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4C MEMJr ITONIGHTiSlPRIMElTIMEiGUID Fitz and For complete daily television listings see The Sunday TV book Additional details about sports can be found in the Sports section PRIME TIME KEY: QCIosed captioned for hearing impaired An stereo where available 'Program in progress Shaded areas indicate movies Movie ratings: Excellent Good Fair Poor differences were irreconcilable 10:00 10:30 9:30 9:00 8:00 8:30 8 PM movie Back to the Fu ture Science fiction) Michael Fox Christopher Lloyd Skateboarding teen-ager Marty McFly takes a mad DeLorean time machine back to the 1950s and helps his wimpy father court his mother 0H3 9 PM The Making of Mankind Small Anthropologist Mary Leakey uncovers four million-year-old footprints of upright man in Tanzania 0 live from Tamiami Park Ford is still out of the country and Fitz said Wednesday of her relationship with Ford: only thing that I have to say on the record is I do truly wish him the Talking to insiders yields predictably different accounts depending on whether talking to someone in the Fitz camp was abusive not just to Sally but to many or someone in the Ford camp worked to engineer his But the bottom line seems to be that Ford who considers himself a serious reporter simply could not overlook the on-air lapses mis-speaks and gaffes and the inability to engage in sensible cross-talk that have prompted some at 7 to dub her CHANNEL7 from 1C saying for years we bought in Joel Chea-twood as the new news director the mandate was to look at our product and to improve it" Leider said along with that has come the upgrading in OK But why was Peter Ford the one to be let go and why so abruptly? How could his stock have descended so rapidly that after four years on the air he had to be so rudely fired while he was out of town on vacation only to be replaced by a long-time understudy weekend anchor Steve Dawson who suddenly was heralded as The Great New Hope? agent says Channel 7 acted so rashly that it even missed the window in three-year contract that would have let them dismiss him without further compensation after this month Leider disputes this Magic Johnson 9 PM Pro Basketball NBA Finals Game Two: Detroit Pistons at Los Angeles Lakers The defending champion Lakers are one game down in this best of seven series Magic Johnson and company are trying to win back-to-back NBA titles a feat no team has accomplished since the 1969 Boston Celtics (Live) ED Afraid of leaks TALK SHOWS hardly perfect himself and he could be pretty unforgiving and intolerant" said one neutral observer is full of insecurities and he probably made the situation worse than it needed to have been by constantly letting her know that he could never like her or accept her because of the journalist she wasn't In the end he was probably his own worst enemy You havcto get along Part of your job is to make the per- son next to you look good" If one of them had to go why was it Ford? Leider insists that ro- mantic involvement with station owner Ed Ansin was not a factor in any personnel decisions truth of the matter in he says that they're not going out with one another anymore an actual Both Cheatwood and Leider say audience research tells them that Sally is the strength of the news 16 PMC 7 AM This Morning Singer Teddy Pendergrass Barbara Mandrel ED Today Mark Harmon fitness Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi QB Good Morning America Andy Williams debate on why men of the have trouble committing to relationships restaurants with style cuisine (D 9 AM Wil Shriner Tim Conway Alaina Reed (227) Donahue Classroom violence against teachers 0 10 AM Geraldo Innocent victims of drug wars ffl 11AM Sally Jessy Raphael Postpartum depression 4 PM Oprah Winfrey Widowers 0 5 PM Live at Five Toxins positive discipline Key West and the Truman Annex 7 PM A Current Affair A Texas police officer arrested for terrorizing couples is set free 8 PM Something on 17 Therapists from the Center for Contemporary Counseling 9 PM Larry King Live! Arnold Schwarzenegger fcHwl Morton Downey Jr Topic: gun control Guests include Lisa Sliwa of the Guardian Angels I won I 10 PM Morton Downey Jr See Above EQ Initially news director Chea-twood said talks with Dawson had been going on for some time and the announcement was made with Ford gone because they feared a leak of the Dawson talks would be even more hurtful to Ford But in fact the leak that management was apparently most worried about was a Cheatwood memo which made a case against Ford and which was mistakenly placed in a computer file to which the whole newsroom had access Sure enough reporters being what they are people like me were soon getting tips that Ford was on his way out As to any several Channel 7 insiders say Dawson was when the offer to co-anchor the lead broadcasts came of the last week Leider would not comment on how long been talking to Dawson about the job Dawson would only respond that was not on a death watch for Peter's job I actively seeking it and I expect him to Dawson in fact reportedly was lobbying for the Live at Fine vacancy created when Frank Robinson was fired Maybe Leider and Cheatwood hadbeen thinking of Dawson for the 6 and 1 1 job but they apparently clued him in Dawson may prove to be a good choice: a good newsreader a good reporter he and Sally Fitz have some on-air chemistry and perhaps finally given the limelight he can become more of a But whatever appeal it would seem the changes were triggered by the realization that there were irreconcilable problems between Ford and Fitz Team To Turn as the rapidly descending Channel 7 billboards proclaimed them simply turned each stomachs All Leider would contribute is that almost the norm in the industry that anchors sometimes get movie Rhodes of Africa Biography) Walter Huston Oscar Homolka Englishman Cecil John Rhodes finds diamonds in 1870s South Africa and from there builds an empire with political influence (2:00) mcl 7:30 PM phy and stylized scenes illustrate imagination and technique 0 LA Law REPEAT Markowitz and Kelsey experience prenuptial jitters Benny is arrested for sexual assault Rollins represents a circus stuntman A OO Dizzy Gillespie Quintet Live The trumpeter performs at Monmouth Battlefield State Park with Ed Cherry Sam Rivers John Lee and igna-cio Berroa (D 010:30 PMfgasa young woman mentally creates the father she never had and is forced to kill to protect her fantasy (PG 2:00) TV movie ('78 Drama) Robert Urich Tony Curtis A private investigator uncovers a web of corruption during his search for a teen-age runaway (1:40) ffl tv movie Brink's: The Great Robbery (76 Crime drama) Carl Betz Stephen Collins The FBI spends years tracking down the gang behind the infamous 1950 armory heist in Boston (2:00) I wail Alec Guinness Flamboyant British officer TE Lawrence unites Arab tribes against the Turks during World War (03:30) max movie Back to the Future Science fiction) (See Prime Time) (PG 2:00) i shoi (8-05) movie They Were Expendable (Colorized) War) Robert Montgomery John Wayne Heroic PT boat captains fight Japanese ships in the Philippines during World WarH (3:00) ffesl movie Brass Target (78 Mystery) Sophia Loren George Kennedy A love triangle and the theft of Nazi gold support the theory that Gen George Patton Jr died by an assassin (PG 2:00) ffwcl 08:30 Entertainment Tonight Denzel Washington on the set of Finding Maubee in Port Antonio Jamaica Hooray for Us! Celebration of the work of the K-12 students of Dade County Public Schools QQ Baseball Chicago at Pittsburgh (Live) I wad 8 PM E2C2 iO 1 AME movie Paramount on Parade Musical) See 7:30 pm (1:30) IamcI Tanner Play" A hbqi OIIPMI movie The Stratton Story ('49 Biography) James Stewart June Allyson Based on the life of Monty Stratton the baseball pitcher who lost a leg and learned to play with an artificial one (2:00) ffl movie Merrily We Live ('38 Comedy) Brian Aheme Constance Bennett An unshaven writer mistaken for a bum accepts a job as chauffeur for a daffy rich woman and clashes with her spoiled daughter (2:00) pNcl The research Leider says shows Fitz has a particularly high quotient one of the two key factors along with in anchor research But why should that be surprising? Fitz has been an anchor after all for six years and WSVN is envied by the other stations for the magnitude of its promotion Of course recognizable Yes acknowledges Leider with Sally there is a high credibility factor as an anchor as Perhaps what the research says but I see it Fitz has little credibility in live situations like the papal Mass and election nights where she has toassimilate information and spit it back out I was never a big fan of Peter either but I often noted how much more likable and less wooden he seemed when Fitz was on vacation and he got to team with Jill Beach I remember too The Rondinaro Mystery There are some anchors like Ann Bishop who elevate the level of a newscast and whomever sits next to them When first partner Steve Rondinaro was at Channel 7 1 never thought much of him as an anchor He seemed stiff stilted a little arrogant But after he was fired from 7 and turned up an- choring weekends for Channel 4 1 thought This a pretty pleas- ant newsreader earnest with a nice style So was it the packaging at 4 the pace of the newscast the removal of his mustache that made him seem better? Perhaps Or perhaps it was simply that he was no longer working with Sally Fitz DAYTIME A Different World REPEAT The new dorm candor puts the residents on edge f)POO movie A Ticket to Tomahawk Western comedy) Dan Dailey Anne Baxter Outlaws Indians dancing girls and a sheriff sharpshooting daughter stall the sole holder of a train ticket to Tomahawk (2:00) EmcJ 9 PM S3 523 1:30 AME Animosity no secret (1:50) movie Off Beat 86 Comedy) Judge Reinhold Meg Tilly A library clerk fills in for a friend at a police-benefit dance audition and gets carried away with impersonating an officer (PG 1:35) I shq movie The Assam Garden Drama) Deborah Kerr An Indian neighbor whose husband is ill helps an elderly English widow turn her late husband's garden into a showplace (1:30) faRvl Waldheim: A Commission of Inquiry An international commission will review new and existing evidence to determine if there is just cause for Kurt Waldheim former Secretary General of the United Nations to stand trial for alleged crimes during World War II hboI movie Five Card Stud Western) Dean Martin Robert Mitchum Five men lynch a card cheat then are killed one by one a frontier gambler and the card preacher brother investigate (PG 2:00) frasl movie He Walked by Night Mystery) Scott Brady Los Angeles homicide detectives use an unusual method to capture the murderer of a fellow police officer (2:00) Enc 11:30 PMCS 9 AM movie Smash-Up Drama) Susan Hayward Lee Bowman A nightclub singer gives up her career to marry a rising star then becomes an alcoholic (2:00) NOON movie The Stratton Story Biography) James Stewart June Allyson Based on the life of Monty Stratton the baseball pitcher who lost a leg and learned to play with an artificial one (2:00) 2 PM movie Decameron Nights Romance) Joan Fontaine Louis Jourdan Italian poet Boccaccio hides in the court of Fiammetta where he tells three tales of love and lust (1:30) 0 2AMC But Ford and Fitz far exceeded that norm the animosity between them was an open secret in news circles around town At one point the pair was reportedly asked by management to consider going for counseling together to resolve their differences Rivals at other stations still marvel about the way they bickered whenever they were off-camera the day they anchored the papal Mass movie Midnight Lace ('60 Mystery) Doris Day Rex Harrison A woman begins receiving obscene phone calls just 3 months after marrying a London tycoon (2:00) ffl (2A5) movie Angel and the Badman Western) John Wayne Gail RusselL Quaker Prudence Worth helps wounded outlaw Quirt Evans and slowly reforms him to a life of religion and honest work (2:15) tbsI LATE NIGHT NBC Thursday lineup dominates the top 10 Nature "Lords of Red fox cubs bom in spring on a Japanese island play and learn with their family during summer then face winter alone a 48 Hours CBS News anchor Dan Rather hosts a feature on how Americans prepare for the Summer Olympics in the wake of an embarrassing performance in the Winter Games tv movie Some Kind of Miracle (79 Drama) David Dukes Andrea Marcovicci Two young marriage plans are jeopardized when the man is paralyzed as the result of a surfing accident (2:00) The Cosby Show REPEAT Theo enjoys locker room gossip until one of the participants dates Vanessa QOO movie The Concorde: Airport 79( 79 Suspense) Alain Delon Susan Blakely Chic passengers of an SST face crisis after crisis arranged by an arms dealer to silence his girlfriend a journalist on board (PG 3:00) CD movie To Kill a Mockingbird Drama) Gregory Peck Mary Badham A small-town Alabama lawyer with two motherless children shoots a rabid dog and defends a black man accused of rape (2:30) ffl movie Death Ship Horror) George Kennedy Richard Crenna The captain of a sunken liner and eight other survivors are picked up by a big black ship (R 2:00) ffl movie Green Ice Adventure) Ryan O'Neal Anne Archer An electronics expert and the fiancee of an emerald magnate devise an elaborate scheme to relieve the wealthy man of his riches (PG 2:00) ffl movie Autobiography of a Princess (75 Drama) James Mason Madhur Jaffrey An Indian princess in London recalls colonial India with an Englishman who knew her father (1:00) H5D College Baseball NCAA World Senes Game 12 from Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha Neb (Live) fesvl Indoor Soccer MISL Championship Senes Game Five: San Diego Sockers at Cleveland Force (Live) movie Lawrence of Arabia ('62 Adventure) Peter E33 AMES The Making of Mankind Small (See Prime Time)0 Pro Basketball (See Prime Time) (Live) ffl Cheers REPEAT maternity leave brings in two amorous replacements 0 tv movie Portrait of a Showgirl Musical) Lesley Ann Warren Rita Moreno Three Las Vegas showgirls experience personal and professional upheavals while trying to master their fast-paced lifestyles (2:00) An Ocean Apart Me to the Bitter America and Britain become allies in World War II US dominance develops with the creation of the atom bomb 09 Mystery! Black Henry Carwardine offers new facts life is threatened as his investigation makes progress (Part 6 of 6) CD MOVIE Aida Musical) Sophia Loren Lois Maxwell An Egyptian general loves an Ethiopian slave actually a princess instead of the daughter Based on the Verdi opera (2:00) ah movie Out of Bounds Suspense) Anthony Michael Hall Jenny Wright An Iowa farm boy flies to Los Angeles to see his brother and accidentally picks up a duffel bag full of heroin (R 1:30) Ihso Boxing Jackie Beard vs Mar-garito Marquez Junior Light-weights from Lewiston Maine (Live) fusil 9:30 PME3SZS3 (325) movie Lady Chatter-ley's Lover (81 Drama) Sylvia Kristel Victorian Constance Chatterley beds her invalid gamekeeper (R 1:45) ISHol 11:30 PM The Late Show Debra Murphree involved in the Jimmy Swaggart scandal comedian Scott LaRose a The Tonight Show Arnold Schwarzenegger comedian Jerry Seinfeld tennis player Andre Agassi a OO Nightline Interview with Vice President Bush 0 MIDNIGHT The Late Show See Above a 12:30 AM Late Night Comedians Franken Davis singer Curtis Mayfield beauty expert Riquette a 0 3:30 AME tv movie In Circumstantial vidence (75 Drama) Raymond Burr Mark Hamill A successful lawyer is disbarred after an accusation of forcing a witness tO'perjure himself (2:00) ffl movie Fast-Walking (' 82 Crime drama) James Woods Kay Lenz A dope-smoking prison guard joins both a plot to kill a black-activist inmate and a plot to help him escape (R 2:00) mm (11:45) Thomas Hearns Clips and interviews illustrate the career of the four-time world champion boxer fsnol movie To Be or Not to Be Comedy) Mel Brooks Anne Bancroft Married members of a Polish troupe outwit Nazis for the underground on the eve of World War II (PG 2:30) 053 MIDNIGHT show was the CBS sitcom Eisenhower Lutz in 30th The American Film Salute to Jack Lemmon (CBS) tied for 31st place with reruns of Family Ties and Facts ofLifeon NBC and an original China Beach on ABC The Tony Awards on CBS only managed a disappointing tie for 42nd but that was better than the Liza Minnelli special on ABC that ranked 44 th Dan report on the plight of Vietnam veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder tied for 52nd which is not bad for a serious documentary particularly one that deals with that unpopular war movie The Man With Two Brains Comedy) Steve Martin Brain surgeon Dr Hfuhruhurr finds true love with a mass of cranial nerve tissue he wishes could be his (R 1:30) 4 AM ESSE i I NEW YORK (UPI) entire prime time Thursday night schedule landed in the top 10 of the Nielsen ratings last week and so did the three movies It also was a week in which a Lyndon Larouche political broadcast on NBC outdrew the own Days and Nights of Molly Dodd and stars such as Liza Minnelli and David Bowie drew poor audiences even though they were offering original programming in a week of reruns The only non-rerun in the top 10 was the television debut of a theatrical movie Short Circuit which NBC aired on Sunday night The two other winning movies were made-for-TV flicks Stranded on Monday night and The High Price of Passion on Tuesday The next highest ranking original (4:40) movie The Mosquito Coast (' 86 Adventure) Hani-son Ford Helen Mirren Crank inventor Allie Fox moves his family to a tropical isle and builds a giant ice maker (PG 2:50) hbo movie The Thing ('51 Science fiction) Kenneth To-bey James Amess Scientists and soldiers stationed near the North Pole find an ice-bound flying saucer bolds a frozen creature from another planet (2:00) 5g Night Court REPEAT A buzzard forces the staff to spend Christmas with a collection of New York's foulest A oo TESTIPREP (1215) movie Richard Pryor Here and Now ('83 Comedy) The comedian speaks openly to a rowdy audience on topics ranging from White House politics to alcohol and drugs (R 1:35) fswl 12:30 AME3SS3 10 AM Paul Lyle Nancy Sa-malin author of Loving Your Child is Sot Enough (wiod am 610) 2 PM Steve Kane Lawyer Richard Essen debates AAA's Bill Dodd on drunken driving issues (WIOD (AM 810) 9 PM Carnegie Hall Tonight The Vermeer Quartet plays music by Mendelssohn (wtmi FM 931) SUM UI UPU UHJUnOMU CIN1U 110 20 YEARS OF FLORIDA SUCCESS i TEST PREPARATION COURSES FOR ALL TEST DATES 101 COT THE ANSWERS DADE 66-SCORE (667-2673) BROWARD 48S-011S PALM BEACH 785-7722 KATZ ELKIN 274-2711 751-8100 Voices and Visions Stevens: Man Made Out of Lyrical rinematogra- movie Dream No Evil (72 Suspense) Edmond O'Brien A.