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1984: Video
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1984 Highlights
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
January 7, 1985
VIDEO
BEST OF '84
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<p>THE BURNING BED (NBC). Farrah Fawcett proved she could act,
and television proved it could do an "issue drama" without
preaching, simplifying or sentimentalizing, in this gripping TV
movie about a woman who takes incendiary revenge on her brutal
husband.
</p>
<p>CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (Showtime). Jessica Lange was a sizzling
Maggie and Rip Torn an offbeat Big Daddy in this lively and
well-directed (by Jack Hofsiss) classic. TV's finest
posthumous tribute to Tennessee Williams.
</p>
<p>CONCEALED ENEMIES (PBS). Alger Hiss, the alleged spy;
Whittaker Chambers, his accuser; and Congressman Richard Nixon,
the investigator. These were the true-life protagonists of the
year's most intriguing mystery story, deftly dramatized in an
American Playhouse miniseries.
</p>
<p>DOMESTIC LIFE (CBS). Before Bill Cosby revived the sitcom genre
in the fall, Martin Mull poked juicy fun at it last January,
playing the father of a slightly loony family in a very funny,
undeservedly short-lived series.
</p>
<p>THE GLITTER DOME (HBO). James Garner and John Lithgow were two
burned-out detectives in this taunt, cynical adaptation of
Joseph Wambaugh's novel about murder in movieland. Possibly the
best movie yet made for pay TV.
</p>
<p>JEWEL IN THE CROWN (PBS). With understated urgency, this
14-week series (which runs until March) sketched a sovereign
vision of the long, sad twilight of the British raj in India.
</p>
<p>KING LEAR (syndicated). In what may prove to be his last great
role, Laurence Olivier acts up a storm--and, in the heath
scene, outacts one--scaling the majesty of Shakespeare's mad
monarch. Will this Lear be surpassed on TV? Never, never,
never, never, never.
</p>
<p>MIAMI VICE (NBC). Unlike most of the season's new shows, this
hard-nosed police series has actually improved since its pilot.
The first network series since Hill Street Blues to establish
a unique look and tone: an alluring mix of cinema verite grit
and rock-video glitz.
</p>
<p>PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE NO. 1. Walter Mondale's unexpected humor;
President Reagan's awkward pauses; Moderator Barbara Walters'
lecturing of the audience: between two dull conventions and a
runaway election, this face-off to chart the course of the Free
World was the political year's most interesting TV news event.
</p>
<p>LOS ANGELES SUMMER OLYMPICS (ABC). With half the globe
watching, the extensive and authoritative coverage of the XXIII
Olympiad was breathtaking to behold.</p>
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