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Show (0 i . RED ALERT 'Red Alert,' a suspense thriller about an accident at a nuclear power plant which raises the horrifying specter of atomic annihilation, stars William Devane, Michael Brandon and Adrienne Barbeau on 'The CBS Wednesday Night Movies,' May 18. When a mysterious breakdown occurs in a nuclear-power station in Minnesota, the giant Proteus computer com-puter in Colorado erroneously detects escaped radiation and seals off the building, trapping 14 technicians inside. Frank Brolen, an investigator for the Department of Nuclear Energy, immediately begins an on-site probe into the crisis, but his superior in Colorado refuses to countermand the :omputer-ordered shutdown. Meanwhile, Proteus has calculated Ihree possibilities for the accident: human error, defective equipment, or sabotage. It begins to look like sabotage, but the more fundamental question is raised: Who is in control of this dread nuclear complex, man or machine? CONSULT OUB LISTINGS FOR LAST MINUTE NETWORK NET-WORK CHANGES AND FOfl EXACT AIR TIME. M |