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42-POST-GAZETTE: Sept. 26, 1979 Television Programs for Wednesday English Spice to Actor, 76, Gives 'Associates' CI KDKA (CBS) -Pittsburgh GD "The Ursurper." When Philip Roth mysteriously disappears, Dan Tanna finds himself working for a new boss who has syndicate connections and wants him dead. (60 min.) TV Quarterbacks Sing America 22 Avengers 10:30 P.M. 40 Sallis Revival 10:50 8 News 11 P.M. GDCQ) Local News Dick Cavett Johnny Carson with Buster Crebbe.

(90 min.) 22 Lucy Show 40 100 Huntley St. 8 Benny Hill (BCD News 11:15 CDffl News 11:30 PJVI. GD Love Boat GDGD Tonight ABC News Captioned. 22 Movie "Perrlsh." (191) CD THE STREETS OF SAN GD Eight Is Enough CD Real PeopleThe most talked aboutfunniest show on TVNew Season AOV GDI) Real People Segments Include: a man who win 1280,000 at a Las Vegai slot mecetilne; a tour of an Arizona lactorv where kiddle can are assembled; Byron Allen visits a convention ot rol-lercoaster enthusiasts In Cln. clnnatl, and Bill Rafferty Interviews a veteran Boston Red Sox tea (60 min.) Evening at Pops An Act of Congress 22 Bonanza "Thunderheed Swindle." The O-twrlghts try to discredit reports of a big silver strike and become targets an angry mob of unemployed miners.

(60 min.) 8 Jim Rockford: Private Investigator 8:30 P.M. CD Channel to Pittsburgh 40 Jesus Festival QD Struck by Lightning 9 P.M. GD3HS) Movie "The Betsy." (1978) ANGELSKELLY MADE DOPE adv. TV Key Previews 4:30 p.m. GD Afterschool Special.

(Season's Premiere). A compelling drama about a teenager who is torn between loyalty to her foster parents and to her natural mother. Alex Benton, played by Melissa Sue Anderson House on the hates her mother who shows up years after deserting her. But as time goes on, Alex begins to understand her mother's problems. The program realistically shows the tug-of-war between the confused girl, her foster parents (Marion Ross and Bruce Kirby), her real mother (Lee Kessler), and the courts.

(60 min.) 8 p.m. GD Eight Is Enough. "Ten Ships in the Night." Telling developments prevail tonight as the Bradfords demonstrate how difficult family relationships can be under the pressure of independence. With Abby enrolled as a full time PH.D. student and the rest of the clan all off doing their own thing, poor Nicholas feels neglected and gets into trouble seeking attention.

(60 min.) 9 p.m. CD CD IS) Wednesday Night Movie. "The Betsy." High class hokum about a car manufacturing dynasty presided over by a lascivious, power-hungry Laurence Olivier. The script, based on, Harold Robbins' potboiler, would embarrass most soap opera writers, but Olivier plus a topnotch cast including Robert Du-vall, Katharine Ross, Tommy Lee Jones and Kathleen Beller throw themselves into it with abandon. (2 hrs.

15 min.) 9 p.m. (Q) GD CD The Last Convertible. Part III. In tonight's episode of this romantic of the World War II generation, adapted from Anton Myrer's bestseller and starring Bruce Boileitner, Vic Morrow, Kim Darby, John Houseman and Sharon Gless, the Harvard boys are busy with careers, marriages, fears, and dreams gone astray. Only Russ (Perry King), the writer, refuses to grow up, while good old reliable George (Boxleitner) continues to hold the gang together.

(2 hrs.) ing the premiere. Joe Regalbuto brings to Streeter exactly the right blend of ambition and small-mindedness the role requires. And passing judgment on them all is Tim Thomerson, as Johnny Danko, the mailroom clerk whose experience with the company has given him cause to rejoice that he is a sixth grade dropout Charlie Hauck's script for the pilot quickly established the tone of the series. The first case to which the associates are assigned, vs. Our Lady of Mercy," has them defending a condominium contractor's plan to tear down a 200-year-old church that has been declared a national landmark.

And when Kerwin expresses a concern for mankind, Streeter curtly informs him that "unfortunately, they're not our clients." Hauck, however, saved the best for the last. Recalling his decision to marry, Emerson Marshall (Hyde-White) states that he faced a choice between a brilliant, aggressively determined, very attractive woman and a more or less plain Jane who promised to love and care for him all their lives. "I picked the latter," he said, "and she has kept her promise." Asked about what happened to the former, he grinned, sat back in his chair and said: "Margaret? She's the prime minister of England." By WIN FANNING Post-Gazette TV Crtttc Wilfrid Hyde-White, who stars as the senior partner in the Wall Street law firm that serves as the setting for "The Associates," readily admits in the premiere that he makes his best decisions when he's asleep. Maybe, but the producers of this new ABC series, who also gave us "Taxi," must have been wide awake when they obtained the services of the 76-year-old English actor to helm Bass Marshall. Excellent as the supporting cast is, without Hyde-White's superb sense of Post-Gazette Review timing and delightfully wry manner "Associates" would be just another youth-oriented lawyer stanza.

He is as necessary to this show as his contemporary, John Houseman, was to "The Paper Chase" which failed despite, not because of his participation. The title applies to three law school graduates who join the prestigious firm on the lowest rung of the ladder to success. They are Martin Short, as Harvard-educated idealist Tucker Kerwin; sexy Shelley Smith as Sara James; and Alley Mills in the role of Leslie Dunn, the proverbial patsy. The trio is under the aegis and at the 1 mercy of the firm's newest partner, Eliot Streeter who wins his stripes dur 11:30 A.M. GD Family Feud GJSXZ) Wheel of Fortune Mister Rogers Munsters NOON CD Local News GD $20,000 Pyramid CO) Mindreaders QD Sesame Street 22 Movie "One for the Book." (1947) 8 Room 222 GJXDH) News CD News Nine Index 12:30 P.M.

3X5XSI Search for Tomorrow GD Ryan's Hope CO Joker's Wild 8 Medical Center SXD Password 1 P.M. GD3MB Young and the Restless GO All My Chi'dren CQXSXZ) Days of Our Lives 1:30 PJW. CD Pittsburgh 2Day 8 Merv Griffin CD As the World Turns 2 P.M. GD One Life to Live (DXSXZ) Doctors 22 Cartoons 40 PTL Club 2:30 P.M. (KD Guiding Light (JJGDCD Another World 22 Archies 3 P.M.

GD Cross Wits Dick Cavett 22 Dennis the Menace 8 Casper 3:30 P.M. QXD One Day at a Time GD Mighty Mouse Over Easy 22 Leave It to Beaver 8 Huck Yogi 4 P.M. CD Match Game GD Tom Jerry CQ) Woody Woodpecker Issues in World Communications 22 Porky Pig 40 Gerald Derstine 8GD Bugs Bunny GD Movie "Stranger on the Run." CD Mike Douglas G3) Brady Bunch 4:30 PJV1. CD Mike Douglas GD Afterschool Special Bionic Hour Zoom 22 Three Stooges 40 Puppet Tree Gang 8 Super Adventures (B Gilligan's Island 5 P.M. Sesame Street Guten Tag In Deutschland 22 Gilligan's Island 40 Bible Bowl 8 Flintstones CD Hogan's Heroes Gunsmoke 5:30 P.M.

GD All in the Family WTAE (ABC) Pittsburgh (QWIIC(NBC)-Pittsburgh WQED (PBS)-Pittsburgh US WQEX (PBS)-Pittsburgh 22 WPTT Independent) Pittsburgh 40 WPCB (Independent)-GrecnsburgPittsburgb WPGH (Independent)-Pitteburgh CBWJAC(NBC)-Johnstown (Z)WTRF(NBC-ABC)- Wbeeling d)WTOV(ABC-CBS)- Steubenville fflWTAJ (CBS)-Altoona Black and white. 6 A.M. CD Woman Is (Q) Ed Allen Show 8 Pittsburgh Women CD PTL Club Sunrise Semester QD News 6:30 A.M. GD Sunrise Semester 3) New Zoo Revue Starting Today 8 Health Field Q) Pop Goes the Country Q9 John Riley 7 AM. QMS) CBS News QXG Good Morning America Q3XSXD Today 22 Three Stooges Fun World 7:25 CD) News 7:30 AM.

22 Porky Pig Friends 8 Spiderman 8 AM. Capt. Kangaroo (D AM Pittsburgh 22 Three Stooges 8 Casper 8:25 CU News 8:30 AM. 22 Leave It to Beaver 8 Star Blazers A.M. CO Dudley Do-Right CD Phil Donahue 22 Dennis the Menace 8 Mr.

Ed GD Electric Company QD 700 Club 9:30 A.M. CD Love of Life GD General Hospital '22 Ozzie Harriet 8 Good Day Pittsburgh GD All About You 9:45 CD Cover to Cover 10 AJV1. GDXQ9 Beat the Clock (Q) Dating Game 22 Mothers In-Law 8 700 Club GDGD Card Sharks 10:30 AJV1. CD3X55 Whew! GO Edge of Night CQCiXZ) Hollywood Squares 22 I Love Lucy 11 AM. (SXSM Price is Right GD Laverne Shirley CQX5XD High Rollers 22 Perry Mason NBC Is For The No.

1 in Ratings Premiere Week CD MASH (3 Happy Days Tic Tac Dough 8 P.M. GONE GIRL TWO GUYS "THE EAST RESORT" adv. GDGD Last Resort Cupid tings Zach and he per-" suedes a reluctant Michael to be his emissary. Air By Win Fanning Helped enormously by two theatrical films NBC topped the three-network race in the Nielsen ratings last week. This was NBC's best premiere week in a decade and its first win since 1972.

The features were "Coming Home" and "The Outlaw Josey Wales," which came in fourth and fifth. "CHiPs" was sixth and "Little House on the Prairie" was eighth. Another NBC series, "Diff'rent Strokes," was 16th. NBC had a 20.6 rating which means 20.6 percent of all homes with TV were tuned to that network. ABC scored 18, while CBS trailed with 16.9.

Of special interest are the standings for "Trapper John, M.D.," 25th; "A Man Called Sloane," 30th; "Sheriff Lobo," 31st; "Hart to Hart," 35th; and "Lazarus Syndrome," 39th. "Hart," on ABC, and "Sloane" on NBC were against each other. "Paris," a new CBS series, will join the Saturday, 10-11 p.m., race this week. The Top 20: "Eight is Enough," "Charlie's An- gels," "60 Minutes," "Coming Home," "Outlaw Josey "CHiPs," "Three's Company," "Utile House on the Prairie," "Alice," "The Jeffersons," "M'A'S'H," "Vagas," "Taxi," "Happy Days," "Benson," "Diff'rent Strokes," "Archie Bunker's Place and "Barney Miller," tied; "Dallas" and "Dukes of Hazzard," tied. Bottom three: "New Kind of Family," "Working Stiffs" and, 50th, "Out of the Blue? News Note: Jim Quinn has replaced Chuck Brinkman on WTAE-Radio to handle the mid-day show.

Quinn was the wakeup man on WKTQ (13Q) for the past two years. Brinkman resigned to become pro- Af ir--' I fA arSfolf I I ram director at kuuo in San iego. Cable Highlights 8 Streets of San Francisco 11:45 CD Switch () Movie "El Greco." (1944) 12:30 A.M. 40 Ross Bagley Show 8 Twlight Hour 12:40 CD Baretia 12:55 CD Hawaii Five-0 1 A.M. d) Tomorrow 40 Gerald Derstine 1:30 A.M.

40 Jesus Festival 8 News 1:50 GD Adam-12 1:55 22 Movie "One for the Book." (1947) 2:00 A.M. 40 PTL Club 4 A.M. 40 700 Club tc r.ttY,Yw.ifniiirriiirfri (9)WOR-TV-NYC 1 MOVC "Murittr Mv Sweet." (1M4) Otck Pewea, Claire Trevor. 4 MOVIC "The feg Carnival" (1951) KWk Deuglet, Jm Sterling. I MOVIE "Teiae Acrees the ntnrr (1M) Ottn Martin, AIM Data.

MOVIE "Oecetmon." (1N4) Bene Davit, Clauda Rama. (43) WUAB-TV GD Charlie's Angels "Avenlng Angel." A craied ex-con uses every trick In the book as he tries to turn Kelly on to the world of hard drugs as revenge tor having him sent to prison. (60 min.) (TJXBCZ) Last Convertible Great Performances "Choreography bv Balan-chine." George Belenchine and Mikhail Beryshnikov com- bine their hreath.Mi no artistry in me "Prodigal son" and omer pieces, oancea oy Sujame Farreil and Peter Martina. (Repeat). (60 min.) The Long Search 22 Perry Mason "The Case of the Empty Tin." A simple Inheritance case turns Into murder.

(60 min.) 40 Getting Together 8 Movie "When the Legends Die." (197J) 10 P.M. OVEGASTANNA AND ROTH ROB ADV. 1 CO Happy Days Again dj Guten Tag Wie Geht's? 22 Superman 40 EarlyLate Report 8 Bugs Bunny Friends CD Carol Burnett (D Brady Bunch 6 P.M. CDDCD) Local News Once Upon a Classic Weather World 22 I Dream of Jeannie 40 Ross Bagley 8 Partridge Family SXZXB News 6:30 P.M. GD ABC News ffl NBC News Mister Rogers US Over Easy 22 Chico and the Man 8 Dick Van Dyke S) CBS News 7 P.M.

S) CBS News GD LotteryBowling for Dollars Tic Tac Dough Over hasy MacNeilLehrer 22 Get Smart 40 700 Club 8(3 Sanford and Son Newlywed Game QD NBC News Happy Days Again 7:30 P.M. CD Evening Magazine GD 9100,000 Name That Tune Newlywed Game MacNeilLehrer Dick Cavett 22 I Love Lucy 8 Hogan's Heroes G3 Price Is Right Corporation Over Easy (5) MacNeilLehrer jpfs- jJ" yyCZ i A lady baseball enthusiast lv jrt T' finally meets the (T I 'V tterT Movies on TV Cleveland 1 tun. MOVE. "Tlia Evtt af Chart (171) Palar Haeke, Hug MOVC -Land Hansen." PHI) Tata Savalat, George Mehern. 11:30 am MOVIE "Search." 0972) Hugh Otrtaa, ENta Seminar.

(17) WTBS-TV Atlanta -Hi Name Only." (1Jt) Careie Lambert Car Crank oung Indian ooy who a. eaves his reservation to try his luck on the rodeo circuit. Richard Wid-mark, Frederic Forrest, Luana Anders. 11:30 p.m. (22) "Par-rish." (1961) Young man learns about life and love from three different women in his struggle for self-respect Troy Donahue, Claudette Colbert 11:45 p.m.

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