The Roswell Daily Record from Roswell, New Mexico • Page 35

35 Daily Record Thursday, November 16,1978 Television fans watch movies NEW YORK Television watchers election night turned in droves to movies and specials offered by independent stations, or they left their sets off altogether, ratings from the A.C.Nielsen Co. show. The networks' prime-lime election programs Nov. 7 showed up at the bottom of the ratings for the week ending Nov. 12 CBS' "Campaign '78" ranked No.

54, followed by "Decision '78" on NBC and Vole" on ABC. The rating for the best of the three was 10. and Nielsen says thai means of all (he homes in (he country with TV, jusl 10 percent saw all or part of the show. The networks wouldn't say exactly how much the election night programming cost it was in the millions and the effect on the ratings was barely fell. ABC, with six of the week's Top 10 programs, finished with a rating of 111.u.

The networks say that means in an average prime-time minute. 18.U percent of the homes in the country with TV were tuned to ABC. CBS was second at 17.9. NBC third at 17.il. It was the third consecutive week that the networks finished in thai order.

Election night programming did put something of a wrinkle in the ratings with ABC's Tuesday night comedy lineup pre-empted. NBC's "Little House on the Prairie" nudged its way into first in the ratings. "Three's Company" or "Lavcrne and Shirley." both on ABC generally grab Hie No. spot. "Little House on the Prairie" had a rating of 27.1.

Second place went to the first chapter in a CBS miniseries, "The Word." with three ABC shows trailing "Love Boat." "Mork and Mindy" and "Eight is Enough." CBS had two other shows in the first 10, No. 6 "Go Minutes" and No. 9 "M-A-S-H." Other shows at the bottom of the ratings were "Li'l Abner in Dogpatch" on NBC, ranked 52nd, and CBS' "Hollywood's Diamond Jubilee. "No. 53.

Here are the week's Top 10 shows: "Little House on the Prairie," with a rating of 27.8 representing 20.7 million homes. NBC; "The Word." Part 1. 26 or 19.4 million. CBS; "Love Boat," 25.9 or 19.3 million. "Mork and Mindy." 25.1 or 18.7 million, and "Eight is Enough." 24.9 or 18.6 million, all ABC; "60 Minutes." 24.8 or 18.5 million.

CBS; "Charlie's Angels." 24.1 or 18 million, and "What's Happening," 23.9 or 17.8 million, both ABC; "M-A-S-H," 23.7 or 17.7 million. CBS, and "Fantasy Island. "22.8 or 17 million. The second 10 shows: "Monday Nighl Football." ABC: "One Day at a Time," CBS; "Barney Miller" and "Soap," both ABC; Monday Big to Billy Joe." and "CHiPs." all NBC; and "Dallas." Wednesday You Cry." and "Barnaby Jones." all CBS. HOLLYWOOD (API Dec.

7. 1941. "1 was in Santa Monica surfing and I heard the news when I slopped by a hamburger stand for lunch." recalled writer Stirling Silliphant. Silliphanl rushed lu his home in Glemialc and. like all other Americans, stayed by the radio all day Sunday listening to news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

"It was the day I lost control of my future." he said. "1 spent years in the Navy. 1 hated the service, but I made a lot of notes. From the lime 1 got out in l'J4G unlil now I'd never written a service story. It was thai painful lo me." His story is "Pearl," a six-hour miniseries about that weekend in Pearl Harbor.

It begins Thursday iiiglit ABC and continues Friday and Sunday. It stars Angle Dickinson. Robert Wagner, Lesley Ann Warren and Dennis Weaver. "I was in Aurora, and I'd just come back from playing a little tennis." said Weaver. "When I got home everyone was grouped around a car in the driveway listening to the radio.

Their faces were all ashen and I knew something was going on." He enrolled in a college training program and then spent 28 months as a Navy pilot. Although "Pearl" is centered on the military, it's not really a war story. "It's a slory about that loss of innocence and freedoms that and all Americans alive at the time, felt and have felt since then." Silliphant said. "Pearl" gives Weaver, television's perennial good guy. a wonderful opportunity lo throw away his white hat.

lie plays Col. Jason Forrest, who is weak, arrogant and bigoted. "It's not the first unsympathetic character I've played, but the firsl successful one." said Weaver. "The others were one-dimensional, with no interesting sides. I think this fellow has a lot of facets.

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