European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 11, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Television tune in Friday for a glimpse of a paradises on Anby Sarah Bottorff the critics hated Paradise when it first blew into town. Quot ought to he renamed Purgatory Quot said one reviewer of this Story about a gunslinger turned Foster Parent. Quot it looks like Bachelor father out West Quot said another. An article in the fall of 88 summed it up Quot Saracuse is a stupid series. Get to know it Quick. Smart Money says Paradise will be gunned Down after just a few  but All that tar n feathering did t kill off Paradise. While the critics were Yelling about it the show was quietly becoming a cult favorite. And in the Start of its second year it corralled a passe of stars from old to westerns a Gene Barry and Hugh o Brien among them a for a two hour special in which Bat Masterson Wyatt Earp the Rifleman and Young Maverick Rode into Paradise to save the hero from the bad Guys and the show from bad ratings. Good thing too. Paradise which starts on superstition an on Friday night is a thoroughly likeable series a Breezy pleasant show about a Good Guy a Beautiful woman and a Bunch of Sweet kids out in some Shady Western Valley chasing bad Guys through the live Oaks and the Cottonwood. I be Horsley known As Matt Houston in the Early 1980s. Plays Ethan Allen Cord an 1 b80s gunslinger who Puls Down his gun to become a rancher after his sister Dies and his four nieces and nephews Corne to live with him. He s As likeable As the series. The kids Are Good too without being gooey. The youngest for instance spends half the first episode standing at the Corral wailing for the Bull to pollinate. 0 is Uncle gave him a Birds and bees lecture and he s gotten a Little confused Well it s that kind of series. The plots Are fairly straightforward a Horsley in retires As a gunslinger and puts away bad Guys in most episodes a but the scripts Are Good enough so that sometimes the plots and the Linos seem More profound than they Are. Quot i Ive Long enough you la see most things Quot the town marshal says shaking his head in wonder when Cord announces that he s going to retire As a gunfighter. Quot that s the whole idea Quot says Cord mildly. It May indeed sound like Bachelor father or Little House on the Prairie. But then the Beautiful women in Paradise show their cleavage and even go Skinny dipping in their skivvies. The bad Guys have a Punk Rocker look. And when the eldest Niece is told to fix a meal she s handed a live Chicken and a Sharp knife. Quot kill it Pluck it and Cook it Quot she s told. That never happened to Laura on Little House. Paradise comes on Friday at 9 30  Central european tire. Southern european broadcasting gets the show in Early March. In Honor of Martin Luther King or s birthday or perhaps just by coincidence several shows that Start this week Star Blacks Are geared for Blacks or Are about Black history. The official milk Day offering from armed forces radio and television service is pantheon a fantasy in which past leaders in . Government Are brought Back to question King on his qualifications and accomplishments. It airs monday at 10 . Get on of n and at 7 30 . On , real life american civil rights Leader Julian Bond hosts Amer ii an Blu k forum starting on an at 11 . Get monday. The first episode is about the real life of King and his Impact with the narrator saying depressingly but probably accurately that racism today is Quot similar but less pronoun de Quot than the Wagner a Back on a general Hospital As Scruff Ier embittered Frisco Jones editor s note Frisco is Back on general Hospital which airs on superstition an at 1 20 . Get weekdays and on Southern european  10 25 . Weekdays. By Erry Buck associated press Jack p. Wagner has returned to Abc s general Hospital As undercover agent Frisco Jones and he s looking for trouble. Frisco had been presumed dead but it s revealed that he had actually been held in a bulgarian prison. He escapes and makes his Way Back to port Charles just in time to witness the marriage of his former wife Felicia to Colton. He s wants to rebuild his life and to even the score with Domino and All the other bad Guys who were responsible for his disappearance. Frisco got out of prison by disguising himself As a phony priest who was sent to kill him. Frisco now has a Beard and longer hair and wears military fatigues and he has become a bitter loner. Quot Frisco feels betrayed Quot said Wagner who left the show two years ago to pursue a pop music career. Quot Frisco s in a Cia like organization and when he was captured they were supposed to let Felicia know. Instead they let everyone think he was dead. Quot it will become a Triangle Between Frisco Felicia and Colton. No one is wrong. He s right she s right Colton s right. He sees the Only Way to get her Back is to avenge what Domino did to  anything can happen in port Charles and usually does. The location of general Hospital seems to be an International Crossroads with More intrigue going a a ism King fought in the 1950s and 19 �0s. A Soldier s Story is about rat ism in the army in the 1940s, a prize winning 1984 Story with Howard Rollins in the heat of the slight and Norman Jewison. It airs at 10 40 .  Friday on an. Tinay Showtime at the Apollo begins at a . Sunday on an with Al 0, sure As guest Host. It s filmed at Harlem s Apollo theater and although some of the entertainers make Bobby Brown Dook Radical it s fairly Good Middle of the Road stuff. Seb gets Showtime at the Apollo Black forum and a soldiers Story in Early March. It s going to be a week for movies on an from Hamlet to Gidget goes i hawaiian. And on seb this is the week for Vanna while s goddess of i voc. These movies Don t need much description either you already know the plot or it does t have one. Hamlet comes on if sports permit at a time to be announced sunday night Gidget arrives at 8 30 . Get tuesday and on seb the goddess of love beckons at 1 . Friday. Also on seb this week is the Aurora encounter about a spaceman Landing in the old West and saving Little girls and they thought Paradise was schmaltzy at 3 20 . Friday and the prime of miss Jean Brodie for which Maggie Smith won an Oscar As a teacher facing sexual Twilight at 2 05 . Saturday. Jagged Edge in which Glenn close appears to be headed for victimization by eff Bridges in a fatal attraction is at 9 15 . Friday and two musicals at opposite ends of the scale a the excellent cabaret a 12 55 . Sunday and the Ridic Ulous 5gf. Pepper s i Only heart s club band at 1 . Wednesday a round things out for seb. On an Jerry i Elvis is Back will it Ever enc in Don t raise the Bridge / Over the u a or at 11 30 .  monday and 8 10 . Friday. \ finally a new series on Ai n is the adventures of Sherlock i Holmes a mostly fur children offering from Public television that starts at 4 . Cei sunday. On than Paris Lisbon and Casablanca combined. The series bizarre action adventure stories gave it unprecedented ratings for a daytime soap opera in the Early 1980s, although the Fervour has cooled slightly since then. General Hospital runs second to lbs the Young and the restless in household ratings these Days but it is first among women Between 18 and 49 years old a an important target audience for advertisers. Wagner is one of the hottest Young soap stars and his return to general Hospital was much anticipated by fans who had been writing to Abc. Wagner s music career soared during his first stint on general Hospital. A year after joining the show he had a hit single All i need. His albums lighting up the night and Don t give up your Day Job were also bits. When he joined the show in 1983, the Frisco character was a Rock Singer a full name Andrew Jones a who picked up the nickname Frisco from his Rock band. Later f Risco became a police trainee then a policeman and finally a secret agent. As noted strange things happen in port Charles. Quot Frisco represents the spontaneity and unpredictability and adventure on general Hospital Quot said Wagner. Quot when i left Abc left the door open for me. I did Tours with grease and West Side Story. I did it basically for myself. I did things i needed to do to get my head Back into a working Mode. Quot i was in an Abc movie swimsuit and after that i called producer Wes Kenney and he said now might be a Good time to come Back Wagner said he sees Frisco As the kind of person who gets along with just about anybody. Quot he s smart but he does t always use common Abc Jack Wagner As Frisco before his imprisonment. Sense Quot he said. Quot he s spontaneous and acts before he thinks and this gets him into trouble. He has a Quirky sense of humor. Quot the big transition he s making now is into adulthood Quot Wagner said. Quot people used to have to remind him of right and wrong. Now he s Wiser and More politically  Wagner grew up in Arizona and began appearing in school productions while in College. He was hoping to get a Golf scholarship to the University of Arizona but instead got a full drama scholarship. 24 stripes mag Tine january it 1990