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E8 Austin American-Statesman Monday, March 3, 1986 Monday evening television Cable tv Premium channels More channels CBS ABC NBC KBVO PBS SIN AISD WTBS NASH USA NICK CBN I ESPN MAX i GALA HBO KTBC Aastm KVUt Austin KTVV Austin i ma Austin -si- Austin Scrcoi A'-ama Nasnvwe USA Nettvo-li i N-cvArts CnMan Cinema Home Box 0ttc (DO S3 36 4Q i8 CS CD i CO CO CO E) CD i I fflffl CB 6 PM New I Newt I News Sanford Son iMacNeil-' Crist iNASA I Vary Moort Be Stat 10 Arwnats Cent on TV 'AiiasSmith iConeje -leviuda :30 Wneel. Fortune MASH Dtft. Strokes Benson Lenrer I llmro Basic Sanfpr 1 So" fanaanqo jRaco t990 Danger mouse 4 Jews I Basnetbalr: j- B'anca 1 Fragile Roc 7 PM Scarecrow ana Harflcastie ana You Again B.iiy Graham MOVE: ms Lumcst-eet Bro Baetcaii Nasrwiie Now jjames at ii jFainer Ma'pny Metro Atum HOVS: jONE- MOVit 30 Mrs. King McCormick Vaierie Crusaae Tne longest i Board 01 New Ion Prime T.me 1 Tournament i MIMiryj 'Tiemccs de Tne tn-'-tvn' OPM Kate i Ail aMVIE: MOvli MOVIE "Hay1 'BoaasoeOao Trustees I Kmcus at V7' Mu'der The 700 CiuO Co3 Action Cmeajo' :30 Newrtart 'Tne Children Oary gt a Clauptne' iChespiriio Meeting V. auee Ne Country the Family BasnetDail: i Tne Bsgln'ng- Accion 9 PM Cagneyi ol Timet Perfect i Sjcus ViaeoCountry iH.drocane j'enno CBN News Atlantic 10 MOVifc iCiNE: HOV: :30 Lacey Square' Murder' Loco Amor i Aorta Arwa-a MO Paradise i Horse Raono, I Aeignt Less Conference Sloe i'BLibro Aauagett 1 i- 1 1 i 4 1 1 1 mf PM News I Newt iNews Carson Com dy 2 boras Cnamoca-a National i Be a Star (Alfred Vacnenw iManF-om Totrnament i tne de Padre' tnoia' i I :30 Taxi Nightune (The Tonight (Hawaii Five-0 tO 50 Reporter i Geogracto Fandango Hitcncot Mr.

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Cassidy plays the mother of a teen-ager who runs away to Times Square and Rollins plays the man who manages a gang of kids who sell cocaine. a Ac City ot Auatln Q) CNM CabW Nawa Network CD FMN, TCN, TtM Financial news. Texas CaDte Network, Texas Music Network Naeh trill The NasrtvHIte Network 63 MTV Ftock music video GQ time Heth and Kfestykt 3 CMMl Cabta News Network, headlines S3 c'spam Sessions of Congress Q) Weather Satellite VH-1 Adult music contemporary CD Country Music TV Country mueic video CD TLCOiec Learning channel CS TBN Trinity Broadcast CS ANTt Cultural programming CD Weather G3 Oeneslt Video graphics for children Playboy Adult entertainment CD 8how1ime 24-hour features Disney From Disney studios zanne Pleshette, Ed Nelson. A research scientist's widow establishes a friendship with her husband's co-worker, whom she suspects of having killed him. 12:00 CD King Richard and tha Crusader (1954) Rex Harrison, Virginia Mayo.

Richard the Lionheatled and his men become romantically Involved while battling the Moslems (or the Holy Land. Charleston (1979) Delta Burke, Lynne Moody. A Southern belle fights to keep her dignity, the family mansion and what remains of tradition In post-Civil War South Carolina. 12:15 (TS Charleston (1979) Delta Burke, Lynne Moody. A Southern belle fights to keep her dignity, the family mansion and what remains of tradition In post-Civil War South Carolina.

1:30 S3 Swing High, Swing Low (1937) Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray. A sensational entertainer has trouble holding on to success. 2:00 Our Town (1940) William Holden, Martha Scott. The homespun values of another era are reflected in the day-to-day lives of a New England family. 2:20 CD Tha Chapman Report (1962) Elrem Zimbalist Jane Fonda.

A famed psychologist Investigates the marital Hves of American women. 3 :00 Fairy Tales (1976) Don Sparks, Brenda Fogarty A prince has to prove his potency prior to inheriting the throne. 'R' 3:30 ea Second Chorus (1940) Fred Astaire, Paulette Goddard. Two trumpet players, both interested In the same girl, vie for her affections and a job with the Artie Shaw Orchestra. 3:35 G3 Tarzan and tha Green Goddess (1938) Herman Brix, Ula Holt.

Tarzan searches for an ancient Mayan relic. 5:00 0 Flight to Nowhere (1946) Evelyn Ankers, Alan Curtis. Spies attempting to steal precious nuclear secrets are outwitted. -V it i7 -ff i i 7:00 CH 42 S3 rlZ EV SAT'CAL CAPTCW3 ST. at.

A -r Rollins is terrific as the slimy Otis, and Cassidy is heartbreaking as the distraught but determined mother. In fact, there is little fault to be found with anyone in the cast. But the story is basically run-of-the-mill exploitation children being used and abused while guilt-stricken parents wring their hands and wish they'd done a better job at home. If you want to see a truly implausible ending, be sure and tune in for this one. There are a million stories in the naked city, and this one ranks among the most incredible at the conclusion.

a a Jack Klugman's new sitcom You which had a special sneak preview Thursday night in place of Family Ties, settles into its regular time slot tonight (at 7 on KTVV-TV, Channel 36 Cable 4). The pilot episode was pretty dreadful, and if the scenes from tonight's episode are any indication, the show is not going to be the tasteful, intelligent comedy Klugman said he Intended it to be. In the pilot, Klugman spent most of the half-hour shouting at his dim-witted son. played by General Hospitals heart-throb John Stamos. In Klugman's defense, Stamos' character is so relentlessly stupid he probably needs to be shouted at just to get his attention.

In Thursday night's episode, the son brought home a punk girl friend who was 'Children' Missing children and runaways1 are among the most popular sub-' jects for television movies, second only perhaps to prostitution, which has long been a favorite topic for network producers. The fascination, with ladies of the evening is long standing and shows no signs of diminishing. When a subject is dramatized as frequently as that of runaway children, it takes a special story, special treatment and special production values to lift it above the mundane crowd. ABC's The Children of Times Square (at 8 tonight, KVUE-TV, Channel 24 Cable 3) has the seedy, gritty look of reality and some excellent performances, but the plot is simplistic. To make matters worse, the storyline Is telegraphed from scene to scene, leaving little to the imagination and even less to hold our interest.

Times Square, for those of us non-New Yorkers, is a flashy, well-lit magnet for runaways, drawing an estimated 12,000 youngsters every year. According to the avuncular police officer Lt. Devlin (Jason Bernard) whose job it is to impart information in the movie, most of the runaways go home after a few days. But there are sad exceptions. "If they don't go home, and we haven't found them in a week, they're lost," Devlin says.

"Lost" in this context does not mean unable to find their way home but lost in terms of innocence and perhaps even life. Many runaways, we are told, wind up as drug dealers, prostitutes and petty street criminals. Some do not survive the hard life on the streets. Howard Rollins has the showcase role as Otis, a modern-day, urban Fagin. He's a hardened cocaine dealer who commands an army of young runaways called the Leopards.

In exchange for a percentage of the take, a place to sleep and a few morsels of food, the boys hit the. streets each day with a small supply of cocaine. They return with bags of money for Otis. "We're in the business of giving the suckers what they want," Otis tells his recruits. "And right now what they want is cocaine." As usual, an unhappy home life triggers the crisis that turns a good boy bad.

Eric (Brandon Douglas) is a 14-year-old boy who lives with his Prime time 7:00 JOI9 Scarecrow and Mrs. King Biiiy caJs on Amanda and Lee after learning that Frartdne has become a pawn in an EastWest agent exchange "i Hardcastte and McCormtck Rocoers play tor high stakes at Ha'dcas-ties friendly poker game by taking hostages and wounding one o' the piayers. (CC 7.00 PM Comedy Prwniere Jack Klugman haa new 'odcT trouble) 'You Again' A vrltmftt The Bitty Graham Crusade How to have a Happy Home. Thj Fiev. Graham discusses famity values.

George fvr-'rm IV sings I I Fly Away. Nashville Now Dariene Austin. Jamee at 16 Jamea uvt vjn ater trying to save ei'erTTMratioo. Father Murphy vrfl r-tered adopt cxi try a wry Cover Up Mac '-r murder Hit Ribald CI eeta Thej-e krt and loves ot an aa 'S by mssst Robm Hood Ta -xr (asor Cclr'' t-a Pr a tor hrt EVENING 6:00 CD The Great Chase (1963) Features chase scenes from such silent film classics as Buster Keaton's The General, Way Down East starring Lillian Gish and The Mark ot Zorro with Douglas Fairbanks Sr. 7:00 Tha Longest Day (1962) John Wayne, Robert Mitchum.

Allied forces prepare for the decisive invasion of Normandy on D-Day. 8:00 Tha Children of Times Square (1986) Howard E. Rollins Joanna Cassidy. The mother of a runaway teen-age boy tries to save him from the clutches of a cocaine dealer and his young gang in New York. 8:00 PM Andy Griffith traps killer in movie Diary Of A Perfect Murdar'l (Advertisement) 8:00 3S GB Diary of Perfect Murder (19B6) Andy Griffith, Lorl Lethin.

Father-daughter lawyers Ben and Charlene Matlock defend a famous TV journalist accused of killing his anchorwoman ex-wife. 8:00 il Claudine (1974) Dlahann Carroll, James Earl Jones. A middle-aged mother of six falls In love with a garbage collector. PG' 8:00 CQ Scott of tha Antarctic (1946) John Mills, Derek Bond. British explorer Robert Falcon Scott leads an ill-fated expedition to the South Pole in 1912.

10:00 0 Tha Truth About Woman (1958) Laurence Harvey, Julie Harris. The haphazard life of a playboy and his sordid flirtations. 10:00 0 Fairy Tales (1976) Don Sparks. Brenda Fogarty. A prince has to prove his potency prior to inheriting the throne.

'R' 10:00 3 Tax (1982) Matt Dillon, Jim Metzler. Two teen-age brothers face emotional conflicts when forced to shoulder the burden of responsibility. 'PG' 11:30 OS Along Cama a Spider (1969) Su 1 Siiair lav IkvaaaWaaseJ TONIGHT CAFT'Ct: FOR T-E fEA? pregnant and had black paint all over her face. The son was not responsible for the pregnancy but wanted to marry her anyway "because she's different." Elizabeth Bennett, who also plays the housekeeper in the English version of the series called Home to Roost, is the only bright spot in the show, but her participation in the pilot was minimal. The tone of You like the worst days of Norman Lear's AH in the Family, when the decibel level and the insult level were so high the show was more annoying than amusing.

Klugman's high-pitched intensity is well-suited to this kind of environment. His shrieking on Quincy got tiresome after the first season. Not since The Odd Couple has Klugman found a character who was pleasant enough to wear well over the years. a a a Farmers have a well-deserved reputation for hard work and sensible, no-nonsense lifestyles. So it should come as no surprise that 64 percent of them watch only an hour of television a day, far below the national viewing average of seven hours a day.

This information comes from a survey conducted by Successful Farming, which polled 1,150 farmers randomly selected from the magazine's 590,000 subscribers. The magazine's readers are primarily the high-income farm families who produce 85 percent of America's cash farm income. Also according to the survey, two-thirds of the respondents said they did not think TV programs were getting better. One dubbed today's TV "95 percent trash." Several of them said they were too busy or too tired to watch any television at all. Considering the long hours most farmers put in, this is hardly a shocking piece of information.

The average farmer isn't interested in Dynasty or Miami Vice, but 77 percent of those polled said they watch the evening newscasts. But unlike the national majority of between 65 percent and 70 percent, 49 percent of the farmers said they disagreed with the idea that TV newscasters are always believable. Farmers, it seems, are less inclined to believe every thing they see and hear on television than their city and town-dwelling brethren. ens' (Donan Harewood) high-school track coach, Charley Biiey (George recai's the Olympic champion success at Ohio State Unrversity and popularity at the 1936 Games Berlin With Debbi Morgan, Greg Morns (Part 1 of 2) 1Z Hart to Hart The Harts investigate the dog-attack cteatn of a perfum entrepreneur. Look who's talking t-oo 34 Oood Morning Austin Good Morrwng Austin cbra! tit years on the ar Caa In wrtn your comments at 459- t-30 34 fj Oonathua Guests Lmu Pauling rvd Jack LaL arras 10 JO 3 Tve TonwgM Snow Gue-st hct: jxjaxi fftaars Guwstt John Denver, Carra I sier.

comavjjn FVirvKe Shake, Brian 11 3 lata Wth Devid lataawan Mwh rievwajr Muji' Ihh tn rt i 'i CrJ-an Iv.r.arl Days 'fn-'t, kri Ir.wn rws na) Diane Holloway v-. mother Sue (Joanna Cassidy) and his stepfather Peter (David Ack-royd). He was supposed to live with his father after his parents divorced, but his father beat him continually so he moved in with his mother. But his new stepfather isn't thrilled with having a pubescent son and treats him like a useless old shoe. Sue and Peter have a baby boy of their own, and Eric feels unwanted.

After a bitter argument with Peter, he runs away to the bright lights and fast action of New York City's Times Square. Meanwhile, another young teenager, Luis (Danny Nucci), is determined to provide for his mother and sisters after their belongings are destroyed in a fire. A noble goal. But he drops out of school and gets a job selling cocaine with the Leopards. The boys' training smarter, run Is the main focus of the movie, with the subplot of Eric's mother's futile search for her son.

Armed with an iron will and cheap posters, she combs the streets usually haunted by runaways. 7:30 HOI! Valerie David tries to keep his unpretty girlfriend out Of Sight. 8:00 Kate Allie Kate's the only one tnout a date for Saturday night, so she eaiis her former boyfriend iGreg Saia'a) on the pretense ot returning a sweater. OCA Murder in the Family Harvey d'Sccve'S som s'arTiing information rit La'e 'a'hr (Pal 2 ot 3) Play-boy Comedy Thaetra Who Caves, rVir j. Fry.

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30 MO Paradise Wilhe lets Lathrop precous mynah bird out of its cage Pat McCormtck Unleashed The king-size comic performs. 10-00 You Can Be a Star Judgw ie. OO Mackenzie Dianas reappearance threatens the shaky reconciliation of Jean and Robert. ID National Geographic Explore C-mter Jj1 Lowe av.ends Aaas Moose Tooth Mountain; Japanese wnm-en dtve for ataione in the wa'nrt off Me-kura HVand. fha eroding lrad'iOn ot some Uortt American Ird Ir b.

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