European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse On television China Beach flashes Forward to the 1980s Sarah Bottorff to plus editor Ina Beach is Back on an to tues-1 Day with a season that takes its Char actors Back to the future nurse col Leen Mcmurphy and company Gray haired and reminiscing in the�?T80s about their lives in the �?T60s in the Vietnam War. Docs it work somewhat but All this Back wards forwards action can to obscure the fact that the emmy award winning drama lapsed into soap opera somewhere in its second of four seasons a High class soap yes. A nighttime soap. Still a soap. A a a a a a this fourth season has a lot for people who be grown to care for the characters. Bionic Brian Wimmer has lost a leg and gained children a including one of . . Marg Holg Enbe Gerin flashbacks has the baby in a filthy Vietnam Street delivered by Mcmurphy Dana Clany. Or. Richards Robert Picardo has married a woman named Colleen and can to seem to get the original Colleen off his mind. A and Mcmurphy in this opening episode the �?T80s Colleen Mcmurphy is seen Only briefly literally hanging up on memories of Vietnam. This seems to be where this season will be the. Strongest in portraying the Way people who were in Vietnam seem to try so hard to wipe it Mcm ories from their minds. But there a still so Many Strong shades of knots Landing or thirty Someth ing to this series. Its beginning to be understandable that China Beach is foundering in the ratings in the states a touch away from being cancelled. Wow live sports on an of i m getting a Little sarcastic. Following this past weekends live first round games of the Mcaa basketball tournament Mike Tyson taking on Donovan razor Ruddock in live boxing at 3 , tuesday. In the states lbs is pre Empting several of its daytime soaps to present basketball games a move that Abc is capitalizing on with huge ads. In to guide telling people to switch to its soaps a which Abc promises will never be preempted for Mere sports. Here when guiding Light is unavailable a we get True confessions a Peculiar set of min dramas hosted by Bill Bixby and containing All the dramatic exposition possible in 20 minutes time. Episodes thursday and Friday afternoons this week in place of guiding Light include your Typ real battered Wosnum moves into haunted House plots and other timely topics. What else is on an this week a two hour special frontline wednesday morning is Worth taping for the older kids after school if not for yourself it deals with the destruction of the amazonian rain Forest and As one would expect. From a frontline is brilliantly done. Movies to see James Spader White Palace is enough of a Quality actor to make Starcross cd saturday after Mem Worth seeing despite its silly plot about alien beings. A lot of bed action for a saturday afternoon movie though a May want to have the kids skip it. Its hard to figure out what Home fires to Luis Day morning is about but its interesting in a mild Way. Appears to be a portrait of a typical Young family divorce affairs and Al. Rob Ocop wednesday night needs no Deserio Tion unless you be been away from the Western world for the past five years. Anatomy of a Mur Der Friday night is a great Iate-i950s courtroom a drama with James Stewart. Seb has the boxing and the basketball Tiro All live and gets its first View of twin peaks tuesday with the two hour premiere episode. Aliens the first one is on late Friday night. Finally a colonel from a Richmond va., Reserve unit called last week to Point out i mixed up Fredericksburg a and Frederick md., in last weeks column on the civil War miniseries. Fredericksburg va., not Maryland was the site decisive Battle in which 12,000 Union soldiers that Christmas show. I have been racking my brain for the past several months trying to figure out. Who portrayed Quot snowball on an tvs snowballs express. Thanks to you i have finally found out. In the. Storsand strips there was an article feb. 3,. 1991 about an radio personalities with a picture of spec. Dave Reidmuller and ail this time i thought snowball was tech. Sgt. Rob Rios now who played Quot Snow flakes my children want to know. Judi Hinkle a Sembach a Germany stars and stripes replies Snow Flake was air Force sgt. Terry Laurhammer who Snow Community Liaison for the Frankfurt area. And who played Santa Claus Afna a not mail from a flounder i was very excited to read about the return of Rocky and bullwinkle on videotape sunday Magazine feb. 3. Just like free Lance writer Mike Mowrer i have been very anxious to View these cartoons again. It was fun Reading his article and reminiscing about the pair from frostbite Falls recalling Epi sodas and characters like wrong Way peach fuzz and Snedley whiplash. In a sure other fans have Many fond memories. However i belive that George of the Jungle was a separate show. This a super chickens and a a pm Slick a who raced in a car Snow Flake and Snow Ball talk to the kids in a scene from an tvs Christmas series. An to named the Thunderbolt grease Slapper Robert Wasson a whats Matta u. A Worms Germany Mowrer replies looks like you re right. At least that a the consensus in the stars and stripes features department. My memory Hasni to been the same since i was out sledding in frostbite Falls and collided with a. Moose. March 10. La Al sunday a Pace 15
