European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 07, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                4 c it must be Spring Here comes baseball Sarah. Bottorff to plus editor s ome people think football is the dullest game Ever invented and that Sok. Some people can live forever without Ever seeing a basketball game live or taped and that a their right too. But the person who does no to like to watch baseball Well a a a a a v. A a a Quot a a a. A a. The most american of sports is Back in All its glory with the official season opener monday night at 8 . Central european time live on an to and Southern european broadcasting. Other military channels will probably air it too but they Hadnot said so at press time. The game As usual for the season opener is in Cincinnati and pits the reds against the Houston astros its the highlight of an otherwise fairly slow a week on an. Add a full House a which starts another season on seb tuesday stars from left David Coulier John Stamos Mary Kate Ashley Olsen and bog Nget. Sunday afternoon  excellent Jessica Lange drama of hard times on the american farm  nights secret admirer is an above average teen comedy mystery with c. Thomas Howell. Crossroads tuesday morning stumbles around a bit telling the Story of a runaway teen but is wonderful if you like the South and the blues. Hour babies is a weird name and an Een weirder concept but the teen its a week for teens special airing thursday Alvernoon. Is Quality stuff its about a Bunch of ugh school kids assigned to carry sacks of hour Mound Foi a week and pretend they Are babies to  them Pate n t Al response by 111 in s. J finally Chinn Beach is at last starting alter getting preempted three limes. Its going to be a bit hard to follow As an is not starting with the first episodes but til mid season. A Brief synopsis of the missed episodes the action has gone from lots Vietnam toll s s America with the characters Back Home remembering the past. Booner has lost a leg. . Has had a baby to Vietnam whom Booner is raising in the �?~80s and or. Rich Ard is a Well off doctor with a wife named col. Len who a not Colleen. Things Are a bit livelier on seb with Ken pay nest full House and saved by the Bell starting new seasons. Full House getting Tunmer with age is tuesday. Nest not getting funnier is thursday. Saved by the Bell is Lor teens there they Are again but it s enjoyable a sort of the lives of Dob in Gillis for the i98tts. It s on finns Day too. A. Films Worth checking out on seb breathless Friday is the 1983 version of the film with Rich Ai d Gere As a car. Thief Swiss family Robinson is a Good treatment of the classic saturday afternoon. Wednesday is the sky a no limit is made for to treatment of female astronauts. To briefs and in the states time for a Dallas ends a a a a a = �11, Quot a Quot. A v v j from wire reports a i to a not a dream Bobby , and the rest of the ewings wont be Back next season. Lbs has announced that Dallas the night a time soap opera depicting intrigue among the Texas big Oil set will end its 13-year run this season. The series which premiered on april 2, 1978, is currently tvs longest running series the finale will be a two hour special May 3, posing the question a what would the Dallas world be like iad . Ewing Neyer been born Quot it will be similar in format to the Christmas movie classic its a wonderful life executive producer Leonard Katzman said. A the a who shot .�?� episode on nov. 21,1980, was the most watched single show in to history until the final episode of a a a ii on feb. 28, 1983. Also creating National interest was the 1986 a Shower scene in which Bobby Ewing Patrick. Duff killed off in an Auto Accident the year before showed up alive and Well. The year in which he was absent was actually a dream by his wife Pamela Victoria principal viewers Learned. Recently Dallas a popularity has declined. This season it ranks 59th out of 130 prime Tomc shows. A a 1 a. Its spinoff knots Landing which first showed up on lbs dec. 27, 1979 will broadcast its 300th episode on april 25. Among prime time series Only the aforementioned Dallas gun smoke and Bonanza have produced More episodes. Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf commander of operation desert storing Isnit the first of his clan to gain attention on the airwaves a his father also named h. Norman Schwarzkopf was likewise a general later headed the new Jersey state police and gained added Fame As narrator Host Moderator of the popular old a a radio show gangbusters. The to version narrated by creator Phillips h. Lord also gave viewers a Chance to tip police to a most wanted Quot criminals and was highly successful in a Brief 1952 run on Abc. But the network replaced it with dragnet americans wartime love affair with can apparently is Over. During the first week of the persian Gulf War Jan. 14-20, can had a 17 percent share of audience representing a cumulative 24-hour audience for that week of 3.7 million Cable Homes that total jumped to nearly 5.9 million Homes in prime time that week. Well can recorded a 2 percent share during the week of March 25-31, just one tenth of a rating Point above in no a prewar weekly average. More than half of British television viewers pictured is the famous a a Dallas Shower scene in which Bobby Ewing Patrick Duffy came Back to life in 1986. Now the whole show has been sent to the showers. A. Could not live happily without to and for Many sex would not be the same without it according to a Survey released last week by the bbl s radio times Magazine.  the average briton spends 17 of 33 Leisure hours a week in front of the Box according to the radio times a weekly Magazine published by British broadcasting corp., listing to and radio program times. For More than 5 million people mainly women and the  television is virtually their Only Leisure Pursuit. Of the 1,029 britons interviewed 50 percent said they had to watch television for a Happy life and 66 percent said they would miss having a radio. Most viewers said they do other things while watching television. One third read and 20 percent use it to fail asleep and 59 percent eat. Around 2 million mostly in the 35-44 year old age group have sex while the television is on although men Are twice As Likely to admit this. But it is not just humans who Are developing Square eyes and falling prey to the Couch potato syndrome. Over 8 million pets also watch to with their owners the Survey found. April 7.199t. Sunday a. Page 15