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Page 10J Star TV A Radio September 13-September 19 1987 Mm trpr' hiiniwii mi 5bBB i- First-run shows give a new look to independent stations By Barry Garron The Star TV-radio critic a 'mm heavy on physical comedy Cast members include Paxton Whitehead as butler Albert Dudley the pm Fridays Two distant cousins meet when they find that their mysterious uncle left them an antique store Then they learn that a terrible curse has been placed on each item in the shop Their mission is to retrieve every item ever sold before tragedy strikes the person who owns it Specials scheduled for this fall include vs the a four-hour mini-series starring Jack Warden as FBI man Edgar Hoover and Howdy Doody Anniversary a two-hour show to commemorate the 40th birthday of the program Channel 62 'm Suzanne Somers stars in the Sheriff" when the comedy has its premiere at 10 pm Saturday on Channel 41 Donna Pescow plays the mother of a teen-ager who was fathered by an alien in of This at 6 pm Saturday on Channel 62 Patrick Stewart takes command of the Enterprise in Star Trek: The Nest at 6 pm Oct 8 on Channel 41 In a Fox network show on KSHB Channel 41 human beings change into grizzly creatures- Similarly Channel 41 has been undergoing a metamorphosis all its own Partly because it is a Fox affiliate and partly because of the boom in the number of syndicated programs the station has added more and mine new series shows that never have been seen on the networks At times particularly on weekends Channel 41 looks more like a network affiliate than an independent station KZKC Channel 62 Kansas other independent station also will feature some first-run programs mostly daytime cartoons and a few syndicated programs on weekend evenings Perhaps the biggest new show on either station is the Trek: The Next series which kicks off with a two-hour movie at 8 pm Oct 2 on Channel 41 After that the show will be seen at 6 pm Saturdays and rerun at 11 am Sundays Another change in the Channel 41 lineup effective Sept 19 is the broadcast of Street reruns at 7 pm Mondays through Thursdays The station also purchased the rights to show reruns a development connected with the bankruptcy filing of Media Central Channel parent company Plans are to put the show on the schedule in January Late a Fox program has faltered badly Channel 41 moved the show back a half hour running it at 10:30 pm weekdays Program director Julie Lux said the station may return the show to 10 pm once it has been revised and improved by its new producer At Channel 62 the most impressive new program may be the first cartoon show ever to be offered by 4:30 pm weekdays An animated comedy adventure series that focuses on the adventures of Scrooge McDuck explorer adventurer and business duck Scrooge is joined by his nephews Huey Dewey and Louie of This 6 pm Saturdays Donna Pescow plays Donna Garland who married an alien The alien returned to his native planet but their daughter Evie knows nothing about this The girl finds out however when she begins to acquire special powers on her 13th birthday 5:30 pm Saturdays The series is based on the hit motion picture and stars Jimmie Walker Walker plays Sonny Barnes whose brush with the law led to a sentence of community service He lives in the home of Mimi Shaw (Vonetta McGee) a social worker who cares for four foster children Ladies of Saturdays Channel 62 caps a morning of wrestling with a show that pits members of the fairer sex against each other Disney The station will show it at 4:30 pm weekdays The station also will show the the movie review program with Rex Reed and Bill Harris at 10 pm Sundays Channel 62 will continue to offer huge doses of movies and add to its supply of wrestling shows Kansas wrestling and movie said Debbie Stauber program director pretty much trying to stay with what had success our cartoons and movies and wres- a rundown of some of the new shows on the two stations: 6 pm Saturdays and 11 am Sundays Starting 21 years after the original series began an all-new cast once again goes where no show has gone before It is set in the 24th century about 85 years after the era of Capt Kirk and Mr Spock Gene Roddenberry creator of the original is executive producer of the sequel the pm Saturdays Suzanne Somers plays Hildy Granger who becomes sheriff of Lakes County Nev after the death of her husband who previously held the Job Other characters include her mother her children and four deputies including one who thinks he should have been selected sheriff 9:30 pm Sundays An ensemble cast portrays the residents and staff in a mansion owned by an eccentric entrepreneur who cornered the vegetable oil market The show is Channel 41 Trek: The Next Cable networks will spend big bucks to satisfy audience Double Jeff Goldblum and Tim Pigott-Smith star in this BBC coproduction about the race to crack the DNA genetic code Ufatime Off Joy Behar is sy This year for the first time half of all American households subscribe to cable television Of the cable subscribers more than half pay an additional amount for one or more premium channels The world of cable programming is growing Estimates are that cable i nels will spend $687 million for programming for this season 20 percent more than last year Here is a sample of cable highlights this season: HBO character Is a master of stunts and showmanship stars in his own spinoff from the series Storybook series of animated half-hour stories including (3 pm Monday) and "The (3 pm Sept 21) Comedy specials with Elayne Booster (Oct 10) Rich Hall Jay Leno and Catherine Edward Woodward stars in a spy thriller mini-series filmed in Europe Theatrical films include Day Off" and Room With a Tht Pliny Channel the host of first nightly variety show beginning Sept 21 for Oct 15 An hour-long documentary on the impact of AIDS on the American woman CBN A new western series about a town on the United States-Canada border A game show loosely based on rules featuring parents and their chlldren Nickelodeon A version of for the younger generation New animation from the makers of WTBS Alfre Woodard and Danny Glover are the stan of Mandela an HBO film that will have Its premiere at 7 pm Sept 20 Simon Wiesenthal Story: Murderers Among The life story of the foremost Nazi hunter Theatrical films include Sue Got By Color and and Her Showtime Sept 20 Alfre Woodard and Danny Glover star in the biography of incarcerated South African civil rights leader Nelson Mandela Man Who Broke 1000 Val Kilmer stars in the true story of Robert Eliot Burns a prison escapee in the 1930s whose life inspired the movie Am a Fugitive From a Chain Harry Hamlin plays an ex-Los Angeles cop who returns to Laguna Beach to find a series of bizarre murders The cast includes Jason Robards and Rip Torn A total of 16 schools including the University of Kansas will compete for academic honors Christmas City Kan native Dee Wallace Stone stars in this movie about Christmas in the Australian outback ArU 6 Entertainment Divided five-part series on the Civil War Including battle re-enactments and archival footage of the Soviet Scheider is the narrator of a seven-hour documentary on the Soviet Union Bob Einstein whose.