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British Beginnings. This sort of generational drama, though in tamer form, has long been a staple of British television in series like The Forsyte Saga and, more recently, The Pallisers. The latter, based on the novels of Anthony Trollope and starring Emmy Winner Susan Hampshire, will begin on PBS stations in the U.S. this month. The big three American networks did not show much interest in this approach until last February, when ABC gambled $5.5 million on a twelve-part adaptation of Irwin Shaw's Rich Man, Poor Man. Shaw's saga of self-made Millionaire Rudy Jordache...
MOST NEWSWORTHY NEWS SHOW: The MacNeil-Lehrer Report (PBS), which every night does what commercial broadcasting cannot, or perhaps will not, do-dives intelligently behind the headlines for reflective reporting on the day's major story...
MOST DISTINGUISHED DOCUMENTARY. Michael Roemer's Dying (PBS). A sensitive exploration of the emotions of three people confronting the ultimate crisis, it is that least common of television phenomena-a program that continues to reverberate in the mind...
Anyone who has ever crooned in a shower will get a tingle out of Amazing Grace-America in Song, a 90-minute special that many PBS stations will telecast on Wednesday night, Oct. 27. Mixing sea chanteys, Victorian parlor songs and cowboy laments, swinging from gospel to Cole Porter to Charles Ives to Billie Holiday, Producer-Director Allan Miller has created a musical mosaic that reflects the variety and vitality of American song...
...Child - her usual burbling self as she nibbled and chatted with White House Chef Henry Haller - let fly publicly at the undignified quality of the showfolks' contributions; and Upstairs, Downstairs' Jean Marsh took politely dim views of everything from American vegetables to the institution of monarchy. The PBS cameras, fighting through the longueurs of the event and the difficulties imposed by protocol, did manage to make a couple of nice observations. They disclosed that in unguarded moments, the Queen has a truly sweet, curiously girlish smile. They also showed that the only glamorous male present, Gary Grant...