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to4 radio THE SUN, Monday, November 16, 1981 Wedding bells ring for Luke and Laura Mim iji va in Baltimore. All of these ingredients allow your Action News team to bring you a news show you can depend on. Fast. If it happens in Baltimore, in Maryland, or the world, you'll be the first to know, Up-to-the-minute reports. Live coverage.

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And that's the best newsyet. Action News 6 and 11 PM There's an old saying in television that goes like this: When in doubt, get 'em married. It doesn't pertain to couples who are having trouble making a moral decision about their future. It pertains to any young, attractive couple whose romance can be played as some sort of fantasy for viewers who don't have much romance of their own. You may have noticed that TV puts on a lot of weddings.

Especially daytme TV. It goes with the territory. Romantic fantasy still sells. Some of the biggest TV audiences of all time have tuned in to see televised weddings. And we're not talking about Prince Charles and Lady Di, We're talking Rhoda and Joe, Julie and that slug on the "Love Boat," Billie and that dumb jock, Don and Marlena, Don and Liz, Don and whoever.

TV weddings are such an easy sell it's a wonder nobody has come up with an idea for a show where a wedding takes place every week. Wait a minute, somebody did try such an idea in daytime last spring. But it bombed. It was put together all wrong: new couples every week. Audiences like to see people they already know get married, not total strangers.

Maybe a good idea would be to mix the "Love Boat" format with a wedding format. Do a weekly show about a catering service full of young, attractive California people, working for a lovable curmudgeon of a boss, and then let them cater several different weddings in each episode, one of which involves a member of the continuing You should see us nowl mews tavds fisst 'A k.V '4-" I I'M cast. Somebody must have that one on a programming drawing board somewhere. Call it "The Love Lunch." The point is, weddings tend to be a tool, a gimmick, a device to draw viewers who happen to like weddings, for their pomp, fashion, the total commitment of two people madly in love. (Of course, most TV marriages don't last out the year.) As these things go, ABC may have come up with a wedding gimmick that belongs in the hype hall of fame.

Today (and tomorrow, which is one sure indication of a hot wedding gimmick: stretch the ceremony over two days) ABC gives the lovesick public what it has been longing for and marries off the nation's-favorite couple, Laura Baldwin and Luke Spencer of "General Hospital." (You remember them: They first found love when he raped her on the floor of a disco.) If you add this momentous event to the guest star turn by Liz Taylor continuing this week on "GH," you get some idea of how high the stakes are in daytime TV these days. ABC is not content to pump up the audience during the big sweep month with one hyperbolic touch this week, it has thrown in two howitzer attractions. A word of caution should go out to ABC, however. The track record of TV marriages is not very good, and not just in terms of later business for the divorce court, either. It seems that getting a couple of hot characters married off doesn't always do a show a lot of good.

Back when Rhoda Morgenstern got her own series and Fred Silverman decided to marry her off at a moment's notice, it turned out to be even by Fred's admission the worst thing that ever happened to the show. (Fred clearly never learned; he was for marrying off people right and left. He once even wanted to get Mary Richards hitched but was talked out of it.) Nobody has been bigger on daytime TV than old Luke and Laura; but that was before they bound their lives together on national TV. Starting today (or tomorrow when that incredibly protracted wedding finally ends) their options become somewhat limited. Knowing the world of soaps, however, all that really means is they get to fight, divorce for some dumb reason, make up and maybe get remarried.

Perhaps even in time for the next sweep period. Channel 13, taking advantage of its technological links with the other TV stations owned by Group (Westinghouse), will have a special five-part series on its 6 and 11 p.m. news programs this week called "Reagan on Reagan." As you might guess, it is an extensive interview with the president, as conducted by Jerry Udwin, the bureau chief of Group W's Washington bureau. Luke and Laura make the matrimony scene. Don't look for revelations on the David Stockman controversy in this conversation, however.

This will be more of a chat on tiie personal aspects of the presidency the perils of White House gossip, the role of the first lady-burning issues such as that. To be fair, this interview had to be done in advance and was not likely to be an in-depth examination of timely news events. Then again, it. is being done for local news, not national news, which might have something to do with the tone. Channel 13 thus gets an extremely potent series of special reports for its own sweep month push for extra audiences.

The interviews will be transmitted to the Group stations on Newsfeed, the news service sent by satellite among the Westinghouse stations. -o- Starting at midnight Sunday which means it goes into effect this morning WLPL radio will be no more in Baltimore. The station hasn't disappeared; it has simply changed the letters in its name. The new identification for the station that is now calling itself "92 Star" is WYST. The format of the station has already changed, of course, to an official title of "adult contemporary." That translates to every sort of record made since 1956, or "the greatest hits of all time." Another station, WCBM, happens to own use of that last phrase, however.

WYST has also upgraded its signal strength and having secured its new identity will now push for increased recognition in the market. Mental exercise New York (KNT)-Tonight's broadcast of "No Place Like Home" is typical PBS. The program, which features 81-year-old actress Helen Hayes, explores alternatives to warehousing the elderly in nursing homes. And, as usual, unless a viewer has a real need for the information, he or she may not want to concentrate this much. But the program (9 p.m.

on Channels 22 and 67 in Baltimore) is worth the mental exercise. In the course of an hour, viewers learn that 20 percent of all Americans will spend time in a nursing home before they die, and that many are placed in such homes when it isn't necessary. There is consumer advice on choosing a nursing home and descriptions of programs around the country and in England that allow senior citizens to live at home. The stars of the documentary is the elderly themselves. They are eloquent about their need to live out their days at home.

Helen Hayes is the thread that weaves together "No Place Like Home." She states the documentary's point of view and interviews many of the elderly and the experts in their care. (Good Morning 5:30 Knowledge. 5:45 Community Update. 5:50 Great Neighbors. 5:55 Jim Bakker.

6:00 Tom And Jerry And Friends. (T) Health Field. CD Panorama. Christopher Closeup. 6:05 Dialogue.

6:15 CD News. 6:20 News. Down To Earth. 6:25 News. Mi Today's television Donahue.

Donahue. Guest: author Letty Coltin Pogrebin. W.O.W.! Sesame Street. 700 Club. 9:30 ffl Leave It To' The Women.

CD Lucy Show. (D Password Plus. Chico And The Man. (T) Good Morning Washington. Romper Room.

People Are Talking. 10:00 All In The Family. Afternoon News. CD Big Valley, ffl Educational Programming. CD Charlie Rose.

Dr. James Lynch treats the physical and psychological symptoms of loneliness. Panorama. Kid's Break. 2 Training Dogs The Woodhouse Way.

Super Pay Cards. Family Feud. QCD The Doctors. (D Edge Of Night. Encounter With Lew Doolittle.

11:00 GCD Wheel Of Fortune. (DO The Price Is Right. CD Love Boat. Medical Center. Up To The Minute.

Mister Rogers. 11:30 0 Newlvwed Game. CD I Dream Of Jeannie. CD Battlestars. Alice.

Another Life. (53 Electric Company. (BdDdD Mister Rogers. You Asked For It. Woody Woodpecker.

All In The Family. Happy Days Again. 5:30 OCDCD News. MASH The Muppets. CD Gomer Pvle.

GB Electric Company. Andy Griffith. Entertainment Tonight. C6) Hour Magazine. What's Happening! Villa Alegre.

Laverne Shirley Company. problems intensify when his missing producer's body is found. (Part 2) CD Tomorrow. Guests: Fred Travalena; "Hustler" editor Larry Flynt; baseball player Steve Garvey. Entertainment Tonight.

(56) Jim Bakker. 12:40 ffl Harry O. Harry Investigates a man whose behavior has changed radically. 12:45 CD College Football '81. Weekly highlights of key NCAA contests are presented.

1:00 Starskv And Hutch. Starsky and Hutch become big-time gamblers to avenge a friend when he gets worked over for refusing to be bled by a crooked gambling operation. Tomorrow. Guests: Fred Travalena; "Hustler" editor Larry Flynt; baseball player Steve Garvey. 1:15 Mike Douglas.

1:30 Independent Network News. 1:50 ffl News. Encounter With Lew Doolittle. 2:00 CD News. Private Secretary.

2:15 News. 2:30 Nfws. (D Richard Simmons. Hour Magazine. Gary Collins and Dr.

Penny Budoff discuss the physical and emotional aspects of pre-men-strual cramps; Pat Mitchell visits Air Park City; a look at the new Kinsey report on homosexuality. CD 700 Club. CD Las Vegas Gambit. Rhoda. Morning Break.

(T6) One Day At A Time. 6) Sesame Street. 10:30 QCD Blockbusters. 03 Alice. (D Super Pay Cards.

Company. Carter Country. John Davidson. "A Salute To 'Happy Days'" Guests: Henry Winkler, Tom Bosley, Marion Ross, Erin Moran, Scott Baio. CD Scooby Doo.

CD Charlie's Angels. The Incredible Hulk. The Muppets. (T6) The Rockford Files. Bugs BunnyFriends.

Krofft Superstars. The Brady Bunch. 5:00 Good Times. Barney Miller. CD Gilligan's Island.

M'A'S'H' Hot Lips's father visits Korea. Wayne And Shuster. "Rocky IX" Dick Cavett. Guests: Agnes de Mille and Dr. Fred Plum.

(Part 1 of 2) 11:30 GCD The Best Of Carson. Guests: Phyllis George, Mike Farrell, Jerzy Kosinski. Quincv. Quincy finds traces of arsenic in the body of a war buddy who died in a plane crash. CD Perry Mason.

Mason defends a young newspaper publisher accused of slaying his double-crossing fiancee. Q) ABC News. The Odd Couple. Oscar wins a greyhound in a poker game and wants to race It. US Saturday Night.

Host: Jack Burns. Guests: San-tana. 11:45 CD News. 12:00 Perry Mason. Mason defends a man accused of murdering a newspaperman who was searching for an escaped Nazi war criminal.

12:15 CD ABC News Nightline. 12:30 The Rockford Files. Rockford's rock-star clienfs Radio directory News reports On the hour WBAL, WPOC, WCBM, WCVT, WEBB, WBMD, WBMD-FM, WFBR, WITH, WVOB. On the half hour WPOC, WFBR, WITH, WBAL, WAYE, WVOB. 10 minutes of hour WJRO.

5 minutes of hour WCAO, WWIN, WMAR-FM. 15-minute newscasts 7 AM WBAL, WITH. 8 A WBAL, WITH. Noon WBAL. 5 6 P.M.

WBAL, WCBM, WITH. 10-minute newscasts throughout the day WCVT. 2-hour newscasts. 4:30 P.M. WBCJ-FM.

Briefs every 2 hours. WLIF Throughout the day. WEAAFM Station identification AM Stations WAYE, 860 kHz. Religious programming. (Dawn to dusk WBAL (ABC), 1090 kHz.

Current and standard pop music. WBMD, 750 kHz. Sundays: Religious and ethnic programs. Weekdays: Religious programs and country music. (Dawn to dusk.) WCAO (ABC Contemporary), 600 kHz.

Top 40 pop music. WCBM (ABC Entertainment), 680 kHz. Current and all-time hits. WEBB (Mutual), 1360 kHz. Jazz, rock and soul music.

(Dawn to dusk.) WFBR (NBC Information), 1300 kHz. Standard pop music. WITH (CBS and Mutual), 1230 kHz. Mood music. WJRO (Entertainment), 1590 kHz.

Adult contemporary. WSID, 1010 kHz. Current and standard soul music. (Dawn to dusk WTOW, 1570 kHz. Sunday: Religious and ethnic programs.

Weekdays: Religious programs. (Dawn to dusk.) WWIN (National Black Network), 1400 kHz. Rhythm and blues. FM Stereo Stations WBJC (National Public Radio), 91.5 mHz. Classical and Broadway music, iazz, interviews.

WBKZ, 95.9 mHz. Adult contemporary music. WBSB, 104.3 mHz. Adult contemporary music. WCVT, 89.7 mHz.

Rock, iazz, educational programs. WEAA, 88 9 mHz. Progressive iazz, educational programs. WIYY, 979 mHz Album rock. WKTK (ABC FM), 105.7 mHz.

Top 40 and albums in stereo. WLIF, 101.9 mHz. Mood music. WLPL, 92.3 mHz. Current and standard rock.

WMAR, 106.5 mHz. Mood music. WPOC, 93.1 mHz. Modern country music. WRBS (UPI Audio), 95.1 mHz.

Sacred music and religious programs. WXYV, 102,7 mHz. Contemporary rhythms. 6:30 Romper Room. CD Learning To Read.

Morning Stretch. CD New Zoo Revue. (3D Tony Brown. CD Today's Black Woman. Country Music.

Jimmy Swaggart. 6:45 CD A.M. Weather. 6:55 News. 7:00 QCD Today.

ffl Wake Up. CD Good Morning America. CD Three Stooges. (D Understanding Human Behavior. (D The Young And The Restless.

CD Ryan's Hope. (2 Newsprobe. Dick Cavett. Guest: John Osborne. 1:00 OCD Days Of Our Lives.

CD All My Children. CD Movie. "Death Rides A Horse." (1969) Lee Van Cleef, John Phillip Law. When a young man sets out to avenge the ruthless mur-. ders of his family, he encoun-' ters one of the killers, but finds he can't go through with his plan.

Movie. "Roberta." (1935) Irene Dunne, News. Barney Miller. "The Delegate." Over Easy. Guests: sinper Eartha Kitt, financial columnist Jane Bryant Ouinn.

Closed-Caplioned. Little House On The Prairie. Sanford And Son. 7:19 Md. State Lottery.

7:30 Joker's Wild. QKD Family Feud. Evening Magazine. Tim White meets Aaron Spelling; meet the finalists of the Cookoff Contest; Linda Harris visits Utah's Lake Powell. CD Sanford And Son.

GD MacNeil-Lehrer Report. M'A'S'H' (D Entertainment Tonight. An interview with Sally Field. P.M. Magazine.

A profile of cosmetics entrepreneur Mary Kay Ash; witness the second annual, Great Goat Race. Redskin Sidelines. Tic Tac Dough. Good Times. A sudden run of good luck and one of J.J.'s paintings create a religious conflict in me Evans All in The Family.

Cartoons. MacNeil-Lehrer Report. 9:00 Donahue. "General Hospital's Leading Men." Guests: Anlhonv Geary, Tristan Rogers, Stuart Damon, Douglas Sheehan. ffl Up To The Minute.

1 People Are Talking. CD Dennis The Menace, ffl Educational Programming. Leave It To The Women. CD I Love Lucy. CD Richard Simmons.

3:00 OCD Texas. (D Guiding Light. CD General Hospital. CD Cartoons. Tom And Jerry.

Krofft Superstars. 3:30 CD The Flintstones. The Growing Years. Studio See. "Cobbler." Two cobblers show kids how to make their own shoes; attend an annual iousting match in South Carolina.

4:00 The Brady Bunch. Happy Days Again. mired plane, an elderly stowaway and the bombing of a passenger iel plague an airport manager. 8:30 ffl The Two Of Us. Brentwood agrees to appear as a guest on Nan's talk show.

9:00 GCD George Burns' Early, Earlv, Early Christmas. Bob Hope, the Playboy Playmates, Hans Conried and Margret ioin George Burns for a pre-holidav musical-variety special. ffl MASH Hawkeve writes a letter to President Truman to complain about the war. CD NFL Football. San Diego Chargers at Seattle Stfahawks Closed-Captioned.

CD Movie. "What Did You Do In The War Daddv?" (1966) James Coburn, Dick Shawn. Instead of battling for an Italian town, the troops ioin in the town's annual wine test. No Place Like Home. Host Helen Haves explores some viable alternatives to nursing homes in a documentary took at long-term care for the elderly.

Merv Griffin. "Soapy Awards." Guests: Frederick Klein, Robin Mattson, Andre Landzaat, Genie Francis, Anthony Geary, Ruth Warrick, New Zoo Revue. Bugs Bunnv. 7:30 (DCS) Morning With Charles Kuralt. CD Little Rascals.

ffl Hodgepodge Lodge. Great Space Coaster. Woody Woodpecker. 8:00 CD The Flintstones. ffl Educational Programming.

Porky Pig. Mighty Mouse. Lilias Yoga. 8:30 CD Great Space Coaster. ffl Mister Rogers.

Bugs And Popeve. Fred Astaire. An alliance between Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach results in the production of a new musical score. Movie. "The Petrified Forest." (1936) Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis.

A writer finds romance when he runs into a gang of killers in Arizona's Petrified Forest. (2 The Shakespeare Plavs. 1:30 (D As The World Turns. 2:00 OCD Another World. CD One Life To Live.

2:30 ffl Search For Tomorrow. The Munsters. Archie tries to get Irene Lorenzo a iob as a bookkeeper at his plant. 8:00 OCD Little House On The Prairie. Mr.

Oleson Is kidnapped, and his wife refuses to pay the ransom. Closed-Caplioned. ffl Private Benjamin. Judy's secret admirer Ralph mistakenly treats Captain Lewis to a midnight serenade meant for Judy. CD That's Incredible.

Featured: a hypnotized person tells about an encounter with a UFO; ski-iumoing in a car in trie French Alps; an exotic belly dance. CD Koiak. At the same time as a cadaver appears, a woman kills her husband, abandons her child and threatens suicide. (Part 1) (B Great Performances. "Edith Wharton: Looking Back" Kathleen Widdoes stars as Edith, Wharton in a biographical drama based in part on R.W.B.

Lewis's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography and on the novelist's own letters and memoirs. The Waltons. Olivia's still-ardent childhood suitor visits Walton's Mountain. Movie. "Airport" ($70) Dean Martin, Burt Lancaster.

A snowstorm, a Edge Of Night. CD Speed Racer. GD Sesame Street. (D Here's Lucv. (D Movie.

"Grad Night." (1980) Joe Johnson, Barry Slolze. A teacher -student free-for-all breaks out at the grad night dance. John Davidson. "A Salute To 'Happy Days'" Guests: Henry Winkler, Tom Bosley, Marion Ross, Erin Moran, Scott Baio, At Molinaro, Jerry Paris. (T6) Up To The Minute.

Scoobv Doo. Woody Woodpecker And Friends. 4:30 Laverne Shirley David Lewis, Gloria Monty. 9:30 ffl House Calls. Ann's revered uncle visits and wreaks havoc with her private and professional lives.

10:00 GCD Loretta Lynn: The The Legend. Loretta Lynn celebrates her 20th anniversary In show business with guests Crystal Gayle, Sissy Spacek, and the Oak Ridge Boys. ffl Lou Grant. Charlie sets up a controversial tip hotline for the Trib, and Lou gets picked up for drunk driving. The Harvest Run.

The American wheat harvest Is the subiect of a documentary profiling the crew leaders, their families and the crewmen who help bring in the nation's leading export crop. REBROADCAST. News. Jazz At Charlie's. Guests: Charlie Byrd, Tim Everman, Geo Bradford.

10:30 The World At War. "Pincers" The German war machine is caught between the hammer and the anvil as the Allies and Russians advance on Germany. 11:00 GfflCD News. CD Love Lucy. Determined to break into show business, Lucy fakes amnesia in her efforts.

Q2) American Story. Evening G(DCD(D News. i CD Get Smart. GB Studio See. "Cobbler." Two cobblers show i kids how to make their own -'V shoes; attend an annual iousting 't match In South Carolina.

Carol BurnettFriends. Skit: "The Family." The Muppets. -'1 J' Guest: Steve Martin. Electric Company. 6:30 NBC News.

CD Hogan's Heroes. Nightly Business Report. Happy Days Again. CBS News. Laverne Shirley Company.

ABC News. 7:00 Tic Tac Dough. Itl ffl CBS News. CD ABC News. CD Sha Na Na.

Guest: Conway Twitty. V' 2)22) up On The Farm, "i "Economics Of Sheep Breed- NBC News. jr CD Welcome Back.