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BACKFIELD IN MOTION (ABC, Nov. 13, 9 p.m. EST). Roseanne and Tom Arnold, TV's terror couple, make a surprisingly appealing pair in this movie about a single mother who tackles male chauvinism in surburbia by organizing a mother-son football game...
Even when misfortune befalls others, it is the woman who seems to bear the burden. In ABC's Stranger in the Family, a teenager is stricken with amnesia after an auto accident. But the drama focuses on his mother (Teri Garr) and her efforts to recapture her "lost" son. In CBS's My Son Johnny, Rick Schroder plays a small-time hood who has brutalized his younger brother from childhood. Again, Mom (Michele Lee) is the star sufferer: she is forced to recognize that she has raised...
...hysterical classic of this genre may be False Arrest, a two-part ABC drama this week. Donna Mills, TV's most heart-wrenching sufferer, plays a businessman's wife who is falsely accused of ordering the murder of her husband's partner. It's all downhill from there. In jail she is brutally raped. Out on bail, she gets vicious phone calls ("Murderer! You're gonna burn in hell!"). At her trial, she is framed by lying lowlifes. Once in prison, she learns that her husband has emptied her bank account and disappeared. Her kids stop coming to visit. Even...
...Brady clan -- three boys, three girls, two parents (Florence Henderson and Robert Reed) and Alice, the wisecracking maid (Ann B. Davis) -- has puttered along in reruns ever since the show's cancellation in 1974 after five seasons on ABC. Now it has re-emerged, on the stage, in a bizarre bit of media reversal called The Real Live Brady Bunch. Mounted by a Chicago alternative- theater troupe, the show is alarmingly simple in concept. Episodes of the old sitcom are merely re-enacted, scene for scene, line for line. (A new episode is performed every week; a game-show parody...
Multimedia programs like this are likely to be enthusiastically received in America's schools, which for all their complaints about financial problems seem to have plenty of cash to spend on new educational technologies. The state of Florida has contracted with ABC News and National Geographic to develop multimedia programs on subjects ranging from the environment to the cold war. This fall more than 500,000 Texas schoolchildren began using a videodisc series, Optical Data Corp.'s Windows on Science, in lieu of a standard textbook, as their first formal introduction to science. William Clark, president of Optical Data, argues...