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B-20 SUNDAY CALL-CHRONICLE. Allentown. September 9, 1979, 4 BEST BETS ON TV i i 2) ISSUES AND ANSWERS. On a tape delay basis from Havana. Cuba.

Yasser Arafat, chairman of I the PLO Palestine Liberation Or- panization is interviewed by Barbara Walters. if 4 CB CZ) BASEBALL. ABC offers a special game, crucial to one of the divisional races between the Los Angeles Dodgers and theCincinnati Reds, live from Cincinnati. Two 'out of the world' characters. Random (Jimmy Brogan.

left) and Mork (Robin Williams), get together in the special one-hour premiere of ABC's new family comedy series. "Out of the which will be telecast 7-8 p.m. today. including Loni Anderson. Carol Burnett.

Stockard Channing. Bonnie Franklin. Robert Guillaume. Hal Linden. Mary Tyler Moore.

Carroll O'Connor. Donna Pescow, Telly Savalas. Suzanne Somers, Richard Thomas and Cindy Williams. A special feature of this year's show will be a montage of memorable clips from previous Emmy telecasts. 9:00 2) 22 60 MINUTES.

This week 'sedition features reports on: Mike Wallace investigates corruption in a federally-funded poverty agency in Los Angeles: Harry Rea-soner looks at solar power; and Dan Rather reports on the Thornwell case, an Army private given LSD without his knowledge. (g) MASTERPIECE THEATER. "Kean." Part I. The new season of this presigious and vastly entertaining series begins on a high note with another choice British import. Fine acting abounds in this two-part production of Jean-Paul Sartre's sophisticated and witty play about the tempestuous and legendary 19th century British actor Kdmund Kean, brought to pulsating life by Anthony 'Hopkins.

He is all male bravado and actor's conceit, whether he's juggling endless romantic trysts with admiring women or executing a verbal duel of wits with the Prince of Wales. A theatrical feast to be savored. SEASON PREMIERE' role. He plays a professor whose accidental discovery of a formula makes his old model fly. Light and entertaining.

The film's con- I elusion airs next Sunday. (1969 SEASON PREMIERE) (D OUT OF THE BLUE. "Random's Arrival." Hoping for -lightning to strike twice. ABC is 1 betting on gangling young nightclub comic Jimmy Brogan to follow in the successful footsteps of Robin Williams. The old chestnut about an angel sent down to help mortals is -on display once again.

Skinny 1 Brogan plays the incompetent angel named Random, overworking his magic tricks in the midst of a brood of orphans. Mork of "Mork and Mindy" drops by to help Random, but even the mighty Mork isn't enough to save this slight entry. (PREMIERE) 8:30 QH SPECIAL. "The 31st Annual Emmy Awards." Television honors its own tonight and everyone who is anyone in TV will be in attendance for this live program from the Pasadena Center in Pasadena. Calif.

Cheryl Ladd and Henry Winkler host the ceremonies and are joined by TV luminaries fj) (f gg) TENNIS SPECIAL. Live from Flushing Meadow Park in Corona. N.Y.. final round matches of the United States Open Tennis Championships. The game's biggest stars compete including Bjorn Borg.

Jimmy Connors. John Mc- Knroe. Chris Evert Lloyd. Martina Navratilova. Evonne Goolagong.

and Tracy Austin. 7.00 (3) (D WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY. "The Absent-; Minded Part I. The kids should get a kick out of this vintage Disney production. It's all simple-' minded fun as Fred MacMurry bumbles his way through the title grow," she says.

"In the mid-1950s, people used to go to the little clubs. The Broadway people went and that was how I found my way into my first Broadway musical. 'Three Wishes for It was during that time she appeared as Sylvia Schnauser in her first TV series, "Car 54 Where Are You?" She played the wife of Al Lewis in the series. On Broadway she was the original Mammy Yokum in "Lil Abner" and the original Mrs. Peachum in "Three Penny Opera." She moved to Los Angeles about five years ago with her then-husband, composer and music editor John Strauss, and their sons, Andy and Larry.

She has since been divorced. Her first work was a tiny part in "Time of the Cuckoo" at the Ahmanson Theater, which starred Jean Stapleton. "A lot of people came and the next thing I was being interviewed for dramatic shows." Miss Rae says. "I was in tjueen of the Stardust Then I did a guest shot on "All in the Family' and had a regular role in Hot I It's been one.thing after another." "Facts of Life" is. more or less, a spinoff from "Diff'rent Strokes.

She becomes housemother to five teen-aged girls at a college preparatory school. "I've been offered series through the years." she says. "Even when I lived in New York, but things never seemed quite suitable. So I never committed myself to them. "This idea is a rather nice one.

I like the premise. I'm a housemother with a lot of common sense and a lot of love. Hopefully, some of Mrs. Garrett's character will unfold and I will be able to fill her out as a human being. They asked me hat her first name was and I said Edna.

It just came out." Miss Rae. the mother of two sons, says she injects her own philosophy into the show. "She wants to share her own experiences with the girls and illuminate their minds and emotions. Mrs. Garrett has great joy and celebration of life.

It's a great adventure." She says she'd encountered several such people as a child. "I had one moment with a math teacher who knew I was so frightened of math." she says. "I knew I couldn't even take the entrance examination for Northwestern University without that geometry. She had a reputation for being very stern, but she was kind and gentle with me and helped me overcome my mental block. Miss Rae.

a native of Milwaukee, studied drama and voice at Northwestern, then moved to New York and began performing at small clubs. "I saw I wasn't an ingenue like Debbie Reynolds," she says. "And I didn't know how to break into the business. I didn't know how to deal with that. So I had seen Wally Cox at the Blue Angel and Alice Pierce.

They were great and I said I'm a very good character actress. "I thought I would do satirical character sketches. I tried out at the Sunday night guest spot at the Village Vanguard and Max Gordon booked me. I was there 14 weeks the first time." She did a monologue on a Milwaukee garden club meeting and takeolfs as an opera singer. Sheldon Harnick.

a Northwestern classmate who went on to do "Fiorello" and "Fiddler on the Roof," wrote a minimusical for her. "It was a wonderful way for me to earn my living and Series star avoids worry over ratings By JERRY BUCK Of The Associated Press LOS ANGELES Charlotte Rae has turned down offers for her own television series and now that she finally has her own show, she doesn't want to think about it too much. It's not that Miss Rae. who's starring'in the NBC summer series "Facts of Life." isn't excited. "I don't want to worry about the ratings and whether we'll get picked up.

You can go bonkers." Immediately after finishing the four-episode series she returns to her costarring role in "Dili 'rent Strokes." After that, she says, the show's fate "is in the laps of Fred Silverman and God. And the public." She plays the same character in both shows, and a SUPERB TELEVISION TV CHANGES TONIGHT (AS USUAL i 8:00 "EVENING AT POPS" Jazz Guitar 9:00 A NEW "MASTERPIECE THEATRE" 10:00 "CARMEN McRAE AT THE PALACE" SUNDAY, September 9 2:00 p.m. 6,7 SPECIAL SUNDAY EDITION OF MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL. See Best Bets. 5:00 p.m.

39 FIRING LINE. Today's guest is presidential hopeful. Congressmn John Anderson R-Ill. -16 UNDERSEA WORLD OF JACQUES COUSTEAU replaces ABC's Wide World of Sports.ll:30 p.m. 39 WHEN THE BOATS COME IN.

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