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Oiwi d MM chongo tha Rva* of e youn« caupta. Oar DutWa. Koran Hock. 1979. MEDIA MONITOR Julia Duffy adds life to 'Newhart' By Joan Crosby With her combination of good looks and her wild comic sense, JuNa Duffy is reminiscent of such actresa-oomedians as Car­ ole Lombard and Kay Kendall. Miss Duffy, you'll recall, played the petite, virginal princess with a headdress nearly as tall as she, in CBS' "Wizards and Warriors.*' "We made- eight of those," she says, "and after the fourth one had been on the air, I was called and offered a regular role on Newhart.* That's how I knew 'Wizards dnd Warri­ ors' was going off. On "Newhart." Miss Duf­ fy plays Stephanie Vander- keiien, the cousin of Leslie VanderkeWen. ,llt was hard to let go of Wizards.' I was very emo­ tional about the show." says the blue-eyed blonde. Says Miss Duffy: "I can't remember ever wanting to be . anything else than a performer. I was about 10 and the family had no mon­ ey but my mother said I could take dancing lessons, which was so exciting. But a little girlfriend of mine said her mother was going to let her take drama les­ sons because she was shy. When I heard that I thought I would die if I couldn't do it, too. "So instead of dancing lessons I took acting lessons. I never had a s^c- JuNa Duffy QD Waililiumi Waak/tav*a» Poo) Dufca k joinad by lap WatMay ton iowwJh($ anoMaf Iba ® jouwofciH onoljflMQ I. I CtimMnn t» 14 <E> mm €D ® *wySweee*t ond thought from the day I started It' never occurred to me to do anything else. And now I .n not qualified for anything else." • Miss Duffy basically was raised in a family without men. Her parents divorced when she was young, so her mother had to raise five daughters b&herself. "My mother was not really liberated but being without a man, she was very helpful in teaching us to be self-reliant ." The Minneapolis native was a professional actress in the Midwest before she went to New York to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, from which she graduated in 1972. She was on "Love of Life" fdt six months and "The Doctors" for four years. She also appeared on Broadway in "Once in a Lifetime." She moved West in 1978. and began her prime-time TV career ©iMSComputog T&eW&ves Can Snoopy save Saturday? By Andy Noble That lovable "Peanuts" gang •*- whom you've seen In numerous TV specials -- will be seen this faN in their first regular series when "The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show" makes its debut Saturday, Sept. 17 on CBS. TheTfraH-hour show consists of four-to-five new animat* ̂ ed adventures starring Charlie Brown.: Snoopy, Linua ̂ Lucy. fTjiffeitniint Patty and the other members of Charted" M. Self's cartoon set. The epfrodes are based on the best panels in the strips ** 33-year-history. It's the first time these strips wMf be * animated. w Among the episodes viewers will see on Saturday are one in which Charlie Brown and Peppermint Patty have to share a desk and another in which LihOs gives away his security blanket to Eudora. In between each episode. • blackouts usually featuring Snoopy and Woodstock, will air. "The networks and sponsors have been urging us to do a Saturday morning show for a long time. We feel the time is now ripe." says Lee Mendelson, the show's co- producer, who's been invoked with all the "Peanuts" TV specials since they first aired in 1965. "Saturday morning TV has been criticized for decades, but recently the networks and programmers have been attempting to clean up their acts," Mendelson said. "There is a trend now to improve Saturday morning pro­ gramming and wchbpefully will spearhead this evolution. "The subjects of this show will most appeal to the little kids, in particular -- the security blanket, kindergarten -- it's going to have more action, be more kid-oriented than theprime-time specials." he added. Meanwhile, upcoming "Peanuts" prime-time specials include "It's Computer Camp. Charlie Brown" and an ani­ mated version of the successful off-Broadway play . "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown." "The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show" is a Mendel- * son-Melendez production, in association with Charles M. Schulz and UM Productions. ©1M3 Compulog \