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4 Almost Grown' 9 p.m. Monday Series makes three-decade trip get married, into the 70s when the time comes for them to reevaluate their love for each other, and to the present day when shared memories at once hold them together and keep them apart. With them on life's journey are Norman's parents, Joan and Frank Foley (Miss Taggart and Alldredge), Susie's parents, Vi and Dick Long (Miss Gillette and Schaal), Norman's sister, Anya (Miss Helman), and Susie's brother, Joey (Macklin). William Sackheim and David Chase are executive producers, Kim Todd Television Producers in association with Atlantis Films. "Almost Grown" (Monday, 9-10 p.m.) stars Tim Daly, Eve Gordon, Rita Taggart, Michael Alldredge, Anita Gillette, Richard Schaal, Albert Macklin and Ocean Helman in the drama of the relationship of a New Jersey couple through three tumultuous decades, with an emphasis on the music that has bound them together through dating, mating, maturing and enduring.

Susie Long (Miss Gordon) and Norman Foley (Daly) begin their courtship in the '60s moment when she first hears "Today I Met the Boy I'm Gonna Marry" on her AM radio, and their relationship continues through that Dixie-Cups decade when Susie and Norman decide to make the trip to the chapel and 'TV 101' 7 p.m. Tuesday Teacher pushes for progress He is encouraged by his father former iournalism TV 101" (Tuesday, 7-8 p.m.) stars Sam Robards, Andrew Cassese, Stacey Dash, Alex Desert, Steward Goddard, Matthew Le Blanc, Teri Polo, Mary B. Ward, Andrew White, Leon Russom. and Brynn Thayer. This drama is about Kevin Keegan (Robards), a young iournalism teacher who returns to his alma mater, Roosevelt High School, to bring the school newspaper into the television age.

teachers, Emile Walker (Miss Thayer), but encounters scepticism from the stern principal, Edward Steadman (Russom). Cassese, Miss Dash, Goddard, Le Blanc, Miss Polo, Miss Ward and White play his students who, in the course of assembling stories, learn as much about themselves as they do about television reporting. Karl Schaefer and Scott Brazil are the executive producers for GTG Entertainment. Fall TV season arrives bringing new programs alma mater to bring the school newspaper into the television age. Midnight Caller (Tuesdays, NBC): Gary Cole is an outspoken cop who heats up the airwaves on his controversial call-in show on crime.

Mary Tyler Moore (Wednesdays, CBS): Ms. Moore returns to television as a divorcee who meets a widowed engineer (Edward Moore) and the two combine families. Baby Boom (Wednesday, NBC): Kate Jackson, in her first comedic role, is a high-powered executive who finds her well-organized life is thrown into disarray when she inherits the 2-year-old daughter of a deceased relative. Tattinger's (Wednesday, NBC): Stephen Collins stars as the owner of one of Manhattan's most popular restaurants. Dear John (premieres Thursday, Oct.

6 on NBC): Judd Hirsch returns to TV as a teacher who must learn to cope with his new single status after his wife leaves him. By Wendy Wallace It was a long time in coming, but finally the new season begins this week with the premiere of three NBC series plus several returning ones. Here's a look at some of the more interesting new shows that will premiere during the upcoming weeks: A Fine Romance (Sundays, ABC, Jan. debut): Margaret Whitton and British actor Anthony Andrews star as a divorced couple, still in love, who host a hit television series. Murphy Brown (Mondays, CBS): Candice Bergen plays a high-profile, successful Mike Wallace-like reporter of the television news program "F.Y.I." Roseanne (Tuesdays, ABC): Comedian Ro-seanne Barr plays a blue-collar woman of the '80s, juggling husband, three kids, a home and a factory job with a very funny and unique view of family life.

TV 101 (Tuesdays, CBS): Sam Robards is a young iournalism teacher who returns to his TOWN TALK, Alexandria-Pinoville, Saturday, October 1, 1988 PAGE 38.