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FRIDAY, APRIL 15 QD MOVIE: 'Secret Policeman's Other Ball' © dD Information © M*A*S*H ©0)700 Club © (T8) Three's Company Ml TBS Evoning Nowt 60 Li* Detector 10:15 PM CD MOVIE: 'Harry'* War' 10:30 PM B O © NIA Basketball: Seattle at Let Angeles 0 CD Tonight'Show Johnny's guests are Carl Reiner and Catherine Deneuve. (R) (60 min.) O Off Stage O Nightline o CD Charlie's Angels © © 5® Dr. Who Movie CD Self Help Show CD @ Saturday Night ffl Q) Luisana Mia S) €D Bob Newhart Show © Mary Hartman, Mary SD M*A*S*H €D@$ Chicago Journal © Nightcap: Conversation on the Arts and Letters © 3D MOVIE: 'Deadly Angels' Q) Catlins €9 Hawaii Rve-O 11.00 PM O O Last Word CD Tap Rank Boxing from Lubbock, TX CD Weekend Athlete 63 MOVIE: 'American Pie' A pie that wiN whet your appetite, all mixed up and served piping hot. Lyta Thatcher, Arcadia Lake, Eric Ed­ wards. €D Tonight Show Johnny's guests are Carl Reiner and Catherine De­ neuve. (R) (60 min.) QD Hawaii Fhre-O 6D Sanford and Son (3D Odd Couple ©<§3 Chicago Journal ©Sign Off © MOVIE: The Long Duel' An archeologist becomes embroiled in the trouble of a tribe of Indian no­ mads. Yul Brynner, Trevor Howard, Charlotte Rumpling. 1967. 11:30 PM 0 CD SCTV o Saturday Night CD Nightline CD Rodale's Heme Dynamics CD MOVIE: 'Rough Cuts' CD MOVIE: *Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan' © (SD El Show de Alba Molina © All In the Family 60 Laveme * Shirley 1 Co. Kit 98 Jim Bakker © Chronicle 12:00 AM O Ebony Jet Celebrity MEDIA MONITOR By STEVE K. WALZ Hartley anchors herself in 'Beantown' TdeWZves Conway shoots for No. 8 By Peter Meade Monday, April 11 marks the last chance to see Tim Conway starring as "Ace Crawford, private eye." At least if Conway's previous series record i% any barometer for the show's chances of survival. "You don't get to come back with a new show next year if you have a hit," says Conway, quite unaffected by the fact that this is his eighth series. There once was a gag around Hollywood about Conway's license plates. They read "13 weeks," because that was the usual length of a Conway series before it became history. He doesn't have those plates any longer, but if he was reapplying, his new plates would read "5 weeks," the time given "Ace" to prove its worth. Conway knows that is not much time to attract an audience, but not surprisingly, the seven-time loser is also an optimist. CBS approached Conway a while back about playing a bumbling private eye. Conway has made a career of play­ ing bumblers, be it in the Navy ("McHale's Navy," 1962- 66), as a Texas Ranger ("Rango," 1967), as a pilot ("The Tim Conway Show," 1970) or as a member of the variety show troupe on "The Carol Burnett Show" (1975- 78). Originally, Conway turned down the "Ace" idea, because he wanted to do his own variety show, something he believes TV sorely misses. However, the 1970 "Tim Conway Comedy Hour" wasn't, a success, so Conway finally agreed to co-create "Ace." The shows, with Conway as a kind of imitation Inspector Clouseau, lack the satiric wit of "Get Smart" but nobody with the exception of his buddy Don Knotts is a better bumbler. The work of Joe Regalbuto. as Ace's sidekick, has been especially memorable. However if "Ace" fails, be sure Conway will be back with No. 9. "Unfortunately few people can handle what television requires on a week-to-week basis," says Conway of why he has been given so many series chances. "There are very few comedic actors around. Most are working on five- mmute routines, but ask them to do six, and they can't. That's why you see the same people popping up on televi­ sion." (c) 1983 Compulog Boston is rapidly becom­ ing a popular locale for net­ work TV series. First NBC brought us the barroom antics in "Cheers." Now CBS is airing "Goodnight Beantown," starring Bill Bixby and Mariette Hartley as two anchor people who hurl verbal darts at each other on and off the air. Bixby plays an anchor­ man threatened by his new partner, a feisty female reporter (Miss Hartley). She is brought in to increase the newscast's ratings. In real life, Boston is considered one of the most highly competitive TV markets in the country. "I was not aware that Boston is such a tough news town, but now that I know this, it can be useful in the show. Besides, Bos­ ton is such a political area, it's no wonder it is such a good news town." says Miss Hartley. The actress has had some real TV-news experi­ ence -- she was once a substitute co-host on NBC's "Today" show, sit­ ting in for Jane Pauley. "Actually, I wanted to see if I could do TV news and be with my family at the same time. We were put up in a suite in the Regency Hotel in New York, which was nice. But let me tell you, it was one of the most brutal schedules -- getting up at 4 a.m. to do the show, then going out and doing research -- and then spending time with the family. Mariette Hartley "I did it for three weeks and I did not want to replace someone like Jane Pauley. In fact, people at NBC who were loyal to Jane didn't know what to make of me. "I think nothing is more competitive than TV news, including acting in Holly­ wood, simply because news is so immediate. 'And there is so much backbiting in news... Reporters would easily step over a dead body to cover a story." She describes her char­ acter, Jennifer Barnes, as a "cross between Barbara Walters and Kay Kendall, who was Rex Harrison's wife, a woman who was zany, but sophisticated." Of her relationship with Bixby's character, she says: "We're friendly enemies. And we can never let that edge go, or it wouldn't be funny anymore." (c) 1983 Com ptilofl