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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, February 1, 1990

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 01, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Television dear arts How about. In an ugly building in an exceedingly Guy part of los a gels called Sun a Ley department of defame civilians spend their Days explaining to an american Serviceman in Okinawa Why he will never see Baa masters on his military to station. Actually the fellow does t write that often but dealing Wilh his repeated requests for the half hour weekly fishing program particularly during the Bass fishing championships is All in a Day s work for the armed forces radio and television service. We recently decided that if the Guy from the far East can ask about stuff we can too. So we wrote to ask arts Are we Ever going to see your Mother wears combat boots the Short lived series in which Barbara Eden plays an overprotective Mother who follows her son into Basic training How about roller games which a stateside reviewer called a mix of mtg and the roller Derby and How about doctor doctor in which the Guy who played Max headroom becomes a slap sticking doctor the answers to our questions were no no Way and yes respectively. And Larry Marotta and Bob Matheson of the arts television division also listed several other programs they be decided tentatively in some cases to Send overseas. Major dad maj. A. Marcillis motto gleaned from a lifetime in the Marine corps is see the Hill. Take the  life gets More complicated when Macgillis Cera d Mcraney the sexier half of Simon & Simon marries a Liberal newspaper reporter and moves in with her and her three teeny bopper daughters. It starts the week of May 20 on sup station an and in the last week of August on Southern european broadcasting. The Young riders six Young men who look like heavy Metal on horseback play Pony express riders galloping from is. Joseph mo., to Sacramento calif., in 1860. This is a maybe arts says. Doogie hawser . The title character in this  from la. La a s Steven Bochco is a 16 year old Prodigy who is a doctor at a major Hospital. It s new this year and critics Are already complaining that there Are too Many episodes in which Doogie gets teen age angst examining Beautiful women patients. The show starts the week of oct. 21 on an and the week of dec. 16 on seb. Booker this spin off of 21 Lump Street stars handsome brooding Richard Crisco. The description comes from the associated press which also Calls him a  this show comes under the heading of perhaps arts says. Quantum leap Scott Bakula plays Sam Beckett a time traveler who changes identities with Lime zones. The to audience sees Beckett but the other characters on the show see him As an old Guy a Young Guy a woman Etc. Does this sound dumb the show gels fairly decent Nielsen ratings and arts rates it As another  coach this comedy of the coach for the Minnesota stale screaming eagles his sportscaster Girlfriend and teen age daughter has already been cancelled and then resurrected by ils network. Coach starts the second week of september on an and in  november on seb. America s most wanted the series serves As a sort of electronic Post office Wall. It has prompted a number of arrests As viewers Call in the locations of suspects whose violent crimes Are re enacted on the show. It starts on an the first week of july and on seb the last week of August. 9h this is sort of the flip Side of America s most wanted it features re enactments and even real newscast footage of real life Good Samaritans saving people in peril. The series stars William thalner. No distribution Date has been announced. Knight and Daye Everett Daye and Hank Knight Lack Warden and Mason Adams play radio talk show hosts who after 30 years can barely stand to be in the same room. It starts on an the last week of february and on seb in tale april. Imply nest from Golden girls creator Susan eventually an and seb viewer May gel to see Richard Circo my in Hooter and Lack Scalia above in Wolf. By Sarah Bottorff Harris this cast of characters who briefly appeared on Golden of j include. Richard Mulligan As a widower with three grown troublemaking daughters and a dog. It starts the week of april 10 on an and the week of june 17 on seb. Cops this is what they Call a reality show a new thing in the states that tries to prove fact is More interesting than fiction. Cops follows the personal and professional lives of sheriff s deputies in Broward county Fla. It uses no professional actors and has no script. It starts on an the week of july 1, and on seb the last week of August. Anything  love Richard Lewis is another standup comic like Roseanne Barr who ended up with a to series. He plays a Magazine writer and Jamie Lee Curtis plays his researcher and the Basic Story appears to be another cheers or moonlighting series _ will they or won t they All season Long. It starts in  april on an and in late july on seb. Women of Brewster place this critically acclaimed miniseries about Black life in a tenement starring and co produced by Oprah Winfrey is being developed into a weekly series. The broadcast schedule of the miniseries which arts has acquired has t been decided. Wolf Lack Scalia is a fairly hairy actor who looks like he d make a fairly Good if goo looking Werewolf. But this show is actually about a san Francisco cop who gets framed and has problems with his aging dad and lives on a boat and becomes a private detective. Arts has acquired this show but no time has been set for sending it Here. Doctor doctor the aforementioned Max headroom creater Matt Frewer is now or. Mike Stratford on this series that like coach got in cancelled in the Middle of the fall to replace some new shows that bombed out. An gets it the week of May 13 seb gets in the week of july 8. Finally there Are two rare acquisitions from Public broadcasting service. Remembering world War ii is the ultimate in Max series eight hour Long documentary specials and then a half hour television series that will culminate on the 50th anniversary of a  1995. An and seb will get the first of the package at a time not Yel decided. Then there s eyes on the prize ii for february 1991 or Martin Luther King Day next year. An and seb will get this miniseries chronicling the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. What won t we be seeing the list includes several shows that appeared and disappeared in a hurry a new Carol Burnett show a new Mary Tyler Moore show a new Dick Van Dyke show. Nor Are we getting a Bunch of shows that appeared with great fanfare Al the beginning of the 1987 season and have been cancelled Chicken soup the people next door homeroom and living dolls among them. The reasons for rejecting shows that Are still on the air in the states vary but Matheson and Tarolta say decisions generally boils Down to this is the show a big Hil in the Nielsen a program that lots of people in the slates seem to be watching or is it a Small Hil Wilh a big military slant if the answer is yes to either Une of those questions then another important question comes up will the show s producers let arts have it for next to nothing finally if it s yes All the Way there s still the question of How Many shows will fit into a Small Span of time. As Martola puts it arts takes four hours of prime Lime shows from each of four networks lbs Abc Abc and Fox each night and tries to figure out which shows to air on the four prime time hours nightly on military to. So for any or All of the above reject reasons some of the current shows you May have heard of but won t be seeing Here Are saturday mystery theater a compilation of new Kojak Columbo and . Stryker mystery movies open House the resurrected and much changed Duel which was on military stations last year alien nation an improbable drama about spacemen and women and the new version of Jake and the Fatman in which William Conrad and Joe Penny sigh do their crime fighting in Hawaii. This week As part of ils 35lh anniversary Celebration this year seb is showing a special about itself at 6 30 . Central european time Friday. Matlock begins its second year on seb Al 9 10 . Wednesday. And among film specials Are bring me the head of Dobie Gillis a reunion of you know who and friends at 3 25 . Wednesday and Wallenberg a hero s Story which airs in two parts thursday and Friday mornings at 1 . On an cheers comes Back for year seven Al 7 30 . Get tuesday and an hour earlier in the United kingdom. Family feud reappears at 10 30 . Get weekdays but Only for three weeks. Bonanza is the latest classic to show to air replacing Rawhide a 3 . Get saturdays. And As for films it s not a bad week on an. Gypsy sports permitting sunday is the somewhat dated musical tale of a stripper and her Mother. The incredible shrinking woman is Lily Tomlin with a Little problem at 11 30 . Get monday. The women s room at 8 30 . Get thursday is a classic to movie about women struggling out of the 1950s and the housewife mentality. The spiral staircase has to do with a mute servant in a wierd House it s the 1975 version which supposedly in t As Good As the 1946 one and airs Al 11 40 . Get thursday. 24 Tripti Maguinez february 1, 1990  
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