European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 21, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                On television Burton proves his brilliance on an this week Sarah Bottorff to plus editor an to outside of the Early morning world series has had More exciting weeks than this one. One new series starts on monday but its just a tiresome cartoon version of the equally tiresome policy Academy. For the rest Here a a Quick rundown a if you Ever doubted Richard Burton a Genius take a look at the wild geese. Even he  save this confused and occasionally violent mis Mash about Good Guys and bad Guys in modern Day Africa. But his Way with a line is unsurpassed. A can you hold general Endo Owa in Kaunda while in a grabbing embargo a he says with a straight face a and you actually done to laugh. You la laugh at everybody else though. The film comes on at Friday if you like this sort of thing. A time slackers coming on thursday is about. Well if you figure it out Call me. Has to do with a Middle aged College student who a wife and child Are killed and a Genera who likes Western Memorabilia and a Creepy character who pulls the movie Back into the 1890s every time a big Hazam kind of special effect happens. Notably mostly be Patricia Wettig and Timothy Busfield Star in  Abc cause cheers Cliff Clavin John Ratzenberger plays the general if you can imagine that. A the Long journey Home thursday morning exploits the ongoing pow Mia tragedy with a Story of a wealthy Mia wife whose husband shows up alive and Well and involved in spy stuff just As she a about to marry again thirty something a Nancy deals with cancer in an excellent episode see accompanying Story and Thelma does manage to get the Reuben to the altar this week on amen but then. Southern european broadcasting gets the above in mid december. Meanwhile David Horowitz is Back fighting Back on mondays. And a Sharp solid miniseries favorite son starts wednesday. Finally a neighbor pointed out this columnist messed up again cops the reality series that began on seb last week is not always about a Florida sheriffs department As stated Here but covers police and sheriffs departments around the  Nancy die they Arentt saying Eleanor Blau new York times editor s note this article originally appeared a year ago in the new York times when the series of Quot thirty something Quot episodes dealing with ovarian cancer garnered a lot of Public attention. Last tuesday fans of abcs thirty something got unsettling news. Nancy a major character in the critically praised television series was discovered to have ovarian cancer. She Isnit going to die is she some two dozen callers wanted to know. The writers say they Haven to decided yet a few other callers thought the subject matter was too depressing. A illness is another aspect of life Quot said Edward Zwick the co creator and co executive producer with Marshall Herskovitz. The plot development is surprising even for the Maverick thirty something whose nontraditional fare since its 1987 debut included an episode last fall that lost three quarters of its advertisers because it showed two homosexuals in bed. The discomforting subject of cancer might be a particular risk for thirty something. Many of its viewers May identify with Nancy played by Patricia Wettig who won an emmy for the role. She had evoked particular sympathy after rising above crises including what turned out to be the temporary desertion of her husband Elliot Timothy Busfield. Nancy had just published a children a Book in collaboration with her Young son when she Learned she had cancer. In interviews the other Day Zwick no relation to perfect strangers director Joel Zwick discussed his reasons for afflicting Nancy. And wit Tig told Why she agreed with them even though it May Force her to leave the popular show a a departure she said she had not planned. A from the very beginning when we conceived of these characters a Zwick said a we Felt that in order to be truly alive they also had to be mortal. If we were going to talk honestly about life we would have to also include discussion of the Possi bitty of death and  a a number of us knew people who had died of cancer and also who survived and Are continuing to survive a he said. So they chose that illness and then with a Quot random device that Zwick declined to describe they chose Nancy As the victim a after consulting Wettig. A they told me they were considering it and wanted to know How i would feel a recalled Wettig who played a beleaguered wife on St. Elsewhere and is married in real life to Ken Olin who plays the husband in the other couple on thirty something. A i was very interested a she said. After doing a character so Long in a series she added she was More concerned about a creativity than  in fact she said a last year when my character had a lot of positive things going on i did no to have As much to do. And i said a i like challenges. Give me something of  Wettig who lost a close Friend to lung cancer a few years ago said a people live with this sometimes a very Long time and at different times you feel very Brave and other times it affects you in a very dark  regarding Nancy a Fate Zwick said a we have written some episodes that will continue the Story but the end is not yet  some but not All episodes will focus on her illness and will include medical details. But he added a a we re not making a  10 c to plus sunday october 21,1990