Lifetime (TV network) Schedule October 30, 2005

10:00 am		The Golden Girls 	EPISODE 50 • “A Piece of Cake” 	As the ladies prepare the hors d'oeuvres for a surprise birthday party for Roberta, an elderly friend of Sophia's, they reminisce about their favorite birthdays. Starring: Beatrice Arthur, Betty White, Estelle Getty, Rue McClanahan, Lyn Greene, Sid Melton   [CC] [TV-PG D]
10:00 am		The Golden Girls 	EPISODE 50 • “A Piece of Cake” 	
 		 	 	
10:30 am		The Golden Girls 	EPISODE 54 • “Bringing Up Baby” 	Rose inherits her uncle's pig, Baby, and the girls only agree to let Rose keep it after they discover the $100,000 bonus Rose will receive for taking care of Baby until his death. Starring: Beatrice Arthur, Betty White, Estelle Getty, Rue McClanahan   [CC] [TV-PG D]
10:30 am		The Golden Girls 	EPISODE 54 • “Bringing Up Baby” 	
 		 	 	
11:00 am		Child of Darkness, Child of Light	 	A priest investigates two virgin births -- one is the offspring of God and the other of Satan. With Satan's followers in pursuit, he must find out which is which. Starring: Viveca Lindfors, Alan Oppenheimer, Sela Ward, Claudette Nevins, Anthony John Denison   [CC] [TV-14 DV]
11:00 am		Child of Darkness, Child of Light	 	
 		 	 	
1:00 pm 		Voice From the Grave 	 	Bill watches as his wife Renee goes into a cataleptic seizure. When Renee opens her mouth to speak, Bill is shocked to discover that it is not Renee's voice he hears, but the voice of Terry, Renee's brutally murdered coworker. She tells him who murdered her and demands that her killer be brought to justice. Starring: Kevin Dobson, Megan Ward, John Terlesky, Kelli Williams   [CC] [TV-PG V]
1:00 pm 		Voice From the Grave 	 	
 		 	 	
3:00 pm 		I've Been Waiting for You 	 	Strange occurrences in a small town lead the townspeople to suspect a young newcomer of using witchcraft to exact revenge on a group of locals. Starring: Sarah Chalke, Markie Post, Christian Campbell, Tom Dugan, Ben Foster, Soleil Moon Frye, Maggie Lawson, Carly Pope   [CC] [TV-14 LV]
3:00 pm 		I've Been Waiting for You 	 	
 		 	 	
5:00 pm 		A Touch of Hope 	 	Based on the life story of healer Dean Kraft. Dean discovers his power when he tries to help the victim of a car crash, and afterwards must learn to live with his gift and his changed relationship to others. Starring: Anthony Michael Hall, Nancy Beatty, Abraham Benrubi, Fay Masterson, CCH Pounder, Stephanie Mills, Peter MacNeill, Alan Rosenberg, Alexandra Stapley, Robert Clohessy, Marion Day, Stephanie Moore, Sean O'Bryan, Richard Fitzpatrick   [CC] [TV-PG L]
5:00 pm 		A Touch of Hope 	 	
 		 	 	
7:00 pm 		The Last Sign 	 	Kathy is a recent widow who is haunted by the ghost of her abusive, alcoholic husband. She eventually finds love with a French engineer and realizes that she must come to terms with her past in order to fully move on with her life. Starring: Margot Kidder, Andie MacDowell, Tim Roth, Samuel Le Bihan   [CC] [TV-PG SV]
7:00 pm 		The Last Sign 	 	
 		 	 	
9:00 pm 		Strong Medicine 	Strong Medicine "New Blood" (N) 	Rick Schroder joins the cast as Dr. Dylan West. Rittenhouse Hospital is placed on emergency standby while the President is visiting Philly. Lu can't believe that Dr. Dylan was chosen as Andy's replacement. They bumped heads constantly back in med school. They're thrown together when a huge train wreck causes dozens of casualties. Lu and Dylan clash when they disagree about how to deal with the bipolar woman who caused the accident. Lu, still unsure about marrying Jonas, gets shot when she refuses to give up her ring in a late night mugging. Slowly bleeding to death, Dylan is able to save her with the blood on reserve for the President. With Andy in D.C., Kayla must find a place to live. Instead of compromising her stance on premarital cohabitation, she moves in with Lana. Starring: Jenifer Lewis, Josh Coxx, Tamera Mowry, Rosa Blasi, Rick Schroder, Philip Casnoff, Lori Loughlin   [CC] [TV-PG LV]
9:00 pm 		Strong Medicine 	Strong Medicine "New Blood" (N) 	
 		 	 	
10:00 pm		MISSING 	Last Night (N) 	A 5-year-old boy goes missing from his bed while his grandmother baby-sits. His wealthy parents retain lawyers, frustrating Nicole and the team as they discover motive and suspect which reveals internal family fractures. Ultimately, they find that the boy was a prize in a rich-kid scavenger hunt. Starring: Justin Louis, Vivica A. Fox, Caterina Scorsone, Mark Consuelos   [CC] [TV-PG DL]
10:00 pm		MISSING 	Last Night (N) 	
 		 	 	
11:00 pm		MISSING 	Fugitive (N) 	A wounded escaped prisoner takes a young doctor hostage. The team is able to track and rescue the hostage but her captor escapes. The young doctor immediately begins giving the team information to help bring the prisoner to justice. However, people who initially put the criminal away begin turning up dead and Nicole realizes there is more to this situation than she originally thought. Starring: Justin Louis, Vivica A. Fox, Caterina Scorsone, Mark Consuelos   [CC] [TV-PG LV]
11:00 pm		MISSING 	Fugitive (N) 	
 		 	 	
12:00 am		Strong Medicine 	Strong Medicine "Pilot" (N) 	Luisa Delgado, a young doctor trying to save her downtown Philadelphia free clinic from financial ruin, approaches the city's most prestigious hospital, Rittenhouse, for a loan when she learns that a famous research doctor is in town to raise millions for the hospital. The hospital's chief of staff sends their head of women's medicine, Dr. Dana Stowe, to Lu's clinic to check it out. The two doctors immediately clash because Lu is willing to bend the rules of medical ethics to keep her patients, and since Dana is committed to keeping the high standards of Rittenhouse,she refuses to approve the loan. When Lu goes to the hospital to confront Dana for failing to approve the loan, Dr. Lydia Emerson, the famous research doctor, gets involved to bring Lu and Dana together to run a new women's medical clinic that will merge Lu's clinic with a new wing of Rittenhouse Hospital. Starring: Janine Turner, Jenifer Lewis, Philip Casnoff, Rosa Blasi, Josh Coxx, Whoopi Goldberg   [CC] [TV-PG DL]
12:00 am		Strong Medicine 	Strong Medicine "Pilot" (N) 	
 		 	 	
1:00 am 		Strong Medicine 	Strong Medicine "Pre-existing Conditions" (N)	Dana and Lu are relocated to a new wing of Rittenhouse that, once renovated, will be the new home of the women's health clinic they will run together. Dana is confronted with an infertile couple and their pregnant surrogate, whose amnio just revealed that the fetus may be brain damaged. When the infertile couple decide not to keep the baby, Dana must enlist Lu's help to try to convince the surrogate to keep the baby. Lu treats a 35-year-old Chinese woman in horrible pelvic pain, and an exam reveals that the woman has bleeding fibroids. Lu orders an immediate hysterectomy, but it turns out that the doctor who allegedly already performed a hysterectomy on this woman took the insurance money without doing the procedure. Lu asks Dana to perform surgery, but Dana convinces Lu and the woman to use high-tech alternatives available at Rittenhouse so she can avoid a hysterectomy. Lu then confronts the woman's former doctor, who runs a free clinic similar to Lu's old clinic, about the hysterectomy she failed to perform. When the doctor pleads that money from an occasional insurance scam is her only way of keeping the clinic open, Lu must decide whether to report her. Starring: Janine Turner, Jenifer Lewis, Philip Casnoff, Rosa Blasi, Josh Coxx   [CC] [TV-PG DL]
1:00 am 		Strong Medicine 	Strong Medicine "Pre-existing Conditions" (N)