European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 21, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Television space aliens visit new York in an movie by Sarah Bottorff Pic Luri this new York cily somewhere North of 1 10th Street. It s a Friendly Harlem bar. A couple of Tike old Guys Are chatting and a spat Ernan on the floor is doing a mind Mold with a video Mac hint1. Of i Ourse the Fellows at the bar Don t know the Guy on the floor is a spaceman. When they ask where he s from and he Points up they figure he Means the South Bronx and they know everybody heft1 is crazy. Crazy or not. He fixes the video machine. Thus begins the brother from another planet a Sweet per tet i movie for a late night Between Christmas and new year s live. It stars nobody in particular Joe Morton is the Lead and it s Sorl of aimless and leisurely slow some might scythe spec Ial elects lend logo  instead of a but thai  to be the Way it was intended. The brother from outer space is pursued by two other aliens who drink Beer on in e and ask people for their Green cards. One of the old Guys at the bar looks at these two characters and mumbles White folks get stranger All the  thai s the sort of movie it is. The director who plays one of the bad Guy aliens is John Sayles who did the return of the 5f caucus 5ilven and specializes in Low budget films that make a lot of the megabucks Mega Hils look shabby. Brother comes on in the midst of .1 slow Dull week after Christmas on superstition an at 11 40 . Thursday Central european time. In the United kingdom it airs an hour earlier and Southern european broadcasting gels it in february. If you can believe it. Full House a witless Boring sitcom about an unbearably Nice Guy his adorable Little girls and his equally adorable friends is the highest rated series on Friday nights in the states. That s according to United press International which usually knows what it s talking about. This amazing demonstration of what you can do with Good looks and no plot comes Back to an at 70 . Get saturday. Up also reports it s the most popular series on television among the 2 to 11 year old set which gives you a clue about How sophisticated the dialogue is in this show. A scene from an Early Hove Lucy episode with William Frawley and Vivian Vance As Fred and Ethel Merit and Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz As Kicky and Lucy Ricardo. Appealing to the same age group and with rather similar scripts is Din saucers a cartoon show about dinosaurs from outer space and a couple of human kids they befriend. It airs at 8 . Get tuesday. Perry Mason returns a Nice but predictable to movie is on an at 8 . Get wednesday and you can watch Ohn Forsythe agonize Back to Back on Christmas night As Blake Carrington with a murder rap hanging Over his head on the series dynasty at 9 30 get and As a firefighter who is forced to retire at the age of 60 in the movie or tire at ii to. Aside from the dozens of Christmas programs detailed in last week s column that s about it for an. Tie brother from another  f is by far the Best of the non Holiday fare. Seb does a Little belter with two very dil Lerent comedies from different eras. Thirteen classic episodes of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in / love i in y which began airing on an in late october begin on seb at 4 20 . Tuesday and the considerably More adult some would say Raun Chier might court begins a new year at 7 30 . Thursday. Or. Belvedere in t quite in the same class but it s a pretty fair sitcom starting a fifth year on seb this weekend the Lime will be announced later. As for movies Promise with Lames Garner kind of foreshadowed an atari and got excellent reviews Lisa i Ofifi to movie with Garner playing a footloose Bachelor suddenly saddled with the care of his schizophrenic brother and seb shows i at 1 . Thursday and 9 15 . Dec. 29. Oasis of the zombies at a time to be announced this weekend is As Carney Asil sounds. Change of habit has Mary Tyler Moore playing a nun forced to choose Between the Church and Elvis Presley no kidding at 3 25 . Wednesday. And survivors is a Good 1983 Black comedy with Robin Williams Lerry Reed and Walter Matthau at 9 20 . Wednesday. To Recap the highlights of Christmas programming Miracle on 34th Street will air Christmas morning at 9 55 get on an seb Sho is in at 2 10 . Saturday. An also has it t a wonderful life with James Stewart at 12 30 get Christmas afternoon. A year in the life offers its 1986 Christmas show at 11 . Get saturday on an and the Brady Bunch gets together on a very Brady Chris that. At 3 30 . Saturday on an and 1 30 . Sunday on seb. Lason Robards appears in 1978 s a Christmas to remember at 9 55 . Get sunday on an and 1 . Friday on seb. Hal Holbrook stars in / be Home for Christmas at 8 30 . Get Friday on an and 9 20 . Friday on seb. Boatman s character in China Beach is in transition editor s note the second season of c i  Cotich is airing on super Slation an at u 30 . Central european time mondays. The show returns to Southern european broadcasting the week of i Eli. 4. Associated press on Abc s China Beach. Michael Boatman s character Samuel Bee Kcal is shunned because1 he works among the dead of the Vietnam War. Beckett is assigned to the Graves registration unit where he prepares Iho bodies of those killed in action for return to the United states. He gives people the creeps said Boatman. People Are suspicious. They Don t want to see this Guy after their buddies got killed. So except for his close friends people Don t talk to him. I be spends most of his Lime by himself. So not Only is he sentenced to this horrible duly but he s Ornu nerd to do it  Beckett is to s firm mortician since Digger o Dell on the original / Ile of Riley in 1 m9-50. Beckett has a wry sense of humor but Digger was played for laughs on the comedy series starring  Gleason. The Job s duties include counting casualties each Day recording the cause of death and making sure personal effects Are sent to the family. We take some liberties on the show said Boatman. Fie works As a mortician and he writes letters to the families. In reality he would t be doing All  at the Start of the latest season writers asked the actors to suggest stories for their characters. Boatman said he had heard of rear Echelon soldiers who suffered from survivor s guilt they had desk jobs and foil they were irrelevant to the War. I thought it would be interesting if Beckett goes into the Bush Boatman said. He s suffering from survivor s guilt and decides logo out. He thinks he can make a difference and keep somebody from becoming a casually. Beckett s going through a transition. He s still shocked and horrified by the things he sees. He has t become numbed to it. File s still shocked but he realizes now he can make it. He s finding ways to function. He has a perspective of the War other people Don t see or want to see. He s there with death every  Boatman was born on an army base in Colorado during his father s military service. He spent a Briet time in Germany but grew up in Chicago s suburbs. His first movie was hamburger Hill in which he played a Soldier in Vietnam. 24 tripes Magazine december 21, 1989