European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 2, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Facts of life Tomboy marries Alf gets banished by Wendy Bourland the resident Tomboy of the facts of life is the first of the girls to walk Down the aisle Alf is exiled to the tanners garage and Bette Davis makes an appearance on the late show on the american forces network in the coming week. To Nancy Mckeon accepts the marriage proposal of Rick Scott Bryce on Friday night s episode of the facts of life. No problem that s what Alf alien life form says. But the truth is he s making life in the Tanner household impossible with his bad manners and destructive behaviour. On the season Premier on an feb. 6, Kate Anne Schedeen gives Alf an ultimatum spend a week in the garage and get your act together or live with Willie s tools forever the show also stars Max Wright As Willie Andrea Elson As Lynn and Benji Gregory As Brian. Family fun they re Back albeit in a slightly different form. The Hogan family debuts on an saturday evening starring the Ever cheerful Sandy Duncan As Sandy Hogan head of the to family that Valerie Harper left in a contract dispute. The rest of the family is the same Jason Bateman As David Danny Ponce As Willie Jeremy licht As Mark and Josh Taylor As their father Michael. It s not easy to fill the shoes of a departed Star. Sandy Duncan plays the role of the cheerful wisecracking Mother correctly but she in t nearly As comfortable with it As Harper was. The smiles on Duncan s face seem a bit forced and her performance a bit wooden. Perhaps this changes As the series progresses. Regardless the Hogan family is still a Good show. In the season opener saturday Willie and Mark bring Home two girls from school to work on a project. The subject marriage. Each boy quickly discovers that he s paired with a definite mismatch. Meanwhile David gets whooped by Sandy in a Tennis match and he s determined to Best her in something to Salve his wounded Pride. Interestingly Valerie Harper is a guest on photoplay wednesday along with Telly Savalas Perry riptide King and the late lome Greene. The subject life after a to series. Kid stuff it was bound to happen an is a military network right sunday s matinee movie is . Joe the movie animated. It airs at 1 30 . According to arts programming information . Joe who began life years ago As a Marvel comic Book character and evolved into a doll is the code name for America s daring highly trained special Mission Force. Its purpose is to defend human Freedom against cobra the ruthless terrorist organization determined to Rule the world. Murder mystery if you missed entertainment this week last sunday you can learn about the most celebrated unsolved murder Case in los Angeles on the season premiere of Hunter feb. 9. Elizabeth Short wanted to be an actress and ran in those circles but was better known As a lady who gave herself away. Nicknamed the Black Dahlia because she dyed her hair that color Short was killed 41 years ago and found by police beside a Road Vars promote family viewing by Felix Gutierrez associated press Vars Are turning television viewing into video campfire gatherings children and their parents not Only watching More prime time to together but also talking to each other More recent studies show. When a Var comes into a household and the household has children people tend to talk to each other More says Southern Illinois University professor Carolyn Lin. They have to negotiate about what videos to rent and when to play these videos. If someone wants to time shift record a show for later viewing the person will have to get consent from the other people As  More communication is Only one Side effect of families adding video cassette recorders to their television sets. Although Many Homes have More than one set Vars Are bringing people together to watch a single screen Lin says. In a Survey of 233 Var Homes in three midwestern communities Lin found that after adding a video recorder 58 percent of the people spent More time watching to with the family and 35 percent spent More time having video parties at Home. Prerecorded cassettes appear to have brought Back family viewing during prime time says Debra Grayson of age television research. Prime time tape viewing not Only brings the family together but also appears to be a social event Grayson adds. Age data show a significant number of guests in the  age a British owned firm tracked National Var recording and playback last april. The number of prime time viewers watching movies and other prerecorded tapes averaged nearly three persons per household regular prime time to programs averaged 1.7 persons per household. Studies by academic and commercial researchers now provide a profile of the Impact of Vars now found in 56 percent of . Homes. Five years ago Only 10 percent of households had video recorders says Tom Sederback of the electronic industries association consumer electronics group. Vars were reported by nearly two thirds of those polled in a Gallup Survey of Homes with telephones for the electronics Trade group last Spring. Video recorders were second in popularity Only to to sets themselves found in 99 percent of the households. The Gallup Survey found that 78 percent of the households with children had Vars. Sixty three percent of the two adult Homes and 40 percent of the singles had Vars. Children Are the most avid users of Vars spending 50 percent More time watching tapes than adults. According to the age study children under 18 spend an average of 3.4 hours a week watching videotapes while adults average 2.3 hours weekly. Teen agers developed their own versions of video campfires often watching tapes in groups at parties. Often they have Little adult supervision says Lin. Despite Parent group fears that racy adult videos Are the biggest video moneymakers video software dealers association figures show comedy and action adventure tapes Are tops with nearly 20 percent of the Dollar volume apiece. Adult videos rank fourth behind drama at 11.4 percent. Though video stores have reigned As the place to find Var tapes More convenience stores record shops supermarkets and bookstores Are now stocking cassettes a Vida Survey found. Last year and this year business has been real Good says Vida spokesman Ray Gianchetti. Sixty six percent of the video merchants surveyed by the group said business increased. Tape rental prices averaged $2.45 per tape video stores Stock an average of 2,832 titles and the average number of videos rented per visit was 2.3, the Survey revealed. While most video time is spent viewing pre recorded tapes some folks use their Vars to record tortured and mutilated. Several people later confessed to the crime but to this Clay the killer has not been identified. Hunter Fred dryer and Mccall Stepfanie Kramer work with a detective Lawrence Tierney who comes out of retirement just to help them with the Black Dahlia Case. Goodbye it just started last month but just the ten of us a is for the last time on an Friday night. The show about the coach of an All boys school in Eureka calif., who is also the father of eight kids is being replaced feb. 1 7 by full House. Full House stars Bob Saget As a widowed to sportscaster with three daughters Ages 10, 5 and 9 months. His brother in Law played by former soap opera heartthrob John Stamos and a Friend David Coulie move in to help with the kids in Exchange for room and Board. Jesse Stamos is an aspiring Rock Star while Joey Coulier is an aspiring comic. Movies a couple of Good movies Are airing on an in the coming week. The first is Tootsie the 1982 comedy starring Dustin Hoffman As an out of work actor who lands a role As a woman on a soap opera by auditioning in drag. It airs saturday night. The second is 1941 s the Little foxes set in the period following the civil War and starring Bette Davis As the ruthless woman ready and willing to destroy her Southern family on her Way to gaining wealth and Power. It s the an late show feb. 9. New series Ever increasing Faith begins sunday at 7 30 . It s hosted by or. Fredrick . Price from the Crenshaw Christian Center in los Angeles. Notes a special titled frontline urgent fury is scheduled to air feb. 6. It s about the october 1983 invasion by . Forces of the Caribbean Island of Grenada. Is Ken Georgea Mother and son select cassettes at rental shop. Programs for later viewing. Of the seven hours of an average week when the Var is in use 2.4 hours Are spent recording programs and 4.7 hours Are spent viewing tapes age reports. Twenty three percent of the time is used taping shows for later viewing known As  Homes with pay Cable channels spent More time recording and less time playing tapes than those without Cable the study found. Most taping is during evening prime time hours or during weekdays and most viewing is during weekend Days late nights and Early mornings. February 2, 1989 stripes Magazine