Tube Notes
By Mike Hughes
Gannett News Service
• TONIGHT'S MUST-SEE (Network TV): "The Fugitive," 8 p.m., CBS. Remember when this was one of the season's hottest prospects? It sank so quickly that CBS waited until the season was finished to show the year's last two episodes. They run back to back here. Peter Onorati guest stars as a powerful-but-vulnerable lawyer hired to defend Richard Kimble (Tim Daly).
• TONIGHT'S MUST-SEE (cable): "100 Most Shocking Moments in Rock 'n' Roll," noon, VH1. Gradually — 20 shocks per night — VH1 has led up to tonight. Just in case you missed any of them, they're rerun here. At noon, we get the lesser shocks, Nos. 81 to 100. We re-live such minor moments as M.C. Hammer going bankrupt (No. 90) or Elvis Presley meeting Richard Nixon (No. 99). Then each hour reruns 20 more. Near 4 p.m., we find Prince changing his name (No. 23). Then, at 5 p.m., comes the premiere of the final hour, reviewing the 20 biggest shocks. At the top of his list are the murder of John Lennon and the accusations against Michael Jackson. Scattered amid lots of deaths are such moments as the exposure that Milli Vanilli wasn't singing its own songs (No. 8). In the aftermath, we can weigh life's quirks: When Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones married a teenager, it was merely No. 64; Jerry Lee Lewis, however, leaped to No. 13 by marrying his teenage cousin. Ahh, the memories.
• "High school boot camp," 5 p.m., Discovery Channel. This documentary won the 2000 Directors Guild of America Award. It follows a group of "at-risk" boys, age 13-16, who voluntarily submitted to five months of paramilitary training in a program run by the Palm Beach (Fla.) County school board and sheriff's department.
• "Barbra Streisand: Timeless," 7 p.m., Fox. Here's a rerun of Streisand's Las Vegas concert on the final night of 1999.
• "Sabrina Down Under," 7-9 p.m., ABC. "Sabrina" spent its first years at ABC, then jumped to WB; tonight, it's back in a rerun of the movie in which she visits Australia.
• "Rain," 4 p.m., Animal Planet; repeats at 6 p.m. Here's the premiere of a movie that mainly gets credit for good intentions. A girl avenges her brother's death in Vietnam by volunteering a beloved dog for the K-9 Corps.
• Basketball, 7 p.m., NBC. The NBA playoffs start their brief spurt on NBC's prime time in this tape-delayed telecast.
