Word: parter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...WHITE AMERICA (ABC, Aug. 29, 10 p.m. EDT); THE R.A.C.E. (NBC, Sept. 5 and 6, 10 p.m. EDT). Two networks tackle the difficult subject of race relations. The ABC report is a series of profiles put together by the network's black producers and correspondents; NBC's live two-parter, with Bryant Gumbel as host, features a survey of viewers' attitudes on race...
CRISTABEL (PBS, debuting Feb. 19, 9 p.m. on most stations). Acclaimed TV dramatist Dennis Potter (The Singing Detective) shifts from fantasy to fact in this four-parter about an Englishwoman who spent World War II as a citizen of Nazi Germany...
JACK THE RIPPER (CBS, Oct. 21 and 23, 9 p.m. EDT). Michael Caine is a Scotland Yard detective tracking down the granddaddy of all serial killers in this two- parter...
...BOURNE IDENTITY (ABC, May 8 and 9, 9 p.m. EDT). Mr. Mini-Series, Richard Chamberlain, stars in a two-parter based on Robert Ludlum's novelabout an amnesiac desperately seeking his past...
Like a fifth-grader caught without his homework, Moonlighting has plenty of excuses. In the midst of filming the multi-parter, Willis broke his collarbone on a Sun Valley ski slope and was absent three days. Another two weeks' worth of shooting was lost while Shepherd, who is expecting twins in October, was fighting off morning sickness. Those misfortunes only complicated the show's chronic inability to stay on schedule. Most network series turn out at least 22 new episodes a season; Moonlighting will be lucky to scrape together 17. Its scripts are often finished just a few hours before...