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FRIDAY, AUGUSTS @0 Tho Third tyo 9 ® Carter Country 8:00PM OQ f̂fiDoHat 0 0 ® K n i g h t R i d o r Q NathvMo Now \! AUTO SUPPLY ' Your Complete Parte ft Accessories Headquarters ax. «T[ 1.o pa t' ts GRID WARS -- Don't look now, but the National Foot­ ball League is rolling into the 1983 season. Even if it is only mid-summer. Get set for the first full - weekend of NFL pre-sea- Son games, from Thursday, Jug. 4, through Sunday, ug. 7. Many stations broadcast the games of {heir local team, sometimes replaying exhibition con­ tests on a tape-delayed basis. In the next few weeks, eight preseason NFL games are slated for nationwide television. The first three are: the New York Giants at Pittsburgh (ABC), Aug. 12; New Eng­ land at San Francisco (NBG), Aug, 14; and the New York Jets at Cincinnati (CBS), Aug. 18. A prime-time rematch of Super Bowl XVII -- the Washington Redskins vs. the Miami Dolphins -- will highlight the NFL pre-sea- son TV schedule. The Dol­ phins will travel to Wash­ ington to meet the Redskins in a game to be aired Friday, Aug. 19 (8 p.m., £T). It is the final ABC pre-season NFL tele­ cast. Also to be broadcast nationwide are: Philadel­ phia at Green Bay (CBS), Aug. 20; Pittsburgh at Dal­ las (NBC). Aug. 20; Los Angeles Raiders at Cleve­ land (NBC), Aug. 26; and Houston at Dallas '(CBS), Aug. 27. Four teams -- San Diego and Miami of 1he AFC and San Francisco and the New York Giants of the NFC -- are playing their complete NFL '83 begins to attract TV viewers *A0B»1 Pets Rozelle preseason schedules against interconference opponents. Going into 1983, the AFC leads in preseason games against the NFC 342-315-12 -- after a 25- 16 record in 1982. The AFC also leads in the regu­ lar season series 286-241- 7. The 1983 regular season opens with 13 games on Sunday, Sept. 4. Washington, which became only the fourth NFC team to win a Super Bowl when it defeated Miami 27-17 in Pasadena's Rose Bowl last January, is also the star of the first ABC-TV Monday night game. The Redskins will begin defense of the NFL title by hosting NFC East­ ern Divisional rival Dallas on Sept. 5. The postseason playoffs begin Dec. 24; the AFC and NFC championship games will be played Jan. 8; and Super Bowl XVIII, on Jan. 22, at Tampa Stadi­ um. No wonder NFL czar Pete Rozelle is smiling. ©iSSSCompulog Don't call him Waily! By Andy Nobis How do today's TV families stack up tb the legendary Cleaver clan of "Leave It to Beaver"? Don't ask Tony Dow, who played older brother Wally in the sitcom, which has become a modern-day cutt classic. "I'm not an authority on TV anymore," says Dow. now 38 years old. "I don't sit down and watch a lot of TV. When I do sit down, I find that I'm not entertained. I'd rather do something else." . He does work in the medium, though. He appeared ear­ lier this year on such shows as "Quincy,,, "Knight Rider" and "Square Pegs" as well as in CBS' "Beaver" Update. You'll see him this fall as a vice-principal in an NBC-TV movie called "High School USA." That movie brings together stars of 1950s and '60s series such as Dow, Troy Donahue, Dawn Weils ("GUli- gan's Island"), Bob Denver ("Giliigan," "Dobie Gillis") and Dwayne Hickman ("Dobie Gillis") as school faculty and current NBC teen stars such as Michael J. Fox, ("Family Ties") Nancy McKeon ("Facts of LHe") and Ricky Schroder ("Silver Spoons") as students.̂ "I wasn't familiar with a lot of those shows that the kids were in," says Dow. But when pressed, he'd admit that "Family Ties," which is about a reverse generation: "terrific, the closest thing to Beaver." Dow Michael J. Fox, who plays the show's teen-aged conserva­ tive, a "terrific actor." Dow says he took the role with one.major consideration: "I didn't want to just walk on and walk off as some char­ acter from the 1950s. "I would like not to always be associated with the char* acter, Wally. First of all, its been more than 20 years and in the second place, he's not taken ail that seriously.. He's kind of a miik-and-cookies character in a world where people want blood and guts. That's why I try to stay away from doing Beaver-type roles " Dow, an introverted man who's also an accomplished sculptor, says he's not appreciative when people hail him in the street with a 'hey. Wally.' "I'm uncomfortable because that's not my name, it's difficult to deal with that kind of recognition. If somebody comes up to me and says to me 'hey. I appreciate the show,' that's OK. But over half thetime. people are rude -- they're uncomfortable, so they.don't know what to do. so they laugh and giggle. I don't interpret that as feeing laughed at. but still it's difficult to walk by a group of folks when they laugh and point. It's not the kind of thing you become comfortable with." ®teei com*** 385-0778 _ !sassr • SUNDAYS Journeys (B USA Friday Night Boxing O Weekend Athloto O MOVIE: 'Body Hoot' O MOVIE: 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull' A young seaguN strives to fly faster and higher than any bird bo- foro him. Rated G. © (2$ Sabor Latino