At this point we're well into the creation of The Sword in the Stone ride, the ride I would create were I an Imagineer and given the chance.  We've talked about the scenes and the cars and some sound and other bits and pieces.  Oh sure, I haven't gone into the track itself and dimensions etc., etc., but I'm not sure that I should be divulging such stuff here in the open…not at this juncture.  It just doesn't seem prudent.  Oh, but not to fear, we have other things about the ride we can still discuss.

Sunday, September 7

8:00PM - 9:00PM

Nature – "The Queen of Trees”. I don’t know what, or who, exactly the queen is. However, I’m betting it’s a wasp and that this whole deal has to do with co-evolution. I wonder if that makes the queen of wasps a tree. Or maybe the queen of people apple pie, and the queen of apple pie buttery goodness and then the queen of buttery goodness people. It’s a quandary.

9:00PM – 10:30PM

Masterpiece Mystery! – "The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Series VI – 'Chinese Walls.'"  The eighth Earl of Asherton (that would be Thomas Lynley) is going back in time.  Earlier this month Series VII aired, now we're back on Series VI.  Poor Lynley, he's in for some serious heartache at the end of this series.

10:30PM – 11:00PM

Encore! With James Conlon - “Apollo or Dionysus?”  Which God is more your speed? It’s music-making explored through mythological paradigm. Because it all wasn’t confusing enough.

 
Monday, September 8:

8:00PM - 9:00PM

Antiques Roadshow  – "Tucson (Hour Three)."  Last chance for Tucson.  Will they have that prized $1,000,000 two-hundred-year-old cow pie this time around?  Fingers crossed.

9:00PM – 10:00PM

History Detectives. This show may be the most fascinating show ever, it really may, but its title leave a lot to be desired.  Seriously, aren't all historians more or less detectives?  The title simply isn't descriptive or exciting enough, I much prefer a title like Josh Lasser, You’ve Been Hired as an Imagineer.

10:00PM – 11:00PM

Objects and Memory.  I'm not quite sure who or how, but what this show has done is take items recovered from the events of September 11 and "other national tragedies" and shown them to people in order to examine the response.  They also explore exactly why it is that people value the objects they value.

 
Tuesday, September 9:

8:00PM - 9:00PM

Nova - “Hitler’s Sunken Secret.” This week they go exploring whether or not the sinking of the Norwegian ferry Hydro did in fact help prevent Hitler from creating an atomic bomb. Did the ferry actually have heavy water on it? Well, did it?