The Salina Journal from Salina, Kansas • Page 59

The Salina Journal Entertainment Sunday, Oct. 9, 1983 Page 7 Ritter drives intp trouble in 'Sunset Limousine'' John Ritter stars as an aspiring comic who sets out to change his irresponsible reputation by taking a job as a limousine chauffeur and innocently drives into deadly trouble with the underworld on "Sunset Limousine" at 8 p.m. Wednesday on "The CBS Wednesday Night Movies." Other stars are Susan -Dey, Audrie Neenan, Paul Resier and Martin Short. Alan O'Black (Ritter) is kicked out of his girlfriend Julie's house when she gets tired of supporting him. As a divorced mother raising a young son, Julie suddenly feels weighed down by Alan whose life she feels is a "rehearsal." He is constant preparing to make it as a stand-up comedian but accepts none of the responsibilities.

Forced to prove himself in order to win his way back into Julie's heart and house, Alan takes a job driving limousines while still pursuing his entertainment career. One of his customers is a peculiar young man named Bradley (Short) from Dayton, Ohio, who seems as naive as he is secretive. Bradley's destinations, his ever-present briefcase and his mysterious background puzzle Alan, but he upholds his passenger's privacy, unaware that hoodlums are trailing his limousine, trying to get his passenger. Hours before Alan makes his stage debut for his opening night as a stand-up comic, he drops Bradley off at a shopping mall, too preoccupied with rehearsing his monologue to see a showdown between his customer and the hoodlums. Later that evening he answers a call from the limousine company which ultimately leads him into a deadly trap.

Ritter is now starring in his seventh season as Jack Tripper on the comedy series "Three's Company." He has also starred in the motion pictures-for-television "The Comeback Kid," "Pray TV," and "Leave Yesterday Behind." Dey is starring as Celia Warren in the new CBS dramatic series "Emerald Point N.A.S." She has alsol)een a regular on "The Partridge Family" series and "Loves Me, Loves Me Not." Audrie Neenan is a regular on the cable television series "Not Necessarily the News" and has also appeared as a regular 'on "Big City Comedy." Reiser has appeared in "Going for Laughs" on cable television and guest-starred on the series "Remington Steele." Martin Short is a series regular on "SCTV" and was a regular on "The Associates" and "But I'm a Big Girl Now." COMEDIAN John Ritter stars as an aspiring comedian and part-time limousine driver who unwittingly drives himself into a deadly trap in "Sunset Limousine," a new comedy drama to be broadcast on "The CBS Wednesday Night Movies." George Segal portrays detective in new television movie George Segal and Shelley Hack star in "Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer," a drama about a New York City detective's investigation into the sadistic murder of a young school teacher on "The CBS Saturday Night Movies" at 8 p.m. Saturday. Based on a true story, which was fictionalized in the movie "Looking for Mr. Goodbar," the film is Segal's first appearance in a motion picture for television. It was filmed entirely on location in New York City.

In the 1972 holiday season, Detective John Grafton (Segal) is driving to work when a call on his police radio summons him to a homicide on Manhattan's West 72nd Street. The victim is Mary Alice Nolan, a young teacher of Segal handicapped children. During the investigation, a bartender in a singles bar thinks Mary Alice was there on the night of the murder. And it is believed she left the bar with a man. special "NIGHT Diana Canova (left) and Yvette Mimieux star.

Hack The victim's cousin reveals that his cousin once filed a complaint against a man who assaulted her. The man, whom police later discover to be named Trick Johnson, threatened to kill Mary Alice. Yvette Mimieux and Diana Canova star in "Night Partners," a new motion-picture-for-television about two housewives in rural Bakersfield, who volunteer to become the city's first Victim Assistance Unit. The movie will be broadcast at 8 p.m. Tuesday on "The CBS Tuesday Night Movies." Other stars are Arlen Dean Snyder as Mimieux's husband Glen; M.

Emmet Walsh as policeman Joe Kirby; Patricia McCormack as potential kidnap victim Sophie Metzman; Patricia Davis as Janice Tyler, a rape victim; Michael Cavanaugh as Detective Roy Henderson; Peter Brocco as a needy senior citizen and Larry Linville as Chief Wilson. Inspired by the actual Victim Witness Program in Tucson, An all-out search ensues to locate Johnson. Meanwhile, Grafton seeks out one of Mary Alice's former colleagues, Logan Gay (Hack), to question her about Johnson. After an uneasy start, a relationship develops between the two. Grafton has separated from his wife.

Their already strained relationship has been further aggravated by his reluctance to allow their daughter to attend college in upper New York state. In Grafton's mind, she would be away from the family, alone and vulnerable, like Mary Alice Nolan. Johnson is soon apprehended, but Grafton is not sure he is the killer. Two isolated and seemingly insignificant facts bother the fictionalized story deals with neglected crime victims who often need special assistance beyond what the police have time to give. Returning from an outing with her young son, divorcee Lauren Hensley (Canova) enters her home and discovers a burglary in progress.

She escapes and takes refuge in the home of her neighbors Elizabeth and Glen McGuire. Glen, a policeman, immediately takes charge, and Elizabeth tries to calm her friend. However, Lauren becomes more upset when Detective Henderson takes a crime report, but offers very little sympathy or aid. At a neighborhood safety meeting, Lauren express her outrage at the lack of attention she received. Soon she and Elizabeth him.

One is an anonymous phone call he intercepted in the Nolan apartment. The second is a sketch of Popeye found among Mary Alice's possessions. On the surface, both incidents seem innocuous. But they eventually lead to Mary Alice's killer. Segal has appeared in six Broadway productions.

He made his motion picture debut in 1961 and is starring in "The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood," now in production for future broadcast on CBS. Hack, a former model, co-starred in the series "Charlie's Angels" for one season. She is now co-starring in the new series "Cutter to Houston" on CBS. find themselves volunteering for the newly created Victim Assistance Unit. The women go through a rigorous emergency procedures course at the Bakersfield Police Academy and are outfitted in a retired, unmarked police car.

They are assigned to the night shift when most victim crimes occur. Their first night is a fiasco as they stumble onto an attempted kidnapping, and later, Elizabeth uses a wrong radio codes which puts the city on emergency response to an "armed robbery in progress." The volunteers also have problems at home. Elizabeth can no longer devote the time and attention to her family that they are used to, and Glen worries about his wife's safety..