Michener hosts PBS odyssey to birthplace of three faiths
James A. Michener curates a PBS series "James Michener's World" guiding viewers through distant regions he wrote about. The debut program "Israel: A Search for Faith" airs on PBS Tuesday at 7 p.m. on Channel 15 KAVT TV, produced by Reader's Digest Association Inc. with three more specials planned in the next year.
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Canonization of Newmann on ABC Sunday
ABC News will broadcast highlights of the canonization of America's first male saint Saint John Neumann from St. Peter's Square in a program airing at 11 30 a m Sunday on ABC Television Network The ceremony was held in Rome and fed via satellite to New York for the network's feature
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Apes battle humans underscored on CBS Friday Night Movies
Roddy McDowall and Claude Akins star in Battle for the Planet of the Apes with John Huston in a special appearance. The CBS Television Network rebroadcast slots the tale of humans versus simians at 8 30 p m tonight on CBS.
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Great Iowa Bike Ride airs on PBS tonight
The Great Iowa Bike Ride PBS program chronicles 3000+ cyclists crossing Iowa in a seven day marathon airing at 8 30 p m on Channel 15. It traces the 1972 start by Don Kaul and John Karras and the evolution to RAGBRAI IV beginning August 1 in Sidney and ending August 7 in Muscatine with community hospitality and local rivalry central to the story.
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Star Spangled Girl on ABC Friday Night Movie
Sandy Duncan Tony Roberts and Elizabeth Allen star in Neil Simons comedy about a girl next door who becomes involved with two radical newspaper editors. The ABC network presents the film at 7 p.m. tonight.
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