The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 36

SDR RACK) Thursday November 21 1985 Page 2C Thursday evening television Schedules ire provided by ststtont end ere subject to change without notice Revealing the Untold Stories TV19 at 7 7:00 PM-aov ffl) Morgan FairchildChris AtkinsWalt DisneyThe Start of Something Big! 7:00 PM -ajv Barry Garron Th Star 's TV radio critic Late night programming: 2 a (62) Independent News 2 15 am (5) CBS News Nightwatch 2:30 am (41) Hogan Heroes 3 a (41) Tarzan 4 am (41) Gomer Pyle 4:30 am (41) Topper Tonight The film guide Summit report shakes up usual series schedule All commercial TV movies to be broadcast tonight Kansas City are listed the cable movies listed are those judged to be of interest By Judv Flander 1985 United Features father-in-law at chess A big mistake "Kansas City (7 on Channel 19) focuses on Kansas new jazz film collection hunger in Kansas City and Richard Miller author of Truman The Rise to Power boyfriend discards his cool clothes for a three-piece suit on (7:30 on channels 4 and 27) "Death of an Expert a fascinating crime yarn continues on In Part 4 (8 on Channel 19) Doyle and Bradley seem to be prime suspects in Part 5 (8 on Channel 11 9 on Channel 19) Stella body is discovered hanging in the chapel where Domenica and Lor-rimer used to make love Turns out Lorrimer once was married to Stella Norm can believe that Vera is being unfaithful to him on (8:40 on channels 4 and 27) but a wife swears so Val is still scheduled to get married on (9 on channels 5 and 13) On Street (9:10 on thannels 4 and 27) crime escalates out of sight when a big dealer cuts off drug supplies Henry is forged to guard neo-Nazis and father wants a handout Those beautiful country singers the Judds mother Naomi and daughter Wynona and actor Ryan O'Neal visit Johnny Carbon on (10:40 on channels 4 and 27) Guests on "Late Night With David Letterman" (1140 on Channel 27 12:10 a on Channel 4) include Ed Begley Jr and Teri Garr Back from his summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev President Reagan addresses a joint session of Congress (8 on channels 2 4 5 9 13 27 and 49) Expect some changes and bumping of regular series For instance featuring Larry Gatlin will run an hour earlier (7 on channels 5 and 13) bumping "Magnum off the schedule altogether "The Shadow (7 on channels 2 9 and 49) fall under King Tut curse Clair and her mother give Clair's newly engaged sister the lowdown on husbands on Cosby (7 on channels 4 and 27) and pretty low down Cliff meanwhile takes on his Murphy Dan Aykroyd A well-to-do executive a ghetto-bred con man and a prostitute devise a plot of revenge against two conniving financiers Late night 10:45 on Very good 1984 Harry Dean Stanton Nastassja Kinski After a absence a social dropout reappears in LA to claim his abandoned son and then heads for Texas to reunite the boy with his moth er Into Danger" midnight on Channel 62 Fairly good 1957 Dennis Kathleen Ryan A Barcelona boat captain becomes involved with a gang of thieves who want to transport stolen art treasures "Saturday the 12:10 a on Channel 13-Poor 1981 Richard Benjamin Paula Prentiss A husband and wife discover that the house they inherited is being occupied by vampires ghosts and assorted monsters Cold 12:30 am on Channel Very good 1967 Robert Blake Scott Wilson Based on Truman Capote's novel of a true story Two moody and restless drifters arrive in a rural Kansas farm town where they murder an entire family before daylight 12:40 a on Channel 5 Very good 1945 Humphrey Bogart Alexis Smith The police struggle to crack the perfect alibi of a man suspected of murdering his wife Prime time 7 on Channel Very good 1973 Charlton Heston Edward Robinson An overpopulated famine-plagued world is forced back to its most primitive instincts to survive 7 on 9C-Very good 1972 Clint East-wood John Saxon A silent stranger is hired by a wealthy landowner to track down a gang of Mexican-Americans who have invaded the territory 7 on HB Very good 1983 William Hurt Lee Marvin A Moscow homicide investigation of a bizarre triple murder near a skating rink leads him to confrontations with the KGB and a globe-trotting American business tycoon Brother From Another 7 on Very good 1984 Joe Morton Darryl Edwards A gentle extraterrestrial with mystical healing powers lands in New York harbor and embarks on an odyssey through Harlem 8 on Channel Very good 1976 Sissy Spacek Martin Sheen A bored teen-age girl sets off bn a killing spree with a young murderer 9:15 on HB midnight on SH Very good 1980 Sissy Spacek Tommy Lee Jones Based on Loretta autobiography A girl from a poor family in rural Kentucky marries a man who engineers her rise to stardom in the music industry 10 on Very good 1983 Eddie Springsteen tops American Video Awards By The Associated Press cluded Kenny Rogers Clarence Clemons Apollonia Kotero Lorenzo Lamas Grace Jones Lisa Hartman and Aimee Mann The awards compete with the video awards of MTV which conducted this ceremonies in a lavish and well-attended affair at Radio City Music Hall in New York Meanwhile the academy won a contract with ABC which taped the hour-long ceremony Wednesday night at the Wiltern Theater and plans to broadcast it Friday (at 8 pm on channels 2 9 and 49 in the Kansas City area) Tony Danza star of ABC's the Boss" was host of the show which featured Sheila and Martin Mull Presenters in Channel 62 creates a stir with movies In the past people in the office would talk about Alexis or JR or the latest plots from "Hill or "St No more Even in November when ABC CBS and NBC trot out their hottest hits and mini-series there is less talk about what is on the networks than what is on KZKC-TV Channel 62 Especially at 7 pm That is when the station broadcasts its prime-time movie Movies on television are nothing new Westerns dramas comedies and musicals have been on TV for years But for the most part all of the people in them were wearing clothes Channel 62 has caused a stir because every once in a while it shows movies with men and women without clothes Up until recently the only way you could see movies of actors rubbing their bodies together was by tuning into a cable channel such as HBO or Showtime or Cinemax So if your taste in cinema extended to uncut unedited R-rated movies you had to pay about $10 a month for a premium channel in addition to the basic cable subscription service Now along comes Channel the poor cable channel And along came the office discussion's and even calls to the TV-Radio critic On Nov 4 Channel 62 showed Is a Many Splendored A week later the station showed a movie that more graphically depicted splendors The calls began to trickle in Monday Channel 62 showed a movie that reveals more of Barbara Her-shey than merely her acting skills Also there was dialogue you are not likely to hear in Sunday school Again a few callers complained Channel 62 has a policy that except for explicit sexual acts no film will be cut That has made some viewers angry Those movies are immoral filth one man said Yes he said the station ran a disclaimer warning that the movie may not be suitable for children He said he watched anyway just to be sure he understood what the station was disclaiming How could they put such trash on TV one woman asked Well TV has been putting on trash for years The fact is before these movies were televised people paid good money to see them in theaters That is more than you can say for a lot of the trash on TV The irony is that some of the viewers who are most opposed to the nudity and foul language may be the same people who helped make it possible Pretty much until President Reagan was elected the Federal Communications Commission kept a close eye on broadcasters Shows were not censored of course but licenses came up for renewal every few years and it was a lot easier to challenge the licenses of stations that riled the viewing public Mr Reagan swept into office on a tide of conservative morality promised to get the government off our backs At least in broadcasting he succeeded Now the FCC all Reagan say that the marketplace ought to decide what is acceptable on TV In other words if you like what you see watch it If enough people watch naked actresses the station will get bad ratings and will be forced to put on other programs Then only those with cable will be able to watch these shows According to the FCC the American way Problems collecting child support? Los Angeles Singer Bruce Springsteen won some more glory Wednesday night taking two awards at the fourth annual American Video Awards one for best male performer and the other for best pop video for his song "Glory Sharing the spotlight with "the was comedian and rocker Eddie Murphy who won the best urban contemporary video category for his "Party All the Time" The best female performance went to Aimee Mann of the lower-case Boston quartet 'til tuesday for the video Carry" Ricky Scaggs won the best country music video award for "Country Boy" and Sade won in the category of best new artist Best performance by a duo or group went to Wham! for the video She The group took a second award in the best home video category for a production titled Zbigniew Rybcyznski was honored as best video director for his production of Went for the group I Am Siam is a term used loosely for the awards of the National Academy of Video Arts In fact the third awards ceremony was last April meaning that only seven months passed between shows Why not punchier titles PBS? By Ron Wolf Knlghl-Ridder Newspapers If vou are owed back child We may be able to help you collect it For a no-obligation call: Bill Buck Attorney at Law 474-7800 the show about? The codfish wars? Oil discoveries off the Norwegian coast? Actually the show examined the roles that the American and Soviet navies would play in fighting World War III The title was derived from the site where their forces would be likely to meet Mr Othmer said that by improving titles PBS stations could increase ratings by 15 to 20 percent "without changing one word of program he Public Broadcasting Service may have a problem with the titles of its programs Consider three of the offerings shown on public TV this year: of and on the Nature programs right? Wrong was a installment on computers of was a one-man show in the series that featured dancer Bill Irwin on the Feather" was an espionage tale imported from Britain Public television is losing opportunities to attract viewers because of confusing and obscure titles on some of its programs said David Othmer station manager at WHYY-TV in Philadelphia Mr Othmer cited the three examples at the recent PBS Program Fair in Philadelphia and urged representatives of the 314 member stations to improve the naming of programs The station officials met in Philadelphia to preview programs for the PBS prime-time schedule next fall and to discuss public broadcasting issues Mr Othmer and David Liroff station manager at WGBH-TV in Boston want the producers of PBS shows to adopt titles that are shorter punchier and more descriptive of the program content The enormous growth of cable TV has worsened the problem for public broadcasters Many more channels of TV programming are being listed in newspapers and weekly guides The size of popular daily-listing grids is limited so lengthy titles get clipped to fit small spaces Mr Othmer said One of Mr favorite examples of questionable titling is an episode of called Battle for the Norwegian 5 PIECE GROUP SALE! 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