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...think public television is immune to the Christmas Spirit, they give it to you just as determinedly, except with the pinky raised delicately away from the tea cup. "Amahl and the Night Visitors," Giancarlo Menotti's Christmas opera about a crippled shepherd boy who makes good, is on PBS, Dec. 22 at 8 p.m. The "Joy of Bach," (self-explanatory) is the next night at 8 p.m., and then, "Christmas Eve on Sesame Street," Monday the 24th at 8 p.m. The schedule promises a "special interview" with Henry A. Kissinger on "The Dick Cavett Show" Saturday the 22nd...
...Metropolitan Opera when it visits Boston each spring, not the great unwashed "masses" who couldn't care less about opera, who would rather see the latest Airport movie than Don Giovanni--or, better yet, go home and turn on the television. To "Mork and Mindy," too, not PBS...
...Delbert Mann, who has chosen a flat, documentary style, has not managed to evoke, however, is the passion of Remarque's book or the intensity of that creaky but wonderful 1930 movie. This All Quiet is so dutifully, ploddingly good, indeed, that it might almost be shown on PBS...
...best stories are not merely chronicles of upper-middle-class life, but Kafkaesque tragedies about what happens when a rigorously ordered world starts to go mad. Instead of dramatizing tales from the two major Cheever story collections, The Enormous Radio and The Brigadier and the Golf Widow, PBS has selected trifles from The Housebreaker of Shady Hill. These are then stretched out to fill an hour each...
...consequence of the padding is the kind of literal dramaturgy that obliterated The Scarlet Letter last season. Unlike the British creators of The Glittering Prizes or I, Claudius, PBS gives its audience little credit for sophistication. In The Sorrows of Gin, the first and worst of the Cheevers, the warring suburban couple (Edward Herrmann and Sigourney Weaver) can hardly be seen for all the shots of gin bottles. Yet Gin is not about alcoholism; like Henry James' What Maisie Knew, it is about a child who unwittingly discovers the self-deceptions of the adults...