From: jem3@pyuxf.uucp (25312-mc killop)
Subject: Feb 93 Discovery Chan Schedule
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 12:24:12 GMT


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**          FEBURARY, 1993 DISCOVERY CHANNEL SCHEDULE            **
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** Cable TV's Discovery Channel received in Canada and the U.S.  **
** that may of interest to the aviation, military, etc minded    **
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**         All times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)             **
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ALL-AMERICAN
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Dangerous Years--President Eisenhower and the Cold War
  Mon, Feb 15 1800-1900
First Platoon (1st Platoon, K Co, USMC)
  Mon, Feb 15 1900-2000
  Tue, Feb 16 0200-0300
Jimmy Doolittle--An American Hero
  Mon, Feb 15 2100-2200
  Tue, Feb 16 0000-0100
Memphis Belle (Wm Wylers original of the REAL Belle in 1943)
  Mon, Feb 15 2000-2100
  Mon, Feb 15 2300-2400
The Call to Glory--Chennault and the Flying Tigers (1941-42)
  Mon, Feb 15 2200-2300
  Tue, Feb 16 0100-0200

ASSIGNMENT DISCOVERY
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Episode 222 (traces US involvement in Vietnam 1959-75)
  Tue, Feb 23 0900-1000

CHALLENGE
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Fighter Ace
  Sat, Feb 27 2200-2300
  Sun, Feb 28 0100-0200

CHOPPERS
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Full Metal Gunships (gunships in Vietnam)
  Sat, Feb 27 2130-2200
  Sun, Feb 28 0030-0100
The Korean Angels (H-13s in 1950-53)
  Sat, Feb 13 2130-2200
  Sun, Feb 14 0030-0100
The Turbulent Fifties (1950s)
  Sat, Feb 20 2130-2200
  Sun, Feb 21 0030-0100
War and Peace (peacetime use)
  Sat, Feb 6 2130-2200
  Sun, Feb 7 0030-0100

DISCOVERY JOURNAL
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The Gulf Crisis--The Road to War: Invasion
  Sat, Feb 6 1700-1800
  Sun, Feb 7 1300-1400
The Gulf Crisis--The Road to War: New World Order
  Sat, Feb 13 1700-1800
  Sun, Feb 14 1300-1400
The Gulf Crisis--The Road to War: War
  Sat, Feb 20 1700-1800
  Sun, Feb 21 1300-1400

DISCOVERY SHOWCASE
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Future Flight (21st Century space flights)
  Mon, Feb 1 2100-2200
  Tue, Feb 2 0000-0100
  Sun, Feb 7 1400-1500

DISCOVERY SUNDAY
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Adlof Hitler--Man and Myth
  Sun, Feb 21 2100-2200
  Mon, Feb 22 0000-0100
Touring (US) Civil War Battlefields (Manassas, Antietam,
Fredricksburg and Gettysburg)
  Sun, Feb 7 2200-2300
  Mon, Feb 8 0100-0200

MAC & MUTLEY
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Episode 7 (segment on K-9 Corps of WWII)
  Sat, Feb 20 1000-1030
  Sat, Feb 20 1900-1930
  Sun, Feb 21 1700-1730

THE FALKLANDS WAR
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The Untold Story--Part 1
  Fri, Feb 5 2200-2300
  Sat, Feb 6 0100-0200
The Untold Story--Part 2
  Fri, Feb 12 2200-2300
  Sat, Feb 13 0100-0200

FIREPOWER
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Ballistic Missile
  Fri, Feb 26 2100-2130
  Sat, Feb 27 0000-0030
Combat Vehicles (APCs)
  Fri, Feb 5 2100-2130
  Sat, Feb 6 0000-0030
War on Wheels (Light armored vehicles or LAVs)
  Fri, Feb 12 2100-2130
  Sat, Feb 13 0000-0030

GI DIARY
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D-Day--One Bad Day (6 Jun 44)
  Fri, Feb 12 2130-2200
  Sat, Feb 13 0030-0100
Sicily--The Yanks are Coming (1943)
  Fri, Feb 5 2130-2200
  Sat, Feb 6 0030-0100
The Battle for Saipan (1944)
  Fri, Feb 26 2130-2200
  Sat, Feb 27 0030-0100

INVENTION
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Episode 3 (includes segment on breaking German code in WWII)
  Tue, Feb 9 2100-2130
  Wed, Feb 10 0000-0030

SUBMARINE--SHARKS OF STEEL
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In the Belly of the Beast
  Sun, Feb 14 2200-2300
  Mon, Feb 15 0200-0300
Submariners
  Sun, Feb 14 2000-2100
  Mon, Feb 15 0000-0100
  Fri, Feb 19 2200-2300
  Sat, Feb 20 0100-0200
The Hidden Threat
  Sun, Feb 14 1900-2000
  Sun, Feb 14 2300-2400
  Fri, Feb 19 2100-2200
  Sat, Feb 20 0000-0100
The Hunter and the Hunted
  Sun, Feb 14 2100-2200
  Mon, Feb 15 0100-0200
  Fri, Feb 26 2200-2300
  Sat, Feb 27 0100-0200

THOSE WHO DARE
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War Photographer (42-year old Patrick Chauvel)
  Thu, Feb 25 2130-2200
  Fri, Feb 26 0030-0100

WINGS
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B-36, Convair Peacemaker
  Sat, Feb 13 1300-1400
  Sun, Feb 14 1800-1900
XB-70, North American
  Sat, Feb 20 1300-1400
  Sun, Feb 21 1800-1900
F-16, General Dynamics Falcon
  Sat, Feb 6 1300-1400
  Sun, Feb 7 1800-1900
F-111, General Dynamics Aardvark
  Sat, Feb 27 1300-1400
  Sun, Feb 28 1800-1900
Strange Shapes
  Wed, Feb 24 2100-2200
  Thu, Feb 25 0000-0100
The Hovercraft
  Wed, Feb 3 2100-2200
  Thu, Feb 4 0000-0100
The World's Strangest Planes
  Wed, Feb 10 2100-2200
  Thu, Feb 11 0000-0100
Vertical
  Wed, Feb 17 2100-2200
  Thu, Feb 18 0000-0100

WORLD OF VALOR
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Brazilian Special Forces
  Thu, Feb 4 2100-2130
  Fri, Feb 5 0000-0030
  Sat, Feb 6 1400-1430
Egyptian Special Forces
  Thu, Feb 18 2100-2130
  Fri, Feb 19 0000-0030
  Sat, Feb 20 1400-1430
USAF Special Operations Forces
  Thu, Feb 25 2100-2130
  Fri, Feb 26 0000-0030
2nd Marine Recon (USMC)
  Thu, Feb 11 2100-2130
  Fri, Feb 12 0000-0030
  Sat, Feb 13 1400-1430

THE X-PLANES
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Higher and Faster (X-15)
  Sat, Feb 27 2100-2130
  Sun, Feb 28 0000-0030
Straight Up (Ryan X-13 and Bell X-14)
  Sat, Feb 13 2100-2130
  Sun, Feb 14 0000-0030
The Strange X (Convair X-6)
  Sat, Feb 20 2100-2130
  Sun, Feb 21 0000-0030
The Swing Wing (from Luftwaffe plans to F-111)
  Sat, Feb 6 2100-2130
  Sun, Feb 7 0000-0030