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Reality TV: Tex Gordon is one four people struggling with mental illness in West 47th Street. (Photo credit: Lichtenstein Creative Media)
West 47th Street (August 19; 10 to 11:30 p.m.; Channel 13) documents the three years that Bill Lichtenstein and June Peoples spent videotaping in Fountain House, a rehabilitation center in Manhattan for the mentally ill and homeless, with the focus on four regulars whose problems range from drug addiction to schizophrenia.