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TV Shows on DVD announced yesterday that the six TV-movies which aired after THE WALTONS completed its regular series run are coming to DVD.

IT'S NOT SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD ON "BONES" THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, ON FOX Brennan and Booth investigate human remains found at a neighborhood block party.

Did helicopter pioneeer Igor Sikorsky have actually have a helipad behind his Huntington Turnpike house? Is there perhaps a house in town where black Revolutionary warrior Nero Hawley lived that historians don't know about? It's questions like these that intrigue members of the Trumbull Historical Society.

The 1970s were a golden time for the small-screen, as numerous situation comedies and one-hour dramas of immense quality, and social impact, dominated the lineups of NBC, CBS and ABC.

Designated a national holiday by President Jimmy Carter in 1978, National Grandparents Day will be observed this year on Sunday, September 13th.

'This was never intended as a habitat - except by God and Catholics," says Ronnie Claire Edwards of her offbeat residence in Old East Dallas.

'This was never intended as a habitat - except by God and Catholics," says Ronnie Claire Edwards of her offbeat residence in Old East Dallas.

Tony Award nominee David Alan Grier, of TV's "Chocolate News" and "In Living Color," has joined the cast of the Broadway world premiere of David Mamet's Race , the producers announced on July 28.

Dear Incredible David Inman: This question is about Barbara Stanwyck of "The Big Valley." Out of all the women who have ever starred in a TV series, why is she the only one to ever be called "Miss" in the credits? - A.M., via e-mail Dear A.M.: This may surprise you, but there are no hard and fast rules about who can and cannot be referred to as ...

For more than 130 years, ferrymen have jammed poles into the James River's gravelly shallows to push the Hatton Ferry slowly across to other side.The unique calling now may be days from extinction: America's last known hand-poled ferry is a casualty of ebbing state finances and politics.On July 1, Virginia stops funding the Hatton Ferry.

While indelibly linked with the role of the somewhat naive would-be writer John-Boy Walton in the CBS drama series "The Waltons" , Richard Thomas has had a richly diverse career that has.... While indelibly linked with the role of the somewhat naive would-be writer John-Boy Walton in the CBS drama series "The Waltons" , Richard Thomas has had a ...

When: Tuesdays-Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m.; Thursdays-Fridays, 8 p.m.; Saturdays, 2 and 8 p.m.; Sundays, 2 and 7 p.m. Through June 28.

It's animated but inanimate, often thought intimate but ultimately inert. The television, an ever-projecting and projected-upon jumble of live wires and lifeless tubes, has been described both as the campfire of our generation - around which we share stories - or our era's version of the lobotomy - through which we systematically get dumber.

American playwright Terrence McNally is deemed one of today's leading American dramatists.

Roadside grass will grow higher, 19 Interstate highway rest stops will close, the Hatton Ferry will cease service and highway workers will lose jobs as Virginia's road money dries up.

Richard Thomas will co-star with the previously announced James Spader in the world premiere of David Mamet's Broadway-bound play "Race." The 57-year-old Thomas made his Broadway debut at age 7 in "Sunrise at Campobello," a play about Franklin Roosevelt before he became president, and is best known for his role as John-Boy on the venerable TV ...

Enjoy a traditional English tea and vintage fashion show while helping to support one of Milford's historical gems next week.

La Jolla Playhouse has tapped a cast from all over the vast entertainmentscape to lead "Unusual Acts of Devotion," the Terrence McNally play that opens the new Playhouse season in a West Coast premiere.

The Topanga Philharmonic Orchestra celebrates its gala 30th anniversary with a concert of family fare to benefit programming at The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum.