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Monday, Sept. 12, 1983 Philadelphia Inquirer 7-E Prism closes deal to broadcast its programs on Channel 57 COMICS By Ron Wolf JnOulnrSMff WrtMr Prism, the regional cable-television pay service, has reached agreement on a deal to make its programming available over-the-air on WWSG-TV (Channel 57), according to sources close to the company who did not want to be identified. Prism officials would not comment on the situation Friday. However, Jack Williams, president and chief executive officer of the company, is expected to announce details of the agreement later today. When completed, the arrangement will provide substantially greater access to local sports programming for viewers hot served by cable televi sion.

Prism carries many home games of the Philadelphia Flyers, 76ers and Phillies. Prism officials have been trying since November to negotiate a deal for the use of Channel 57 in order to distribute the network in a city where cable service may not be available for years. Williams said in January that Prism and another company were close to buying the struggling subscription-TV station. Channel 57 is owned by Leon S. and William S.

Gross, who have extensive communications holdings in the region. The station now is providing subscription customers with a package of feature films and entertainment specials known as SelecTV for a monthly fee. The programming is transmitted in electronically scrambled form and can be received only on sets equipped with a decoding device that the station supplies to its subscribers. The sources said the agreement provides for a joint venture that does not involve the sale of the station. Under the arrangement, the SelecTV programming will be discontinued and Prism will be broadcast in scrambled form in its place.

The service will be available throughout the Philadelphia area for about $25 per month. Prism is owned by Edward M. Snider, who also owns the Flyers and the Spectrum. Gasoline Alley VThe "Five HoQ5MYThi8 old guy keeps her i 1 lL VIA. I L.UJ..J,...ii:.l Ui in ine new' ix I noicu uy upman si nc A bar I went wis as eeo SnuCK there za her out! didn't gou knew knowTThej about fire.

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(PG) Paul Newman, Sally Field. Serious questions about press ethics are sidetracked by an implausible love angle. Newman is superb as the smeared Innocent. Language, violence. 1 16m.

MAX: 8:00 a.m., 9:30 p.m. Battleground BW '49. Van Johnson, John Hodlak. Men of the 101st Airborne Division deal with emotions and enemy challenges during the World War II Battle of the Bulge. 1 18m.

SHO: 10:00 a.m. Carry on Emmanuall '60. (Ft) The adulterous wife of an ambassador spends most of her time in the company of lovers. Adult situations, nudity. 90m.

SHO: 1:30 a.m. Deadly Game '81. (R) Steve Rails-back, Sam Groom. A police detective, a movie projectionist and a woman investigating her sister's death become entangled in a web of tragedies. Adult situations, violence.

95m. MAX: 2:40 a.m. A Dog of Flandera '59. David Ladd, Donald Crisp. A young Dutch boy and his crippled grandfather befriend a badly beaten dog.

97m. SPT: 8:30 a.m., 4:30 p.m. Dreamboat BW '52. Clifton Webb, Ginger Rogers. A one-time silent film Idol is thrown into the limelight when his old movies resurface.

83m. MAX: 1:30 p.m., 8:00 p.m. Extreme Cloae-Up 73. (R) James Watson James McMullan. A television reporter assigned to expose wanton use of surveillance becomes obsessed with snooping into people's personal lives.

Adult situations, nudity. 80m. SHO: 12:05 a.m. Fal Chance '81. Farnham Scott, January Stevens.

Overweight and embarrassed by their appearance, two pen pals enlist the aid of substitutes when they set a date to meet. 99m. SPT: 8:00 p.m. Foxtrot 76. (R) Peter O'Toole, Charlotte Rampilng.

A rich man's Robinson Crusoe, about a European aristocrat who sets up on a remote island with his wife and two servants. 80m. PSM: 10:30 p.m., 4:00 a.m. Galaxy Expreea '81. (PG) An orphan-seeks immortality aboard 1he 35th-century Galaxy Express.

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SHO: 8:00 a.m., 6:30 p.m. How to Beat the High Coat ol Living '80. (PG) Susan Saint James, Jane Curtin. Three housewives turn to crime to pay the grocery bills. Supposedly a comedy.

You decide. Adult situations, language. 110m. HBO: noon, 11:00 p.m. the Jury '81.

(R) Armand Assante, Barbara Carrera. Private detective Mike Hammer hunts down clues to explain the murder of his Vietnam buddy. Language, violence, nudity. 111m. PSM: 12:30 p.m.

Knlghtrldert '81. (R) Ed Harris. Gary Lahti. Overlong but fascinating fairy tale about bikers who quit the rat race for an Arthurian existence filled with knights, kings and medieval jousting contests. Adult situations, language, violence.

145m. SPT: midnight Little Mlse Marker '80. (PG) Walter Matthau, Julie Andrews. This remake of the 1934 Damon Runyon classic badly misses its mark. Crusty but lovable crook is saddled with precocious little girl.

Language. 103m. HBO: 10:00 a.m., 8:00 p.m. Never Never Land '81. (G) Petula Clark, Cathleen Nesbitt.

A childlike creature helps a lonely young girl escape her isolated existence. 86m. PSM: 5:30 p.m. Plumber, The '80. Judy Morris.

Ivar Kants. A cranky plumber remodels a bathroom in his own style. 76m. SPT: 6:30 a.m. Prom Night '80.

(R) Jamie Lee Curtis, Leslie Nielsen, A vengeful killer stalks a group of teenage girls on the night of their high school prom. Language, violence, mature theme. 91m. MAX: 4:15 a m. Rich and Famoua '81.

(R) Jacqueline Blsset, Candice Bergen. The long, dull friendship between two-supposedly fascinating and glamorous women. It was, sadly, George Cukor's last film. Violence, nudity, adult situations. 1 17m.

SPT: 10:00 p.m. Safarl-3000 '81. (PG) David Carradlne, Stockard Channing. When the driver she was to accompany on a 3.000-kilometer African race is killed, a young reporter unwittingly turns to a stunt-car driver for assistance. Language, nudity.

100m. SPT: 10:30 a.m., 6:30 p.m. Fine '81. (R) Ryan O'Neal, Jack Warden. A decent screwball comedy.

O'Neal is a brainy professor who accidentally invents a new fashion fad see-through blue jeans. Nudity, adult situations. 91m. SHO: noon, 10:30 p.m. PSM: 1:45 a.m.

Solo 78. Vincent Gil, Lisa Peers. A teenage boy steals his father's airplane to attract attention. 98m. SPT: noon Star Ware 77.

(PG) Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford. A long time ago, in a movie studio far away, a brilliant director named George Lucas decided to make a rip-roaring science fiction series about a space war between good and evil crawling with special effects, narrow escapes and mystical undertones. He won seven Oscars, made a zillion dollars and lived happily ever after. Violence. 121m.

HBO: 8:00 a.m., 5:30 p.m., 12:50 a.m. Student Prince, The '54. Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom. A dashing 19th-century prince attending Heidelberg University falls in love with a local barmaid. Based on the operetta by Sigmund Romberg.

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Seamy, implausible. Nudity, violence. 103m. PSM: midnight Tempest '82. (PG) John Cassavetes, Susan Sarandon.

Paul Mazursky's comedy about a world-weary man suffering a midlife crisis who takes a vacation on a Greek island to decipher the meaning ol It all. Mature theme. Htm. PSM: 8:00 a.m., 8:00 p.m., 5:30 a.m. Thank God, It's Friday 78.

(PG) Donna Summer, Valerie Landsburg. One of the dumbest films ever made an excruciatingly unfunny disco comedy. Summer's song, "Last Dance," won an Oscar. Mature theme. 90m.

MAX: 10:00 a.m., 1:05 a.m. Tim '81. Piper Laurie. Mel Gibson. A middle-aged spinster learns about love when she employs a mildly retarded young man as her gardener.

94m. MAX: 6:30 a.m., 3:00 p.m., 11:30 p.m. Triple Echo, The 73. (R) Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed. A lonely war widow persuades a British army deserter to pose as her sister.

Adult situations, language. 93m. PSM: 2:30 p.m. Visiting Houra '82. (R) Michael Ironside, Lee Grant.

Psycho murderer goes after a TV newswoman in a big-city hospital. Scalpel, please. Language, violence, nudity. 105m. SPT: 4:10 a.m.

Young Doctors In Love '82. (R) Michael McKean, Sean Young. Most of the okes In this hospital spoof don't work they're too wide and sophomoric. A glimmer of Intelligence would have helped immensely. Adult situations, language.

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