Wednesday, February 10th 2010

4:00am
Movie: "Year of The Dragon" (1985)
Mickey Rourke, John Lone
Using unprecedented degrees of violence, young Joey Tai becomes the head of Chinese mafia in New York and undisputed leader of the Chinese community. Stanley White, the most decorated cop in New York, who hates Asian people since his service in Vietnam, is put in charge of Chinatown. Both men are prone to breaking long-established rules and both men are unlikely to make compromises with each other, which leads to unavoidable and bloody conflict.

6:30am
Movie: "Streets of Fire" (1984)
Michael Pare, Diane Lane
A mercenary goes after his ex-girlfriend, a singer who has been kidnapped by a gang.

8:00am
Special: "Louie Anderson: Mom! Louie's Looking At Me Again" (1989)
Louie Anderson
Stand up comedy

9:00am
Special; "Eddie Murphy Delirious" (1983) (TV)
Eddie Murphy's raunchy, raucous stand-up comedy routine is captured for posterity on this tape. Not for folks who dislike foul language.

10:10am
The White Shadow 1.01 - "Pilot" (1978)
Ken Reeves, a forward with the Chicago Bulls, is forced to retire after suffering a serious knee injury. His old friend and high school teammate, Jim Willis, who is principal of Carver High near L.A., drops by to offer him a job as basketball coach. Reeves is reluctant, but agrees. Among the challenges he faces with the school and the team include a female vice principal who doesn't like him and a player, James Hayward, who has a lot of potential, but also is fatherless and may have to drop out of school to go to work and take care of his mom and little brother.

11:00am
Law & Order 1.19 - "The Serpent's Tooth" (1991)
Two brothers appear to be the logical suspects in the murder of their wealthy parents.

noon
Knots Landing 4.21 - "The Burden of Proof" (1983)
Val is booked and questioned. Abby goes to jail and has Gary sign over power of atty. to her. When she finds out Val confessed, Abby laughs and says, "That's so Val." Abby wants Mitch to get Val's confession thrown out. Mitch tells Abby she'd better determine what is more important - keeping Val and Gary apart, or getting Gary out of Jail. Police bring Val to Ciji's to recreate the fight. Other police show up with Gary. Gary's really upset, and says Val has nothing to do with it. Police have to restrain them. Lilimae tells Chip it was his leaking Val's story that started this whole mess, and kicks him out. Chip tries to charm Lilimae, but she's no longer buying it. Police release Val. Richard has decided to leave Laura, but doesn't tell her. He liquidates his assets and takes care of unfinished business, packs and secretly leaves.

1:00pm
Radio Simulcast
Democracy Now!

2:00pm
Movie: "Streets of Fire" (1984)
Michael Pare, Diane Lane

3:30pm
Jokers Wild

4:00pm
Radio Simulcast
The Great Canadian Talk Show /w Marty Gold

5:30pm
Slice of Life - Ryan Getzlaf (pro hockey player)

6:00pm
Knight Rider 1.13 - "Forget Me Not" (1982)
A young woman he met at a party has information important to Michael preventing the assassination of a visiting South American president, but her amnesia makes getting that information problematic.

7:00pm
Movie: "Hot Cars" (1956)
John Bromfield, Carol Shannon
A salt-of-earth family man needs money for his sick son, and decides to keep a job at a used car lot despite realizing it is selling stolen cars.

8:00pm
Special: "Louie Anderson: Mom! Louie's Looking At Me Again" (1989)

9:00pm
Friday Night Lights 1.13 - "Little Girl I Wanna Marry You" (2007)
The Panthers have only one more game to win in order to qualify for the play-offs. Smash's mother discovers something that could end his football dreams.

10:00pm
M*A*S*H 2.01 - "Divided We Stand" (1973)
Brought on by Frank and Margaret's negative reports, General Clayton assigns a psychiatrist, Captain Hildebrand, to examine the 4077th M*A*S*H unit, to see if it should be disbanded. Henry tells them to be on their best behavior, or else they will be split up. But the 4077th soon begins to act in their traditional, insane ways: the shrink experiences Max Klinger, watches the hijinks of Hawkeye and Trapper John, and witnesses the trysts of Frank and Hot Lips. While Hildebrand confronts the unit on its behaviour, choppers bearing wounded begin to arrive and everyone heads for the OR. The onslaught of casualties shows the 4077th's true side.

10:30pm
Night Court 2.13 - "Dan's Parents" (1985)
Dan's past is revealed when the parents he told everyone were dead come to see their successful sonny boy.

11:00pm
The West Wing 3.01 - "Isaac and Ishmael" (2001)
While the White House is in lock down, Josh and the staff try to put the events of 9/11/01 in context for a group of gifted high schoolers.

midnight
D.E.A 1.06 - "Bloodsport" (1990)
Nick sees a dark side of himself personified in a bad cop when the two are paired to take down a Cali cartel hit man.

1:00am
Men Behaving Badly 1.13 - "Jamie Needs A Kid" (1997)
Jamie pretends to have a son to get a date with a single mother.

1:30am
Movie: "Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things" (1971)
Abe Zwick, Wayne Crawford
Stanley and Paul, a pair of friends on the run from the law, rent a house in the suburbs, where they decide the best way to lay low is for Paul to dress as a woman and pretend to be Stanley's Aunt Martha. Not too long after the pair move into their new home, Paul suddenly murders a young woman Stanley brings home with him. Paul's violent tendencies continue to spin out of control, and soon nobody who comes near is safe from him.

3:00am
Movie: "Confessions of An Opium Eater" (1962)
Vincent Price, Linda Ho
Thomas de Quincy is an early 19th-century adventurer involved with helping runaway slave girls and victims of a tong war in San Francisco. Garbed in black from head to toe, de Quincy narrates his adventures. At the slave auction where beautiful Oriental girls are displayed in hanging bamboo cages, de Quincy befriends a tiny wisecracking female Oriental dwarf.

4:30am