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- Subject: Feb 93 Discovery Chan Schedule
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- ** FEBURARY, 1993 DISCOVERY CHANNEL SCHEDULE **
- ** **
- ** Cable TV's Discovery Channel received in Canada and the U.S. **
- ** that may of interest to the aviation, military, etc minded **
- ** community. **
- ** **
- ** All times are Eastern Standard Time (EST) **
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- ALL-AMERICAN
- ------------
- Dangerous Years--President Eisenhower and the Cold War
- Mon, Feb 15 1800-1900
- First Platoon (1st Platoon, K Co, USMC)
- Mon, Feb 15 1900-2000
- Tue, Feb 16 0200-0300
- Jimmy Doolittle--An American Hero
- Mon, Feb 15 2100-2200
- Tue, Feb 16 0000-0100
- Memphis Belle (Wm Wylers original of the REAL Belle in 1943)
- Mon, Feb 15 2000-2100
- Mon, Feb 15 2300-2400
- The Call to Glory--Chennault and the Flying Tigers (1941-42)
- Mon, Feb 15 2200-2300
- Tue, Feb 16 0100-0200
-
- ASSIGNMENT DISCOVERY
- --------------------
- Episode 222 (traces US involvement in Vietnam 1959-75)
- Tue, Feb 23 0900-1000
-
- CHALLENGE
- ---------
- Fighter Ace
- Sat, Feb 27 2200-2300
- Sun, Feb 28 0100-0200
-
- CHOPPERS
- --------
- Full Metal Gunships (gunships in Vietnam)
- Sat, Feb 27 2130-2200
- Sun, Feb 28 0030-0100
- The Korean Angels (H-13s in 1950-53)
- Sat, Feb 13 2130-2200
- Sun, Feb 14 0030-0100
- The Turbulent Fifties (1950s)
- Sat, Feb 20 2130-2200
- Sun, Feb 21 0030-0100
- War and Peace (peacetime use)
- Sat, Feb 6 2130-2200
- Sun, Feb 7 0030-0100
-
- DISCOVERY JOURNAL
- -----------------
- The Gulf Crisis--The Road to War: Invasion
- Sat, Feb 6 1700-1800
- Sun, Feb 7 1300-1400
- The Gulf Crisis--The Road to War: New World Order
- Sat, Feb 13 1700-1800
- Sun, Feb 14 1300-1400
- The Gulf Crisis--The Road to War: War
- Sat, Feb 20 1700-1800
- Sun, Feb 21 1300-1400
-
- DISCOVERY SHOWCASE
- ------------------
- Future Flight (21st Century space flights)
- Mon, Feb 1 2100-2200
- Tue, Feb 2 0000-0100
- Sun, Feb 7 1400-1500
-
- DISCOVERY SUNDAY
- ----------------
- Adlof Hitler--Man and Myth
- Sun, Feb 21 2100-2200
- Mon, Feb 22 0000-0100
- Touring (US) Civil War Battlefields (Manassas, Antietam,
- Fredricksburg and Gettysburg)
- Sun, Feb 7 2200-2300
- Mon, Feb 8 0100-0200
-
- MAC & MUTLEY
- ------------
- Episode 7 (segment on K-9 Corps of WWII)
- Sat, Feb 20 1000-1030
- Sat, Feb 20 1900-1930
- Sun, Feb 21 1700-1730
-
- THE FALKLANDS WAR
- -----------------
- The Untold Story--Part 1
- Fri, Feb 5 2200-2300
- Sat, Feb 6 0100-0200
- The Untold Story--Part 2
- Fri, Feb 12 2200-2300
- Sat, Feb 13 0100-0200
-
- FIREPOWER
- ---------
- Ballistic Missile
- Fri, Feb 26 2100-2130
- Sat, Feb 27 0000-0030
- Combat Vehicles (APCs)
- Fri, Feb 5 2100-2130
- Sat, Feb 6 0000-0030
- War on Wheels (Light armored vehicles or LAVs)
- Fri, Feb 12 2100-2130
- Sat, Feb 13 0000-0030
-
- GI DIARY
- --------
- D-Day--One Bad Day (6 Jun 44)
- Fri, Feb 12 2130-2200
- Sat, Feb 13 0030-0100
- Sicily--The Yanks are Coming (1943)
- Fri, Feb 5 2130-2200
- Sat, Feb 6 0030-0100
- The Battle for Saipan (1944)
- Fri, Feb 26 2130-2200
- Sat, Feb 27 0030-0100
-
- INVENTION
- ---------
- Episode 3 (includes segment on breaking German code in WWII)
- Tue, Feb 9 2100-2130
- Wed, Feb 10 0000-0030
-
- SUBMARINE--SHARKS OF STEEL
- --------------------------
- In the Belly of the Beast
- Sun, Feb 14 2200-2300
- Mon, Feb 15 0200-0300
- Submariners
- Sun, Feb 14 2000-2100
- Mon, Feb 15 0000-0100
- Fri, Feb 19 2200-2300
- Sat, Feb 20 0100-0200
- The Hidden Threat
- Sun, Feb 14 1900-2000
- Sun, Feb 14 2300-2400
- Fri, Feb 19 2100-2200
- Sat, Feb 20 0000-0100
- The Hunter and the Hunted
- Sun, Feb 14 2100-2200
- Mon, Feb 15 0100-0200
- Fri, Feb 26 2200-2300
- Sat, Feb 27 0100-0200
-
- THOSE WHO DARE
- --------------
- War Photographer (42-year old Patrick Chauvel)
- Thu, Feb 25 2130-2200
- Fri, Feb 26 0030-0100
-
- WINGS
- -----
- B-36, Convair Peacemaker
- Sat, Feb 13 1300-1400
- Sun, Feb 14 1800-1900
- XB-70, North American
- Sat, Feb 20 1300-1400
- Sun, Feb 21 1800-1900
- F-16, General Dynamics Falcon
- Sat, Feb 6 1300-1400
- Sun, Feb 7 1800-1900
- F-111, General Dynamics Aardvark
- Sat, Feb 27 1300-1400
- Sun, Feb 28 1800-1900
- Strange Shapes
- Wed, Feb 24 2100-2200
- Thu, Feb 25 0000-0100
- The Hovercraft
- Wed, Feb 3 2100-2200
- Thu, Feb 4 0000-0100
- The World's Strangest Planes
- Wed, Feb 10 2100-2200
- Thu, Feb 11 0000-0100
- Vertical
- Wed, Feb 17 2100-2200
- Thu, Feb 18 0000-0100
-
- WORLD OF VALOR
- --------------
- Brazilian Special Forces
- Thu, Feb 4 2100-2130
- Fri, Feb 5 0000-0030
- Sat, Feb 6 1400-1430
- Egyptian Special Forces
- Thu, Feb 18 2100-2130
- Fri, Feb 19 0000-0030
- Sat, Feb 20 1400-1430
- USAF Special Operations Forces
- Thu, Feb 25 2100-2130
- Fri, Feb 26 0000-0030
- 2nd Marine Recon (USMC)
- Thu, Feb 11 2100-2130
- Fri, Feb 12 0000-0030
- Sat, Feb 13 1400-1430
-
- THE X-PLANES
- ------------
- Higher and Faster (X-15)
- Sat, Feb 27 2100-2130
- Sun, Feb 28 0000-0030
- Straight Up (Ryan X-13 and Bell X-14)
- Sat, Feb 13 2100-2130
- Sun, Feb 14 0000-0030
- The Strange X (Convair X-6)
- Sat, Feb 20 2100-2130
- Sun, Feb 21 0000-0030
- The Swing Wing (from Luftwaffe plans to F-111)
- Sat, Feb 6 2100-2130
- Sun, Feb 7 0000-0030
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