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Show WEDNESDAY OCT. 11, 1878 ((Wednesday)) EVENING 600 NEWS QQPCD O ZOOM NEWLYWED GAME 630 8 CROSS WITS EASY Host O A F L 7.30 Downs Hugh C I O Guest President fourth-grad- teacher, e Nicholas and his family soon disagree over the value of affection (60 mins ) THE JEFFERSONS P George s unexpected offer to help Louise and Allan cut through the red tape that's delaying the move of the Help Center turns into more trouble than anyone is prepared to handle H SHOW CD Hugh DICK CAVETT EASY Host Downs Guest OVER O and that life may be passing him by (2 hrs ) President O MARIE CURIE Poland and Paris' A naive young governess, Marie Slodowska leaves Warsaw fo study IN THE BEGINNING MACNEIL physics in Paris She to a be proves dedicated young physicist and becomes first the European woman to achieve a doctorate (60 mins ) LEHRER REPORT EIGHT IS ENOUGH Falling head over heels in puppy love for his O O REPORT O I rash of thievery at the mission looks like an inside job. but Sister Aggie and Father Cleary can t agree on how to deal with the problem George Meany fD MACNEIL LEHRER 700 C A OVER A F L -- George Meany LA CD MEXICANA 8 00 O ANGELS COCINA CHARLIE'S The Angels CD ELECTION 78 penetrate an exclusive spa known as a hotbed of scandal and blackmail to investigate the murder of a famous Broadway Actress. (60 mins 9 00 ) O NIGHT O OTHER BROADWAY Guest Teresa Brewer (60 mins ) VEGAS Someone O wants to do away with a former madam, and Dan Tanna is hired to protect would-bfrom her assailants, including real estate swindlers s and Guest star. Molly Picon. (60 WEDNESDAY MOVIE 'Lifeguard' Stars Sam e Elliott, Anne Archer At age 32, a lifeguard who has long gloried in his call-girl- heroic and glamorous role suddenly realizes it may have been too long mins ) O PERGREAT FORMANCES 'Paul Galileos Verna U S O A Girl'' rather young girl joins U S O a second-rat- e troupe and sings and dances her way into the hearts of the Armed Forces behind enemy lines during World War II (90 mins ) MARIE CURIE Poland and Paris' A naive young governess, Marie Slodowska leaves Warsaw to study (D physics In Paris. She to a be proves dedicated young physicist and becomes first the European woman to achieve a doctorate (60 mins ) 10 00 NEWS BOO MACNEIL LEHRER (D REPORT 10 30 TONIGHT p THE SHOW Host Johnny Carson Guests Jean Marsh, Donna Summer, Paul Ehrlich (90 mins ) WOMAN-SW- .A POLICE O T. Police Dr Woman-'l- ce Pepper and Crowley pose as international jewel fences to break a gang of jewel thieves (R) SWAT -'- Murder By Fire Hondo and his team go after a gang of arsonist killers who pose as firemen (R, 2 hrs., 15 mins ) Dabney Coleman CROSSTALK This program takes a look at how music students and professional jazz Dabney Coleman, who stars as new 'Apple Pie senes, is an Fast Eddie on student who suddenly decided to perform before the camera instead of before the bar Born in Austin, Tex , on Jan 3, Dabney is the son of the late Randolph and Mary Johns Coleman He attended Corpus Christi (Texas) High School where he was the campus tennis star and then attended Virginia Military Institute for two years, followed by two years at the University of Texas The U S Army was next on Dabney's agenda For two years, as a member of the Army's Special Services Division, he played tennis across the continent He then returned to the University of Texas where he spent more than a year studying law While there, he was introduced to the late actor Zachary Scott, who also was an Austin native, and was so impressed by the actor that he changed his career plans He flew tb New York City, gained an interview at Sanford Meisner's Neighborhood Playhouse, was accepted and studied diligently enough to receive a scholarship for his second year there Soon afterwards, Dabney made his Broadway debut-i'A Call on Kurpin ' Although he followed that with summer stock engagements throughout the East, he decided that Hollywood was the place to be and moved west in 1962 In Hollywood, Dabney soon was signed to a contract at Universal Studios and became a familiar face because on many TV series, acting on the stage of and appearing in films like This Property Is Condemned,' 'The Slender Thread,' 'The Scalp Hunters' and 'The Other Side of the Mountain ' A few years ago, Dabney got the role as Merle Jetter, Mayor of Fernwood and Presidential candidate in' Norman Lear's popular Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman Dabney's impact in the role was so great, the role was enlarged and made a permanent part of the innovative series Dabney lives with his wife actress Jean Hale in Pacific Palisades, Calif He has three children, Kelly Johns, 14, Randolph, 10, and Mary Johns, 6 His major hobby is still tennis ABC-TV- O guest-starrin- musicians ex-la- 's g meet and interact at one of the Stan Kenton music clinics which are held at schools and colleges throughout the country (D ABC CAPTIONED NEWS 10 40 Q GUNSMOKE 11.00 O 11.30 40 12 00 11 MACNEIL LEHRER REPORT JULIA CHILD AND OD COMPANY Holiday Lunch' This program illustrates the knack of preparing a perfect picnic or holiday lun- cheon, ready to serve six to twenty people ABC CAPTIONED Q NEWS B I. O FTOMORROW Host. p Tom Snyder. Guest Steve Levenkron, (60 psychotherapist. mins ) LEONTYNE PRICE THE WHITE HOUSE In the East Room of the White House, famed soprano Leontyne Price sings selections from Handel, Puccini, Richard Strauss and five American composers, some pieces being (60 mins ) spirituals 12 40 MIKE DOUGLAS Q AT O AND NETWORKS STATIONS RESERVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE PMANrcPQ f MARIE CURIE M.irie Curie,' a special series of five hour long weekly dramas about the life and work of the most famous woman scientist of all time the discoverer of radium, the winner of two Nobel Prizes premieres on Wednesday. Oct 1 1 on PBS The series spans the forty eight years between 1886 and 1934 during which Marie Curie struggles as a student in Paris where higher education previously was closed to women, chooses a career in science and. seemingly insurmountable becomes one of the most accomplished and famous women ever to live despite oddS. In 'Marie Curie.' filmed on location in England and France, Jane Lapotaire (pictured) appears as Madame Curie and Nigel Hawthorne as her husband Pierre The series reveals its heroine as tenacious and indomitable, capable of great warmth and compassion, yet painfully shy She emerges as an early feminist, although her self perception undoubtedly did not include the concept as it practiced today is understood and |