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Sept. 17, 1984 SXLCUIS POST-DISPATCH 3E 4 mm I 1 -t sv i i i "Cover Up" Saturdays, 9-10 p.m. Jennifer O'Neill and Jon-Erik Hexum portray private investigators who travel around the world posing as a high-fashion photographer and a male model. 1 ion' 1 w' "Murder, She Wrote" Sundays, 7-8 p.m. Angela Lansbury stars as Jessica Fletcher, a widowed substitute teacher and a writer of mystery stories who is called on to solve intriguing crimes around the country.

Will Confident CBS 1 2 aking Fewest "Charles In Charge" Wednesdays, p.m. "ER" Tuesdays, p.m. Elliott Gould plays a doctor moonlighting in the emergency room of a Chicago hospital. Mary McDonald costars. Fall Changes In this comedy, Scott Baio (center) stars as a college student who serves as a live-in "governess" of sorts to three energetic children played by (from left) April Lerman, Michael Pearlman and Jonathan Ward.

New Season uj polished Baio's mastery of the mechanics of TV comedy. He knows the moves, the timing, the gestures, the balance between exaggeration and understatement. If he gets consistently good scripts, this could be a diverting comedy, albeit one aimed primarily at younger audiences. "Dreams" (Wednesdays at This is one of those shows apparently designed by computer, and it's about as creative as you'd expect under those circumstances. Some producers and network executives finally noticed that MTV had captured the hearts and minds of the 12-34 set and figured they'd bring the idea to series television.

What they came up with is "Dreams," a story about a struggling so-called rock band, made up of a variety of recognizable stereotypes. Aside from originality, what the creators of this series forgot about was musical integrity. The "music this "rock" group plays has only slightly more to do with rock than Lawrence Welk. Kids, the target audience for the series, know nothing if not their music. It'll take them anywhere from 5 to 10 minutes to spot the phoniness five new shows, the smallest portfolio of the three networks.

Here's how they break down: "ER" (Tuesdays at Elliott Gould brings a certain scatterbrained charm and irreverence to this show set in a hospital emergency room. Gould is Dr. Howard Sheinfeld, a ear, nose and throat man who moonlights in the emergency room to help make his alimony payments. As was his Trapper John character in the movie "MASH," Gould's Sheinfeld is a talented physician who believes rules were made to be broken or, at best, ignored. This attitude, of course, brings him into conflict with his superiors.

Gould is supported by a diverse and able cast of characters, including Conchata Ferrell as head nurse Joan Thor. Thor, as the name Implies, is the rock on which the emergency room runs. The most appealing of the group, though, is receptionist Maria Amarda (Shuko Akune), who seems to be constantly traveling between the states of mania and trance. In the pilot, "ER" is introduced as a spinoff of "The Jeffersons." The two shows share one character nurse Julie Williams, who is George of this show and turn it off for good. "Cover Up" (Saturdays at 9): This show is, as they say in the business, hot.

It combines high fashion, violence, sex and the beautiful people In an entirely worthless bundle of spy-like silliness. The series stars Jennifer O'Neill as fashion photographer Danielle "Dani" Reynolds and Jon-Erik Hexum as a Vietnam vet (Mac Harper) who's given up mercenary work to become a male model. The pair winds up working as undercover spies for the U.S. government. That highly believable premise aside, "Cover Up" is also a show that, in a strange and appropriate way, mimics Itself.

The world of big-time fashion and, for that matter, major-league espionage is a world in which appearances are not to be trusted. Image and illusion are the essence of both endeavors. In much the same way, "Cover Up" is an exercise in image and illusion. The pilot used dramatic camera angles, intense colors and loads of car chases and other action sequences. It had, in other words, a slick look to it.

Alas, poke past those images and you hit nothing but vapor. Neither plot, character development nor dialogue has any substance to speak of. "Murder, She Wrote" (Sundays at 7): Probably the best new show on the CBS schedule, "Murder, She Wrote" stars character actor Angela Lansbury as a modern-day Miss Marple. Lansbury is working in television, she admitted without embarrassment, for the money. "Broadway had become an impossible place to economically perform," she told TV writers earlier this summer.

Still, she called her character, Jessica Fletcher, "an absolutely terrific dame" and the show itself "a romp." Each week, Fletcher will find herself in the middle of a mystery in various cities around the country: The excuse for her travels apparently will be publicity tours in support of her mystery novels, a hobby that developed into a career when she struck it rich with a best-seller. "Murder, She Wrote" looks like the most intriguing, if lighthearted, adult show of the new CBS entries. TOMORROW: ABC makes a run for the gold. Jefferson's niece and a production company: Embassy Television. If "ER" can avoid the Jef fersonian trap of high-decibel pseudo-comedy, it might develop into something worthwhile.

Certainly Gould, an endearing space cadet of an actor, is capable of turning out excellent work. "Charles in Charge" (Wednesdays at 7): CBS' New York-based executives are excited about this show, which they say brings the feel of Broadway comedy to television. They point to the presence of New York playwright Michael Jacobs as producer-writer on the show and also to certain elements of staging and movement as evidence of the connection. "Charles in Charge" focuses on the experiences of a 19-year-old college student (Scott Baio) who's a sort of live-in "governess" for three kids in an upper-middle-class, suburban New Jersey family. His charges are a cute H-year-old girl trying to cope with the pressures of puberty; her 12-year-old, now-it-all little brother, and a not-so-Innocent 10-year-old littler brother.

Broadway-like or not, the show has to be funny, and it has some promise. Ten years on "Happy Days" have By Eic Mink Post-Dispatch TVRadio Critic SECOND OF THREE PARTS No one seriously doubts that CBS will again wind up on top of the prime-time ratings heap come spring. The network's strength rests on a broad foundation of successful nighttime soaps "Falcon Crest," "Knot's action-comedies P.I.," "Simon and the indomitable "60 Minutes," this season freshened with the presence of its first female correspondent, Diane Sawyer. That kind of success means that CBS haS made fewer changes In its fall lineup than its competitors. Although a couple of returning series have switched time slots, most programs will be same time, same channel.

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