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E6 wwnilwwhiMUrotJ Widnwday SBptBnibwlftlW ewiseaso Channel 17 dumps 9 o'clock newscast Channel 42 to resume local news operation at end of October Wednesdays could stand Improvement but NBC does have 'St Elsewhere7 As of this week the station will air episodes of at 7 pm with a nightly two-hour movie beginning at 8 Monday movie was Harder They Fall" starring Bogart DuBose said the change in programming signals a broader change in the philosophy was our feeling that people in the Central time zone prefer their movies to run at 8 pm so we have decided to become entertainment-oriented That seems to be what the public DuBose said viewer response Monday and yesterday was had a lot of comments from folks calling in saying they like the movie at 8 and they particularly like running at 7 Capping off the changes in program-ming is Late Show with Joan which begins airing at 10 pm Oct 9 it! defunct local news operation their entry into the news" DuBose said felt like four stations doing news was too Hoyle Broome WBMG's general manager yesterday confirmed that the station would resume local newscasts The station has set an Oct 20 target date not carved in Broome said DuBose said sports anchor Gus Hergert is the only one of the three anchors that will remain with the station Leaving the station are Gambacurta and weather forecaster Mary Brown will continue to produce The Ray Perkins (seen on Sundays) He will also be doing sports updates for us on the air and working on special sports productions" Until Monday WDBB's weekday evening programming included a movie at 7 news at 9 and the Independent Network News at 9:30 By Grace Fiorella Chandler PM-HenM Report Viewers expecting to see the on WDBB-TV Monday night may have been surprised when Humphrey face not news anchor Bob showed up on their screens WDBB-TV Channel 17 the independent station that broadcasts from Tuscaloosa has canceled its 9 pm newscast because of low ratings and stiffer competition from Birmingham stations David DuBose founder president and general manager of WDBB said the station aired its last newscast Friday night we felt that the marketplace was not ready for a 9 DuBose said yesterday from the station's Birmingham office ratings on the program have been low both in the July and May (ratings) books" In addition DuBose said WBMG-TV Channel 42 is planning to reinstitute PBS features on Communist Party in US TODAY first husband Edgar who has returned to rekindle their old flame Ehrlich (Ed Begley Jr) and Chandler (Denzel Washington) meantime are arrested at an anti-apartheid protest Repeat Cable calls Rediscovery of the World" WTBS at 7: Undersea filmmaker Jacques Cousteau visits cities and harbors and explores its underwater life Groupers tarpons moray eels stingrays dolphins and rare shots of a giant whale shark are featured Highlights CBS at 7: This fact-based story produced by Oscar-win-ner Arnold Shapiro stars Dermot Mulroney and Tracy Nelson as teenage drug abusers David Toma a real-life former detective now on a nationwide anti-drug crusade appears as himself using abrupt language to detail the horrors of drug abuse This effective drama was inspired by heroic efforts NBC at 9: Dick Shawn guests as Nurse By Faye Zuckermaa Special to tke Poet-Henid James Klein and Julia Oscar-nominated documentary about the American Communist Party Red: Stories of American (1983) is scheduled at 9 on PBS The presentation begins in the 1930s when party membership rose to nearly 1 million and Depression-era communists were crusading for eight-hour work-days unemployment insurance pension plans civil rights and social security benefits Third of a series By David Wecker Scripps Howard News Service The networks have stocked the prime-time pond without much regard for Wednesday nights adding only three new situation comedies this fall And only one of those ABCs of the is worth keeping I am disappointed to see that NBC has decided to stick with its summer lineup from I to 9 pm those back-to-back sardines a and They should be called You Give Me a and Likewise chagrined that CBS is leading off the evening with two guppies: We and The former stars Elliott Gould and Dee Wallace Stone as a mid-life couple who adopt an Oriental boy and his black sister and it stinks in any language The latter is a lighter look at the traumas of a Beverly Hills kid who moves to Brooklyn to live with his Grandpa Clooney and its bouquet is only slightly sweeter But enough carping Come 7 pm this fall our television will be tuned to ABC While we like a good cry as much as the next person our blood sugar level soared dangerously high the last time we watched to Besides it looks as though ABC could have a shot this year at taking the 7-to-8 slot away from Michael qngel with and of the Although it started as a one-joke show has given Bronson Pinchot a chance to show Just how much damage a culture-shocked shepherd with a green card can da The guy is good of the at 7:30 is one of ABCs better new shows Howard Hesseman fondly remembered as Dr Johnny Fever on in Cincinnati is a substitute teacher in a class of teen geniuses Critics are describing it as a Back in reverse right down to the air bag principal The teacher apparently is going to spend a lot of time rubbing the academic edges off his collection of insecure eggheads The show works because of Hesseman and because it is about stuff that could actually happen in real life At 8 be hanging in there with on CBS Most of our fellow American TV viewers will be watching ABCs but we help that This is the year that Magnum is supposed to start showing his age in his 40s now and he needs reading glasses It might he fun watching Magnum totter after thugs That leaves us at 9 pm with a choice between Elsewhere" on NBC on CBS and on ABC It will take more than the addition of Efrem Zimbalist Jr to make fit for human consumption Sorry Efrem As for Equalizer" not a bad choice one that made sizable gains in the ratings during the summer Once it became dear that Edward Woodward (as the semi-elderly gentleman turned vigilante) tended more to outsmart than to out-muscle bad guys the premise was easier to swallow We Imagine that Magnum may follow in the Equalizer's footsteps one of these days But really the proper show to watch is Elsewhere" As NBC is fond of pointing out it appeals to viewers who are young sophisticated and doing incredibly important things with their lives David Wecker coven TV and radio for The Cincinnati Post most Americans now take for granted -The documentary features a fascinating array of archival and newsreel footage of Ronald Reagan Joseph McCarthy Winston Churchill and Hubert Humphrey CREDITaRROBLEMS HAVE YOU BEEN DENIED? cubdit cards auto luh mosss isortsars tanmsm AUTO FURCNASI CHICK CASNIBM We Offer Confidential Credit Improvement Repair START LIVING AGAIN CALL TODAY USA CREDIT BIRMINGHAM CENTER S107 Independence Drive Suit (205) 871-1867 f-ltMTTOff I AM I AM 1 AM I 51T 1597 19i37 11166 1737 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(1955) Gordon MacRae Shirley Jones 5:00 MO 66V "American Flyors" (1985) Kevin Costner David Grant PG-13 (CC) MAX 6614 The Boys Are" (1960) Dolores Hart George Hamilton VBNINB Dfnmtavn-GnenSprwvs-Bmakwood Vtikft Lamer Lnd SaleTabloid in today1! sdition of Birmingham Jan-Michael Vincent Run out of town by vigilantes three rowdy cowboys head for Mexico where they learn of a fortune in gold hidden in an-old monastery 12:05 MO kk "Warning (1985) Sam Water-ston Kathleen Quinlan (CC) 12:55 SHOW 614 Of (1964) Cameron Dye Michelle Meyrink i 1:00 08 66 'Taka Me (1975) Cliff Richards Debbie Watiing After being transferred to a small industrial town in Britain a successful financier meets a beautiful restaurant owner who falls in love with him a kk "Five Branded Women" (1960) Sitvana Manga no Van Heflin During World War II five women ostracized for their association with Nazi soldiers get a chance to prove their patriotism USA 6614 In The Cellar" (1970) Larry Hagman Joan Colins A freshman who loses his scholarship due to a computer error schemes to get even with the college president 1:10 MAX 66 "A Small Circle Of (1960) Brad Davis Karen Allen 1:20 WT1S 66 "Blondie Brings Up Baby" (1940) Penny Singleton Arthur Lake Baby Dumpling plays hooky resulting in Dagwood's arrest for kidnapping 1:50 MO 6614 "Tlw (1979) Michael Beck Dorsey Wright (CC) 2:00 CBN 66 "The Cruel Tower" (1956) John Eric-son Mari Blanchard A steeplejack afraid of eights is put to the tst by his cruel boss a romantic rival Mst by hie cruel boss aad Assignment" (1965) Steve Guttenberg Bubba Smith PG-13 MAX First Blood Part (1985) Sylvester Stallone Richard Crenna (CC) 10:00 MO 66 (1985) John Travolta Jamie Lee Curtis (CC) UN "Accident" (1962) Terence Kelly Fiona Reid Tragedy strikes a smalt town when the local arena's roof collapses during a hockey game 10:30 SHOW 66 "Wand Of 1000 Delights" (1979) MSN 6614 "Return To Oz" (1965) Fairuza Balk Nicoi WHiamsoa PG 10:40 MAX kk NigMOnly1" (1964) Lenore Zann Helene Udy 11:00 a "Mussolini: Tlw Decline And FaH Of Dues" (1985) (Part 2 of 2) Susan Sarandon Anthony Hopkins The antagonism tearing apart Mussodni's family continues as he jails China his son-in-taw and former Foreign Minister and ignores pleas from his daughter to set her husband free 11:30 WON 6614 "Midas Run" (1969) Richard Crenna Fred Astaire A British secret agent is richly rewarded when he solves the mystery of a gold heist which he masterminded WIU kkk Spoil" (1958) Shirley Booth Anthony Quinn A middle-aged housewife seething with frustration over the problems of her chb-dren and the indifference of her husband finally deckles to venL her steam 11:40 jrvdtta" (1967) Robert Conrad i -1 1 'W- 1 I ilaJ bX -n 7:00 WGN Irk "The (1956) John Wayne Susan Hayward A mighty Mongol warrior kidnaps the daughter ot a powerful Tartar king and seizes control of his empire 88 614 Winter (1969) David Niven Topol Displaced Russian refugees are repatriated despite their desks to remain In Austria MO One Of The Guys" (1985) Joyce Hyser Clayton Rohner PG-13 (CC) MAX 666 Professionals" (1966) Burt Lancaster Lee Marvin PG 6:00 a kkk "Shoot The Moon" (1982) Albert Finney Diene Keaton The collapse of an upper middle-class couple's marriage and it effect on thwir four rimiflhfBrt MSN "Brother By Choice" (1966) Yanick Bisson Charley Higgins 9:00 SHOW kk "PoHco Academy 2: Their First.