TV Episode Summaries for
17th December 1998

Whose Line Is It Anyway? Season 1, Episode 9

Greg Proops

Airs: 1:00am - 1:30am on The CW

Games played include: Superheroes, Song Styles, Weird Newscasters, Greatest Hits, Party Quirks, and Questions Only.

Winner: Greg Proops.

Star Trek: Voyager Season 5, Episode 10

Counterpoint

Airs: 1:00am - 2:00am on UPN

While travelling through Devore space, Captain Janeway must hide all telepaths on board in transporter stasis as telepathy is illegal under Devore law. After Voyager is repeatedly searched, the leader of the investigations requests asylum and wishes to defect.

Charmed Season 1, Episode 9

The Witch Is Back

Airs: 1:00am - 2:00am on The WB

Prue accidentally releases a cursed warlock from his magical prison, after he was locked inside for nearly three centuries. The sisters must now resurrect the Halliwell ancestor that trapped him in the first place, in the hopes that she can recapture him for good.

Dawsons Creek Season 2, Episode 9

The Election

Airs: 1:00am - 2:00am on WB

Andie and Joey are the victim in a smear campaign by Abby when they run for class officers opposite her. Dawson catches his parents having sex on the kitchen table but is stunned to learn they are still going through with the divorce. Jen encourages Dawson to take more risks. Jack notices that Andie's mood swings are become more frequent.

Due South Season 4, Episode 8

Good For The Soul

Airs: 1:00am - 2:00am on CTV

Ray arrests a mob boss for minor assault, and Fraser is determined to make it stick.

Dharma & Greg Season 2, Episode 12

Are You Ready for Some Football?

Airs: 1:00am - 1:30am on ABC

When Greg convinces Dharma to accompany him and Pete to a football game, despite her lifelong aversion to competitive sports, he is unprepared for her sudden and total conversion into a fanatical San Francisco 49ers fan - and the term "fanatical" is not used lightly. When Dharma sneaks out to a game in the middle of dinner with her parents, Greg decides she needs help, and arranges an intervention involving quarterback Steve Young.

Beverly Hills, 90210 Season 9, Episode 10

Marathon Man

Airs: 1:00am - 2:00am on FOX

Dylan whisks Kelly away to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico for the day. He buys her a hollow statue so that he can smuggle drugs back into the U.S. Kelly rejects Dylan and decides to focus on her relationship with Matt. Dylan promptly takes Gina to Mexico, and again smuggles heroin in a statue. When the statue ends up locked inside the boutique after hours, Dylan seduces Gina to get it back. Sonia and her boyfriend spend the night at Donna's store. One of Sonia's friends pulls a knife on her and warns her to stay away from her man. The store is robbed, and everyone believes that Sonia committed the crime to acquire enough money to escape the gang. She later reveals that she endured a beating to keep her friends from robbing the store, and a security guard actually committed the crime. Sonia thanks Donna for helping her get out of the gang. Steve mistakenly pledges $1000 per hour for an AIDS dance-a-thon at the club; he wanted to donate a total of one thousand dollars. He tries to keep his costs

South Park Season 2, Episode 17

Gnomes

Airs: 3:00am - 3:30am on Comedy Central

To keep the school board from firing him for incompetence, Mr. Garrison assigns group oral reports to his class. The boys are put in a group with Tweek, the jittery son of a coffee shop owner. Tweek suggests doing the report on the underpants gnomes that steal his underwear. Meanwhile Mr. Tweek is offered $500,000 by Mr. Postum, who wants to turn his store into a "Harbucks" franchise. Mr. Tweek rejects the offer, and that night suggests that the boys do their report on how large corporations try to push out small business. Mr. Tweek writes the report himself and gives it to the boys. The board likes the report and uses the boys to put up a proposition to keep Harbucks out of South Park. Meanwhile the boys seek help from the underpants gnomes to teach them about big corporations.

The Daily Show Season 3, Episode 40

Jon Stewart

Airs: 4:00am - 4:30am on Comedy Central

Tonight on the show, comedian Jon Stewart.
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