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Chicago critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert rate new movies with a thumbs up, or a thumbs down.

Phil Donahue's show started off similar to other shows of its day, featuring celebrities and musical acts, but he soon started pushing the envelope by discussing health and social topics previously considered taboo.

This half hour children's show was about a young girl named Susan and her pet terrier Rusty. Each show they would travel to a magical place called "Wonderville". By saying out loud; "I wish there were a place to play, I wish I could fly away!" Susan and Rusty, while sitting in a (magical) chair, were whisked into the air and land in Wonderville. There Susan would meet imaginative creatures such as Mr. Pegesus, a walking talking sometimes flying table (voiced by John Coughlin), a talking stove, Caesar P. Penguin, or the Foolish Forest Orchestra. Song and stories were a regular feature. Later episodes featured the "Cartoon-a-Machine", that would show either a Popeye (Fleischer) or Terrytoon cartoon during the program. New adventures always awaited Susan. Weather visiting a circus, a trip to a castle, or a walk through the woods, she would always return home the same way her journey began. She would say; "Take me home flying friend, take me home!". Then Susan and Rusty would float back to her home, in the chair, right back to where they started, in her kitchen.

Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon debate domestic issues.

A dance-drama performed by the Ruth Page ballet company tells the story of an aged medieval alchemist who calls upon Satan for forbidden knowledge and his returned youth. Arranged from the Faust scores of composers- Berlioz, Boito, Gounod.

This week, Siskel and Ebert took time out to reveal their individual lists for the best films of 1991.

In addition to reviewing four new films, Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert discuss five John Cassavetes films that were re-released in theaters.

Bizet's "Carmen" adapted for the ballet.