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Families have not completely seized the sitcom field this fall. ABC's Sledge Hammer!, about a trigger-happy cop who talks to his gun, is an earnest but lame attempt to satirize Dirty Harry-type heroes. CBS's Designing Women features a quartet of single friends in Atlanta who run a decorating business together, a sort of pre-mid-life Golden Girls. The show has a good cast (including Annie Potts and Dixie Carter) but an overload of formula gag writing ("Suzanne, if sex were fast food, there'd be an arch over your...
This year, the Crimson (now 2-0-1 overall, 1-0 Ivy) hopes to find itself NCAA-bound once again. In order to cop a tournament berth, however, Harvard will need to turn its offense up a notch--a reasonable task considering that Shattuck feels his attack is only "two weeks away" from completely gelling...
...Brien, about a female surgeon, is Dr. Kildare crossed with Cagney & Lacey. In ABC's Jack and Mike, a newspaper columnist rushes to help folks in trouble while trying to keep her marriage afloat, a yuppie update of Hart to Hart. In CBS's Downtown, a tough cop gets crime-fighting help from four oddball parolees, a sort of B-Team. In addition to the routine fare, however, Bochco and Mann are introducing second- generation shows of their own. If neither is as groundbreaking as its predecessor, both exhibit a quality rare in prime time: they are unmistakable products...
Crime Story is the most realistic TV cop show in years, yet the emotions reach almost baroque heights. Looking over the scene of a partner's murder, Torello thrusts his fist through a phone-booth window and sinks into tears. A fatally injured young hood, restrained by a respirator, flails about on his hospital bed in panic and rage. The pilot has enough violence to ignite a season's worth of protests. Yet nothing seems exploitative. In a bravura opening, a wild chase ends with a shoot-out at the house of an anonymous family. After the carnage is over...
...unlimited supplies of drugs." In New York City, a similar conclusion was reached by Correspondents John Moody and Joseph Boyce, deputy chief of TIME's Eastern regional bureau. They interviewed police and law-enforcement officials. Says Moody: "They think they are outnumbered and surrounded, but not a single cop I talked to even hinted at giving...