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...PBS, Oct. 7-11, 9 p.m. on most stations). Everything you wanted to know about the environment but were afraid to find out, in 10 hours with Meryl Streep as host. (The series is being repeated in weekly hour-long segments on Thursday evenings...
Patrons at the Blue Mill Tavern in New York City's Greenwich Village last Monday were greeted by a rare sight: the TV set in the bar was tuned not to Monday Night Football but to a documentary on PBS. On Capitol Hill, Senator Ted Kennedy, a Yankee Democrat, and Senator John Warner, a Virginia Republican, were riveted by the same show. Across the U.S., people debated the battlefield tactics of Robert E. Lee, marveled at the letter-writing eloquence of Civil War soldiers and traded stories of ancestors who fought in the nation's great holocaust...
...week America became, improbably, a nation of Civil War buffs. The Civil War got the highest ratings of any series in PBS history: a score of 9.0 in Nielsen's 24 major markets, equal to 14 million viewers, more than quadruple the public network's usual prime-time audience. Video stores, meanwhile, reported a burst in sales of blank cassettes to people who wanted to tape the episodes...
...show promises to have a healthy life beyond last week's telecast. A companion book is selling briskly (Knopf; $50), and a nine-volume set of videocassettes is being offered by TIME-LIFE Video ($188.82). More than 7,000 schools and libraries have queried PBS about acquiring the cassettes and accompanying teaching materials. PBS has already scheduled a rerun for January...
HEAT OF THE DAY (PBS, Sept. 30, 9 p.m. on most stations). For those who like their mysteries solved in one evening, Michael Gambon plays a suspicious stranger who latches on to a divorcee in World War II London, in this Masterpiece Theater drama scripted by Harold Pinter...