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MOONLIGHTING (ABC, Dec. 27, 9 p.m. EST). How it all began for TV's battling romantic duo: Maddie and David meet cute in a rerun of the series' 1985 pilot...
...sweet it is to have just one such moment in life. How bitter to have it early, and then be forced to rerun it ad nauseam, until the triumph turns into sitcom. Bitter for Gavin, for the luminous Babs, for their bookworm nephew Donnie (Timothy Hutton) and their lumbering pal Lawrence (John Goodman). The story meanders through 25 years of the changing South -- civil rights, women's rights, the capricious kingdom of celebrity -- and ends in 1981, but its moral should catch in many a yuppie throat. The price of pursuing eternal youth is catching it, like a cold...
Entertainment shows, meanwhile, are facing a cost squeeze. Hollywood producers, who must negotiate with the tight-fisted networks over fees to cover their production costs, are avoiding shows with elaborate action scenes and expensive locations (partly because such shows are doing poorly on the rerun market). "I sit in on development meetings," says Harris Katleman, president of 20th Century Fox Television Production. "I don't let someone develop a Star Wars. It would be crazy. We don't do westerns either, and we don't do big shows that require locations, car crashes and lots of stunts...
DRESS GRAY (NBC, Aug. 21 and 22, 9 p.m. EDT). Gore Vidal's script brings intelligence and bite to a tale of shady doings at a military academy. One rerun worth saluting...
Libra was in the TV room. As she flicked on the set I saw the shadowy outline of two talking heads. "Oh, look," she said, siren-like. "PBS has a rerun of your favorite show. Want to watch...