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Tuesday September 27 1083 Page2B Tuesday night television is wilder than her slow husband Madeline Why you get Gene Wilder to (day your husband? The ABC comedy Madeline" (8:30 tonight on channels 2 and 9) is one with emphasis on short of being a funny funny show Madeline Kahn is simply the greatest at grasping commonplace situations and turning them into sidesplitting comedy But James Sloyan who plays her husband Charlie OK but MaJdine should be opposite Gene Wilder as she was in several Mel Brooks movies Madeline without Gene is like the comedy team of Hardy the rib-tickling duo of Costello the vaudeville tandem of Sheen Maybe is supposed to be an update of Love Lucille Ball portrayed a woman who got into the strangest situations imaginable Madeline is more like someone who lives in the neighborhood and her predicaments are not nearly as contrived as Lae njjft pwysM: 230 un (5) CSS New (41) Gunamcka 430jn (41) Maas Wafcy Tonight NBC dreams up three specials full of sparkling stars to beat competition wants Jack to father her child Tracy is definitely too young for ByJudyFlander 1983 United Features new Tuesday Madeline channels 2 and 9 the jams Lucy got into But when Madeline is engrossed in an activity she makes sure funny Hurts Miss style and her gift Take for example the opening scene in the premiere episode tonight Madeline slips into a simple exercise routine and punches it full of humor by mocking the fast-paced TV workout shows weaving a disco song into the bit That sets up her bet with husband Charlie who constantly is around the house because he writes romance novels Charlie is addicted to foods of dubious nutritional value while Madeline is into the latest in vegetable juices She bets Charlie that he go 24 hours without eating junk food But on the way to losing that bet the story takes into account the two best friends who are divorced from each other and winds up with Madeline doing a funny bit inside another bathroom In short when Miss Kahn is on the screen moves She has wonderfully comedic qualities including a melodic voice that nearly gives way to comic opera Mr Sloyan looks like a man who is pressed by his wife to do the right thing when having fun probably would serve the marriage much better Robert Leone (played by Louis Giambalvo) is a best frienddespised enemy of the Waynes a bit like Charlie in that he falls in the shadow of Miss comedy skills Because he has a frequent role as best friend and despised enemy he probably ought to fulfill a role more substantial than neighborhood womanizer contains some funny scenes but they all belong to Miss Kahn Without her the laughs are ho-hum Max who still loves Joanne but how does he dump his love the Max Boone both wives and son The series On Our (7 on channels 2 and 9) Shabu multiplies himself into a rock group the Shabelles to perform on A (7 on channels 4 and 27) goes undercover to protect a former Vietnam War (7 on channels 5 and 13) returns for the new season with the same cast: Ralph Waite as an itinerant lawyer Linda Miller as his protege and assistant Vietnam veteran Lafe (Stan Shaw) as lawyer-to-be In the opener Ben (Mr Waite) is named special prosecutor for a murder trial Patent is repeated on (7 on chanels 11 and 19) a documentary on genetic engineering (7:30 on channels 2 arid 9) goes into its 11th year as the Fonz takes on a new occupation and a new partner Henry Winkler becomes dean of boys at a vocational school Hie principal is Roger Phillips played by Ted McGinley Tonight Fonzie tries to ride his motorcycle up On the season premiere of (8 on channels 2 and 9) a beautiful woman Laura moves in with (8 on channels 4 and 27) when her apartment is blown up (8 on Channel 11 9 on Channel 19) focuses on Dr Daniel Smith the chief resident physician of obstetrics at Hospital in Los Angeles to (9 on channels 2 and 9) begins its fourth season in London with the charming story of how the couple met and fell in love Britisher Ron Moody is wonderfully droll as Mr Johnson an unscrupulous automobile manufacturer who hopes to become No 1 and get knighted by preventing Jonathan from bailing out his nearest rival The local show City (8 on Channel 19) views the artistic approach to new building construction in the Downtown area the status of the American Indians and cheerleaders learning their craft The local movies (7 pm and 1:30 am on Channel 41) Charles Bronson A1 Lettieri (1974) A Colorado watermelon farmer is marked for destruction by underworld gangsters (fair) and Phoenix: A Love (12:30 am on Channel 5) Peter Falk Jill Clayburgh (1976) Two doomed people have a brief but buoyant affair in this tear-jerker (fair) nels 2 and 9) is new slapstick sitcom starring Madeline Kahn She plays an incomprehen-sively hyperactive housewife who keeps her otherwise uneventful life in constant turmoil because she thinks after 10 years of marriage that she needs some excitement to keep her husband interested James Sloyan is attractive as the affectionate husband The movie Cooks the Other (8 on channels 5 and 13) a TV movie with sparkling dialogue has the kind of adult humor that would appeal to grown-ups is a wonderful movie funny and kind and sweet The terrific cast is headed by Joseph Bologna playing Max a man who is so optimistic that as his employee puts it you were shoved into a vat of manure plant When beautiful wife Joanne (Suzanne Pleshette) left him he married nymphet Tracy (Rosanna Arquette) with whom he is delightedly playing house As a realtor Max is in financial straits and Joanne and their son Ben (Evan Richards) move in James Sloyan and Madeline Kahn II Acupuncture Tack weight smoking 199i 3495 scrub STEAM LIVING ROOM A DINING ROOM OR DINING AREA CARP ITS CLIAMIDl THIS WEEK AND NEXT WEEK only SHAMPOO LIVING ROOM AND ADJACENT HALL LIVING DINING DINING shampoo ROOM ft ROOM OR AREA ASK ABOUT OUR FALL SPECIAL WHOLE-HOUSE DISCOUNT ploy to take some steam from returning and new shows is its three-night series of specials and in (9 on channels 4 and 27) The three musical-variety programs are broadcast from Los Shrine Auditorium with audiences of more than 6000 Tonight host Sandy Gallin checks out a scene from and performances by Peter Allen and the Radio City Music Hall Rock-ettes Menudo from Puerto Rico Rod Stewart plus Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton The premiere Madeline" (8:30 on chan- close in spirit to the original By Gerald Jordan The Star TV-redio critic Larry Gelbart still has the touch His writing in is at times as good as some of his work in But the new series that CBS introduced Monday without allowing critics an opportunity for preview seems so close in spirit to the original that you might on occasion miss some of the old characters In case you missed the premiere Col Sherman Potter has gone home to Mildred (at last we meet her in the presence of actress Barbara Townsend) and is about to go stir crazy when she encourages him to take a job at a nearby Administration Hospital In time Potter reunites with Max Klinger (Jamie Farr) and Father Mulcahy (William Christopher) In spite of the mid-Missouri locale-far from the turmoil and 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