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The Palm Beach Post from West Palm Beach, Florida • Page 29

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i rr r'i 1 J'iu iT riiTir i 4, i 1 The Post, Thursday September 24 1981 B9 ABC Tops in Nielsen Ratings Cool Cop Loretta Swit, a fixture on the set of TV's MASH as Margaret (Hot Lips) Houlihan, vows this will be her last on the show and is looking forward to other projects such as CBS' TV movie Cagney and Lacey. In the movie, scheduled to air Oct. 8, Swit plays a policeOfficer fighting male chauvinism as well as crime. Thl Associated Prs race, with an average rating of 15.5 to 16.9 for the frontrunner and 14 for NBC. With the start of the 1981-82 season still at least two weeks off, most of the shows broadcast in the latest seven-day period surveyed were reruns.

Only four shows in the week's Top 20 were new and two of them were professional football games on ABC. A new made-for-TV movie double feature on ABC, Code Red and Our Family Business, tied for 10th place with a repeat of CBS' M'A'S'H. NBC had four of the week's five lowest-, rated shows, starting with NBC Magazine in 55th place, Games People Play 57th, Anson 'n' Lome 58th and Marie 59th. CBS's The Future: What's Next? was No. 56.

Here are the week's 11 highest-rated shows: 60 Minutes, with a rating of 21.6 repre senting 17.6 million homes, and Dukes of Hazzard, 21.5 or 17.5 million, both CBS; Three's Company, 21.1 or 17.2 million, ABC; Alice, CBS, and Diff'rent Strokes, NBC, both 20.7 or 16.8 million; NFL Football Special: Philadelphia vs. Buffalo, 20.2 or 16.4 million, and Best of the West, 19.8 or 16.1 million, both ABC; Love Boat and Too Close for Comfort, both 19.7 or 16 million, both ABC, and Code Red and Our Family Business, ABC, and MA 'S'H, CBS, both 19.5 or 15.9 million. The remainder of the Top 20: The Jeffersons, CBS; NFL Monday Night Football: Oakland vs. Minnesota, ABC; Quin-cy, M.E., NBC, and One Day at a Time, CBS, tie; Dallas and House Calls, both CBS, and The Shootist and Archie Bunker's Place, both CBS, and Little House on the Prairie, NBC, three-way tie. NEW YORK (AP) ABC had six of the week's 10 highest-rated programs, including an episode from the new series Best of the West, and won the networks' prime-time rating race for the first time since mid-May, according to figures from the A.C.

Nielsen Co. ABC's first No. 1 finish in 19 weeks ended NBC's one-week stand on top. NBC fell to third place for the first time in three weeks. There was some consolation for NBC.

The network's Nightly News was No. 1 for the second straight week, with ABC's World News Tonight second and the Evening News on CBS third. The two top-rated prime-time programs in the week ending Sept. 20 were from CBS 60 Minutes and Dukes of Hazzard. Despite the No.l and No.

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