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1983: Video
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1983 Highlights
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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January 2, l984
VIDEO
BEST OF '83
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<p>Cheers (NBC). Now in its second season, this barroom sitcom has
found its saucy stride and, in stars Ted Danson and Shelly Long,
has created a mismatched pair that could give Tracy and Hepburn
a run for their moxie.
</p>
<p>Faerie Tale Theatre (Showtime). These slightly fractured but
never completely Grimm tales, produced by actress Shelley
Duvall, give a hip, witty twist and dreamy visual style to
storybook classics.
</p>
<p>The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Mobile Showcase
Network). Even squeezed to fit the small screen, the Royal
Shakespeare Company's epic entertainment still ranked as a
unique theatrical treat. The nine-hour drama preserved 150
great performances in a format Dickens would have loved: the
mini-series.
</p>
<p>Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever (NBC). A stirring video
jukebox of the most memorable sounds of a quarter century of
soul, from the still irresistible Temptations through the
stylized showmanship of Michael Jackson.
</p>
<p>Nickelodeon (Warner Amex Satellite Entertainment Co.). A
channel devoted to children without being childish. Among its
most notable enticements: the Pinwheel puppets for preschoolers,
and Livewire, an exuberant variety talk show for early teens.
</p>
<p>NBC News Overnight. "Being best is not enough," rued NBC News
Chief Reuven Frank in canceling this late-night paragon after
17 months. Insomniacs will miss Overnight's tough reporting, its
sprightly sense of the absurd and especially its Queen of Tart,
Co-Anchor Linda Ellerbee. The first nightly news show good
enough to warrant reruns.
</p>
<p>Special Bulletin (NBC). Gripping in a way that The Day After
was not, this docudrama presented a fictional nuclear crisis as
a news event actually in progress. The result was a dark parody
of the pontifical way in which the networks package disaster.
</p>
<p>Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt (CBS). Light but never
lightweight, this 90-minute eye opener demonstrates that
long-form magazine shows can work, and that Kuralt is as nimble
off the road as on.
</p>
<p>Swan Lake, Minnesota (ARTS). Swan maidens in tutus riding bales
of hay up a conveyor belt? This poetic, disarmingly simple
adaptation of the classic ballet inventively mixed a
country-and-western twang with Tchaikovskian lyricism.
</p>
<p>Viet Nam: A Television History (PBS). With its painstaking
marshaling of detail, this 13-hour documentary was television
as the first draft of history. It was, by turns, poignant and
chilling and never blinked.</p>
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