Show Movie previews “The Bedroom Window” “Absence Malice” (1981) Paul Newman Sa'iy Field A legitimate businessman's life is ruined by a newspaper reporter's story alleging his involvement in the killing of a labor boss 'PG' (2 hrs ) MAX Fri 4:00 pm “Act Of Love” (1980) Ron Howard Robert A account ot a construction worker who is Of indicted tor the mercy-kJImLIF Thu 2:00 pm "Act Of Violence” ot his paralyzed brother (2 hrs) (1979) Elizabeth Montgomery James Sloyan A divorced career woman s liberal views and lifestyle are tested when she is brutally attacked (2 hrs) LIF Fn 2 00 pm “Adventure Of The Action Hunters” (1987) Ronald Hunter Sean Murphy A aymg sailor s cryptic message young couple into a dangerous search for hidden p'ges a'PG' treasure (1 hr 20 mm ) SH0 Tue 10:00 am “Adventures In Babysitting” (1987) Elisabeth g Shue Maia Brewton A routine assignment turns into a comic nightmare tor a Chicago teen and her three (1 hr 42 min) SH0 Thu young charqes In stereo 'PG-112 00 noon 1100 pm TMC Fri 12:00 mid& Sat 12 00 noon 1000 p m “The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn” (1978) Kurt Ida Dan Monahan When he learns that he'll be sent away to boarding school Huck embarks on a raft trip down tre Mssiss'ppi River with Tom Sawyer and a slave named Jim (1 hr 40 mm ) DSN Tue 2:00 pm 2:30 am “The Adventures Of Mark Twain” (1985) Mark Twain searches tor Halley s Comet in a hot-ai- r tiu'ioon wniie stowaways Tom Sawyer Huck Finn and Becky It dtcfer are treated to visuahzations of some of the author's works G (1 hr 30 mm) SH0 Wed 2:30 pm “After The Promise” (1987) Mark Harmon Diana Devastated by the Depression and his wife's death an itinerant carpenter attempts to rebuild his troubled life and Mon 800 pm regain custody ot his four sons (2 hrs ) (1985) Jane Fonda Anne Ban-co- d “Agnes Of God” investigating a newborn infant's death at a convent a hia'nst s search tor a rational explanation is clouded by a young nun s taith and mysticism (2 hrs) Thu 800 0 0 p m “Air Mail" (1932) Ralph Bellamy Gloria Stuart An pnot wins favor through a bold rescue and a time'y mail delivery (1 hr 23 min AMC Sat 6:30 pm j 1 “Aliens” 986) Sigourney Weaver Michael Eehn the only human survivor ot the spacecraft Nostromo s encounter with a monstrous creature joins another mission to the deserted colony where all the trouble began 'R' (2 hrs 17 mm ) HBO Wea 9 00 p m: SHO Tue 11:15 pm “The Ambassador” (1984) Robert Mitchum Ellen An American ambassador employs unorthodox Burstyn metnods and backdoor dip'omacy to mediate the Israeli Sat 12:35 a m cnsis 2 hrs ) “The Ambushers” (1967) Dean Martin Senta Berq ger Matt Helm is sent to Mexico to tind an experimental saucer and retrieve it from the enemy (2 hrs) WGN Wed 2 00 am “The American Success Company” (1979) Jett o Ned Beatty Tired ot his luxurious home his beautiful Bndqes and Ins secure job a credit card company employee conceives an elaborate plan tor escape (2 hrs ) W'le 200 a m “Angel And The Badman” WGN Fri (1947) John Wayne Russell A notorious qimsimcer is reformed by the love of a Quaker woman (2 hm ) CBN Tue 6 00 p m (1946) Paul Mum “Angel On My Shoulder” Claude Rams A gangster makes a bargain with the devil to return to Me as a judge (2 hrs ) NIC Sat 2 00 a m (1948) W It am Holden “Apartment For Peggy" Jeanne Cram A young coupe's adjustment to postwar Me is assisted by a college professor who otters his attic as an apartment 1 hr 38 mm ) MAX Wed 2 00 p m “Ape And Superape” (193) Narrated by Alexan-d°- r Siourbv The close parallels that exist between habits S d behavior exhibited by humans and anmals (1 hr) DIS Thu 6 00 pm & Fri 8 00 am& Sal 10 00 pm “The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz” (1974) Richard Drpytuss Micheline Lanctot A Jewish teen-age- r m 1940s Montreal becomes involved in a senes ot h quirk schemes PG' (2 hrs 1 min ) TMC Wed 9 00 am 12 55 a m “The Avenging Rider" (1943) Tim Ho't CUf Edwards Falsely accused ot murder a man tries to clear his name AMC Thu 1:25 am Gait (1987) Steve Gutten-ber- g Elizabeth McGovern A Baltimore executive claims he witnessed a violent assault to protect the identity of the woman who actually saw it R (2 hrs ) SHO Wed 10:20 pm “Bedside Headmaster” (1987) R" (1 hr 38 min) SHO Tue 1:35 am “Benii The Hunted” (1987) Benji Red Steagall Stranded in the Pacific Northwest the canine star finds himself playing surrogate parent to four orphaned cougar cubs ‘G’ (1 hr 29 min) DSN Sun 5:00 Wed 10:00 am pm& 8:00 pm “The Bermuda Triangle” & Fri (1979) Narrated by Brad Crandall A collection ot verified incidents official reports and new evidence about the mysterious area of the Atlantic Ocean Sat between Bermuda Miami and Puerto Rico (2 hrs) © 300 pm (1987) Angie Dickinson Robert “Big Bad Mama II” g female gangster avenges the murder ot Culp A her husband by kidnapping the son ot the man responsible R' (1 hr 23 mm ) MAX Sat 945 p m liBig Shots” (1987) Ricky Busker Darius McCrary Two Chicago kids from opposite sides ot the tracks torge an unlikely friendship as they embark on an adventure to retrieve PG-1- 3 30 mm) HBO Tue 7:30 a stolen watch (1 hr pm & Fri 1:00 pm “Bill Cosby Himself”(1982) Bill Cosby Family life takes a ribomg as the comedian (mas the humor m marriage children and everyday frustrations in this concert performance filmed in Ontario in 1981 PG' (1 hr 44 min) MAX Wed 600 pm SHO Thu 1000 am 6:00 pm “Billion Dollar Brain” (1967) Michael Caine Francoise Dorleac Secret agent Harry Palmer becomes inin Finland (2 hrs 30 volved in intrigue and double-crossin- g mm) WGN Thu 2:00 am “Black Gunn” (1972) Jim Brown Martin Landau A nightclub owner seeks vengeance on the gangster who killed his brother R' (1 hr 34 mm ) MAX Mon 12:35 am& Thu 2:20 am “The Black Stallion Returns” (1983) Kelly Reno Teri Garr A boy travels to the Sahara Desert to find his beloved Arabian stallion which was reclaimed by its previous owner (2 hrs 30 mm ) WGN Mon 2:00 a m “Blind Date” (1987) Bruce Willis Kim Basinger An overworked yuppie agrees to yet another blind date arranged by his brotner this time to a beautiful woman who (1 hr 34 min) goes out ot control when she drinks 'PG-1HBO Sun 2:30 p m& Fri 3 00 p m 10:30 pm (1984) Craig Wasson Melanie Grif“Body Double” fith An unemployed Hollywood actor house-sittin- g tor an ac- quaintance becomes obsessed with a beautiful neighbor and enmeshed in a complicated murder plot In stereo 'R' (1 hr 49 mm ) HBO Wed 3:30 a m “Born In East LA” (1987) Cheech Marin Paul ends up on the wrong side Rodriguez A Hispanic-Amenca- n ot the border after being caught up m an immigration department raid on a Los Angeles warehouse ‘R’ (1 hr 24 mm) SHO Thu 12:50 am (1938) Spencer Tracy Mickey Roo“Boys Town” ney Father Flanagan's Boys Town is disrupted by a seem-ing'- y headless new arrival (2 hrs ) TBS Sun 1:30 am “Brainstorm" (1983) Christopher Walken Natalie Wood A married couple tries to keep a specially designed device which allows a person to experience the sensations tell by another from military and industrial groups (2 hrs-3mm) WGN Sat 2 00 am “The Brass Bottle” (1964) Tony Randall Burl Ives A man buys a brass bottle for his fiancee's father but trouble begins when a genie appears (2 hrs) TBS Tue 805 am “The Brass Ring” (1983) Dma Merrill Sylvia Sidgirl s growing pains are further complicated by her mother s mental illness and apparent need tor institutionalization (1 hr 21 mm ) TMC Sat 7:00 am “Broken Promise” (1981) Melissa Michaelsen Chris Sarandon Five youngsters abandoned by tbeir parents battle aqamst the bureaucracy to keep from being separated (1 hr 40 min ) TMC Thu 1100 a m “Bus Stop” (1956) Marilyn Monroe Don Murray A lovestruck cowboy relentlessly pursues a vulnerable saloon smqpr (1 hr 36 mm ) DSN Fri 10 00 p m A ney “Butch And Sundance: The Early Days” (1979) lorn Berenger Wunam Katt The story of how Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid met joined forces and gained notoriety PG' (1 hr 51 mm ) MAX Sat 1100 am wanted his ranch drives a schoolteacher to organize an unlikely outlaw gang and begin a Me ot crime (1 hr 36 min) HBO Wed 6:00 p m (1979) James Caan Marsha Ma“Chapter Two” Soon after his wife's death a writer finds himself reluctantly tailing in love again 'PG' (2 hrs 4 mm) MAX Sun son 11:30 am “Charlotte's Web” (1973) Animated A runt pig is saved from slaughter by a charming spider 'G' (1 hr 33 mm I HBO Sun 930 am “China Venture” (1953) Edmond O'Brien Barry Sullivan A group of Marines is dispatched to apprehend a certain Japanese admiral wanted lor interrogation after World War It (1 hr 23 min) MAX Mon 12:30 Wed 435 a m pm& “A Christmas Story" Darren McGavm Small-tow- n America in the is the setting tor this holiday memoir about a boy who only wants a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas 'PG (1 hr 38 mm ) SHO Mon 430 am & Tue 2:00 pm “Chubasco” (1968) Richard Egan Christopher Jones A youth resolves some inner contiicts when he joins a tuna fishing fleet (2 hrs ) TBS Fri 8:05 am “Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock ’N’ Roll” Chuck Berry Keith Richards Interviews and footage concert celebrating Berry's 60th birthday highlight director Taylor Hacktord's tribute to the legendary rocker In stereo 'PG' (2 hrs) SHO Sat 10:00 am 6:00 pm (1978) Charlaine Woodard Clifton Davis “Cindy” Harlem is the setting for this updated verWorld War sion ot “Cinderella" which finds its heroine dreaming of attending the lavish Sugar Hill Ball (1 hr 37 min) DSN Mon E 2:00 pm 3:30 (1986) Robin Williams Peter O'Toole Forced into retirement alter a serious injury a Chn icago fireman becomes involved in efforts to save a Caribbean resort from foreclosure (2 hrs) Sat 7:30 O pm “Cold Steel” (1987) Brad Davis Sharon Stone A Los Angeles police officer's obsession with finding his father's killer brings him face to face with an incident from his past In stereo R' (1 hr 30 min) MAX Sat 11:15 pm TMC Tue 1 1 00 pm& Wed 4 55 am “Come To The Stable” (1949) Loretta Young Celeste Holm Two French nuns overcome a serious of obstacles to build a children's hospital in New England (1 hr 34 mm) MAX Wed 10:30 a m (1985) Susan Saran“Compromising Positions” don Raul Julia A bored housewife turns amateur sleuth and digs up some startling secrets while investigating the murder of her philandering Long Island dentist (2 hrs) © Tue 8:00 pm& Fri 1:00 am “The Concorde (1979) Alain DeAirport ’79” lon Susan Blakely A bizarre series of misnaps plaques a flight of the supersonic Concorde jet ‘PG'J2 hrs 3 mm) MAX Mon 2:00 pm& Fri 6:00 pm TMC Fri 11:00 - am “Control” (1987) Burt Lancaster Kate Nelligan Fistrangers take part in an international experiment to determine whether such a group will be able to survive together in cramped quarters following a nuclear disaster In stereo (1 hr 30 mm ) H80 Thu 9:00 a m “The Cowboys” (1972) John Wayne Roscoe Lee Browne An aging rancher is lorced to hire a group of eleven schoolboys when his own men desert him before a 400-mil- e cattle drive 'PG' (2 hrs 5 mm) MAX Mon 4:00 pm (1975) Cions Leacbman Ann Soth-er- n “Crazy Mama” A family in 1950s Arkansas embarks on a nationwide crime spree 'PG' (1 hr 22 mm) TMC Thu 3:00 pm 1:35 am “The Criminal Code” (1931) Walter Huston Phillips Holmes An inmate involved in a prison killing must turn informer if he is to avoid taking the tall for the crime (1 hr 36 min) MAX Mon 5:00 am “Cross Creek” (1983) Mary Steenburgen Rip Torn In 1928 author Marjorie Kmnan Rawlings finds new inspiration for her writings after leaving her husband and New York society lor the remote backwoods of Florida ‘PG’ (2 hrs 2 min ) TMC Sun 7:00 am 6:00 p m “The Curse” (1987) Wit Wheaton Claude Akins Water contaminated by an orb Irom outer space turns the members ot a Tennessee farming family into monsters In stereo 'R' (1 hr 26 mm) HBO Sat 5:55 am fteen d Pansun model piots her own kidnapping m order to qam control ot her husband s fortune R (1 hr 30 mm ) MAX Mon 2 20 a m & Thu 9 30 p m (1985) “Baby: Secret Of The Lost Legend” kad Sean Younq In Atnca a scientist and her husband attempt to reunite an ntant dinosaur w th its r io'i'ed mother PG (1 hr 35 mm j MAX Sat 6 00 am “"“The Bad And the Beautiful” (1952) Kirk Hollywood producer afDouq'as Lana Tjrner A fects me lives ot several people pursjmg stardom (2 hrs ) © Thu 8 00 pm “The Bait" (1972) Donna Mills M chaei Conotan-tm- p A beautiful policewoman lures an insane murderer into a bap (1 hr 3(1 mm ) CD Thu 700 pm (1967) Robert Wagner Jill St Jane An “Banning” ambit ous gut pm ta"ds a position at a swank count: c'ub In s'o'eo l hr 42 mm ) TMC Wpd 3 00 p m 16 Tff PREVIEW Standard Examiner am 500 am “Deal Of The Century” (1983) Chevy Chase Sigturns ourney Weaver When a high technology out to be detective its manufacturer hires an arms hustler to dispose '‘A 0 of it (2 Sat 8:00 pm hrs) Death In Canaan” (1978) Paul Clemens Stetame Powers Connecticut townspeople rise to the defense of a teen-agaccused of murdering his mother (2 hrs 30 mm) WGN Wed 10:30 pm “Death Of A Salesman” (1985) Dustin Hoflman John Malkovich The effects of an aging salesman’s emotional collapse on his family and (2 hrs 15 mm) HBO Mon 1:00 p m “The Death Of Ocean View Park” (1979) Mike Connors Diana Canova An unnaturally powerful hurricane turns a holiday weekend at a seaside amusement park into a nightmare (2nrs)© Mon 10:00 am 10:30 pm “Death Wish” (1974) Charles Bronson Hope Lange Alter three hoodlums murder his wile and leave his daughter catatonic an enraged New Yorker turns to vigilante justice 'R' (1 hr 33 min ) TMC Thu 12:05 am 4” “Del-Co- n (1985) Lenore Zann Maury Chaykin In the aftermath of a nuclear war three astronauts crash-lan- d and find Earth's survivors in the gnp of a murderous teenage dictator (2 hrs) USA Fri 600 pm& Sat 12:00 noon (1957) Gregory Peck Lau“Designing Woman” ren Bacall A top dress designer and a sportswriter feel the strains of marital bliss (2 hrs ) © Sat 8:00 pm “The Detective” (1968) Frank Sinatra Lee Roderick Thorp's novel inspired this account of a Manhattan police detective investigating the brutal murder ot a homosexual (2 hrs 15 mm ) TBS Sat 6:05 pm Hitchhiker” (1979) Dick “Diary Of A Teen-Ag- e Van Patten Charlene Tilton A young girl s life is endangered when she accepts a ride from a stranger (1 hr 30 mm) © Fri 700 p m “Dixie Dynamite” (1976) Warren Oates Christopher George Beautiful sisters seek revenge on the killers ot n moonshiner (2 hrs) © Tue their lather a 7:00 pm “Tne Dolly Sisters” (1946) Betty Grable John sisters rise to fame in the enterPayne Two Hungarian-bor- n tainment world at the turn ot the century Based on a true story (2 hrs) MAX Tue 12:00 noon& Fri 7:00 am “The Don Is Dead” (1973) Anthony Quinn Frederic Forrest When a Mafia chieftain dies a massive and power struggle erupts among opposmq syndicate families vying lor control (2 hrs 30 mm) WGN Sun 2:00 am “Don’t Go Near The Water” (1957) Glenn Ford Gia Scala During World War It the commander of a naval public relations unit on a South Pacific island has a difficult time keeping his outfit of misfits from splitting apart at the seams (1 hr 47 mm ) MAX Wed 12:00 noon “Down To The Sea In Ships” (1949) Richard Widmark Lionel Barrymore After a whaling captain who has taken his grandson to sea is killed the boy regrets the wrongs he's done to the older man (2 hrs) AMC Sun 1:00 pm 900 pm “Down Twisted” (1987) Carey Lowell Charles Rocket An unsuspecting young woman becomes the quarry of gangsters terrorists and assorted criminals alter obtaining a religious artifact 'R (1 hr 37 mm ) SHO Sun 800 pm “Eight Iron Men" (1952) Bonar Colleano Lee As a wounded soldier lies trapped outside by enemy gunfire an infantry squad takes cover in a heavily bombarded house on the front lines (1 hr 20 mm) MAX Fri 10:30 Marvin am “CHOMPS" A am “Club Paradise” “Dallas” “Baby Cat" (1983) Julie Margo Jean Franco s (1983) Peter Billingsley 0 Wed 10:00 begins to move toward the sun (2 hrs) 10:30 p m “Dead End Street” (1988) Anat Atzmon Yehoram Gaon The songs of Bruce Springsteen underscore this account ot a prostitute s attempts to escape life on the streets (1 hr 26 mm ) MAX Tue 12:00 mid “Dead Man On The Run” (1975) Peter Graves Katherine Justice When a man takes over lor a murdered federal official he suspects that the death was part ot a larger plot involving the assassination of a presidential candidate (1 hr 30 min ) TBS Tue 12:35 am “Dead Reckoning” (1947) Humphrey Bogart Lisa-bet- h Scott A veteran flier sets out to investigate the mysterious death of an old war buddy (1 hr 40 min) MAX Wed it (1979) Wesley Eure Valerie Bedi-ne'- li A ciever young man invents a computerized robot flnq programmpfl to stop criminals and soNe comes (2 hrs ) TBS 11 05 am “The Caddy” Tue (1953) Dean Marlin Jerry Lewis Two scade-brameon goifinq careers young men empa-wdh disastrous results (2 ms) TBS Mon 8 05 a m “Car Wash” (1976) Rcha'd Pryor George Cadm The crazy mixed-udaily rcuhue of a de'uxe Los Angeles car wash is interrupted by severai unusual customers (2 hrs) TBS Sun 5 00 pm “Caravans” (1978) Arthony Guinn Jennifer O'Neill in 1948 a young diplomat in a sma'I M d Eastern counhy seeks a poiihoan s daughter woo has run of with the leader ot a nomadic tube (2 hrs ) Sun 2 00 a m O “Caroline And The Rebels" (1962) Bnqitte BarMon 210 am “Cat Ballou" jme Fonda Lee Marvin Her fa'her s death at the hands of a greedy conglomerate who dot jean Oauae fanaiy (2 ms to (15) (1950) Gary Cooper Ruth Roman Upon finding his home and property destroyed an embittered officer vows revenge on those responsible (2 hrs) CBN Mon 6 00 p m “The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders” (1979) Jane Seymour Laraine Stephens A pretty magazine reporter joins the glittering world of professional cheerleaders in order to gather scandalous information lor an expose ot the girls (2 hrs ) TBS Mon 9 05 pm “A Dangerous Friend” (1971) Richard Thomas Barbara Bel Gebdes A disturbed victimizes a young woman who is attracted to him (2 hrs ) USA Wed 8 00 a m 1 30 a m (1981) Glenn Ford Chuck “Day 01 The Assassin” Connors Fortune hunters converge at a seaside Mexican retreasure-loadesort after an exiled king s yacht sinks to the bottom ot the bay (2 hrs ) TBS Thu 1 105 a m “The Day Tne Earth Caught Fire” (1962) Edward Judd Leo McKern Simultaneous Russian and American nuclear tests at opposite poles shift Earth s orbit so that “The Elmchanted Forest” (1986) Animated Upon sitting under a magical elm tree an artist acquires special powers that he puts to use saving Fantasy Forest trom destruction (1 hr 22 mm) DSN Tue 10:00 am “Emmanuelle” (1974) Sylvia Kristel Alain Cuny The wile ot a French diplomat becomes involved in a senes ot sexual liaisons after ommg her husband in Thailand (1 hr 32 mm) MAX Thu 12 45 a m “The End” (1978) Burt Reynolds Dom De Luise After discovering that ne has but three months to live a man decides to make peace with friends and family before at'Ft (1 hr 40 min ) TMC Sat 800 pm tempting suicide (1982) Robert Urich JcB-et- h “Endangered Species" Williams A New York City detective helps a Wyoming shenit investigate a spate ot local cattle mutilations (2 hrs) WGN Mon 1030 p m (1939) Loretta Young David “Eternally Yours” Niven A young wite tries to persuade her magician nustiand to leave his career and settle down (2 hrs) NIC Sun 2 00 am Week ot September 25 August 1 ' |