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How the channels in the Free Press TV Book are numbered on your local cable system. I 2 I 4 I 7 I 9 I 20 I 38 I 50 I 56 I 62 I 28 I 30 cbsnbcabccbc ind I indfoxpbs ind pbspbs BARDEN-DETROrT 2 4 7 57 20 59 5 56 62 BOOTH CABLE 12 13 15 16 17 14 22 20 19 18 COMCAST Pontiac 2 4 7 9 11 5 12 13 10 8 Warren 2 4 7 24 8 14 10 3 15 CONTINENTAL MadisonHazel Park 3 9 10 24 20 14 13 6 12 21 Oakland County 12 9 10 24 20 23 13 6 3 21 METROVISION Uvonia 2 4 7 9 6 19 5 11 14 Oakland 2 4 7 9 6 19 5 11 14 Bedford 2 4 7 9 6 19 5 11 14 OMNICOM-Hanrtramck 22 23 24 25 29 ,14 26 27 28 12 TCI CABLE S. Oakland Box 2 4 7 9 20 38 5 6 62 28 S.OaklandTV 1 8 9 20 13 5 6 12 21 W. Oakland Box 2 4 7 9 20 33 50 56 61 28 W.OaklandTV 12 13 8 9 3 14 5 7 6 11 N. Oakland Box 2 4 7 9 20 38 5 6 62 28 N.OaklandTV 2 4 7 9 10 8 5 6 12 18 TELE-MEDIA 2 4 7 9 10 11 6 3 8 VCR PLUS CODE 2 4 7 9 20 3 50 56 15 28 30 64 24 19 21 25 22 23.

26 24 52 25 23 27 28 25 29 23 24 54 27 26 21 53 17 60 19 18 22 6 16 5 19 29 22 17 57 5 17 19 53 22 56 21 42 38 40 43 39 41 21 42 38 40 43 39 41 21 42 38 40 43 39 41 13 49 21 17 7 48 19; 32 43 14 39 40 45 41 42 22 I I 19 39 42 43 47 44 45 32 I 43 14 39 40 45 41 42 II 19 21 17 18 5 23 32 19 53 92 33 95 45 40 41 58 i IN CHARACTER Veteran Eileen Heckart is an actress, not a star Eileen Heckart is the mother-in-law from hell in "The Five Mrs. Buchanans." Buchanans," in which she plays the mother-in-law from hell. "I liked the script. And the minute they told me Judith Ivey and Harriet Harris were in it, I Sub I woman through the door. She has earned five Tony Award nominations in 17 shows.

She's tried Hollywood, too, but isn't crazy about the place. She was nominated as best supporting actress in 1954's "The Bad Seed," but won an Oscar for "Butterflies Are Free" in 1972. An actress, she said, doesn't care for film, per se, since the final product is determined by the director, "the cutter" who assembles it "When I go out on a stage, there's a beginning, a middle and an end. The director is not seen. I'm in charge." Where Eileen Heckart breaks the matrix, however, is that in addition to her career, she has had a life.

Married since 1943, she has lived in Connecticut and raised three sons. By Scott Williams Associated Press Eileen Heckart, the formidable doyenne of "The Five Mrs. Buchanans" on CBS, has never been a household name by design. "I never have a star's problems," she said, unwrapping a big smile that would reach the balcony just ahead of her cigarette-scored contralto. "I may have star billing, sometimes, but I'm a character woman.

I can go into a supermarket and if one person approaches me, it's a surprise." She moved to New York City in the '40s to act, straight out of Ohio State's theater program. She has made an excellent living on Broadway as the second jumped," she said. "You've got two stalwart Broadway people in them." And there's another reason why Eileen Heckart is working on television this fall. "Think of all those performances I did in the theater (many) were hits that ran for well over a year," she said. Put all those audiences that I reached, and you can't hit one night's audience that you get on the tube," she said.

"And God knows, the money's better!" "I never had an apartment in New York," she said. "I always went home. We also had a wonderful nurse, with us for 36 years, who became our housekeeper after the boys grew up," she said. "I also had a husband Jack and I graduated from Ohio State who knew where I was going," she said. "Jack was way ahead of his time.

He knew that this was part of the package." She's quite sanguine about prospects for The Five Mrs. N5 A2 Detroit Free PressOct. 9-Oct. 15, 1994.