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B4 Austin American-Statesman Tuesday, October 9, 1990 More channels COA. City of Austin Access AISD. Austin schools Access (0 BET Black Entertainment Television (B UNI. Univision (D TNT, Super Channel 03 NICK, Nickelodeon BD MTV Q) VH-1 Music videos LIFE, Lifetime ffl CNN, Cable News Network ffl Headline News 03 CSPAN CSpan II Sessions of Congress EDO) Weather 63 FNN BRAVO FinancialCultural programs SB FAM The Family Channel SD KLRU-TOO Peoplevision (B NASH. Nashville EE CMT, Country Music CDCB QVC HSN Shoppers guide 3 Playboy Adult entertainment CD El.

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Carol Burnett Perry Mason 'David and i Hitchcock Geraldo Do It Yourself MOVIE: 'Madame Motion Lunch Box 30 the Restless Ujvlno Generations DtejVaryke Musica J3ilhheb NameMune Gardeninc JOJrck gwMliki (Shapin KiasoncjS 1A PM News All My Days of Cur Highway to Carrascolendas MOVIE: 11 Movietime i Stumpers News Rendezvous Man)' (Part APSports Auto Racing Too Smart :30 Bold Beautiful Children Lives Heaven Precollege 'Sweet MOVIE: Hot Potato Antiques 2) Nell Auto Racing Strangers 1PM As the World One Life to Another MOVIE: French Hostage' The Reaction Andy Griffith Tastes World Globe TV Diamond Londonto DangerBay :30 Turns Live Wcrta 'Absolute Geography Accidental Wipeout Dick Van Dyke Kitchen MOVIE: Beijing Mouse Factory 2' PM Baseball General Santa Begiwwri' Skills Tom Jerry Touriet' MOVIE: Squares Honeymooners Do It Yourself MOVIE; APSports 'All's Fait' Drag Racing The Raccoons :30 (Live) Hospital Barbara Flintstones MOVIE; 'Target' Pyramid Cartoon Club Gardening 'Slmba' Care Bears 3J PM Donahue Instant Recall Tale Spin Flintstones 'Midget' MOVIE: Press Luck Cartoons Dr. Edell Planet Earth Legends of Donald Duck 30 Inside Edition Peter Pan 3:45 Amigos Brady Bunch 'City in 1 High Rollers DuckTales Your Health! MOVIE: Wrestling Win, Lose 4 PM Trump Card Oprah Ninja Turtles Mr. Rogers Laverne 4:10 MOVIE: 4:15 MOVIE: Ten of Us Chip 'N Dale Mother Nature The Fugitive Wrestling 'Muppete Truck Kids, Inc. 30 Challengers Winlrey i Head of Class Sesame Good Times 'Twins' 'Dangerout Dance Party Cartoons Wildlife Joe R. Peace -Manhattan' Harness Race Mouse Club 5 PM News News Jeopardy! ALF Street Hillbillies Cartoon Charles Beyond 2000 The Avengers BodybyJanis 5:15 MOVIE; Running MOVIE: :30 CBS News ABC News NBC News 3's Company Reading Andy Griffith Express Abbott Oklahoma 'This It SportsLook 'Good Old 6 PM News News News Who's Boss? Square One Happy Days MOVIE: MOVIE: VacGyver Jeannie Rendezvous Wilderness Playback Elvis' SportsCenter Boy'.

:30 Cosby Growing Pains Wheel Fortune Night Court Business Jeflersons 'Scrooged' 'The Diary Night Court World Monitor Survival NHL Hockey: j' Superbouts 7 PM Baseball Who's Boss? Matlock MOVIE: MacNe.l MOVIE: of Ann Murder, She MOVIE: Survival! Dwight D. Minnesota MOVIE: Walt Disney :30 Cincinnati at Head of Class 'The Court) Lehrer 'Bangkok yw Frsnk' Wrote 'The Inside Eisenhower North Stars 'Aloha Auto Racing Presents 8 PM Pittsburgh Roseanne LuckyChances Trip' Nova Hilton' (Part MOVIE: Boxing (Live) Story' Beyond Playwrights at New Summer' Mr. Corbett's :30 Coach (Part 3 of "y-y 1) 'Black Bain' Invention. Theater Jersey Drag Racing Ghost 9 PM thirtysomething 3) Star Trek Race to Save MOVIE: News Blue Moscow Devils (Live) Dream On :30 the Planet 'Thi land I Revolution Night Horse Racing Tales Crypt Auto Racing Imagine PM News News News Arsenio Hall MOVIE: MOVIE; Is Mine' Miami Vice Night Court Wings Joe Penny at Forrest Gregg MOVIE: Ready Go! :30 Cheers Newharl The Tonight 'Madame X' 'China Olrl' Today's FBI thelmprov College 'Phantom of SportsCenter Ready Go' 14 PM Taxi Nlghtline Show MOVIE: Nature MOVIE: The Equalizer I Vietnam Dwight D. Football: the Opera' Baseball Ton.

Abbott 1 :30 Simon Simon Into the David -Mi MOVIE; 'The Diary MOVIE: Elsenhower Texas Tech MOVIE: Lighter Side Costel'o 1A AM Night Letterman Maiwtyk' 'Tropical of Anne Mike Hammer -Hilla Worid Monitor Playwrights at Texas 'All Fair' Cheerleading MOVIE: A :30 Paid Program Hunter Later Costas -yy 12:80 MOVIE: Snow' Nature Theater ASM 'Oood Old 4 AM News News 'Bangkok MOVIE: Boxing 'Siippy A Wo'id Moscow 1:10 MOVIE: Running Boy' :30 Nlghtwatch Hilton' (Part 'Black Bain' Paid Program Away Night 'The Killing SportsCenter K-f- 2 AM 1) 15 MOVIE: OneDay JoePennyat APSports Time' SportsLook Mr. Corbett's :30 'Armored Soap the Improv Boxing Ghost 3 AM 3:20 Stooges MOVIE: Car Robbery' Aired MOVIE; MOVIE: 2:45 MOVIE: :30 I Love Lucy The Movietime Hitchcock I 'The 'Simba' 'Red Heat' Imagine 4 AM Heroes Bustin' Loose Islander' APSports I Walt Disney :30 Gomer Pyle Paid Neil Getting Fit Presents 5 AM Morning News CNN News i Programming Facts of Life Global Affair Diamond Motion Mousercise :30 Central Texas News Morning 5:45 Business Flintstones Movietime Faith 20 A8E Preview 5:45 Pen Pals Business You and Me People' looks like sleeper hit for ABC mmmmmmmmmmmimm Bess Armstrong and Jay Thomas, as a high-powered attorney and freelance writer who are expecting a baby, are the most interesting of the three couples that make up ABC's Married People. Married The sleeper hit of the new season just may be ABC's Married People, a warm-hearted comedy about three generations of couples who live in separate apartments in a New York brownstone. Since its debut last month, Married People (Wednesdays at 8:30 p.m. on KVUE-TV, Channel 24 Cable 3) has escaped the Nielsen basement where the majority of new series have ended up.

Last week it was the third most popular newcomer behind America's Funniest People and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air with a healthy ranking of 37th out of 95 programs. Of the three couples on Married People, the most interesting is Elizabeth and Russell, a thirty-something yuppie duo expecting their first child. Elizabeth, played by Bess Armstrong, is a successful attorney who's on the fast track to a partnership in her firm. Russell, played by Jay Thomas, is a successful free-lance writer who works at home. Armstrong is a television veteran who always has glowing reviews but has never found a series that grabbed an audience.

Her most recent flop was AW Is Forgiven, an excellent comedy she made four years ago with Carol Kane in which she played a soap opera writer. The show drew rave reviews but was quickly dumped by NBC after a brief in the spring of 1986. "When it went off the air as abruptly as it did, I was a little bit gun-shy," Armstrong said in Los Angeles recently. "This is my first (series) project since then." Armstrong has had better luck in feature films, including Alan Aide's Four Seasons, Tom Selleck's High Road to China and Tom Hanks' Nothing in Common. But she's happy to be back on television and even happier to be playing a pregnant woman.

"I don't have to worry about eating bagels on the set, and costuming is easy," she said. "But really, there's a lot to be done dramatically with a pregnancy. The tension pregnancy can put on a marriage is something worth exploring. A very big part of marriage, especially for people in their 30s, is having Movies Evening 7:00 32 8 KBVO Tha Couch Trip (1988) Dan Ayk-royd, Walter Matthau. An escaped mental patient poses as a psychiatrist and fills in for a Los Angeles radio therapist.

'FT Adult situations, language. (1:38) 7:00 TNT The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) Sophia Loren, Alec Guinness. Li-vius saves Lucilla from the decadent Corn-modus after the poisoning of emperor Marcus Aurelius. (2:32) 7:00 SB WGN Tha Inaida Story (1948) Marsha Hunt, William Lundigan. Out-of-town cash goes round a Vermont town during the Depression.

(1:27) BRAVO A Privata Function (1984) Michael Palin, Maggie Smith. A Yorkshire chiropodist's wife makes him steal a pig being fattened for the 1947 royal wedding. 'R' Adult situations, language, nudity. (1:37) 7:00 QD FAM Chriatophar Columbua (1985) Gabriel Byrne, Oliver Reed. The 15th-century Italian explorer seeks a shortcut to the Orient and instead finds the New World.

(5:12) 7:00 CB HBO Aloha Summar (1988) Chris Makepeace, Yul Okumoto. A teen from the mainnd meets a local girl and others his Prime time 7:00 Who's the Boee? Tony is nervous about dinner with his girlfriend and her father. (CC) 0(D Matlock Ben defends a roofer against charges he murdered his wife's amorous personal trainer. (CC) 03 Murder, She Wrote On a flight to London, a socialite's (Kate Mulgrew) necklace Is stolen and her lover is poisoned. SD L.A, Law A self-destructive celebrity client tests Kuzak's patience; Markowitz meets Kelsey's anti-Semitic mother: Brack-man regrets his tryst with Vasek.

(CC) CD Dwight D. Eisenhower Ike Eisenhower is Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe during World War II and goes on to two terms in the White House. Ed Begley narrates. SD Eastern Europe: Breaking With the Past America's Relations With Eastern Europe. 7:30 iOB Head of the Class Billy (Billy Connolly) turns to the personal ads for a date.

(CC) 8:00 Roseanne Job demands make Roseanne leave the kids with Dan. (CC) (SO LuckyChances Acquitted of Bonnatti's murder, Lucky (Nicollette Sheridan) marries playboy Dlmitri Stanislo-polous (Eric Braeden) and moves to Europe; after Dime's death, Carrie (Anne-Marie Johnson) tells Steven (Phil Morris) Gino (Vincent Irizarry) is his father. (Part 3 of 3) (CC) (ESQ Nova Neptune's Cold Fury. Data collected by the Voyager spacecraft helps scientists study distant Neptune. (CC) (D Green Acres Eb plans to profit from his wedding.

83 Nashville Now Grand Ole Opry Salute: Porter Wagoner, Minnie Pearl, Roy Acuff. ED American Playwrights Theater 27 Wagons Full of Cotton. A bride (Lesley Ann Warren) becomes a pawn In her husband's (Peter Boyle) swindle of a neighbor (Ray Sharkey). (CC) Video Soul Host: Donnie Simpson. (R) 8:30 OO Coach Hayden is jealous of the basketball coach the university is wooing.

(CC) C0 Donna Reed No one tells Jeff his impersonations are awful. 9:00 052 thirtysomething A photography assignment brings Melissa and Miles together; Jeffrey' and Ellyn look for an apartment. (CC) IS Star Trek Day of the Dove. An alien which feeds on violence traps Klingons and Enterprise crew members together. Guests: Michael Ansara, Susan Howard.

Race to Save the Planet More for LessSave the Earth, Feed the World. People worldwide seek new ways to efficiently harness energy. Farmers learn practices that cooperate with nature. (CC) (D Saturday Night Host: Ruth Gordon, ffl Moscow Night Jazz musician Dave Brubeck and his quartet perform in Moscow during a 1987 tour of the Soviet Union. 10:00 CD Miami Vice Crockett's assignment to protect a key witness (Sheena Easton) in a payola scandal evolves into an unexpected relationship.

GD Big Brother Jake Jake tries to cheer up Connie. (CC) 83 Church Street Station Bobby Goldsboro and Daniele Alexander perform in Orlando. (R) 10:30 (DO Cheers Sam hopes to buy back Cheers by winning a yacht race. 10:35 mo Newhart Reports of an alien invasion interrupt a Halloween party. 11:00 (DO Taxi Alex and his father compete for the same woman.

(TfO Nature Monkeys on the Edge. The muriqui, the golden lion tarnarin, the buffy-headed marmoset and other Brazilian primates face extinction. (CC) 4:30 CD Showbiz Today Linda Evans and singer Yanni. 10:00 ffi Arsenio Hall Robert Urich. 10:30 (J; The Tonight Show Host: Jay Leno.

Guests: Elizabeth Perkins, Perry King, comedian Paula Poundstone, accor-dianist Zachary Richard. 11:30 03 Late Night With David Letterman Roseanne Barr; band the Black Crowes, author T. Coraghesan Boyle. 11:35 Into the Night Bill Medley. 12:30 34 Later With Bob Costas Brent Musberger.

Diane Holloway children." Thomas should be a familiar face to viewers, too, and if you've lived in Southern California recently, he should be a familiar voice as well. From 5 until 9 a.m., he's the morning drive DJ for KPWR-FM in Los Angeles. "I'm using the same jokes I used 20 years ago in other cities," Thomas said. "We're not talking about the smartest group of listeners out here." When producers Robert, Sternin and Prudence Fraser cast Thomas in Married People, they had no idea he was also a radio star. "That's how popular my show is," the actor quipped.

But most people will recognize Thomas from his recurring role as Carla's hockey-playing husband Eddie LeBec on Cheers. The character was elminiated last season when poor Eddie was squashed by an ice-scraping machine, bringing an ignominous end to Thomas's career on the No. 1 television show. "When you're dead, it's hard to go on," he joked. "But I don't think they made that decision the first day they saw me acting.

(Producer-director Jim) Burrows explained to me that he wanted Carla to be in more caustic situations. He laughed so hard when he was telling me about it (Eddie's death) that he forgot he was firing me." Thomas also had a plum guest-starring role on Murphy Brown last season, as obnoxious talk-show host Jerry Gold. There have been rumors, which Thomas will neither confirm nor deny, that Murphy will fall in love with Jerry Gold this season. He did say his involvement with Married People would not prevent him from returning to Murphy Brown. On Married People, Thomas's character is constantly needled for his liberated ways by Nick (Ray Aranha), the owner of the building age in the summer of 1959 Hawaii.

'PG' Language, nudity. (1:38) 7:00 CD SHOW Old Gringo (1989) Jane Fonda. Gregory Peck. Frontier journalist Ambrose Bierce forms a triangle with a Mexican general and soinster on the run. 'R' Nudity, violence.

(1:59) 7:05 CD TBS Bangkok Hilton (1989) Nicole Kidman, Denholm Elliott. A lawyer plots to free a young woman imprisoned in Thailand for carrying her boyfriend's cocaine. (5:00) 8:00 CQ LIFE Tha Clan of the Cave Bear (1986) Daryl Hannah, Thomas G. Waites. A blue-eyed Cro-Magnon blonde joins a clan of dark Neanderthals who resent her evolution.

'R' Adult situations, nudity, violence. (1:38) 8:00 MAX Black Rain (1989) Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia. Two New York police detectives tane an underworld upstart back to Osaka, Japan. 'R' Adult situations, language, violence. (2.06) AMC This Land la Mine (1943) Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara.

A cowardly schoolmaster finds courage to openly defy the Nazis in his European town. (1:43) 9:00 CD SHOW Gnaw: Food of tha God II (1989) Paul Coufos, Lisa Schrage, Campus rats get into a growth-horfione serum before a fry Cooke and her husband are expecting their first child in May which also happens to be a ratings period. Speaking of births and sweeps, Channel 36 anchor Tonia Cooke and her husband, Capt, Ron Graves, are expecting their first child in May, which also happens to be a ratings period for local stations. "We didn't plan it that way, but my boss (general manager Jane Wallace) sure likes the idea," Cooke said. "That's the first thing she said ratings period." Will viewers tune in in sufficient numbers to lift the perennial third-place KXAN-TV newscast? Will Channel 36 send cameras to the birthing? Will Cooke be happy or upset about the circus surrounding her pregnancy? "It should be very interesting," she said.

Cooke told her colleagues the news last Tuesday. She says she realizes this is going to be a very public pregnancy and suspects a news crew will indeed show up at the hospital in May. At this point, Cooke plans to work straight through but has no idea how long she will take off after the baby is born. A native Austinite, Cooke, 33, has anchored Channel 36's newscasts since 1984 and worked at the station since 1980. She and Graves were married in March 1989.

Farnsworth, Maureen O'Sullivan. A boy and his friends meet pirates and grow up on the Mississippi delta during the summer of 1942. (1:41) (CC) 12:25 CD SHOW Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life la Calling (1986) Richard Pryor, Debbie Allen. Stand-up comic Jo Jo's alter ego recalls his wild childhood, four wives and drug-related downfall. 'R' Language, nudity, violence.

(1:37) agement switch (Jeff Sagansky replaced LeMasters in January), they didn't want it any more, so we pitched it to ABC. We've wanted to do this show for a long time a three-generational household with the older couple black. CBS was pushing it to be edgier. ABC wanted it to be warmer, and that's what it is." The two producers have been married almost 10 years and say their comedy series has a definite message about marriage. "That it's good," Fraser said.

"You have to work at it, but it's certainly one of the most rewarding things in life." Elizabeth and Russell will probably deliver their baby during a sweeps period, either November or February. No decision has been made on the date of the blessed event, but since births are sure-fire ratings grabbers, you can bet it will be heavily promoted. na Dixon. A driver and his actress companion join other silly competitors in a car race. 'PG' Adult situations, language.

(1:35) 11:00 KBVO Mr. Majestyk (1974) Charles Bron-son, Al Lettieri. A Colorado melon grower offends a mob hit man, starting a war that's bad for business. 'PG' Language, violence. (1:44) 11:00 (0 AMC The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraul.

A German-Jewish girl spends two years in an Amsterdam attic hiding from the Nazis. Best supporting Oscar for Shelley Winters. 11:30 WGN Hill of Oklahoma (1950) Rex Allen, Elisabeth Fraser. A rattleman sells his herd to an honest worn? nstead of to a crook. 11:3 Tropical 8.

Madeleine Stowe. and his waitress their bodies for a tions, language, ni MAX (1989) Nick Corrl, olombian pickpocket i smuggle cocaine in aler. 'R' Adult situa-y, violence. (1:28) who lives with his wife Olivia (Barbara Montgomery) on the ground floor. Nick and Olivia have been married more than 30 years and are surprised to find themselves suddenly moving up in the world and their neighborhood suddenly turning white.

The giggly, oversexed newly-weds, Cindy (Megan Gallivan) and Allen (Chris Young), live in the attic. Both are naive teen-agers from Indiana who are alternately thrilled by and terrified of their new life in the big city. The youngsters are the weak link in the cast, but the producers are so high on them they're not likely to change. Sternin and Fraser developed the short-lived, heavily criticized CBS sitcom Live-In for Young, who played a teen-ager in perpetual lust for the family's pretty maid. "This show was originally developed by (former entertainment chief) Kim LeMasters for CBS," Sternin said.

"But with the man professor can find a cure for it. 'R' Adult situations, languaoe, nudity, violence. (1:28) 10:00 5) BRAVO The Magic Toyehop (1986) Tom Bell, Caroline Milmoe. An orphan and her two siblings move into their lewd uncle's London toyshop full of life-size puppets. (1:47) MAX China Girl (1987) Richard Pane-bianco, Sari Chang, Teen-age lovers Tony and Tyan-Hwa tip the balance of power in New York's Little Italy and Chinatown.

'R' Adult situations, language, violence. (1:29) 10:00 CB HBO Tha Phantom of tha Opera (1989) Robert Englund, Jill Schoeien. A sandbagged New York soprano dreams she's being chased by a slasher in Victorian London. 'R' Language, nudity, violence. (1:31) (CC) 10:05 (D TBS Madame (1966) Lana Turner, John Forsythe.

A young lawyer defends an alcoholic woman for murder, unaware she is his mother. (1:40) TNT The Trojan Horee (1962) Steve Reeves, John Drew Barrymore. Aeneas and warriors hide In the huge wooden horse Ulysses builds as a trick to enter the gates of Troy. (1:45) 10:45 CD 8HOW Speed Zone (1989 John Candy. Don Look who's talking 9:00 (DOM Joan Rivers Larry Hagrnan; Sheryl Lee Ralph; illiteracy in America.

3D Sally Jessy Raphael Girls obsessed with their looks. 82 0 Regis Kathie Lee Holiywod gossip; pajamas for the kids. 10:00 Home Roofing; Fred Rogers' cancer video for children. 3:00 Donahue Hospital horror stones. Qi Instant Recall Yoko Ono.

3:30 Inside Edition Marijuana growing In Kentucky. 4:00 Oprah Winfrey Mates who turn excessive. (CC) HBO All's Fair (1989) George Segal, Sally Kellerrnan. A tycoon and his buddies play a weekend war game with his wife and corporate women trained by a mercenary. '13' Language.

(1:29) DISN Good Old Boy (1988) Richard.