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by Joey Sasso CONFIDENTIAL REPORT: It's blitz time again for the networks. Despite the handicap of a crippling strike, promotional ads sing out... 'You and Me and ABC,' 'Looking Good Together,' and 'Proud as a Peacock.' But beyond all the new season hype, and the multi-million dollar network spending spree, this is what the viewer can really expect this fall. For starters, it will be the tightest ratings race in years as CBS and ABC battle it out for the top spot, and NBC struggles to lift its head out of the cellar. With ABC and CBS in such close concentration, shows that falter early are bound to be axed quickly. At least a dozen shows, both new and old, will disappear before the end of the year. Every one-tenth of a percentage in ratings points translates into millions of advertising dollars for the networks. For any show that doesn't return the numbers the networks thinks it should, there is a replacement waiting in the wings. That applies to series like 'Lobo,' 'Sanford,' 'Here's Boomer,' 'Facts of Life,' 'Buck Rogers' and 'The Tim Conway Show' that barely got the chance of a new season. Some other returns are simply running out of gas as viewers grow tired of the same faces week after week. Oldtimers which may die a natural death this season include 'The Waltons,' 'Laverne and Shirley,' 'Quincy' and 'Little House on the Prairie.' CONSUMER NEWS WIRE: Lonl Anderson's portrayal of the aging, drunken Jayne Mansfield in a new TV movie is so powerful that it sent her own daughter, Dade, into a state of tearful, ashen-faced shock. Which was just the reaction the director needed. It enabled Dede, 15, to give such a realistic performance in her first-ever screen role as Jayne's teenage daughter that the whole crew congratulated her. But Dede wasn't acting. She was so stunned to see Loni change into an obscene and screaming drunk that she couldn't believe it was her own mother. "We shot that scene four times at least," said Loni, star of 'WKRP In Cincinnati,' "but each time I hollered at her, this child reacted the same way, because each time was just as surprising as the last. She was really in shock." After the scene, Dede put her arms around Loni, barely able to speak. "That wasn't you," she whispered. "You just weren't inside tha person. I watched you storm in there and scream and I thought somewhere in there is my mother, but I don't see her." TV CLOSEUP: "I can't let my audiences tell me what material to do even if a particular routine happens to be one of their old favorites," says Buddy Hackett, who stars in the new daily half-hour comedy show, 'You Bet Your Life.' "Often I've progressed beyond certain material and being basically an ad libber, I have to perform what is spontaneous at that moment-- what comes out best at that particular time." ... Carroll O'Connor, TV's grumpy Archie Bunker, is smiling happily in private these days--for he's just been told that his 18-year-old son Hugh has licked cancer. O'Connor, 55, and his wife Nancy, heard the joyful news after Hugh was given a battery of tests at the famed University of California Medical Center in Los Angeles. The doctors reported: "The cancer is in total remission." Though it's too early to call it a complete cure, a source close to the family said, "The doctors are highly optimistic. There's absolutely no sign of the cancer." ((monday)) OCT. 13,1980 EVENING 6:00 000080Newt M.A.S.H. O Barney Miller (35)© TV High School CD MacNell-Lehrer Report ® Tic Tac Dough (9 Happy Days Again © Women's Channel CD Movie -(Documentary) •• "NashvilleGirl" Apene- tratinglookattheoftennasty world of country music, with guest appearances by Johnny Rodriguez and Jesse White. (Rated R) (2 hrs^ CD <H) Hollywood Squares (3D® © All In Tha Family ©@ HeeHaw Guests: Ray Stevens, Sylvia, Susan Gutt- man, Lulu Roman. (60 mins.) €0 SportsCenter ©(H Careerscope © What Will They Think Of Next? © Bullseye © TVPowww 6:30 CABLE CHANNEL 3 High School Football McHenry at Dundee OOOUD Family Feud © Joker's Wild O © © (32 All In The Family © Carol Burnett And Friends (3® © MacNeil-Lehrer Report © Wild Wild World Of Animals © PM Magazine © © Sanford And Son © Connie Martinson Show © Baseball: 1980 World Series Scouting Report Major league experts evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the two con­ tending World Series teams and try to pick this year's winner. © Newlywed Game (3)© Benny Hill Show © (H) Informacion 26 ©.(3) Harmony © Video Comics © Face The Music 6:55 WBBM Editorial WLS Editorial 7:00 ©©©£$ DM You Hear About Josh And Kelly? A comedy about a confused couple whose divorce is about to be finalized but who don't want to separate, and consequently settle on an in­ novative compromise. © © © Little House On The Prairie Hired to coach the Walnut Grove school football team, a former grid star drives the youngsters so hard that he ruins their spirit and endangers their health. (60 mins.)> (Closed-Captioned) © © © That's Incredible © Solid Gold Co-hosts: Glen Campbell, Dionne War­ wick. Gold record winners perform their hit songs. Guests: Peaches and Herb, Blondie, Supertramp, Nicolette Larson. ©® PM Magazine (39)© Thinking Ebony © All Creatures Great And Small © Movie -(Drama) *** "Lit­ tle Princess" 1939 Shirley Temple, Richard Greene. A little girl goes from rags to riches in the Victorian era. (2 hrs.) © Movie -(Drama) •••• "Deer Hunter" 1978 Robert DeNiro, Meryl Streep. A harrowing drama of the impact of the Vietnam War on the men who fought in it, and the loved ones they left behind. (RatedR)(3hrs., 3 mins.) ©(5$ Mike Douglas (3® © Bowling Game ©O Julia © @ Movie -(Drama) ••• "Same Time, Next Year" 1978 Ellen Burstyn, Alan Alda. (Paid Subscription Television) A chance en­ counter becomes an annual glimpse into the lives of a man and a woman who laugh, love and mature through three turbulent decades. (2 hrs.) © College Football Review ©S3) Chicago © Hocus Focus © Movie -(Drama) ••• "Carrie" 1952 Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones. A girl leaves a salesman to run off with a married man. By the time the wife consents to a divorce, he's on the skids and she's a successful actress. (2 hrs., 30 mins.) © World At War © Six Million Dollar Man 7:30 O © © (23 Love At First Sight Philip Levien and Susan Bigelow star as Jon athan and Karen Alexander,