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Button up - July 29, 2010
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July 29, 2010
 By Sally Scott
Pick of the day
I Escaped Death
Discovery
10pm
****
I Shouldn't Be Alive, Worse Case Scenario, Escape - going by the many programmes which focus on near-death experiences, there is a huge interest in the subject. Not surprising really, death being the so-called "ultimate journey", the one no one wants to take.
I Escaped Death explores several true stories about people who have been trapped or held captive, and how they managed to break free.
Among the harrowing cases is the story of a woman who was tortured and locked in a cellar for months.
To think that people like sadist David Parker Ray even exist is scary enough - his torture chamber was "outfitted with a cattle prod and system of pulleys, weights and chains which bring his victims close to death".
Many women fell victim to Ray and his girlfriend, Cindy Lea Hendy.
Other stories include the young boy who escaped his "bone-breaking captor". The mind boggles.
The "experiences" are told through the eyes of the survivor of the nightmare. The series also features dramatised reconstructions and expert commentary from FBI agents and medical doctors.
Documentary
Infamous Assassinations
BBC Knowledge
11.25pm and 11.50pm
****
Using archive footage and reconstructions, this series investigates the mysteries behind these deaths.
John F Kennedy, Mahatma Gandhi, John Lennon, they all crop up.
Why did Stalin give the order to murder Leon Trotsky after he had fled Russia? What's the true story behind the assassination of Che Guevara? Why was Michael Collins gunned down by his own side? Was Martin Luther King's death preventable, and was the right man imprisoned for his murder?
Film
Peggy Sue Got Married
TCM
9pm
***
We have a family joke: if you switch on TCM any time over a 24-hour period you will catch Ben Hur, Gone With the Wind, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The Wizard of Oz or some film or doccie with Elvis shakin' all over.
Just in case you feel the need for the multiple screening of Seven Brides, I see it's on three times this week...
Nicolas Cage and Kathleen Turner made this back to the past drama/comedy back in 1986 when Turner was still gorgeous.
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