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Monday, Dec. 23, 1985 The Philadelphia Inquirer 9-D Night Owl Tuesday, Dec. 24, midnight to 6 a.m TVRADIO TALK tB.l.r H.I.T-m.1 'BEET IEEE: The Wet Parade! 32) 3:20 Off th Air Tonight Love Farm Late Night With David Mormng Stratch (Waiter Huston, Lgwra Stone) 11:30 Connection Lsttsrmsn (5:201 Perapectrvel Off the Ajr Ntghtfcno Parapctiva Rapheel Amanca 11:30 Remington 1240Mddr7B raghfwatch Off the A IIChriMiMtinCanMcticul Maaonare Maker Defcwvere Vatey lf5)(BarbreSarwyi) lrvortce-MyFeefaarf70)lHr Troop Moviatona; UAiAndwiOmarSrwnf) Update I Off tha Air 12:00 to 600 ami Miftoneire Maker Video Soul BET Vioeo Vibrations I Video Vexations atvaatmant Adviaory CBN aod'tCoMiryC46) Oroucho MCoeby Bofcgrtome '48) (Rim HayoanT Wendy LovaBob 700Oub CNN p. I. I iriuesnre I reewerent Larry 0ng Overnight.

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The deal should come down this week. WTAF-TV news director Roger LaMay isn't talking, but he's very close to signing Thomas to a two-year pact as a general-assignment reporter, beginning next month. Thomas, 34, has been working at Channel 10 without a contract since his three-year agreement expired Oct. 15. WCAU-TV general manager Steve Cohen says he wants to keep Thomas and has offered him a three- to five-year contract.

But Cohen is also prepared to allow Thomas to continue working at the CBS-owned station without a contract "for as long as he wishes." "Charles is a fine correspondent," Cohen says. "He's a good, strong reporter. He knows what he's doing and he handles himself well across the board. We're aware that he has other offers. We want to keep him right here." Cohen says he has more than matched Channel 29's offer.

He also denies reports that CBS has placed a ceiling on salaries in a cost-cutting effort. "I have total control of the budget for payment of on-air people," Cohen says. "I have leeway in how I manage it." Community Bifcoard LeNoche ICereaCera 24Horaa LoaAnoa GD Get Smart Dynaaty Get Smart ILovaLucy rtaWondarfiiUh'4ewwUnStawl) Off Air CD Joe Franklin Joe Franklin TouohofEvlC68)wwtOron Wales, Set.Nkjht CNN News CracatCdrVtiranaira NNNewt as Comedy Chad Fund OnceUponaStarryNkjht( 78) Spec 1999 Troop IWNNews Cable today Night Owl highlights Premium movies LaMay, meanwhile, is sitting in the catbird's seat. Since the signing of big fish Howard Eskin of Channel 3 in October, LaMay has gotten calls from some of the more established TV reporters in town. At least at the negotiating table, LaMay is proving he can compete with the Big Boys.

"Book 'em, Dan-O" The evil Wo Fat is on the prowl again, and the good guys at Hawaii Five-0 are going after him. Five-Oh boy! Jack Lord, who played iron-haired Steve McGarrett on CBS's Hawaii Five-0 (1968-80), will star in Hawaii Five-0 Revisited, a CBS movie about the elite police force. Joining him will be James MacAr-thur as his trusted sidekick, Danny Williams, and Khigh Diegh as Wo Fat, McGarrett's archenemy since the pilot. In Revisited, McGarrett has retired from the force and is holding a federal job in Washington; Dan-0 is his successor. Filming begins in February.

Foley Square star Margaret Colin has put her foot down on "date of the week" scripts for her new CBS sitcom. (Now that takes nerve, particularly for a prime-time unknown on a show that's not exactly setting Lord Nielsen on his ear.) In the Foley Square premiere, Colin's character, an unmarried assistant district attorney, advertised for dates in a personal column. Last week's episode saw her new boyfriend dump her because of her demanding hours. "I've already told the producers I don't want the series reduced to stories about who Alex is dating," Colin says. "We have a gold mine's worth of stories in the D.A.'s office, and that's what we should be exploring." Gerald McRaney (Simon Simon) will direct an episode of the CBS series early next month, and is also writing a segment about a Vietnam vet suffering from post-traumatic-stress syndrome.

Knots Landing flash: Look for unhappily married Gary Ewing (Ted Shackelford) to take a lover soon. Channel 3 sports director Howard Eskin will work his final KYW-TV newscast on Jan. 10. His tentative start date at Channel 29 is Feb. 17.

June Carter Cash will play the mother of Frank James (played by her real-life husband, Johnny Cash) in The True Story of Jesse and Frank James, an NBC movie now in production. Three-time Academy Award-winner Michel Legrand will compose the score for Crossings, the six-hour ABC mini-series to air in February. Chester's WCZN-AM (1590), formerly known as WQIQ, has changed its format from adult contemporary to country. Quote-board: Charlton Heston, who played Michelango in The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965), on his role in ABC's The Colbys: "It's interesting to be in a place where you wear a tie and don't have to lie there and paint the Sistine Chapel." David Walstad contributed to this report. 12:30 OO Late Night With David Letter-man Guests: Harry Dean Stanton, comedian Margaret Smith, Jack Hanna of the Columbus (Ohio) Zoo.

12:40 CD Movie "Matilda." 78. Elliott Gould, Robert Mitchum. Ineffably awful film about a boxing kangaroo. For children but way beneath them. 10 Movie "The Charge at Feather River." '53.

Guy Madison, Frank Love-joy. An Indian uprising results when cavalrymen try to rescue two kidnapped white women. 1:00 Movie "I Never Sang for My Father." www- 70. Gene Hackman, Melvyn Douglas. Hackman plays a befuddled every-man who doesn't know how to deal with a domineering father who suddenly needs daily care.

More topical than ever, and immensely moving. 2:00 Movie "The Wet Parade." BW '32. Walter Huston, Lewis Stone. Evil alcohol causes the downfall of Prohibition-era tipplers. 2:50 Movie "The Tamarind Seed." 74.

Julie Andrews, Omar Sharif. Standard spy vehicle with a teary romantic subplot. Overblown and plodding, but director Blake Edwards makes it watchable. 5M America Featured: money experts tell how to handle your assets. only clue to a bank robbery.

116m. DIS: 11:00 p.m. Tommy 75. (PG) Ann-Margret, Roger Daltrey. Ken Russell's incredibly lavish version of The Who's rock opera.

Wall-to-wall surreal images and pulsing syncopation. 111m. HBO: 9:30 a.m. Wavelength '83. (PG) Robert Carradine, Cherie Currie.

Cheapo sci-fi about three aliens who are held In deep freeze by the U.S. government for experimentation and alert a young couple to their presence. Language, violence. 87m. HBO: 8 00 a.m.

Whistle Down the Wind BW '62. Hay-ley Mills, Alan Bates. Three children come upon the hiding place of an escaped killer and then become convinced that he is Jesus. 98m. TMC: 2:30 p.m.

Wuthering Heights BW '39. Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon. Perhaps the screen's greatest love story, William Wyler's stirring adaptation of Emily Bronte's Gothic classic set on the desolate Yorkshire moors. Olivier said it was Wyler who taught him what screen acting was all about. 103m.

HBO: 5:30 p.m. Zellg www '83. (PG) Woody Allen, Mia Farrow. Allen's marvelously clever -pseudo-documentary tells the story of a man who was a sensation in the Roaring Twenties a chameleon man who was so eager to be accepted that he became just like whomever he was with. Adult situations.

84m. PSM: 12:30 p.m.; 3:10 a.m. 'y-- if'' "ii linn him iia'wif' im immiii rm say Crouse. Hutton leads a team of Arctic scientists who thaw a frozen Neanderthal. Australian Fred Schepisi's direction is frequently flaccid, but John Lone is absolutely outstanding as the bewildered caveman.

Language, violence. 101m. PSM: 10:30 a.m., 11:50 p.m. If You Could See What I Hear '82. (PG) Marc Singer, R.H.

Thompson. You'd tell me to shut up. Sappy autobiography about a blind singer who is always upbeat. Adult situations. 103m.

MAX: 12:30 p.m. Invitation to the Wedding ww '84. (PG) John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson. A young woman's plan to save her family's ancestral home by marrying into wealth is jeopardized when she accidentally weds the wrong man. 90m.

DIS: 1:00 p.m. Johnny Dangerously '64. Michael Kea-ton, Joe Piscopo. Amy Heckerllng's botched Depression-era gangster farce about a young man who blunders his way to becoming a crime kingpin. Adult situations, language.

90m. SHO: 12:30 p.m., midnight, HBO: 2:00 p.m., 11:35 p.m. Just the Way You Are '84. (PG) Kristy McNichol, Michael Ontkean. Trying to conceal her leg brace, a concert flutist covers It with a cast while finding romance during a European tour.

Adult situations, language. 94m. SHO: 2:00 p.m., 9:00 p.m. Klpperbeng '84. (PG) John Albasiny, Alison Steadman.

In the late 1940s, the students and teachers at a British school are forced to contend with respective romantic problems. Adult situations. 80m. TMC: 10:30 a.m. Love Child '82.

(R) Amy Madigan, Beau Bridges. Madigan is quite good as a 21-year-old pregnant prison inmate battling authorities for the right to retain custody of her child. Adult situations, language, violence. 96m. TMC: 10:30 p.m.

Lovescenea '84. (AO) Franc Luz, Tiffany Boiling. Married filmmakers mix business with everything. 95m. MAX: 2:10 a.m.

Man Who Knew Too Much, The '56. James Stewart, Doris Day. More lightweight than most of Hitchcock's '50s thrillers but redeemed by a half-dozen gripping moments and the Infectious amiability of Stewart; he's an American doctor on vacation with his family who gets sucked into a bizarre international plot. Violence. 120m.

TMC: 4:30 p.m.. 12:15 a.m. Mango Tree, The '77. Geraldine Fitzgerald, Christopher Pate. A young man approaching maturity In turn-of-the-century Australia follows the advice of his high-spirited grandmother.

93m. PSM: 8:30 a.m. Maes Appeal '84. (PG) Jack Lemmon, Zeljko Ivanek. Not terribly engaging adaptation of the Broadway play about a popular wine-sipping priest who tries to help keep a rebellious seminary student from being expelled.

Adult situations. 100m. PSM: 8:00 p.m.. 1:30 a.m. A Minor Miracle '83.

(G) Pele. John Huston. A famous soccer player realizes that success is meaningless unless shared with others. 102m. DIS: 9:00 p.m.

Napoleon BW '27. Albert Dieu-donne, Antonin Artaud. Abel Gance's silent masterpiece was originally six hours long, and portions were supposed to be seen on three screens with color-tinted film stock. It was lost until Francis Ford Coppola underwrote a long project to reassemble the surviving pieces into a coherent epic. 240m.

TMC: 2:20 a.m. Night of the Comet '84. Mary Wor-onov, Catherine Mary Stewart. This parody of plots from various sci-fi movies really sneaks up on you with a fresh, quirky tone. Language, violence.

95m. PSM: 6:00 p.m. Oliver's Story 78. (PG) Ryan O'Neal. Candice Bergen.

A young lawyer rebounds from his wife's death Into romance with a department-store heiress. From the novel by Erich Segal. Adult situations, language. 90m. HBO: 10:00 p.m.

Prince and the Pauper, The '77. (PG) Mark Lester, Oliver Reed. A young street urchin switches identities and lifestyles with a look-alike member of British royalty. Based on the classic novel by Mark Twain. Adult situations.

121m. HBO: 6:00 a.m. Runaway Island: The Bushranger '81. Miles Buchanan, Simone Buchanan. After being wrongly imprisoned for a crime they didn't commit, members of a family flee from the law in the Australian outback of the 1800s.

100m. SHO: 8:00 a.m.. 4:00 p.m. Savage Attraction '84. (R) Kerry Mack.

Ralph Schecha. A psychotic pursues the Australian woman who bore his child, even after their relationship is over. Adult situations, nudity. 93m. SHO: 2:05 a.m.

That Dam Cat '65. (G) Hayley Mills, Dean Jones. Sisters call the FBI when their mischievous Siamese cat drags home the Amltyvllle: The Demon '83. (PG) Tony Roberts. Originally released as Amltyville 3D, it's a turkey by any name.

More evil doings at the haunted Long Island domicile. Violence. 93m. MAX: 6:30 a.m. Android '82.

(PG) Klaus Klnskl, Don Opper. Offbeat science-tlction treat about a humanlike robot who comes to suspect that his mad-scientist master Is going to dismantle him. Violence. 80m. TMC: 9:00 a.m..

6:30 p.m. Any Number Can May BW '49. Clark Gable, Alexis Smith. A big-time casino owner, at odds with his collegiate son, bets all or nothing against an oil man out to break the bank. 112m.

SHO: 3:45 a.m. Bachelor Party '84. (R) Tom Hanks. Tawny Kitaen. flanks tries hard and is frequently quite funny, but the vulgarity finally takes over in this sleazy sex farce.

Adult situations; language, nudity. 106m. PSM: 10:00 p.m.. 4:30 a.m. Boatonlana, Tha '84.

Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Reeve. Good, starchy adaptation of the Henry James novel about a battle between a noted feminist and a suave Southern lawyer for the soul of faith healer's daughter. Adult situations. 120m. HBO: 8:00 p.m.

Bras Ring, Tho Dlna Merrill, April Lerman. The trials and tribulations of growing up are intensified for a young girl when her mother is institutionalized with mental problems. 90m. PSM: 7:00 a.m. Careful) He Might Hear You '84.

(PG) Wendy Hughes, Robyn Nevln. Lovely, evocative Australian story of a young boy who becomes a pawn in a custody struggle between his aunts: tender and Insightful. Language. 116m. PSM: 4:00 p.m.

Chattanooga Choo Choo '84. (PG) George Kennedy, Barbara Eden. A potential inheritance depends on the would-be heir's restoring the legendary train and making a New York-to-Chattanooga run on schedule. Language. 102m.

MAX: 10:00 a.m., 8:00 p.m. Choose Me '84. Genevieve Bujold. Keith Carradine. Alan Rudolph's stylish, erotic comedy about Southern Californians searching for love and wondering usf how far they can trust one another.

Carradine is terrific as a mental-home escapee who enters the lives of several women. Adult situations, language. 106m. MAX: 12:10 a.m. Dot and Santa Claua '82.

Dot joins forces with Santa Claus for a happy holiday happening. 70m. TMC: 7:30 a.m. Electric Dreams '84. (PG) Lenny Von Dohlen, Virginia Madsen.

Attempt to mix music-video styles with romantic comedy misfires in this high-tech menage a trots about a young architect with a super-smart home computer that falls for his girlfriend. Adult situations, language. 95m. PSM: 2:00 p.m. Elvis on Tour 72.

(G) Documentary of Elvis Presley performances. 92m. SHO: 10:00 a.m.- EvN That Men Do, The '84. (R) Charles Bronson, Theresa Saldana. A professional killer reluctantly leaves retirement to eliminate a professional torturer and his team serving the regime in Guatemala.

Adult situations, language, violence. 89m. HBO: 3:25 am. Flnlan'a Rainbow '68. (G) Fred Astaire, Petula Clark, Tommy Steele.

A whimsical version of the stage musical about the magical Emerald Isle is stolen by Steele, who plays an effervescent leprechaun. Francis Ford Coppola directed, if you can believe it. 145m. TMC: noon, 8:00 p.m. Heart breakers '84.

(R) Peter Coyote, Nick Mancuso. Longtime buddies, one a rich businessman, the other a bohemian artist, clash over women, ethics and careers in contemporary Los Angeles. Adult situations, language, nudity. 98m. HBO: 1:40 a.m.

Hotel '67. Rod Taylor, Catherine Spaak. Good, glossy soaper based on the Arthur Hailey novel about an elegant New Orleans hotel a modern-day Grand Hotel without the depth. Adult situations. 125m.

MAX: 10:00 p.m. Humongoua '81. (R) Janet Julian, David Wallace. Oversexed teenagers are shipwrecked on a remote Island, and then their troubles really start. Turns out a teen-killing monster lives there.

Adult situations, violence. 93m. MAX: 3:50 a.m. I Married a Shadow '83. (PG) Natha-ie Baye, Francis Huster.

Bay is very affect-ng in this French adaptation of the Cornell thriller about a young woman who assumes the identity of a dead person. Adult situations. 110m. MAX: 8:00 a.m., 5:30 p.m. eeman '84.

(PG) Timothy Hutton, Lind Gerald McRaney directing, writing for 'Simon Simon' Topic: the future of the Republican couple (Dody Goodman. Keith Michell) trace clues to find an eccentric millionaire's hidden fortune. SHO: 7:00 a.m. Loverboy, Saxon, "Broken Sade, "The Sweetest Pat Benatar, "Sex as a Roger Daltrey, "Let Me Down Easy." Specials Party. 2:30 p.m.

President's Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management 6:00 p.m. Call-in Guest: Dirk Von Dongen of the Tax Reform Action Coalition. 7:00 p.m. American Enterprise Institute 9:30 p.m. Call-in Guest: Robert Hunter, co-director of the Commission on National Elections.

GSpan SCRATCHED APPLIANCES enn UP" 0U70o3U70 i TO OFF LIST pnice 1:30 a.m. Call-In Guest: Lou Cannon, White House correspondent for the Washington Post; Carl Cannon, White House correspondent of the San Jose Mercury News. 9:30 a.m. Morning Headllnee 10:00 a.m. Food and Drug Administration Topic: circulatory-system devices.

p.m. Roundtable Discussion Congressional Quarterly correspondents. 1:00 p.m. Republican Governors Confer- MTV Now fiome krond RtF-RHiFRATORS. FREEZERS.

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The Bells of Fraggle Rock As Doc and Sprocket prepare to celebrate Christmas, the Fraggles make plans for their own special holiday. HBO: 7:30 p.m. Cheech A Chong Comedy and music videos. SHO: 1:35 a.m. A Disney Channel Christmas Jlmlny Crick-, et presents a potpourri of cartoon shorts and scenes of the holiday season.

DI5: 10:00 a.m. For Better or for Worse The Pattersons share Christmas dinner. Animated. HBO: 5:00 p.m. George end the Star He wants a real one for his Christmas tree.

Animated. DIS: 7:00 p.m. A Magic Kingdom Yuletlde Mickey. Minnie and Goofy lighten up Scrooge McDuck. DIS: 7:30 p.m.

Faerie Tale Theater "The-Pied Piper of HameHn." A piper (Eric Idle) rids the town of Hamelin of rats, but when the mayor refuses to pay for his services, he uses his flute to lure the children away from their parents. SHO: 11:35 a.m., 7:00 p.m. Not Necessarily the Year In Review Repertory comics give their version of 1985. HBO: 11:30 a.m. Rich Little's A Christmas Carol The impressionist gives Dickens' characters the voices of C.

Fields. Paul Lynde. Edith Bunker and Johnny Carson. HBO: 4:00 p.m., 5:00 a.m. Treesure of Alpheue T.

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