Word: pbs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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STAND AND DELIVER (PBS, March 15, 8 p.m. on most stations). Edward James Olmos is up for an Academy Award for his performance as a dedicated inner-city math teacher in this fact-based film, produced for American Playhouse and now having its TV debut...
BERNSTEIN AT 70 (PBS, March 19, 9 p.m. on most stations). A musical tribute, held at Tanglewood last August, featuring Beverly Sills, Bobby McFerrin, Betty Comden and many other admirers from the music world...
...GLENN MILLER BAND REUNION (PBS, March 10, 9 p.m. on most stations). In the mood again, with bandleader (and former Miller trumpeter) Billy May, Kay Starr, Jack Jones and more...
PROMISES TO KEEP (PBS, March 1, 10 p.m. on most stations). Mitch Snyder, the Washington advocate for the homeless who was portrayed by Martin Sheen in a TV movie, is profiled again -- for real this time -- in an Oscar-nominated documentary...
...seems likely to endure. Its producers have received badly needed funding in the form of a $100,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation and $25,000 from the Carnegie Corporation. The show has also won a satellite slot that will make it available to the nation's 334 PBS stations by late spring. Far from fearing competition from the upstart broadcast, many network staffers are actively rooting for its success. That is one piece of good news about South Africa that everyone can share...