| Show Rookie of the year Roseanne Lisa Keene Horizon Feature Editor This years year's television season got off to a slow start because of the writers writer's strike but has it taken off The Rookie of the Year award has to go to ABCs ABC's Roseanne Utah native Roseanne Barr Barris is a welcome change from the Reed Donna-Reed- Huxtable Clair-Huxtable maternal miracles to which we are accustomed And her husband is far from the Jim Anderson we all know and love from Father Knows Best The kids arent aren't exactly Opie Taylor but they are the all- all American children It makes for a great half half- hour if you like slapstick one-liner one humor Another great new-comer new is CBS's Murphy Brown Candice Bergen stars as a career- career oriented work-a-holic work television news per per- She's strong feisty and quick The once top-rated top ABC Moonlighting has lost its punch Maddie was great with child when we left David and her last season But this season began with the mysterious miscarriage of the little Hayes Last I hear they are back to solving cases as detectives detectives detectives detec detec- tives and gave up on the bickering lovers routine But Brit the season is still early dont don't give up on them yet NBC's A Different World has improved this season With the absence of the character on which the series was based it has seemed to thrive Hopefully when Lisa Bonet returns 1 the show will continue to do so ABCs ABC's is still promising for yuppie wonderland Michael and Hope are expecting their second child this season and maybe if were we're lucky the producers will go all an the way to the birth and the dilemma of a Jewish or Christian baptism The often over-looked over and underrated shows are on Fox Network Channel 13 on oh Sunday nights There you have the modern- modern day Archie Bunker in the form of Al AI Bundy on Married With Children You have the f whiny but but hilarious Its It's Garry Show also seen on Show Show- time where the opening theme is called This is the Theme to Garry's Show Then you have the Tracey Ullman Show with the star who can go from year old brace- brace face Francesca to a year old retired psychology professor We can always rely on the tried and true old stand-by's stand Night Court Family Ties in its last season Cheers Growing Pains LA Law Golden Girls and good old Sesame Street Yes we can still learn from Kermit Cookie Monster and Grover It seems that comedy or is the popular theme this season We can all count counton on a good laugh when we turn on the tube |
