European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 2, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Yon television morning a nations pain Sarah Bottorff to Pius editor x_"1t to there were you when challenger % / exploded i was on a major . A a freeway at the end of morning y y Rush hour at the time when traffic usually begins to Clear and people begin to Speed up. Instead everyone slowed Down eight lanes of traffic almost stopping on the Harbor freeway As radios told us the horrible news. Probably almost everyone remembers where he or she was when the space shuttle fell apart in mid air that morning in 1986, with Christa Mcauliffe a typical american teacher and six others aboard. What a hard now is to remember Why we wanted to put a teacher in space at All. At least some parts of the answer Are in Chal Longcr a made for to movie an to is airing wednesday night. This film is meticulous sometimes boringly so in re creating the Days up to the explosion re creating the lives of Mcauliffe and her fellow Crew members re creating our lives then and the great feeling of Pride we once had in the space program. Challenger does no to appear to pull any punches either in re creating the reasons behind the crash and in depleting the men who knew something might go drastically wrong with the of rings but or do anything about it. The film shows painfully How impossible it seemed at the time to halt the space program fora lengthy period to double Check the malfunctioning boost k or rockets. What it does no to show is the explosion itself. The film ends seconds before the explosion with cameras on the faces of the astronauts shining with excitement As the shuttle takes off. Well you a done to need to see it again do you you remember it. A. A. A Quot a in an earlier generation people asked each other where they were when the japanese attacked Pearl Harbor 49 years ago Friday. If the miniseries Pearl is to believed most of the people at Pearl Harbor were hopping into bed with persons not their spouses when the bombers arrived. That a a slight exaggeration but it will give you a fairly Good idea of what this trashy free parter is like. Kind of like a dynasty and Tore toral tora combined if you can imagine such a thing. Starts Friday. Also happening this week Friday and thursday respectively Are new seasons of Hunter and unsolved mysteries a couple of much ignored and excellent series see accompanying Story. And a great news a quantum leap has come off the Midnight shift where an had stuffed it when it lost its saturday night time Slot to sports and found a Home sunday afternoons. Finally yes of course an and presumably most of the other military stations is going to have the army Navy game. Its on at 8 . Sat seb gets challenger in late january but in the meantime the station gets an excellent to movie on another National obsession. Roe is Wade Friday stars Holly Hunter As the Young Texas drifter who face giving a second baby up to be raised by others and sued for the right to have an abortion. The suit eventually led to the supreme court and to the decision that legalized abortion in America. Seb also commemorates Pearl Harbor Day with a special program Early Friday night. Rose Anne is Back for a new season wednesday and beginning to develop a slightly Nasty tone 227 is Back and As Sweet and funny As Ever on real successes of series television Susan King tos Angeles times they Are the Rodney danger Fields of series to no respect front the critics never on Magazine covers shut out at emmy time. But they Are not ignored by the people who count most a the viewers. They Are the quiet hits of the airwaves audiences a lasers that place in the top of the weekly Nielsen ratings. They Range from shows that Are Lucky enough to sit in a comfortable time Slot such As the no. 4-. Ranked a different world to Hunter which is holding steady at no 47 but is no. 1 in its time Slot against such critically ballyhooed shows As cd so a Iii and abcs now cancelled cop Rock. Producer Fred Silverman has several hidden hits on television a no cd a Matlock in the heat of the night which holds the distinction of Deli Cring the fatal blow to moonlighting and the. Perry Mason movies his lbs series Jake and the Fatman is a More moderate hidden hit. Quot these Are not trendy shows Quot he said. Quot when thirty something went on it was a trendy show. It was fun to write about. Twin peaks and China Beach these shows get hot for a very Short period of time and then they go Abc s detective series Hunter starring Fred dryer As los Angeles detective Rick Hunter is another quiet hit with Broad Appeal. In us seventh season. Hunter Bas weathered both schedule and cast changes. Quot we Are the most popular hour police show on Abc Fred dryer to Quot said Larry Kubik co exc Cutie producer. Quot we Are seen in 88 countries. We Are no. I in China South America and the reason for its Success Quot i think Fred dryer is perceived As the John Wayne of his Genera lion Quot Kubik said. Quot i think that women love him and men kind of look up to him. I think the character of Rick Hunter is steeped in a �?T60s morality i think he has old values that to audiences Are used to. He does no to do things that Are out of character. He is not going to have an affair with a a married woman. The morality of his character is a show virtually ignored is unsolved mysteries the program hosted by Robert stack has out scored its time Slot Competition a including the wonder years and growing pains a almost every week since its premiere two years ago t Quot i think part of the reason we done to get a lot of attention is that its a reality show Quot said co executive producer John Cosgrove Quot a lot of to editors want to know what celebrities Are Over the past three years unsolved mysteries has presented 235 unsolved cases and its viewers have helped solve 57. Quot we used to travel around the country before it became a series and asked people to be interviewed Quot Cosgrove said Quot now that we Are a ser is our directors and Field producers go to a new town and everybody wants to help. Its really nature of the medium of to is tying people together who done to know each other. Generally the people we do stories about Are often folks we All can identity a. A v. 7 Cosgrove admits it is frustrating that unsolved mysteries does not get the credit he believes it deserves. Quot we solved a Case of a serial arsonist of 14 fires and that to me is really an accomplishment for to Quot Cosgrove said. Quot it would have been a Nice Pat on the Back to somehow have a Salute to those people who tune in and Robert stack to Pius Csc Page in sunday december 2,1990 v
