European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Television Ritter should have a Winner in Hooper Man but. By Sarah Bottorff if there s Ever been ,1 show that i really wanted to like it s / Kooperman. I like Ohn Ritter even when he s Mil being funny. I like Barbara Bosson partly Bee min she s Good and partly because she proved you in he a housewife for years and then just get tight out find launch a great second career. I like Francisco the setting for this series in which killer once three s company plays Hopperman the cop and Bosson once Hill Street Blum plays his Boss. I like to shows with dogs in them ind Hooper Man has a really cute dog. I mild go with he list what i should like Al nil Hooper Man. But the Bottom line is i Don t like it and off hand i Don t think i Ever met anyone who got excited about watching it. The show s second year super Slation an begins monday at 8 05 . 7 05 . In Britai with me still wondering what s the matter with it. Some critics though say the trouble is that the show ran l figure out whether it wants to be an occasionally funny drama an occasionally dramatic comedy. I guess that s a Good description the problem. The general Public in the slates seems to be about As lukewarm As i am about Hooper Man the show dropped about 20 Points in the Nielsen ratings scale this year. This could be the last year armed forces radio ind television service gels the show. / Limpi nun gels to seb the week Luly 10. Maybe the problem with Hooper Man is just part a curse new series in the last couple years. The associated press reported last week that in the All powerful ratings system the vast majority 1988-89 new series did not make much a splash. Only four got in the Nielsen s top 20 by the end the season fam Iwer. Second empty Neil a spinoff Golden Girk. Ninth anything but love a Short run Spring replacement series with Richard Lewis and Jamie Lee Curtis. 10thand dear John Ullh. All but anything but love have been acquired by arts for the overseas military stations although there s generally a nine month Wail before arts gets new series to the stations other new shows Are gelling pretty nervous looking at the Nielsen. Producers Beauty Ami / beast which got to military television last fall Are trying to Slart a postcard writing Campaign front fans to convince the network to keep the show the air. It ranked 69th 108 shows in the final season Nielsen ratings. And Suzanne Pleshette Star niggling Julif which arts has yet to acquire paid a Well publicized visit to a new Jersey Hospital last week to apologize to nurses for the Abc to series portrayal nurses As doctor chasing airheads and ask for their letter writing help to save the show which was 51 is in the end the season Nielsen. Given All the ratings troubles one show business firm Mca to has apparently decided thai it s time to go backward instead peddling new stuff. It had such Good Luck reviving leave it to Beaver and the munsters the latter making the rounds military stations overseas now seb fridays at 2 05 . That it announced plans last week to bring Back several More old timers. Coming to the Stales in the fall will be new versions Lassie Adam-12 and dragnet the a reports. Still hanging in Here in the states despite a miserable 96th-place rating is Simon & Simon set Story below. The seventh year show that made Bald men Gerald Mcraney seem sexy and grown men being bossed around by their Mother Mary Carver seem Macho starts May 22 at 8 30 . On an 7 30 in the . In the next two weeks this column is getting preempted next week for a special Magazine edition seb will gel two new series including the funny and slightly strange detective series Sonny spoon. It s due to air some Lime this weekend at a Lime to be announced later and Slars Mario Van Peebles who does t need to be Bald to be gorgeous. /./. Starbuck about a Texas millionaire Dale Robertson who goes around solving murders and other problems starts May 24 seb at 9 20 . Both seb and an plan to show a Mother s Day special superstars and their moms sunday. It airs at 12 30 . On seb at 3 30 . In Central Europe and at 2 30 . In the . And seb gels its final instalment this year s Miami vice a Cliffhanger in which amnesia fogged Sonny Crockett Don Johnson thinks he s a drug hit Man and sets out to tackle his partner Tubbs Philip Michael Thomas. It airs the weekend May 20-21, Lime to be announced. By coincidence the slates will be seeing the last episode Ever Miami vice a two hour Blowout May 21 that ends the fifth and final season. That show should get to us in about nine months. Do you think there s any Way we can keep people in the states from telling us what happens a sort who shot mentality is building up everybody s waiting to see whether Crockett and Tubbs Are killed in the end retire to key West. An gets a new kids show this week a program featuring spacemen i think that s what they Are explaining How to draw foreshortened squares and other complicated things. It s called secret City and starts at 7 40 . Friday. Also for kids mostly is the lessons the cartoon about a futuristic family starting at 8 . Saturday. Olympian Carl Lewis puts in an appearance perfect strangers sunday at 6 35 . In Central Europe. The King and a lot authentic West German scenery Star in . Blues May 23 at 8 30 ., and Elvis is also in King Creole at 8 30 . Wednesday. Lauren Hutton plays a Vampire in once bitten at 11 40 . May 25, and a two part docudrama murderous Philadelphia teachers called echoes in the darkness starts May 24 at 8 00 . All the above air an hour earlier in the United kingdom and in mid july seb. And saving the Best for last animal House the film that will make Barracks life seem clean and peaceful airs after sports an the night May 21. I can t resist mentioning this to news Story from the slates new York s Metropolis Magazine surveyed new York designers and architects and found they liked Hope and Michael s Philly fixer upper thirty something Best All to Homes. Next the list was Cliff and Clair Huxtable s Brooklyn townhouse Abc s the Cosby show. Third was All things pee wee Herman s playhouse. Finally to the Reader who sent me a postcard saying when when is la Law coming Back it should be arriving at an in the third week july officials at arts in los Angeles say. Simon & Simon has been up Down in Between editor s note Simon & Simon starts its new season super Slation an May 22 Al 8 30 . 7 30 in the United kingdom and during the week july 17 Southern european broadcasting. By Jerry Buck associated press Sim i-1981, lbs Simon & Simon has led a charmed life a Star crossed one depending How you look Al it. The show s been up Down and around. It was a Flop its first Lime out and lbs renewed it Only at the 11th hour. Then it became a hit until it ran into the Cosby show and Abc s thursday juggernaut. There was even a Brouhaha a few years ago when lbs tried to move the show s locale from san Diego to i Angeles. San Diego still smarting Over the loss Harry o., mounted a postcard Campaign that eventually caused lbs to Back Down. They be been beating us for eight years said Gerald Mcraney who co stars with Jameson Parker As two Brothers who Are detectives. They can t gel us Down for the count. I think the show has survived for the most part because we be got Good scripts. And we Don t take ourselves too seriously. The relationship Between the Brothers and the notion a family make it work. That would have worked in elizabethan theater. Loyalty and integrity. People like to see those values Simon & Simon tells the Story two Brothers who Are unlike yet supportive each other. Mcraney is Rick rough eccentric Laid Back who d rather Pluck his guitar and have fun. Parker is a conservative a Snappy Dresser whose ambition and hard work keeps their detective Agency track. A lot detective shows sleep Clear comedy said Mcraney. Thai makes us one the few one hour comedy shows the air. We do a few serious episodes. Bui we have a sibling rivalry and that s what makes it fun. From the beginning Jameson and i participated in shaping the show. We weren t just hired help. The creator Philip Deguere wanted us to be a part it i be directed five shows and written one. We read through the scripts every week and our suggestions Are listened to the show was originally set in Florida and was called pirate s key. Thai was before the hit series Miami vice and neither Universal television nor lbs was too keen filming it in Florida. The locale was changed to san Diego although most the show is actually filmed in los Angeles. Mary Carver who plays Mother to the pair is still with the series. But other cast members have come and gone As the show has changed through the years. Jeannie Wilson and Eddie Barth from the original cast have left As has Tim Reid who was detective downtown Brown. Reid went to the now cancelled Frank s place lbs. Last summer Mcraney worked two to movies the people across the Lake Abc a gothic mystery co starring Valerie Harper and where the hell s the cold lbs appearing with his Fiancee Delia Burke designing women. The Western comedy also stars Willie Nelson and Lack Elam. We shot it in Southern Colorado and Northern new Mexico said Mcraney who has a second Home in Telluride Colo the latter film. We used a narrow gauge Railroad which runs through some Beautiful country. My ambition is to Rob the Durango & Silverton Railroad from Mcraney is also at work creating a new comedy series for himself for the Day when Simon & Simon comes to an end. He also has a script for himself and Burke for a lighthearted mystery set in new Orleans they spent a month in new Orleans last summer a week it the Mississippi Queen riverboat. 70 if Ipei Magazine May 11, 7989
