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Show TV SPECIAL Police Story The Other Side of the Fence" A officer police poses as a fence is order to get evidence to arrest a pair of jewel thieves (R) Thursday Night Special "Academy of Country Music Awards" Pat Boone and Patti ts of this Page are the special (R) (2 hrs .30 min ) ((thursday)) THURSDAY NOV 10.1977 EVENING NEWS lOOQOeiD a ZOOM 0 30 O FAMILY FEUD WITS O CROSS CONCENTRATION eO (D REPORT 7 00 CHIPS Landscape larceny of the plants and shrubs along the Los Angeles freeways poses a major problem for the CHP (60 min ) O the LOVE BOAT Three Vignettes "Identical Problem" Stars Diana Canova, Bernle "Julie's Old Flame" Kopell Stars David Hedlson, Lauren Tewes The Jinx" Stars Ray Bolger Harriet Nelson THE WALTONS Mary Ellen and Erin suffer when Mary Ellen's husband Is drafted, and Erin's former boyfriend enlists in the Army (60 min ) AS WE 8EE IT "New World" San Francisco explores schools through the eyes of MACNEIL-LEHRE- Claudius his composing memoirs until he recalls a banquet attended by his granda mother, Llvia, coldly manipulative beauty, and her the Emperor husband, Augustus 10 00 NEWS OQ MASTERPIECE THEATRE "I. Claudius Episode One "A of Murder" Touch Robert Graves' account of the decaying Roman Empire, ruled by the despotic Claudians, opens with his Claudius composing memoirs until he recalls a banquet attended by his granda Llvia, mother, coldly manipulative beauty, and her the Emperor husband, oo UTAH WEEKEND R Q Q Augustus 10 30 MACNEIL-LEHRE- Q THE TONIGHT SHOW Host R Guests Carson Johnny Thalassa Cruso (Gardening expert), Charles Nelson Reilly, Terri Garr (90 min POLICE CD dick CAVETT 10 40 11 00 5 spotlight Guest sleight-of-han- d SHOW Guest Robards, Academy actor g LOWELL THOMAS the first of a two-pa- rt study of the political career of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, film clips recall his term as governor of New York and the first two terms of his Presidency in which he steered the country through the Depression and organized the New Deal 30 O ABC CAPTIONED NEWS REMEMBERS 40 12 00 11 ) DICK CAVETT Q Jason CD 11 and in the master QGUNSMOKE Award-winnin- I Guest Parker (60 min 12 40 In OF B O TOMORROW Snyder ) Y SHOW Siydlnl, magician REPORT CD a LOG NIGHT Host Tom Rev Everett ) ONEWS O students Ponstudents recommend that restrictive school rules adopted after 1971 rioting be changed in "Day Without Incident". CD MOVIE "King of The Pecos" 1936 John Wayne, Muriel Evans A lawyer, seeking revenge for the murder of his parents, gathers the ranchers against the crooks Asian-Americ- tiac, 7 30 6 00 Mich , PlPOffil I, Claudius REPORT O MACNEILLEHRER JAMES AT 15 A confused O James Is caught between opposing moralities that divide the Hunter family (60 min ) , O WELCOME MOVIE aRobert BACK. KOTTER The Candidate" 1972 Redford, Peter Boyle best-sellin- An Idealist Is talked Into running for office In the Senate ONCE UPON A CLASSIC The Legend of Robin Hood" Episode Six With Marlon s help, Robin escapes and rejoins his men When they hear further news of Prince John's tyranny they attack his labor camp In order to free the slaves and there discover all his O C amassed revenues CD ANTIQUES "Currier Prints" 8 30 andlves O MOVIE The Girls of Hun tington House" 1973 Shirley e Mercedes Jones, Teacher In a school for unwed mothers, finds herself being drawn more and more to students' Individual problems McCam-bridg- WINNERS AND LOSERS O CD ERICA "From The Garden" 9 00 ROSETTI Q beautiful AND young RYAN A Qada Thompson student, of a famous television daughter star,- - pays off a traffic violation with counterfeit money and then hires Rosetti and Ryan to defend her (60 min ) best OF FAMILIES The Election Patronage or Paradise" In 1886 John Patrick Rafferty foresees a quick way out of poverty when the corrupt Tammany Hall machine offers him a job after the election His brother supports a working-clas- s candidate, while the wealthy Teddy Wheeler backs a newcomer by the name of Theodore Roosevelt o CD MASTERPIECE THEATRE "I, Claudius" Episode One "A Touch of Murder" Robert Graves' account of the decaying Roman Empire, ruled by the despotic Claudians, opens with Sada Thompson, who stars as Kate Lawrence, mother of the Lawrence family in the ABC series Family, became interested in acting in her childhood, and her dedication to her craft since then has lifted the actress to the top of her profession Thompson has collected most of the major awards the theater can bestow In addition to winning the Tony, she was awarded the Variety Poll of New York Critics Citation and the Outer Critics Circle Award for her characterizations of the four women in Twigs She also carried off the 1973 Sarah Siddons Award for her performance in the National Company production of that play Earlier on, she won the Obie Award for Best Performance, a Drama Desk Award, and the Variety Poll of New York Critics Citation for her portrayal in play The Effects Marigolds Other awards include an Obie for her portrayal in the ANTA Washington Square Repertory production of Tartuffe, and Drama Desk Awards for her appearances in The River Line and The Misanthrope Ms Thompson's most recent stage appearances have been in The Cherry Orchard' at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, Saturday, Sunday, Monday in New York and All My Sons at the Huntington Hartford Theatre in Holywood Her motion picture credits include 'Pursuit of Happiness and Paul James Brolin says: "Birth defects are forever ...unless you help. Give to the March of Dimes non-sto- THEATRE Check your local PBS station tor broadcast day and time Born in Des Moines, Iowa, Miss Thompson was raised in Fanwood, New Jersey After primary and secondary school studies, she enrolled as a drama major at Pittsburghs Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon) Her first New York stage appearance was in a YMHA production of Under Milkwood,' with Dylan Thomas and she appeared twice more in that verse-dram- a revival and in the in William Balls National Educational Television presentation During her distinguished acting career, Ms Zindels Pulitzer Prize-winni- of Gamma Rays on d MASTERPIECE THEATRE, which has housed the formidable Forsytes, decorous Bellamys, swashbuckling Poldarks and delightful Dickenses, will be taken over by the corrupt Claudians, the family whose business was ruling the world, when I, Claudius moves in on PBS beginning TV adaptation of Robert Graves The g novels depicts the murderous intrigue and unparalleled lust that characterized the Claudians' singleminded pursuit for power and led to the downfall of Rome Their story is told by Claudius, whose royal relatives mistook his physical handicaps for mental incompetence, and had no idea that the stuttering, limping butt of their ridicule would ever become Emperor Derek Jacobi (pictured above), who's now in Hamlet' at London's Old Vic, plays Claudius in the London Films-BBproduction which won six awards when it aired in England British critics hailed it as "outstanding . . a resounding success . undoubtedly the best produced, best directed and best acted series of the . boisterous, gutsy, irreverent . . . a triumph." year Sian Phillips portrays the beautiful Llvia, who connived, deceived and murdered her husband and children d and others in a succession of power plays that outdistance the Borgias Brian Blessed is Augustus, Ian son whose the her unsuspecting husband, Ogllvie is death she engineers and George Baker is Tiberius, the son who owes his crown to her foul play Margaret Tyzack Is Antonia, mother of the sickly, limping Claudius, and Shelia White is Messalina, the lady of the evening who becomes his third wife p The mad Caligula, who led Rome on a orgy of blood and lust, is played by John Hurt. The MASTERPIECE THEATRE series recreates in opulent authentic detail the glory that was Rome and the human foibles and flaws that tarnished and ultimately destroyed it. Alistair Cooke is host for MASTERPIECE Desperate Characters Among her infrequent television appearances were her finely honed characterization of Mary Todd Lincoln in the series Sandburg s Lincoln and 'The Entertainer,' in which she starred with Jack Lemmon She had the distinction of being nominated for two Emmy awards for these roles brown-haire- d acIn private life, the brown-eyetress is Mrs Donald Stewart They reside in Manhattan Their daughter, Liza, is a costume designer d, mm pnESmiPT!3:j BEUVEBV COMPARE OUR LOW PRESCRIPTION PRICES s |