BLACK BARTER
What will a soap dish cost you at Mr. Hooper's store on "Sesame Street"?
A) a bottle opener
B) a crystal ball
C) a green card
D) a paper clip collection
E) your immortal soul
[Can we tell you how to get, how to get to the answer at the bottom of the column?]
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TV Barn's TV Picks for Friday through Monday, December 22-25, 2006
by Tom Heald with Jon Delfin
All times Eastern
For PBS programs, check local listings
FRIDAY
6 p.m.
"Our Generation" (History): "Toys of a Generation"
6:30 p.m.
"Tell Us Your Story: MTV Freedom Writers" (MTV)
7 p.m.
"Take Home Chef" (TLC; also 7:30)
8 p.m.
Adoption is chatted up on the "8th Annual A Home for the Holidays With Rod Stewart" (CBS). If you want this underage child's body and you think she's sexy, come on baby, let "Dateline" know.
Is this person in the mood for an Almond Joy, or just a Mounds bar? Find out on "Identity" (NBC).
An abandoned baby is found at the "Justice" (Fox) Christmas party.
The dead reunite with their loved ones as alien forces prepare a war with Earth on "Doctor Who" (Sci Fi; season finale, two hours).
Learn which wrestler was set on fire on "WWE Friday Night SmackDown!" (CW).
"Discoveries This Week" (Discovery Science)
"South of Nowhere" (Noggin; season finale, one hour)
9 p.m.
Life is falling apart for a millionaire with leprosy on "Monk" (USA) in lush black and white.
A pyramid scheme Sphinx to high heaven for "My Family" (BBC America).
"The Planet's Funniest Animals" (Animal Planet): "Home for the Howlidays"
"Trading Spouses: Meet Your New Mommy" (Fox)
"NOW" (PBS)
"What Not to Wear" (TLC)
"Shootout!" (History): "Afghanistan's Most Wanted: Tora Bora"
9:40 p.m.
"Worst Week of My Life" (BBC America)
10 p.m
Life is falling apart for a millionaire with leprosy on "Monk" (USA) in living color.
"I Shouldn't Be Alive" (Discovery): "A Walk in Hell"
"The Soup Clipdown '06" (E!)
"Paula's Party" (Food): "Hometown Favorites"
"The Investigators" (Court)
10:15 p.m.
NOTHING SAYS CHRISTMAS LIKE
"The Wolf Man" (AMC)
10:20 p.m.
"The Robinsons" (BBC America)
11 p.m.
"Best of Web Junk 20" (VH1)
"Hardware" (BBC America)
HERE WE COME A WASSAILING
* Rose: Clive Owen, Edward Norton
* Bishop Noel Jones, attorney James Garner and trumpeter Christian Scott soldier onward with Tavis.
* Baby is requested to be home and the quarterback challenge is performed as Cate Blanchett, Jay Thomas and Darlene Love visit Dave.
* Dustin Hoffman, Abigail Breslin and the African Children's Choir spend the holiday with Jay.
* Matthew McConaughey, Yao Ming, Tracy McGrady and Hall & Oates watch Jimmy with their private eyes.
* Carson Daly, Michelle Trachtenberg and Nellie McKay spend last call with Conan.
* Dominic Monaghan, Anthony Mackie and Twisted Sister get lost by Craig.
* Laura Dern, Autumn Reeser and Goo Goo Dolls spread themselves too thin with Carson.
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SATURDAY
6 p.m.
"The E! True Hollywood Story" (E!): "Seinfeld"
7 p.m.
"The Sound of Music" (ABC) hopes to cash in on the popularity of Gwen Stefani's new music video.
"MythBusters Holiday Special" (Discovery)
7:30 p.m.
"Yu-Gi-Oh! G/X" (Cartoon)
8 p.m.
"Dateline: To Catch a Predator" (NBC) finds out who's naughty or nice.
"Medical Mavericks" (Discovery)
"Cops" (Fox)
"Little People, Big World" (TLC; also 8:30)
"World's Strongest Man Competition" (ESPN2)
"i Health Presents ... Healthy Body, Healthy Mind" (i)
9 p.m.
Eye lava parade on "Magma: Volcanic Disaster" (Sci Fi).
"Austin City Limits" (PBS): Los Lonely Boys & the Gourds
"Flip That House" (TLC)
"America's Most Wanted" (Fox)
10 p.m.
NOTHING SAYS CHRISTMAS LIKE
"Jackass: The Movie" (Comedy Central), edited for basic cable.
"C.R.A.Z.Y." (Sundance)
"Trading Spaces" (TLC)
"Body of Evidence: From the Case Files of Dayle Hinman" (Court)
"Face to Face: Terry Anderson" (MSNBC)
Cartoon Network's Little Orphan Anime: "Naruto" (9 p.m.), "Zatch Bell" (9:30), "The Prince of Tennis" (10), "Mar" (10:30)
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SUNDAY
6:00 p.m.
NOTHING SAYS CHRISTMAS LIKE
* "Body Heat" (Cinemax)
* "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (Sci Fi)
7 p.m.
"60 Minutes" (CBS; might be delayed by football overrun)
"Football Night in America" (NBC)
"Life After Film School" (Fox Movie Channel): Jon Cassar
8 p.m.
Jimmy Stewart kills himself on "It's a Wonderful Life" (NBC).
What happened to all of Broadway's (Little Orphan) Annies? Find out in "Life After Tomorrow" (Showtime).
9 p.m.
TELE-GEBRA
"The Prince and the Pauper" + "Annie" x "Freaky Friday" = "Holiday Wishes" (Lifetime)
10 p.m.
It's time for the first performance for a "Trial by Choir" (TLC).
"Da Kath & Kim Code" (Sundance)
"Love Ride" (E!)
midnight
"O Starry Night on E!" (E!)
ADULT SWIM on Cartoon Network
"Assy McGee" (11:30 p.m.), "Robot Chicken" (11:45)
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MONDAY
5 p.m.
Philadelphia Eagles at Dallas Cowboys (NBC)
8 p.m.
"Deal or No Deal" (NBC; two hours) offers a Christmas miracle to a resident of Santa Claus, Indiana.
"20th Century Battlefields" (Military): "1991 Gulf"
8:30 p.m.
New York Jets at Miami Dolphins (ESPN)
9 p.m.
Is spring water is a cure-all in the "Eleventh Hour" (BBC America)? Probably not.
"WWE Tribute to the Troops: Christmas from Baghdad" ("WWE Monday Night RAW," USA) -- Haven't they suffered enough?
Sarah Paulson, um, I mean Linda Hamilton tries to get "Home by Christmas" (Lifetime).
"William Eggleston in the Real World" (Sundance)
"Unwrapped" (Food): "Sweet Imitations"
"Engineering an Empire" (History): "The Byzantines"
"High Stakes Poker" (GSN)
10 p.m.
The mob includes "12 drummers, nine dancers and a partridge in a pear tree" on "1 vs. 100" (NBC).
"Spend an Evening With Saddle Creek" (Starz Cinema)
10:30 p.m.
"Leave No Trace" (BBC America)
11 p.m.
"10 Items or Less" (TBS)
TALK AMONGST YOURSELVES
Everybody is off this week. More talk-show information is available at www.interbridge.com/lineupsdate.html and charlierose.com.
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TUESDAY NEWS
ABC: "Big Day"
CBS: "29th Annual Kennedy Center Honors"
NBC: "Tom Brokaw Reports: In the Shadow of the American Dream"
History: "Last Days on Earth," "Siberian Apocalypse"
Sundance: "Office Tigers"
HBO: "REAL Sports With Bryant Gumbel"
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HANDY DANDY
At Christmas time you can trade your D) paper clip collection to Mr. Hooper for a soap dish for Ernie's rubber duckie, if Ernie trades his rubber duckie to Mr. Hooper for a cigar box to house your paper clip collection, à la O. Henry.
-- posted by Jon Delfin
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