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Valentine's Day: A Brief History of Love and Lust on – when else? – Tuesday, Feb. 14 at 6 p.m. ET.
 

Love endures
VisionTV gets into the romantic spirit of Valentine's Day with a double feature
celebrating love's power to outlast death itself.


Chances Are (1989)

Feature Film: Chances Are (1989)
Thursday, Feb. 14, 9 pm ET/6 pm PT
Cybill Shepherd (The L Word) stars as a Washington D.C. widow whose departed husband returns to he more than 20 years later, reincarnated in the body of her daughter's new boyfriend, played by Robert Downey Jr. Needless to say, complications ensue. This effervescent post-modern romance also stars Ryan O'Neal (Bones) and Mary Stuart Masterson (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit). Features the Oscar-nominated song "After All."
   
A Brief History of Love and Lust Documentary: A Brief History of Love and Lust
Thursday, Feb. 14, 11 pm ET/8 pm PT
Traces the history of our Valentine's Day traditions, and explains how the ideal of romantic love has evolved through the centuries, from the time of the ancient Greeks to the age of Sex and the City.


 
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir Feature Film: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
Thursday, Feb. 14, Midnight ET/9 pm PT
A radiant Gene Tierney (Laura) stars as Lucy Muir, a widow who moves into a seaside cottage only to discover it haunted by the ghost of a salty sea captain, played by Rex Harrison. Both of them lonely souls, the ghost and Mrs. Muir grow close, and he becomes jealous when she falls for a flesh and blood cad (George Sanders). Joseph L. Mankiewicz (All About Eve) directed this charming supernatural romance with a light touch. With Enda Best and a young Natalie Wood. The great Bernard Hermmann wrote the haunting score.

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