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Show TZSfCOVER amateor paiaten on oar cover Ob week are Diana Quick, left, in the role of Marian r, Holcombe, and Jenny Seagrove ai her Lanra FairIk. They dabble in watered-or- s before terror strikes in the Wilkk Collins The half-siste- chiller The Woman in White, fended for Mystery! and premiering Thnrsday at 8 pjn. on KUED. (See Harold ScUndkrs Television Today column on this page.) five-pa- rt Television Today Wilkie Collins follows Sherlock by Harold Schindler Tribune Television Editor Talk about a tough act to follow Wilkie Collins, who wrote the first British detective novel, The Woman In White, in response to a suggestion by his friend Charles Dickens, in 1859, is the next series on Mystery! The curtain will go up at KUED Thursday at 8 p.m., with the first episode of a five-pa- rt series. The Woman in White is no stranger to drama and received many British accolades when it was introduced in England, starring Diana Quick, Ian Richardson, Alan Badel and John Shrapnel. But to Mystery! fans, The Woman in White will be following in the gigantic footsteps of the master detective, Sherlock Holmes, whose most recent success has been with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, faithful adaptations of seven Sir Arthnr Conan Doyle stories, which starred Jeremy Brett and David Barke. (A second series of Holmes cases will be seen on PBS later.) what a tough act to follow! As I remarked earlier But then Collins has had that experience before. His friend, Dickens, had launched a new magazine, 2T The Salt Lake Tribune, TV Magazine, All the Year Roaad, back 125 years ago, and to build circulation he suggested to Wilkie Collins that they each write a serialized novel for the magazine. What Dickens turned out was something called Tale of Two Cities; you may have heard of it It ran first in All the Year Roaad, and Collins work, The Woman in White followed. (That was not exactly a piece of cake, either.) However, Collins drama of suspense, intrigue, passion and duplicity was by far the more popular. He later published it as a book and sold out six editions in six months. (By golly, there must have been some d readers in those days.) To refresh memories, the story begins as a ghostly vision of a woman dressed completely in white appears on Londons Hampstead Heath one evening and speaks to a passer-ba young art instructor. She startles him by whispering the name of the family he is to join the following day as a tutor. two-fiste- y, This apparition turns out to be Anne Catherick, committed to an asylum by Sir Percival Clyde, whos soon to marry Laura, a wealthy young woman who strangely resembles the ghostly vision. Laura lives with her unr, Marian. cle, Frederick Fairlie, and a Sunday, April 28, 1985 half-siste- See Page T-5- 5, Colima 1 |
