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The Times Leader Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 7D E53 Best bet Friday Evening Television Friday, January 4, 1985 I 1 I I I I 8:30 9:00 I 9:30 10:00 I 10:30 11:00 11:30 'Street Hawk' Tonight, 8:30 p.m. Channel 16 Rex Smith is 'Street Hawk. 'The Thorn Birds' Sunday, 8:30 p.m. Channel 16 6:00 6:30 7:00 7:30 8:00 News CBSNctts WbmI Fortune Puses Hanard Dallas' Falcon Crest Vws "Cotton Candy News' NBCNw People Court Evtnina; Mag.

Hunter Miami Vice News Tonight Company Day At A Time M'A'S'H All Family PM Matanne Rituals Merv Griffin News Tali Angels New ABC News TieTcDoua Wheel Fortune Webater Street Hawk Matt Houston News Movie Hart To Hart News NBA Basketball New York Knicks at Boston Celtics News Sergeant Bilko Bums Allen News CBS News Ent Tonight For Money Dukea Of Hauart Dallas Falcon Crest News "Cotton Candy' Berooa Barney Miller Jefferson Ind News Movie: "The Girl, The Gold Watch And Dynamite'- Ind News News Odd Couple Honeymooners News ABC News PM Magaiir Wheel Fortune Webster Street Hawk Matt Houston News Nightline AUc Jetfersonsr I Company WKRP MoieJ1Ttie Norseman" Night Gallery' Bisarre Video Rork Movie 3 News CBS News Family Feud Name Tune Dukes OrHanard Dallas Falcon Crest News Biiarre G3 News NBC News Ent Tonight For Money Hunter Miami Vice News Tonight 3 Happy Days M'A'S'H Tail Movie- 'The McKenrie Break" Starsky And Hutch Taii Benny Hill CD I Love Lucy HotieymoonersV Business Bpt Doctor Who Wash Week Wall St Wk Movie "The Purple Heart" Cinema Twilight Zone 'Lost Patrol" HBO Movie "Cold River" Cont'd lns-de The NFL Movir "Amityville The Demon" Attractions Movie "Tender Mercies" "Outsiders" SHO Anna Cont'd Movie "Kipperhang" Movie "Sudden Impact" Movie "10 To Midnight" MAX Movie "Walts Across Texas" Movie "Heat And Dust" Alabama Movie "Intimate Moments" SpeedWeek SportsLor SpnrtsCenter NFL Moments NFL Moments NFL Moments Billiards Strickland vs. Varner Tennis Connors vs McEnroe GJ Cartoons Radio 1990 Dragnet Wrestling Boung Night Flight Movie 'The Sting II" Cont'd Sports Movie: "Heat And Dust" Movie "The Keep" Out Of Control NICK Rocks Can't Do That Dangermouse Fame Is The Spur Alley Dances Presents Moses Pendleton America's favorite love story: 'The Thorn Birds. ADV. TV in brief JI.P,.. iv .1 1 1 1 ii 1 1 w.

j. lWp mm i i More than an actor The producers of CBS's "Knots Landing" got more than just an actor when they signed Mayf Nutter as the new love interest for Val Ewing (Joan Van Ark). Nutter is also a singer -songwriter, and two of his compositions were heard as background music on his debut episode last Thursday night. Nutter, a former member of the New Christy Minstrels folk group, was recently notified that a song he wrote for Robert Duvall's feature, "The Stone Boy," was being considered for an Academy Award nomination. Heavenly sounds It may take divine intervention for the National Christian Network of Cocoa, to unveil its new, 24-hour music-videoTable service; Odysseyron SaturdayTNCN's twopefsoTT-sales department has yet to nail down any advertisers or affiliates.

Henry Winkler produced pilot Henry Winkler is producing "Mister Sunshine," a half-hour comedy pilot for ABC about the misadventures of a newly divorced father and English teacher who is "acerbic, funny, outspoken and blind." It's expected to air in late February or early March. Joins new soap Soap veteran Larkin Malloy, formerly of "The Edge of Night." has joined CBS's "Guiding Light" as high-powered businessman Kyle Sampson. Malloy taped his first three "Guiding Light" episodes and his lat two "Edge of Night" appearances in the same week. Rescheduled "The Atlanta Child Murders." the five-hour CBS mini-series originally scheduled for Feb. 19 and 20.

has been reset for Feb. 10 and 12. It stars Jason Robards, Martin Sheen and James Earl Jones. Nolan Johannes Co-anchor of local frontrunner J. Chapman Stepped into sportscaster slot i fc.

v. i7. a-n l.iu, 4 Jf -V i lr r- Dorothy Lucey Moved to the Big Apple Larry Sales Changing Channel 28 ADV. cast WNEPTV's 11 o'clock news live on the radio. WKRZ 98.5 FM 7 p.m.

Saturday Night Live At The Oldies Dedication and re-ques show with Jay Daniels. Call toll-free: 1-800-2220985. WARD 1540 AM 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Continuous polka music all day Saturday and Sunday.

Call in your live dedications at 826-1500 or 343-1776 throughout the weekend. WTZZ 92.9 FM Noon to 2 p.m. Remember Dick Evans plays hits of the past 200 years with comment on their times and customs. WARM 590 AM 12:05 a.m. The Larry King Show The Best of King: Highlights of previous shows.

WRKC 88.5 FM 7 a.m. Glory An inspirational program with host Justin Victor. 8 a.m. Festival of India with hosts Dr. N.C.

Das and Justin Victor. SUNDAY WKRZ 98.5 FM 10 a.m. American Top 40 featuring Casey Kasem The week's Top 40 countdown. 7 p.m. All Request Show Call toll free: i -800-222-0985.

WVIA 90 FM 8 a.m. Cleveland Institute of Music Concert Hall. 7 a.m. Saint Paul Sunday Morning. 9 a.m.

Baroque and Beyond. 1 p.m. Carnegie Hall Tonight. 2 p.m. Sunday Concert Hall.

8 p.m. Radio Doctor The Cabinet of Doctor Fritz. 6:30 p.m. Americans All "The Story of Robert E. Lee" Noted New York stage actress Marian Seldes and John Beal recreate the historic surrender of the Confederate General to Ulysses S.

Grant at a small Virginia farmhouse. 7 p.m. Radio Drama. 10 p.m. Jazz Alivel WARD 1540 AM 7 a.m.

to 7 p.m. Polka weekend continues. WBAX1240AM 8 p.m. The Jack Charney Comedy Show. with the murder trial of wicked 1984: Station sell outs and soap sweeps Radio FRIDAY WVIA' 90 PM 10 a.m.

From the Studio Lib-by Smith features two noted pianists, Arturo Benedetti Mi-chaelangeli and Alfred Brendel. 2 p.m. Panorama E. Power Biggs will be the soloist in an organ concerto of Rheinberger. WARD 1540 AM 9 a.m.

The Oarage Sale Call in and advertise items for sale. 10 a.m. "Coping Connection" Hosted by Jim Ward, this show is about any personal problem with which you might be coping, noon Call and discuss any subject with Ed WalHson. 3 p.m. Call and voice your opinions with Rob Neyhard.

WARM 590 AM 7 p.m. Ron Allen Sportsline. WTZZ 93.9 FM 12:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m "All Time Hit Parade" Dick Evans hosts popular music hits from 1892 to 1983. WNAK 7.30 A.M. 0 a.m.

Hymn Time. 7i33 a.m. Sport Features. 12:30 p.m. Hymn Time.

p.m. Ann Taylor, Good News. 3:30 p.m. Comment On The News A showcase of analysis and commentary featuring Tom Brokaw. Edwin Newman, and Marvin Kalb.

WBAX-1240AM 12:05 p.m. Fifteen with Frank Fifteen minutes of your favorite Frank Sinatra music. 5 p.m. Stock Reports What's happening on Wall Street, with an updated stock report. WQE8 1300 AM 6 a.m.

Norm Hill features humor, trivia, and noon Album for Lunch, midnight Album Classic. SATURDAY WVIA 90 FM a.m. The New England Summer Music Chamber Festival. 7:80 a.m. Mostly Mozart Festival.

2 p.m. Music At Bucknell University. 4 p.m. Carnegie Hall Tonight. 8 p.m.

A Prairie Home Companion. 7:80 p.m. New York Chamber Music Series. 10:00 p.m. The American Jazz Radio Festival.

WNAK 73AM 12:10 p.m. Dr. E.D. Hettinger Dr. Hettinger studies the Bible and does so in a manner that everyone can understand.

WKRZ '1340 AM 11. p.ia. Newswatch 16 Simul 'Dynasty' topped television ratings Alexis Carrington (Joan Collins) former Channel 16 anchor Gary Essex, now unhappy in his job in Denver, said he was talking to Channel 28 about returning here. If auld acquaintances aren't forgot, an Essex in the market would mean an instant ratings boost for the station that nabs him, according to his old boss, NEP Communications president Tom Shelburne Jr. Channel 28 weathercaster Lorri Lewis says she's tired of having only "high and lows" in her career and in the new year will probably switch to a reporting or producing job there.

As for that traditional American past-time, primetime TV viewing, the year was marked by trends toward ensemble casts, teams of female sidekicks and a concept that may finally betfring out glitzy shows about the rich. Building strong ensemble casts was the goal of many shows in the past year, from the miserable and inane "Cutter to Houston" a show about young medical personnel in a scruffy Texas town, to the popular "Cheers." In that show, the ensemble cast are just the kind of people you'd like to meet or make fun of in your favorite bar. Maybe that's why "Cheers" is still cheering and "Cutter" is in a network morgue some- where. "Cagney Lacey." "Kate Allie" and "Partners in Crime" may all sound like Saturday morning kid shows, but they all represent the trend of building shows around female stars. "Cagney Lacey" with Tyne Daley and Sharon Gless achieved the, dubious distinction of being a promising new show that was canceled and then yanked off the garbage heap and put back on the air.

It should be back it's good, and we care about these two women cops. Kate Allie." starrlnfi Su san St. James and ex-Saturday Night Live star Jane Curtin, is also a bright, peppy show with some good writing. But just to show that even a hot trend can't save a dumb show, "Partners in Crime," starring the imitation-plastic dolls Lynda Carter and Loni Anderson as bumbling detectives, has been dying a slow death and may still not be. saved.

The universal hope that the rich are as miserable as the rest of us started a trend several years ago. The shows all feature the emotionally downtrodden lives of the well-to-do. It started with "Dallas" but the momentum has moved to "Dynasty," a competitive spin-off that has put the "Curse of the Eternal Joan Collins" on an vulnerable public. By next year, "Dallas" and "Dynasty" may be two of the few left in the genre to hold down the glittering fort. "Paper Dolls." a tearjerker about the modeling industry, is struggling although it really has some good, trashy writing and is more enjoyable than most.

But even the "richer the better" trend couldn't save "Bare Essence," the 6aga of perfume scions that was canceled. Who would have thought in the year that "Hotel," ABC's yukky and overdone nighttime soap, would make it and "Bay City Blues." a creative spinoff from "Hill Street Blues." would be just a fuzzy memory? For the best miniseries of the year, here's two nominations: Last November's "Kennedy" starring Martin Sheen and this year's "Fatal Vision." with newcomer Gary Cole. The rest of them were more hype than substance. By JEAN TORKELSON Sto Writer Last year, what dedicated TV nighttime viewer would have thought that would be a yawner and something called "Scarecrow and Mrs. King" would be going strong? Locally, it was hard to imagine that last year at this time two of the market's three commercial TV stations would be sold.

Or, that their new owners would begin rumbling they want to narrow the news show ratings gap and give perennial frontrunner WNEP-TV, Channel 16 something to think about. All that happened in the past year in TV. The sale of WDAU-TV. Channel 22 (to Southeastern Capital Corp. of Atlanta, Ga) and WBRE-TV, Channel 28 (to Northeastern Television Investors, Inc.

of New York) has so far generated more heat than fire. The two stations both formerly owned by local families are still reorganizing since the summertime switchover, and the November ratings book doesn't show much change from November 1983. Channel 16. whose parent company is NEP Communications Inc. of New York, is still far ahead with the attention of about half the viewers who are watching TV at newstime.

It likes to boast that it is "America's highest rated newscast" according to a staff memo from news director Paul Stueber. Nolan Johannes and Karen Harch continue to lead the news team, and before the November ratings season Stueber said it would be business as usual at the station no min-iseries or extraordinary hype was needed, he said, to stay number one. WNEP-TV's Dorothy Lucey, in her first TV job as co-anchor of the station's morning and noon newscasts, probably made the biggest change this year she was snatched up by WABC-TV in New York and put opposite ageless talk show entrepreneur Regis Philbin in a new show called "New York Style." That show has been cancelled, however, as of the end of December. Ms. Lucey could not be reached for comment on her future plans.

Meanwhile, Channel 16's competitors are like the puny kids next door who say they are building up their muscles but don't have much to show for it yet. By next year at this time, they may still be shadow-boxing. Or, there is always the outside chance they will have scored a draw or a knockout. With about 12 percent of the available viewing audience, third-place Channel 22 formerly owned by the Megargee family of Scranton has made the most dramatic cosmetic changes so far. It has a new set, a co-anchor (Jeff Barnd) joining Debbie Dunleavy, and a new sports-caster, J.

Chapman It didn't turn out to be the best year for Channel 22's sportscaster of four years, Kent Westling, who was dumped from his slot the day before the newsteara made its debut on the new set. Formerly owned by the Baltimore family of Kingston, second-place Channel 28 with about 20 percent of the viewing audience expects to start making changes in the new year, Larry Sales, its recently-arrived news director. Sales, formerly a producer and anchor in Boston, expects to have a new set and a nent anchor and meteorologist. In an appropriate end-of-the-year "auld lange syne" twist, WTZZ 92.9 FM 10 a.m. Sunday Morning With Your Memories Carl Lucas hosts.

1 p.m. Polka Joy Show Bobby Z. 8 p.m. The. 'Big Five New York Philharmonic.

WKRZ 1340 AM 11 p.m. Newswatch 16 Simulcast WNEPTVs 11 o'clock news live on the radio. i.