European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Television Conrad returns briefly in Jake and the fat Man by Sarah Bottorff William Conrad once told an interviewer that the Only trouble with his 1970s hit to series Cannon was that the main character was such a Nice Guy. Conrad said he itched to play someone mean which was How he described himself. He got his wish. From the first lumbering appearance of District attorney . Fat Man Mccabe on Jake and the fat Man in which he pulls a gun on a witness in the courtroom to his portly Progress Down the Halls scattering deputies in his Wake to his shouts on the Telephone to his Secretary i realize you re new Here but did you clean up my desk Don t Ever do that again you realize that this is no or. Nice Guy. But Conrad s new alter ego is fun to watch. And if you like your detective shows to involve wealthy people trying to cover up hideous crimes handsome men that s the Jake part of Jake and the fat Man bulldogs the fat Man s pet Maxand Beautiful women varies you la like this show. Although an sneaked in a preview episode on feb. 13, the lbs show officially starts with its two hour Pilot movie fatal attraction Friday at 10 40 . 9 40 in the United kingdom. The Pilot will air in late april on the Southern european broadcasting system. An s regular time Slot for the 50-minute show will be mondays at 8 30 . 7 30 in the next week. The show is comfortably familiar a Little like Columbo a bit like Hunter or even Cannon or any other show in which the Good Guys play psychological cat and mouse games with the bad Guys in the Bright Southern California Sunshine. Even the guest stars Are familiar to faces. In the Pilot Karen Austin plays the Deputy mayor who sleeps with her Stepson and kills her husband you la recognize her from numerous detective shows. The Stepson menacing and perhaps slightly mad is played by Carson Warfield who was recently seen As the born again doctor who May have aids on St. Elsewhere. Jake a District attorney s investigator is played by Joe Penny whose first appearance in the Pilot has him gazing hungrily into the eyes of a woman and discussing their apparently new relationship a few seconds before busting her for cocaine Possession. The bust and the hungry gazes take place in an upscale restaurant and the waiter turns out to be an undercover cop who reads her rights to her. So the show is a Little silly at times. This is one detective series that does t take itself too seriously. Conrad got his first major break in the entertainment business As the voice of Matt Dillion in the 1950s radio version of gun smoke. But when the series went to to producers took one look at Conrad s portly Frame and receding hairline and called in James Arness. Conrad did have a five year run with Cannon but bad Luck struck him again Jake lbs has already ended the series. So the 20 or so episodes an picked up Are Likely to be All Well see of the fat Man. Coming Back Molly Dodd As in the the Days and nights of Molly Dodd is coming Back to an. I m not one of them but Molly Dodd and her character Blair Brown have a devoted group of fans who would turn Down super bowl tickets to stay Home and watch the show. The first show of Molly s second season airs on an tuesday at 10 . 9 in the . Again in late april on seb. Oddly reassuring frontline takes a look at the airline Industry in an episode that is surprisingly comforting despite its title your flight is cancelled air traffic control. The show airing on an thursday at 7 . 6 in the . Explores far More than air traffic control the whole picture of America s too rapidly expanding transportation Industry. This Low key deliberately paced show does not come up with any magic answers to the problem of the overcrowded skies but then it does t come up with any sensationalistic scare tactics either. A Good chunk of the show is spent in the air traffic control Tower at Hartsfield International Airport in Atlanta ga., following the Day to Day work of the controllers. Particularly fascinating is a Day full of summer storms with controllers looking for a Pilot willing to try a test Way out of the Cloud cover As lightning illuminates the Tower windows. How come How come an gets its shows so late How come you can get an in one neighbourhood but zilch reception across town Why Don t they have More or less sports and Why can t they show All my children instead of general Hospital ? you probably asked those questions when you first got in country and if you re new to Europe you re probably asking them now along with about 200,000 other viewers. As an s Public affairs officer air Force capt. Jeffrey Whitted explains it a third of an s 625,000 viewers change each year As people go Back Home and other people arrive. All the new folks of course have All the same questions the old folks did when they first got Here. And after repeatedly answering the questions an has come up with something called the answer Book to put in newcomer packets. It s also available for old timers for a copy write to the Public affairs office an Europe Apo 09757-4309. Grambling great legacy Eddie Robinson is a last minute addition to the schedules of both seb and an. The show which was not available for preview tells the Story of the great Grambling football coach and is hosted by sugar Ray Leonard. It airs on seb on Friday at 2 35 , and on an sunday at 3 30 . 2 30 in the also on seb this week the Best Little whorehouse in Texas the 1982 Burt Reynolds Dolly Parton comedy airs sunday at 1 30 . The 1987 classic feature length cartoon there sons meet the Flintstones which took a Large audience share among my friends when it aired on an is being shown sunday morning. And while there Are no new series starting on seb for grown ups this week kids get their first look at the year 2009 and the secrets of Rob tech at 10 30 . Saturday. Also on an Oliver twist a 12-part bbl adaptation of the Charles Dickens Story starts monday at 3 05 . 2 05 . In the . Our House returns to a sunday afternoon Slot airing at 4 30 3 30 in the . Facts of Lite passes out of our lives Friday and an s thursday late a to will be the science fiction classic 1969 s the illustrated Man starting at about 10 40 . 9 40 in the . Abc owes new series to patrons of Denver bar by Kathryn Baker associated press if not for a Bunch of Guys sitting around a bar in Denver a few years ago there would be no Roseanne on Abc this coming season. Roseanne Barr will Star As the wisecracking Domestic goddess in the half hour comedy that might just be Abc s Best bet for a new season hit. I was a cocktail waitress Barr recalls. My customers encouraged me to go Down to this comedy club in Denver. I did t know it was there. So i went Down there and watched a year later she had written five minutes Worth of material that led her to los Angeles where she was called from the secondary stage at the comedy store to the main room and eventually was discovered by comedy producer George Schlatter. The routine at the Root of this frenzy of Success was described by Barr for a group of television critics i go i i m a housewife Domestic goddess then i Tell jokes about my kids and then i Tell jokes about my husband and then i get her remarkable poise As a woman busting into a Man s standup comic world came from the Back and Farthing with the boys in the bar in Denver. If those Guys had t laughed i probably would t be Doin this now she says. Barr s hapless and seemingly worthless husband is the butt of Many of her jokes but in real life Bill Pentland was an Early supporter of her career helping develop her material. He is a writer and is Likely to be seen once in a while on the sitcom which is scheduled to debut in november. John Goodman raising Arizona plays her to husband. My real husband is like a lot More bizarre than my character husband Barr says. He s very funny. He s like the funniest person i Ever knew my whole life and he s very bizarre and he does t have any respect for they met when she was living in a commune in the Rocky mountains and he had the Only toilet in the county since he worked As the night manager at a Motel. We were really hippy me and him went to this club the first time i Ever went Down there. We sat there together and we were both like really appalled at what they were saying on stage and like what s happened to comedy All the pig jokes about women convinced them that Barr should offer the other Barr s humor has a political working class Edge that will Likely find its Way into the sitcom. She does t like the sitcom moms offered to the to Public so far. You re just a working stiff and this is your Job. I wish people would Stop thinking it was destiny and Start thinking it s a Job. You try to keep everything Light and funny As you can because there s no other Way to survive being a working class person without any Barr said she loves Carol Burnett because she s so real and she seems like your neighbor and somebody you d like to but she says she was baffled by the popularity of the old / love Lucy show. I like Lucy but i hated that show because she has to beg her husband for five Bucks and he spanks her. I never Ever understood that even As a Little Ralph and Alice Ramden on the honeymooners Are her favourites cause you know they love each other and they re just picking at each other which is kind of the thing i want on our show rather than married. With children and that mean thing. I just want to like this Nice lady that s funny and has this Edge which is How i see editor s note negotiations Are under Way to acquire Roseanne for an seb and other arts networks. February23, 1989 stripes Magazine
