European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 12, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Television baseball fans will find lots to watch on military Toby Sarah Bottorff if you think there s no such thing As too much baseball this could be your year at least 181 games will be available to military broadcasters. Quot not that Well air All 181,&Quot says George Balamaci of the armed forces radio and television service in los Angeles. Quot but they la be  the wealth of games arts will get puts its military audience overseas in a better spot than most fans in the states. Lbs took Over major league baseball coverage this year and plans to broadcast Only about 20 games much fewer than Normal for network to but the Cable Channel esp will air 161 games. And arts gets both esp and lbs. Balamaci says arts also will pick up occasional games from local stateside channels. Esp plans tuesday and Friday night doubleheaders and single games on wednesdays sundays and various holidays according to to guide. Lbs will be doing Holiday games saturday games the divisional championships the world series and the All Star game. Esp does a lot of Quot Cut ins Quot showing action from other games in the Middle of the game it s televising. It also joins second games in Progress. Quot esp is going to provide a lot of coverage More than anyone has in the past Quot says Balamaci. At the moment Balamaci says stations like Southern european broadcasting and superstition an Are Likely to be More interested in Aba basketball and nil hockey than in baseball. This weekend Balamaci will Send the cubs pirates baseball game by satellite at 7 . Saturday Central european time and the kicks celtics basketball game at 7 . Get sunday. Seb plans to air both an will set its sports schedule later this week. There May be such a thing As too much baseball but military television seems to be prepared for the summer Days when fans Aren t Able to get enough. Easter is overwhelming seb. Programming chief Denny Mckell says the station decided to make this sunday a family viewing Day and it sure has. The first of two easter Sunrise services airs at noon it s from sea world in Orlando Fla. The second from the Hollywood bowl in los Angeles airs at 5 . A documentary styled special called renewal at easter will be shown at 11 ., and Bob Hope s Acapulco Spring fling of comedy airs at 9 30 . An which carried the Bob Hope special earlier plans to skip the Sunrise services and offer a couple of easter sunday classics Daffy Duck s easter show at 9  Get and the Robe with Richard Burton in the 1953 Story of a roman ordered to help crucify Christ at 1 . Get. An also will air the sorrowful mysteries on Good Friday at 3 . Get a series of skits showing the crucifixion it is narrated by Loretta Young. Another seasonal program a matter of conscience airs at 10 10  Get saturday. A new children s show you can t do that on television will make you wish they could t. This Bunch of saturday night live style skits is mean spirited and unpleasant. All of the grownups and most of the youngsters on the show Are depicted As stupid the first skit is about vomiting. It comes on at 8  Get Friday you la probably want to find something else for the children to do. Almost As dumb a but mercifully a few minutes Shorter a is Remote control at 3 30  get Friday. This is mtg s idea of a quiz show with people sitting in overstuffed chairs answering Peculiar to trivia questions. The show s not bad if you re under a certain age but it demonstrates fairly Well Whu mtg Channel is known for music not comedy the Ludds. Merle Haggard Waylon Jenni trs Bunch of other people put on one great show in a Nashville tenn., Church in country music  tradition on an a 4 . Get sa7urda Quot Lou ctr it be Home you May Well want to tape this. Definitely not family fare but one of the Best american films Ever made is Elmer Gantry the 1%n h"1, a. Sound Al tuned evangalist Burt Lancaster that picked up three Academy awards. It airs on Afi sports permitting sometime sunday night u s an s week for Quality old films How Green was my Valley at 8 30  Get thursday picked in five oscars m 1942. John Ford directed the Stor of Welsh Coal mining families. The latest Perry Mason to movie at 8  get wednesday in t in the same class. This one s about love and blackmail and co stars Jean Simmons who happens to be in Elmer Gantry and the Robe too. And definitely at the Bottom of the Heap is Lucky lady at 11 30 . Get thursday. I know you like Burt Reynolds. And Liza Minnelli. And Gene Hackman. You la like them a lot less if you stay up to watch this tired period piece. A new miss universe weeps Down the aisle sometime after 3  Get monday morning on both an and seb. Aside from the pageant and sports though it s a slow week for seb. Seb however did have the excellent taste to put the puppets a Celebration of 30 years on in primetime monday at 7 05 . This is every muppet you Ever saw having a Black tie dinner presided Over by Kermit the Frog and it s great. Also Worth watching on seb the evil that men do has Charles Bronson gunning Down the evil doers at 9 10  Friday. Tuck everlasting is an excellent children s fantasy at 3 . Wednesday. And shattered dreams at 10 05 . Thursday is fun schlock a one hour drama about midlife  plays free spirit in two dads by Jerry Buck associated pres Greg Evigan who portrays a Carefree artist on Abc s my two dads is an artist of a different sort in real life. He s a Singer and songwriter. Evigan co wrote the theme song for the show that s him singing it on the air. He also wrote the music for a recent movie and has a development contract with Ria records. As Joey Harris on my two dads he designs practical Art objects such As some of the furniture in the apartment he shares with his Roommate Michael Taylor Paul re Serand their Quot Mutual Quot daughter Nicole Staci keanan. Unlike Joey a Bachelor whose fatherhood is unconfirmed Evigan is married and has three children. The child who played Joey As a 3-year-old in the Pilot is his son Jason. In his first series a year at the top Evigan played an aspiring Rock Singer who was tempted to make a pact with the Devil to gain Success. Before that he was in the Road company production of Jesus Christ superstar and starred As Danny Zuko in grease on Broadway and in Chicago. My two dads has been on again off again for the past two seasons. It made its debut in september 1987 and ran for the whole season. Then it was off the air for the first half of the next season. It returned in Early 1989, was pulled to Greg Evigan make room for Spring tryout series and is now Back on the air. In the show Evigan and Reiser play former College buddies and romantic rivals who now Lead radically different lifestyles. Evigan plays an artist and Reiser is an uptight upwardly Mobile financial adviser. They Are drawn together by the arrival of Nicole after the death of her Mother. In her will the Mother says one or the other is the father and she wants them to raise her daughter together. The show also stars Florence Stanley and Dick Butkus. Quot i was t looking to do a situation comedy Quot Evigan says. Quot i thought i was going to do a dramatic show but my agent said just go in for the meeting they told me Paul was doing it and i said great i love his work they said i could sing the theme song but they would t guarantee i could write it. Quot we did the Pilot which was called who s dad i d heard it was a write off and was t supposed to go on the air. They said the network had plenty of shows. But apparently one of the other shows did t work out and we were on the  Evigan describes his character As a free spirit. Quot he d rather go by his instincts whether it s right or wrong Quot he says. Quot he gets into a lot of trouble that Way and sometimes he s right. That s the catalyst for the relationship with Paul Reiser. Quot the struggle is to see How we change. Maybe i learn from him and maybe he learns from me. But each of us retains our Basic values. Quot we see How Nicole reacts to it. That validates whether my instincts Are right or wrong. We re All learning from each other. Each episode has a moral which can be a Little syrupy but if you play it from the heart it can be  Evigan s first series a year at the top went through a Long and convoluted development Between 1974 and 1977. When it finally reached the air it lasted Only five weeks. Between times with that show he also did 10 episodes of a syndicated show called All that glitters. That was a show in which traditional roles were reversed women ran the business world and men were the secretaries. Quot i played schoolteacher on trial for taking students out on the front Lawn to watch dogs mate Quot he says. Quot i said it was educational. I was defended by a woman lawyer. It was a big thing then but it s pretty tame  Evigan spent three years in the Abc series . And the Bear. It borrowed the trucker and pursuing sheriff of Smokey and the Bandit a and Evigan s sidekick Chimpanzee Bear was a clone of Clint Eastwood s companion in every which Way but Loose. Later Claude Akins As the to series sheriff was spun off into a series called Lobo. Evigan s next series was Abc s masquerade in 1983-84, which asked u to believe that the Cia was so Short o qualified agents that it recruited Ordinary people with special skills Lor undercover work. He co starred i Rod Taylor and Kirstie Alley. Editor s note my two dads is broadcast on superstition an at 3 35 . Cen alb re Dong at mondays and on Southern european Broad 9 3 30 . Tuesdays. 24 stripes Magazine april 12, 1990