Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...came last week. Initially, the White House sought to purchase time for a major TV address, but the networks balked. Reagan's aides then requested a free half-hour for what they billed as a "nonpartisan" economic report to the nation. Over the howls of Democrats, CBS and NBC agreed...
...mode this year-even ends with a plug to send the youngsters out to the library, where they can get the full scoop on some of the history the show has skimmed. A sort of hybrid of You Are There and the film Time Bandits, Voyagers! (NBC, Sunday, 7-8 p.m.) features Jon-Erik Hexum as a pilgrim from the future who crash-lands in the apartment of a lonely city boy (Meeno Peluce). Hexum, who is rigged out in knee boots, tight trou and leather jerkin, looks to have lost his way en route to a community-theater production...
...Quadris. One of this legion actually enrolls in Crestridge and shows her otherworldly qualities by unnatural rigidity of posture, persistent dilation of the pupils and a refusal to use contractions when speaking Earth talk. For all his telekinetic talents, though, the weirdest thing about The Powers of Matthew Star (NBC, Friday, 8-9 p.m. E.D.T.) is its portrait of adolescent America, all milk snacks and malt shops and homecoming games. Barton is so reminiscent of Donny Osmond that the viewer keeps waiting for him to levitate a can of Hawaiian Punch while whistling God Bless America. These shows...
...Favorite Year" is 1954, and the narrator is Benjy (Mark Linn-Baker), a junior scriptwriter-cum-gopher on an NBC comedy show. His job is to keep an eye on the show's upcoming guest star, Alan Swann (O'Toole), a faded but still popular swashbuckler whom Benjy idolizes. His task is not an easy one: a man who keeps flasks of 12-year-old scotch sewn into the lining of his coat. Swann has a propensity for appearing on tabloid covers in morally dubious positions...
...speech was added to Reagan's schedule alter unemployment rose to 10 1 percent on September NBC and CBS carried of live. ABC did not saying it could adequately cover Reagan's speech and the Democratic response in its regular news shows...