Don Wescott

Every baseball season New Englanders turn their attention to one team, the Boston Red Sox, one of the sport's most prestigious franchises. On the 100th anniversary of the BoSox comes this documentary celebrating the illustrious history of Beantown's boys of summer. Remembering greats such as Ted Williams and Roger Clemens and the bitter rivalry between Boston and the Yankees, this program also covers the numerous heartbreaks Red Sox fans have endured, including trading Babe Ruth and losing a lead to drop the 1986 World Series to the Mets.

Take a journey to the rugged terrain that separates the barren Tibetan plateau and the plains of India. Live alongside Jimi, a Peace Corps volunteer in Melung, a days walk south of the trail from Kathmandu to Mt Everest base camp.

Jerry Lundegaard is a small-town Minnesota car salesman deeply in debt and willing to do almost anything to get out. Police chief Marge Gunderson discovers a string of violent crimes as Jerry's schemes spiral out of control.

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Explains that, of all the technical innovations in the past fifty years, none has pervaded people's daily lives so much as television. Looks at the pay TV explosion, which is creating a second television revolution.

Based on the true story of the attempted defection in 1970 by a Lithuanian seaman seeking political asylum in the United States. Kudirka was denied asylum and returned to the Soviets, charged with treason, and sentenced to ten years of hard labor. It was later discovered and verified that his mother had been born in Brooklyn and gone to Lithuania at a young age, which meant she was a U. S. citizen. As a result, Kudirka was declared a U. S. citizen and in 1974 released by the Soviets.

Horizon investigates whether first contact with aliens has already occurred. The publication of 'Chariots of the Gods?' by Erich von Daniken is central to this documentary and some of von Daniken's claims of evidence of extra-terrestrial visitations.

Describes the discovery of the link between Parkinson's disease and the destruction of brain cells by MPTP, a contaminant found in designer drugs.