Blue Glow

Salon's TV picks for Thursday, Nov. 18, 1999

Published November 18, 1999 5:00PM (EST)

Series

On Friends (8 p.m., NBC), Chandler tries to re-masculinize Joey, who has gotten in touch with his female side, thanks to Janine. Followed by a rerun of the Friends pilot (8:30 p.m., NBC), containing some never-before-seen footage. Sam and Brooke enter into a wager concerning their love lives on Popular (8 p.m., WB). An obituary page mix-up involving the very much alive Frasier and a dead man with the same name prompts the good doctor to reassess his life on Frasier (9 p.m., NBC). Corday plays hero at the scene of a car crash, Hathaway's pregnant junkie acquaintance gives birth and Dr. Lawrence (Alan Alda) takes his leave on ER (10 p.m., NBC). Julian Lennon is interviewed on 20/20 Downtown (10 p.m., ABC).

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Specials

New York: A Documentary Film (check local times, PBS) continues with a look at the Big Apple during the 1920s.

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Sports

Hockey:

Stars at Flyers (7:30 p.m., ESPN2)

Coyotes at Kings (10:30 p.m., ESPN2)

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Talk

Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Ted Danson, Denise Richards

David Letterman (CBS) Ted Danson, Counting Crows

Jay Leno (NBC) Johnny Depp, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sugar Ray

Charlie Rose (PBS) David McCullough

Politically Incorrect (ABC) Chris Rock, Jon Stewart

Conan O'Brien (NBC) Jennifer Aniston, Tim Burton


By Joyce Millman

Joyce Millman is a writer living in the Bay Area.

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