European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Television sunday s super bowl xxiv is week s highlight by Sarah Bottorff do you remember where you were shortly before Midnight on Jan. 22,1989 do you know where you la be shortly before Midnight this sunday Are you beginning to figure out what this column is going to be about you got it the super bowl. The Denver Broncos meet the san Francisco 49ers in super bowl xxiv at the Louisiana super dome in new Orleans and the game will be aired on both superstition an and Southern european broadcasting. Came time is 11 . Central european time 10 . In the United kingdom. At 9 . Get both stations will broadcast that lacklustre National football league pregame variety show that no one seems to want to watch but everybody watches anyway. It s tradition. It s part of super bowl madness. Plus this year the pregame show has Don Johnson which May help. For those who think this is just a game we re talking about picture what s now going on in the Stales statistically the super bowl is the single most important event in the american television watcher s year almost half 43 percent of All households with to sets watched the Cincinnati bengals and the 49ers last year which set a Nielsen rating record. Television series that come on right after the super bowl tend to skyrocket the wonder years and the a team were both born after super bowls. This year lbs appears to be hoping people will be so excited that they will tune into lbs a week in Advance according to to guide. The network has scheduled five special movies and a Paul Mccartney concert for the week preceding the game and has a new series about Bounty Hunters called grand slam that will Start right after the super bowl. Naturally too the super bowl tends to make for interesting commercial dollars this year it costs $700,000 for a 30-second spot in the super bowl according to advertising age. The Magazine also said All 54 of those $700,000 spots were sold out by Early december and that coca cola and Pepsi cola plan a commercial Battle As fierce As the Broncos-49ers game going on in Between the advertisements. Sound nuts there Are some advantages to being Over Here. Think of All those soft drink commercials you la miss. Instead you la get your familiar Friendly command messages including your fingernails Wear them in Good health really i saw it on an the other night or my personal favorite Fry now pay later which apparently refers either to cholesterol Rich cooking or tanning Booths. What you won t get an promises is a repeal of last year s fiasco a command message about exchanging foreign currency just As Joe Montana made the winning touchdown pass to John Taylor with 34 seconds left in the game. There Are numerous official and unofficial versions of what happened that night last year when the station failed to Cut out of the commercial and Back to the play in time to show anything but Taylor jumping for Joy in the end zone. But an s Tom Baxter chief of broadcast operations said proper procedures have been emphasized to those involved and it won t happen again. Ralph Ramden is about to come Back into your life. Striding about that cramped Brooklyn apartment stomach thrust Forward face thrust sideways and grimacing eyes popping out and Mouth bellowing one of these Days Alice one of these Days. Powl right in the Kisser married. With children was not the first weekly pitched Battle Between Tacky husband and Sharp longed wife. Roseanne in t the first series to show life in the lower Middle class. It s been too Long without the honeymooners without Jackie Cleason As Ralph Ramden and Audrey Meadows As his Long suffering wife Alice. Alice and Ralph really knew How to Battle. And their painfully Bare apartment with the washroom style Kitchen sink and the window looking out on other people s fire escapes showed life in the Way Way lower class. And then of course there was de Norton. Ralph Heads i wined. Tails you  de  Ralph tosses Coin tails. You  de of. Hey Wail a  Ralph yeah de i Hope i m not insulting you Ralph. But Aren t you going to give me Back my Coin thirteen weeks of the honeymooners Start on an at 10 . Tuesday and will begin on seb during the last week of March. Lonesome Dove the miniseries about the West  overwhelmed America last year and some say should have overwhelmed War and remembrance in the emmy has been acquired by armed forces radio and television service. The word is an will get it in mid april and seb in Early of june. In Case you were on a desert Island All last year lonesome Dove stars Robert Duvall Tommy Lee Jones and Anjelica Huston and is based on the 1985 pulitzer prize winning novel by Larry Mcmurtry. It Cost $20 million to make took eight hours to air and Hud half the country glued to to sets in february 1989. Well a Quarter of the country really but that s pretty Good for a show that s not the super bowl. War and remembrance which did less Well in the ratings but got the top miniseries emmy is not due to arrive at an until late this year and seb next year according to the last word from arts. It s 30 hours Long and there apparently have been problems in duplicating it and sending it out to All the military television stations. As for movies this week an has an oddity in the list of Adrian messengers 1963 Black and White murder mystery by director John Huston that features Hurt Lancaster Frank Sinatra Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis All heavily disguised. It airs at 8 30 . Get thursday. An also has love among thieves at 11 30 . Get monday and again tuesday at 8 30 . Get with Audrey Hepburn and Robert Wagner in the wilds of Mexico. Please Don t Eal the daisies the movie based on the Book by Jean Kerr that launched a thousand Erma Bombeck columns or was it the other Way round will be shown at 2 . Saturday. And desperate at 11 40 . Get thursday is not the 1947 Raymond Burr film about a truck Driver and a Bunch of racketeers but a 1987 John Savage film about the owner of a charter boat and a Bunch of gun runners. Seb which gets All of the above in late March has a few Good movies of its own this week. Robert Duvall won an Oscar for Best actor in tender mercies about a Down and out country Singer revived by the love of a Good Texas woman at 9 20 . Friday. The already classic chos busters with Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray is on at 9 10  wednesday. The Rosary murders at 1 . Thursday stars Donald Sutherland and is based on a script by mystery writer Elmore Leonard. And finally by some strange twist of Fate both seb and an Are showing the world s most famous Volkswagen this week the love Bug airs on seb at 9 . Sunday and at 1 . Get saturday on an. Hunter in t just getting older it s getting better by i Cpd i re on Niph it in anal tit in or or Obsi human run hiting. Where one truth can collide Withy Jerry Buck associated press Abc s Hunter a detective drama starring Fred dryer is reversing a television trend. Usually a hit series reaches a ratings plateau then slowly declines As the show becomes complacent and finally runs out of steam. But after lacklustre ratings in its first two years. Hunter began to improve. It finished in a tie for 16th place after its fifth season. The stories have also gotten better and have More substance. In the beginning they were a blatant rip off of Clint Eastwood s dirty Harry character. Dryer the 6-foot-6 former All pro defensive end for the los Angeles rams resembles Eastwood. And Hunter began As a swaggering unorthodox cop who carried a .357 magnum relentlessly pursued the bad Guys and constantly fought with his superiors. Stepfanie Kramer also stars As his partner sgt. Dee Dee Mccall an equally hard boiled detective who was nicknamed the brass  we be evolved Way out from that says dryer. He s unorthodox today if it s unorthodox to be compassionate to live your Job and take it Home with you. I credit Roy Muggins with turning the show around during his time As executive producer. He took a show that was making very Small concentric circles and opened it up and set up guidelines to make it bigger and belter with More emphasis on stories. What i contributed was to take those stories and Tell them through the characterizations of Hunter and Mccall. The audience must see How we react How we feel about  dryer and his Friend Lawrence Kubik have become executive producers. You re going to see a lot of Subtle changes in communications in Quality control and in Post production dryer says. Hunter and Mccall Are moving away from the station House to Parker Center police Headquarters. It la give it a More contemporary High tech look. We re redesigning the set and we re making it easier to film in. Well do fewer car chases fewer fistfights. Our stories will have More to do with decision making by Hunter and Mccall. They la have More to do with the dryer Huma condition another truth. Our scripts will be More accommodating to Good roles for guest  As a football player. Dryer believed in preparation. He adheres to that same practice now. I sit in on All the Story pitches and conferences he explains. I have Good writers and i rely on their tastes and ideas but i help them Structure the stories. This is a collaborative medium and i enjoy that. I want to hire people and let them do their Job. But they can Only do that if everyone is Clear on the vision we re trying to accomplish. It s going to be my vision and my  dryer has his own production company and is developing movie ideas but he does t expect to have much time to expand on them until Hunter leaves the air. He thinks the show will go on for at least another two years. The great thing is i can do other things in life. My life in t defined by the fact that i do Hunter or that i was a football player. I want As Many diversified experiences As i can  since starting Hunt Erin 1984, dryer has made four guest appearances on cheers and went to Israel in 1986 to Star in the film death before Dishonour. Humr a broadcast on sup sum an 116 . Saturdays and i gun ill Liroi year on Southern european broadcasting the week of feb. In. 24 Tripti might inf a Nutry 25, 1990