A Pair of Summer Journeys: To Woodstock and Cooperstown
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Among the specials scheduled for this weekend is pay-per-view coverage of the three-day Woodstock concert and the “Baseball Hall of Fame Inductions” on ESPN.
“Mary Jane Colter: House Made of Dawn,” tonight at 10 on KCET-TV, chronicles the life and career of the architect and designer who was a contemporary of Frank Lloyd Wright, Julia Morgan and Bernard Maybeck.
Pay-per-view is offering three-day coverage of “Woodstock ‘99,” beginning Friday at 9 a.m. Telecast from Rome, N.Y., the concert features more than 40 artists including Counting Crows, Sheryl Crow, Dave Matthews Band and Alanis Morissette.
MTV is offering a three-day “All Access Weekend: Woodstock,” beginning Friday at 3 p.m., which will feature behind-the-scenes action as well as the music.
ESPN is presenting coverage of the “Baseball Hall of Fame Induction,” Sunday at 10 a.m., from Cooperstown, N.Y. Among the inductees are pitcher Nolan Ryan, George Brett, Robin Yount, Orlando Cepeda, Negro League pitcher Smokey Joe Williams, umpire Nestor Chylak and turn-of-the-century manager Frank Selee.
In this three-part journey, the Learning Channel’s “Mysteries of Asia,” Sunday at 8 and 11 p.m., visits the Cambodian temples of Angkor, the Hindu temples of southern India and the Great Wall of China.
Series
“Evening at Pops,” tonight at 8 on KCET-TV and KVCR-TV, features the three-time Tony Award-winning Audra McDonald (“Carousel,” “Master Class,” “Ragtime”) performing tunes written by new Broadway composers as well as selections from her CD, “Way Back to Paradise.”
ABC’s “Vanished,” tonight at 10, focuses on the disappearance of atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair, who vanished four years ago.
“The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” tonight at 11 on Comedy Central, celebrates its third anniversary with a look back at the year’s best stories, features and guests.
Kimberlin Brown, late of “The Bold and the Beautiful,” joins the cast of ABC’s “Port Charles,” Friday at 11 a.m., as a pathological psychiatrist who happens to be a control freak.
“Life & Times Tonight,” Friday at 7 p.m. on KCET-TV, examines the topic of repeat sex offenders. Included are interviews with sex offenders as well as law enforcement officials.
Movies
Brandon Baker and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa headline the new Disney Channel movie “Johnny Tsunami,” Saturday at 7 p.m. In this family drama, a teen surfing sensation must move from his island home in Hawaii to a small Vermont ski resort.
Pam Dawber and Patrick Duffy star in the Fox Family Channel suspense thriller “Don’t Look Behind You,” Sunday at 8 p.m.
Edward James Olmos, Costa Mandylor and Martin Landau star in “Bonnano: A Godfather’s Story,” a four-hour miniseries profiling the life of one of America’s most famous Mafia figures, Sunday and Monday at 8 p.m. on Showtime.
Sports
Entrants are scheduled to finish Stage 20 of the Tour de France bicycle race on the Champs Elysees in Paris, Sunday at 2 p.m. on ABC.
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