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...AMERIKA (ABC). The year's most overdiscussed and underappreciated mini-series painted a bleak picture of the U.S. under Soviet rule. But instead of right- wing politics, Writer-Director Donald Wrye offered a richly textured and beautifully acted (especially by Christine Lahti and Kris Kristofferson) rumination on Americans in crisis...
THIRTYSOMETHING (ABC). This yuppie drama may get a bit whiny and self- indulgent at times, but it captures the way '80s people talk as no other show has. Moreover, Hope and Michael (Mel Harris and Ken Olin) are the only couple on TV who convince us they are really, truly in love...
BEST LESSON LEARNED Forty years after Jackie Robinson broke the color line, Los Angeles Dodgers Executive Al Campanis raised cries of racism by saying on ABC's Nightline that black players "may not have some of the necessities" to manage baseball teams, either on the field or in the front office...
...QUICKEST DEPARTURE ABC's Max Headroom, which was trumpeted as the TV of the future but quickly became a show of the past...
...Brokaw it was the biggest week of his career. Along with Peter Jennings, his rival anchor over at ABC, and Public Television's MacNeil-Lehrer, Brokaw epitomizes a welcome trend in television newscasting -- urbane, intelligent and low-keyed...