Lexington Herald-Leader from Lexington, Kentucky • 71

D5 LEXINGTON HCRALD-LEADER LEXINGTON KY SATURDAY FEBRUARY 15 1986 Tonight on TV Dorothy is off to see the wizard again Once again we get to follow little Dorothy Gale and her little dog too on what is turning out to be her annual pilgrim 8:00 8:30 10:00 12:10 jjj a fatti of The Golden 227 Hunter Ne S-turdiv Night live Move The Break Me Girls Curse of Bigfoot Movie irolt News Magnum PI Mad Entertainment This Week The Wnard of Oz Movies The Redd Benson fortune Dane The love Boat News Movie: Sign -off JP fo Show Murder in Coweu County Naturr MvsterV Tnpods Sneak Sign -off KJijMfcj: I Seeing Things Previews Movie INN News love Amer Movie Sign-off Three Days of the Condor Stvle Midnight Offerings CA Movie Alfred Hitchcock Hour Night Flight Night Flight Night Flight Friday the 13th Part 2 iklki -I Gunsmoke Night Tracks Night Tracks (until 3C) 805 Centennial The Massacre Night Track Chartbusters WTBS Roller Derbs From 700: College Basketball College Basketball Alabama vs Auburn College Basketball Stanford vs California ESPN In Search INN News Police Story News College Basketball Illinois vs Wisconsin Twilight Zone WCN Lifestyles of the Rich I Famous Movie The Hitchhiker On Location Buddv Hackett II HBO Movie: The Mean Season Movie: Christine (until 3 30) Movie: Tomboy Movie The French Lieutenant's Woman SHO Movie Red Dawn Movie The Terminator About the Movies MAX Movie Midnight Express (until 2:30) Movie Heayen Help Us TMC Movie The Flamingo Kid Movie Blood Simple From ":00: Movie: Topper (Color) Movie: Torchlight DTV Seal Island Sign-off Mouse Movie The Devil and Daniel Webster From 7J0: Movie Movie: The Wild Country DIS 1:30 10:00 110:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 12:30 1:00 9:00 8:00 9:30 8:30 News News Alfred Hitchcock CD Movie: The Last Das of Frank and esse lames Amazing Stories Movie: The Hindenburg Star Search Murder She Wrote Sign-off News CBS News At the Movies Movie Thompson's Last Run Solid Cold News 2H Dads All in the Familv Sign-off (until 5:30) Movie: Mr Mom Nova Sign-off Masterpiece Theatre Theater Australia: 1915 G0 FTY INN News Sign-off Puttin' on the Hits That's Hollywood Movie: Breaking Avvav Herbalife Cover Storv Lancer A Millionaire Secret to Wealth Hollywood Insider Wanted: Dead Alive USA From 7:00: Virginian lerry Falwell immv Swaggart 8:05: National Geographic Explorer World Tomorrow Larry Jones WTBS John Ankerberg Sports Page SportsCenter age down the yellow brick road to see The Wizard of Oz 1939) The ever-popular MGM masterpiece stars Judy Garland Ray Bolger Jack Haley Bert Lahr and Margaret Hamilton It's a musical fantasy about Dorothy (Garland) a little girl from Kansas who along with her house and dog Toto ride a tornado over the rainbow to the land of Oz She makes an abrupt unscheduled landing in Munchkmland a bedroom community of Oz where she is dumped house and all Now she's lost and wants to go home She gets directions from the tiny natives called Munchkins and a good witch who tell her to follow the yellow brick road to Oz where the great and powerful wizard can help But before she can go her merry way a wicked witch (Hamilton) pops in with a grievance Dorothy landed her house atop the witch's sister With the sister dead and her ruby slippers on Dorothy's feet the kid from Kansas has an enemy for the rest of her journey on which she meets all sorts of odd lots They include a scarecrow (Bolger) a tin woodsman (Haley) a cowardly lion (Lahr) flying monkeys and trees that don't like people picking their apples (CBS-27 8 pm) Special tonight ABC has another new series for Saturday night Carl Weathers stars as "Fortune Dane" a tough honest and moral police detective who turns in his badge after he becomes the unwitting victim of corruption He starts his life over in a major West Coast city and becomes the trouble-shooter for a tough woman mayor This show replaces "Lady Blue" (ABC-36 9 pm) Also worth watching Everything could be lost on "The Redd Foxx Show" when a banker who holds the mortgage on Al's diner sues Hughes for a fortune because he got all choked up over the menu (ABC-36 8 pm) Kevin McCarthy portrays a handsome vibrant millionaire who sweeps Blanche off her feet on "The Golden Girls" until she begins to suspect what he really wants (NBC-18 9 pm) The mystery and suspense of "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes II" continues tonight on this week's episode of "Mystery!" In "The Resident Patient" young Dr Percy Tre-velyan finds a generous benefactor in the mysterious Mr Blessington who offers to set him up in a good practice in return for rooms on the first floor and share of the profits But after a patient disappears during a consultation and Blessing-ton is found hanged Holmes reasons that Blessington was not the man he seemed to be (KET-46 9 pm) Mary and Lester are the hosts of a gala golden anniversary party for her parents on "227" but it looks like the long enduring marriage may come to an end before the party is over (NBC-18 9:30 pm) At the movies There are loads and loads of good movies on cable today A quick check shows Westward the Women 1952) starring Robert Taylor and Thelma Ritter (Cinemax 6 pm) Cary Grant and Constance Bennett in Topper 1937) the computer-colorized version (The Movie Channel 7 pm) and The French Lieutenant's Woman 1981) with Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons (Showtime 10 pm) By Howard Snyder Tennis: Lipton International Plavers' Championships (until 2:30) Hockey: Boston Bruins vs Minnesota North Stars Outdoor life ESPN Fame Lou Grant INN News News Star Games (until 2 30) Tales From Darkside WGN Odd Couple From 7:30: Movie: A untight Not the News Movie: The Fun- Movie: Into the Night Movie: The Evil That Men Do HBO From Movie: That's Dancing! Brothers The Movie (until 3:00) Best of Bizarre Movie: Turk 182 SHO Movie: Midnight Madness Movie (until 3:00) Movie: Swann in Love Movie: Neighbors MAX Movie: Rocky Movie: Movie: Until September TMC Movie: Best Defense The Empire Strikes Back Sign-off Movie: Movie Whales Nature's DTV Scott of the Antarctic Vh Favorite Year Half Acre DIS Detailed listings movie descriptions and daytime programming for these and other cable channels are in A Spotlight every Sunday Mitchum's last Run' is wasted effort A 4- i 1 Review but Thompson isn't sold on the Canadian caper Besides he drawls "Red's good He's damn good He'll follow me till he drops you too" It turns out that Louise has only $30 in her shapely jeans but has a plan to raise more because it also turns out that for the last seven years she has been turning tricks Instead after several false starts at knocking over some dried-up safes to prime their cash flow he fortui-tuously finds $20000 or $30000 sitting in an auto-parts store that fronts for a bookie operation He also manages to look into himself about the Meaning of It All strange to be deciding that he will tag along with mother and son and practice the plumbing trade he learned in the joint Flatly directed by Jerrold Freed-man with a tired run-and-gun script by John Carlden Thompson's Last Run with its heavy-handed "Geezers Like Us" theme is preposterous and puerile Brimley recently out of Cocoon is called upon to talk crustily He refers to his heart as his "ticker" and to an antagonistic federal agent as the "government bull" Mitchum doesn't so much walk through his performance as drift through it I Wilford Brimley left and Robert Mitchum By Clifford Terry Chicago Tribune The last time we saw Robert Mitchum movie-of-the-week-wise he had as the title put it Promises to Keep as a Wyoming ranch foreman dying of some unspecified disease Now in his latest outing he is dying of too many nights in the "joint" The "joint" is mentioned quite often in Thompson's Last Run (9 pm Sunday on CBS-27) a supposedly tough-talking effort that in actuality is flabbier than the veteran actor Mitchum is cast as John Thompson a quintessential recidivist who has served 30 years on seven felony burglary convictions which under the Habitual Criminals Act translates into life behind bars Unexpectedly visited in a federal prison in Minnesota by Louise (Kathleen York) his seldom-seen comely 21-year-old niece he tells her that he is on the verge of being transferred to a state pen in his native Texas for the rest of his sentence "How much longer do you have left to do on it?" she asks expectantly and is told "Forever" No fair pouts Louise a deserted wife who had planned to incorporate her uncle into a minifami-ly scenario in Canada along with her 5-year-old son but now has to walk away with only the first of many avuncular shrugs Accompanying Thompson by Am-trak is Dallas police officer Red Haines (Wilford Brimley) his old boyhood chum who has volunteered for the assignment as a last hurrah before he retires to Florida As their train sits in the Dallas station during a layover it is boarded by the not-to-be-thwarted Louise who puts a gun to Red's head and takes her uncle off to a waiting car "You're the only family I have" she pouts again 'Fortune Dane' no better than bad series it replaced Review 9 KY REAL ESTATE EXAM COURSE A-PASS-WEIKEL START NOW By Clifford Terry Chicago Tribune In "Fortune Dane" (9 tonight on ABC-36) a new dreary slam-bang hourlong series Carl Weathers (Apollo Creed in the Rocky films) plays the title character who as the network promos have been screaming all week "is more than a man he's an adventure" He is also a onetime Heisman Trophy candidate and pro football player who now works as a police detective in the southern town of Twin Rivers where nine people have been massacred in a gambling casino It appears that the gunman is a hit man for the mob For some reason Dane is taken off the case as well as threatened with a trumped-up drug-dealing rap by internal affairs officers fired upon by two hired guns and propositioned by an ambitious rookie assistant district attorney (Alberta Watson) who prances around in her lingerie and purrs "If you help me solve this case I'm yours a night a weekend whatever suits you short of matrimony" Before he can take her up on her offer though he discovers the crushing truth about his adopted father (Adolph Caesar) who runs the big bank in town then turns in his badge and heads off to the West Coast and Bay City where he vows to "nail the lowlife that murdered nine people and the banker who put the squeeze on my old man" He will also on next week's episode join the staff of the mayor (Penny Fuller) to as the publicity release puts it "help keep Bay City clean" The series is a shoved-in replacement for the dreadful "Lady Blue" but as it turns out a far-from-great Dane is no better than a dirty Harriet run ivirvnvt i ill EXAM LOU 502-459-6636 606-278-0581 SCRAMBLING tHtattj-' -W BbT HBHlw HON SOLU Station off air for several hours EFIT FROM BENEFIT FUTURE SCRAMBLING TECHNOLOGY WITH i iHm ti 'jmrnt mi mm i mdmmm THE 1986 FedSat SYSTEM B1J Mmrw't Over 1000 Movtm GET THE I Month Over 100 Channel MOST FROM AMERICA'S LEADING A CryeUI Clear Picture MANUFACTURER AND RETA1LE if Roh! Htm ONLY station yet that didn't have problems" he said "You can practice and practice and practice and still have problems "Channel 27 was off the air last month for a couple hours but it was no big deal The only thing is that we're new Everybody's looking at us We just hope they'll bear with us" WDKY was given a boost this week by the weather which kept schoolchildren home to watch the station's sitcoms and cartoons Thompson said WDKY's telephones lighted up "like wildfire all week" At first the calls came from mothers thanking the station for keeping their housebound kids entertained Yesterday morning though the kids were calling to ask Thompson and his staff when the station would be back on the air Herald-Leader staff repori The technical problems experienced this week by WDKY-TV the Lexington area's new independent station reached a peak yesterday morning when the station wasn't able to sign on at 6:30 am "The problem is with the transmitter" said Jim Thompson the station's general manager "We think there was a power surge" The station finally began its broadcast day shortly after noon WDKY (Channel 56) has had to cope with a series of more minor technical problems since it began broadcasting on Monday Although Thompson said only about 65 percent of his equipment had been installed he had no regrets about going on the air under those circumstances "I've never been with a new PREP tATKLUTf TV IS ALIVE MU AND GROWING INSTALLED CompUt Sainitr 1 Sylt- Wc I WSgSmM 800-843-781.