Programming Notes

Tomorrow night (Friday), The Discovery Channel is reairing Breaking Vegas, a combination documentary and dramatization of how a batch of M.I.T. students made an incredible Blackjack assault on the casinos of Nevada. A fascinating tale told in an interesting manner.

Fans of Hawaii Five-O may be interested to know that the rerun rotation has come around again to "V for Vashon," a story that ran for three consecutive episodes of the series in 1972 and was later edited into a quasi-movie. Just about everything that was good or bad about that program was represented in that three-parter about a crime family that vows to stop McGarrett from interfering with their operations. The first hour runs 6/27 on the Hallmark Channel with others to follow on subsequent Sundays, while a local station in Los Angeles, KDOC, is running all three parts next Monday through Wednesday. (Here's an article I wrote some time ago about Hawaii Five-O and its little quirks.)

Monday evening, Game Show Network is reairing Big Bucks: The Press Your Luck Scandal. This is the hour-long "documentary" about Michael Larson, the man who went on the game show Press Your Luck and through unexpected ingenuity, took CBS for over a hundred thousand dollars. An interesting story, indeed.

And if none of these shows interest you, you can turn on darn near any program at random and watch Bill Clinton being asked about Monica.