Word: pbs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TIMELINE (PBS, debuting Feb. 22, 8:30 p.m. on most stations). The Crusades, | the Mongol invasion of Europe and other hot stories of the Middle Ages are covered as TV news might do it today, sound bites and all, in this six-part series...
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...
...AGAIN (PBS, Feb. 8, 9 p.m. on most stations). A boy and girl cope with some aggressive parental matchmaking in this American Playhouse comedy, scripted by Broadway newcomer (Eastern Standard) Richard Greenberg...
TALKING HEADS: BED AMONG THE LENTILS (PBS, Feb. 12, 9 p.m. on most stations). Maggie Smith holds the stage for nearly an hour, portraying a vicar's frustrated wife in a monologue written and directed by Alan Bennett...
...science, art, mythology and civilization, as well as the hot and cold wars of the 20th century, have been creditably presented in public-TV documentaries, usually with what are called in the trade "book tie-ins." Now the history of the Bomb is traced in a masterly 13-part PBS series, War and Peace in the Nuclear Age, and in a comprehensive, highly readable companion book of the same title (Knopf; $22.95). The book, published last week, is by John Newhouse, a veteran diplomatic historian who writes for The New Yorker. The TV series begins this week...