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6-B Wednesday, March 17, 1982 i A -v V.tf 'Baker's Dozen' comedy about undercover police 3 i fr A By JERRY BUCK AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) Ron Silver studied Chinese for years with the intention of going into government intelligence. But a trip through the Ori Vlvlv A 7 A -f iff A V- I I i mm ,1. nn ent sent him into acting instead. Silver, who stars in "Baker's Dozen," a new CBS comedy about an undercover police unit, studied Mandarin in college in this country and in Taiwan. ill "I was going into intelligence AP Luerphoto in the Department of Defense," SILVER Treasure hunt ended he says.

"I've a special undercover unit that works autonomously within the New York Police Department. The show was created by Sonny Grosso, who is co-executive producer, and was Eddie Egan's partner in the NYPD during the "French Connection" caper. SILVER'S CHARACTER IS based loosely on Grosso, who was played by Roy Scheider in "The French Connection. Silver's partner and love interest in the spring tryout series is Cindy Wein-traub. The program, filmed mostly on location in New York, also stars Alan Weeks, Sam McMurray, Thomas Quinn, John Del Regno, and Doris Belack, who plays Capt.

Florence Baker, namesake of the special unit and the show. "We haven't found our humorous style yet," Silver says. "It takes time to find a style you're comfortable with. It will arise out of character and situation and not just be a string of jokes. This show needs credibility.

I think what we'd like is to fashion a 'M-A-S-H' on the streets of New York." Silver has appeared in numerous movies and stage productions, and was a regular in three other series, "Dear Detective," "Rhoda," and "The Stockard Channing Show." LIKE MOST POLICE shows today. "Baker's Dozen" has a conservative bent. "We're more conscious of the crime and wanting to put people away," Silver says. "It's a reflection of the way people feel now. The pilot is about a guy who's been knifing girls and is let out and how we finally nail him.

"People are frustrated by the revolving door kind of justice. Guys walk out of jail before the cops finish filling out the papers. It's a perversion of justice. The perversion of justice is one of the first signs that a society is falling apart," Silver says. Silver currently is working on the movie "Best Friends," which stars Burt Reynolds and Goldie Hawn.

British author and painter Kit Williams is seen in this 1980 photo with a copy of his book "Masquerade" which contained clues in its text and illustrations leading to the location of a $20,000 bejeweled golden hare crafted by Williams that was buried somewhere in the British Isles. An unidentified 48-year-old car designer recently uncovered the treasure in Ampthill Park, 43 miles northeast of London, ending the 2Va-year treasure hunt. ABC wins Nielsen race again always loved languages. I still do. I studied Spanish for a year in Spain.

I studied Italian. I lived in Taiwan for a year. "I WAS INTRIGUED with the Orient. It was so exotic in terms of my own background. I was born and raised in New York City.

It seemed so adventurous and trench-coaty." He traveled extensively in Egypt, India, Cambodia and Laos (during the time of the Vietnam War), took the Trans-Siberian Railroad across the Sovet Union, and emerged from behind the Iron Curtain in Czechoslovakia in about 1970. "By the time I got to the States, I was disenchanted with our government policies," he says. "I started taking acting lessons, but I was just playing around with it until I got involved with Lee Strasberg and the Actors Studio. He showed me it can be serious and have a sense of purpose and dignity. "I was lucky as an actor I didn't have to spend a lot of time as a waiter." "Baker's Dozen," which premieres tonight, is centered on the adventures of People- Brand ready for takeoff DENVER (AP) Vance Brand, recently, named commander of the fifth mission of space, shuttle Columbia, says he's looking forward to, the "shake, rattle and roll" of takeoff.

Brand has been an astronaut since 1966 and was command module pilot on the Apollo-Soyuz joint space mission in 1975. He said Monday that while the public may think the Columbia's feather-light landings are super, he thinks takeoffs are the most fun. "I love it. I wish I could do it more often," the Colorado native said. Brand was in Denver as keynote speaker for the annual convention of the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping and the American Society of Photogrammetry.

Gavin says policy distorted EL PASO (AP) U.S. Ambassador to Mexico John Gavin has accused "irresponsible and ambitious people on both sides of the border" of distorting Reagan administration policies regarding aliens. Gavin, speaking to the Pan-American Roundta-ble here Monday night, said reports of "alien roundups" circulated when the administration canceled "Silva letters" temporary visas granted many Latin American immigrants during the Cuban revolution. "Distortions of the press notwithstanding, the United States has not done such a thing," as round up aliens, he said. Gavin said Monday all the action meant was that each alien's case would be considered individually and those who qualified would be given residency.

Brokaw intimidated Pauley NEW YORK (AP) Jane Pauley, co-anchor of NBC-TV's "Today" show, says she liked Tom Brokaw, but she was a little intimidated by his strong personality, which could "take a room by storm." "Sometimes I adored him. Sometimes I didn't adore him so much," Ms. Pauley said. "But I always liked him." The 31-year-old journalist said in an interview in Redbook magazine's April issue that Brokaw, who left "Today" to anchor NBC's "Nightly News," used to kid that it would take three people replace him. "And it did," Ms.

Pauley said. Bryant Gumbel and Chris Wallace were added to the morning news show as Brokaw's replacements. Ms. Pauley remained, making three. She said "Tom has a very strong, charismatic personality, the kind that can take a room by storm." Ms.

Pauley, who is married to Garry Trudeau, the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the Doo-nesbury comic strip, also said in the interview that her recent miscarriage "was certainly the saddest experience of my life and, I think, of Garry's life as well. "But we found that the further we got in time from the episode itself, the less we mourned the past and the more we were excited about the future. I still hope to have children." Swimmer cooks for prince LA JOLLA, Calif. (AP) Almost a decade after he won a Gold Medal and two silvers in the Mu-- nich Olympics of 1972, swimming star Mike 'Stamm is busy making midnight snacks for a Saudi Arabian prince. At least five evenings a week, he drives to work at the ocean-view mansion of Prince Fahad T.

Abdulaziz, 26-year-old nephew of King Khaled of Saudi Arabia. He advises Fahad about food, puts menus together, prepares and serves meals starting as late as 10 p.m. and works as late as 3:30 a.m. Stamm, 30, who took the night job last September, also works part-time as a maitre d' at a nearby restaurant. "I learned to cook in college," he said.

"I lived with one of the other swimmers and we used to cook for each other." "They're young people," said Stamm of the prince and his friends. "They have quite a bit of money to work with and are always polite." Fahad is a student at United States International University, a private San Diego school. Stamm, a bachelor, lives in an old residential hotel at the edge of Balboa Park about eight miles from the prince's place. "I have this thing for service I enjoy entertaining people," he said. ABC was moderately successful with a theatrical film, "Coma," in 23rd place, NBC less so with "The Wild Geese," a TV premiere, No.

30. NBC had the six lowest-rated programs, beginning with a movie, "The Great American Traffic Jam," in 60th place, and followed by "Barbara Man-drell and the Mandrell Sisters," "One of the Boys," "Chicago Story," "NBC Magazine" and "McClain's Law." Of the four lowest-rated show, all but "NBC Magazine" are new series. Here are the week's 10 highest-rated programs: "Dallas," with a rating of 27 representing 22.1 million homes, CBS; "Night of 100 Stars," 26.4 or 21.6 million, ABC; "60 Minutes," 25.6 or 21 million, "The Jeffersons," 25.4 or 20.8 million, and "Alice," 24.2 or 19.8 million, all CBS; "Too Close for Comfort," 23.3 or 19.1 million, "Love Boat," 23.1 or 19.1 lion, "Three's Company," 23 or 18.8 million, all ABC; "Dukes of Hazzard," 22.6 or 18.5 million, CBS, and "Hart to Hart," 22.1 or 18.1 million, ABC. The remainder of the Top 20: "T.J. Hooker," ABC; "Magnum, P.I.," and "One Day at a Time," both CBS, tie; "Trapper John, M.D.," and "Archie Bunker's Place," both CBS; "Real People," NBC; "Falcon Crest," CBS; "Happy Days," ABC, and "Facts of Life," NBC, tie, and "Laverne and Shirley," ABC.

NEW YORK (AP) "Dallas" was the No. 1 show in the week ending March 14, but ABC had five of the 10 highest-rated programs, and won the networks' competition for the second straight week, figures from the A.C. Nielsen Co. showed. ABC now has been No.

1, or tied for first, in the three-way race three times in the last five weeks. CBS continues to dominate for the season so far, and has won the competition 16 times in the 23 weeks of the current TV year. "Dallas," first in the ratings for the 10th time this season, had a rating of 27 to 26.4 for the second-place show, ABC's "Night of 100 Stars," a three-hour special taped at New York's Radio City Music Hall. Nielsen says the rating for "Dallas" means in an average minute of the show, 27 percent of the nation's homes with TV were tuned to the CBS program. CBS' "60 Minutes," No.

1 in the ratings a week ago, was third. ABC's rating for the period was 18.5 to 17 for CBS and 13.9 for NBC. The networks say that means in an average prime-time minute during the week, 18.5 percent of the television-equipped homes in the country were watching ABC. ABC's newly introduced "T.J. Hook-, er" was the week's top-rated new series, in 11th place, with "Falcon Crest" on CBS No.

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George Fri-drich of NBC-TV News in Washington shared that first place for "Baseball." Other first-place awards went to Byron R. Stirsman, WHIO-TV, Dayton, Ohio, in spot news for "Duffers Bob Selwyn of WSMV-TV, Nashville, for a mini-documentary on "Crimes and Paul Henschel, WCCO-TV, Minneapolis, for "Farewell to Freedom" and Ross Lowell of ABC-TV News, New York, for "The Monastery" in the documentary category. FOR A BIT O' IRISH HOSPITALITY TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) Station KING-TV of Seattle has won the television news photography station-of-the-year honors in the 1981 National Press Photographers Association television news photography competition. Darrell Barton of KTVY-TV, Oklahoma City, was awarded the Enrie Crisp television news photographer-of-the--year laurels in the competition, results of which were released here Sunday.

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