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NBC kicked off sweeps on a high note with part one of its Motown movie The Temptations (4th) edging out Fox's television debut of The Lost World: Jurassic Park (5th) in the month's first Sunday-movie matchup. Despite its high ranking, the costly Lost World (Fox shelled out $80 million for broadcast rights) proved to be a bit of a disappointment. The dinosaur sequel fell 17.4 million viewers short of the monstrous numbers NBC got with its 1995 screening of Jurassic Park. Meanwhile CBS's Logan's War: Bound by Honor (11th) put up a good fight, but viewers went AWOL during ABC's Oprah Winfrey Presents: David and Lisa (55th), which lagged 17.6 million viewers behind last November's Oprah-sponsored flick Before Women Had Wings.
TOP 30
VIEWERS* LAST WEEK
1 29.1 ER NBC, Thursday, 10 p.m. 11 2 25.9 FRIENDS NBC, Thursday, 8 p.m. 5 3 24.6 FRASIER NBC, Thursday, 9 p.m. 6 4 22.9 MOVIE: THE TEMPTATIONS NBC, Sunday, 9 p.m. -- 5 21.7 JESSE NBC, Thursday, 8:30 p.m. -- 21.7 MOVIE: THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK Fox, Sunday, 7:23 p.m. -- 7 20.9 FOOTBALL: STEELERS VS. CHIEFS ABC, Monday, 8:21 p.m. -- 8 20.3 TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL CBS, Sunday, 8 p.m. -- 9 20.1 60 MINUTES CBS, Sunday, 7 p.m. -- 10 19.5 VERONICA'S CLOSET NBC, Thursday, 9:30 p.m. -- 11 16.8 MOVIE: LOGAN'S WAR: BOUND BY HONOR CBS, Sunday, 9 p.m. -- 12 16.7 THE DREW CAREY SHOW ABC, Wednesday, 9 p.m. 11 13 16.1 THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY: 101 DALMATIANS ABC, Sunday, 7 p.m. -- 14 16.0 NYPD BLUE ABC, Tuesday, 10 p.m. 10 15 15.5 JAG CBS, Tuesday, 8 p.m. 19 16 15.4 DHARMA & GREG ABC, Wednesday, 8 p.m. 20 17 15.3 HOME IMPROVEMENT ABC, Tuesday, 8 p.m. 15 18 15.2 20/20 ABC, Friday, 10 p.m. 29 19 15.0 EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND CBS, Monday, 9 p.m. 14 20 14.7 MAGIC'S BIGGEST SECRETS FINALLY REVEALED 4 Fox, Thursday, 9 p.m. -- 21 14.3 20/20 ABC, Wednesday, 10 p.m. 43 22 14.2 DIAGNOSIS MURDER CBS, Thursday, 9 p.m. 58 14.2 WALKER, TEXAS RANGER CBS, Saturday, 10 p.m. 9 24 14.1 COSBY CBS, Monday, 8 p.m. 27 14.1 SPIN CITY ABC, Tuesday, 9 p.m. 18 26 13.9 ALLY MCBEAL Fox, Monday, 9 p.m. 15 13.9 DATELINE NBC NBC, Sunday, 8 p.m. 25 13.9 KIDS SAY THE DARNDEST THINGS CBS, Friday, 9 p.m. -- 29 13.7 CANDID CAMERA CBS, Friday, 9:30 p.m. -- 13.7 TWO GUYS, A GIRL AND A PIZZA PLACE ABC, Wednesday, 8:30 p.m. 30
*IN MILLIONS WEEK OF OCT. 26-NOV. 1, 1998 SOURCE: NIELSEN MEDIA RESEARCH
