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SALON'S TV PICKS FOR
WEEKEND, OCT. 30 - NOV. 1, 1998
BY JOYCE MILLMAN

H A L L O W E E N

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (8 p.m. Fri., CBS) has its annual showing, and, dammit, it's just not Halloween without it. The new documentary Hollywood Ghost Stories (9 p.m. Fri., American Movie Classics) visits some of Tinseltown's allegedly haunted landmarks. Now for the really scary part -- William Shatner hosts. Throughout the weekend, director Tim Burton is hosting AMC Monsterfest, a marathon of horror flicks. Another new documentary, Martian Mania: The True Story of "The War of the Worlds" (9 p.m. Fri., Sci-Fi Channel), looks at the panic induced by Orson Welles' famous radio broadcast on Halloween, 1938. Hosted by James Cameron. Buffy, Willow, Angel, Oz, Xander and Cordelia host the four-hour videofest "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Presents Videos That Don't Suck (7 p.m. Sat., MTV), and shouldn't somebody be holding down the fort back home in Sunnydale? Ms. Gellar also does Halloween duty in the 1997 Kevin Williamson thriller I Know What You Did Last Summer (8 p.m. Sat., HBO), co-starring Jennifer Love Hewitt. KISS -- the platform-shod, Kabuki makeup-wearing, tongue-waggling, glitter-rocking, totally awesome '70s icons -- is on the comeback trail and they're all over Fox this weekend. First, they make a guest appearance on a lighthearted episode of Millennium (9 p.m. Fri., Fox). Then they co-host Mad TV (11 p.m. Sat., Fox) with Robert "Freddie Kreuger" Englund, and cap it off with KISS: The Ultimate Halloween Party (Midnight, Sat., Fox), a half-hour of the band's tour-launching concert from Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. And while you're watching, try not to think about how KISS's act was ripped off by the Power Rangers, because it'll just be too upsetting.

S E R I E S

Homicide: Life on the Street (10 p.m. Fri., NBC) has a novelty episode about a mysterious dame (Patti D'Arbanville) and a missing spy thriller writer with a lot of enemies. But, golly gee, I hope the writers haven't abandoned the season's two thrilling continuing story lines. When will dreamboat Falsone realize that Ballard wants to be more than friends? And which lucky guy is going to go steady with the new girl in town? It's like "Dawson's Creek" for geezers!

S P O R T S

Football:
Cardinals at Lions; Vikings at Buccaneers; Saints at Panthers; Giants at Redskins; Rams at Falcons (1 p.m. Sun., Fox)
Broncos at Bengals; Jaguars at Ravens; Dolphins at Bills; Patriots at Colts; Oilers at Steelers (1 p.m. Sun., CBS)
49ers at Packers (4 p.m. Sun., Fox)
Jets at Chiefs (4 p.m. Sun., CBS)
Raiders at Seahawks (8:15 p.m. Sun., ESPN)

S P E C I A L S

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (7 p.m. Sun., Fox) has its TV premiere with bonus scenes that, if they were any good, wouldn't have been cut in the first place. Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore and Vince Vaughn star. The miniseries The Temptations (9 p.m. Sun., NBC) portrays the ups and downs of the kings of Motown. The actors lip-sync to the original recordings. Producer Oprah Winfrey's latest TV movie, David and Lisa (9 p.m. Sun., ABC), is a remake of the 1962 drama about two mentally disturbed teens in love. Lukas Haas, Brittany Murphy and Sidney Poitier star.

T A L K

Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) William Baldwin, Susan Lucci
David Letterman (CBS) Ted Danson, Black Sabbath
Jay Leno (NBC) Alyssa Milano, David Arquette
Charlie Rose (PBS) Andrew Sullivan, Hunter S. Thompson
Chris Rock (HBO) Adam Sandler, Faith Evans
Politically Incorrect (ABC) Roseanne, Michael Moore
Conan O'Brien (NBC) Martin Short, Cheap Trick
SALON | Oct. 30, 1998

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