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10C ThursdayDecember 311987Star Tribune Morning 1 1 '60 Minutes' is No. 1 for week, 'Cosby' 18 Today's TV Critic's choice (T) This MorningSyndicated columnist Ellen Goodman; Ben Vereen; pianist Michael Feinstein. (3D Good Morning AmericaJulia Child; Ellen Greene and Griffin Dunne and the year in music; Dick Clark; college football coaches Jimmy Johnson and Barry Switzer; TV judges; travel expert Pamela Fiori. (cc) (ED Today A retrospective of 1987; musician Peter Duchin; Ed Begtey authors Luise Eichenbaum and Susie Orbach. GD OonahiMMale strippers.

(R) Afternoon Noon MovlaThe Blackboard Jungle. A teacher fights a juvenile deliquent and his gang at an inner-city trade school. Directed by Richard Brooks. Qienn Ford, Vie Morrow. 1955.

i MovlaJack and the Beanstalk. A baby sitter takes a nap and dreams he is the hero of a popular children's fable. Bud Abbott. Lou CoateHo. 1952.

CS) Oprah WkifraySelf-made millionaires, (cc) Evening Q) Liva From Lincoln York Philharmonic New Year's Eve Celebration" Soloist Kathleen Battle and the Boys' Choir of Harlem join conductor Zubin Mehta and the New York Philharmonic in a New Year's Eve program featuring French overtures, American spirituals and Viennese waltzes. (Simulcast with KSJN-FM; also 10 p.m. 17) (1Kt5am) MovieMan From Del Rio. A Mexican gunman gains trust and respect from the inhabitants of a frontier town. An-thony Quinn, Katy Jurado.

1956 130am (ED News (R) WGN Rhode NIK The Monkees ESN SportsCanter DIS To Announced CB MovieHouse of Wax. Physically and emotionally scarred in a museum fire, a crazed man uses people as his new wax sculptures. Vincent Price, Frank Love-joy. 1953. JEM MovieReturn of Rin Tin WGN USA Tonight NIK I Spy CBN Medical Center USA MovteGet to Know Your Rabbit.

ESN Winner's Circle HBO Paul Rodriguez TMC MovlSlow Bum. SHO Julian Lennon CS MovieThe Jazz Singer. A talented young Jewish vocalist violates his father's wishes by becoming a stage performer. Al Joteon, Warner Oiand. 1927.

(ED America's Value Network TBS MoviePenny Serenade. WGN Rhode ESN College Basketball BRV MovteSid and Nancy. Q9 MovieGood Sam. A do-gooder can't stop helping others even though he always ends up with problems. Gary Cooper, Ray Collins.

1948. WON MovteRevenge of the Gods. NIK MoviThe Red House. AEN MoviUnder Capricorn. CBN Stoney Burke MAX MovteCandy Stripe Nurses.

FES MovieThree Amigos. HBO Women of th Night SHO Tom Patty and th Heartbreakers DIS MovieGrambling's White Tiger. TEM MoviHalf Shot at Sunrise. (3D Fantasy Island CD Th Dummy Owner TMC MovieThe Glass Bottom Boat. (3D Selected Short Subject LIF Investment Advisory CBN Wackiest Ship in th Army USA MovieThe Inspector General.

HBO MovieCheech Chong's Nice Dreams. SHO Aretha! MAX Comedy Experiment CD Morning Ag Report (3D CNN News LIF Prescribing Information ESN Bodies in Motion WON Fhr Minute to Uv By TBS Cartoon Celebrating the new year in front of your television may not be too exciting, but at least it's safer than spending it behind the wheel. Viewers can choose from several year-end music shows, including Paul Simon's Graceland (9 p.m., Showtime). Highlights from a concert by Simon, left, filmed in Zimbabwe will feature music from his controversial album "Graceland." Simon will be accompanied by 24 African musicians, among them the a capella group Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Others may opt for a spoof on local TV news offered by "TV23's 23rd Annual New Year's Eve Extravaganza" (9 p.m., The "Team23" segments are part of a 3Vz-hour program that also includes live local comedy.

Those seeking a new-age backdrop for the early evening might consider a 60-minute Pat Metheny concert, recorded Dec. 1, which can be heard on radio's hi Breeze 1280 (8 p.m., KSNE-AM). ueremian ureeaon BroadcastMorning (3) Bug Bunny's Mad World of Tatavt-skxiAs president of a TV network. Bugs tries to cope with Yosemite Sam, Tweety Pie and Pepe LePew. Animated.

(R) (cc) (2) MovieOceans Eleven. A group of former paratroopers join forces to rob a series of casinos in Las Vegas all in a single night. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin. 1960. The Cosby ShowRudy tries to pit Cliff and Clair against each other to get her way.

(R)(cc) (32) Di FtedarmauaDr. Falke, the' gadabout "bat," plans a mischievous revenge by having an old friend fall in love with his own wife at a masked ball. SD Movie MASH. Irreverent surgeons Hawkeye and Trapper John prank their way through Korea with the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. Directed by Robert Alt-man.

Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould. 1970. HBO Comic Relief '87 HighlightsHarry Anderson, Billy Crystal, Bobcat Goktthwait, Paul Reiser, Tracey Ullman and Robin Williams appear in selected performances from the 1987 edition of the comedy fund-raiser to help America's homeless. (3) The Romance of Betty BoopA 1939 sales clerknightclub dancer is courted by an iceman, a gangster and a wealthy snob. Animated.

(R) (cc) CB ABC MovieThe Electric Horseman A newswoman flees to Utah with a rodeo star and the $12 million horse he frees from a Las Vegas promotion of a breakfast cereal. Directed by Sydney Pollack. Robert Radford, Jan Fonda. 1979. GD A Different WorMDenise must wear a pig mask on a date as punishment for Uttering.

(R)(cc) AEN Coal Fan Tutte Ashley Putnam and Jean Rigby portray sisters Fkxdiltgi and Dor-abella, whose faith in their lovers Ferrando and Guglielmo (Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Thomas Hampson) is tested and found wanting in this English version of Mozart's comic opera directed by Jonathan Miller. (3) CBS MovleBarnum. Aging master showman P.T. Barnum recalls his life as promoter of such sights as George Washington's nanny, Jenny Lind and General Tom Thumb. Burt Lancaster, Hanna Schygulla.

1986. SD CheersPranksters Norm and Cliff convince Frasier that Rebecca has a crush on him. (R) (cc) (TTl Night CourtMac's marriage to Quon Le meets with disapproval from his grandfather CS Happy New Year U.S.A.IHarry Anderson and Mel Torme head live broadcasts from three Baltimore locations: From Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra pays tribute to American composers. From Ethel's Place, vocalists Diane Schuur and Ethel Ennis, jazz violinist Stephane Grappelli and the Manhattan Rhythm Kings perform. From Inner Harbor, midnight fireworks are displayed.

CCD King Orange Jamboree Parade Hosts Leslie Uggams and Joe Garagiola join Orange Bowl Queen Lillian Wilkoszynski and her court for festivities in Miami. 09 New Yeara Eve ExtravaganzaThe 23rd annual event includes Melon Drop '87. BRV Don QuixoteThe 1978 American Ballet Theater production features Mikhail Baryshnikov as a poor barber in love with a village girl, played by Cynthia Harvey. SHO Paul Slmon'a Graceland: The African ConcertHighlights from Simon's 1987 Zimbabwe concert feature 24 African musicians, including Hugh Masekela, Miriam Ma-keba and Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and songs from the Grammy-winning "Grace-land" album. HBO The Roseann Barr ShowThe "domestic goddess" takes a comic look at marriage, children and being a housewife.

Guests include Lu Leonard, Anthony Caruso, (cc) SHO Eric Clapton li FriendsSongs include "Layla," "Sunshine of Your Love" and "Tears Us Apart." With PhD Collins on drums, Nathan East on bass, Greg PhUlinganes on keyboard. (3) Happy New Year, AmericaHost Ben Vereen presides over festivities in New York's Waldorf Astoria with Cleo Laine and John Dankworth, Christie Brinkley and Buster Poindexter (David Johansen) in Times Square, and Rosanne Cash, Richard Marx and the Walt Disney World Dancers in Walt Disney World. IS 1987 Power Hits Naw Year's Eva CountdownHosts Whitney Houston, DJ Walt (Baby) Love and Jeffrey Osborne are joined by guests including Janet Jackson, Smokey Robinson, Natalie Cole, Atlantic Starr, Jody Watley, Freddie Jackson, Levert and the Whispers to count down the 30 power hits of 1987. SD New Year's Evs Texas StyleA country-music celebration includes Tom Wopat and Sylvia at Gilley's in Pasadena, Texas, and Dick Van Dyke with a midnight countdown from the Alamo. 'rn IWeather I Business I Profiles 1 3-2-1- I Sesame StreeF iHHatw 1 Captain I Cooking I William I We're I Sesame yV (6:15) I Report I of Nature C'tact(cc) Bofler IKang'roo Alaxsnd'r Cooking Stroot(cc) 'fT This Homing Donahue Hour Magazine The Price It Right The Young and the UJ Restless News I Good Morning America Twin Cities Liva Geraldo Paople'a Nws Court rs G.I.Joe I Flint- Ghoat- IWood- I JEM I Dennis MyUtUe iNhtJa Lovt Boat TwUlght Hart to latonea buatara -I pecker I I Menace Pony Turtles Zona Hart Newt Today Sale of Concent- Wheel of IWIn.Lose Match ScrabMa I Century ration Fortune or Draw Maker q2) A.M.

Radar Weather Off the lAgDay I Spider- I Danger I Plastic- IZoobHee I Jimmy I Father I Who's I Getting I Ryan's I Loving Air Man Mouse man Zoo Swaggart Knows Boat? In Touch Hope I fsa Jimmy Popeya Buga Ghost- Hackle, Teddy The 700 Club Succese-N-Ufe Emergencyl swaggart Bunny busters Jeckle Rupln Value Morning Value Morning Richard Roberta PTLClub America's Value Network Network Stretch Network 1 Stretch 1 BroadcastAfternoon Associated Press New York, N.Y. Santa brought NBC its ninth weekly win in the television ratings last week, while CBS found a No. 1 "60 Minutes" in its stocking, along with first place for "CBS Evening News" in the news ratings. 'People meters' show lower network audiences. Page 12C.

But NBC's "The Cosby Show," which was on the air last week on Christmas Eve, was out of the top 10 for the second time this season and only the third time since its debut four seasons ago. It tied with NBC's "Family Ties" for 18th place in the rankings with a rating of 1 5.0 and a 38 share. The rating is a percentage of the nation's 88.6 million households with televisions. The share is a percentage of the audience viewing during a particular time period. It was a week of Christmas specials and reruns.

Forty-four out of the 68 shows rated were repeats. NBC won the week ending Dec. 27 with an average prime-time rating, of 1 3.4. CBS was second with a ABC was third with 1 1 .3. NBC has the season wrapped up with an average after 14 weeks of 16.1.

CBS and ABC continue to battle for second. CBS leads for the season with an average rating of 13.6 to ABC's 13.4. The bottom-rated shows were: "Rags to Riches," "Houston Knights," "Pursuit of Happiness," "Sable," "Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas," "Santabear's High-Flying Adventure," "The Homecom-, ing," "I Married Dora," "Full House," "The Room" and "Santa Claus, The Making of the Movie." "CBS Evening News" has now won all 14 weeks since the new season began and since the inception of "people meters," Nielsen's new push-button rating system. For the week ending Dec. 25, CBS had an average rating of 1 0.2 and a 22 share.

"NBC Nightly News" was -the closest it's been since the start of the season with a 9.9 and 22 share. ABC had a rating of 8.6 and an 18 share. Here are the prime-time rankings: 1.60 Minutes (CBS) 2. A Garfield Christmas (CBS) 3. Growing Pains (ABC) Monday Movie "The Little Match Girl" (NBC) S.A Claymation Christmas Celebration (CBS) Ratings continued on page 11C Day Brunch over 8S fresh vegetable and salads.

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