No place like a renovated home.
Carol Tuttle and Lynn Bartelt love their two-story Victorian.
When they bought the 1888 house in Denver’s San Rafael neighborhood just east of downtown two years ago, it needed a lot of love.
Through the years, it had been broken into rental units, had much of its original interior stripped away, and there was a beauty parlor in the basement.
The beautifully restored home is featured on “Generation Renovation” (8:30 p.m. Sunday, HGTV), the show about old-house lovers who can’t leave well enough alone.
Tuttle praises architect Norman Cable and builder Mark Booren, who restored the house.
“It’s faithful to the Victorian original,” said Tuttle. “We did the things we did because the house deserved it, and it was what it wanted. It’s not right to cut corners.”
Weekend highlights
Today
You want reality TV? “I Shouldn’t Be Alive” is as real as it gets. This week’s intense true-life episode features a group of young people who, with little sailing experience, set out from Maine on a yacht, headed for Florida. A storm intervenes (7 p.m., Discovery Channel).
Strange things are happening in the Wilkerson madhouse, as Malcolm (Frankie Muniz) discovers in the Halloween episode of “Malcolm in the Middle” (7:30 p.m., KDVR-Channel 31).
Saturday
Given the recent local news headlines about women forced into prostitution, “Human Trafficking” is a timely movie about an international problem. Mira Sorvino and Donald Sutherland star (5 p.m., Lifetime).
Cycling icon Lance Armstrong hosts “Saturday Night Live,” joined, not surprisingly, by musical guest Sheryl Crow (10:35 p.m., KUSA-Channel 9).
Sunday
A week-long tribute to filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock wraps up with back-to-back showings of “North by Northwest,” “Rear Window,” “The Birds” and some of the master’s early films (4 p.m., TCM).
It’s no masterpiece but a made-for-“Masterpiece Theater” version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novel “Kidnapped” is enjoyable for kids and adults. In Part I, Davie Balfour (James Anthony Pearson) gets sold into slavery (9 p.m., KRMA-Channel 6).
Around the dial
TBS will air a digitally restored version of “The Wizard of Oz” Nov. 11-13. The classic film starring Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley and Bert Lahr was made in 1939 and first shown on TV in 1956 … Kim Christiansen, Denise Plante and Reggie Rivers featured at the Jefferson Foundation’s 20th Crystal Ball Gala at the Grand Hyatt downtown on Saturday … Quotable: “I put hardwood floors on top of wall-to-wall carpet.” – Steven Wright.
Dick Kreck’s column appears Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. He may be reached at 303-820-1456 or dkreck@denverpost.com.
