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Newspaper

The Chronicle Telegram

Location

Elyria, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Nov 12, 1985

Page

4

Fall Guy Downfall Signals End for Veteran TV Hit

The Fall Guy faces cancellation as long running favorites lose Nielsen ground to new upstarts. Michael Landon’s Highway to Heaven rose in popularity last season and ABC moved The Fall Guy opposite Bull and PTI, leading to poor ratings and an official cancellation within months.

Trapper John the Wooden Lee Majors Viachael Landon ABC Bull Cosbs Iagnorin

TV schedule woes hit classic fall lineups

TV critics note Magnum PIs decline as Cosby led NBC battles drag ratings. ABC Friday night kiddie comedies Webster Different Strokes and Benson struggle against Dallas. Trapper John M D battles aging, Hardcastle and McCormick clings to big cities but fades coast to coast. The A Team improves but stares at tougher Tuesday competition.

Webster DIFF

TV Ratings Show NBC Stuck Behind ABC On Tuesday Nights

NBC faces a tough Tuesday lineup as The A Team falls behind Who's the Boss and Moonlighting while Riptide and St. Elsewhere lag behind ABC Hotel and CBS The Equalizer. Hill Street Blues also drifts behind Knots Landing.

TV preview notes Falcon Crest Miarm Vicc Knight Rider

Batiuk and Shamray discuss Falcon Crest audience potential as Miarm Vicc competition on Fridays and Knight Rider may wrap season on NBC 6. Gordon Liddy, linked to Watergate, to make TV acting debut playing a dope dealer on NBC Miami Vice in a winter episode alongside Patt Dempsey as Don Johnson's girlfriend.

Falcon Crest Miarm Gordon Liddy

TV Highlights 6PM Movie Tour Of Classic Films

A listing of scheduled cinema and TV movies across networks including The Prince And The Pauper 1972 animated tale, Electric Dreams 1984, The Formula 1980, Something Wicked This Way Comes 1983, Sudden Impact 1983, Kong Solomon's Mines 1950 and more.

Showtime The Varh Tuas England Lenny von Dahlen Irgima Wadsen TVIC Marlon Brando George C Scott Turder 4 NBC News Ree Remington Steele Lortune Spenser San Francisco North Beach North Pierth Beach Rawhide Mov & D Letterman Sugarland Express Ains Spenser Trinity Star Wars Fast Business America King Solomons Mines Suns New York Huckleberry Finn Squazzy Taylor

Night of Films and Schedules and Muted Echoes

A noisy TV guide style listing covers 1954 Shirley Booth melodrama with an inheritance and secret affair, a 1992 Partners undercover gay-cop thriller, 1984 Oh God You Devil devil bargain, 1988 Will Penny frontier life, 1984 City Heat Prohibition chase, 1973 Harry O protection job, 1953 Salome Rome intrigue, 2pm Starfleet Space Quest tale, 1981 Beyond The Reef island romance, plus Life on Earth animal clips.

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