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Twin Peaks (ABC). Has it really been less than a year since FBI agent Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) first heard the name Laura Palmer? After its stunning two-hour pilot episode, David Lynch's oddball soap opera wavered a bit, wafted into mysticism and dragged out its who-killed-Laura? mystery too long for some impatient viewers. But the show has retained its idiosyncrasy and its hold on the imagination...
...Blue (ABC). To benefit AIDS research, 20 rock stars took a crack at Cole Porter, and several contributed striking videos as well. Among the best: David Byrne's high-spirited collage of faces for Don't Fence Me In and Annie Lennox getting misty-eyed over home movies in a heartbreaking Ev'rytime We Say Goodbye...
...Elvis (ABC). In the realm of unpromising ideas, this one looked like a lulu: the King's early life recounted in half-hour chunks of musical docudrama. The surprise was that star Michael St. Gerard created a character, not just an Elvis impersonation, and the short-lived series was a lovely evocation of the American show-biz myth...
CHRISTMAS SPECIALS. The networks, suffering economic woes, have cut back on holiday specials this year, but not on their time-warp wholesomeness. None is cuddlier than Dolly Parton: Christmas at Home (ABC, Dec. 21), in which the country singer twangs I'll Be Home for Christmas -- and is. Disney's Christmas on Ice (CBS, Dec. 21) brings Mickey and Minnie together with Katarina Witt and Tai Babilonia, while Richard Mulligan plays a small-town eccentric who meets an extraterrestrial (Beau Bridges) in Guess Who's Coming for Christmas? (NBC, Dec. 23). On the classical side, James Galway and Frederica...
...January -- a half-hour version of Real Life with Jane Pauley and the investigative series Expose -- as well as an afternoon show hosted by Faith Daniels. CBS's America Tonight has joined the late-night schedule (though it will leave the air, at least temporarily, in late January), and ABC has talked about doing all-night news...