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Prime-Time TV for Friday, 30 June 1995
(plus late-night shows)
This evening's SOTTO (Summarization of
Tonight's Television Offerings) Rating:
** (out of a possible *****)
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Broadcast highlights (all times Eastern/Pacific,
except where noted; please adjust for Central/
Mountain zones):
Tonight's only original programming comes from
newsmagazines. "Dateline" takes a look at how
disabled children are being successfully
assimilated into society; "20/20" cheats a bit by
recycling pieces on a daughter who now realizes
her recovered memories of sexual abuse by her
father were invented with the encouragement of her
therapist; and an expose on used car dealers
(apparently, they aren't as scrupulous as you
thought). (NBC, 9.00; ABC, 10.00)
The "Homicide" repeat is the one where the
detectives decide to buy a bar together. (ABC,
10.00)
Bill Moyers' "Language of Life" is on the "healing
power of poetry." All I can say is, if some
pretentious nut in a caftan starts reciting non-
rhyming tripe in my semi-private room, he/she will
be the hospital's next admission. Maya Angelou,
you've been warned. (PBS, 9.00)
Cable highlights:
The schedule is uncommonly barren tonight, unless
you count "Born on the Fourth of July" -- Oliver
Stone's overwrought elegy for a man who, for all
the high-pitched invective at the end, seems less
angry about the Vietnam war's ethical bankruptcy
than with the fact that it got him blown up. At
least according to Stone's version, Oscar-winner
though it may be. Tom Cruise really works the
adenoids in the final act. (USA, 8.00)
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Sports highlights:
Major League Baseball:
Atlanta Braves at Philadelphia Phillies
(TBS, 7.35 ET, 4.35 PT)
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Scheduled Late Night Talk Show Guests
(thanks to Aaron Barnhart and Sue Trowbridge):
Andrea Abbate, Fay Weldon, Rebecca Gayheart
(Politically Incorrect w/Bill Maher, COM/11.00)
Super Dave Osborne, Noah Wyle, Isaac Hayes
(Letterman, CBS/11.35)
Des'ree, Yasmine Bleeth (Leno, NBC/11.35)
Janet Leigh (Snyder, CBS/12.35)
David Hasselhoff, Patti Davis, A.J. Croce
(O'Brien, NBC/12.35)
Rose Styron, Susan McCarthy (Rose, PBS)
Carrie Fisher (on violence in the media)
(Miller, HBO, midnight ET)
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* The main PBS schedule is not followed by every
affiliate in every market -- your local station's
schedule may vary.
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Copyright 1995 by Michael Nist
(n...@interport.net).
All rights reserved.
