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The Times-Tribune from Scranton, Pennsylvania • 21

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-THE SCRANTON TIMES. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 17, 1984- -21 Nielsen Lists Top 20 3 million BLARNEY STONEk frfip jin El HtVlxu 484-40H 1 ifn nur A WrarT, PETE REVIVAL An tli and WvK a Otow fnx to 9 ntour sounds of hortmi (ftoto mheantd ft mto) Novor A Covor Sal Night 803 ROGERS ED IENIHRN (Of A HO cov Serving Sonduints and Pizza or 14 Barbara Walters Spe cial." ABC, 20 6 or 17 2 mill ion 15 Facts of Life. NBC. 2D 4 or 17 0 million 16 Movie- "Arthur," ABC, 29 1 or 16 8 million 17.

HiU Street Blues," NBC, 19 8 or 16 million 18 Winter Olympics." Sunday. ABC, 19 3 or 161 million 19 Winter Olympics." Saturday. ABC, 18 8 or 15 7 million 20 Winter Olvmpics. Friday ABC, 18 7 or 15 6 million By the Associated Press Following are the top 20 programs as determined by the A C. Nielsen Co ratings for the week that ended Sun-da 1 The A-Team." NBC.

a rating of 26 1 or 22 4 million households. 2 Simon Simon, CBS, 26 4 or 22 1 million. 3 Dallas." CBS, 25 3 or 21 2 million. 4 60 Minutes," CBS, 24 5 or 20 5 million 5 Magnum. I CBS.

24 3 or 20 3 million 6 Kiptide," NBC, 23 5 or 19 6 million 7. Knots Landing," CBS, 22 9 or 19 1 million 8. Falcon Crest," CBS. 22 1 or IS million 9 Movie- "Little House on the Prairie- The Last Farewell," NBC. 22 0 or 18 4 million 10 Remington Steele." NBC, 21 4 or 17 9 million 11.

TVs Bloopers and Practical Jokes." NBC, 21 3 or 17 8 million 12. Miniseries "Celebrity" Part I. NBC, 21 2 or 17 7 million 13 Knight Rider, NBC, 20 7 Gfieni r.inrion 1505 MAIN DICKSON CITY WILL REPEAT THE SUNDAY SMORGASBORD SPECIAL AT 5.95 Per Person (Regular Price 5 7.95 Per Person) THROUGH THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY 11:30 AM. TO 4 PM. TO RFSFRVATIONS 383-0207 1 III III yaj, MACS CAFE 73 Conoil Old fora FRIDAY STANKY THE COAL MINERS SAllHDAY JIM BONE CADETS DOCS Hard Rock Ode Main Moscow 842-9052 (For Complete Listings Soo TV Timet loth Week in TFie Sunday Times) EVERT ERL 1 SAT.

T0U CAN DIRE I DAMCE FOR 4s5 SJS. SMORGASBORD CAturln Homemad Soups, roods firtads Si 2cssefts of tits HOMESTEAD RESTAURANT reJTOa aim TRio1 Saturda Fnday TOM 8 JERRY Series Threaten ABCs Olympics DIXIXS FROM 8 tJL-Z Saturday C-li'EN little vXCIXS FROM 10 P.M. 1044 Main In TV Spotlight 7-00 P.M. 21 $G4 (old CMirtdawa TW. 7 pm WBRE 21 THE SPEAK E-Z Ideal Restaurant BoardwolR of The firqot Room Olyphant A Spatial Vmlentina Dinner far i H.Y.

STRIP STEAK 12.00 800 ML 22 imCli JESSE FRASfTB OCHS Of ItUZiRO" SKIERS On Your Way Horn from Elk, Stop AT nORTII 40 GC1T 61 Off 181 FRIDAY PEGGY DYER BflRD MU HDAY PEARL Include Soup. Salad tar and Oman rri Nvw-J Adv at 8) has an excellent performance by Dianne Wiest as a battered wife, but the movie is strained LATE NIGHT MOVIES 11, (13), "Two-Lane Blacktop, 11 30. (2. 12), "Diary of a Teen-age Hitchhiker, (44), "42nd Street, (PRISM), "That Championship Season," 12 30, (22), "Stallion Road," 1, (44). "Abbott and Costello in the Navy," 1 30, (16), "The Vulture, (29), "Going Steady," (PRISM), "The Missionary," 1 45, (2), "Little Fauss and Big Halsy, 1 55, (HBO), "Lovesick," 2 30, (5), "Sunset Cove; (7), "The Family Jewels," 3, (94.

"Man at the Top," (111. "Blondie for Victory, (PRISM), "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," 3 35. (2), 1 Ker-De-Lance," (HBOi. "Threshold," 4 30. (PRISM), "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Omtd ferine Sjmdtcjtf tac 10), Melissa is in an auto accident while Lance spends the night with Terry and Pamela fears Richard will be killed Scheduled for "Friday Night Videos" (Ch 28 at 12 30 1 are Kool the Gang, and Daryl Hall and John Oates TV TALK Linda Ronstadt and David Steinberg join Johnny Carson on "The Tonight Show" tCh 28 at II 30) PBS PICKS Felix Roll Jtyn of Laard Freres Co is guest on Wall Sireet Week with Louis Rukeyser" iCh 13.

44, 46 at 8 30 1 CABLE CHANNELS SHORTS Al.KRT LSPN will continue to air its "Sports-Center Olympics Edition (at 7 1 through Sunday Theres auto racing from Daytona ilSA Cable at 8) LSU plays Alabama in SEC college basketball TBS at 8 051 Independence Day" iHBO By WASHINGTON Day 12 of the XIV Winter Olsmpics (Ch 16 from 7 30 to if, 11 30 to midnight) finds Tamara McKinney and Chnstm Cooper facing tough competition in the women slalom. Other events include the hockey playoffs, bobsledding and the biathlon ABC, meanwhile, faces lough competition from the triple barreled CBS Dukes of Hazzard' (at 8), "Dallas" (at 9) and "Falcon Crest" (at 10) But NBC's new trio of "Legmen" (at 8i. "The Master (at 9i and "The New Show" (at 101 are not the sort of things around which to plan an evening SERIES PICKS On "The Dukes of Hazzard" (Ch 22 at Si, Boss Hoggs nasty nephew, Dewey, tries a con by faking terminal illness Jack and David mad vertently help a prisoner to DAYBREAK TOP 40 DAME HA Mi escape on "Legmen" iCh 28 at 8 1 They nearly end up as fall guys On Dallas (Ch 22 at 9i, the question of who fathered the baby Sue Lllen just lost is discussed from all angles And Bobby has his own problems wondering if he Charlie dad George Lazenby and David MeCdllum are called in as guest stars on "The Master iCh 28 at 9 1 On Falion Crest iCh 22 at WIIALEHS1 SCl-tm ETN01 rko.e STM 13 Solod bar mdudtod wiib oH dmnsn REFIECTIOJS" ia MIX MfTf Steve Martin returns to "The New Show" tonight at 10 on Channel 28. LARSEfi Frird or Slramrd fish DINNER -Or LES GIBBS 111 Local Stations Face Personnel Changes i. 4CATF1DDLEM W4T tH.

PRISE tJB zr innumsj Jim Hennigan STor.iAinos louiige? 273 MAIN ST. A PC HB AID 876-4010 r. APPLE SCflUFFS nee zin aeee re a mm auo MARGnna CCXKTBH LOUNGE RtSTfiURRNT 1610 UlftSHBUHN ST Proudly Presents Mvtlc fty NATURES UJAY W. Feb. 17, 9 30 1 30 fho i Oo! WOAU-TV news personnel are still reeling from the announcement by anchorwoman Debbie Dunlcjvy that shes leaving the station News director Tom Powell says the announcement came as a suprise to him and lo most olhers at Channel 22.

where Ms Dunleavy had been full time anchor since 1978 Powell said regular staffers Cathy McLaughlin and fierry Bird will be aked ta fill the anchor spot on a temporary basis until a new anchor can be found He said the station's search berger now is seen on "Entertainment Tonight" under the pseudonym Alan Arthur Ms Dunleavy's departure compounds the personnel problems WDAU has faced over the past few years as Scranton Broadcasters Inc, its owners, have been bogged down in negotiations to sell the station The on again off again sale has Idl the station in a state of disarray Vacancies have been left unfilled with the expectation that new management would soon be taking over, and those who remain complain Sat -GiiAeTeimneES -GAG? gOASTTS Sot Feb. It THE JOHN STCCLE EP.ND No Corot 9 30-1 30 NO COVER DEFORE 10 P.M. KE ID P.M.- fi rt. Jack Griswold says the program was scheduled in the Saturday morning time slot lo see what kind of response it received from area listeners If the response warrants, he said, it's possible the program will be repeated on other davs and times Griswold also said 13Q has received confirmation that it will be the local broadcaster of Yankee games once again this season The stalion will carry every Yankee game with the possible exception of the Yankee-Mets "Mayor's Trophy Game" beginning April 2 a Former WEJL radio celebrity Frank Andrews is back to doing what he seems to do best hosting live talk shows Only now be's doing it for WNEP-TV, Channel 16. And unfortunately its only a temporary thing at this point, at least Andrews became well-known locally five years ago when he was host of the award-winning "Issueline" Interview and call in show on WE3JL, one of The Scranltm Ttmes radio stations He's done some spot reporting and has co-anchored WNEP's 6 30 a news pro-(Continued on Page 27) for a replacement will m- openly that the staff erosion elude both male and female has hurt the station's ability newscasters to compete with WbRE and Powell also said he has not MNLP in the local news ruled out the possibility that market WDAU might return to the Miss Dunleavv's departure co-anchor format it ahan- leaves the station with only doned four years ago when three full time news report-Alan Hcmberger left the sta- ers, compared to about bon for a network job Hem- seven at WBRE and nine at nOMTIW RESTAURANT Thi Vrrki't Spuria! PORK CHOP DiNNCR Pot Veg.

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IS BOBBY ROSS WNEP Channel 22 overall news staff, which hit a peak of about 36 when the station was produi ing a full one-hour news program in 1979 through 1982 reportedly has dropiH-d to only about 24 at this point Meanwhile, the proposed sale is entangled in a federal lawsuit that is not likely to reach the hearing stage until the end of this year At WBRE-TV, Channel 28, meanwhile, news director Tom Bigler is continuing his search lor a full time anchor to surceed Dean Phillips, who left in November to accept a position as news director and co-anchor of WCWSTV, a new television station in Aspen, Colo One possible successor was WBRE reporter Bill Long-worth. who Bigler says has done a good job filling in on a temporary basis since Phillips departure But Bigler says Lorgworth is not inlerested in the job because it involves both 6 and It broadcasts Longworth has told the station he would do the early news show but not the late night news Bigler said there is no single, solid prospect for the job at this point, although he said the station wants to make a decision as soon as possible The purchase of (he station by Integrated Resources Inc. mcanwhde. is not expected lo result in any major personnel shakeup at the Wilkes Barre based station, Bigler said, at least not in the immediate future. inal ac turn on the sale is not expected until midsummer, and bv that time station personnel will be heavilv involved in launching the fall broadcast season So any upper-level charges are expected to come at some later date And at WNEP-TV, Channel 16.

station officials are beginning the search for a replacement for Dorothy Lucte. the co-host of the station early-mornirg and "Noon Newscene" news shows Ms Luoe will be leaving the station in the near future to take a spot with New York City ABC No frm dae has been set for her departure acrordtrg to WNEP vice presidtrt Eiden Hale IN estimatirg about t0 weks from now Ms Luoe is the latest in a lung Lsi of VNLP news peo Ptya iBtaiawi cmi'Ki DANTES DEN AUfGHT 4 COO.T 961-9775 atil. 6t 134 UZtST SCft COM.U'I CHNNI SI.VID IIOM TO I I IMCIUOI. SALAD. .0110 l.T4 VEAL SCALLCP1XI 9.95 DIHISFR SPECIAL uo.

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