‘Gunsmoke’ at 70 and Extra TV Anniversaries, Devilish True Crime, Household Drama on the ‘Crossroad,’ Homicide Most Intriguing on PBS

Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge

SATURDAY: Marshal Matt Dillon (James Arness), Miss Kitty (Amanda Blake) and their Dodge Metropolis neighbors epitomized the TV Western for 20 years (1955-1975), encompassing the peak and the waning days of what was as soon as TV’s hottest style. To mark the event of Gunsmoke‘s 70^th anniversary, nostalgia community MeTV makes use of the Labor Day weekend to jumpstart a monthlong tribute by way of September, beginning with the 1987 reunion film Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge (at 11 am/10c), adopted by a 1973 episode from the present’s next-to-last season wherein an amnesiac Dillon falls for a widow (performed by The Waltons‘ Michael Realized). On weekdays beginning Monday for 4 weeks, the channel presents theme weeks with back-to-back episodes at 1 pm/12c, starting with “per week of firsts.” On successive Saturdays at 11 am/10c, the channel airs the Gunsmoke TV motion pictures that adopted the present’s cancellation, with a bonus fan-favorite episode.

Vacation weekends are ripe for TV remembrances, and this Labor Day is not any exception. MeTV Toons celebrates the 65^th birthday of an animated perennial with The Flintstones: 65 Years & Nonetheless Rock’n! (Sunday, beginning at 6 am/5c), an all-day marathon of the prehistoric basic that features the full-length options The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones (10 am/9c) and The Man Referred to as Flintstone (8/7c). For these with extra up to date tastes, Dabl Community salutes the 25^th anniversary of the sitcom Girlfriends (2000-2008), starring Tracee Ellis Ross, Golden Brooks, Jill Marie Jones and Persia White, with a 24-hour marathon beginning Sunday at 6 am/5c and persevering with till 6 am/5c on Monday.

Let The Satan In

SUNDAY: Did the satan make him do it? That’s what many thought in 1988 when 14-year-old Tommy Sullivan Jr. murdered his mom Betty Anne of their New Jersey house, then set a hearth to cowl the proof and took his personal life in a neighbor’s yard. Whereas investigating the tragedy, authorities found a suicide word together with books on the occult, stoking pervasive fears characterised as “Satanic panic.” A four-part docuseries explores the disturbing crime and its lingering aftermath.

Crossroad Springs

SATURDAY: The honest household drama, which streams earlier on Pure Flix, makes its linear community debut, introducing the ranching Hamilton household, led by patriarch Willis (Shaun Johnston), whose fall from a horse prompts his offspring to return to city. Daughter Janet (Emily Alatalo) is an ER physician from a neighboring county hospital, and son James (Jonathan Stoddard) is a Chicago pastor who uproots his profession, although not his religion, to assist out on the uncared for ranch. He’ll face romantic temptation when reunited together with his high-school sweetheart Maggie (Brittany Underwood), who runs the native café. Residence, in any case, is the place the guts is.

Unforgotten

SUNDAY: Having recognized the bones present in a marsh as belonging to the long-missing Gerry Cooper, cold-case detectives Sunny Khan (Sanjeev Bhaskar) and Jess James (Sinéad Keenan) inform his shaken professor widow Judith (Victoria Hamilton), who by no means believed Gerry dedicated suicide. Because the police examine Gerry’s cloudy previous within the engrossing Masterpiece thriller, involving deep money owed incurred through the pandemic and ties with felony mortgage sharks, we’re left questioning how different characters, together with autistic Marty (Maximillian Fairley) and Pakistani immigrant Asif (Elham Ehsas), are related. In each of their subplots, we hear the sentiment “Life’s not truthful,” so we will’t assist however suspect there are extra darkish clouds on the horizon.

Additionally from Masterpiece: the conclusion of the primary two-part thriller within the second season of The Marlow Homicide Membership (Sunday, 9/8c). Judith (Samantha Bond) follows codes present in a neighborhood paper’s crossword puzzle to an epiphany that helps clarify how Sir Peter was killed by a falling bookcase in a locked room.

Summer time Underneath the Stars

SATURDAY & SUNDAY: Summer time is sort of over, and so is TCM’s monthlong collection devoting every day of August to a unique film star with a 24-hour marathon. The actors featured within the final two days of the month are amongst Hollywood’s greatest: Kirk Douglas on Saturday and Irene Dunne on Sunday. Prime-time highlights embody, for Douglas, two from 1951: the gritty Detective Story (Saturday, 8/7c) and William Wyler’s bitter Ace within the Gap (10/9c); and for Dunne, the comparatively lighter fare of 1940’s screwball comedy My Favourite Spouse (Sunday, 8/7c) and 1948’s heartwarming memoir I Bear in mind Mama (9:45/8:45c).

INSIDE WEEKEND TV:

• Catch of the Day (Saturday, 8/7c, Hallmark Channel): Meals Community persona Katie Lee Biegel is co-writer, producer and co-star of a culinary romance about NY govt chef Sophie (Emilie Ullerup), who returns house to revive the fortunes of her household’s restaurant and rekindle the flame with an previous crush (Michael Rady).
• Trafficked With Mariana Van Zeller (Saturday, 10/9c, Nationwide Geographic): The investigative journalist exposes scammers who goal addicts with fraudulent rehab houses whereas bilking well being packages for billions in bogus therapies.
• CBS Information Sunday Morning (Sunday, 9 am/8c, CBS, verify native listings): Ever surprise the place they discover these splendidly illustrated suns that seem all through TV’s most pleasurable weekly information present? Meet “solar queen” Jessica Frank, who’s retiring after greater than 20 years of curating these luminous photographs.
• Unimaginable Canine Problem (Sunday, 4 pm/3c, NBC): Canines with particular abilities compete in agility programs for giant, medium and small canines, with head-to-head weave pole racing, high-flying disc stunts and the ever-popular diving canine competitors.