European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 9, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Television wonder years pays a visit to Suburbia in 1968 by Sarah Bottorff they probably could have found a Betler name for tin a time of . 11 sounds like a bread Comperti in fir like a show so Sweet it would make Jln Cosby show seem mean in vi1"lhihg like 1h.il. And i Dun t Kriwow what to make of an s latest new series. Basically if you tank and made i he Chari lots 12 years old. You d get to i Ivon Tler a frs. The Selling is american Suburbia in 1 Jhb and the lha racer isl 2-year-old Kevin Arnold Fred Savage 11 ?. If Fikher Type darting who is just discovering Junior Difili a Hoo teen age Defiance and girls. Not in in Svirbly in that order. an Ono Kuirt older brother and in older sister who s drive no her parents null by trying to be a hippie bul basically he s Al a warm Loving family and i Happy life which he tells you through 3 narrator who is1 supposed in be Kevin Arnol today 20 years Taler describing his life in 1%tt. Those really were the wonder years says if narrator for us there in the suburbs that i the trouble fur those of us who weren t in lie suburb this a lift of a few wonderful lift was in 1 5fi8 ran be fairly annoying. After ill thai was the Yeier Ufra a riots in the nation s capital the. Year of anti War Tireli in la agn. Hie year Martin Tullier knife a Lull ii Alim with Robnitt of Kennedy if. And Luigi Sank of Arr Rurans in Vietnam. Ilu1 show tries la acknowledge hat. The Arnold t Imily eats dinner As .1 to set in the background shows 5 f i Vietnam. And a Suva nth grate t laminate for is Kevin to hide dope in his locker Buith i be reminder of outside Flicker Bysh i Iii Klov nit so harm i ulv try Only emphasise How few and i s problems ire. On the other hand. The wonder years is Good at showing How people Are and what people do. Every Lime you think in has nothing you can identify with it slops you coid with a scene or characterization that reminds you of your own life then or now the father for example played by Dan Lauri Anever fails to say hello to whichever neighbourhood child has been invited to dinner but has nothing to say to his own children. Or Lake the Junior High school cafeteria. Like every other social Hall known to Man ii is filled with groups that refuse to mix with each other. Who you Are the narrator tells us is defined by who is the person silting Nello you.1 the narrator really does t have to Lell you hat. You re familiar with it and no matter How alien suburban 196b May Leem to you these people Are familiar to you too. So i really Don l know what to make of the wonder years. The american Public and even the show s Parent Abc. Apparently did t either. Abc made Only six shows in Lully the group an is airing now. Then the wander years won an emmy and 22 shows were made now the Wonnie Yeats is meandering around in the lower half of Hie Nielsen ratings ii was ranked 54th March 1 it s anybody s guess whether ii la get a third season. Ii airs tuesday on an at 8 . 7 in the United kingdom and sometime during the second week of May on soul Hern european broadcasting. Suzanne Sorters proves byte and for All in Suzanne that s she s Lisl another Prelly fact this is one stupid show the at 3 10 . . On an 2 10 in the has her dancing rather. Badly and singing Little better through a series of skits accompanied by two Lille known impressionist a fellow described by the announcer As Llinat Clever Canadian comic and a lot of vegas show girls. I be always liked Somers bul she Suro Hai .1 problem Here with the show writers who a link they could come up with some fresh humor Aboul i he fail that Ron Reagan a. Is it Ballel dancer and Dolly Parlon is rather Well ent owed Thi y can t. The apparent highlight of the Liow conies Early on,.when Somers Ilmis Foolai of it is of dancing the same number in two different Spangle outfits asking us in the audience to decide which outfit we like by so. Honest Suzanne either one it Fine. That show comes lost Ihbe first week of May. In the meantime us if ten of in b 2s . La s Bri fit it s Sharp and it s Only four episodes Long. America apparently did t think much of it it was cancelled Early on in its first Mmson. Seb also shows some very Fine films this week Chi Nell on saturday at 1 55 ., and if fatties. My son about former chief of operations Zumwalt or. Karl Malden whose son is dying of cancer probably caused by the agent Orange hut Zumwalt ordered used in Vietnam. In air wednesday. At .5 20 . The movie not to miss on an is Miracle on the real life irial of Well moaning deeply religious parents Abri Lei their Tor lie rather thank a doctors Treit him. Judge Sci Hotd and Arquette play the parents up to what hey be done and the idling is . Ion Brilliant for Lii time Slot 8 30 a.m.tui.-sriay.7 it in the Hay want to Viil Rolape in r. Other Ash a include Llie return of web Tiv ont Hurst in al3 3upm. Wide whirl it tit sikh sunday at 15 0 . Includes a Bil in Nin in Augsburg Wesl Germany. Of no nth show a i on Kotc , Lechl by at 7 . And try guests on at . All of on an hour earlier in the United kingdom and in Early May on Srb. What no boxing an would like you in in Iii that in did to broadcast Llic Tyson Bruni Fiji lil but ended up publicizing the bout s air Liurni on writ German television instead. An will shove Liiv boxing event says Tom Baxter i he head Oliv operations for at a who s had rom fett i enough to Iliin up until 4 Llie next morning Rittick to complain to advertisers about sexual innuendo Ane he treatment of women in the of. Broat Kapsung co show. Now four Mitor t Nuiji Inu s Procter & Gambli c�., Mcdonalds corp Kimberly Clark corp and inc have ordered their i advertising it ii s not to buy any More Lime on the program which Briwn in w and is the most successful show on i he fledgling Fox network. And Ira i Lerbert the president of another major advertiser. Coca cola Usa has promised Makolla m a letter slut Hli company will screen the How More closely in Ihu future. I must it la you thai i am corp Rilely professionally and personally embarrassed thai one of our commercials appeared in this uric Kirly unsuitable program episode Herbert wrote in response to her complaint. The Resutko surprised Makolla 40, a resident of the affluent Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills she and her husband John the president of a construction company have three daughters Ages in 10 and 9, and an 8-year-old son. I am not in activist. I be been involved in civic groups but nothing cause oriented she said. That May change rank Olla said Beca Uio she wants to Slart or oin groups 1o organize National Boycotts of advertisers with commercials on network television shows that have sexually oriented or violent scenes. Makolla ays the key Issue at slake is viewer Choice not morality. She maintains that there is an undue proliferation of such show thai restrict her family s viewing choices. One person can really make a different if they push the right buttons she added. And the in lit bunions arc not the producers in Hollywood they re the people thai pay the Money to sponsor the married. With children is a broadly played Blue Collar comedy about a hapless shoe Salesman his vain wife and their two Bort Igraine Juvene Delin enl kids. National critics have favourably compared it to the Jackie Gleason classic the honeymooner. Makolla said the show she watched one sunday night in january with her son and younger daughters depicted j Man visiting a lingerie store. The show included references to , a scene with an older Man walking around in a Garter Belt and a woman in the store removing her Bra for strangers she said i was thinking that it was a family program because in was in prime time at b i . I Wai horrified the mid Fox officials defended the show. Don r. By a Fox vice president wrote thai the Bundy family is a comedic counterpoint to other television families who enjoy above average incomes and greater opportunities and have More refined Gary Lieberthal the chairman of Columbia pictures television the producer of the series. Called in a parody of american life in j lower socioeconomic occasional episodes May offend some people he wrote Rakolta bul added hopefully Many people though we know not All will he _ entertained by the outrageously absurd lives and off Center values of the Bundy editor s note mar Ruml with is broadcast on super Lalion an on wednesdays Al 10 40 ,
