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Show 55 (g 6.30 m The Bartered Bride James Levine conducts the Metropolitan Opera in a new English version of Bedrich Smetena's love Featured perstory. formers in this production include Teresa Stratas as Marenka, Nicolai Gedda as Jemk, Jon Vickers as fi JGD U NAME THAT TUNE NEWLYWED GAME WITS OVER EASY Host. oo CROSS 0Hugh Guest Downs. Garson Kanin MACNEIL LEHRER REPORT 7 00 GREATEST HEROES BIBLE Two THE OF The Story Of stones Joseph, Pt II Stars Sam Bottoms, Berme Koppell Of The Judgement Tom Solomon' Stars Hallick, Steven Keats (Conclusion, 2 hrs ) O O Tom EIGHT IS LOO ENOUGH BEATLES THE FOREVER DICK CAVETT EASY OVER 7 30 oREPORT MACNEIL IB 0 CHARLIES ANGELS state of amnesia after escaping from a crazeda killer, Kris wanders into beach area where she is stalked by her attacker (60 In a mins ) Bayr 0Fay's daughter becomes THE PIRATE Al a a fanatical member terrorist guerilla group whose mission is to infather's filtrate her organization and abduct Jordana and her son, Muhammed Stars Franco Nero, Olivia Hussey, Eli of Wallach hrs ) 12:40 2:10 TO BE MIKE DOUGLAS NEWS Q (J CHANGES TV COMPULOG (Conclusion 2 0 WILD HORSES WINGS Gifted BROKEN Davene foster mother Bennett draws from her Indian heritage and deep Christian faith to develop effective an unusually approach to caring for have who youngsters or been neglected, or abandoned phaned, 1000 Steve Martin (pictured), that wild and crazy guy whom Newsweek and The Los Angeles Times called "the hottest comedian in America," will star in his first TV special when NBC-Tpresents naturally 'Steve Martin- - A Wild and Crazy Guy. Wednesday, Nov. 22 Guest stars include Bob Hope, Milton Berle. George Burns and Johnny Cash. "All Steve Martin asks is that everyone have a good time. stated Newsweek in its April 3. 1978, cover story. His approach is a throwback to vaudeville, slapstick and the comedy of his childhood idols Red Skelton and Jerry Lewis but it is flecked with a '70s penchant for act is broad . . . Martin's d enough to reach the vast audience that watches the 'Tonight' show, where he is a frequent guest and occasional host At the same time, it is hip enough to make him one of the most popular guest-host- s on TV's most irreverent comedy show. 'Saturday Night Live ' y middle-of-the-roa- AND NETWORKS STATIONS RESERVE THE MAKE RIGHT TO INC TV COMPULOG SERVICES LISTINGS EO LAST MINUTE OUR CONSULT NETWORK CHANGES AND FOR EAACT AIR TIME SER- - VICES. INC. slave over- GREAT MEDIA little-know- LEHRER '4' ABC PER FORMANCES 'Comrades' This is a witty account of a n incident that occurred during the early days of the Soviet tran-It sformation of Russia involves a scandal in the film industry (60 mins) Host LA 0 white flamboyant merchant for sale seas (60 mins ) MEXICANA 8 00 CAPTIONED 0NcWS F.8.I. 0fi0 TOMORROW ANNOUNCED subjects-fro- m dozen nude beaches to rodeos-- m his first TV special. Guest stars Bob Hope, Milton Bede, George Burns, Johnny Cash and Strother Martin. (60 mins ) VEGAI Dan sets out to O rescue a bevy of beautiful showgirls snatched by a 0 SHOW 0Guest Jan Morris, author ) dessert. 0 zany, satirical sense of humor on a couple of and Abby Bradford prepare for a large and festive Thanksgiving celebration when Nicholas invites the Vice President of the United States to dinner (60 mins ) Downs Hugh Garson Kanin REPORT JULIA CHILD AND COMPANY 'Dinner for the Boss The menu for this impressive meal includes roast beef, and Macedoine of Fruits in Champagne for 11:40 12:00 Steve Martin focuses his is CD 11:30 AND CRAZY GUY A WILD undergoing cosmetic surgery. (R, 2 15 hrs., mins.) SGUNSMOKE LEHRER 10:40 11:00 Vasek, and Martti Talvela in the role of Kecal. (3 hrs.) STEVE MARTIN: A WILD AND CRAZY GUY STEVE MARTIN: who (60 mins ) LIVE FROM THE MET spoiled. Eveningnews 600 NOV. 22,1978 MONITOR by Steve NEWS TUB ON ITS BOTTOM This jazz RY New York. features trumpeter With many of the fall N Y e companies to drum out long-fors movies and based on novels This week the TV screen will be cluttered with these productions as Freddie Hubbard and his Quintet and guitarist Pat Metheny and his group (60 mins ) 10 30 THE TONIGHT SHOW Host' Johnny Carson Guest Calvin Trillin (90 mins ) POLICE WOMA- NS W A T Police Woman-RequiFor Bored unWives Pepper's dercover work results in the arrest of a blackmailer but it turns out he is not mint-serie- test-sellin- g and the independent CBS ABC, 0 O K. Walz series being axed right and left, the networks are paying out big money to the various production prime-tim- concert, which was taped before a live audience, Operation Prime Time networks all roll out their productions Here are some facts and figures for each of these programs Proauction Pearl ABC Cost Approx $5 million Storyline The saga of how different were affected prior to during peopie and afer the attack on Pejrl Harbor Starring Dennis Weaver Angie Dirkin son Robert Wagner Lesley Ann Warren Comments After getting a glimpse at the production one got the feeling that Part took too long to zero in on the characters and the'r problems em the murderer she sought (R) SWAT -'- Silent Night, Deadly Night' A lady doctor and her patient plot to steal a half million in jewels from a socialite ACROSS 5 9 Seif esteem 10 Garden tool 12 Underwater expert 15 Time piece 13 Secretariat skill ( ihbrev 20 Frenth for 21 Complete 4? N 3 C ' vs 3 7 )n e 3se i J ii K i - t j t 19 Sun or a 23 ban i A5 26 Beget 27 ooooo oooo 29 30 33 35 36 n t life strains the marBaydr s riage and as the years pass, his group daughter Leila joins a designed to infiltrate her father s him and his heir empire destroying apparent son Baydr is then forced to deal with the Israelis Franco Nero (Baydr) Starring Anne Archer (Jordana), Olivia Hussey Leila Type of Crawling 'hn nsem Spanish or this and rive Brother of Om 38 Fx drinker s organized on 40 pronoun TV COMRiJ e ) climax 1S is tremendou$ contemporary and the Nero is 3r so uteiy magnificent 3S BayJr Anne Archer who is currents Starr ng in ,Ke Puridse Alley ftmk n mcwie houses across the country s auunrg U woolo appear to be on her w i jo headeo superstardom TFn beauty said This is the mrs colorful rc ve ever played For South American born achess Dim i Hussey who has been typecast came my way felt that this would be a great opportunity to show Olivia the producers out there that " Hussey can do other roles In summation The Pirate' is a must for TV viewers who enjoy intrigue The Production Immigrants' Prime Operation Time Cost $3 Storyline Based on the Howard The Fast novel. Immigrants documents the story of Dan Lavetta. who survives the great Frisco quake but sees his parents perish in the disaster Still a teenager Lavetta embarks on buMdmg his life from a fisherman into a shipping empire Starring Stephen Macht Sharon Giess Aharon Ipale Aimee Eccles Comments Stephen Macht who portrays Lavetta is a relatively unknown actor whose credits include performances in Raid on Entebbe and Ring of Passion The Macht endeared the role of Lavetta to his owr personal life My parents also died young and basically both Lavetta and were left with the Protestant work ethic of trying to make it on your own Call it insular upbringing Just going out and doing ,t all the accomplishments and everything that goes the aio z ' h building an empire Lavetta por through it on his way up the ladcer and ve gone through it as an actor Macht related The Immigrants novel is extremely long c J detailed while the screen version will only be a few hours Macht who has a dynamic personaliIt you wanted to tell the ty said whole story with all the little subplots you would need at least 12 hours to do it What we have done is to d'still the central part of the story while cutting out anything that did not contribute to the growth of the Lavetta character of Leila I l) IBEHSj BED B rd t i ( Feu Baydr courts and seduces American-borJordana Mason, who gives him a son 7n h rum h structure c After divorcing his first wife erne .or) is a ac e orr.mon i ft x 4 Lend y i jr n it lb fo GW' I Production Te Pirate CBS Cost Approx $3 5 million Storyline Baydr Al Fay is the Pirate in tne Harold Robbins story of an Israeli child reared as the son of a well to do royal Arab physician and entrusted by the reigning Prince with managing his country s vast oil fortune and using his elitist Western education to secure his nation s place in the world s vast The premise of TV is to The Pirate not only it thrills its sp'ne tingling and gut wrenching CBS has finally f jUnd a winner Of course there s lots ct lust and blood but it s all 'egitirmzed w thin the context of the story As I I entertain entertains i f i h Comments Pil. Lj script, which are too cliche-isPearl' is still worth watching because the story gets better as time goes on But if viewers were as bored as was in the opening segment ABC wil feei the brunt of the viewers displeasure in the Nie sens l DOWN 2 the character Unfortunately. base portrayals Weaver as the grisly commander, Wagner as a swashas Dickinson buckling captain, Weaver s adulterous wife and Warren are all typecast as a They are all talented people but they are only as good as the lines in the PLO-typ- ) tl.er t sub-plot- jet-se- 22 Perfume sme 24 Promises 25 Vv ish and ?8 id U 31 Consumes 32 Star Stjr 34 Go nto 3b F jr tmr s Fit,m,n Arm tff Medic i frequent mainly because of thesome of the to focus on jump cutting s The camera work is other of the excellent as is the attack on the Hawaiian Islands political-economi- Contraction of who is ck to puzzle answeri Donkey 37 39 4i 'Pearl, The Immigrants The Pirate ' Million Dollar Novel - ties R Du SERvilFS Sirce her inspiring peHor mance in A'cmeo and Juliet Lei'? s a ho iithy Leila that imgt departure frem a Patty Hears ype figure represents n the movie sum the bueeyed actress said st1! admits she has a that Hussey penchant for doing classic1TV senes and movies as opposed to am an actress and don t intend look to get stuck with a TV senes for a challenge and sophisticated roles, which are rare When the role DOS fnsia EBfElH C3BIE2 Ecals :o:bSb the-itr- i jc8MStre j |