As usual, Sunday's Hallmark Hall of Fame production - One Against the Wind (8 p.m., Ch. 5) - is a superior television production.
It's not one of Hallmark's best, but it's far above the usual made-for-TV movie fare.Judy Davis turns in an extraordinary performance as Mary Lindell, a real-life Englishwoman who operated an escape route for downed British fliers through Nazi-occupied France during World War II.
Mary becomes involved simply because of her refusal to bow to the oppression of the Nazis, and the movie recounts various dangers - including imprisonment and death sentences - she survived.
Sam Neill also stars as the first flier Mary helps escape, and the always able Denholm Elliott appears as a priest also involved in the escape routes.
Overall, "One Against the Wind" is sometimes a bit choppy, but it's well worth a look.Medusa: Dare To Be Truthful (Sunday, 8 p.m., Showtime) is at times quite funny, but I don't know that I can really recommend it.
In a largely successful effort to poke fun at Madonna and her "Truth Or Dare" movie, Julie Brown is often just as tasteless and vulgar as Madonna herself. This 45-minute parody would be R-rated if it were a movie, for language and sexual content.
If you're at all easily offended (which you probably aren't if you subscribe to Showtime), for goodness sake don't tune in.
However, I can't resist sharing with you Julie Brown's lyrics for "Vague," a parody of Madonna's "Vogue":
C'mon get vague. Let your body move without thinking.
C'mon get vague. Let your IQ drop while you bop.
Vanna White, Ed McMahon. Nicollette Sheri-dan.
Mary Hart, Chuck Woolery are as vague as they can be.
Christy Brinkly, Brosnan, Pierce. Bland and boring something fierce.
Wilson Phillips love to sing and wreck the cover of a magazine.
Daniel Quayle's brain is gone. Debbie Gibson gives good yawn.
Kelly LeBrock thinks she's great. She's just cold boogers on a paper plate.
Why they're famous we don't know, but Paula Abdul's gotta go.
Ladies with no point of view. Fellas who don't have a clue.
If they're stars, then you can do it. Just be vague there's nothing to it.WIN A TRIP: KUED reruns the wonderful Anne of Green Gables (Sunday and Monday, 7 p.m., Ch. 7), but this is more than just a VCR alert.
Ch. 7 will be giving away a trip to Prince Edward Island, the site of "Green Gables." You don't have to pledge money to KUED to enter the contest but you do have to tune in to find out more details.ELSEWHERE ON THE TUBE SATURDAY: The Christmas classic Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer (5 p.m., Ch. 5) returns - and note that time carefully; cable subscribers, there's a 10-hour Outer Limits Marathon (6 p.m., TNT) that features nine uncut episodes of the classic sci-fi series; KSL airs the conclusion of Gone With the Wind (7 p.m., Ch. 5) and then the entire movie beginning at 11:05 p.m. and running for five hours; Jimmy Stewart and his friend the invisible rabbit star in 1950's Harvey (7 p.m., Ch. 30); KSTU has NBA action with Jazz at Suns (7:30 p.m., Ch. 13); and Dame Edna's Hollywood (9 p.m., Ch. 2) is a hoot - the Australian megastar's guests include Cher, Jack Palance and almost Mel Gibson.
- ELSEWHERE ON THE TUBE SUNDAY: Becca helps Jesse search for the girl who infected him with AIDS on Life Goes On (6 p.m., Ch. 4); Cher and Bob Hoskins are very funny in Mermaids (6 p.m., Showtime), which makes its pay-cable debut; the performances are pretty good but the plot is pretty far-fetched in Fatal Friendship (8 p.m., Ch. 2) - Kevin Dobson ("Knots Landing") discovers his best buddy, Gerald McRaney ("Major Dad"), is a hitman; ABC repeats the charming 1988 movie Big (8 p.m., Ch. 4); and the First Presidency of the LDS Church presents its annual Christmas Fireside (8 p.m., Ch. 11).