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Cog Angeles imeg VIEWING SPORTS WEEKEND TV 1 2 Pan Saturday. September 29. NEW SERIES, GET OFF THE SEASONS GROUND NBC, ABC WILL BOW TO ROYALTY THIS WEEKEND ft i(vu, Mary Tyler Moore, James Garner star in "Heartsounds' Sunday. TV REVIEWS 'HEARTSOUNDS' DRAMA; MISCHIEF IN 'MURDER' out of place" in that area. 6:30 p.m.

(4) A repeal of "Meeting of Minds" features a discussion among actors iwrtraying Karl Marx, Ulysses S. Grant, Sir Thomas More and Marie Antoinette, 7 p.m. (28). A retrospective of KCET's "Ci-lywatchers" series ts due at 9 p.m. (28).

SUNDAY: Proposition 41, the welfarepublic assistance initiative on the November ballot, will be debated on "News Conference 4 L.A.,"8:30a.m.(4). "Meet the Press" will be seen at 9a.m. (4M36). The Jewish High Holy Days are celebrated on "Season of Judgment." 9:30 a.m. (4).

Edwin Newman moderates a discussion about "Television and Churches," 10 a.m. (4). "This Week With David Brink-ley" will be seen al 1 1 a.m. or noon, depending on which baseball game ABC decides to televise, (7)(3)(10)(42). The opera "Carmen" is performed at Lincoln Center in French, with English subtitles, 1 p.m.

(28). The program will be simulcast in stereo on KUSC-FM (91.5) and KCPB-FM (91.1). Henry Kissinger and Robert McFarlane, a national security adviser to President Reagan, discuss U.S. -Soviet relations on "Face the "James Dean: An American Original," a documentary that won the 1983 Los Angeles Area Emmy Award as best entertainment special, repeats at 6:30 p.m. (7).

"60 Minutes" airs at 7 p.m. (2X8). The history of silent films is recalled in "Hollywood." a documentary series starting at 8 p.m. (9) Viewers are asked to solve mysteries in "Scene of the Crime," a drama special that will return as a weekly series later in the season, 10 p.m.(4)(36)(39). CBS SCHOOLBREAK "Hear Me Cry" will be broadcast Oct.

16 to launch the second season of "CBS Schoolbreak Specials." The hourlong program stars Robert MacNaughton and Lee Montgomery as high school students who make a suicide pact, which one of them survives. Diego production company has been producing the Trojan taped games locally, has resumed play-by-play this season at the request of Trojan officials. Gross has already worked the opening Sept. 8 game (vs. Utah State) with RiclL Marotta.

and USC's second game (vs. Arizona State) was on the Pac-10 network. But Sunday Gross returns with Mike Garrett and Roy Firestone! "They're trying to build a new image at SC," Gross commented. "A new athletic director and coach have had a full year to prepare for this season, and we're excited being a part of it. "The idea of three announcers in the booth is a first in major college broadcasting: others have had a third man.

but on the sidelines." Roy Firestone? The part-time impressionist? He's more than a reasonable facsimile of Cosell. Does that mean that he. "We'll let Firestone do his thing," Gross interrupted, laughing. "He's uninhibited. He can play the Cosell role, if he chooses.

We're not asking him to. but we're not restraining Roy from doing what he does best, and that's entertain." It's a new role for Gross too used to be controversial, but no who says he will be the straight man like Frank Gifford. Mike Garrett, the former Trojan All -American, will be more the Don Meredith expert on the game itself. ROUNDUP: today, football. 111-nois vs.

Iowa, 9 a.m. (2) (8) football, Nebraska vs. Syracuse, 9 a.m. USA football, Texas vs. Penn State, 9 a.m.

(51) ESPN baseball. Cardinals vs. Cubs, noon WGN tennis, Davis Cup, U.S. vs. Australia, noon ESPN football.

Notre Dame vs. Missouri. 12:30 p.m. (7) (3) (10) (42) football, Arizona State vs. Stanford, 1230 p.m.

(5) (51) boxing, Cooney vs. Brown; Belmont Horse Racing. 12:30 p.m. (2) (8) football, Navy vs. Arkansas, 4:30 p.m.

ESPN. SUNDAY: football. Cowboys vs. Bears, 10 a.m. (2) football, Seahawks vs.

Vikings, 10 a.m. (39) baseball, Padres vs. Braves, 11 a.m. WTBS football, Raiders vs. Broncos, 1 p.m.

(4) football, Lions vs. Chargers, 1 p.m. (8) tennis, Davis Cup, 2 p.m. ESPN. "Heartsounds" is a bludgeoning indictment of medical treatment al its impersonal worst, when patients are administered to as part of a generic, faceless mass.

Medicine is like Pluto to most of us, amorphous and unreachable, a separate planet with a separate vocabulary and intimidating presence that does not invite challenge. The hospital treatment given Hal in ''Heartsounds" is icy, antiseptic, abrupt and even inept, and Martha later reproaches herself for accepting this "institutional madness." The Lears' story also demonstrates how such crises as serious illness can unify a family and redefine relationships. "Heartsounds' is about frustration and pain. It is also about loyalty and affection, however. At 2'i hours, it is extremely long, but also extremely rewarding.

By PAUL HENNIGER. Times Staff Writer The choice facing NBC and ABC for covering games on this final weekend of baseball wasn't very difficult Who's Kansas City playing? That's all that really matters, since the Royals are in the driver's seat. The Tigers. Cubs and Padres are waiting in the dugout for the championships series next week. So.

Vin Scully and Joe Garagiola do their last Saturday NBC telecast today in Oakland, where the A's host the Royals at noon (Channels 4. 36 and 39). And NBC has a standby crew in Cleveland if the visiting Twins are still mathematically in the AL Western Division race. The same situation faces ABC for its Sunday finale. Don Drysdale and Earl Weaver will be in Oakland at noon (Channels 7.

3. 10 and 42), with a standby crew in Cleveland. ABC knows where it will be Tuesday for the opening of the National League Championship best-of-five series in Chicago. The Cubs and Padres play at light -less Wrigley Field at 11 a.m. (Channels 7.

3, 10 and 42) with Drysdale, Weaver and Reggie Jackson (who'd rather be playing) manning the mikes. By today or Sunday, for sure, ABC will know where to go for the start of the American League series Tuesday Kansas City or Minneapolis. The game telecast will have a 5 p.m. start (here) regardless of who's hosting the Tigers. Al Michaels, Jim Palmer and Howard Cosell cover the AL games.

Both series offer the same start times for Games 2 on Wednesday. On Thursday, only one game is scheduled as the National playoffs switch to San Diego where the Cubs and Padres play Game 3 at 5 p.m. The American Leaguers travel Thursday and play Game 3 Friday (5 p.m.) in Detroit. There is no National League game that day. Next Saturday, Game 4 in the American League, if necessary, will be in Detroit, 11 a.m.

Game 4 in the National League, if necessary, will be in San Diego, next Saturday at 5 p.m. And, if fifth games are necessary to decide both championships, they will be played Oct. 7 in the same two cities, with San Diego starting at 11 a.m. and Detroit at 5 p.m. NBC will cover the World Series that begins Oct.

9, with Scully and Garagiola calling the action. Trojan fans are in for a new look and sound Sunday at 3 p.m. when Channel 2 spins off the tape replay of today's USC-LSU game. Jerry Gross, the veteran sports-caster (NBA, Chargers, Padres, cable sports, et whose San AM KASC KAU KMT KDAV KEZV MAC Kft KFIW nrwB KGER KGf KG 710 KGM 1430 KKI 740 KKV 1MO KLAC 11(0 KUT 1330 KMOY WO (MFC 120 KMX MO MfC 130 KMTC 1230 KHLA 1260 00 KROO 1S10 tX KTHQ 1020 (70 KTYM 14M 670 KWIZ 14M 1220 KWKW 1300 HO KWOW 1600 710 KWRM 1370 1070 K2LA 1640 1240 XEGM KO 11M xras 10M 1110 XTRA 90 MTUTKW 11 ul- Tama Mcknight's World of Antiques, KCV (87.0). 11:31 UL-Dr.

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Times Television Critic TV has known so many heart-warming affliction stories, from "Brian's Song" in 1971 to the present, that the good ones often seem routine simply because the genre is so familiar. That is unfortunate for ABC's "HeirUoundV because it is one of the good ones. Very, very good, in fact. "Heartsounds" (9 p.m. Sunday on Channels 3, 7, 10 and 42) is an Embassy Television adaptation of Martha Weinman Lear's book about the four-year ordeal that she and her husband, Hal, endured following his massive heart attack.

It is a coronary "Rocky," uplifting even as it saddens. It is emotional and stirring, with humor and heartbreak, a story of integrity and intelligence that is at once sweet and hard-edged. This is as much a love story as a sick story, featuring excellent work from Mary Tyler Moore as Martha Lear. Rollcrcoasting between outrage and tenderness as the supportive wife, Moorj has never been better. "Heartsounds" is also a confident, breakout performance for James Garner as Hal Lear, a physician who deters physical and mental erosion with a fighting spirit.

Moore's and Garner's triumphs (and Sam Wanamaker does a nice turn as Hal's chief physician) must be shared with director Glenn Jordan, writer Fay Kanin and Fern Field, who co-produced with Kanin. Together, they give us not Super Victims, but credible characters, with flaws and vulnerabilities, who instinctively push through adversity. "Heartsounds" is especially effective in depicting the Lears' crisis of adjustment as Hal ultimately undergoes bypass surgery and seems to ebb away. He gets daily extensions on life, becoming an increasing emotional burden on his wife. The story also says much about our attitudes toward medicine and sickness how the heart patient is seen by himself and others.

Martha asks Hal during love-making if he wants to "rest a minute." Later, he is angry at his body, at the "damned doubletalk" he gets from his doctors and at Martha for not telling him the truth about his condition. She, at times, is angry at him for putting her through this. And she is bitter about his treatment. RULING IS UPHELD IN From the Associated Press WASHINGTON A federal appeals court panel Friday refused to allow a Los Angeles broadcasting company to join a protracted legal fight over who should hold a license for that city's television Channel 9. The U.S.

Circuit Court of Appeals panel, by a 2-1 vote, ruled that the Federal Communications Commission was right to reject City of Angels Broadcasting effort to intervene in the license fight. The legal battle began in 1965 The young season's firm major TV movie and one of its most promising new series arrive this weekend, along with another spate of older series that are mak ing their first appearances of the fall. Launching their new season tonight are NBC's "Diffrent Strokes" and "Gimme a Break," at 8 and 8:30 p.m., respectively (Channels 4. 36, 39), and CUS' "Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer" at 9 p.m. (Channels 2 and 8).

Sunday will bring the premiere of "Murder, She Wrote," a mystery scries starring Angela Lansbury as a female Ellcry Queen, who both writes crime novels and solves the real-life variety, and the telecast of "Heartsounds," an ABC movie starring Mary Tyler Moore and James Garner as a married couple whose lives are dramatically altered when he suffers a series of heart attacks. "Murder, She Wrote" debuts at 8 p.m. on Channels 2 and "Heart -sounds" begins at 9 p.m. on Channels 7, 3, 10 and 42. (See Howard Rosenberg's reviews of the two programs on this page.

Also premicring Sunday is "Tales From the Dark Side." a new anthology scries of stories involving mystery, science fiction and the supernatural. The first offering, "The New Man," stars Vic Tayback and Kelly Jean Peters. It will be seen at 1 1 p.m. on Channel 5. Starting their new seasons Sunday are NBC's "Knight Rider" (8 p.m., Channels 4, 36 and 39), CBS' "Trapper John.

M.D." (10 p.m., Channels 2 and 8) and public TV's "Nature," which kicks things off with a report on how the 1883 volcanic eruption of Krakaloa affected the wildlife in that area (8 p.m.. Channels 28 and 15 Here are other weekend programs. TODAY: Young people discuss living with foster families on "Teen Talk," 8 a.m. (9) "Rosie," a special for young people, is a drama about how a family reacts to a girl's terminal illness, 3:30 p.m. (4).

Jay Curtis, president of the Los Angeles Taxpayers and Howard Jarvis discuss Prop. 36 on "Newsmakers." 4 p.m. (2). "Headlines on Trial" questions whether police should have the right to stop someone for questioning just because the person "looks Knee- Slapping, Spine- Tinnlinnl Diffrent Strokes He ain't afraid of noghosts.Lookout Casper, nere comes Arnold) 8pm Gimme A Break Nell gets jazzed in KJauu Hr leant) Partners In Crime Somebody out to LjTBr fj give them a die job! fT Hot Pursuit A scheming woman is out to destroy the two lovers! 9pm i rB rA 1 The best thing about the two-hour premiere of "Murder, She Wrote" on CBS Sunday (8 p.m., Channels 2 and 8) is Angela Lans-bury. She is all mischief and devilment, huggably wise, possessed of an agile mind and a sweet nature as a mystery writeramateur detective who is always one amiable step ahead of the police.

The next best things are Peter S. Fischer's wry and brainy script and the production's blend of suspense and fun as Jessica Fletcher (Lans-bury) tells us (speaking right to the camera) how she got started writing and sleuthing: "I suppose I knew then and there that something bizarre was developing. The "scene of the crime" is the weekend estate of publisher Preston Giles (Arthur Hill), where the dastardly Caleb McCallum (Brian Keith also is in attendance. Someone is missing. There's a scream.

A body floats to the top of the pool. And it's, it's time to call in the dumb cop (Ned Beatty Two more things of note: "Murder, She Wrote" gets a big break by following "60 Minutes," although other CBS shows have had difficulty holding adult viewers in that time slot. Also, the crack Richard Levinson and William Link, who co-created "Murder, She Wrote" and were executive producers for the premiere along with Fischer, are listed only as "consultants" for future episodes of the series. The effect of that remains to be seen as Jessica Fletcher continues playing those "silly little murder games." TV LICENSE ISSUE when RKO General's license renewal for KHJ-TV was challenged. Fidelity Television Inc.

sought a license to broadcast over Channel 9. The FCC still had not finally resolved the dispute by 1980 when City of Angels Broadcasting attempted to intervene, with hopes of being awarded the license. The commission denied that request last year, and City of Angels appealed. Friday's appeals court decision upheld the commission's decision. SESSION: uon hussel It's rock and roll the way it was, with Russell and his 9-member group.

IT iBMMHilikiiiiiiaiaiw 'BURNING BED' DUE "The Burning Bed," a fact-based drama starring Farrah Fawcett as a battered wife with three children who murders her husband, will air Oct. 8 on NBC (9-11 p.m.). Paul LeMat plays the husband. The movie is being broadcast during National Domestic Violence Week. FM KACt KM KlOt Kmc KOH KCftW KCSN MZY KMC MOX KFSQ KGJL KMC KHTZ KM KIM KKM 103.1 KJLH 104.3 ua KKOO 0.1 KKH 11 KLON I KIOS KlVf UMAX 2.1 KMFT 3.1 KMOG KNAC KNHS KMJO 7.1 UNO 102.7 KNTF M.l KOCM 100.1 KOST 102 1 KKC M.7 MfK 106 1 MOO 1.1 kuth KSAK M.S KM 107 6 KMC 107.1 KW M.7 KUO 106 KUC ion i ucrt M.7 KVVU 2.7 KWVI 7 KXLU 3 6 KYMH 103.1 KZLA 1031 0.7 106.7 101.1 0.1 MS M.7 101.1 II 101 M.7 I07 106.1 M.

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7 10pm 1 cimzaciists Vintage Los Angeles comes alive with Art Seidenbaum and Charles Champlin. 9 PM September 30 Preaching on the Jewish Holy Days Guests: Rabbi Alexander Graubart Vice President, University of Judaism Rabbi Jack Pressman Temple Beth Am, Beverly Hills Series Host: Dr. Max Vorspan, Vice President, University of Judaism (If you can't witch may nigqnt you Ml your VCD.) Produced by the UNIVERSITY OF JUDAISM JpOth AnnivcratyQ.