Q: Any idea when the show Friday Night Lights might run again?

A: Under the show's deal with DirecTV, the satellite-TV service will begin airing the fourth season on Oct. 28. NBC will show it in 2010, probably in the summer. Executive producer Peter Berg will direct the fourth-season opener, which will find Coach Taylor working at East Dillon High School, in competition with Dillon High, where his wife, Tami, is still the principal.

Q: I am a fan of a truTV (old Court TV) program package called In Session. The other day I heard host Jami Floyd say that in November, they would be going off the air. Is this true?

A: ``Beginning in mid-November, we will be making some changes with In Session, but trial coverage will remain the staple of our programming,'' a truTV rep says. The name and time slot will remain the same, but production of court coverage will move from New York to CNN's HLN studios in Atlanta. ``With this change, you will see new on-air hosts . . . More details are being worked out right now.''

Q: I have a bet with the hubby about a TV show from way back that starred Don Rickles. I say it was C.P.O. Sharkey. He says no way, Rickles never had his own show.

A: Don Rickles starred in C.P.O. Sharkey on NBC from 1976 to 1978. Rickles also starred in the sitcoms Daddy Dearest (1993) and The Don Rickles Show (1972).

Q: The Western that left the strongest impression on me as a child in the early 1950s was one that involved having to get a train locomotive across a gorge where the bridge had been destroyed, and the protagonists solved it by taking the locomotive apart and hauling the pieces across. The movie confirmed my interest in mechanical stuff and I became a rocket scientist at NASA. I'd like to show it to my grandkids.A: It appears to be Ticket to Tomahawk, a 1950 Western comedy with Dan Dailey. According to the Turner Classic Movies website, there is a section where ``as the bridge is out, [one character] intends to take the 33-ton locomotive over a mountain by dismantling it and carrying it in sections.''

Q: Are any of the Andrews Sisters still living? I know that two are gone.

A: In a 30-year career, the singing trio -- Patty, Maxene and LaVerne -- recorded more than 700 songs and sold 90 million records of songs like Bei Mir Bist du Schoen and Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy. LaVerne died in 1968 and Maxene in 1995. Patty, youngest of the three, is still alive at this writing. She is 91. According to the Andrews Sisters MySpace page, she ``does not do much entertaining today, but has performed on ships for several different cruise lines.''

Q: In the movie To Have and Have Not, Humphrey Bogart's character is called Harry Morgan, but Lauren Bacall calls him Steve through the whole movie. Why the name change?

A: It's a private little bit between the two of them. Bogart plays Harry Morgan, and Bacall is Marie Browning. Harry begins calling Marie ``Slim,'' which she does not like. (``I'm a little too skinny to take it kindly,'' she says.) In return, she begins to call him Steve, and stays with it. According to The Motion Picture Guide, ``Steve'' and ``Slim'' were the pet names that To Have and Have Not director Howard Hawks and his wife had for each other.

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