The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 22

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THE FALL GUYUav CD NEW HIT SERIESI TONY RANDALL IN SIDNEY" I- 513 Walnut KC MO 842-3681 wmmm Late night programs: 2 am (41) Movia Hustle 2:1 5 am (5) News-Sign Oh 4 am (4l)Mareua Waltiy Distinguished stars salvage movie on rape presents guest conductor ERIC KNIGHT in A TRIBUTE TO ARTHUR FIEDLER featuring Suppes Light Cavalry Overture Tchaikovsky's Capriccio Italian a Stephen Foster Medley and a host of musical surprises in the Boston Pops stylel swmmw nov 7 a mm mt mi roar music hail Tickets still available at $700 $1100 and $13 00 at the Philharmonic box office and local Computlcket outlets Call 842-9300 or 421-3434 for details 1 iv i il Barry Qarroai Hie TV-radio critic mm ow that rape has become a familiar topic on television it was inevitable that there would be a movie exploring the impact of rape on the husband It was not inevitable however that the movie would be as plodding and as exaggerated as Other a two-hour show to be broadcast at 8 tonight on channels 5 and 13 Two fine actors William Devane and Jennifer star as Harry and suburban cou its marriage of 18 years However the considerable talents are unable to overcome a script that to perhaps an hour too long and several shades too contrived Nancy to we are spared almost all the and naturally is upset But while she gets counseling at a rape-treatment center Harry becomes unglued He repeatedly denies that he to suffering ill effects but he becomes hostile to outsiders and unable to make love to his wife Eventually he purchases a gun and takes off on his own looking for the man he thinks raped her In a recent telephone interview Ml as said that the plot was based on a true story known to the writer of the movie but she could supply no details She said that there was little pre-production time and that she knew of no research done to determine the extent of the suffering of husbands of rape victims "I fortunately or unfortunately had two friends who had been raped and I was able to speak to them at length before I went out to the coast That was extremely I- VjtWWTO iMSki I Swivel i Lee Majors (left) stars as stunt man Colt Sea vers and Doug Barr co-stars as Seavers' assistant In the premiere of Fall Guy" at 8 tonight on channels 2 and 9 The scene was entirely improvised Miss O'Neill said plays a greedy sheriff who skips bond when a hit-and-run accident when I read the script it had the different slant of focus I felt was valid" She said that she was not troubled by the fact that Nancy was able to be strong while her husband who after all had not been directly involved began to go to pieces However she disagreed with the conclusion of the script in which Harry returns home after his attempt to confront the man he thinks raped his wife "I did feel that Nancy would have had a much more human response to that situation be it an- Eor depression or whatever I felt she should have gone ugh a reaction period" Miss said The director was sympathetic she said but changes were precluded by the writers' strike which was going on at production time As for extreme personality transformation Miss O'Neill said "If you experience or know probably one of the most exciting things Irve done in acting" Unfortunately one good seme or even several good scenes does not a telemovie make and in this instance "The Other Victim" may turn out to be the viewer Ntw lgnal lava $1430 when you buy eight Daisy raxors (he ie rqxor or six jwivei ible razor with a i Tuin Rlnslac IwYlfi AP 943 94 hr i smioolMl turns into manslaughter are wasted in the two-hour premiere There also is not much to get out of the relationship between Seavers and starlet Heather Thomas who plays Jody an aspiring stunt woman Doug Barr as Howie Munson Seavers' brash know-it-all cousin who aspires to be a partner to the stunt man adds an interesting wrinkle to the show but even he becomes tiresome after a while Women are consistently depicted as sex objects or too helpless to be of any consequence to anyone The dialogue is trite from start to finish Several of the stunts performed on the show are fascinating but this show needs more than stunts to sustain interest Guest stars next week will include Henry Gibson and Jamie Farr but it will take more than big names to raise an audience for Fall Guy" somebody who goes through it it repla In the film however the best Sllllttta will send you $100 whan you purchoia lix Swivel axon or eight Daisy raxors I have enclosed the "proof of purchase" seals or the "I I "Univenal Product Code" symbol from the following: fjJJ Pour Daily two-packs OR Please mail my $100 refund to Six Swivel single packs its debut tonight to "The Fall Guy" (8 on channels 2 and 0) an action-packed series starring Lee Majors as Colt Seavers (where do they dream up these names?) a stunt man who moonlights by tracking down peo-pit who have jumped bail you can't get enough car chases and crasnes from "The Dukes of Haztard" and you need to see more fist fights than FBI" offers this show is for you This first episode features appearances by James Coburn Farrah Fawcett Paul Williams and Lou Rawls However even the talents of Eddie Albert who or three Swivel two-packs way that Harry can explain it to to say "That guy took something that was mine I suppose I sound like a male chauvinist pig saying something like that" Miss O'Neill says a high point in the film to the scene in which she to sitting in her doctor's office describing the details of the rape while her husband to outside the door He overhears every word and pounds his fist on the wall in rage Rsrar- ADD4ES5 helpful "she said Irito to only the second time that Miss O'Neill has appeared in a made-for-televtoion movie she has been in 17 films in all "When they the producers called me and said it had to do with rape I was not too encouraged because it's not such a cneery subject and been done so many times" she said "But Tonight tat IwlvelOolsy $100 Refund Offer PO Box 4200 Moniicello MN 55345 Fvnlll TWi certlflcgle must 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The Oillette Co WEEJUNS a delightful alternative to dreary movie the Tanglewood Festival Chorus The premtof ByJudyFlander IMIJudy Render are scheduled guests on Coast to Coast" GliSO channels 4 and 27) Jack Henry KANSAS OU FIFTY YEAflS OF EXCELLENCE on Welcome to the diaper set Whin your now baby comes home Thi Most Famous Baakit in (hi World should bt waiting your WELCOME WAGON Hostess and my visit brings gifts for ill thi family Plus helpful Information on earing for your new baby Hundreds ol ntw parsnts hava called mt And I'd Ilka te matt your growing family too jl Call 1-816-842-4393 Commentary CBS has a new movie and ABC to unveiling the two-hour pilot of an adventure series but the best bet to "Love Sidney" (8:30 on channels 4 and 27) The series Blue Chip Hour's ABC's premiere of Fall Guy" (8 on channels 2 and 9) bumped by the World Series finally will he broadcast Lee Majors stars as a macho man a whiXhMHt rtunt mn wlw lso tracks down David Brinkley: "We sion reporters are not will not accept that title Stars are people in movies" Th local show MON-THUR8 9 AM-B PM FRI 9AM-6PM 8AT 9 A -NOON Crown Carttar Closed Sat ComnTjfedel me young partner former model Doug Barr beside whom moaei uoug Barr oesiae wnom crime prevention to the topic Mr Majors actually appears to be "Kansas City Strip" giving some kind of a perfor- Channel 19) Participants indu manta include on on Capt Michael Mac Mahon of the Kansas City Police Department and Dottle Pfannenstiel of the Task Force on Neighborhood Crime The local mance This to an escapist series for boys and men and It will probably be a huge success The series who adopts a young woman and her daughter Swoosie Kurtz playing the mother Laurie Kvides an acerbic antidote to excesses of Mr Randall's Sidney Kaleena Kiff as the child Patti to so unaffected and genti-inely adorable that she provides a natural contrast to the hammy anti-hero In tonight's episode attempt to provide a home for Laurie and Patti to threatened by a legal contract Tht movie TONIGHT BURT AND CATHERINE GO UNDERCOVER (7 pm and 2 am on Channel 41) Burt Reynolds Catherine DeneiWe Paul Wlnflald (1975) Plot concern! the murder of a teen-ege girl and a police detective who falls for high-priced call girl (good) Network" (11:06 on Channel 18) Faye Duneway William Holden Pater Finch (1976) 8a tire about a TV anchorman who goes bananas and the people who capitalise on hto madness (excellent) la (mid-Channel 41) Charlotte Grant eoftha of fantasy night on Henry Gary Cooper I 1933) Lewis little girl in a land Greatest American Hero" (7 on channels 2 and 9) becomes a baseball star NBC's People" (7 on channels 4 and 27) includes a one-man band Zac to still after magic love potions on Merlin" (7 on channels 5 and 13) Super salesman Herb has a health problem on In (7:30 on channels 8 and 13) (9 on channels 4 and 27) cites the assassination attempts against President Reagan and Pope John Paul II In making a case for sophisticated trauma centers Dick Cavett (10 on channels 11 and 19) presents the the conclusion of a three-part conversation with TV journalists Harry Other (8 on channels 5 and 13) to a truly awful movie-elmpltotic badly acted and transparently instructional William Devane plays the rape victim's husband with a bulldog expression lower lip protruding in continual combativeness He overshadows Jennifer who to limply lackluster as his wife Hto problem after his wife to raped to tnat he to impotent HUSTLE Starring Burt Reynolds Catherine Deneuve Tonight's Seven O'clock Movie Theepedel (good) Cargo" (lli40 am on Channel!) Clark Gabla Joan Crawford (1940) Tala of prtoon-ers escaping from Island (good) Reasoner MacNail Da Symphony Centennial (7 on Channel 11 8 on Channel 19) Seiji Oxawa and Boston Symphony Orchestra appear in a two-hour concert featuring violinists Itihak Perlman and uaac Stern cellist Mstislav Rostropovich pianist Rudolf Ser-kin soprano Leontyne Price and vid Brinkley and Ted Koppel Gabe Kaplan visits Johnny Car-son on (10:30 on channels 4 and 27) Pat Paulaen David Niven Shelley Duvall and Loretta Lynn KSHBTV 1.