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i. 4r-- Suit ptotograptwr Alan DcVoraey General manager Gary Marshall in the control room of WHNS-TV, Channel 21 "TV is an important part of their lives, and they want to make sure that it's suitable for themselves and their families." Marshall says TV-21 will conduct such surveys twice a year in spring and fall. The Sunday-to-Saturday schedule for WHNS-TV reflects this populist approach. On weekends, children and adults will have a choice of some popular cartoon shows and series: Bullwinkle, Spiderman and Batman on Saturdays; Dudley Do-Right, George of the Jungle and Tom Jerry on Sundays. Saturday afternoons are given to movies, syndicated series such as The Greatest American Hero, Battlestar Gaiactica and Buck Rogers, and old faves like Star Trek and The Avengers.

TV-21 also has Fame, the highly regarded dramatic series that continued on a makeshift network after it was canceled last year by NBC. Fame also airs on Sundays, along with another former network casualty, Too Close for Comfort (ABC). Weekday mornings are set, with Bewitched, Popeye, Leave it to Beaver, Beverly Hillbillies and Little House on the Prairie. Afternoons get interesting: Perry Mason, Quin-cy, Barnaby Jones, The Rocktord Files series that boast fiercely loyal followings. Evening news shows on channels 4, 7 and 13 will be up against Capt.

Kirk and the Starship Enterprise. Star Trek runs from 6-7 p.m., Monday-Friday, followed by WKRP in Cincinnati April 1. 1984 and Taxi. Later in the evening, there is Hawaii Five-0, Twilight Zone, Hogan's Heroes and Gun-smoke. Prime time on TV-21 means movies: W.W.

the Dixie Dancekings, True Grit, G.I. Blues, Play Misty for Me and Kenny Rogers as The Gambler. That's Week No. 1. After 2 a.m., TV-21 will show movies until sign-on: e.g., Masquerade, O.S.S., The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.

(The station will go off the air for only four hours each week, 2-6 a.m. Monday morning, to service its transmitter.) WHNS-TV, which will air specials such as Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter, also bought the rights to the highly acclaimed Operation Prime Time specials, which aired on NBC. Shaffer says there's a simple beauty to such programming. "We're laid out to function as a regional station," he says. "Part of the fun of being an independent is to keep an eye on things that pop up and to (program) without worrying about pre-empting the network." TV-21 has purchased the rights to approximately 3,000 movies, and there will be many more by year's end, Shaffer says.

Viewers may get to see some of those films Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey, tor example with a radio simulcast. Pagc2S.