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07-19-2005, 11:52 AM

Effective Tuesday, September 6
7 Days a week:
8:00PM Little House on the Prairie (replaces mini-marathon cont.)
5:00AM Little House on the Prairie (replaces Hunter)

- TV Land-on Labor Day Weekend
Saturday, September 3 through Monday, September 5
6:00 a.m. Sat. Sept 3 to 6:00 a.m. Tues. Sept. 6
Watch Michael Landon give shape to Laura Ingalls Wilder's view of how the West was won in the TV-series adaptation of her Little House on the Prairie. This pioneer family also pioneered television as one of the longest running dramas on television, collecting 17 Emmy nods.
72 hours of Michael Landon's TV Land collection will air from September 3 to September 5, 6a to 6a.

Saturday, September 3
6:00a Bonanza #06 – The Julia Bulette Story
Little Joe falls in love with Julia Bulette, a saloon owner with a reputation. That and the fact that she is much older than Joe, puts him and his father at odds.
7:00a Bonanza #09 – Mr. Henry Comstock
Jack Carson stars as Mr. Comstock who claims ownership in a major goldstrike. The discovery of the Comstock lode created Virginia City Little Joe asks for trouble by courting the daughter of Chief Winnemuca.
8:00a Highway to Heaven #01 – Highway to Heaven (Part 1)
Jonathan (Michael Landon) aids the residents of a retirement home that may be sold out from under them.
9:00a Highway to Heaven #02 – Highway to Heaven (Part 2)
Jonathan (Michael Landon) aids the residents of a retirement home that may be sold out from under them.
10:00a Highway to Heaven #24 – Thoroughbreds (Part 1)
On a horse-breeding farm, competition develops into attraction between a trainer's daughter and the spoiled son of the owner.
11:00a Highway to Heaven #25 – Thoroughbreds (Part 2)
Garth and Lizzy elope to an undisclosed location, unaware that Lizzy has cancer and needs immediate treatment.
12:00p Bonanza #11 – The Truckee Strip
The Cartwrights are embroiled in a feud with their neighbors the Bishops, but Joe and Amy Bishop want no part of the feud and only have eyes for each other and want to get married.
1:00p Bonanza #31 – Dark Star
A gypsy girl named Tirza has come to stay at the Ponderosa because she ahs been disowned by her people because they believe she is a witch. While staying with the Cartwright's Joe falls in love with her and tries to show her that her people are wrong.
2:00p Bonanza #40 – The Abduction
Little Joe Cartwright and his big brother, Hoss spend an unforgettable and almost tragic evening at the carnival when Little Joe's date, pretty Jennifer Beale disappears.
3:00p Bonanza #45 – Silent Thunder
On his travels Joe meets a girl named Ann, a deaf mute and decides he can teach her sign language. Her father is skeptical and suspects Joe has other motives. Things become complicated when she fall in love with Joe. His efforts are put to the test when she is the only on who can save her father.
4:00p Bonanza #51 – Bank Run
When Ben and Adam have to leave on business, Ben puts Joe in Charge. His first order of business, to rob the Virginia City Bank, to which Hoss becomes an unwilling accomplice.
5:00p Bonanza #59 – The Gift
While in Arizona to buy horses, Joe takes a lone trip to Yuma to pick up a gift for his father's birthday a beautiful white horse. Finding himself caught in an Indian uprising, he must rely on his traveling companion, Emeliano, the man who raised the horse to get them through safely.
6:00p Little House on the Prairie #1 – A Harvest of Friends
The Ingalls settle on the banks of Plum Creek in Walnut Grove. To get the farm set up, Charles must take on several jobs at once. He promises one person that if he didn't get the job done in the specified time, the person could have his oxen.
7:00p Little House on the Prairie #2 – Country Girls
Laura and Mary start school for the first time. That is where they meet Nellie Oleson. Since Laura hasn't been to school before, she tries especially hard with her schoolwork. The students have to write an essay to present in front of the class. Laura recites what she would have written on the paper if she could have, instead of what was actually written on it.
8:00p Little House on the Prairie #13 – The Lord is my Shepherd, Part 1
Caroline becomes pregnant. Shortly after the baby is born, he becomes ill.
9:00p Little House on the Prairie #14 – The Lord is my Shepherd, Part 2
When Caroline gives birth to a baby boy, Laura is incredibly jealous and wishes he would die. When she gets what she wishes for, Laura is consumed by deep grief and decides to run away. She meets a mountain man, who vows to help her deal with her feelings.
10:00p Little House on the Prairie #25 – The Richest Man in Walnut Grove
After the mill closes, Charles is unable to pay off his debt at the mercantile. Mr. Hanson is forced to close the mill after one of his big customers declares bankruptcy. This was after Hanson had already shipped them a bunch of lumber. Charles had been expecting two months worth of wages before Hanson was forced to close down. Charles must taken on several jobs at the same time. Mary gets a job to help the family, while Laura does the chores at home. When the bill finally gets paid, Nels tells Charles that he thinks Charles is the richest man in Walnut Grove, since he has a very loving family.
11:00p Little House on the Prairie #42 – The Long Road Home
Charles, Mr. Edwards, and two other men take a job that involves handling and transporting explosives. They must deal with many things along the road, including prejudice.
12:00a Little House on the Prairie #46 – Going Home
After a tornado ruins his crop, Charles decides to sell the land and return to the Big Woods of Wisconsin without consulting his family.
1:00a Little House on the Prairie #47 – The Collection
Reverend Alden gets sick while collecting donations. Caleb Hodgekiss, an ex-convict, helps the Reverend by giving him a place to stay and volunteering to get the donations from Walnut Grove. Caleb poses as a friend of the Reverend so that he might get donations which he initially planned to keep for himself.
2:00a Little House on the Prairie #48 – Bunny
Nellie falls off of Bunny and pretends to be paralyzed. Mrs. Oleson blames Laura for this and wants to destroy Bunny.
3:00a Little House on the Prairie #51 – The Monster of Walnut Grove
Laura's imagination runs wild on Halloween when she thinks she sees Nels cut off Mrs Oleson's head. Laura tells Nellie and Willie what she saw. Since the Oleson kids know that their mother is really out of town, they decide to scare Laura a little bit more. Everything is straightened up when Mrs. Oleson comes back.
4:00a Highway to Heaven #26 – A Song for Jason (Part 1)
Jonathan and Mark become recruiters for a camp for young cancer patients.
5:00a Highway to Heaven #27 – A Song for Jason (Part 2)
At a camp for young cancer patients, Jonathan and Mark become involved with a boy who's yearning to see his rock-star dad, and a teenager smitten with a counselor not much older than himself.

Sunday, September 4
6:00a Bonanza #63 – The Secret
Mary Parson is murdered and her family says she was on her way to meet little Joe, but he knows nothing about it. Joes is arrested for her murder when a credible witness says he saw them together the day of the murder.
7:00a Bonanza #74 – The Friendship
The Cartwright's have prisoners working on the ranch putting down rail ties. Joe is saved by Danny Kidd, a young man who was orphaned very young and in the prison system most of his life. Joe offers to repay him and when kid says he wants his freedom, Joe manages to get it for him but now must help Danny cope with life on the outside.
8:00a Highway to Heaven #30 – The Devil & Jonathan Smith
Jonathan has a devil of a time getting Mark out of a contract delivering his soul to Satan in exchange for the recovery of a boy Mark accidentally struck with his car.
9:00a Highway to Heaven #33 – The Smile in the 3rd Row
While starring in a Broadway play about a man who talks to God, actor Fred Fusco claims to see God in the audience - seated next to a skeptical Jonathan.
10:00a Highway to Heaven #44 – Heaven on Earth
A rather unusual assignment sends Jonathan to comfort his own widow, who's lonely and longing to see their daughter and her family.
11:00a Highway to Heaven #60 – Jonathan Smith Goes to Washington
A senator trying to ramrod a bill through Congress refuses to restore funds needed for the production of drugs to treat rare diseases.
12:00p Bonanza #77 – Day of the Dragon
Joe accepts a bet during a poker game not realizing the ante is a Chinese slave girl named Su Ling, and that she was kidnapped by the card players. Joe brings her to the Ponderosa when she refuses to be set free and turns his problem over to Pa. No one is aware that Su Ling belongs to General Tsung who will do anything to get her back.
1:00p Bonanza #85 – The Storm
Terminally ill Laura White persuades her father to take her to the Ponderosa so she can see childhood friend, Little Joe. While there she and Joe fall in love and plan to get married. Unfortunately neither Joe or Laura are aware of her condition.
2:00p Bonanza #93 – The Gamble
The Cartwrights are framed for a bank robbery and murder. They are thrown in jail but Little Joe Manages to escape and it is up to him to get help before his family is hung unjustly.
3:00p Bonanza #99 – Mountain Girl
Joe finds an injured man and brings him back to his sheep camp where his granddaughter Trudy Harker is tending the flock with the help of her beau Paul. Trudy was raised by her grandfather after her mother's death, and now her grandfather aware he is dying makes Joe promise to take care of Trudy and see that she is introduced to her other grandfather, a wealthy San Francisco man. Joe agrees to do it but must first teach Trudy how to fit into San Francisco society.
4:00p Bonanza #107 – The War Comes to Washoe
Joe is courting Morvath Terry, daughter of Judge David Terry a Confederate who hopes to become Governor. He is delighted that his daughter is dating a Cartwright fullly realizing the impact the Cartwright influence could have on the statehood convention. Adam's dislike and suspicions about the judge cause friction between him and Joe, who can't see past his feelings for Morvath.
5:00p Bonanza #122 – The Actress
Joe's latest love is Julia Grant, who dreams of being an actress, and it's that dream that's keeping her from committing to Joe. Adam offers to get her an audition with visiting actor Edwin Booth, but his opinion is devastating.
6:00p Little House on the Prairie #64 – The Wisdom of Solomon
Solomon Henry, an eleven year old black boy, runs away from his family because he's tired of everybody treating him different. He goes to live with the Ingalls. The Ingalls learn many important things and Laura learns an important lesson : Don't take things for granted. The Ingalls convince Solomon to be proud of his heritage. Solomon goes back to his family in the end.
7:00p Little House on the Prairie #65 – The Music Box
Laura befriends a new girl, Anna, who stutters and has a hard time making friends. A jealous Nellie starts an elite club and although she invites Laura, she leaves Anna out. While at the Olesons, Laura steals one of Nellie's music boxes.
8:00p Little House on the Prairie #84 – I remember, I remember
Mr. Ingalls is severely delayed when a wheel breaks on his wagon in the pouring rain. This is the day of Charles and Caroline's wedding anniversary. Everything had been all prepared and set up for that day. When Charles doesn't show up in time, Caroline tells the children how hard it was to get Charles to notice her and how many heartbreaks she had before she finally knew that Charles loved her.
9:00p Little House on the Prairie #89 – I’ll be Waving as you Drive Away, Part 1
Mary falls in love with Seth. When Mary's eyesight starts to get worse, Charles takes her to a specialist. He is devastated when the specialist tells him that Mary will lose her sight. Charles is unable to tell Mary for a while that she is going blind. When Mary does go blind, the whole family suffers.
10:00p Little House on the Prairie #90 – I’ll be Waving as you Drive Away, Part 2
Charles and Caroline sign Mary up for the blind school in Iowa. At first, Mary is very reluctant to learn anything at the school. However, after being with her teacher, Adam Kendall, for a while, she turns her outlook on life around. Mary is such a great student that Adam asks her to help her teach at a blind school with him.
11:00p Little House on the Prairie #91 – As Long as We’re Together, Part 1
Poor economic conditions cause the Ingalls to move closer to Mary. Mary is now teaching at the blind school. The Ingalls move to be closer to Mary, where she helps teach the younger blind students. Laura catches an orphan, Albert, stealing from their hotel. Charles becomes friends with Albert and invites him to Mary's birthday party.
12:00a Little House on the Prairie #92 – As Long as We’re Together, Part 2
Charles even sells his fiddle to buy Mary a gift. At the party, Mary gives Pa his fiddle back. Laura gives Mary a card. Mary is so proud of Laura writing the letter in braille. Almost everyone is in tears, including Mrs. Oleson, when Mary announces that she has nothing to wish for, since she has everything that she could possibly want.
1:00a Little House on the Prairie #100 – Boys will be Boys
Jonathan and Charles allow their boys to prove their manhood by allowing them to take a trip to Sleepy Eye by themselves. Jonathan and Charles secretly follow the boys. The boys end up making the trip with no problems at all. However, the fathers get into some embarrassing situations following their boys.
2:00a Little House on the Prairie #115 – Back to School, Part 1
The school's new teacher is Ms. Wilder. Laura falls in love with Ms. Wilder's brother Almanzo. Laura is crushed when Nellie invites Almanzo over for dinner. Laura gets even with Nellie by volunteering to cook dinner for them. Laura adds some hot spices to the chicken and since Nellie had said that she had cooked the meal, Almanzo stays away from Nellie.
3:00a Little House on the Prairie #116 – Back to School, Part 2
When Laura and Nellie get in a fight about the graduation test, Almanzo separates them and takes Laura home with him. When Charles finds out that Almanzo took Laura home with him, Charles goes to Almanzo's place and punches Almanzo because he fears his daughter was being taken advantage of. Laura yells at the fighting pair and tells them that she is no longer a child.
4:00a Highway to Heaven #75 – Man’s Best Friend (Part 1)
A wealthy couple (Stan Ivar, Laurie Walters) unable to have more children hire a surrogate mother. First of two parts.
5:00a Highway to Heaven #76 – Man’s Best Friend (Part 1)
The orphan Alex is reunited with his lost dog only to face separation again when he's accepted by a foster family.

Monday, September 5
6:00a Bonanza #141 – Calamity Over The Comstock
Joe makes a promise to a dying man to look after his young charge Cal. Joe knows Cal is really a girl but he promises her he won't tell anyone if that's what she wants. He brings her home to the Ponderosa and soon finds out that the Cal stands for Calamity as in Calamity Jane. And soon Joe meets her dentist friend, none other than Doc Holliday. Jane wants to stay with Joe, but Doc wants her to leave with him and it seems to only solution is a showdown between Joe and Doc Holliday.
7:00a Bonanza #151- Alias Joe Cartwright
Joe is mistaken for Angus Borden, and army deserter and an exact double for Joe. He's arrested and taken to the Army fort to face charges. Joe's appeals to the Captain fall on deaf ears because the captain is involved wit Barden and he wants Joe Killed.
8:00a Highway to Heaven #78 – The People Next Door
A doctor living in an exclusive area must deal with a painful secret when a black family bids to move next door.
9:00a Highway to Heaven #79 – I Was A Teenage Werewolf
Jonathan occasionally turns into a werewolf to lend support to a youngster trick-or-treating on Halloween.
10:00a Highway to Heaven #100 – Hello & Farewell (Part 1)
At a marine corps post, a nurse still suffers from emotional wounds from Vietnam, and a 17-year-old learns he's adopted.
11:00a Highway to Heaven #101 – Hello & Farewell (Part 2)
Kim agrees to get help at a veterans' counseling group; and Jonathan reassures Maj. Hastings (H. Richard Greene) about his son.
12:00p Bonanza #169 – Invention of a Gunfighter
Joe is friends with Johnny Chapman. Johnny has never learned to use a gun and is humiliated by Al Mooney who challenges Johnny to a gun fight and Johnny must back down. Johnny asks Joe who taught him to shoot and Joe says his pa and brothers taught him. Johnny's father died so he asks Joe to teach him how to shoot. Johnny becomes quite good with a gun and soon turns into a bounty hunter. When Johnny kills a man in a gun fight Joe feels guilty about being the one that taught Johnny how to shot and by doing so started him on this way of life.
1:00p Bonanza #183 – The Flapjack Contest
Ben sends Joe into Virginia City to pick up the mail. Joe picks up the mail including a letter and a package form Adam, then gets into a poker game and wins $100 by drawing to an inside straight. Joe is bushwhacked on the way home and the package from Adam is stolen.
2:00p Bonanza #194 – The Trap
Joe's old girlfriend Hallie Shannon thinks Joe killed her husband so they could be together. Joe vehemently denies this. Unfortunately Shannon's husbands' twin brother also believes this and he comes to town, causes trouble for Joe. When Hallie is found dead things look worse.
3:00p Bonanza #203 – Credit For a Hill
Joe visits old friends Morgan Tanner and his wife. Morgan has a broken arm that is not healing well. Because of that things have been hard for Morgan and his wife. A horse thief tries to steal one of Morgan's horses and both Joe and Morgan shoot at him at the same time. The thief is killed and it turns out that there is a reward for his capture. Morgan does not understand when Joe takes the credit for the kill because he and his wife could use the reward money. Joe, however knows the horse thief's brothers are looking for the man that killed him and Joe knows Morgan wouldn't stand a chance against someone in a gun fight because of his arm.
4:00p Bonanza #222- False Witness
After delivering a herd of cattle to Mr. Haskel, Joe is in town to get the payment. While in Mr. Haskel's office, Joe and a woman named Valerie Townsend witnessed Haskel's murder by one of the Slater gang.
5:00p Bonanza #248 – The Running Man
Joe and Candy go to Buttleville to help Candy's friend. They discover that powerful Calvin Buttler is responsible for driving out new settlers using any means necessary. Joe and Candy help Jess Parker who witnessed Buttler burning a settlers house. Butler will try anything to keep Parker from testifying.
6:00p Little House on the Prairie #117 – The Family Tree
Each student must trace their family tree for a school assignment. Albert is unsure how he can do the assignment. The Ingalls decide to legally adopt Albert, but run into problems when Mr. Quinn, Albert's father shows up. He wants Albert until he sees him. Albert pretends to be blind with the hope that his father wouldn't want him. The blindness does the trick. Albert is legally adopted by the Ingalls.
7:00p Little House on the Prairie #135 – May We Make Them Proud, Part 1
Albert's careless disposal of smoking materials in the basement of the School for the Blind causes a fire that kills Alice and his nephew, Adam Jr. Albert, Mary and Jonathan all have trouble dealing with the events and the resulting grief.
8:00p Little House on the Prairie #136 – May We Make Them Proud, Part 2
Albert's careless disposal of smoking materials in the basement of the School for the Blind causes a fire that kills Alice and his nephew, Adam Jr. Albert, Mary and Jonathan all have trouble dealing with the events and the resulting grief.
9:00p Little House on the Prairie #150 – The In Laws
Almanzo and Mr. Ingalls expand their business by delivery goods to Sleepy Eye. Both of them believe they know the quickest way to get there. They even place a bet...Whoever got to Sleepy Eye first before 1 o'clock had to cook the other family dinner. Both of them experience problems almost right from the start. Both of them end up making it there after the designated time. The husbands are forced to cook their wives dinner, but that doesn't go so well either.
10:00p Little House on the Prairie #162 – The Lost Ones, Part 1
Charles and Albert travel with the Cooper family while on a delivery. A serious accident occurs while the Coopers are going down a steep hill. The Cooper parents are killed. Charles tries to find Cassandra and James a new home. When he can't find anyone to take them both in, he feels he has to send them to an orphanage. After thinking about this idea some more, Charles decides to take care of the kids himself for a short period.
11:00p Little House on the Prairie #163 – The Lost Ones, Part 2
Reverend Alden eventually finds someone to take in the kids. However, this family just wants them to work. When Cassandra and James run away, their adoptive father doesn't even go to look for them. When Charles finds the kids, he tells them that he will adopt them if they could stand the house being more crowded. They happily agree to stay with the Ingalls.
12:00a Little House on the Prairie #174 – A Christmas They’ll Never Forget
Mary, Adam, Hester Sue, the Wilders, and the Ingalls are all together for Christmas. The snow begins falling and soon they are snowed in by a blizzard. To pass time, several of them tell stories. Laura talks about the Christmas in Kansas when Mr. Edwards came.
1:00a Little House on the Prairie #177 – The Legacy
Charles beings making tables so that he could pass on a legacy. While he is at this, Albert begins taking care of the farm. Charles gets very upset when someone steals his design and starts producing the tables in large quantities. Charles soon realizes that memories of his family is a lot more important.
2:00a Little House on the Prairie #186- Times Are Changing, Part 1
The Ingalls are forced to sell their house to the Carters and leave Walnut Grove to find a more promising life. Mrs. Carter begins printing a newspaper for Walnut Grove. Etta Plum becomes the teacher in Walnut Grove when Laura decides she wants to spend more time with Rose. Almanzo's brother, Royal, comes to Walnut Grove with his daughter, Jenny.
3:00a Little House on the Prairie #187- Times Are Changing, Part 2
Royal has a very bad heart and asks Laura and Almanzo to take care of his daughter since he was going to die soon. Jenny is devastated by her father's death. After talking to Reverend Alden about heaven, she tries to commit suicide by drowning so that she could be with her father again. Jeb Carter is able to save Jenny although he can't swim. Laura convinces Jenny that she should do what would make her parents proud.
4:00a Highway to Heaven #108 – Summer Camp
After an actress is scarred in a fire, she searches for the woman behind her image at a place where no one knows the difference - a summer camp for blind children.
5:00a Highway to Heaven #110 – It’s A Dog Life
Apparently the Boss has turned Jonathan into a pooch, given Mark "the stuff," and handed them a runaway kid (Garette Ratcliff) with a ditzy mother and a father who's heaven knows where.