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Saturday, February 1987-Mttoon, (II.) Journal Gaiette-C 5 what America watches NBC wins week, resumes top spot in news i 'Platoon' still No. 1 in turnstile sweepstakes LOS ANGELES (AP) Olivef Stone's Platoon is the Is. PUKflS nation's most attended film as the gritty Vietnam saga heads into its ninth week of still-widening release. The film, now on 856 screens, was to be on about List of top-rated shows Here are the prime-time television ratings as compiled by the A.C. Nielsen Co.

for the week of Feb. 2-8. Top 20 listings include the week's ranking, with full season-to-date ranking in parentheses, rating for the week, and total Homes. An 'X' in parentheses denotes one-time-only presentation. Shows from 21 on include only the weekly ranking.

A rating measures the percentage of the nation's 87.4 million TV homes. 1. (1) The Cosby Show, NBC. 37.6 rating, 32.9 million homes. 2.

(2) Family Ties, NBC, 36.4, 31.8 million homes. 3. (3) Cheers, NBC27.7r-24.2 mil-- lion homes. 4. (4) Murder She Wrote, CBS, 26.6, million homes.

5. (6) Night Court, NBC, 24.9, 21.8 million homes. 6. (7) 60 Minutes, CBS, 24.4, 21.3 million homes. 7.

(5) Golden Girls, NBC, 24.1, 21.1 million homes. 8. (8) Moonlighting, ABC, 23.7, 20.7 million homes. 9. (15) The Two Mrs.

Part 1, NBC Sunday Nighi Movie, 23.4, 20.4 million homes. 10. (9) Growing Pains, ABC, 23.0, 20.1 million homes. 11. (10) Who's the Boss? ABC, 22.2, 19.4 million homes.

12. (10) Dallas, CBS, 21.6, 18.9 million homes. 13. (35) Romancing the Stone ABC Sunday Night Movie, 20.5, 17.9 million homes. 14.

(12) Newhart, CBS, 20.0, 17.5 million homes. 15. (21) Matlock, NBC, 19.7, 17 2 million homes. 15. (14) 227, NBC, 19.7, 17.2 million homes.

17. (28) L.A. Law, NBC, 18.8, 16.4 million homes. 18. (13) Amen, NBC, 18.5, 16.2 lion homes.

19. (15) Kate Allle, CBS, 18.3. 16.0 million homes. 20. (24) Dynasty, ABC, 18.2, 15.9 million homes.

21. (22) Highway to Ileavn, NBC, 18.1. 22. (20) My Sister Sam, CBS, 17.9. 23.

(18) Convicted: A Mother's Story NBC Monday Night Movies, 17.4. 23. (27) The Cavanaughs, CBS, 17.4. 25. (32) Head of the Class, ABC, 17.1.

26. (46) Valerie, NBC, 17.0. 27. (31 Magnum, P.I., CBS, 16.7. 28.

(30) Facts of Life, NBC, 16.6. 29. 22 Falcon Crest, CBS, 16.5. 30. 24 Miami Vice, NBC, 16.3.

30. 32. (36) Cagney Lacey, 16.2. TOM BERENGER JL1 1,110 screens by yesterday in an effort to accommodate the anticipated boost in Oscar Interest. the CBS Evening News had won by lVfc rating points, a decided departure from the usual neck-and-neck competition.

NBC later speculated that a commercial revealing the winners of a sweepstakes that ran during CBS' news broadcast was responsible for the glitch. Last week, NBC's news rated 12.9 with a 23 share of the audience, CBS had a 12.3 rating and a 22 share and ABC had a rating of 11.3 and a 20 share. The top 10 prime-time shows out of the 74 rated last week were: Cosby, Family Ties, Cheers, Murder, She Wrote, Night Court, 60 Minutes, Golden Girls, Moonlighting, The Two Mrs. Gren-villes and Growing Pains. Jaffe pronounced it a "fairly typical week," although he said NBC was especially pleased with per- formances by its Sunday night lineup, Our House, Easy Street and Valerie, all of which had their best ratings performances since November.

He also said part one of the two-part The Two Mrs. Grenvilles, based on the Dominlck Dunne book and starring Ann-Margret, did better than NBC had expected, getting a rating of 23.4 and a 36 share. He also noted that L.A. Law bested its competition Thursday, Knots Landing, and was in the top 20. It had a rating of 18.8 to the 16.1 for Knots.

The lowest-rated shows, from the bottom, were: Our World, Dads, Gung Ho, Shell Game, Spenser: For Hire, Hard Copy, Wizard, Ohara, Sledge Hammer! and Outlaws. Theatergoers added $8.2 to the movie's gross, now at By KATHRYN BAKER AP Television Writer NEW YORK NBC was off to a fast start In the February sweeps, winning the first week of the month In the Nielsen ratings with top 10 performances by its comedies and the first part of the miniseries The Two Mrs. Grenvilles. NBC also resumed first place in the week's news ratings after losing to CBS the previous week. CBS was second and ABC third.

February is one of four months a year palled "sweeps" when ratings determine local stations' advertising rates, so the networks battle to draw audiences to their affiliates. Gerald Jaffe, NBC's vice presi-- dent for research NBC will win the month by about Vh rating points, with, CBS coming in second. For the week ending Feb. 8, The Cosby Show was the top-rated prime-time show, with a rating of 37.6 and a 54 share, according to the A.C.Nielsen Co. The rating measures total households tuned in one rating point equals households equipped with television and the share is the percentage of the available audience that the show attracted.

NBC has won 17 of the 20 weeks in the season to date, coming in second to CBS three times. NBC won last week with an average rating of 17.9, CBS had 15.6 and ABC 14.1. NBC's season-to-date average is 17.9, CBS' is 16.1 and ABC's is 14.2. NBC Nightly News had the highest news ratings for the week ending Feb. 6.

The previous week, 0 iMl'M 1 I YJ. 1 $38.3 million, keeping it No. 1 in the box office sweepstakes ahead of No. 2 Outrageous For tune, the Bette Midler-Shelley Long comedy. The Michael J.

Fox-Joan movie Light of Day 121 IT OP DAV debuted in the No. 3 slot while I WIT IM4 two other new releases Black Widow with Debra Winger and From the Hip with Judd Nelson were fourth and fifth. DEBMtn Crocodile Dundee, still strong after 20 weeks of release and a total gross of $143.2 million, was sixth, Richard Pryor's Critical Condition was seventh and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home was eighth. Here are the top movies at the box office this weekend, with distributor, weekly gross, number of screens, weekend per-screen average, total gross, number of weeks in release and estimated production cost. Distributors supply the gross amount figures.

Figures not available are indicated by n-a. 1. Platoon, Orion, $8.2 million, 856 screens, Tonite Ted's I "TMR CnAriT" With sons (rom Dokkn, Rotl, BonJorl. liAPinJ Dio. Vorv Hol.n.

Motley Cru. Judot I WfPCW SHE MATES AND SHEKUS Print, Onic Osbornt, Krokut UOi.l ho Put a Smile OOlUMACOKI $9,555 per screen, $38.3 million, eight weeks, $6- rUZZTNAVIL fli iiiffTr-i million. 2. Outrageous Fortune, Touchtone, $5.4 million, 1,084 screens, $5,004 per screen, HI Energy Rock Roll Get in FREQ RS1 minion, iwo weens, n-a. 3.

Light of Day, Tri Star, $3.5 million, Uf B- onvwear! 1,041 screens, $3,397 per screen, $3.5 mil- ifi II fl lion, one week, n-a. f. mulhogan 4- Black Widow, 20th Century Fox, $3.4 million, 735 screens, $4,662 per (yiHktriiT Screen, $3.4 million, one week, n-a. 7H 5- From the Hip, De Laurentiis, $2.6 IlLJUL CL. gJ million, 970 screens, $2,727 screens, $2.6 million, one week, n-a.

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She traces her devotion to the first time she watched "The Mouse That Jack Built," a cartoon that portrayed Benny as a mouse trying to sniff out a cheap place to take his wife. In her pre-VCR days, Laura used to get up at 3 a.m. to watch Benny reruns when her family was living in Grand Rapids, Mich. While other children were playing with dolls, Laura was writing a Benny fan club newsletter. "I was different," she admits.

In recent years, her fascination with Benny expanded to the golden age of radio and the formative television years. The family's basement, fondly referred to as "Benny's Vault," contains 50 cathedral radios, two Edison phonographs, 12 Victrolas and 10,000 early recordings. FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) -Laura Lee was only 5 years old when comedian Jack Benny, a native Illinoisan, died in 1974 at age 80. Now, she's 17, president of his fan club and has changed her name to Laura Benny Lee.

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