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Third season? Indeed. This month and next, as the 1984-85 ratings battle winds to a close and the networks start looking toward the fall, at least eleven prime-time series are being introduced for limited runs of six or more episodes. More than half of them come from ABC, which dropped to last place this season behind the newly rejuvenated NBC, and thus has the most holes to fill. Newcomers that do well in their spring tryouts are likely to reappear in the lineup next fall; for TV's latest sparring partners, these short-term engagements could...
...dueling duo in ABC's Moonlighting start out with a typically cute meet. Maddie Hayes is a successful TV model who is forced to sell off some business assets after her financial advisers abscond with all her cash. One of those assets, she discovers, is a detective agency run by David Addison, a TV- obsessed private eye with boundless self-confidence but few clients. She tries to help him drum up business, but they are rarely on the same wavelength. "This is always how I imagined it would be with a partner," he enthuses. "Two people working shoulder to shoulder...
...Bill Murray-esque tone of put-on to the witty patter. The show's dialogue is possibly the fastest on TV, the stories are briskly paced and unobtrusive, and Shepherd gets lots of loving close-ups. Moonlighting is a snazzy entry that deserves a full-time job on ABC next fall...
...ABC stock closed at$105:75 on the New York Stock Exchange, up $31,25 from Friday Capital Cities...
Capital Cities which earned $135.2 million on revenue of $939.7 million last year, has four ABC affiliated television stations in Philadelphai, Houston. New Haven Hartford, Conn., and Buffalo, NY. In addition it owns CBS affiliates in Raleigh-Durham, N.C., and Fresno Calif., and an independent station in Tampa-St. Petersburg...