Word: homefront
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sometimes in ways meddlesome or even Machiavellian. Boyd Gaines, who won a Tony Award as a saintly gay doctor in The Heidi Chronicles, balances amiability and creepiness in the role. He is ably backed by TV stars Adam Arkin (Northern Exposure), Laila Robins (Gabriel's Fire) and John Slattery (Homefront...
...duds you know are better than the duds you don't. The biggest surprise on the fall schedules is the number of shows that weren't canceled. Steven Bochco's drama Civil Wars, ABC's post-World War II soap opera Homefront, CBS's nostalgic sitcom Brooklyn Bridge, and NBC's family drama I'll Fly Away were all marginal performers in the ratings. But all will be back in the fall. They are upscale, critic-friendly shows that, the networks hope, could catch on with a little patience...
...mother and son make their respective contributions to the war effort. Director William Wyler simultaneously develops two themes: the devastation of the war and the reluctance of the British to forgo their everyday lives. The engrossing melodrama brings home the message of the effects of the war on the homefront...
...thin and self-indulgent as the new decade dawned. But with its end drawing near and character crises mounting -- a cancer scare, a sudden death -- the show revealed that it was made of sterner stuff. No network series has captured a milieu with such uncompromising fidelity. And Homefront is no substitute...
...thin and self-indulgent as the new decade dawned. But with its end drawing near and character crises mounting -- a cancer scare, a sudden death -- the show revealed that it was made of sterner stuff. No network series has captured a milieu with such uncompromising fidelity. And Homefront is no substitute...