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Show Monday April 2.1979. THE HERALD. Prove Utah— TVI1 * Judd Hirsch Motors to Success With ‘Taxi (NBC) couldn't kept very busy on Broad: afford to play it for a way and. off-Broadway smaller audience. It winning a Drama Desk ‘only’ had 15 million peo: award for his perform ple watching andbytele. ance in Jules Feiffer's vision standards, that’s “Knock Knock miniscule. Also, the pilot After a number of was the best-written guest-starring roles in script. We feared we series, aid starring perglowing critical couldn't keepit up.” formances in TV movies, acclaim?” So Hirsch started com- he returned to the regular Hirsch responds: “I muting between Broad- grind to star in “Delvechave a feeling the net- way and Hollywood. He chio” at CBS, which cast himas a detective. That. too, was a brief, one-sea son fling because of ane- (Continued from Page 10) work wasnot renewed afterits first season. That was in 1974, and since, Hirsch reports that he’s asked one question more than any other “Why didn't ‘The Law make it if it had such WEDNESDA gambleon another series predictions. ) forever,’ he responds ts a New York show It has lived up to its ‘Sometimes, however, intrinsically it is a New because the people Hirsch things happen beyond York-acted show involved had a great TV expectations,” maintains. “There's great control. track record You get new Hirseh is a New Yorker The series, which is trust between the writers lead-ins, or writers go to who says he never was and producers. We've York taxi garage and done well. Everybody primarily set in a New concerns the drivers and expected garagecrew, is thecre- ation of a much heralded Tyler Moore stable to office response. On broadway, he scored well in “Chapter Two,” but was lured away by the promise of “Taxi.” He was willing to COVE Q 11:00 ‘THE JEFFERSONS SAVETT @ MACNEIL / LEHRER REPORT 11:30 7:30 @ Mass WINSLOW AND son e f) CAPTIONED ABC NEWS 1) RAT PATROL 11:35 8:00 THE FBI 11:40 12:00 @ TOMORROW NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SPECIAL 12:30 © MCBALE’S NAVY 12:40 MIKE DOUGLAS 9:00 © VEGAS @ Kaz 2:10 © NEWs WHEELS 8:00 @ MORMON FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS “Blind Love” 9:00 THE SCARLET LETTER Seven years have passed since Hester Prynne gave birth to the ille gitimate Pearl, Dimmesdale seems close to death, and Hester real izes she must reveal Chillingworth’s true identity to him. (Part 3 of 4) @ THE SCARLET LETTER When Hester Prynne is condemned by the people of 17th-century Boston for adultery, she is visited by her long lost husband Roger Chillingworth, who swears her to secrecy abouthis identity and sets out tofind and punish her lover (Part 1 of 4) 10:00 @ MORMON WORLD CONFERENCE 12:00 @ NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SPECIAL “The Tigris Expedition’ Thor Heyerdahl’s final and climactic voy age is commemorated with film plus additional footage of the Kon Tiki and Ra expeditions set. I think ensemble acting of this nature is only good when the people get to know each other. “You know what to expect from each other,” he explains by Madison Avenue as Howlong would helike the show with the most to remain committed” “When you have somepotential (“Mork and thing that works well, Mindy” was c ond in the pre-season you want it to work NEWYORK (UPI) can watch an hour's ‘But in my opinion Avoiding traffic jams, worth of highlights on there has been too much war zones, collisions with PBS April 1 8 p.m (Continued on Page 15) supertankers the an Eastern time (check cient Sumerians never local listings). had to put up with the Heyerdahlexplained in problems Thor Heyerdahl an interview that he faced on hislatest rafting wanted to prove two adventure. things — that the bardi Heyerdahl, the reed of Iraq, if collected in August, seaworthy and was that archaelogist who gained world fame with KonTiki navigation was possible and the Ra Expeditions aboard a reed boat traveled 4200 miles He proved both. from the Tigris River in “IT have always been 12:00 @ # #4 “The Shuttered Room” (1967) Gig Young. Carol Lynley. A Iraq, down the Persian interested in how civiliayoungcouple inherits a cursed millhouseon an island Gulf, across the Arabian tion at a primitive state 2:00 Sea to Pakistan and back, crossed the oceans,” 4 & & “The Left Hand Of God” (1955) Humphrey Bogart, Gene winding up at the Tierney. A pilot disguises himself as a priest in order to get out of entrance to the Red Sea Heyerdahl said. “I certainly don’t want to take China in 1947 in the tiny northeast away from Columbus. EVENING African republic of who wasthe greatest ex7:00 Djibouti. plorer of all times, who @ * # & "The Devil And Miss Jones” (1941) Jean Arthur, Charles Thetrip took 143 days opened up the new world Coburn In order to find out first-hand what all the employees are crabbing and complaining about, a department store owner goes but American audiences and changed history incognito and works among them for awhile 8: ‘4 & & "The Philadelphia Story” (1940) Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart. A young Philadelphia woman's marriageis watched over carefully bythecity's socialites. The once-happy marriage of auto executive AdamTrenton (Rock Hudson) and his wife Erica (Lee Remick) founders because of his infatuation with a revolutionary car, the Hawk, and her loveaffair with a race-car driver (John Beck) (Part 1 of 4) (R) 8:30 the is and Ed Weinberger, all on and contends that credited with the concepts of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “Rhoda” and “Phyllis,” form this acclaimed group. It was a much-heralded pre-season series, picked WEDNESDAY'S MOVIES AFTERNOON WEDNESDAY’S SPECIALS EVENING from Sumarians Never Knew explorer- Holly ‘Onething wedo ts not wood. “I never got sucked into the system.” he says What's the show. We've brought defensively a lot of NewYork street important is that he’s a lower theintelligence of dirty underwear Hirsch says its the busiest set he’s ever been Heyerdahl Has Trouble Norwegian overwhelmed by other things form their own company we're into each other's under an exclusive ABC deal. James L. Brooks, Morerecently, before Stan Daniels, David Dav- film, ‘King of the Gypsies.” The critics were mixedin their reaction, but Hirsch was praised, and the film has generated a strong box- of the team of writers and pro- ters The guys in thecast sense. Intrinsically, this working actor. ducers whodefected, as a all get along. We seeeach body, from the Mary other all the time, away mic ratings and, again. “Taxi,” he starred in a that series. Now thechallenge is to expand the charac AC. ELECTRONICS FM-CB-STEREO-TV-RADIO Complete Service Dep't. 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