TUESDAY

JULY 24

2012

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

PBS, 8:00 p.m. ET

Last week, this series stirred up controversy by presenting a segment about a guitar that may or may not have been owned by Bob Dylan, and played the night he “went electric.” This week, the show investigates another controversial find – but this time the controversy is over history, not provenance. It’s a 78 r.p.m. record (kids, ask your grandparents to explain both “78 r.p.m.” and “record”) from the KKK label – and yes, that label stands for records pressed and distributed by the Ku Klux Klan. Check local listings.

PYGMALION

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

What would My Fair Lady be like without music? Well, that’s the way it started – with George Bernard Shaw’s comic play, which was adapted into a film in this 1938 version. Leslie Howard stars, with Wendy Hiller as his cockney pupil.

THE GODFATHER LEGACY

History, 9:00 p.m. ET

Here’s a two-hour special devoted to the impact of the Godfather films on popular culture – a great idea for a TV special. But one of our TVWW writers, Noel Holston, has an even better idea, for a book: one that examines all the movies, TV shows, songs, poems, artwork and other things inspired by and alluding to The Wizard of Oz. Interested book editors, please contact us, and we’ll get the word to him. It’s an offer you can’t refuse … which takes us full circle.

NY MED

ABC, 10:00 p.m. ET

Terence Wrong’s latest medical documentary series spends part of tonight’s show focusing on a familiar TV face: Dr. Oz., who already appeared in this series’ initial episode. But in this light, in his regular medical habitat, he comes off like a doctor, not a TV guy – though, when he leads the camera into the staff lounge to check out what they’re eating, it’s an ambush segment worthy of Mike Wallace – if Wallace wore scrubs.

FRONTLINE: "ALASKA GOLD"

PBS, 10:00 p.m. ET

The first five minutes of this new documentary extol the virtues, the beauty, the rarity, and the environmental and ecosystem value of the salmon spawning in Bristol Bay, in the southwest corner of Alaska. The remaining 55 minutes reveal the dangers posed by an international consortium that has purchased mineral rights to 330 miles of state land, and plans to extract silver, gold and other minerals in a mining operation that could threaten, if not destroy, the natural system in the region. Check local listings.

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David Bianculli

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David Bianculli has been a TV critic since 1975, including a 14-year stint at the New York Daily News, and sees no reason to stop now. Currently, he's TV critic for NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and is an occasional substitute host for that show. He's also an author and teaches TV and film history at New Jersey's Rowan University. His 2009 Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour', has been purchased for film rights. His latest, The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to the Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific, is an effusive guidebook that plots the path from the 1950s’ Golden Age to today’s era of quality TV.

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