QUESTION: Any idea when "Friday Night Lights" might run again?ANSWER: Under the show's deal with DirecTV, the satellite-TV service will begin airing the fourth season on Oct. 28. NBC will then show it in 2010, probably in the summer. Executive producer Peter Berg, who directed the "Friday Night Lights" movie and the series premiere, will direct the fourth-season opener. And Coach Taylor will now be working at East Dillon High School, in competition with Dillon High, where his wife, Tami, is still the principal. I can't wait.

QUESTION: 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, he never had his own show. Who is right?ANSWER: Don Rickles starred in "C.P.O. Sharkey" on NBC from 1976 to 1978. Rickles was taping an episode of "Sharkey" when Johnny Carson left the "Tonight" set to confront Rickles over the breaking of Carson's cigarette box. Rickles also starred in the sitcoms "Daddy Dearest" (1993) and "The Don Rickles Show" (1972).

QUESTION: 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. Does it ring a bell?ANSWER: It appears to be "Ticket to Tomahawk," a 1950 Western comedy with Dan Dailey, which involves some elaborate attempts to move a train. According to the Turner Classic Movies site, 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."Send questions or comments about movies, TV and other popular culture to rheldenfelsthebeaconjournal.com or the Akron Beacon Journal, 44 E. Exchange St., Akron, Ohio 44309. Please mark the note for Mailbag. Letters may be edited. Individual replies cannot be guaranteed.