UNC-TV to honor veterans of World War II from our state
On Tuesday, the anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, UNC-TV will pay homage to North Carolina veterans who served during World War II in a two-hour documentary.
North Carolina’s WWII Experience (8 p.m.) looks at the local experiences of the “Greatest Generation,” including interviews with soldiers who served in the European and Pacific theaters of the war, and civilians who kept the home front safe, plus archival footage, radio broadcasts, vintage photographs and more.
You can see excerpts online at UNC-TV’s YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/exploreunctv, and read blogs about the making of the film and the World War II experiences of some of the participants at unctvreports.blogspot.com.
Jacqui, the Walking Dead character played by Jeryl Prescott Sales, a former Winston-Salem resident, has managed so far to survive the zombie apocalypse. But will she survive tonight’s season finale? Tune in and see at 10 p.m. on AMC or go downtown for the weekly free screening at Aperture Cinema on Fourth Street.
The Walking Dead has already been renewed for next season, and a boxed set of the six-episode first season is in the works. It will be released by Anchor Bay Home Entertainment early next year, perhaps in March.
I’ve gotten a few replies to last week’s inquiry about your favorite holiday episodes of TV shows, but I’d love to hear more. What are your favorites and why? Do you prefer the wholesome charms of, say, The Andy Griffith Show’s “The Christmas Story,” or do you lean toward the more cynical seasonal stories such as Married… With Children’s “It’s a Bundyful Life”?
Send me an e-mail at tclodfelter@wsjournal.com or write to me at Tim Clodfelter, Winston-Salem Journal, 418 N. Marshall St., Winston-Salem, NC 27101.
Before they went to the stars, the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise went west.
The new DVD set Trek Stars Go West, which is due out Tuesday, collects some Western TV-show appearances by Star Trek actors Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, Deforest Kelley and James Doohan, including guest roles in episodes of such popular shows as Bonanza and the Lone Ranger as well as more obscure fare such as Tate and Outlaws.
Rounding out the collection is one theatrical release, Shatner’s campy 1968 film White Comanche, in which he plays scenery-chewing twin brothers, one a noble gunslinger and the other a dastardly renegade.
Also new on DVD Tuesday: Bonanza: The Official 2nd Season, Vol. 1, with digitally remastered episodes as opposed to the low-quality, public-domain copies previously available on DVD, plus archival interviews, commentaries and photo galleries; Dragnet 1969, with the third season of the 1960s version of Jack Webb’s crime drama; Vega$: The Second Season Vol. 1, with Robert Urich as a hardboiled private detective; Boy Meets World: Season 4, with 22 episodes following Cory (Ben Savage) in his final season of high school; and SpongeBob SquarePants: Season 6, Volume 2, continuing the adventures of everyone’s favorite sea sponge.
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