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Show , TV TATTLE ! , Jane Fonda to TV Jane Fonda, twice winner of the Oscar for best actress, will make her dramatic television tele-vision debut on ABC when she stars in a three-hour "ABC Theatre" presentation based on Harriette Arnow's "The Dollmaker." It's the story of Gertie Nevels, a fiercely self-reliant self-reliant woman who is uprooted uproot-ed from her home in the Kentucky Ken-tucky hills during World War II. With her five children she accompanies her husband to Detroit where he works in a factory. Displaced from the land she loves. Geriie endures personal anguish and hardship through which she struggles and ultimately triumphs. 'Soared Straight' again Golden West Television, which already has gotten considerable con-siderable mileage out of the Academy Award winning "Scared Straight" documentary, documenta-ry, has begun production on a two-hour telefilm. "Scared Straight Another Story" for CBS The new film is a fictional fiction-al story that will show juvenile juve-nile crime. counseling sessions, parents' relationships relation-ships to juvenile crime, juvenile juve-nile offenders, and will have a ' love story j ,."''- Miche set for special Internationally known Mikhail Baryshnikov will be joined by guest star Nell Carter, the entire national company cast of "A Chorus Line" and Liza Minnelli in a one-hour salute to the American Ameri-can musical theater. The program, "IBM Presents Baryshnikov Bar-yshnikov on Broadway." is scheduled to air in April on ABC. 'Old House' goes national Montgomery Ward & Company Com-pany will fund "This Old House." a national series designed to take the mystery out of home renovation, produced pro-duced by WGBH in Boston for telecasting on PBS this year. "This Old House" is a 39-part "how-to" series focusing on the rehabilitation of two very-different very-different kinds of houses and is based on the tremendously successful local series of the same name that aired on WGRH early in 1979. Then the station purchased a large dilapidated dila-pidated old house for $17,000. conducted a total renovation job inside and out and finally sold the property at the station's fund-rasing auction for $55.000.. ,. . '. |