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Irl Friday, April 12, 1985 Newt Journal, Mansfield, O. Focus: entertainment 7-b 'A-Team' blasts to top of ratings in thin field NBC averaged a prime-time rating of 16.0, compared with CBS' 15.4 and ABC's 15.2 during the week. With two weeks left in the 30- CBS series: "Murder, She Wrote," "Simon Simon," "Crazy Like A Fox" and "Magnum, P.I." Part 2 of "A was ninth and ABC's "Hotel," 10th. It was not a typical week because "A.D." pre-empted NBC's The Cosby Show," 1985's most popular series, while CBS broadcast the movie "Stormin' Home," which was 41st out of 61 shows, instead of the hit series "Dallas" and "Falcon Crest." CBS, which has won 20 weeks this season, also was hurt by the poor performance of the movie "Guilty Conscience," which ranked 53rd. NBC's three-hour movie, "Florence Nightingale," starring Jaclyn Smith, was a major disappointment, finishing 52nd.

With R. Ewing out of the way, ABC and NBC placed five Friday shows in the Top 30. ABC had "Webster" (No. 23), "Mr. Belvedere" (27th) and "Benson" (28th).

NBC's "Knight Rider" was 24th, and "Miami Vice" was 30th. Last week's newly introduced series did not excite viewers. ABC's "Me and Mom" ranked 44th, one notch ahead of CBS' "Lucie Arnaz Show." This week's ranking, showing season-to-date ranking in parentheses (with an denoting a one-time-only presentation): 1. (5) "The 2. (X) "NCAA Championship 3.

(1) 4. (X) "A.D.," Part 5. (11) "Murder, She 6. (5) "Simon 7. (10) "Crazy Like A 8.

(14) "Magnum, P.I."; 9. (X) "A.D.," Part 10. (11) Bustin' 38. (46) "Gimme A 39. (51) 40.

(40) "The Love Boat." 41. (X) "Stormin" 42. (X) "Daffy Duck Special Easter 43. (68) 44. (65) "Me and 45.

(66) "Lucie Arnaz 46. (81) 47. (44) "Three's a 48. (41) "Diff'rent 49. (57) "Charles in 50.

(81) "Under One 51. (66) 52. (X) "Florence 53. (X) "Guilty 54. (49) "Double 55.

(72) "Eye to 56. (56.) "Detective in the 57. (80) "Punky 58. (X) "Dead Men Don't Wear 59. (59) "The 60.

(88) "Silver Spoons" and 61. (X) 4'Disney World Easter Parade." bets. 11. (20) "Highway to 12. (4) "60 13.

(8) "Knots 14. (24) "TV's Bloopers Practical 15. (X) "Love Lives 16. (X) "A.D.," Part 17. (42) "MacGruder and 18.

(36) "Hardcastle 19. (X) "A.D.," Part 20. (24) "Scarecrow Mrs. King." 21. (X) "Superman 22.

(29) "Trapper John, M.D."; 23. (23) 24. (29) "Knight 25. (59) 26. (58) 27.

(36) "Mr. 28. (36) 29. (46) 30. (45) "Miami 31.

(46) 32. (22) "The Fall S3. (39) "Who's the 34. (51) "Finder of Lost 35. (51) "T.J.

36. (63) "Off the 37. X) "Bugs Bunny Special Best 2:45 a.m. Movie "American Hot Wax" (1978, Com.) "PG' 3 a.m. GEO 700 Club (TW) SportsCenter CED Night Flight rnro Hot Properties 3:20 a.m.

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Week Frontline New World Visions GO 6B 3's Company M'A'S'H H's Heroes AH Family Movie: "East Of Eden" GD Polios Movie; "Wake Me When It's Over" BJ lobo (TT) TBS jSonfofd Baseboll; San Diego Podres at Atlanta Braves Movie CNN Moneyline Crossfire Primenews Freemon Reports News (TJ) CBN C. Connors Cisco Kid Lone Ranger tone Ranger 700 Club Jock Benny (ID NIC Can't Do That Dangermouse Community Bulletin Board HD SPN SportsCenter Superstars USFL Football: San Antonio Gunslingers at Jacksonville Bulls USA Rod io 1 990 Dragnet Golf The Masters Stow LIFE Hot Properties Regis Philbin's Lifestyles America Tolks Bock Good Sex! $7) SHO Movie; "Lost Plane Out" Cont'd Movie; "Swing Shift" Movie: "Seems Uke Old Times" (j MOV Movie: "Enigma" Cont'd Movie: "Moscow On The Hudson" Movie: "Motel Hell" (29 HBO Braingomes FroggleRock Movie; "Hard To Hold" Video Jukebox Movie: "Damien; Omen II" DISN Movie; "Tiger Town" TheBeover Movie: "Never Cry Wolf" 9 p.m. Dallas follow another as J.R. and Bobby against Cliff and Jamie. Naturally, twist, a stranger familiar to Jamie J.R., who could change the Ewing On a lower note, Mandy tells off gives Bobby the cold shoulder, and Jamie plan to marry.

Frontline Central America: Civil War In El Conclusion of a four-part examination political problems In Central America Influences on those problems. Tonight Frontline focuses on El Salvador, the many Americans fear could become another Vietnam as the U. S. lends to the Salvadoran government In its Marxist rebels. 10 p.m.

Falcon Crest Is preoccupied with matters sexual who finds the best high is more Is manipulating the strings to in trouble with the law and is on a scheme to bankrupt both Richard Chase. This lady Is no lady when It big business and the destruction of partners. Jane Wyman gives Angela of credulity that less experienced would have reached for and World Visions art historian Prof. Vincent Scully an "A for Effort" In trying to bring of American art, architecture and from 1650-1914, before the public. The there's not much he can do In this (total) series except skim the surface.

entry follows art currents from pre-Civil days to the formal classicism of the century to the realist tradition of Frank Lloyd Wright. nitw vnnv ad win shocked Georgetown in the second- mgnesi-raiea nuaa basketball fl- nal ever broadcast but The A- Team" won the contest for viewers, i- icauuig mm, a raungs victory iasi wees. The No. 1 "A-Team" had the help I of nine hours of "A.D.," which pro-divided NBC with respectable ratings yover four nights, according to figures released by the A.C. Nielsen Co.

In all, "A.D." finished with an average 19.2 rating, ranking No. 6 for this season's long-form broadcasts. Two of the four parts of the mini-series ranked in the Top 10 during the week of April 1 to 7, while the iinal two installments were 16th land 19th, respectively, reflecting lessening viewer interest. fTonight I 6 p.m. OOQOOfDCHDQ) New G) $100,000 Nam That Tun 1-2-1 Contact (R) (CC) Star Trek 0 MacNll Lhrr Nwthour CBDhTrent Strokes QUov Boat GMD Hot Potato QED Out Of Control CUED Outdoor'! T.V.

Magazine QSD Cartoons (HED Smart Money WD Movl "Last Plane Out" (1983, Dra.) 'PG' (WD Movl "Enigma" (1982, Sus.) 'PG' (WD Newl Animal World 6:05 p.m. (HE) Down To earth 6:30 p.m. CD NBC News (1 63 ABC Newt (CC) tJ CD CBS News MacNll Lhrr Newshour EBLaverne Shirley Rifleman 1 (MD NICK Rocks: Video To Oo (MS) SportiLook (MD Epcot Magazine: Evening Edl-itlon 6:35 p.m. (HESOomerPyle 7 p.m. (MD Movie Vi "Tiger Town" (1983, Dra.) 8 p.m.

Q) Movie 'a "Wake Me When It's Over" (1960, Com.) Ernie Ko- vacs. A soldier builds a resort ho-tel on a radar post In the Far East. CUC Movie "Swing Shift" (1984, Dra.) 'PG' ffflBV) Movie "Moscow On The Hudson" (1984, Com.) 'R' (CC) CEED Movie "Hard To Hold" (1984, Dra.) 'PG' 8:15 p.m. (MD Behind The Scenes With The Undergrads 8:30 p.m. Q) Mr.

Belvedere Kevin Is jailed for vandalism. (CC) 9 p.m. (B Half Nelson Rocky infiltrates an auto theft ring operated by a foreign ambassador. Movie "East Of Eden" (1955, Dra.) James Dean, Julie Harris. Frustrated love creates conflicts between two boys and their father.

(MD Movie "Never Cry Wolf" (1983, Adv.) 'PG' 9:30 p.m. 0 Off The Rock Sam tries to hide the truth from Kate about his late partner's infidelity. (CC) 10 p.m. GHD Movie "Seems Like Old Times" (1980, Com.) 'PG' MD Movie "Motel Hell" 1980, Hor.) 'R' rnEtn Movie "Damien: Omen II" (1978, Hor.) 'R' JOHN DARLING FT week season, CBS has a 17.0 rating, NBC a 16.3 and ABC a 15.5. A rating measures the percentage of the nation's 84.9 million TV homes tuned, on average, to a given minute of a network's broadcasts.

"The A-Team" had a 24.0 rating, followed by CBS' broadcast of the NCAA final, with a 23.3 rating. Only the 1979 championship between Magic Johnson's Michigan State and Larry Bird's Indiana State did bet-ler. ABC's "Dynasty," tied with CBS' "Dallas" as the season's No. 1 show, was third, and Part 3 of "A was fourth. The next four slots went to 10:20 p.m.

Movie Vs "Invasion Of The Body Snatchers" (1954, Scl-Fl.) Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter. Outer space flora duplicate Southern Californlans and sap their minds as they sieep. 10:45 p.m. (MDDTV 11p.m. OOOOd(D(D News Best Of Saturday Night Live Star Performance GD Honeymoon QBE) Bill Cosby (HEED Hagler-Hearns: A Cloteup CED Night Flight CEED Hot Properties (MD Movie "Modern Times" (1936, Com.) 'G' 11:25 p.m.

Best Of Oroucho 11:30 p.m. (D Tonight Guest host: Joan Rivers. Scheduled: Susan Sullivan, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Eileen Brennan. Movie "The Diary Of Anne Frank" (1980, Dra.) Melissa Gilbert, Maximilian Schell.

A Jewish family's life In hiding from the Nazis as seen through the eyes of a young girl. WKRP In Cincinnati LTD Taxi GDPOAOolf ABC News Nlghtllne Mac Nail Lehrer Newthour Independent Nws CS M'A'S'H CESD Best Of Oroucho CEED SportsCenter 11:45 p.m. CO Star Trek GD Movie "Ator: The Fighting Eagle" (1983, Adv.) Miles O'Keefe. A warrior battles to rescue his kidnapped betrothed. (MD Movie "The Hunger" (1983, Fan.) 'R' 11:55 p.m.

CHID Maximum Security Midnight Benny Hill Movie 'a "The Fantastic Invasion Of Planet Earth" (1966, Set-Fl.) Michael Cole. Prospective parents become trapped in a bubble from outer space. CD Movie Vi "Torture Dungeon" (1969, Hor.) Susan Cassidy. A woman marries the heir to a kingdom and then discovers the grisly contents of his cellar. 700 Club BJ Lobo The Saint Solid Gold OTD Bums And Allen (EW) USFL Football QED Night Flight (BED A Whole New You IWl Movie "Against All Odds" (1984, Dra.) 'R'(CC) 12:05 a.m.

(HE) Night Tracks 12:25 a.m. Movie "Romancing The Stone" (1984, Adv.) 'PG' AS ATAX ADVISEP, HOO) DO MOU FEEL SCWEOWE I TELEVISION) COST OF HAIR SFRA1- AS A DEDUCTION hourlong drama stars Carol Burnett (one of Altman's stock company of actresses) and Amy Madigan (the schoolteacher in "Places in the Altman doesn't feel he has come full cycle by returning to directing for TV. He feels TV is a different medium these days and he foresees even more diversity for the home viewer in the very near future. He prophesies that the networks will exist only as a peripheral adjunct to all the cable services and the home recorders. Specialization will be the byword of TV.

There will be dramas for those who prefer and classical programming and the usual news and sitcoms, but it will all be available to the viewer in a way that he can schedule his own (1938, Com.) Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller. A speech teacher turns a street urchin into a lady. GO Movie "Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers" (1956, Scl-FI.) Hugh Marlowe. Scientists combat alien forces planning to disintegrate Earth.

2a.m. Movie "The Beast With A Million Eyes" (1955, Hor.) Paul Birch. A mysterious creature feeds on the brains of animals. 09 Movie "The Battle Of Neret-va" (1971, Adv.) Yul Brynner. Yugoslavians struggle for freedom against local Chetniks as well as Italian and German troops.

SEND Bachelor Father (LED Oood texl With Dr. Ruth Westheimer 2:05 a.m. CSSD Movie "Last Plane Out" (1983, Dra.) 'PG' 2:15 a.m. IW) Not Necessarily Inlglets 2:30 a.m. Movie "Pursuit" (1975, Wes.) Ray Danton.

A wounded Army scout is pursued through the desert by a vengeful Indian. (TW) Blondle News Net. CD9D Christian Brdctt. (MD Nickelodeon HfTD Music Television (MD Country Music TV Z3D ESPN Network (USD USA Network film Lifetime CHD Showtime (BSD Movie Channel (MD Home Box Office CDED Disney Channel Cleveland (WEWS) Columbus (WTVN) Cleveland (WJKW) Columbus (WBNS) Toledo (WTOL) Toledo (WTVG) Akron (WAKR) Toledo (WDHO) Cleveland (WVIZ) Columbus (WTTE) Columbus (WOSU) Cleveland (WUAB) Cleveland (WCLQ) Michener's 'Space' worth seeing 3:55 a.m. 60 Movie "Guest Wife" 1945, Com.) Don Ameche, Claudette Colbert.

A war correspondent tries to Impress his superiors by Introdus-Ing his best friend's wife as his own. 4 a.m. Movie 'a S. 117 Double Agent" (1971, Mys.) John Gavin, Curt Jurgens. A spy Is betrayed.

4:20 a.m. CHED Movie "Hard To Hold" (1984, Dra.) 'PG' Brdcit. Movie Ratings Best Good AAA Fair Poor (R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captioned for the Hearing Impaired On Starvlew: Channel 16 Is Music Television; 23 Is Country Music; 24 Is VH-1; 27 Is AP Sports and Financial News; 29 Is CNN-2; 30 Is All-Weather; 31 IsAP. Biggest problem was lighting the moonscape. Theatrical lighting from overhead would produce three shadows, an impossibility on the moon.

So technicians devised a single lighting source by concentrating a great bundle of light bulbs into a huge cardboard cone and aiming it at the astronauts. The result: One shadow from each figure and one reflection on their respective face shields. Hollywood magic! For all its technical accuracy, "Space" is not a hardware show. It's a solid story that builds to a gripping climax in outer space in the final episode. "Space" begins Sunday night from 8 to 11 and continues in alternating two and three-hour episodes each night through Thursday.

Channel 43 is in the midst of a delightful dilemma with the Force and the Cavaliers in the playoffs and the Indians invading New York next weekend. What happens if there are schedule conflicts? Simply stated, the Indians baseball games prevail they get aired no matter what else is scheduled on their nights. If there is an indoor-soccer game the same night as a basketball game, the station will carry the Cavs. 12:30 a.m. fl 0D Friday Night Videos ABC Newt Nlghtllne LSEDtovo That Bob CUD Night Flight COED Nature Of Things (WD Disney Family Album 12:45 a.m.

CD Star Trek 1 a.m. ABC Rocks 60 Jimmy twaggart 69 Rowan Martin's Laugh-In CBNow York Hot Tracks (MP I Married Joan CUD Movie 2 "Ladies And Gentleman, The Fabulous Stains" (1981, Mus.) Diane Lane, Ray Win-stone. The meteoric rise of a trio of punk-rockers. 'R' COED Regis Philbin's Lifestyles 1:30 a.m. Star Search 69 Independent News LMPDobteOlllls (WD Movie 2 "Enigma" (1982, Sus.) PG' 1:35 a.m.

(D Movie "The Vampires" (1966, Hor.) Gordon Scott. Goliath Is called upon to conquer a vampire. 1:45 a.m. Movie "Pygmalion" BY BATIUK SHAMRAY HOUJ DO MOU FEEL ABOUT MAIWG LICENSE PLATES FOP THE NJEXT TEW HEARS shows at his own convenience. Small dramas interest Altman at this time.

He says TV is the best medium for the small drama and admits that it may be a throwback to the old days when that's all TV really was small, intimate slices of life. Marsha Norman's play "The Laundromat" is such a drama. It is basically a two-character play set in the confines of a laundromat in the middle of the night Altman feels that Burnett is one of the best actresses around, and he thinks she managed to do the most honest work she has ever done on film in "Laundromat" He also had high praise for Madigan whom he cast without really knowing her work that well. Bill Barrett A Nothing indifferent about Altman "Space," a liberal adaptation for television of James A. Michener's massive novel, will occupy most of CBS's evening hours next week.

Despite a somewhat delayed ignition in the opening episode Sunday night this engrossing mix of drama, daring and romance is well worth your time and attention details here later this weekend. If you're a Michener fan, however, and especially if you've read the book, you may grumble a bit this make-believe story about the early years of the U.S. space effort takes some startling liberties with the author's work. On the other hand, be assured that James A. Michener, having banked the TV-rights payment is delighted with the show.

So am I. "Space" cost more than $33 million to make. Much of that went for special effects which, in space-walk and man-on-the-moon scenes, fooled even NASA experts who thought they were watching stock film of past space glories. So we were told by members of the production staff with whom we met in Washington last month. And having seen all 13 hours of this five-chapter story, we TV critics were ourselves startled to learn that we were watching innovative techniques and not film made of some real space mission.

For instance, the surface of the "moon" (constructed on a huge Hollywood sound stage) is composed of dry powdered cement and Kitty Litter. It crumbles and puffs dust like the real thing under the shoes of the astronauts. The actors, wearing genuine space suits, move in that slow and cautious and often awkward manner we recall from the televised moon walks no slow-motion cameras were used. Invisible wires, of course, lift the actor in the space-walk scene. But bow do they make his "umbilical cord" appear to float in space? Why, with big balloons full of helium tethered up near the sound-stage ceiling and out of camera range, that's how.

The balloons are attached to the lifeline between astronaut and space ship. The lunar vehicle they used in "Space" had to be specially constructed for the film because the real ones, built for low-gravity conditions, would collapse under the weight of the actors. king Features Syndicate Robert Altman began in TV as a director many years ago. One of his first jobs was an "Alfred Hitchcock Show." He has since gone on to movie-legend fame with his films "M'A'S'H," "Nashville," "McCabe and Mrs. Miller," "Thieves Like Us," and "Streamers." In between, he has had a string of flops such as "Popeye" and "Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean." No other director in recent memory has been consistently singled out in print for lis flops as well as his hits.

It always seems to be open season when it comes to Altman. The man seems to be mildly amused by it alL He recently directed "The Laundromat" for HBO. The.