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...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...
ETHICS IN AMERICA (PBS, starting Jan. 31, 10 p.m. on most stations). What is an individual's responsibility to the homeless? How far can lawyers go in defending a client? These and other knotty questions will be probed in a ten- week series of free-form debates, introduced by Fred Friendly...
...PBS; Mondays; 8 p.m. on most stations...
...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...