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DALLAS Last season, the revival of _Dallas_ struck oil. This season, the show and fans were dealt a blow when actor Larry Hagman, aka conniving oilman J.R. Ewing, lost his battle with


cancer. But Hagman worked until the end, and this week’s season premiere kicks off six episodes in which viewers will get their last chance to see him play the iconic character. _Monday,


Jan. 28, at 9 p.m., TNT_ AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: HENRY FORD SUBSCRIBE TO THE WEEK Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives. SUBSCRIBE


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morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. No man shaped the industrial age quite the way Henry Ford did. His Model T


made the automobile affordable and widespread, he pioneered assembly-line practices, and he paid his workers a luxurious $5 a day. But as this documentary reveals, he was deeply ambivalent


about the world he helped usher in, eventually lashing out at his employees as he pined for a return to some mythic past. _Tuesday, Jan. 29, at 9 p.m., PBS; check local listings_ 30 ROCK


SERIES FINALE After seven seasons, Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, and company close the door on the Emmy-winning comedy series, inspired by Fey’s experiences working as the head writer at _Saturday


Night Live_. Details about the hourlong final episode are shrouded in secrecy, but clues have emerged: The show will feature cameos by Julianne Moore and Salma Hayek, who’ll both be


reprising earlier roles. Ice-T and Nancy Pelosi will also appear. _Thursday, Jan. 31, at 8 p.m. NBC_ SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA: MISSION OF HOPE A free daily email with the biggest news stories


of the day – and the best features from TheWeek.com Ten years after the explosion of the space shuttle _Columbia_ killed all seven passengers, this Tom Hanks–produced documentary focuses on


the personal mission of one _Columbia_ astronaut. Ilan Ramon, a son of Holocaust survivors and Israel’s first man in space, considered it his duty to honor Jewish history during the flight.


He carried with him a small Torah scroll that a mission colleague had once carried secretly while enduring the horrors of Bergen-Belsen. _Thursday, Jan. 31, at 9 p.m., PBS; check local


listings_ BETTY & CORETTA Mary J. Blige and Angela Bassett play Betty Shabazz and Coretta Scott King, widows of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., in a fictionalized interpretation of


the friendship that the two women struck up as they took up their own civil rights battles in the years after their husbands were assassinated. _Saturday, Feb. 2, at 8 p.m., Lifetime_ OTHER


HIGHLIGHTS DANGEROUS PERSUASIONS In the third episode of this new documentary series about psychological manipulation, a woman recounts the horrors she endured when she gave over her life


to a self-proclaimed Mormon prophet. _Wednesday, Jan. 30, at 10 p.m., Investigation Discovery_ DO NO HARM Steven Pasquale (_Rescue Me_) plays a doctor who can’t suppress the sociopathic


alter ego who takes control of him nightly in this _Jekyll and Hyde_ tale inspired by a British TV series. _Thursday, Jan. 31, at 10 p.m., NBC_ SUPER BOWL XLVII Beyoncé will supply the


halftime entertainment as the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers square off in this year’s NFL title game. _Sunday, Feb. 3, kickoff at 6:30 p.m., CBS_