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SEPARATE BUT EQUAL ABC, April...
Occasionally, however, one comes along that recalls the heroic scope and seriousness, if not the air time, of a vanishing breed. Separate but Equal, a two-part ABC movie, portrays the events leading up to the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 decision outlawing segregation in public schools. Sidney Poitier, in his first TV appearance since 1955, stars as future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, who headed the N.A.A.C.P.'s legal effort. Burt Lancaster, another rare bird in television land, plays Marshall's courtroom adversary, John W. Davis. George Stevens Jr., whose father created some of Hollywood's great epics...
...Miller, 46, a Milwaukee native, started out as an assistant to director Billy Wilder, then wrote episodes for The Odd Couple and The Brady Bunch. Boyett, also 46, grew up in Atlanta, moved to New York City to become a playwright and wound up as a program executive at ABC. They met when Miller was co-producing one of ABC's big hits of the '70s, Happy Days. Boyett later joined Miller (and his then partner Edward Milkis) to produce such shows as Laverne & Shirley, Mork & Mindy and Bosom Buddies. "What we really care about is pleasing people," says Miller...
Only in the world of TV sitcoms could Urkel become a sensation. Make that only in the world of Tom Miller and Bob Boyett. As executive producers of Family Matters, the ABC series Urkel calls home, and a string of other sitcom hits, they have mastered the art of low-IQ, high-Nielsen TV comedy. At ABC, they are the kings of Friday night: for much of the season, they have monopolized the evening with four shows running back to back...
...working on a TV show and sharing a house), ended its season's run earlier this month. But their CBS sitcom Family Man, about a fire fighter raising four kids, will return from hiatus later in the spring. And the duo is gearing up yet another family comedy for ABC in the fall, this one about two single-parent clans that move in together...