April 9 1999
A&E Profiles Milosevic; Among Other Watchables: Sabrina and Odd Couple II
Bonnie Malleck, Kitchener-Waterloo Record
History Bites (10:30 p.m. on 28, Cable 2; also Tuesdays at 9 p.m.) Comedy writer-actor Rick Green, (Red Green Show, Prisoners of Gravity) wrote, produced and directed this 1998 sketch-comedy series. Each episode in the 13-part show satirizes a particular date in history, presented as if there were TV coverage at the time.
It's all really silly and only sporadically successful in a format that flies through the gags too quickly and features an enthusiastic cast who sometimes don't have a good grip on their comedy task.
Tonight's opener, set in 1000 AD, takes us live to Newfoundland where Viking Leif Erickson lands on North American soil. "A small step for a Viking, a giant leap for one of those puny Englishmen," he announces.
Elsewhere, Martha Stewart teaches viewers how to make a window in the sod walls of one's long house. Don Cherry offers commentary on the sport of oar-hopping and horse-fighting. There's a list of popular TV shows of the day -- Beowulfed; Dr. Quinn, Wood Woman; Bjorni's Angels; This Sod House; and Wrestling, Beating, Stabbing, Killing.
And there's an item from the good news file where viewers are told that the doomsday armageddon alert -- "the world will end at the turn of the millennium" -- was obviously a hoax.