European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Nielsen what they re watching the following Are the top 50 television shows in America according to the latest available figures from the . Nielsen co. The season to Date ranking or an Quot a Quot for first Lime airing is in parentheses. �?o7."7�?o."1. I 2. 3. M 4. 6, 7. 8, 8. 107 11. 12. 12. 14. 14. 16. 11 1 cheers 60 minutes americans funniest Home videos americans funniest people Roseanne Murphy Brown 10 designing women a a 8 family matters x Barbara Walters special tie. 7 Golden girls. 7 5 full House. 4 a different world7 empty nest tie 3 unsolved mysteries. A a n a 3 murder she wrote he 5 the Cosby show 17. 30 movie a a Lucy and Desi before the laughter Quot,17. 19 coach tie 19. 15 Matlock. A a 24 l a Law i 22 major dad 39 perfect strangers lie wings tie in the heat of the night the Simpsons he movie Quot the Marla Hanson Story Quot Rescue 911 movie Quot big Quot 7 movie Quot the Chase Quot anything but love tie Doogie . He 1 20-20 who s the Boss growing pains wonder years. Carol amp co. Night court he 20 21, 21, 21, 24, 24 26 27 28 29 29 29 32 33 34 35. 27 36. 35 36. 58 56 15 32 34 31 35 37 24 19 41 21 2236. 54 going places tie 39. 38 39. 29 41. 50 42. X fresh Prince of Bei air Davis rules he evening Shade Cher a at the Mirage 42. 45 movie Quot son of the morning Star Pari 2 tie 44. 32 knots Landing 45. 49 macgyver46. 47 Blossom 47. 40 movie Quot sea of love Quot 47. 41 Jake and the fat Man tie 49. 47 married. With children 50. 50 dear John problem child rated pit sledgehammer comedy that Chin be quite Tunny All about a mean Little kid the Type parents would Lac to leave Home along Sot my hit Ylse s Home. A hut hey he a not realty mean. Just a a Little 1 rambunctious Quot As the smirking adopt Ioji agent de scribes Bim. It seems Junior Michael Olive now 7, has been shuttled irony exasperated family to family Ever since that dark Ami Stormy night _  Mother left him in a Doorstep rang the Hotl and ran his a rambunctious Quot Deew Isiu Ludo biding a firecracker in a birthday cake feeding the cat laundry detergent and sucking up goldfish with a vacuum cleaner. Eventually he a dumped into an orphanage run by nuns a i wonder if pen Guins can Fly Quot lie asks himself and soon one of be nuns is Lasso oed and swinging from the rafters. Along come an Over eager childless couple Ben and Flo i Lealy John Hitler and Amy Vos Beckwo take Junior Home hopeful but soon hopeless Quot we be adopted satan a moans Ben Junior boasts that soon hell be a prompting the glum reply a a done to count on it  i.  press International i Parkman hated a a a simple Story of Good is evil seen through the talented Lens of Bill Pope with sure fire direction from Sam Raimi the evil dead and the kind of special effects you Only visualize in act Ion comic Hooks or. Peyton Westlake i Jam Nicson is on the Brink of perfecting a synthetic skin that can take on the features of any photograph led into a computer when lie is visited by a team of hit men who beat him shoot him Dunk his head in a vat of acid and leave him a mangled to nest after turning up the Gas and lighting a flame As far As the world is concerned Westlake is dead a As Well he should he after All that. But this is fantasy time folks and Westlake lives. Blessed with superhuman Powers after a surgical procedure he recreates his lab and becomes Parkman a combination of Plum Tom of the opera and Amu my i bulk. With the Chameleon charms of his synthetic skin he can look like anybody. The action is nonstop and inspired. It is a fantasy world of horror creation and destruction Ami its a full la roiled blast of a ride. Unfortunately though much of the Force is lost on the Small screen o  s Barclay. A a  Chicago Joe and the showgirl rated it so much depends on Little things if Joyce palsy kens tit. Kicky Allen s Girlfriend had agreed to sleep with Inin he might not have had to Survey the Loose women of wartime 1-Omjon, Ami he might not have hooked up with Georgina Irby son a Small time showgirl with dreams of Lolly Wood glory. And he might not have murdered two innocent people Ami become the Only american to be tried in an i Jigesh court during world War. Ii and hanged by the neck until death see it s All Joyce a fault. Kiefer Suchet land is Ricky Allen aka Chicago Joe. But be gives a charmless performance Here that strains for both a Star s casual Glamour and overwrought method posturing Mai Iii non Washington Post taking care of business hated let rather Luke sarm funny business helped a lot by pro jump Wal Cay for Ludwi Amy Yin Chick my Clit Oliver to Mitch and. John Kilter Art. Ill Quot problem child Quot Din s comic finesse Jim Belushi and Charles Iro Din co Star in this familiar comedy of confused identities All about a Low life getting u taste of the High life Belushi plays convict Jimmy Dworski who stages an imaginative prison escape so he can attend the world series ii Odin is Spencer Baines an uptight Woi Baliol Iead exec in town for a crucial client meeting. Mis tile goes bonkers when he misplace his daily planner Hook which controls virtually every to Merit of ins time As writ As containing Cash credit cards and a key to a Malitui mansion. Naturally Dworski finds it and prom play assumes Baines identity and Rar lied life style while a battered bewildered Barnes tries i gel his name Hack. Jack i. Wilkinson United press International China Lako murders rated  l ire or Nettl California desert Hamlet ref Chi a Lake has been wracked by a series of grisly killings a or the Wame time Yaeli year. While investigating lire sheriff Tom Skerritt meets a vacationing lug City cop Michael Parks who s eager to help. But soon it s not Clear whether he a a Friend or a suspect a tidy Little mystery thriller Jack a Wilkinson United press International Highlander rated a Christopher Lambert Orry stake the Lar cml of tar Art Why me stars in this action fantasy about immortal warriors battling through the Ages in a Ruest for the ultimate Prie with a Jamal conflict set in present Day new York City he film also stars Sean Connery who teaches Lambert How to sword Light and breathe under wan a Ami Clancy Brown Blue sleet but you probably won t recognize him in this plays the wonderfully evil villian who gets All the Best lines. I lie musical score is by Juern the plot is a Little thin but visually the film is fantastic. There is a Rumor that the so Rucj will be coming out sometime this year i a Kelly Quinn a staff writer sunday february 17, 1991 /