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The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 128

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The Miami Heraldi
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PTMT1H A mamf 4C TU-Oadia The Miami Herald Friday August 19 1988 (iUPWililAV Eli GUID PRIME TIME For complete daily television listings see The Herald's Sunday TV book Additional details about sports can be found in the Sports section KEY: gciosed captioned for hearing impaired Ain stereo where available Program in progress Shaded areas indicate movies Movie ratings: Excellent Good Fair Poor Channel 7 plans to expand news add newsmagazine 9:30 10:00 10:30 8:30 9:00 8:00 i- -i-zo -4 Hf A 8 PM movie Red River Western) John Wayne Montgomery Clift A cattle baron fights with his foster son on the first cattle drive up the Chis-holmTrail (2:00) 8 PM 0 SportsWorld: 10th Anniversary Special Host Dick Enberg presents highlights of the anthology past 10 years and previews the upcoming Olympic Games in Seoul (Taped 1:00) 9 PM OSgt Pepper "It Was Twenty Years Ago Paul McCartney George Harrison and prominent voices of the subculture and music from the Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album recall the revolutionary mood of Jr- j4' WSVN-Channel 7 news director Joel Cheatwood says had better vacations than the one from which he returned this week the news that Channel 7 would not be a network affiliate came while he was gone but he return to find sinking as he expected "On Monday I anticipated having people especially some of the newer ones say But almost ev- I i Channels By Stephanie Loudis George Dooley: No signal swap in store 9 PM movie Slap Shot Comedy) Paul Newman Michael Ontkean Trying to overcome an embarrassingly long history of losses a nnnor-league hockey team adopts rougher tactics a bid for glory on the ice (R 2:00) TALK SHOWS eryone I think all of the talent said staying stay- mg And although Cheatwood says the news that CBS was buying WCIX-Channel 6 hit him hard reality is I come to Miami to be a news manager of an independent staying Cheatwood explained his decision at a staff meeting Monday night "I am not a martyr and I intend to protect my career I told them that But I have no qualms about anything that doing here and I think any of us will be damaged by Cheatwood says owner Ed Ansin and general manager Bob Leider have been about plans for the future which include an increase in news Both the morning newscast Today in Florida and the late night news News-Center 7 which will be moved from II to 10 pm will be expanded by a half hour Cheatwood expects to be able to staff those shows with talent from within In addition a new half-hour newsmagazine that Cheatwood says he proposed several weeks ago will debut in January Untitled so far the show will be of the Current Affair type concentrating on provocative people and issues in South Florida Hiring for the program starts soon preliminary budget was approved this week I hope to have a producer by the middle of next month and add 10 to 12 more people over the course of the next couple months After that need to hire he said Cheatwood calls happening at Channel 7 true success making it bigger and hiring people a heavy he said kind you change your mind about a few never the intent not in our plans to offer Channel 2 a pot of money to make a change besides they are a public trust" he said know Channel signal is not perfect but any station that can get a 38 share for a Dolphin game is a competitive Swapping signals was never an option for Channel 2 either George Dooley Channel president has heard the rumors for more than a year but CBS never approached him he said and the answer would have been no anyway board took a position on that a couple of years ago when there was a proposed swap in Tampa between independent station WTOG and public station WEDU Channel 2 is a community treasure and not for sale or Dooley said the station is on financial and no amount of money could compensate viewers who would be affected by a signal swap He pointed out that fifty-five percent of the contributions come from outside of Dade County Neither cable nor Boynton public station WXEL-Channel 42 would be a solution Dooley said everybody can afford cable not long ago a couple stopped me in a restaurant They said afford to send any money but we love what we learn on Channel How would a signal change go down with those people? And Channel 42 an option because more than 50 percent of our programming is different than i IM i 1 1 i E37PMC ing puppets and animation by the Brothers Quay IESN1 Boxing Middleweights Doug DeWitt vs Alberto Gonzalez 10 rounds Also: Georgie Navarro vs Edward Parker junior lightweights 10 rounds (Live 200) Reed Suicidal George Bailey in debt to a miserly banker sees life in a new light thanks to his guardian angel (230) wgn movie Thief Advent ure) James Caan Tuesday Weld A family mansafecracker who wants to retire gets even with mobsters who let him (R 2:00) auMBmaa Western) John Wayne Martha Scott An oilman and a cowboy become boom-town nvals for a schoolmarm and Oklahoma oil (2 15) IwgnI movie Prime Cut (72 Crime drama) Lee Marvin Gene Hackman A Chicago mob collector calls on a Kansas cattleman who also deals in prostitutes and drugs (R 200) 08:30 PMBa 7 AM ffl This Morning Convention wrap-up campaign strategy a review of Vice President speech former Rep Barbara Jordan (2:00) 0 Today Olympic update on diving chef Paul Pru-dhomme Bush campaign manager Lee Atwater and Dukakis adviser Kirk (2:00) AID CD Good Morning America Former White House communications director Patrick Buchanan and Rep Pat Schroeder (D-Colo) debate Mark Russell Michelle Pfeiffer colorful local characters nightlife Cheryl Ladd (2:00) 9 AM ffl 0 Donahue REPEAT Women who live with their ex-husband and wife 10 AM ffl Geraldo Dealing with impossible men (1:00) 10 AM Sally Jessy Raphael Patty Hearst 11 AM (D Sally Jessy Raphael Patty Hearst 4 PM ffl Oprah Winfrey Children of older parents 5 PM Live at Five How to reduce your property tax bill entertainment in South Florida this weekend New Orleans 8 Something on 17 Actor Desi Arnaz Jr (1:00) 10 PM GO Morton Downey Jr Black justice is there any? Guests: the Rev A1 Sharpton and attorney Alan Dershowitz From the Apollo Theater in Harlem (D A Current Affair "Fatal the TV-movie about a father who kills his family becomes reality Mystery! "Sherlock Holmes The Abbey Sir Eustace wife tells Holmes she saw a gang murder her savage husband (Part 2 of 71 00) TamcI movie Suez Biography) yrone Power Loretta Young French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps contends with two women while trying to build the Suez Canal Egypt (2 00) rivcl movie Back to School Comedv) Rodney Dangerfield Sally Keller-man Boorish Thornton Melon self-made man divorces his nogood wife and buys his way into his college (PG-13 2:00) CD (B Full House REPEAT Danny gets the chance to cover a major fight on television 09 PMESQES2SI Another new look A new look ffl 2020 Gun ownership by women rises competition in the athletic shoe business (D Shoulder to Shoulder Sylvia continues the fight in slums on January 10 1918 English women win the nght to vote (100) brv Tania Maria The singer performs Euzmha Don 7 Co Come With Me Funky Tam-bourinand Sangria at the 1984 Montreal Jazz Festival (1'00) I shq movie Bachelor Party ('84 Comedy) Tom Hanks Tawny Kitaen Hookers a mule and a suicidal friend show up at the hotel bash for a school-bus driver getting married (R i-45) Iwofi Baseball New York Mets at San Diego Padres (Live 300) movie Folly to Be Wise Comedy) Alastair Sim Roland Culver A British chaplain entertains troops with a panel of intellectuals willing to answer questions (1:30) ffl movie The Frozen Dead Science fiction) Dana Andrews Anna Palk A mad scientist uses a disembodied head to re-animate Nazis frozen 20 years before (2:00) tv movie Man on a String (71 Drama) Christopher George William Schallert An undercover agent infiltrates a crime syndicate to gam incriminating evidence on their illegal activities unprepared for the danger he encounters (1:40) 17:30 PME DAYTIME 01:30 AMEZ2ZZ3 Entertainment Tonight Melissa Gilbert (Oier the Edge) IesnI Basketball US Olympic Team vs NBA All-Stars From the Richfield (Ohio) Coliseum (Live 2 00) movie Superman IV: The Quest for Peace ('87 Action) Chnstopher Reeve Gene Hackman Superman crusades for nuclear disarmament and meets Lex latest creation Nuclear Man (PG 130)g IsHol Gleason: the Greatest Joe the Bartender The Metro-Dade government access channel is also getting spruced up calling itself Metro-Dade Television Channel 34 Jack Pa-gano public information officer and a television producer for Channel 34 says broadcasts will still provide Dade County residents with a look at their government at work but also trying to Metro Dade Television Channel 34 as good as the other One effort is the new Metromaga-ziite a monthly program that debuted last week Pagano a former television reporter and sports director hosts and produces the half-hour program think Metromagazine will appeal both to Dade County employees and residents" said Pagano going to show the good things that go on providing a closer look at people places and things in Dade In one upcoming segment Metro-Dade film coordinator Dick Renick gives viewers a behind-the-scenes look at filmmaking in Dade County In another a diver for the Department of Environmental Resources Management is profiled Metromagazine airs Saturdays at 8 pm and Monday through Friday at 11:30 am 3 and 8 pm FncI movie Nicholas Nick-leby Drama) Derek Bond Cedric Hardwicke The poor son of a country gentleman has to make his own way in the cruel world of Victorian England (1:50) Dll PM At WTVJ-Channel 4 the on-air talent has been rehearsing all week for debut of a new news set made with glass blocks and neon When News 4 airs at 5:30 Ana Azcuy and David Jackson may take a back seat to design director Jon creation described by Channel 4 vice president Dick Lo-bo as colorful and contemporary-looking in keeping with the design element of the Brickell Avenue architecture" The set is just part of a new image campaign that Lobo hopes will eliminate the and attract new viewers Other changes are a cleaner crisper logo new news music and new promos shot on 35mm film and incorporating music produced by the Miami Sound Machine And while Channel 4 like most local stations buys time on Spanish-language radio stations Lobo is considering a first airing a spot in Spanish on Channel 4 a bicultural city so created Spanish and English lyrics for some of our spots We might air a Spanish one on Channel 4 or we might air an English one on a Spanish radio EO DM MifJ-w IVI 0 Friday Night Videos Hosts: Paul Shaffer Whitney Houston Videos by Michael Jackson (A nother Part of Me) George Michael (Monkey) Rick Astley Would Take a Strong Strong Man) Elton John Wanna Goon With You Like Thai) (1 00) IhboI (1:50) Vietnam War Story A young soldier goes on a binge ii (1:55) movie The First Nudie Musical (76 Musical comedy) Stephen Nathan Cindy Williams A Hollywood producer banks on his brainstorm: a musical for adults only (R 140) NOON movie The Fabulous Adventures of Baron Munchausen Children) The baron tells dinner guests about the time the king ordered him to deliver a gift to an Oriental pasha Animated (1:30) 03 movie The Magnificent Seven Western) Yul Brynner Eli Wallach A man in black recruits six other hired guns to lead Mexican villagers against an outlaw and his band Inspired by the Japanese film Seven Samurai (2:30) 2 PM movie As You Like It Comedy) Elisabeth Bergner Laurence Olivier Rosalind daughter of a banished duke enters the Forest of Arden disguised as a shepherd and meets her lover Orlando (1:30) movie Captain Apache (71 Western) Lee Van Cleef Carroll Baker An Indian officer goes under cover for the Union army and exposes a landowner out to kill President Grant (PG 2 00) Ihbqi Whoopi Fontaine "Why Am I The comedian recreates her alter ego Fontaine in a show from Alaska 1 00) usa Night Flight Takeout Theater" Host Shaw (Frankie Pace) joins the action of the martial-arts film Shanghai Massacre (1:00) Cl 11:30 PMBO 0 Sgt Pepper "It Was Twenty Years Ago (See Prime Time) (200) tv movie Cry Drama) Lindsay Wagner Peter Coyote An overworked social worker follows her suspicion that a troubled 6-year-old boy has been molested (200) 0 movie Great Expectations (74 Drama) Michael York Sarah Miles orphan Pip goes to London to become a gentleman thanks to his anonymous benefactor Mag-witch (200) movie Slap Shot (77 Comedy (See Prune Time) (R 2 00) CD CD Mr Belvedere REPEAT Wesley wonders what to do about a molestation attempt ffl Celebrating Gershwin: Wonderful Chita Rivera Tommy Tune Drew Barrymore Liza Minnelli Harold Nicholas Mikhail Baryshnikov and Rosemary Clooney pay tribute to the music of the 1930s (Part 2 of 2 2 00) IasTI movie The Revolutionary (70 Drama) Jon Voight Jennifer Salt A college radical graduates from passing out leaflets to holding a backup bomb in courtroom (PG 200) amc! movie Stanley and Livingstone Adventure) Spencer racy Cedric Hardwicke New York newsman Henry editor sends him to Africa to find lost Scottish missionary Dr David Livingstone (2:00) in I tv movie Embassy ('85 Suspense) Nick Mancuso Mimi Rogers The deputy chief of the US Embassy in Rome and his lover investigate the false arrest of a tourist from Indiana (2 00) 1m1 movie No Way Out Suspense) Kevin Costner Gene Hackman The secretary of defense forces a Pentagon naval aide to lead a cover-up murder manhunt for a Soviet spy (R2 00)Q Itmc movie The Sender ('82 Horror) Kathryn Harrold Zeljko Ivanek A suicidal amnesiac sends rats flames and other nightmares to his psychiatrist by telepathy (R 200) EED movie Stolen Face Drama) Paul Hen-reid Andre Morell A plastic surgeon tries to recreate the facial image of a lost love by molding the features of a female convict to resemble her (130) 09:30 PMESZSa JKjlPWipUJUllW E32 AME3L 3 Tidbits No signal swap (2 40) movie Imitation of Life Drama) Lana Turner Sandra Dee Two women forming a business partnership must overcome racial discrimination to achieve their goal of financial freedom (220) LATE NIGHT Channel August fund raising drive is once again a pledge-free effort A nine day Summer Spectacular lacks off Saturday at 9 pm with a Doctor Who festival Other shows enticing viewers to become members feature Simon Garfunkel Aretha Franklin James Taylor Perry Como Luciano Pavarotti pandas and whales The idea in some heads that CBS will try to improve Channel reception by offering WPBT-Channel 2 lots of money to swap signals appears to be wishful thinldng Eric Ober president of CBS Television Stations said that was sho (11:45) Elayne Boos-ler Broadway Baby An interview with her family highlights a profile of the comedian progressing from Brooklyn to New Ritz Theater A MIDNIGHT EZS31 ami movie The Falcon Out West Mystery Tom Conway Carole Gallagher The debonair Falcon solves the murder of a Texas plavboy bv rattlesnake venom (130) MIDNIGHT Morton Downey Jr See Channel 39 at 10 pm ffl The Late Show REPEAT Bill Cosby talk-show host Larry King satirist Yan-kovic 1 AM The Late Show REPEAT See Above Beauty and the Beast REPEAT A strange behavior arouses suspicion particularly when she sees him near an entrance to the tunnels (100) movie Red River Western) (See Prime Time) (200) 00 SportsWorld: 10th Anniversary Special (See Pnme Time) (Taped 1 00) (D (B Perfect Strangers REPEAT Larry reluctantly invites Balki to a exposition ffl movie The In-Laws Comedy) Peter Falk Alan Ar-kin A New York dentist lands in a Central Amencan hotspot with his future father-in-law supposedly the CIA (PG 2-00) movie Catlow (71 Western) Yul Brynner Richard Cren-na A friendly marshal and a hired gun hunt a post-Civ ll War drifter out to rob $2 million in federal gold (PG 2 00) Shaka Zulu Shaka allows Farewell to leave with a Zulu delegation Dr Fynn tries to save life enraged Shaka orders the sacrifice of hundreds of Zulu women (Part 5 of 5 200) Hsyj movie The Europeans (79 Drama) Lee Remick Robin Ellis An unmomed baroness and her artist brother visit rich cousins 19th Century New England (1:30) IshoI movie Crocodile Dundee Comedy) Paul Hogan Linda Kozlowski A nth-girl reporter tours the Australian outback with a he-man crocodile hunter then bnngs him back to Manhattan (PG-13 1 40)g Ltbs (8-os) movie The War of the Wildcats Leno to be exclusive guest host 13:30 AME brvI movie Faces of Women Comedy-drama) Sidiki Bakaba Kouadio Brou wo tales of modem Africa: A woman takes her brother as her lover a matronly fish vendor seeks a loan (200) 12:30 AM BSESZSI ili tutes for Johnny Carson official and enigmatic comment: being extremely talented Mr Leno owns several motorcycles which solves the transportation problem in case his car breaks (hbo (3 50) movie A Star Is Born (76 Musical) Barbra Streisand Kns Kristofferson A boozing rock career falls as fast as his unknown begins to rise (R 2: 10) ii (335) movie King of the City Crime drama) Tom Parsekian Tony Curtis A motocross rider moves to Hollywood and works at a seedy rock club hose owner is trouble ith the mob (R 140) From Herald Wire Services Comedian Jay Leno has been named official and exclusive designated hitter for Johnny Carson on the Tonight show contract as guest host for the 1988-89 season was announced and this time he have to share hosting with Garry Shandling who now has his own program on Fox Broadcasting Brandon Tartikoff president of NBC Entertainment announced contract saying: has one of the best Comic minds working today and has already brought his own brand of excitement to the show on his Monday night guest hosting as well as during the weeks that he substi 6 AM Neil Rogers (wztafm 949) 10 AM Paul Lyle GOP convention wrap-up (wioo am sio) 10 AM Sandy Payton wnws AM 790) 2 PM Steve Kane (wiodam 610) 2 PM Al RantelDebbie Ellis GOP convention wrap-up (WNWS AM 790) 9 PM Cleveland Orchestra (WTMI FM 931) 11 PM Backstage America Harry Morton wkat am 1360) 04 AM I vax Eros America Segments include naughty pictures and beautiful backside contest I sho (12 45) movie Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives Horror) Thom Mathew Jennifer Cooke een-age Tommy meet masked killer Jason exhumed and then revived by a bolt of lightning at the lake (R 1 30) fTiicl movie a Wonderful Life Comedy-drama) James Stewart Donna ffl movie The Gypsy and the Gentleman Drama) Melina Mercouri Keith Michell A lusty Gy psy gold digger discovers the Regency aristocrat she mames has no money (200) CD 1 Married Dora REPEAT Immigration calls in Pe-ter and Dora for questioning lBRVl Street of Crocodiles A 1986 surreal odyssey featur i I A Mu maim i r- ti tt tt r- A a.

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