European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Television 2 films on an focus on military officers dilemmas by Sarah Bottorff two movies showing this week on Supe Stalion an tackle the question of How military officers should act Ami what Price they should pay for either creating or covering up terrible blunders. The belter of the two is the 1975 British film conduct unbecoming which is about a regiment in colonial India. Ii has far More of relevance to say to us than the 1977 american to movie called the court martial of George Armstrong Custer. Court martial should be fascinating Given its premise Gen. George Armstrong Cutler Lames Olsen survives his last stand Al Little Bighorn instead of dying in inc Field with his 7lh cavalry and is court Martiale in a highly publicized trial. Richard Dysart of tvs . Law plays president Grant irate with coslor for testifying against him in a congressional hearing and now seeking revenge. Unfortunately As a fellow reviewer pointed out As we watched this thing last week the opening scenes of blood splattered bodies on a wind swept Plain show More life than the subsequent drama which features bombastic speeches and goes on far Loo Long in the courtroom. Even Perry Mason went out in the Street occasionally but the cast of  Keith William Daniels and other to drama veterans to loess l gel to Sce the Sunshine until the last few minutes of the film. By then i suspect you won t much care where they Are. Coni Lui i unbecoming also lakes place mostly in a courtroom actually a makeshift trial Arena set up in a gloomy Dusty British military compound in pre Independent India. But like a Good horror movie conduct draws you into ibis Claustrophobic atmosphere instead of making you wish somebody would open a window. The trial is sparked by an officer s widow Susannah Yor who claims a subaltern raped her. A Young officer Michael York is pressed into service As defense counsel and starts to find out what prices Are paid when officers keep each others secrets and what would be left of the regiment if the secrets arc told. Stacy Keach and Trevor Howard also Star. This film s Only real drawback is the Lime it s going to be aired 8 30 . Thursday in Central Europe an hour earlier in the United kingdom. If you re enough of a civil War Indian wars Buff to enjoy court martial despite its Boring script watch for it after sports sunday night. Both films will get to Southern european broadcasting in late october. Four of America s Best loved women come Back to an for a third year in Golden girls at 8 . Tuesday in Central Europe. An also gets a new series this week Degrassi Lunior High. Degrassie a sort of after school special for the preteen and teen age set a series about various seventh and eighth graders facing drugs sex and other aspects of growing up in the 1980s. According to a Blurb from the armed forces radio and television service this Public television program won a television critics association award for outstanding children s programming. Whether your teen age children will find it outstanding is another question but it seemed fairly Good to me. Unlike Fame and 21 Lump Street and that sort of drama de crass features real looking kids Complete with pimples and ludicrous to shirts. I Don t think though that it quite gets to the heart of being 11 years old the Way the wonder years does. On the other hand its a Gigantic improvement Over the dim Golden girls in 3rd season editor s note Golden girls starts its third season on superstition an tuesday Al 8 . In Central  7 . In the United kingdom. It returns to Southern european broadcasting in october. By Sandra Day associated press Susan Harris says the Golden girls began with a suggestion that she write about a group of older women in Miami. And when a suggestion comes from Brandon Tartikoff president of Abc entertainment it s hard to dismiss. I had t wanted to do any More television says Harris who had created soap and Benson but that appealed to me. I like writing about older people. They have More to say. They be led Rich lives. Thai s really How it started. After that i came up with the concept and the characters and then we got the stars we  the emmy winning series in its third season was fifth in the Nielsen ratings for the season. Another Harris creation imply nest a Golden girls spinoff was comfortably in ninth place. The Golden girls Are four women living in retirement in the same House in Miami. Bea Arthur plays Dorothy Zbornak a no nonsense former teacher whose husband left her for a younger woman Betty White is Rose Nylund a naive widowed grief Counselor Rue Mcclanahan plays Blanche Devereaux an aging Southern coquette and Estelle Getty is Dorothy s Mother Sophia Petrillo who is uncontrollably Blunt. Estelle Getty was the Only unknown when we started casting says Harris. She came in read the part and in two minutes we said. That s it " the cast of the Pilot also included a Gay Houseboy but he was dropped when the roles of the four women proved to be much Richer than expected. The contrast Between the four women Breeds the conflict says Harris Dorothy comes from Queens. She s the most outspoken the sharpest the strongest character she s a survivor. Rose is not quite in the world. She s been protected All her life so there s a bit of the ingenue about her. She s an innocent a bit like Jessica in soap. Blanche is a throwback to the old South. She s antebellum she s Scarlett o Hara. She thinks she s hot stuff but she s growing older and is having a Tough time. Sophia is an italian Mother who spent a lot of Lime in new York. She s a Lough cookie. We gave her a Small stroke that wiped out her brain censor so she could say what everyone else would like to say but does  Harris believes there s lots of life left in the Golden girls and thai the award winning show can go on for Many More years. Harris confines her writing these Days to motion pictures. She no longer writes episodic to because for four years she wrote every script for soap. I will never Ever do that again she says i had to give up my life to do that. It was a Nightmare. I never slopped working. I could t get sick. I worked Day and night. I la never do that again. My son was 9 or 10 at the Lime and i did t get to see much of him. It s a Trade off. Before soap i lived in a tiny House in the Valley. I discussed it with my son. I said this was a Way to buy a House. So when he was 14, he had a Nice House with a swimming Pool. I Don t regret it. It gave me a Chance to be More creative than i d Ever  Harris says she now works slowly. She also takes plenty of time out to spend with her family which now includes a new baby. After soap she married Paul Witt of Witt Thomas productions makers of Golden girls and Ftp y nest willed so pox with Tom Collie.  sunday Al 5 . In Central Europe. Sub viewers will be seeing in in october. With a flip of a to dial americans will be boldly going where no Man has gone before nearly 3 billion Miles from Home to Neptune. Cox news service reports that Why to 12 in Philadelphia working with the Nasa it propulsion lab in Pasadena calif., will broadcast Neptune All Negm featuring live transmissions from voyager 2 in Friday s Early morning hours an won t be gelling the continuous live feed says arts s Bob Matheson but arts is relying on can news programs for coverage perhaps some of it live of voyager s Neptune Fly by signal. After 12 years in space voyager 2 will get within 3,000 Miles of Neptune at about 9 . Friday in Central Europe. The satellite will Send Back a series of still photographs that will Lake four hours and six minutes to reach Earth. Seb viewers have Little new to look Forward to this week aside from the voyager pictures there Are no new series and Only a handful of Good movies. Tell them Willie boy is Here airs at 9 15 . Friday. It s a 1969 Robert Redford movie about a manhunt for an Indian. Seb has also pulled John Wayne s the quiet Man out of its Library it airs Al 1 30 . Sunday. On an aside from the two court martial movies a 19s8 made for to movie about the soviet Union s Downing of a korean airlines Jel with Many americans aboard in 1983, shoo Down airs Al 8 . Wednesday in Central Europe. If you miss this Hob version Don t worry Abc has made its own to movie on the topic and arts May gel it. Brenda Starr a silly 1976 to movie with ill St. Ohn playing the comic strip journalist is on an Al 1 . Saturday. A belter bet is the 1971 Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory the kids classic which airs Al 1 30 . Sunday. Writer Susan Harris created Golden  before she began writing she was a housewife who held a number of different jobs i began writing the Way a lot of people do she says. I was watching to one night. It was such garbage i said i could write better than that i got a copy of a teleplay and used it As a guide. I sold the first thing i wrote a script for then came  after that she wrote for All in the family Maude and other comedies then created soap. Harris is still angry about the Fate of soap. She says it was the victim of misinformation and was cancelled after four years on the air because of pressure from conservative groups who thought it too risque. It could have gone on for Many years she says. Some stations would t even run it in prime time. I think the show was done in Good taste. It s All so innocuous  24 tripes Mig Zine August 24,7989