22/FRIDAY
Snoops
A rerun from last fall's canceled murder-mystery series. Tim Reid
and Daphne Maxwell Reid star as a husband-and-wife detective team
with a penchant for sassy repartee and high living. Designed as a
modern version of the Thin Man movies, but not nearly as classy. CBS
(8-9 p.m.)
Movie Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All
Stacy
Keach's hard-boiled gumshoe finds himself kidnapped, drugged, and
framed in Vegas, where he meets a wealthy socialite played by
Wonder Woman's Lynda Carter. A rerun from 1989, and only for
Spillane's true believers. CBS (9-11 p.m.) C
Evening at Pops
Grammy winner Melissa Manchester teams with legendary saxman Benny
Carter for a tribute to vocalists Ella Fitzgerald and Edith Piaf.
PBS (9-10 p.m.)
Routes of Rhythm
Host Harry Belafonte visits the streets of old Havana in the
second part of this three-week series on the history of Afro-Cuban
music. PBS (10-11 p.m.)
23/SATURDAY
Showtime Comedy Club All-Stars IV
Woody Harrelson of Cheers is host of a special installment of
Showtime's weekly comedy series-an hour of stand-up with Jack Coen,
Rick Corso, Chas Elstner, Steve Rizzo, and Pam Stone. SHO (10-11
p.m.)
24/SUNDAY
Art in the Third Reich
The first segment of a new two-part documentary on how Nazi
Germany orchestrated power through art, film, architecture, and
design. A&E (8-9 p.m.)
Movie: Bridge to Silence
Academy Award winner Marlee Matlin (Children of a Lesser God)
plays her first speaking part in this rebroadcast of a 1989 TV movie
about a hearing-impaired woman whose husband dies in an auto
accident. CBS (9-11 p.m.) B-
Bookmark (See review.)
25/MONDAY
Today (See review.)
The Struggle for Democracy An Update
Since this series first ran a year ago, democracy has been
blossoming all over the planet, from East Berlin to Central America.
Host Patrick Watson travels the globe for a one-episode update on
democratic politics in the 1990s. PBS (8-9 p.m.)
Movie: Going to the Chapel
A schlocky 1988 TV movie about a wedding gone amok, with a cast
that looks as if it just stepped off The Love Boat: Dick Van Patten,
Mark Linn-Baker, and Barbara Billingsley. NBC (8-10 p.m.) D-
Firing Line
Special Debate William F. Buckley is host of a roundtable debate
on the ramifications of a reunified Germany. Talking heads include
Henry Kissinger, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Ambassador Vernon Walters, and
former Treasury secretary William Simon. PBS (9-11 p.m.)
Quantum Leap
NBC is pushing this series hard, broadcasting five consecutive
nights of time-travel reruns. Tonight's installment of ''Quantum
Week'' has Sam (Scott Bakula) leaping back to 1961, where he helps a
troubled young secretary (Jean Sagal) untangle her messy love life.
NBC (Mon.-Fri., 10-11 p.m.)
The Dave Thomas Comedy Show
Dave introduces his latest comic creation, country-western singer
Johnny J. Folsom, and takes a trip to the dentist as Leon Frightened,
the most timid man alive. CBS (10:30-11 p.m.)


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