European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Television despite ratings arts has no plans to change soaps by Sarah Bottorff sometimes you just hate to even ask the question. Hut after hearing for years thai the military networks will Only provide the two top rated american  operas to avoid having to put on every soap people by Addic led to and want to see overseas it was a Shock to see recent Nielsen ratings and find out that we re not getting the top two. The lop rated soap opera is the Young and the int less. Which we Don t get. Instead the armed forces radio and television service provides general / la spinal which came in second and guiding Light which is Way Down at no. 7 in the ratings below All major soaps but i hi1 bold and the Beautiful. To anyone who regularly watches the soaps now on super Stalin an Southern european broadcasting and the rest of the military stations supplied by arts this is a serious Issue do these new Nielsen ratings mean arts is going to dump guiding Light while we re still waiting for everyone to find out who s father the Guy in the leather mask is this is also serious news for Young and restless fans who have to buy soap opera digests to find out Paul suspects George hired his own killer. Will the show come on the air Here the answer is no says arts s Bob Matheson. The chief of television operations says the real reason we gel some soaps and not others is not some system of providing the top two the real determining Factor is Money the ones we get now Are offered free to the military. Others notably the Young and the restless Are on a pay-per-epkodi1 basis. Al five episodes a week he figured Helling Yii Wiig would Cost s,100,0 k a year. Matheson also said at its has no desire in anger fans of the i Urr enl soaps by replacing them. For the same reasons although afros has been looking into the1 new go it  the first soap to feature a Black family is Central rather than occasional characters there Are no plans to at i twin it at this Point. It would mean dropping general Hospital or guiding Light to do it he said. There Are some americans in Lurbe who get to see one of the soaps arts is not providing. For reasons that Are Clear probably Only to the creeks they have fallen head Over heels in love with the bold and the Beautiful. The eighth rated american soap airs daily in English on one of Greece s slate run networks available to any american stationed there with a to set. If you arc wondering Why this column is devoted to soap operas and figuring there must be something More interesting to write about you re wrong. It s an exceedingly slow week on both an and Sib. There is one excellent made for to movie on an though and if you happen to live near Frankfurt West Germany it hits painfully close to Home. A father s revenge is the Story of a violently Anli american group in West Germany trying to gel some of its members out of prison by kidnapping a group of american flight attendants and pilots from Frankfurt International Airport and threatening to kill them if its members Aren t released from jail. The Story is As familiar As this week s headlines and since it was filmed in and around Frankfurt this 1988 film will look familiar to a lot of people As Well. What s really compelling about in though is the Indiana basketball coach Brian Dennehy who comes to Frankfurt to try and save his flight attendant daughter himself entering an ugly underground world of espionage and trying to not gel blood on his own hands in the process of saving his child. Ii airs monday at 11 10 . In Central Europe id 0 . In the United kingdom. Charles and Diana a Royal love Story is also a painful movie but in a different Way. Watch this Only in you re a real die hard Royalty Freak this silly slow i t2 film is a Royal bore. David Robb plays Charles Caroline Bliss is 1 Ady i and a whole lot of belter known actors who should know Heller Christopher i be. Rod Taylor and Charles Gray among them Are in this thing. Ii airs Afler sports sunday. Also Good this week is by or Happy a 19&1 film with Glenn Ford and Donald o Conner trying to convince their Navy superiors the Geisha House they re living in is an orphanage Al 8 30 . Thursday. 7 30 . In the . Then there s psycho the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock original at 11 40 . Thursday 10 40 ., . Which gets followed by the psycho ii the next Day at 10 40 ., 9 40 . In England. Who s the Boss is Starling its umpteenth year with 5e.b, Little c hanged from the previous year and i think of still Little interest. I m obviously in a minority though it s in the top ten rated shows year after year. Who s the bowl arts with a sort of a snack preview at 9 40 . Thursday and then gets another airing Al a weekend time to be announced. Public people private lives also starts on seb this week Al 4 20 . Monday. If you like listening to celebrities talk about themselves and can t stand Robin Leach this show is for you. The Host is a pleasant Low key kind of person named Sarah Purcell. Sub gels some Good movies. Same time next year is the 1978 Neil Simon play with Alan Alda and Ellen Eurslyn As the couple who conduct a one any a year 20-year adulterous affair at 1 30 . Sunday. 1984 s iceman just before 1 . Thursday has Timothy mullein unfree ing a prehistoric Man and wondering if he should have. And there Are a couple of old movies the Fri Story is a 1959 movie with James Stewart Al 2 05 . Saturday. And Johnny come i ally is from 1943, with Lames Cagney As a drifter who slops to help an old woman run a Small town newspaper Al 3 30 . Wednesday. Full House Star s background in stand up comedy editors note full House airs on Southern european broadcasting at 7 30 . On thursdays. Ii recently ended its season on sup station. Byle Rybuck associated press when the cameras Are turned off on the set of Abc s full House bobs Ageland the other actors sometimes pretend they re doing other shows. We kid that i m Richie Cunningham and we re doing Happy Days says Saget. David Coupler is Ralph and Potsie and Lohn Stamos is the Fonz. Or we kid that we re doing Charlie s Angels. John is Jaclyn Smith David is Farrah Fawcett and i m kale Lackson. It s just a Way to have  full House is about six people living in one House and Loving each other. The three Guys and my three daughters Sagel says. We really do care for each other. Usually people in a show love each other because they get  Sagel stars As Danny a san Francisco to talk show Host and widower with three daughters who asks his brother in Law and a Friend to move in and help him run the household. Stamos is Uncle Jesse,.a former musician who now writes advertising jingles. Coulier is Joey & stand up comedian. The daughters Are Candace Cameron Lodie Sewelin and twins Mary Kate and Ashley Fuller Olsen As baby  took about 13 weeks for me and the writers to figure out who Danny is Sagel says. It s the first Lime i be had an Opportunity to develop a character. Ii look me longer to get a grip on my character than the other actors. I knew i wanted him to be neat and i knew i wanted him to hug a lot. Those were the external things. The internal thing is that there s an undercurrent of sadness because his wife died in an automobile Accident Only a year before he really does need All this love in his life. The thing i like about him is that like Richie Cunningham he s really a Nice  Sagel had worked mostly As a stand up comic prior to full House although his training Al Temple University and the University of Southern California was in filmmaking. A documentary he wrote directed and edited. Through Adam s frycs was honoured Al the los Angeles filmed director Steven Spielberg asked him to Send him his next film. I did and in sat in his office for a year Sagel says. In was awful and pretentious. A 22-year old kid being cocky did t go Over. It was called Beach Blanket Bill non. Three Hundred people showed up for a screening because their kids were in in. Everyone haled the  he was featured in the movie critical condition and was a guest Star on various to series. His work As a comic landed him appearances on the tonight show the Merv Griffin show Hob Young comedians special and late night with David Letterman in 1987, he became a regular on lbs s morning program with Marielle Hartley and Rolland Smith. I joined the directors Guild with lbs paying and i did two comedy videos a week for morning program he says. Then i found out How difficult in is 16 make two videos a week. The show was t on very Long but i actually think in could have worked. I guess at thai Lime people weren t ready for comedy that Early in the morning. I think a time will come. When you la have comedy on to like you have on the morning drive radio  Sagel was on the morning program when he was offered the role in full House. The people Al the morning program wanted to gel rid of me and i wanted to leave he says. I was out of work three weeks. The Pilot was filmed with another actor As Danny and i replaced  Sagel who is married and has a baby daughter says he likes working with the girls on the show. They re my pseudo children he says. Ill do things with the girls that i know i la be doing with my own daughter when she gets  while he likes working in a television comedy lie s also eager to do More films. The sitcom formal is very easy he says. Bui you can t be natural. You have an audience while you film and your volume has to be up your Energy level has to be High. When i did critical condition i really Felt at  Saget was born in Philadelphia but grew up in Norfolk va., and Southern California the family returned to Philadelphia just in time for _ him to graduate from High school where he met his wife Sherri. He got his degree at Temple worked As a comic at various comedy clubs then enrolled in the graduate film school at us. Later he left school to hone his comedy skills at the los Angeles comedy store and of tour across the country 24 sir Pel Magazine August 17, 1989