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...program aired weekly on PBS stations imported from Great Britain. The eponymous protoganist is a knowledgeable alien who battles forces of evil throughout the universe,protecting earth from numerous brushes withdestruction...

Author: By Liam T. A. ford, | Title: Club Reveals Who They Love | 12/2/1987 | See Source »

Children's TV, of course, is not an unredeemed junk pile. PBS and cable offer much quality fare. Most of the networks' Saturday-morning shows are gently inoffensive (The Smurfs, Jim Henson's Muppet Babies) and occasionally adventurous (Pee-wee's Playhouse). Some of the wit and imagination of pre-TV animation have even resurfaced this season in CBS's Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, from Filmmaker Ralph Bakshi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Zapping Back at Children's | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

Jacobi, a Shakespearean best known in the U.S. for the title role in the PBS mini-series I, Claudius, again employs fidgety mannerisms. But Turing emerges distinctly in his fierce, futile independence. Although joined by fine, mostly British actors -- Jenny Agutter, Michael Gough and Rachel Gurney among them -- Jacobi gives what approximates a masterly one-man show. In a brilliantly calibrated scene near the end, he makes Turing's happiest moment also serve as a sad metaphor for his yearning, and inability, to communicate. He enfolds himself in the arms of a Greek youth, neither able to speak the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Ingenuousness And Genius BREAKING THE CODE | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

...Harvard, this is a near-must-win game (1 p.m. kickoff, WHRB 95.3 FM, PBS). The Crimson is currently tied with Yale atop the Anceint Eight at 4-1. Three teams, Princeton, Brown and Cornell, lurk a game back...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Gridders, Quakers Clash in Penn-Ultimate Ivy Showdown | 11/14/1987 | See Source »

...PBS has announced it will televise the Penn-Ultimate Harvard-Penn matchup as its Game of the Week November 14. Earlier this week, PBS also announced it would televise the Harvard-Yale game. Both game could have bearing on the Ivy League race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 11/5/1987 | See Source »

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