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Karl Maiden Skag' Premieres Academy Award winner Karl Maiden returns to a "TV series as Pete "Skag" Skagska, a veteran steel-" worker from Pittsburgh, suddenly forced to question his traditional values about work and the family when he suffers a stroke. The special three-hour pre miere of "Skag" airs Sunday, 8 p.m., on NBC-TV, Channel 8. Piper Laurie as Pete's wife, Jo Skagska. Also featured, as members of the Skagska family, Applied textured coating Gives your home added beauty and protects against the elements 10 OFF! Sears textured coating renews stucco, block, and masonry surfaces. Expert installers will clean, repair and seal old surfaces before applying a beautiful, textured coating.

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977-8000 are Craig Wasson, Peter Gallagher, Kathryn Holcomb and George Voskovec. Powers Boothe, M. Emmet lijg Walsh and Tom Atkins guest-star. T3 "'Oft' Skagska, a 56-year-old steel mill foreman, is a man 7(3' who has always made his living with his muscles, but he also has plenty of brains and a lot of heart. Suddenly ly, he finds his world torn apart when he suffers a jo stroke that leaves him temporarily paralyzed.

For the first time in his life, Skag has to question his own rV) mortality, and whether he will be able to continue as 05 -father to his children and husband to his wife. Following his' discharge from the hospital, Skag 3s all is not well in his household. Petar, his 180-year-old father, left speechless years earlier by a -stroke, might be better off in a nursing home. Barba-tra, his sensitive, overweight 15-year-old daughter, is 5 iunhappy and sexually active. David, his eldest son, who also works at the steel mill, is rebellious and con's Even daughter Patricia, a beautiful young 'woman, and John, the son he hopes will be a doctor, thave pressing problems of which he was never aware.

I And through it all there is Jo, an attractive, vital 5 15 years his junior who Skag fears may be if he can no longer be a complete husband. But Skag is not about to give up without a fight. 35 recovers from his stroke and returns to the mill to accept the challenge of winning back his old job from young upstart who thinks "old men" like him would 58 -be better off retired..