European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 8, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Television a Knight and Dayes is Good for laughs on Anby Sarah Bottorff when till Doorbell Rio is Everett tells his wife she might is Well answer it. Quot everyone i know is the Kurmu Cleon grumbles. Lor this new sitcom Knight and Daye not quite everyone is out of Daye s life particularly not the one character he had hoped never to see again his old radio show partner Hank Knight. Quot we had a professional disagreement with is the Way Daye describes the breakup 30 years before. But Knight is Back unrepentant for trying to steal the girl Daye later married wearing a horrible Hairpiece and a cheap suit and ready to drive Daye out of retirement and into a nuthouse. By the enl of the first epistle of Knight and Daye they have agreed to go Back on the radio together and you la be Likely to want to keep watching them. This is a funny show mostly due to Mason Adams the grumbling managing editor on Lou Grant in the 1970s and now the grumbling Everett Daye. Lack Warden is Good too As the Tacky Hank Knight but dearly plays straight Man and second fiddle. Quot can i take your Coal your hair Quot Daye says eyeing Knight s Toupee. He reminds his sex partner about the production assistant Knight hired Quot because she could answer the phone with her and he explains the Knight and Daye difference Quot i was Able to get Eleanor Roosevelt on the show and he lifted her up to guess her but Warden As Knight does t do badly either. Daye wants to spend part of their radio hour talking about tie National drug problem but Knight has .1 fast Way of quashing the topic. Quot Well that s a big problem. We can t do anything about that. Let s play some records Quot he says As Daye throws up his hands in disgust. Pressed by Daye for a social topic that concerns him Knight mentions toilet paper dispensers that yield Only one Square at a time. Television being the Way it is the producers saw the need to augment Warden and Adams characters with a Gorilla specializing zoo attendant Daye s daughter cuban taxi Driver Dayes son in Law anal three prec ious Little kids Daye s grandchildren. All of them live with Daye and his wife Hope Langland Knight also moves right in. Knight and Daye by themselves would have been enough. The show starts tuesday on superstition an at b . Central european time 7 . In the United kingdom. Southern european broadcasting will air it beginning the second week of april. The High Point of an and seb programming for Black history month appears to be the a act image awards. In the shove s 22-year history stateside networks have consistently put it on in late late night spots. The Good news Here is that an plans to air it at 2 30 . Get saturday. The not so Good news is that the show dates Back to an. F a and seb has already aired it. Oprah Winfrey was the big Winner by the Way getting four awards for her work As actress producer new woman and entertainer. Two movies that Are somewhat familiar Black Fli Story month fare Are returning this year. The learning tree a beautifully photographed Story of growing up Black in Kansas airs at 2 . Get sunday on an seb ran it feb. 7. Raisin in the Sun a beautifully acted drama of living Black in Chicago is on an at 1 . Get feb. 17, and at 12 30 . Saturday on seb. Both Are Worth watching for a first Lime and Raisin is even Worth a second viewing. Also on for Black history month Are a Batch of Quot fillers Quot shorts like those travel things and health do hickeys they put in place of commercials Here anal there. Celebrating the family spots include segments on the families of a Georgia police sergeant and Singer Lames Ingram and interviews with the editor of essence Magazine and with actor Blair Underwood s parents among others. Archie the cartoon character has returned in a new incarnation with new Black characters for pals which is Nice and a spaceman which is silly. F he new adventures of the aging teen Ager anal his friends called Mario and the Mew Hies debut at b . Get saturday on an. The movies Are Good this week on an mostly starting with the 1948 version of cloak and Dagger with Gary Cooper As a reluctant spy in Germany 11 40 . Get thursday. Then sports permitting sunday night Lohn Wayne shows up As a town marshal trying to rid the world of Walter Pidgeon in dark command. The impossible spy 10 40 . Get Friday is a made for Cable to movie about a real life israeli spy that stars John Shea and Eli Wallach and comes highly recommended by Leonard Mallins to movies and video guide. Maltin was not at ail taken however with Bob Fope and Phyllis Diller in the private Navy of sgt. Of Farrell 11 30 . Get monday in which Hope goes looking for Beautiful nurses to improve his troops morale and gets Diller instead. The above movies Are due in mid april on seb. It s the Best and the worst of returning series for seb this week the emmy winning Cagney amp Lacey returns at 8 20 . Thursday and the repulsive but popular full House comes Back at 7 . Tuesday. The programmers at seb have also dug m a so a episodes out of the vaults. They will air sundays at 3 30 . Simon amp Simon bows out in a final episode of the series at 1 55 . Tuesday. As for films its my turn 9 10 . Wednesday is another Opportunity to watch ill Claybough examine her single woman soul Jerry Lewis stars in the Patsy 3 20 . Friday and Glenn close and Keith Carradine Star in a Well done to movie about love and death in Mexico stones for Ibarra 1 30 . Sunday and 1 . Thursday rather has lost his no. 1 rating but not his style editor s note the lbs Iven big news with Dan rather airs daily at noon on superstition an and at fat it . On Southern european broadcasting. Abc s world news tonight with Peter Jennings is on at 1j0 . On at n and at 6 . On sub. By Bruce Christian Cox news service poor Dan rather. For nearly a decade he has been delivering news for lbs. His quirks sometimes strange behaviour and Overly dramatic delivery have prevented him from establishing the adoration that television viewers had for rather s predecessor Walter Cronkite. Poor Danny boy. Lie s been ridiculed attacked. And now he s being turned off. The lbs evening news with Dan rather has trailed s world news tonight with Peter Jennings for the past two or three months in the . Nielsen ratings. The margin of s Victory has been Small but lbs no longer Tan claim to be no. 1 in the nation in the evening news race. As lbs primary news personality rather often comes under fire. One los Angeles times writer suggested in a recent article that rather s decline in popularity is tied to the heated Exchange he had with George Bush during the presidential Campaign. The Bush argument was Only one in a number of incidents during the past two decades that taints rather a reputation beginning with a confrontation with former president Nixon. There was the period when he ended his newscasts with the word no explanation lbs Anchorman Dan rather Quot i am what i am of what it meant just that one word then there was the switch to sweaters. Sweaters gave Way to shirt tie and suspenders. There was the temper Tantrum when the . Open ran Long and into the news time so rather walked off leaving lbs with dead air. This year he has experimented with standing not sitting while he gives the news. The Only thing More fun than tracking the incidents that haunted rather s image is listening to him defend himself. �?�1 am what i am a he said in a recent interview sounding More like Popeye the Sailor Man. Throw that Man a can of spinach. Quot i do what i do a he Slid. And of course there was the always popular �?�1 love news. That s what my life is about. Man i am so Lucky to be where i am doing what i m rather knew ire was before a hostile audience recently when he visited i of Angeles and spoke to to critics who have not been kind to him. He acknowledged some of his answers probably sounded a Little corny. A Little rather was Friendly. Fie smiled. He stood. He performed much As a politician would. In fact he performed so much like a politician images of Nixon filled my mind. It was a strange sense of ironic Dejavu. Here was Dan rather who 18 years ago was the lbs White House correspondent the Nixon administration wanted removed from the press corps. Yet on this Day rather s slow Point by Point answers punctuated continuously with drawn out dramatic pauses resembled the kind of speech pattern Nixon used. Through All his Short simple phrases i kept expecting to hear Quot i am not a after his press conference. Rather said he has no drama coach h. He explained that his style is part of who he is �?�1 Don t think i could do it any other Way if i tried and i m not of a mind to try it Quot you know. I be spent my life being a reporter. 1 think i know w hat being a reporter is about. I Don t know it All but 1 think i know a few things about it so i do it the Way i think his appearance was Vintage. Unfortunately for re Thor be swayed no one. But then he probably was t of a mind to because he is w to he is. 24 Tripet Magazine february 8, 1990
