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SpeMglM (ddd stairs Young sees bigger, better things So I think I'll be able to pull it off. It will be very interesting." Born in Chambersburg, Young made his theatrical debut at 7 in "Pipin" at a small Midwestern college where his schoolteacherlibrarian mother was teaching. Local dinner theater productions followed, including the role of Billy Ray in "On Golder Pond." He is best known to fans as the comDUter "I whiz on the "Max Headroom" By Wendy Wallace "Imagine me the star of my own sitcom," says Chris Young, who stars as teen-age Danny Mathews in the new CBS series "Live In," airing Mondays. "I still feel as if I'm dreaming. I think the best way to go is television because it's a very powerful medium and that's why I'm doing this series.

This is a case of moving on to bigger and better things. "I'm just looking to make the audience enjoy what they're watching." The "Live In" in the title is housekeeper Lisa Wells (Lis Patrick). Wells is flown in from Australia by Danny's parents (Hugh Maguire and Kimberly Farr) to take care of their baby daughter after Mrs. Mathews chooses to return to her job as a clothing manager at a department store and her husband to run his sporting goods store. Danny assumes Wells is there to fulfill his adolescent fantasies.

"I was sent a number of scripts and this one is my favorite," says Young. "And I'm very happy to be with CBS. I'm looking to help turn the network around and I think we've got a really good chance of working on the 8:00 hour. "I'm a little nervous but working before a live audience is a lot like stage work," he continues. "When you feel comfortable enough to read the lines off the page, that's when you know you're confident enough to play that character.

joins CBS series (1987) and as the lovesick teen-age son of John Candy in the summer vacation comedy "The Great Outdoors." Chris Young: family. "In different ways, all of my roles have been my favorites," says Young. "Every day it's something new and something more exciting. Sometimes it's very flattering to me when someone asks what I've been doing. The ultimate goal and the reason I act, is for someone to walk up to me and say 'Chris, I really enjoyed you in a certain CBS chasing young libidos In the pilot, Miss Patrick appeared in two miniskirts, a pair of tight jeans and a bath towel.

More care seemed to have been taken with her wardrobe than with the rest of the show When Lisa rebuffed Danny (their ages are never given, but she is probably about 18, and he's probably about 16), he and his loathsome friend, Gator, drilled a hole from Danny's room to the bathroom to watch her take a shower. The camera lingered on her unzipping her skirt and pulling her top off over her head while a deep male voice on the soundtrack leered "Oh, yeah!" The creeps were foiled, but then Lisa found the hole and watched Danny strip naked, setting up comments at dinner about "baby carrots" and such. The dialogue is right down there with the plot. Gator asked Danny, "Did you boff her yet?" And when Lisa spurned Gator's advances as well, he quipped, "The chick is obviously frigid." What great attitudes to be teaching youngsters. Both Miss Wells and Young are healthy, good-looking youngsters, primed for the cover of Tiger Beat magazine.

But that will only happen if the show is a hit. And given CBS's track record with sitcoms at 8 p.m., it's going to take more than a reworked "Porky's" to entice viewers. By Phil Kloer Cox News Service CBS is going after the hearts and minds of young viewers. And their libidos. Last month, the network that has the lowest ratings among teens tried "What's Alan Watching?" a special from Eddie Murphy's production company that featured a teenage boy's fantasy-come-true when the woman in a TV soap commercial showed him the body parts you don't normally get to see.

In Monday night's premiere, there was another teen-dream-come-true on "Live-In," a new series that is pure prurience, aimed squarely at people who think with their hormones rather than their brains. Its high point, if there was such a thing, was a scene in which a teenage girl watched a teenage boy undress through a peephole, then made double entendres at the dinner table about the smallness of his sexual organ. This from the network that gave us "Lonesome Dove." The girl is Lisa Wells (newcomer Lisa Patrick), an Australian au pair who has come to work for the Matthews family: mom, dad, two teenage boys and a baby. She's supposed to be taking care of the baby, but she ends up fending off the advances of the oldest son, Danny (Chris Young, who played the computer whiz Brice on "Max PAGE 36 TOWN TALK, Alexandrla-Pinevllle, March 25, 1 989.