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DEAF AND BLIND (PBS, June 17, 18, 24, 25, 9 p.m. on most stations). Frederick Wiseman, America's leading fly-on-the-wall filmmaker, observes an Alabama school for handicapped children in four separate documentaries...
...TRIAL OF BERNHARD GOETZ (PBS, May 11, 9 p.m. EDT on most stations). New York City's subway vigilante at the bar of justice again, in a drama based on trial transcripts...
...next fall are Group One Medical, in which real patients and doctors will discuss medical problems in front of an eavesdropping camera, and On Trial, featuring excerpts from actual court proceedings. TV docudramas are exhibiting more fidelity to the facts. The Trial of Bernhard Goetz, airing this week on PBS's American Playhouse series, dramatizes the trial of New York City's subway gunman, with all the dialogue taken directly from court transcripts. But the literal approach is oddly unsettling; without any artistic leeway, the actors (including Peter Crombie as Goetz) seem merely pale imitations of their real-life counterparts...
Ellen Goodman recently reported a "debate" over the legitimacy of astrology on PBS's MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, and I have heard Dan Rather proclaim that "astrology has been given a new legitmacy," as if it were a neutral fact. I think this new boom in superstition is bad news of the first order. Television coverage of late has been limited to interviews with psuedoscientists and their devotees, who naturally are gleeful about the recent turn of events. The press seems afraid to point out how stupid a belief in astrology is, how discredited a "science...
THIS HONORABLE COURT (PBS, May 2 and 9, 9 p.m. on most stations). A behind- the-scenes glimpse of the Supreme Court at work, in two parts...