TVPG
6:20p Promise The Moon TVPG
8:00p The Return Of A Man Called Horse PG
10:10p Billy Two Hats PG
12:00a A Town Called Hell R
1:35a They Died With Their Boots On TVPG
4:00a The Return Of A Man Called Horse PG
Sunday, 12—20
6:10a The Fighting Vigilantes TVPG
7:15a Calamity Jane TVG
9:00a Revolt At Fort Laramie TVPG
10:20a Pancho Villa PG
12:00p Prairie Moon TVPG
1:00p The Deadly Trackers PG
2:50p Pocket Money PG
4:35p Calamity Jane TVG
6:20p Pancho Villa PG
8:00p Shadowheart PG13
10:00p Pocket Money PG
11:45p The Hunting Party R
1:40a Calamity Jane TVG
3:30a Shadowheart PG13
5:35a The Deadly Trackers PG
Monday, 12—21
7:30a The Gene Autry Show (E31)
8:00a Cheyenne (E63)
9:00a Maverick (E110)
10:00a Don Ricardo Returns TVPG
11:15a Black Fox: The Price Of Peace TV14
12:50p Tribute To A Bad Man TVPG
2:30p Death Rides A Horse TV14
4:30p The Gene Autry Show (E70)
5:00p Cheyenne (E31)
6:00p Maverick (E120)
7:00p Maverick (E121)
8:00p McLintock! TV14
10:10p Tribute To A Bad Man TVPG
11:50p Ride In The Whirlwind G
1:15a Death Rides A Horse TV14
3:20a McLintock! TV14
5:30a Tomahawk Trail TVPG
Tuesday, 12—22
6:35a Return Of The Lash TVPG
7:30a The Gene Autry Show (E32)
8:00a Cheyenne (E64)
9:00a Maverick (E111)
10:00a Frontier Scout TVPG
11:30a A Thunder Of Drums TVPG
1:10p Gunsmoke: One Man's Justice TVPG
2:50p Deadly Shooter TV14
4:30p The Gene Autry Show (E71)
5:00p Cheyenne (E32)
6:00p Maverick (E122)
7:00p Maverick (E123)
8:00p A Thunder Of Drums TVPG
9:40p Five Savage Men R
11:10p Take A Hard Ride PG
1:00a Deadly Shooter TV14
2:40a The Toughest Gun In Tombstone TVPG
4:00a A Thunder Of Drums TVPG
5:40a Take A Hard Ride PG
Wednesday, 12—23
7:30a The Gene Autry Show (E33)
8:00a Cheyenne (E65)
8:50a Maverick (E112)
9:45a The Return Of A Man Called Horse PG
12:00p Prairie Moon TVPG
1:10p A Bullet For Sandoval PG
2:50p Follow The River PG
4:30p The Gene Autry Show (E72)
5:00p Cheyenne (E33)
6:00p Maverick (E124)
7:00p Maverick (E1)
8:00p Bronco Billy PG
10:00p A Bullet For Sandoval PG
11:35p The Return Of A Man Called Horse PG
1:45a Man Of The East PG
4:00a Bronco Billy PG
Thursday, 12—24
6:00a Zane Grey's Robbers' Roost TVPG
7:30a The Gene Autry Show (E34)
8:00a Cheyenne (E66)
9:00a Maverick (E113)
10:00a Gunsmoke: The Last Apache TVPG
11:40a Trooper Hook TVPG
1:05p Annie Oakley TV14
2:40p The Deadly Trackers PG
4:30p The Gene Autry Show (E73)
5:00p Cheyenne (E34)
6:00p Maverick (E2)
7:00p Maverick (E3)
8:00p Calamity Jane TVG
9:45p Annie Oakley TV14
11:20p The Undefeated G
1:20a The Deadly Trackers PG
3:10a Calamity Jane TVG
5:00a Trooper Hook TVPG
Friday, 12—25
6:30a Tumbling Tumbleweeds TVG
7:30a The Gene Autry Show (E35)
8:05a Cheyenne (E67)
9:00a Maverick (E114)
10:00a Alias Jesse James TVPG
11:40a The Legend Of Butch And Sundance TV14
1:10p My Darling Clementine TVPG
2:50p Gunsmoke: To The Last Man TVPG
4:30p The Gene Autry Show (E74)
5:00p Cheyenne (E35)
6:00p Maverick (E4)
7:00p Maverick (E5)
8:00p The Cowboy And The Indians TVPG
9:15p McLintock! TV14
11:20p My Darling Clementine TVPG
1:05a Buffalo Bill And The Indians PG
3:15a On Top Of Old Smoky TVG
4:20a McLintock! TV14
Saturday, 12—26
6:30a The Gene Autry Show (E74)
7:00a The Magnificent Seven (E8)
7:50a Bret Maverick (E1)
9:30a Cimarron Strip (E11)
10:45a Cheyenne (E16)
11:30a The Yellow Tomahawk TV14
1:00p Tribute To A Bad Man TVPG
2:40p Bad Man's River PG
4:15p Take A Hard Ride PG
6:00p Death Rides A Horse TV14
8:00p Barquero R
10:00p Captain Apache PG
11:40p Return Of Sabata PG
1:35a Another Man, Another Chance PG
4:00a Bad Man's River PG
5:35a Bronco Billy PG
Sunday, 12—27
7:40a The Big Country TVPG
10:35a The Tall T TV14
12:00p Robin Hood Of Texas TVPG
1:20p Drango TVPG
3:00p Bronco Billy PG
5:00p A Man Alone TVPG
6:40p The Halliday Brand TV14
8:00p The Big Country TVPG
10:50p Bronco Billy PG
12:50a Heaven's Gate R
4:30a A Man Alone TVPG
Monday, 12—28
6:10a The Tall T TV14
7:30a The Gene Autry Show (E36)
8:05a Cheyenne (E68)
9:00a Maverick (E115)
10:00a Follow The River PG
11:35a Oklahoma Territory TVPG
12:50p The Deadly Trackers PG
2:40p Calamity Jane TVG
4:30p The Gene Autry Show (E75)
5:00p Cheyenne (E36)
6:00p Maverick (E6)
7:00p Maverick (E7)
8:00p The Undefeated G
10:00p The Deadly Trackers PG
11:50p Follow The River PG
1:30a Calamity Jane TVG
3:15a The Undefeated G
5:15a Top Gun TV14
Tuesday, 12—29
6:30a Navajo Kid TVPG
7:30a The Gene Autry Show (E37)
8:00a Cheyenne (E69)
9:00a Maverick (E116)
10:00a Annie Oakley TV14
11:40a In Old California TVPG
1:15p My Darling Clementine TVPG
3:00p The Indian Fighter TVPG
4:30p The Gene Autry Show (E76)
5:00p Cheyenne (E37)
6:00p Maverick (E8)
7:00p Maverick (E9)
8:00p The Gambler: The Adventure...
9:40p The Gambler: The Adventure...
11:10p The Indian Fighter TVPG
12:40a Annie Oakley TV14
2:15a My Darling Clementine TVPG
4:00a Rovin' Tumbleweeds TVG
5:05a Far And Away PG13
Wednesday, 12—30
7:30a The Gene Autry Show (E38)
8:00a Cheyenne (E70)
9:00a Maverick (E117)
10:00a Shadowheart PG13
12:00p Robin Hood Of Texas TVPG
1:15p Tomahawk Trail TVPG
2:20p McLintock! TV14
4:30p The Gene Autry Show (E77)
5:00p Cheyenne (E38)
6:00p Maverick (E10)
7:00p Maverick (E11)
8:00p The Gambler, Part III: The...
9:35p The Gambler Part III: The Legend...
11:05p McLintock! TV14
1:15a Shadowheart PG13
3:10a The Magnificent Seven (E22)
4:00a One Man's Hero R
Thursday, 12—31
6:10a Robin Hood Of Texas TVPG
7:30a The Gene Autry Show (E39)
8:00a Cheyenne (E71)
9:00a Maverick (E118)
10:00a Dakota TVPG
11:30a Back In The Saddle TVPG
12:45p The Left Handed Gun TVPG
2:30p Death Rides A Horse TV14
4:30p The Gene Autry Show (E78)
5:00p Cheyenne (E39)
6:00p Maverick (E12)
7:00p Maverick (E13)
8:00p The Gambler Returns: Luck Of The...
9:35p The Gambler Returns: The Luck Of...
11:10p The Magnificent Seven (E22)
12:00a The Virginian (E1)
1:20a The Virginian (E2)
2:40a The Virginian (E3)
4:00a The Virginian (E4)
5:20a The Virginian (E5)

THE ALAMO: THIRTEEN DAYS TO GLORY [TVPG]·Historical·1987·(2:20)
The legendary last stand of revolutionary Texas volunteers at
the Alamo in 1836 - the embattled garrison led by Jim Bowie
and Davy Crockett. With Alec Baldwin and Raul Julia as
Mexican General Santa Anna. 12/3,4

ALIAS JESSE JAMES [TVPG]·Comedy·1959·(1:33)
An inept insurance salesman winds up in the Old West
impersonating a notorious gunslinger - only the plan is for
him to lose the big shootout! Major star cameos - Bing
Crosby, Gary Cooper, Roy Rogers, James Garner, more.
12/7,12,16,25.

ANNIE OAKLEY [TV14]·Biography·1935·(1:30)
The legend is on full display in this colorful story about
sharp-shooting Annie Oakley - from her humble origins to
international stardom in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
12/7,16,24,29.

ANOTHER MAN, ANOTHER CHANCE [PG]·Remake·1977·(2:16)
A veterinarian and a French widow fall in love in the Old
West. Directed by Claude Lelouch. 12/17,18,26.

BACK IN THE SADDLE [TVPG]·Western·1941·(1:12)
The restored, signature Gene Autry western finds our hero
battling to save his copper-rich spread. Featuring the songs
"I'm An Old Cowhand," "In The Jailhouse Now" and "Back In
The Saddle." 12/31.

BAD MAN'S RIVER [PG]·Western·1972·(1:32)
A sly seductress cons a crew of bank robbers out of their loot,
and then tricks them up again in a plot to blow up a Mexican
army arsenal in exchange for a million dollar payout in this
fast-paced western. With Gina Lollobrigidia. 12/5,26.

BANDIDO [TVPG]·Drama·1956·(1:32)
An American soldier of fortune, finding himself in the middle
of the 1916 Mexican civil war, kidnaps the beautiful wife of a
gunrunner while casting his lot with the rebels. 12/13.

BARBED WIRE [TVPG]·Western·1952·(1:02)
Singing cowboy Gene Autry puts a stop to a powerful rancher
who is putting other ranchers out of business. 12/12.

BARQUERO [R]·Western·1970·(1:49)
A ferry captain and a mountain man step in to defend
Mexican border settlers from outlaws. 12/11,26.

THE BIG COUNTRY [TVPG]·Western·1958·(2:47)
A sea captain comes west to marry, but finds himself in the
middle of family squabbles and a deadly water rights battle in
this sprawling, highly entertaining western. With Charlton
Heston, Burl Ives (Oscar-Best Supporting Actor).
12/2,11,14,27.

BILLY TWO HATS [PG]·Western·1974·(1:40)
A Scottish bank bandit (Gregory Peck) and an Indian
half-breed (Desi Arnaz Jr.) team up to rob a bank with tragic
results. 12/19.

BLACK FOX: THE PRICE OF PEACE [TV14]·Black·1993·(1:30)
Ex-slave helps Kiowa tribe fend off white hunting party in
1860's Texas. 12/3,21.

THE BLACK WHIP [TVPG]·Western·1956·(1:17)
Four pretty dance hall girls are in trouble when one is
suspected of aiding a jailbreak. 12/17.

BLOOD RED [R]·Drama·1989·(1:31)
A local railroad baron tries to buy a family's land in old
California - when they refuse, the tycoon's thugs kill the
patriarch. Now the dead man's son seeks an explosive
revenge! Earlysupporting role for Julia Roberts. 12/13.

BORDER BADMEN [TVG]·Western·1945·(:54)
Billy the Kid is shooting up a storm and defending his honor.
12/11.

BRET MAVERICK (E1) [TV14]·Western·1981·(1:37)
Returning to the role that made him famous, James Garner is
once again Bret Maverick who has decided to settle down in
the town of Sweetwater, AZ. Now Maverick must learn to get
along as the Wild West is tamed by modern civilization. 12/26
BRET MAVERICK (E15) [TV14]·Western·1981·(:49) 12/5
BRET MAVERICK (E16) [TV14]·Western·1981·(:49) 12/12
BRET MAVERICK (E17) [TV14]·Western·1981·(:49) 12/19

BRONCO BILLY [PG]·Comedy·1980·(1:56)
A former shoe salesman lives his dream, running a
low-budget Wild West Show - but when he falls for a neurotic
heiress, the trouble and laughs begin in this cock-eyed
romantic comedy. Directed by Clint Eastwood.
12/8,12,13,23,26,27

BUFFALO BILL AND THE INDIANS [PG]·Western·1976·(2:03)
Paul Newman portrays the frontier hero with gusto and charm
in this comedic, high-spirited look at the legendary western
adventurer. 12/25.

A BULLET FOR SANDOVAL [PG]·Western·1970·(1:30)
In this cult classic spaghetti western, a Confederate soldier
and the father of his girlfriend each blame the other for the
death of the woman and an infant son, setting the stage for a
grim and violent battle for revenge. 12/13,23.

CALAMITY JANE [TVG]·Musical·1953·(1:41)
Wild West sharpshooter Jane falls for Wild Bill Hickok and
tries to act more ladylike. 12/9,20,24,28.

CAPTAIN APACHE [PG]·Western·1971·(1:34)
An Indian Commissioner's dying words set intrepid US Army
Captain Apache out to discover what they mean - even
though all his suspects wind up dead! A comic cult classic
western, with Stuart Whitman. 12/2,26.

CHECK YOUR GUNS [TVPG]·Musical·1948·(:53)
Singing sheriff enacts old west gun control to thwart outlaws
and crooked judge. 12/10.

CHEYENNE [TVG]·Western·1955·(:49)
An adventurer in the West, after the American Civil War.
Cheyenne Brodie traveled through the west helping those in
need. Loosely based on a 1947 feature film of the same name.
CHEYENNE (E16) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:41) 12/26
CHEYENNE (E17) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:49) 12/1
CHEYENNE (E18) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:49) 12/2
CHEYENNE (E19) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:49) 12/3
CHEYENNE (E20) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:49) 12/4
CHEYENNE (E49) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:49) 12/1
CHEYENNE (E50) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:49) 12/2
CHEYENNE (E51) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:49) 12/3
CHEYENNE (E52) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:49) 12/4
CHEYENNE (E21) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:49) 12/7
CHEYENNE (E22) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:49) 12/8
CHEYENNE (E23) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:49) 12/9
CHEYENNE (E24) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:49) 12/10
CHEYENNE (E25) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:49) 12/11
CHEYENNE (E26) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:49) 12/14
CHEYENNE (E27) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:49) 12/15
CHEYENNE (E28) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:49) 12/16
CHEYENNE (E29) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:49) 12/17
CHEYENNE (E30) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:49) 12/18
CHEYENNE (E31) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:49) 12/21
CHEYENNE (E32) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:49) 12/22
CHEYENNE (E33) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:49) 12/23
CHEYENNE (E34) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:49) 12/24
CHEYENNE (E35) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:49) 12/25
CHEYENNE (E36) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:49) 12/28
CHEYENNE (E37) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:49) 12/29
CHEYENNE (E38) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:49) 12/30
CHEYENNE (E39) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:49) 12/31
CHEYENNE (E53) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:49) 12/7
CHEYENNE (E54) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:49) 12/8
CHEYENNE (E55) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:49) 12/9
CHEYENNE (E56) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:48) 12/10
CHEYENNE (E57) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:48) 12/11
CHEYENNE (E58) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:48) 12/14
CHEYENNE (E59) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:48) 12/15
CHEYENNE (E60) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:48) 12/16
CHEYENNE (E61) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:48) 12/17
CHEYENNE (E62) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:48) 12/18
CHEYENNE (E63) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:50) 12/21
CHEYENNE (E64) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:50) 12/22
CHEYENNE (E65) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:48) 12/23
CHEYENNE (E66) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:49) 12/24
CHEYENNE (E67) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:48) 12/25
CHEYENNE (E68) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:48) 12/28
CHEYENNE (E69) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:50) 12/29
CHEYENNE (E70) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:51) 12/30
CHEYENNE (E71) [TVG]·Western·1955·(:51) 12/31

CIMARRON STRIP (E8) [TV14]·Western·1967·(1:12)
Starring Stuart Whitman as Jim Crown, the marshal of
Cimarron Strip, a thousand miles of wild borderland between
Kansas and Indian territory. 12/5
CIMARRON STRIP (E9) [TV14]·Western·1967·(1:11) 12/12
CIMARRON STRIP (E10) [TV14]·Western·1967·(1:12) 12/19
CIMARRON STRIP (E11) [TV14]·Western·1967·(1:12) 12/26

COLORADO SERENADE [TVPG]·Western·1946·(1:06)
Upright cowboys attempt to prevent a young thug from
bullying the locals. 12/16.

THE COWBOY AND THE INDIANS [TVPG]·Western·1949·(1:10)
A singing cowboy catches a government trader bilking Indians
on a reservation. 12/5,25.

DAKOTA [TVPG]·Western·1945·(1:22)
A married couple heads west to start a new life and runs into
trouble when claim jumpers try to seize their new home.
12/16,31.

DAY OF THE OUTLAW [NR]·Western·1959·(1:32)
12/13.

DEADLY SHOOTER [TV14]·Western·1997·(1:32)
In the 1800's, a federal marshal, after having brought back
law and order to a small western town, finds himself framed
for the brutal murder of an innocent family by a newcomer in
town. 12/10,22.

THE DEADLY TRACKERS [PG]·Western·1973·(1:45)
A pacifist Texas sheriff becomes an intense manhunter when
a violent gang murders his family - as he crosses the border,
he encounters a Mexican sheriff who questions his bloodlust
revenge. Hard-hitting! 12/20,24,28.

DEATH RIDES A HORSE [TV14]·Drama·1968·(1:55)
A young boy survives the brutal murder of his family by an
armed gang. Fifteen years later, he teams up with a man
framed for the killings in a quest for bloody revenge on the
real assassins! 12/4,16,21,26,31.

DOC [PG]·Western·1971·(1:36)
Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the rest of the Tombstone gang
prepare for the shootout at the OK corral. 12/6.

DON RICARDO RETURNS [TVPG]·Adventure·1946·(1:08)
Swashbuckler fights with his nefarious cousin for the family
fortune in old California. 12/21.

DOWN MEXICO WAY [TVPG]·Western·1941·(1:18)
Bogus filmmakers bilk a town, and a cowboy (Gene Autry)
and his sidekick (Smiley Burnette) cross the border to find
them. 12/13,16.

DRANGO [TVPG]·Western·1957·(1:32)
A Union officer becomes the overseer of a Georgia town he
destroyed during Sherman's march. 12/27.

ESCORT WEST [TV14]·Western·1959·(1:16)
Excellent action sequences highlight this tale of an
ex-Confederate officer who finds himself trying to save two
women - one of whom lost a fiance in the Civil War - from an
Indian attack. 12/1.

FAR AND AWAY [PG13]·Adventure·1992·(2:20)
Director Ron Howard tells the story of a young Irish immigrant
couple who land in 1890s Boston, struggling to earn enough
money to continue west for a wild and wooly Oklahoma land
run. 12/8,12,17,29.

THE FIGHTING VIGILANTES [TVPG]·Western·1947·(1:01)
A damsel is in distress when her chuck wagon, loaded with
grub, is held up by bandits trying to form a monopoly on food
supplies. 12/20.

FIVE SAVAGE MEN [R]·Western·1971·(1:26)
12/22.

FOLLOW THE RIVER [PG]·Adventure·1995·(1:33)
The tumultuous settlement of the New World and the crossing
of its two cultures form the backdrop for this sweeping saga
of a courageous pioneer woman.
12/13,23,28.

FROM NOON TILL THREE [PG]·Comedy·1976·(1:39)
A colorful desperado seduces a widow enroute to a bank
robbery. Later, she writes a best-seller about their fling, but
when the cowboy returns to rekindle their romance, the
widow decides the legend is better than the lover! 12/12.

FRONTIER FUGITIVES [TVPG]·Western·1945·(:56)
When a trapper is murdered - allegedly by Indians - the Texas
Rangers ride in to investigate. 12/4.

FRONTIER SCOUT [TVPG]·Western·1956·(1:25)
Sent on a top-secret mission by the government, Quincannon
tries to find out who's been selling repeating rifles to the
Indians. 12/22.

THE GAMBLER: THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES [TV14]·Western·1983·(1:35)
(part 1) Gambler Brady Hawkes' son is kidnapped - his pal Billy
Montana and sexy bounty hunter Kate Muldoon (Linda Evans)
team up to rescue him! With "The Rifleman" co-star Johnny Crawford.
12/17,29
THE GAMBLER: THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES [TV14]·Western·1983·(1:28)
(part 2) 12/17,29

THE GAMBLER, PART 3: THE LEGEND CONTINUES [TV14]·Western·1987·(1:33)
(part 1) Brady Hawkes and Billy Montana are back for another
adventure - joining forces with the Lakota Sioux to help them
fight corrupt US Army officers. 12/10,14,15,30
THE GAMBLER PART III: THE LEGEND CONTINUES [TV14]·Western·1987·(1:29)
(part 2) 12/10,14,15,30

THE GAMBLER RETURNS: LUCK OF THE DRAW [TV14]·Western·1991·(1:33)
(part 1) Gambler Brady Hawkes and his friends embark on a
cross-country adventure en route to San Francisco and the
biggest card game in history - meeting up with an all-star
cast of legendary western heroes along the way! 12/31,1/3
THE GAMBLER RETURNS: LUCK OF THE DRAW [TV14]·Western·1991·(1:34)
(part 2) 12/31,1/3

GAUCHO SERENADE [TVPG]·Comedy·1940·(1:08)
The singing cowboy and his sidekick go west with a runaway
bride, her young sister and a British boy looking for his father.
12/8.

THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E17) [TVG]·Western·1950·(:28)
The adventures of singing cowboy Gene Autry and his
sidekick restoring law and order in the old west. 12/1
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E18) [TVG]·Western·1950·(:27) 12/2
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E19) [TVG]·Western·1950·(:27) 12/3
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E20) [TVG]·Western·1950·(:27) 12/4
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E56) [TVG]·Western·1953·(:27) 12/1
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E57) [TVG]·Western·1954·(:27) 12/2
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E58) [TVG]·Western·1953·(:27) 12/3
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E59) [TVG]·Western·1953·(:27) 12/4,5
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E21) [TVG]·Western·1950·(:27) 12/7
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E22) [TVG]·Western·1950·(:27) 12/8
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E23) [TVG]·Western·1950·(:27) 12/9
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E24) [TVG]·Western·1950·(:27) 12/10
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E25) [TVG]·Western·1950·(:27) 12/11
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E26) [TVG]·Western·1950·(:27) 12/14
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E27) [TVG]·Western·1952·(:27) 12/15
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E28) [TVG]·Western·1951·(:27) 12/16
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E29) [TVG]·Western·1951·(:27) 12/17
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E30) [TVG]·Western·1951·(:27) 12/18
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E31) [TVG]·Western·1951·(:27) 12/21
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E32) [TVG]·Western·1951·(:27) 12/22
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E33) [TVG]·Western·1952·(:27) 12/23
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E34) [TVG]·Western·1951·(:27) 12/24
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E35) [TVG]·Western·1951·(:27) 12/25
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E36) [TVG]·Western·1952·(:27) 12/28
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E37) [TVG]·Western·1951·(:27) 12/29
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E38) [TVG]·Western·1952·(:27) 12/30
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E39) [TVG]·Western·1951·(:27) 12/31
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E60) [TVG]·Western·1953·(:27) 12/7
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E61) [TVG]·Western·1953·(:27) 12/8
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E62) [TVG]·Western·1954·(:27) 12/9
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E63) [TVG]·Western·1954·(:27) 12/10
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E64) [TVG]·Western·1953·(:27) 12/11,12
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E65) [TVG]·Western·1954·(:27) 12/14
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E66) [TVG]·Western·1953·(:27) 12/15
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E67) [TVG]·Western·1954·(:27) 12/16
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E68) [TVG]·Western·1954·(:27) 12/17
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E69) [TVG]·Western·1954·(:27) 12/18,19
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E70) [TVG]·Western·1953·(:27) 12/21
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E71) [TVG]·Western·1954·(:27) 12/22
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E72) [TVG]·Western·1954·(:27) 12/23
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E73) [TVG]·Western·1953·(:27) 12/24
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E74) [TVG]·Western·1954·(:27) 12/25,26
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E75) [TVG]·Western·1954·(:27) 12/28
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E76) [TVG]·Western·1954·(:27) 12/29
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E77) [TVG]·Western·1954·(:27) 12/30
THE GENE AUTRY SHOW (E78) [TVG]·Western·1953·(:27) 12/31

GENE AUTRY: WHITE HAT, SILVER SCREEN [TVPG]·Docu·2007·(:27)
A look at the life, films and times of the famous singing
cowboy and recording artist. Featuring interviews with Autry's
family and fans--including Glen Campbell, Roy Clark, and
Michael Martin Murphey. 12/9.

GUN BELT [TV14]·Western·1953·(1:18)
A notorious outlaw tries to go straight, only to be framed by
his former gang.
12/7.

GUNSMOKE (E1) [TVPG]·Western·1961·(:50)
Marshall Matt Dillon attempts to keep the peace in Dodge City.
James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Dennis Weaver.
1/2
GUNSMOKE (E2) [TVPG]·Western·1961·(:50) 1/2
GUNSMOKE (E3) [TVPG]·Western·1961·(:50) 1/2
GUNSMOKE (E4) [TVPG]·Western·1961·(:50) 1/2
GUNSMOKE (E5) [TVPG]·Western·1961·(:50) 1/2
GUNSMOKE (E6) [TVPG]·Western·1961·(:50) 1/2
GUNSMOKE (E7) [TVPG]·Western·1961·(:50) 1/3
GUNSMOKE (E8) [TVPG]·Western·1961·(:50) 1/3
GUNSMOKE (E9) [TVPG]·Western·1961·(:50) 1/3
GUNSMOKE (E10) [TVPG]·Western·1961·(:50) 1/3
GUNSMOKE (E11) [TVPG]·Western·1961·(:50) 1/3
GUNSMOKE (E12) [TVPG]·Western·1961·(:50) 1/3
GUNSMOKE (E13) [TVPG]·Western·1961·(:50) 1/3
GUNSMOKE (E14) [TVPG]·Western·1961·(:50) 1/3
GUNSMOKE (E15) [TVPG]·Western·1962·(:50) 1/3
GUNSMOKE (E16) [TVPG]·Western·1962·(:50) 1/3
GUNSMOKE (E17) [TVPG]·Western·1962·(:50) 1/3
GUNSMOKE (E18) [TVPG]·Western·1962·(:50) 1/3
GUNSMOKE (E19) [TVPG]·Western·1962·(:50) 1/3
GUNSMOKE (E20) [TVPG]·Western·1962·(:50) 1/3
GUNSMOKE (E21) [TVPG]·Western·1962·(:50) 1/3
GUNSMOKE (E22) [TVPG]·Western·1962·(:50) 1/3
GUNSMOKE (E23) [TVPG]·Western·1962·(:50) 1/3
GUNSMOKE (E24) [TVPG]·Western·1962·(:50) 1/3

GUNSMOKE: ONE MAN'S JUSTICE [TVPG]·Western·1994·(1:32)
The older of two brothers rides after his parents killers to
exact vengeance. Legendary Marshall Dillon goes after him,
accompanied by a mysterious young gun slinger with a
secret. James Arness, Amanda Blake. 12/22.

GUNSMOKE: THE LAST APACHE [TVPG]·Western·1990·(1:34)
Former U.S. Marshall Dillon comes out of retirement to free
his estranged daughter from renegade Apache Indians.
James Arness, Amanda Blake. 12/24.

GUNSMOKE: THE LONG RIDE [TVPG]·Western·1992·(1:35)
Falsely accused of murder by a corrupt lawman, former U.S.
Marshall Dillon rides with an ex-preacher to track down the
real killers and restore his good name. With Ali MacGraw.
James Arness, Amanda Blake. 12/18.

GUNSMOKE: TO THE LAST MAN [TVPG]·Western·1991·(1:33)
Retired U.S. Marshall Dillon and his daughter get caught up in
a bloody feud between cattle rustlers and vigilantes in
Arizona's Pleasant Valley. James Arness, Amanda Blake.
12/6,10,25.

THE HALLIDAY BRAND [TV14]·Western·1957·(1:19)
A tough sheriff and his son clash over how to deal with the
local Indians. 12/27.

HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E1) [TVPG]·Western·1957·(:26) 1/1
Paladin (Richard Boone) is a West Point graduate & war veteran
with a strong sense of honor. If you need help wire Paladin,
San Francisco. It was one of the top three TV-westerns, behind
Gunsmoke and Wagon Train. Head writer Gene Roddenberry.
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E2) [TVPG]·Western·1957·(:26) 1/1
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E3) [TVPG]·Western·1957·(:26) 1/1
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E4) [TVPG]·Western·1957·(:25) 1/1
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E5) [TVPG]·Western·1957·(:25) 1/1
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E6) [TVPG]·Western·1957·(:25) 1/1
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E7) [TVPG]·Western·1957·(:26) 1/1
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E8) [TVPG]·Western·1957·(:26) 1/1
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E9) [TVPG]·Western·1957·(:26) 1/1
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E10) [TVPG]·Western·1957·(:25)1/1
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E11) [TVPG]·Western·1957·(:26)1/1
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E12) [TVPG]·Western·1957·(:26)1/1
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E13) [TVPG]·Western·1957·(:26)1/2
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E14) [TVPG]·Western·1957·(:25)1/2
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E15) [TVPG]·Western·1957·(:25)1/2
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E16) [TVPG]·Western·1957·(:26)1/2
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E17) [TVPG]·Western·1958·(:26)1/2
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E18) [TVPG]·Western·1958·(:26)1/2
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E19) [TVPG]·Western·1958·(:26)1/2
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E20) [TVPG]·Western·1958·(:26)1/2
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E21) [TVPG]·Western·1958·(:25)1/2
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E22) [TVPG]·Western·1958·(:26)1/2
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E23) [TVPG]·Western·1958·(:26)1/2
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E24) [TVPG]·Western·1958·(:26)1/2
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E25) [TVPG]·Western·1958·(:25)1/2
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E26) [TVPG]·Western·1958·(:26)1/2
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E27) [TVPG]·Western·1958·(:26)1/2
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E28) [TVPG]·Western·1958·(:26)1/2
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E29) [TVPG]·Western·1958·(:26)1/2
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E30) [TVPG]·Western·1958·(:26)1/2
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E31) [TVPG]·Western·1958·(:26)1/2
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E32) [TVPG]·Western·1958·(:26)1/2
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E33) [TVPG]·Western·1958·(:26)1/2
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E34) [TVPG]·Western·1958·(:26)1/2
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E35) [TVPG]·Western·1958·(:26)1/2
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E36) [TVPG]·Western·1958·(:26)1/2
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E37) [TVPG]·Western·1958·(:26)1/2
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E38) [TVPG]·Western·1958·(:26)1/2
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E39) [TVPG]·Western·1958·(:26)1/2
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E40) [TVPG]·Western·1958·(:26)1/2
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E41) [TVPG]·Western·1958·(:26)1/2
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E42) [TVPG]·Western·1958·(:26)1/2
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E43) [TVPG]·Western·1958·(:26)1/2
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E44) [TVPG]·Western·1958·(:26)1/2
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E45) [TVPG]·Western·1958·(:26)1/2
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E46) [TVPG]·Western·1958·(:26)1/2
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E47) [TVPG]·Western·1958·(:26)1/2
HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (E48) [TVPG]·Western·1958·(:26)1/2

HEAVEN'S GATE [R]·Western·1980·(3:37)
An Ivy League marshal defends immigrant settlers against
cattle barons in 1890s Wyoming in this anti-Vietnam movie
thinly disguised as a western, directed by Michael Cimino.
12/1,8,12,27.

HOME IN WYOMIN' [TVPG]·Western·1942·(1:08)
A cowboy (Gene Autry) and his sidekicks help a former boss
who's son is in trouble with the law. 12/9.

THE HONKERS [PG]·Comedy·1972·(1:43)
A self-centered fomer rodeo champion tries to prove himself
to his wife, son and best friend. 12/15.

THE HUNTING PARTY [R]·Western·1971·(1:51)
To cattle baron Brandt Ruger, his wife Melissa is just another
possession. So when bandit Frank Calder kidnaps his wife,
Ruger organizes a posse to hunt down the pair and recover
his property... dead or alive! 12/20.

IN OLD CALIFORNIA [TVPG]·Western·1942·(1:28)
A Boston druggist is a success in old San Francisco until he
is framed for murder. But then the Gold Rush begins and a
medical epidemic erupts - can his life-saving skills redeem
his name? 12/29.

THE INDIAN FIGHTER [TVPG]·Western·1955·(1:28)
A frontier scout leads a wagon train to Oregon, woos a Sioux
maiden and exposes a troublemaker. 12/4,9,13,29.

JACK SLADE [TV14]·Western·1953·(1:30)
Law-enforcing gunfighter has lifelong violent streak. 12/6,18.

THE LAST BANDIT [TVPG]·Western·1949·(1:20)
Ex-outlaw tries to build an honest life for himself in a gold
shipping frontier town of the Old West. 1/3.

THE LAST ROUND-UP [TVG]·Musical·1947·(1:18)
A singing rancher alarms a banker by trying to make an
honest deal with Indians. 12/6.

THE LAWLESS FRONTIER [TVPG]·Western·1935·(:49)
The hunt is on for Mexican outlaws accused of murder.
12/14.

THE LEFT HANDED GUN [TVPG]·Biography·1958·(1:42)
The story of Billy The Kid is told in psychologically intense
fashion - the Kid and two young companions team up to
avenge a killing at the hands of a corrupt lawman.
12/1,5,18,31.

THE LEGEND OF BUTCH AND SUNDANCE [TV14]·Western·2004·(1:27)
The legend lives! Fresh approach to the exploits of western
outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, as they steal
money from railroad robber barons while both try and win the
heart of the lovely Etta Place. 12/7,25.

LIGHTNING RAIDERS [TVPG]·Western·1945·(:52)
The leading citizen of western town is trying to fraudulently
obtain land and money - but he didn't count on two cowboys
discovering his plan! 12/2.

THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (E5) [TV14]·Western·1998·(:45)
When an Indian village is threatened by ex-Confederate
soldiers, several villagers head out to seek help. They recruit
seven men, each with unique skills, who return to the village
and take on the raiders. Following this, the men tak 12/5
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (E6) [TV14]·Western·1998·(:45) 12/12
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (E7) [TV14]·Western·1998·(:45) 12/19
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (E8) [TV14]·Western·1998·(:45) 12/26
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (E22)[TV14]·Western·1998·(:45) 12/30,31

A MAN ALONE [TVPG]·Western·1955·(1:36)
A man falsely accused of murder hides out from the law with
the sheriff's beautiful daughter. 12/27.

MAN FROM DEL RIO [TV14]·Western·1956·(1:23)
An uneducated Mexican gunfighter wins a town over when he
shows his courage. 12/11.

MAN OF THE EAST [PG]·Comedy·1972·(2:05)
A bookish Boston slicker is sent to the west to become a man
- he's not learning very fast, but when a gunfighter tries to
take his girl, the lessons take hold! A spaghetti-western
comedy, with Harrey Carey Jr. 12/3,23.

MAN WITH THE GUN [TVPG]·Western·1955·(1:24)
A hired gun saves a cow town from a land-grabber and wins
back his wife. 12/6.

MAVERICK (E1) [TV14]·Comedy·1957·(:49)
Brothers Bret and Bart Maverick travel across the West,
trying to stay out of trouble, avoid manual labor, and make
lots of money playing cards in this unique series. 12/23
MAVERICK (E92) [TV14]·Comedy·1960·(:51) 12/1
MAVERICK (E93) [TV14]·Comedy·1960·(:51) 12/1
MAVERICK (E94) [TV14]·Comedy·1960·(:51) 12/2
MAVERICK (E95) [TV14]·Comedy·1961·(:51) 12/2
MAVERICK (E96) [TV14]·Comedy·1961·(:51) 12/1,3
MAVERICK (E97) [TV14]·Comedy·1961·(:51) 12/2,3
MAVERICK (E98) [TV14]·Comedy·1961·(:51) 12/3,4
MAVERICK (E99) [TV14]·Comedy·1961·(:51) 12/4
MAVERICK (E2) [TV14]·Comedy·1957·(:49) 12/24
MAVERICK (E3) [TV14]·Comedy·1957·(:49) 12/24
MAVERICK (E4) [TV14]·Comedy·1957·(:49) 12/25
MAVERICK (E5) [TV14]·Comedy·1957·(:50) 12/25
MAVERICK (E6) [TV14]·Comedy·1957·(:49) 12/28
MAVERICK (E7) [TV14]·Comedy·1957·(:49) 12/28
MAVERICK (E8) [TV14]·Comedy·1957·(:49) 12/29
MAVERICK (E9) [TV14]·Comedy·1957·(:49) 12/29
MAVERICK (E10) [TV14]·Comedy·1957·(:49) 12/30
MAVERICK (E11) [TV14]·Comedy·1957·(:49) 12/30
MAVERICK (E12) [TV14]·Comedy·1957·(:49) 12/31
MAVERICK (E13) [TV14]·Comedy·1957·(:49) 12/31
MAVERICK (E100) [TV14]·Comedy·1961·(:51) 12/7
MAVERICK (E101) [TV14]·Comedy·1961·(:51) 12/7,8
MAVERICK (E102) [TV14]·Comedy·1961·(:51) 12/8,9
MAVERICK (E103) [TV14]·Comedy·1961·(:51) 12/8,10
MAVERICK (E104) [TV14]·Comedy·1961·(:51) 12/9,11
MAVERICK (E105) [TV14]·Comedy·1961·(:51) 12/9,14
MAVERICK (E106) [TV14]·Comedy·1961·(:51) 12/10,15
MAVERICK (E107) [TV14]·Comedy·1961·(:51) 12/10,16
MAVERICK (E108) [TV14]·Comedy·1961·(:51) 12/11,17
MAVERICK (E109) [TV14]·Comedy·1961·(:51) 12/11,18
MAVERICK (E110) [TV14]·Comedy·1961·(:51) 12/14,21
MAVERICK (E111) [TV14]·Comedy·1961·(:51) 12/14,22
MAVERICK (E112) [TV14]·Comedy·1961·(:50) 12/15,23
MAVERICK (E113) [TV14]·Comedy·1961·(:50) 12/15,24
MAVERICK (E114) [TV14]·Comedy·1961·(:50) 12/16,25
MAVERICK (E115) [TV14]·Comedy·1961·(:50) 12/16,28
MAVERICK (E116) [TV14]·Comedy·1961·(:50) 12/17,29
MAVERICK (E117) [TV14]·Comedy·1962·(:50) 12/17,30
MAVERICK (E118) [TV14]·Comedy·1962·(:50) 12/18,31
MAVERICK (E119) [TV14]·Comedy·1962·(:50) 12/18
MAVERICK (E120) [TV14]·Comedy·1962·(:50) 12/21
MAVERICK (E121) [TV14]·Comedy·1962·(:50) 12/21
MAVERICK (E122) [TV14]·Comedy·1962·(:50) 12/22
MAVERICK (E123) [TV14]·Comedy·1962·(:50) 12/22
MAVERICK (E124) [TV14]·Comedy·1962·(:50) 12/23

MCLINTOCK! [TV14]·Comedy·1963·(2:02)
He's no quiet man - rancher George Washington McLintock
battles his spitfire red-headed wife, a willful daughter and
various shysters in a brawling slapstick western comedy.
12/5,17,21,25,30.

MONTANA [TVPG]·Romance·1950·(1:16)
A battle of strong wills is the focus of this Australia-set
western: a sheep herder needs pasture for his flock to graze
but finds strong opposition from local landowners. 12/15.

MUSTANG [TV14]·Western·1959·(1:14)
An unbroken wild mustang is a constant nuisance to the
domesticated horses on a rural ranch. But one day, a ranch
hand decides to capture and tame the wild creature in order
to turn it into a valuable asset to the ranch. 12/13.

MY DARLING CLEMENTINE [TVPG]·Western·1946·(1:37)
John Ford directs an all-star cast in this classic story of Wyatt
Earp and Doc Holliday, who put differences aside to settle the
score with rivals at the O.K. Corral. 12/16,25,29.

NAVAJO KID [TVPG]·Western·1945·(:57)
An adopted Indian sets out to seek revenge for the murder of
his stepfather. Completing his mission, he is arrested by a
sheriff who recognizes the locket he is wearing. 12/2,29.

OKLAHOMA TERRITORY [TVPG]·Western·1960·(1:07)
"Oklahoma Territory" features Bill Williams as Temple
Houston, a gun-toting D.A. whose heart lies with the cause of
justice but whose actions toward that end can be
controversial. 12/6,17,28.

ON TOP OF OLD SMOKY [TVG]·Western·1953·(1:00)
The singing cowboy and his pals are mistaken for Texas
Rangers, and decide to help a woman protect her toll-road
against a gang of bad guys who want to steal her land. Autry
croons the title song. 12/25.

OUTLAW'S SON [TV14]·Western·1957·(1:28)
An outlaw is confronted by the son he deserted years earlier.
12/2.

OVERLAND PACIFIC [TVPG]·Western·1955·(1:13)
A railroad agent (Jack Mahoney) discovers that Indian raids
are being conducted by white men in disguise. 12/8,14.

OVERLAND RIDERS [TVPG]·Western·1946·(:53)
Billy the Kid is causing trouble out in the old west. In rides
Crabbe and sidekick St. John to save the day. 12/10.

PACK TRAIN [TVG]·Western·1953·(:57)
A singing cowboy brings goods to settlers gouged by
gold-rush prices. 12/6,9.

PANCHO VILLA [PG]·Action·1972·(1:31)
Pancho Villa and his Mexican revolutionaries attack the USA
in retaliation against the American gunrunners who cheated
him in an arms deal gone wrong. With Chuck Connors.
12/9,20.

PIONEER WOMAN [TVG]·Western·1973·(1:15)
A homesteading family in the 1867 Wyoming faces a crisis
when the husband is killed and the wife must decide whether
to remain or take her son and daughter back East. 12/11.

POCKET MONEY [PG]·Comedy·1972·(1:40)
A down-on-his-luck cowboy and his free-wheeling, con-man
buddy become lassoed in a get-rich-quick scheme that lands
the pair in a Mexican jail. 12/4,9,15,20.

PRAIRIE MOON [TVPG]·Western·1938·(:59)
A singing cowboy and his sidekick shepherd a Chicago
gangster's sons. 12/20,23.

PRAIRIE OUTLAWS [TVPG]·Western·1946·(:57)
Singing Texas Ranger fends off outlaws, avenges murder of
boy's father. 12/1.

PROMISE THE MOON [TVPG]·Western·1997·(1:32)
A reluctant ranch hand battles a callous businessman trying
to take control of his late employer's cattle ranch. 12/19.

REBEL IN TOWN [TV14]·Western·1956·(1:19)
An ex-confederate soldier accidentally kills a small boy after a
bank robbery. A few years later, the boy's father saves the
soldier's life. 12/8,12,13.

RED RIVER [TV14]·Western·1988·(1:35)
A ego-driven cattle baron fights with his foster son on the
first cattle drive up the Chisholm Trail. Remake of the Howard
Hawks classic. 12/5.

THE RED STALLION [TVPG]·Children·1947·(1:18)
A boy tries to save his grandmother's ranch from foreclosure
with help from his horse. 1/3.

THE RETURN OF A MAN CALLED HORSE [PG]·Sequel·1976·(2:05)
In this sequel to "A Man Called Horse," blue-blooded
Englishman Harris returns to America to help the Native
American tribe that adopted him as they battle unscrupulous
enemies. 12/6,10,19,23.

RETURN OF SABATA [PG]·Western·1972·(1:46)
The morally ambiguous gunfighter is part of a wild west show
when he arrives in a town dominated by a tyrannical criminal
element - but it's a flying circus when Sabata takes on the
bad guys! 12/8,26.

RETURN OF THE LASH [TVPG]·Western·1947·(:53)
Lash Larue's sidekick Fuzzy gets amnesia. 12/5,22.

REVOLT AT FORT LARAMIE [TVPG]·Western·1957·(1:13)
Soldiers at a Western outpost deal with Indian attacks and
divided loyalties during the Civil War. 12/20.

RIDE IN THE WHIRLWIND [G]·Western·1965·(1:22)
In Monte Hellman's offbeat western, three cowboys are
wrongly pursued as outlaws. Jack Nicholson, Cameron
Mitchell, Tom Filer. 12/1,9,21.

RIDE OUT FOR REVENGE [TV14]·Western·1957·(1:18)
A corrupt cavalry officer is put in charge of the Cheyenne
migration from ancestral grounds to a reservation, but
gold-hungry men try to dispossess the Indians from their
land. 12/4.

ROBIN HOOD OF TEXAS [TVPG]·Western·1947·(1:12)
A singing cowboy (Gene Autry) faces gangsters and gunfights
at a dude ranch. 12/27,30,31.

ROMANCE OF THE WEST [TVPG]·Western·1946·(:58)
An Indian scout keeps the peace on the range. 12/19.

ROVIN' TUMBLEWEEDS [TVG]·Western·1939·(1:03)
Flood victims call on a singing cowboy (Gene Autry) to go to
Washington and ask Congress for help. 12/29.

SAGINAW TRAIL [TVG]·Western·1953·(:56)
A singing ranger and his pal nab a French trapper for raids on
Michigan settlers. 12/3,18.

SAVAGE LAND [PG]·Adventure·1994·(1:36)
Two women and two children must outwit bad guys in pursuit
of their stagecoach in this family adventure. 12/9,15.

SHADOWHEART [PG13]·Western·2008·(1:54)
A bounty hunter returns to his New Mexico hometown,
seeking revenge against the badman who killed his father -
but will his long-lost lover talk him out of a violent act?
12/5,10,20,30.

SMOKY [TVPG]·Western·1966·(1:43)
During the 1940s, a new cowboy breaks in a wild horse,
leading to an extraordinary bond between the two. Stunning
scenery and fine performances mark this well-told tale. With
Hoyt Axton. 12/1,14.

SOUTH OF HEAVEN, WEST OF HELL [R]·Drama·2000·(1:45)
In this mysterious and surreal western, an Arizona lawman
combats a band of bank robbers - he was raised by their
patriarch - while falling for a prostitute with a secret past.
With Bridget Fonda, Billy Bob Thornton, Paul Reubens. 12/5.

SOUTHWEST PASSAGE [TV14]·Western·1954·(1:15)
An explorer determines to make a unique trek across the
American west - using camels as his beasts of burden! 12/9.

STARS OVER TEXAS [TVPG]·Western·1946·(:57)
A cowhand exploits his uncanny resemblance to a ranch's
endangered foreman to help corral a gang of thievin' cattle
rustlers. 12/13.

TAKE A HARD RIDE [PG]·Action·1975·(1:43)
Everybody wants the fortune in cash an honest cowboy is
carrying back to a widow - including a cold-blooded bounty
hunter. Will the cowboy and his partners make it? A
blaxploitation western, with Fred Williamson, Jim Kelly.
12/7,16,22,26.

THE TALL T [TV14]·Western·1957·(1:18)
An unlucky cowboy finds himself on a stage hijacked by an
outlaw and his men, and things get worse when the crooks
hold one of the passengers - a mine owner's daughter - for
ransom. Directed by Budd Boetticher. 12/3,7,27,28.

THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON [TVPG]·Drama·1941·(2:20)
George Armstrong Custer goes from West Point cadet to Little
Bighorn general. Directed by Raoul Walsh. 12/1,14,19.

A THUNDER OF DRUMS [TVPG]·Western·1961·(1:37)
A brand-new lieutenant tries to earn respect in the U.S.
Cavalry. George Hamilton, Richard Boone, Charles Bronson.
12/22.

TOMAHAWK TRAIL [TVPG]·Western·1957·(1:02)
A greenhorn West Point graduate and a tough cavalry
sergeant clash with Apaches on the frontier. 12/21,30.

TOP GUN [TV14]·Western·1955·(1:14)
After he is cleared of murder, a cowboy runs for town
marshal. 12/3,7,11,28.

TORNADO RANGE [TVPG]·Musical·1948·(:54)
A federal agent intervenes in a battle between ranchers and
homesteaders. 12/11.

THE TOUGHEST GUN IN TOMBSTONE [TVPG]·Western·1958·(1:11)
Ranger Matt Sloane goes undercover as an outlaw to stop the
smuggling of silver bullion across the Mexican border. 12/22.

TOUGHEST MAN IN ARIZONA [TVPG]·Western·1952·(1:30)
U.S. Marshal becomes involved in a war on frontier crime
because of his love for a woman. 12/2.

A TOWN CALLED HELL [R]·Western·1971·(1:29)
In the dusty Mexican town of Bastardo, a woman arrives
looking for her husband's killer - setting in motion a bloody,
violent confrontation between former revolutionaries who
have something to hide. With Martin Landau, Telly Savalas.
12/3,19.

THE TREASURE OF RUBY HILLS [TVPG]·Western·1955·(1:09)
The son of a notorious outlaw, Haney (Scott) intends to settle
down peacefully in Soledad, Arizona. This proves difficult
when Haney finds himself in the middle of a violent feud over
water rights. 12/18.

TRIBUTE TO A BAD MAN [TVPG]·Western·1956·(1:35)
An ex-saloon girl lives with a tough rancher who controls his
vast spread via frontier justice at the end of a rope. But when
an young tenderfoot arrives, the rancher's methods become
more cruel - will anyone make it out alive? 12/21,26.

TROOPER HOOK [TVPG]·Western·1957·(1:23)
A Cavalry officer (Joel McCrea) rescues a woman (Barbara
Stanwyk) kidnapped by Indians and discovers that she has a
half-breed son whom she refuses to desert. 12/24.

TUMBLING TUMBLEWEEDS [TVG]·Western·1935·(:58)
A medicine-show singing cowboy finds his father dead and
his buddy accused. 12/25.

THE UNDEFEATED [G]·Western·1969·(1:58)
A former Union officer and an exiled Confederate colonel and
their men find themselves forming an uneasy alliance when
their separate ventures in post-Civil War Mexico go
dangerously awry. 12/2,6,18,24,28.

VALLEY OF FIRE [TVG]·Western·1951·(1:04)
An outcast gambler hijacks a wagon train of mail order brides
brought west by a mayor. 12/14.

THE VIRGINIAN (E1) [TVPG]·Western·1962·(1:15)
Series depictling life on the Shiloh Ranch in the Wyoming
Territory of the 1890s. 12/31
THE VIRGINIAN (E2) [TVPG]·Western·1962·(1:15) 12/31
THE VIRGINIAN (E3) [TVPG]·Western·1962·(1:15) 12/31
THE VIRGINIAN (E4) [TVPG]·Western·1962·(1:15) 12/31
THE VIRGINIAN (E5) [TVPG]·Western·1962·(1:15) 12/31
THE VIRGINIAN (E6) [TVPG]·Western·1962·(1:11) 1/1
THE VIRGINIAN (E7) [TVPG]·Western·1962·(1:15) 1/1
THE VIRGINIAN (E8) [TVPG]·Western·1962·(1:15) 1/1
THE VIRGINIAN (E9) [TVPG]·Western·1962·(1:15) 1/1
THE VIRGINIAN (E10) [TVPG]·Western·1962·(1:15) 1/1
THE VIRGINIAN (E11) [TVPG]·Western·1962·(1:15) 1/1
THE VIRGINIAN (E12) [TVPG]·Western·1962·(1:15) 1/1
THE VIRGINIAN (E13) [TVPG]·Western·1962·(1:15) 1/1
THE VIRGINIAN (E14) [TVPG]·Western·1962·(1:15) 1/1
THE VIRGINIAN (E15) [TVPG]·Western·1962·(1:15) 1/1
THE VIRGINIAN (E16) [TVPG]·Western·1962·(1:15) 1/1
THE VIRGINIAN (E17) [TVPG]·Western·1962·(1:15) 1/1
THE VIRGINIAN (E18) [TVPG]·Western·1962·(1:15) 1/1

WAR DRUMS [TV14]·Western·1957·(1:15)
Lex Barker stars as an Apache chief who is almost ostracized
by his tribe when he marries a Mexican girl named Joan
Taylor. 12/9.

WHERE THE HELL'S THAT GOLD?!!? [PG]·Comedy·1988·(1:26)
When a pair of rough riding rascals are robbed of their gold,
they must take on bandits, Apaches, the Mexican cavalry and
sexy stranded women to get it back. 12/15,19.

THE WONDERFUL COUNTRY [TV14]·Western·1959·(1:38)
Hard-hitting tale of a expatriate American working for a
Mexican warlord - but a trip to Texas results in a lost
shipment of arms, the entrance of a beautiful woman, and a
faceoff with the US Army. 12/6.

THE YELLOW TOMAHAWK [TV14]·Western·1954·(1:22)
A western guide tries to stop an Indian attack on settlers.
12/26.

ZANE GREY'S ROBBERS' ROOST [TVPG]·Western·1955·(1:23)
When a disabled rancher's daughter is kidnapped, his
ex-outlaw ranch hand (George Montgomery) comes to the
rescue. 12/9,24.
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Nostradamus

2009-12-04T19:24:00.000-08:00

This Wolper production got relatively little notice when originally released in 1981. But less than a decade later, it was broadcast on network television in prime time. It was a pseudo-documentary hosted by Orson Welles, about the prophecies of Nostradamus (1503-1566). Orson notes how Nostradamus predicted the Kennedy assassinations, the French Revolution, and so on. He also predicted the rise of what he called "three great Anti-Christs." The first seems to describe Hitler, mis-spelled by Nostradamus as "Hister," including his use of flying machines and "lightning warfare." But it was the third prediction that convinced network executives to run the program during the Persian Gulf War of 1991. In this one, he says that a man in a turbin will attack the world's superpower in a way that will bring the nations of the world to war. While Saddam Hussein didn't wear a turbin, his invasion of Kuwait did bring about a battle involving America (the superpower) and a collection of forces from other nations. Saddam did not directly attack the U.S. of course, but perhaps the prediction refers to another who "will seduce his followers with visions of power and glory."

Nostradamus predicted the surprise attack would come around the Millennium. If so, then it would seem that someone in a turbin will convince his followers to attack the U.S. directly in some way before the end of 2001. Only one other time did Nostradamus predict an exact year: he said that London would be destroyed by fire in the year 1666, which it was. He predicts that the "man-made canyons of the New City" will be the target, bringing "the hot wind of war." Orson says most Nostradamus scholars agree the the New City refers to New York, which didn't yet exist by that name in his time. This, he predicts, will be the start of 27 years of battles and wars between "Muslims from the heart of Arabia and Persia," and the "kingdoms of Christianity." The heart of Arabia is Saudi Arabia (Mecca), birthplace of world-famous terrorist Osama Bin Ladin, and Persia (divided into Iran/Iraq by the British Empire) could mean Saddam Hussein. Terrorists linked to Osama already tried to blow up the World Trade Center in New York just 6 years ago in 1993, and another attacked CIA headquarters, but these do not appear to be the big attack predicted by Nostradamus. An attack by Osama-linked terrorists on U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania resulted in a limited cruise-missile attack on a suspected terrorist camp in Afghanistan by President Clinton on 8/20/98, but there was no reaction from the Taliban government as of the end of 1999 (the Taliban has ruled Afghanistan since September 11, 1996).

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All The Candidates Are Asleep

2008-02-12T15:49:00.000-08:00

In 1968, Marshall McLuhan said, "An election is a period of programmed violence, because it is a quest for new images of national identity. The present election is a "tragic" one, because the American sense of identity has been in jeopardy from new technology for some time. Every new technology creates a new sensory environment that rearranges the images we make of ourselves. To discover and to elect representatives in a period of deep personal uncertainty is to be involved in a struggle for goals.

"A tragic hero has no goal. He has to find out who he is when the foundations of his world have fled. His "irrational violence" is a probing of the unknown. Like our own TV generation, he cannot "fit in" to a world that has changed radically...The Vietnam war has taught Americans that they cannot have a hot war in a cool, or involved, age. When electric immediacy has got everybody involved in everybody, mechanized violence is no more tolerable than mechanized education or mechanized politics or mechanized charity.

"The ballot box is a "hot box" that is hard to cool in an election year. An old-fashioned hot campaign is hard to accomidate to a TV public engaged in the "first world war ever fought on American soil."

All wars are world wars, under electric conditions. TV brings them into our homes, and some American parents have seen their own sons killed on TV news programs. Seeing them on TV, moreover, we experience all sons as our own.

"None of the candidates understands TV, either in its effect on him or society. If Canada's Pierre Trudeau is a great TV image in politics, it is because he is indifferent to political power. Anyone who looks as if he WANTS to be elected had best stay off TV. TV demands sophistication--that is, multi-level perception. It is a depth medium, an X-ray that penetrates the viewer...TV, of course, has transformed the Primaries from regional popularity contests into national image-making shows.
Radio and jet travel, like press coverage, still count on the candidate's having a special slogan, a special issue, that identifies him. TV has ended that. The press can only tag along to comment on what happened on TV.

"An all-at-once world, fashioned by electric information, demands a candidate full of puns and unexpected nuances. Such a man is one who knows so much about the contemporary interface of all cultures that he cannot possibly be deluded into any earnest regard for any one of them. The new changes are not moral but technological...

"In merely media terms, a black in the White House would have the most soothing and cooling effect on both national and international politics. Blacks make enormously better color-TV images than whites, because the contour of this image does not depend upon light and shade...

Radio politics produced a new race of tribal chieftains who "represented" nobody. They "put on" their public, like any star or any emperor. The media are the emperor's new clothes, as it were. Mussolini, Stalin, Churchill, FDR--these men were made by radio.

"Jack Kennedy was the first TV President, He had that indifference to power without which the TV candidate merely electrocutes himself. When a man has enormous wealth or power, his human survival depends on his indifference to these things. Anybody who pretends to WANT such things proclaims his inability to perceive their terrifiying responsibilities. In a word, he acts like a somnambulist, a highly motivated dreamer who prefers to remain insulated from a frightening world. But the human element itself has gone from power in the satellite age. Excess makes power, as such, silly and unacceptable.

"The TV generation has been robbed of its identity by an establishment consisting of highly motivated somnambulists. Any new technology that creates a new envirnment alters the image that people have of themselves. It changes their relationships to others. The gap so created can only be filled by violence. Such violence has no goal except the need to form a new image, to create a new meaning for the individual or the group.

"Radio & TV both create global envirnments of "software." They envelope us in radiation and information. Radio retribalized world politics, bringing people very much closer together by eliminating space and time. Great violence was released by radio technology, in the course of the pursuit of images of identity.

"The Second World War was a radio war, the first software war, the first guerrila war of decentralized forces fighting on many fronts at once. War, now as always, is education, an accelerated distribution of data and information. It is compulsory education, especially for the enemy. In this sense war has always been a major "progressive" force, both in the ancient and modern worlds. War is also a quest for identity. "Hardware" wars follow the "territorial imperative," but this is also the quest for a corporate image.

"The American colonies began with print. The entire educational, industrial and political structure of the USA stems from the printed word, as de Tocqueville explained long ago. All other cultures had centuries of pre-print existence and political organization. Hence, unlike other cultures, the North American colonies began as a decentralized group and moved toward bureaucratic centralization. In the age of software this trend will reverse, and, of course, the United States has much to lose from decentralization...

"The Establishment is centralized and specialized in politics, in education and in business. The Establishment is goal-oriented. The new software environment is is a total field of simultaneous data in which no goals are possible, no detachment is possible, and involvement is mandatory.

"Faced with an educational plant devoted to separate subjects, and training in special skills, the TV generation is baffled...The backward individual, like the backward country, has no stake in the old hardware, the old literacy and the old specialism. He is immediately "turned on" by the new software electric culture.

"By contrast, the possessors of the old hardware, the Establishment, are "turned off" by the new electric environment. Age-old habits of classification, detachment and specialism make it impossible for them to come to terms with an electric technology that offers total integration of life and knowledge.

"The TV generation is dedicated to the "inner trip" and the erosion of private identity. It can form a new image of itself by destroying the old hardware environment. Yet destruction of the hardware environment is not the goal for the TV generation. It can have no goal. It can only be involved in the struggle. The new core of the TV generation is now 12 to 14 years of age (I think it's known as MySpace).

"The sort of themes and issues that the present candidates consider it necessary to mention have nothing whatever to do with what is going on in the world. Moral concern over poverty and injustice and stupidity is not new. What is new is that the victims of poverty and stupidity are now steeped in a software environment of affluent images. The discrepancy between the old and the new images enrages the victims.

"The child standing in his crib wallows in TV images of adult life as much as the poor are enveloped in images of physical splendor (Russians were fascinated by the TV series Dallas during the Cold War for its images alone). The result is that the young TV watcher decides to bypass childhood and adolescence. The poor quite naturally decide to bypass the bureaucratic maze that denies them cornflakes.

"The new software environment of images is not nearly as invisible to the victims as it is to the Establishment that witlessly perpetrates it. The effects are the same whether the causes are noted or not. For centuries the literate world in general has been concerned with events rather than causes...

"The TV generation has been robbed of its identity by the inventors and managers of an electric software environment of global services. These managers, it cannot be insisted upon too strongly, are highly motivated somnambulists...

"Without exception, the (candidates) are men of integrity and good will who will find it expedient to sleep out the current time. Why should the old wake up, merely to confront a violent struggle for the new identity, which the young and the backward alike find it necessary to pursue in order to attain any image of themselves?

Marshall McLuhan, 8-10-68, The Saturday Evening Post

8 Heads In A Duffel Bag (1996)

2007-06-25T15:51:00.000-07:00

When wiseguy Tommy Spinelli (Joe Pesci) is charged with transporting a bag full of heads to his employer in beautiful San Diego, an identical-bag snafu inevitably occurs at baggage claim. The heads touch down in Mexico in the possession of an overworked, vacationing medical student and madcap, macabre, capital humor ensues. Charlie (Andy Comeau) is supposed to be vacationing with the uptight family of his fiance (Kristy Swanson), but accidentally takes the evidence of a hitman's fine work. So Pesci "persuades" Charlie's two roommates (David Spade and Todd Louiso) to find replacements at the med school. Written & directed by Tom Schulman (his first), with Comeau playing Charlie as a poor-man's Tom Hanks. But Pesci and Spade steal the comedy in their battle-of-the-wise-asses scenes.

Additional cast: George Hamilton of Zorro the Gay Blade, Dyan Cannon.

Produced by the creative team behind Dumb and Dumber and Kingpin. Kristy Swanson previously starred in MonsterVision classic Deadly Friend, and also appeared in the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie (1992)
© Bill Laidlaw. All Rights Reserved. That's my 2½¢ worth

Cars, the Movie Review

2007-06-22T20:05:00.000-07:00

Cars (2006)
Life is a journey. Enjoy the trip
One of the most successful animated movies ever made, “Cars” starts with the plotline of movies like Doc Hollywood: Big city hotshot, always in too big a hurry to slow down and enjoy life, crashes in a small town and is forced to stay awhile. The CGI animated movie begins with a fairly short racing scene (narrated by real-life sportscaster Bob Costas) which ends in a 3-way tie between racing legend The King (voice of a certain real-life racing legend), Lightning McQueen (v.o. Owen Wilson), and the villainous Chic (sponsored by Hostile Takeover Bank). The run-off race is on the west coast, so Lighting orders his big rig truck (v.o. John Ratzenberger, who’s been in every animated movie ever made by Pixar—-spoofed during the end credits at a drive-in movie theater) to drive there nonstop.

While Lightning sleeps back in the semi-trailer, some punks play Kenny G to put the truck to sleep too (I hope Kenny G has a sense of humor). In the ensuing near-crash, Lighting falls out and, disoriented, leaves the Interstate and winds up in the dusty forgotten little town of Radiator Springs on old Route 66. Without real headlights (they’re just painted on, for day-only racing), he crashes around, making a mess of things and ripping up Main Street’s pavement. He wakes up in automobile jail (the impound yard, wearing a boot), and soon finds himself on trial for all the damage. The tired old judge, Doc Hudson (v.o. Paul Newman), is ready to let him go when a hotshot big-city lawyer (v.o. Bonnie Hunt) shows up and demands that Lighting do community service—fix the main street he destroyed. Lightning then finds himself chained to an asphalt machine (Newman himself previously starred in Cool Hand Luke as a chain-gang convict).

He slowly comes to respect and even admire the small-town folk, and even discovers something Doc has kept secret from everyone—he was himself a champion racecar for three years in a row in the early 1950s as the Hudson Hornet. Then a devastating crash ended his career and he’s been bitter about it ever since. Now it’s Lightning’s turn to draw out Doc and restore his confidence. The supporting cast includes George Carlin as Fillmore the hippie microbus stuck in the 60s who lives next door to a spit & polish army jeep (v.o. Paul Dooley. No sooner does Sarge begin playing Reveille each morning than Fillmore counters with the Jimi Hendrix electric guitar Woodstock version of the National Anthem, “It’s a classic, Man”). Tony Shalhoub of Monk is the voice of an Italian tire shop owner (one of the quirky little Italian cars), obsessively sprucing up the shop in case customers come in again someday. Michael Wallis, the author of a book on Route 66 (he’s the voice of the town Sheriff) took the animators and writers of Cars on a road trip on Route 66 from Chicago to Santa Monica, California, to get ideas for the film (all the buildings and scenery are based on actual images), and along the way they met an old Native American who told them that the Route 66 town he lived in had died when the nearby Interstate highway was built, slicing across the landscape to save a few minutes. This casual conversation became an important part of the plot. All the cars are based on an actual make & model except two—Lightning is based on features from various racecars (designed in clay by the animators), and Flo is based on a couple of different Detroit concept cars that never went into production. In addition, the animators found an old rusty, dusty bumper in the corner of a body shop near Pixar and it became the model for Mator the tow truck’s front bumper. Mator has a rather extensive and funny scene (it has to do with cow-tipping and an angry bull), voiced by Larry the Cable Guy. A word of warning: Larry’s standup comedy on HBO and Comedy Central uses words you wouldn’t want your little kids repeating at school, so don’t expect to hear “Mator” when you see Larry the Cable Guy listed elsewhere in TV GUIDE. If that doesn’t put you off, check out his often funny (and decidedly more adult) humor on the Blue Comedy Tour TV-series and specials.

Michael Keaton usually plays good guys (like the voice of the snowman in Jack Frost recently), but he’s the voice of the villain Chic this time. The grill of his car is clearly an homage to the villain of Disney’s earlier (live-action) hit The Love Bug (1969, starring David Tomlinson as the villainous racecar driver with a Charlie Chaplin moustache). Cheech Marin is the voice of a low-rider (which predictably drew fire from self-proclaimed defenders of Hispanic stereotyping). He owns a body shop and paints himself a different color each day in the movie. If Shalhoub’s attitude in Cars reminds you of the brusque characters played by Fritz Feld, perhaps it’s because Feld was in the 4th Love Bug movie, Herbie Goes Bananas (1980). Katherine Helmond (of Monty Python’s 1984 movie Brazil) plays the dimwitted widow of the town’s founder. On Disney/Pixar’s “Cars” website, Paul Newman says he played his character as “smart, Southern and tired.” Tom Magliozzi and Ray Magliozzi (Click & Clack of NPR's Car Talk) have a cameo as spokesmen for Lighting's sponsor Rusteze. Original soundtrack music for the movie is written and conducted by Randy Newman (he really does like short people). This is his 4th film soundtrack for Pixar

Fun facts:
Steve McQueen (Towering Inferno) was a respected professional racecar driver of both cars and motorcycles, and considered leaving acting to race full time. He owned over 100 motorcycles and cars including one identical to the winner of Le Manes.The real-life Hornet made by Hudson swept NASCAR for 3 years in a row in the early 1950s. By the end of the 50s, Hudson merged with Nash and Jeep to become the American Motor Company. In the early 1970s they made a small car with the Hornet name that lasted a few more years. AMC’s last major new vehicle was the “Hummer,” based on the “Humvee” they created for the military. A Hummer with an Austrian accent makes a cameo in the movie as the Governor of California.

If anyone asks, I was smashin' mailboxes with Lightning McQueen and Sheryl Crow (Real Gone)
Say what you will about Mator, he's still better than Jar-Jar Binks

Cars 2 the game...Buy it now

Trivia courtesy Internet Movie Database
* This movie was originally titled "Route 66". The name was changed to "Cars" so as not to imply a connection with the TV show "Route 66" (1960)
* The music that opens the teaser trailer of this movie is the main theme to A Bug's Life (1998).
* The film's animators drew up over 43,000 sketches for designs of the cars.
* Mia and Tia are modeled after the first-generation Mazda MX-5 Miata.
* The rock formations in the distance beyond Radiator Springs resemble Cadillac Ranch, and is actually named Cadillac Range on the maps shown during montages. Cadillac Ranch is an art exhibit consisting of 10 Cadillacs half-buried in a line outside Amarillo, Texas, near where Route 66 once ran. Additionally, when seen from "above", the hills around Radiator Springs resemble the hoods and fenders (complete with ornaments) of classic cars.
* Instead of making the cars' headlights the eyes, as is done on most cartoons, the Pixar artists decided to put the eyes up on the windshield, because that made the characters more expressive. This idea was largely influenced by the Disney cartoon Susie the Little Blue Coupe (1952), one of director John Lasseter's favorite cartoons.
* Flo isn't based on any single car but shares elements of the 1951 Buick LeSabre, the 1951 Buick XP-300, and the 1957 Chrysler Dart--all actual show cars.
* One of the bumper stickers on Fillmore reads 'Save 2D Animation.'
* The neon lights on Flo's V8 Cafe in the movie flash in the proper firing order for a Ford flathead V8.
* The number on the train that Lightning out runs is A113, a reference to California Institute of the Arts, where many Pixar animators studied.
* Lightning McQueen's original number was to be 57, director John Lasseter's birth year. It was later changed to 95 to represent the year that Toy Story (1995) was released. The car in the final film who has the number 57 (who wins the race in the first teaser) vaguely resembles McQueen, and is probably an earlier production design for that character.
* The tires of Lightning McQueen are Buzzard models manufactured by Lightyear, a reference both to the real Goodyear "Eagle" tires used in NASCAR and character Buzz Lightyear from John Lasseter's previous 'Toy Story' films.
* Porsche's profession as an attorney is a reference to Portia, a nickname for female lawyers, named after the character in Shakespeare's "Merchant Of Venice"
* Guido is an Italian name. But it is also the Italian for "I drive"
* The character Lightning McQueen is a reference to Glenn McQueen, a Pixar animator who died in 2002.* Mater's license plate reads "A113", yet another reference to the animation room at California Institute of the Arts, where many Pixar animators studied. Also, the lights on the train that almost hit Lightning say "A113" (See trivia for Toy Story, 1995)
* If you look closely at one of the racing cars, it's white, has the Apple logo, and the number is 84. 1984 was the year Apple released the Macintosh, the computer that revolutionized Apple as a company. Pixar was previously owned by Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple.
* The cars' designs were inspired by similar car sculptures displayed throughout the central business district of the City of Detroit.
* Designs of the cars: Ramone is a 1959 Chevrolet Impala or Bel Air two door hardtop, a very popular car with the low riders [Disney/Pixar's "Cars" website says 1959 Chevrolet Impala with hydraulics and chrome undercarriage]. Luigi is a 1959 Fiat 500. Guido is an ISO Isetta, a "bubble car" originally designed and built in Italy by ISO; the design was later licensed to BMW and to manufacturers in France and Brazil. Mater is a 1955-1957 Chevrolet or GMC truck. Sally is a 2002 Porsche 911 Carrera (Type 996), 0-60 in less than 5 seconds.Sheriff: 1949 Mercury Police CruiserSarge is a 1942 Willys Jeep Doc is a 1951 Hudson Hornet
* The original idea was about an electric car living in a gas-guzzling world.* Among the cities closed for race day is the city of Emeryville, California, the home of Pixar.
* The morning show crew from www.RadioAlice.com (a local favorite radio station) lend their voices to a number of ancillary characters in the film (like Kori Turbowitz, Not Chuck, Traffic Copter and Reporter #9).
* The Cozy Cone Motel's design is based on the two Wigwam Motels along Rt. 66; in Holbrook Arizona and Rialto, California. These were once two out of seven motels, with individual cabins shaped like tepees. Another motel from the chain survives in Cave City, KY. The name "Cozy Cone" was inspired by the Cozy Dog Drive-In of Springfield, IL, which lays claim to being birthplace of the corn dog.
* The character "Fillmore" was at one time to be named "Waldmire" after Bob Waldmire, a self-proclaimed hippie artist known to Rt. 66 fans for his detailed pen-and-ink maps and postcards of the route. Though Waldmire's family owns the Cozy Dog Drive-In in Springfield, IL, Bob, now a vegan, preferred not have his name put on a character that would become a Happy Meal toy.
* Since the movie has lines in Italian, the release in Italy (where foreign movies are mostly dubbed) was handled with a twist. Luigi was dubbed with a slight Modena accent (the home town of Ferrari) and Guido was dubbed with a thick Modenese dialect. The Ferrari in the end of the movie has been dubbed by Michael Schumacher as in the original version (but of course in Italian, with some German accent). A nice coincidence: 'Marco della Noce', who dubs Luigi, is an Italian comedian whose trademark act, several years before the release of "Cars", was indeed a pretend of the head mechanic of Ferrari; actually in the dubbing he managed to slip in some half lines from his routine.
* The Italian name for "tire" is "gomma" (rubber), and there are actually a widespread number of tire shops in Italy called "Casa della gomma" (House of the tire).
* The other song in the teaser trailer is Green Day's "Westbound Sign" from their 1995 album "Insomniac".
* This was Joe Ranft's final film.
* The fictional town of Radiator Springs was inspired by several real life locations along historic Route 66. In 2001, a creative team from Pixar, including directors John Lasseter and Joe Ranft, toured parts of Route 66 in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. Their guide along the way was author and Route 66 historian Michael Wallis. Wallis went on to provide the voice of the Sheriff car in the film. MichaelWallis.com
* Fillmore, the 1960 VW Microbus voiced by George Carlin, has license plate '51237'. This is Carlin's birth date; May 12, 1937. It's entirely coincidental, but 51237 is also the ZIP code for George, Iowa.
* When Lighting McQueen finally gets pulled over by the sheriff after destroying the road, the Sheriff says, "You're in a heap o' trouble, boy." This is a direct reference to Dodge commercials featuring Joe Higgins as the sheriff which aired in the early 70's.
* When the Sheriff backfires and Lightning thinks he's being shot at, he says "Serpentine, serpentine." This is a reference to a scene from "The In-Laws" (1979) where Vincent (Peter Falk) instructs Sheldon (Alan Arkin) to run serpentine style to avoid being hit by bullets.
* Dinoco, the big sponsor Lightning McQueen is chasing after in Cars, is also the gas station Buzz Lightyear and Woody are stranded at in Toy Story.
* When Doc challenges McQueen for a race, some of the clouds/contrails above the dirt race track are shaped as tire prints.
* The hill at Radiator Springs (with the white letters RS for Radiator Springs) resembles the top of a radiator with a cap.
* At the beginning, after the first race, when Mack and McQueen travel to California, and they pass some power poles you hear and see some birds (just for the blink of an eye) which are from Pixars fun short movie "For the birds". Further film gimmicks are the films shown in the drive-in cinema at the end of the movie: they all are "car-adaptions" of earlier Pixar Productions.
* The red-and-white metal-flake paint job that Ramon does for McQueen duplicates that of the Corvette used in the television series "Route 66"
* The voice of Lightning McQueen's agent Harv, is provided by 'Jeremy Piven' who also plays Vincent Chase's agent in the TV-series "Entourage". The UK release used the outspoken Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson as the voice of Harv.
* The character "Mack", Lightning McQueen's transport driver, is based on a 1985 Mack Super-Liner semi-truck.
* On the DVD, in the Bonus Features section, the background graphics are postcards from route 66. The icon to return to the main menu uses the Canada Post logo.* Radioator Spring's surrounding rock formations, shaped as recognizable hood ornaments from over the years, are labeled "Ornament Valley" on the road map. This is a reference to "Monument Valley", an expanse of grand, natural rock formations spanning Arizona and Utah, though not actually near Route 66.
* The King is a 1970 Plymouth Superbird, one of Richard Petty's most famous rides. The Superbird was created to get him back into a Plymouth for the 1970 racing season and Petty himself provides the voice. The King's paint scheme is exactly as King Richard's was in the 1970 NASCAR season.
* The character of Fillmore, voiced by George Carlin, is a version of Al Sleet, the hippie-dippy weatherman, a popular skit that Carlin performed in the 60's and 70's.
* Even with a farm of computers that ran four times faster than the ones on The Incredibles (2004) each frame of Cars (2006) took an average of 17 processor hours to render.
* The Rust-eze sponsors each send Lightning off with a warning: "Don't drive like my brother!" This is the sign-off phrase for the popular NPR radio show "Car Talk", hosted by Tom Magliozzi and Ray Magliozzi, who also voice the sponsors.
* Michael Schumacher is one of the speakers in the German version, as well as Giancarlo Fisichella in the Italian and Fernando Alonso in the Spanish version.
* In the Danish edition "The King" is renamed "Tom Kilerem" and is voiced by 7-time Le Mans champion Tom Kristensen.
* The code title for this film, used during production, was "Surgery".* Wait until the end of the credits to see what ever happened to the two tourists that drove into Radiator Springs looking for the highway.
* John Lasseter came out with the premise of the story after his soul-searching trip in 2000 along Route 66.
* The design of "Los Angeles International Speedway" is based on 3 venues located in southern California. The outer facade is similar to the LA Memorial Coliseum, the speedway's seating bowl and interior architecture is much like the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, and the track layout is reminiscent of California Speedway in Fontana.
* The rotating sign on Flo's V8 Cafe briefly forms a "hidden Mickey" as the sign rotates.
* When Sarge and Fillmore are talking during their introduction, Fillmore waxes about the blinking pattern of a street light. Sarge notes "The sixties weren't good to you." This is the exact same line that George Carlin (who voices Fillmore) gave to Bette Midler in the movie Outrageous Fortune (1987).
* SPOILER: The King's crash at the end of the movie is a virtual frame-by-frame re-creation of Richard Petty's crash in the 1988 Daytona 500.
* SPOILER: Chick Hick's car number is 86. 86 is a slang for 'thrown out'. He got thrown out of the team at the end of the film.
* The credits contain a dedication and retrospective of characters voiced by Joe Ranft, a Pixar writer who died in 2005.
* During credits, Mack (John Ratzenberger) watches car-versions of earlier Pixar hits, commenting on the fine actor in each scene before realizing it's the same actor (John Ratzenberger) playing different characters in each movie. There is an additional scene at end of credits, as with last year's
Chronicles Of Narnia
* The "lost" cars at the end of the movie are by Richard Kind & Edie McClurg * You may think that Leaning Tower of Tires was inspired by the leaning Tower of Pisa, but what the guys on the Route 66 tour actually saw was the leaning water tower of Groom, Texas (and so can you, unless it's fallen over by now)
* Richard Petty (The King) previously appeared as himself in a regular racecar movie. The King's wife in "Cars" is voiced by Petty's real wife, Lynda. Dale Earnhardt Jr. is the voice of Junior.
* Additional Cars notes (32 page PDF file) from Disney/Pixar's official Cars website.