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NOW IT CAN BE TOLD; 71362
Scheduled: Part 1 of four on David Berkowitz and the "Son of Sam" killings.
1:00 pm, November 11, 1991, TV Guide
9
NOW IT CAN BE TOLD; 33102
Scheduled: A segment on David Berkowitz and the "Son of Sam" killings (Part 2).
1:00 pm, November 12, 1991, TV Guide
9
NOW IT CAN BE TOLD; 99918
Scheduled: A segment on David Berkowitz and the "Son of Sam" killings (Part 3).
1:00 pm, November 13, 1991, TV Guide
9
NOW IT CAN BE TOLD; 99356
Scheduled: A segment on David Berkowitz and the "Son of Sam" killings (conclusion).
1:00 pm, November 14, 1991, TV Guide
9
GERALDO---Discussion; 60 min. 28468
Scheduled topic: "AmericaŐs Fascination with Murder." Guests include author Jack Levin ("Mass Murder: America's Growing Menace").
11:00 am, March 27, 1991, TV Guide
9
GERALDO---Discussion; 60 min. 42214
Scheduled topic: the use of psychics in criminal investigation.
11:00 am, May 30, 1991, TV Guide
50
MORTON DOWNEY, JR.; 60 min.
Scheduled topic: The psychological makeup of mass murderers.
9:00 pm, May 3, 1989, TV Guide
7
OPRAH WINFREY (CC); 60 min. 86035
Scheduled: John Walsh, host of "America's Most Wanted," discusses criminal cases.
9:00 am, May 31, 1991, TV Guide
7
OPRAH WINFREY (CC); 60 min. 11541
Scheduled discussion topic: becoming coerced into committing a crime.
9:00 am, November 12, 1991, TV Guide
5
PHIL DONAHUE; 60 min. 91691
Scheduled topic: criminals who request the death penalty.
1:00 am, March 30, 1991, TV Guide
32
AMERICA'S MOST WANTED
Scheduled: Updates on Steven Eugene Harrington, wanted for escape and suspected of murder; and John D'Ambrosio, wanted on racketeering charges (manufacturing and selling drugs). Host: John Walsh.
7:00 pm, May 28, 1989, TV Guide
32
AMERICA'S MOST WANTED; 60 min. 96446
Scheduled: A Detroit man wanted for two murders since convictions and time served for murder and robbery; and three con men wanted for pulling a "bank examiner" scam.
7:00 pm, March 8, 1991, TV Guide
32
AMERICA'S MOST WANTED; 60 min. 41306
Scheduled: Two carnival workers wanted for a murder in Nebraska; updates on a Los Angeles man wanted for killing his prominent father, and a lawyer-entrepreneur wanted for importing drugs via a tunnel.
7:00 pm, May 31, 1991, TV Guide
32
AMERICA'S MOST WANTED
Scheduled: Updates on murder suspects Toru "Chris" Sakal, alleged to have killed his father in Los Angeles, and Paul David Crews, charged with first-degree murder in Florida. Host: John Walsh.
7:00 pm, April 30, 1989, TV Guide
32
AMERICA'S MOST WANTED (CC); 60 min. 96446
Scheduled: A hitchhiker suspected of murder in Florida and arson in Texas; a Tennessee robbery suspect wanted for parole violations in connection with robbery and kidnapping. Host: John Walsh.
7:00 pm, November 8, 1991, TV Guide
32
AMERICA'S MOST WANTED; 60 min. 82835
Scheduled: A confessed kidnapper-rapist who fled while on bond. Also: updates on a Cuban immigrant, a kidnap-murder suspect whose wife has been convicted of selling the babies he took; and an escaped murderer.
7:00 pm, October 25, 1991, TV Guide
5
COP TALK: BEHIND THE SHIELD; 60 min.
1:00 am, May 27, 1989, TV Guide
32
COPS 17647
In New Jersey, Off. Vega finds a motionless man in the street upon answering a fight call; Jersey City officers Porter and Falconetti arrest a man with a knife.
8:00 pm, March 2, 1991, TV Guide
32
COPS 29482
The Minneapolis Police Department Riot Control Unit is called into action when a protest march gets out of hand. Also: police officers arrest an assault suspect. (Repeat)
[Fox is advising viewer discretion.]
8:30 pm, March 2, 1991, TV Guide
32
COPS 84729
Pittsburgh cop Pat Logan recalls close calls and answers a domestic-violence call; Off. Tom Harris takes a baby from a negligent mother. Also: a murder probe. (Repeat)
[Fox is advising viewer discretion.]
8:00 pm, May 25, 1991, TV Guide
32
COPS 96286
From last season in Houston: Dep. Monty Herron probes a double shooting; Dep. Michael Sieck catches two men accused of not paying for gasoline at a convenience store. (Repeat)
[Fox is advising viewer discretion.]
7:30 pm, November 9, 1991, TV Guide
32
COPS (CC) 48151
In Boston, Off. Tito Whittington questions a stabbing suspect; Officers Mike Stratton and Greg Brown look for a drug seller; a woman admits that she tried to stab her boyfriend.
[Fox is advising viewer discretion.]
6:30 pm, November 9, 1991, TV Guide
20
CRIME FILE ---Discussion.
11:00 pm, April 26, 1991, TV Guide
7
CRIMES OF THE CENTURY (CC) 60 min. 36485
The 1985 case of the Miami River cops, who stole millions in cocaine and cash; the Leopold and Loeb murder case in 1920s Chicago; the recent hoax involving Hitler's "diaries."
8:00 pm, April 25, 1991, TV Guide
2
TOP COPS (CC); 60 min. 3991
In an expanded edition, Miami detective George Cadavid describes how he walked into the middle of a shoot-out during a family trip to the mall; Illinois policeman Bill Willis relates the case of a businessman kidnapped for a million-dollar ransom. (Repeat.)
7:00 pm, March 7 1991, TV Guide
2
TOP COPS (CC); 60 min. 5721
Two Florida stories: officer Greg Armstrong recalls a shoot-out with some escaped convicts; Federal agent Robert Cousson tells of a woman suspected of a string of murders. Also retired cop Nick McDonald, who was working in Dallas when JFK was shot. (Repeat)
7:00 pm, May 30, 1991, TV Guide
2
TRUE DETECTIVES (CC); 60 min.
Scheduled: A woman in a phone booth who heard another callerŐs plans for a murder; a robbery victim who became a "high-tech detective;" a man who searched for his mother, from whom he was taken in the 1940s.
9:00 pm, April 26, 1991, TV Guide
20
CRIME FILE ---Discussion. 13663
11:00 pm, March 8, 1991, TV Guide
66
CRIME STOPPERS 800 ---Report. 6360498
1:00 am, March 30, 1991, TV Guide
66
CRIME STOPPERS 800 ---Report. 6114637
Cases include a robbery-murder in South Carolina; a shooting in California; and the murder of a child in Florida. (Repeat)
9:30 pm, March 24, 1991, TV Guide
66
CRIME STOPPERS 800 ---Report. 5524442
Scheduled cases: searches for a murderer in Washington and an embezzler in Guam; a murder in South Carolina.
9:30 pm, May 26, 1991, TV Guide
66
CRIME STOPPERS 800
Scheduled segments: a robbery and two murders at a Connecticut liquor store; the stabbing of a 20-year-old woman in San Jose; the shooting of a convenience-store attendant.
9:30 pm, January 7, 1990, TV Guide
7
CRIMES OF PASSION; (CC) 60 min.
Reenactments and interviews are used to examine real-life cases, including the fatal attraction of a woman who learned that her lover was married; the killing of a Northern California youth's high-school sweetheart in the aftermath of an argument; the disintegration of the marriage between a geologist and a younger woman. Also: a former stock-car driver who discovered that his wife had fallen in love with his son by a former marriage. Bruce Dern is the program host.
9:00 pm, April 29, 1989, TV Guide
5
CRIMES OF THE CENTURY
2:30 pm, May 28, 1989, TV Guide
7
FBI: THE UNTOLD STORIES (CC); 8714
A hostage's life hangs by a thread---which happens to lead to a booby-trapped shotgun---as an FBI negotiator (Gregory Itzin) tries to get inside the kidnapperŐs mind in a 1977 Indianapolis extortion case.
8:00 pm, November 14, 1991, TV Guide
5
MOVIE (CC)---Crime Drama; 2 hrs. ** 41958
"The Return of Eliot Ness." (Made for TV; 1991) Robert Stack is back as the T-man from "The Untouchables" (1959-63), now probing an unsolved cop killing---syndicate style---in 1947 Chicago.
8:00 pm, November 10, 1991, TV Guide
2
MOVIE (CC)---Crime Drama; 2 hrs., 30 min. **** 798521
"The Untouchables" (1987) Director Brian DePalma's Prohibition period piece boasts a script by David Mamet, an Oscar-winning performance by Sean Connery as a wily mentor of Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner), and Robert DeNiroŐs redoubtable Al Capone.
7:30 pm, March 24, 1991, TV Guide
66
UNTOUCHABLES B&W; 60 min. 8586781
NessŐs close friend is cut down by gangster bullets as he plays Santa at an orphanage on Christmas Eve. Ness: Robert Stack. Renee: Nita Talbot. Mrs. Levinson: Ruth White.
9:00 pm, March 23, 1991, TV Guide
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AMERICAN PLAYHOUSE; (CC)---Drama; 2 hrs. 30 min.
Using actual courtroom testimony, actors recreate "The Trial of Bernhard Goetz," which took place in April 1987. While riding a New York subway car, Goetz shot four black youths after one "asked" him for $5. Goetz: Peter Crombie. Judge Crane: Dann Florek.
7:00 pm, March 8, 1991, TV Guide
32
MOVIE---Drama;
2 hrs. 5 min. ** 39011077
"Birdman of Alcatraz." (1962) Burt Lancaster gives a fine performance as Robert Stroud, the long-term prisoner who became an ornithologist and author. Shoemaker: Karl Malden. Gomez: Telly Savalas.
3:30 am, November 13, 1991, TV Guide
9
MOVIE---Crime Drama; 2 hrs. ** 63568
"Death Scream." (Made for TV; 1975) Fact-based case of a young woman who was fatally stabbed while 15 neighbors ignored her cries for help. Rodriguez: Raul Julia. Judy: Lucie Arnaz. Lambert: John Ryan. Bellon: Philip Clark. Mrs. Jacobs: Nancy Walker. Carol: Kate Jackson. Mrs. Singleton: Cloris Leachman.
11:30 pm, June 4, 1991, TV Guide
7
MOVIE---Drama; 4 hrs. ****
"Fatal Vision." A 1984 fact-based TV-movie adapted from Joe McGinniss's bestseller about Green Beret physician Jeffrey MacDonald, who was convicted of murdering his wife and children. Karl Malden, Gary Cole.
Mid., May 2 & 3, 1989, TV Guide
50
MOVIE---Drama B&W; 2 hrs. 30 min. ***228439
"I Want to Live." (1958) Susan HaywardŐs Oscar-winning portrayal of convicted murderess Barbara Graham. A powerful real-life horror story, with a chilling gas-chamber sequence.
7:00 pm, June 6, 1991, TV Guide
5
MOVIE---Crime Drama; 2 hrs. ***41182
"Shoot First: A CopŐs Vengeance" tracks the divergent paths of two partners on the San Antonio police force: a principled family man (Dale Midkiff) and a troubled loner (Alex McArthur), whoŐs transformed into a vigilante. A fact-based 1991 TV-movie.
8:00 pm, March 24, 1991, TV Guide
66
MOVIE---Drama; 2 hrs. ****
"The Burning Bed." Harrowing fact-based chronicle of a battered woman (Farrah Fawcett) who ends 13 years of abuse by incinerating her ex-husband (Paul Le Mat) while he sleeps. Flossie: Grace Zabriskie. Gaby: Penelope Milford.
6:00 pm, April 30, 1989, TV Guide
66
MOVIE---Drama; 2 hrs. ****
"The Burning Bed." (Made for TV; 1984) Harrowing, fact-based chronicle of a battered woman (Farrah Fawcett) who ends 13 years of abuse by incinerating her ex-husband (Paul Le Mat) while he sleeps. Flossie: Grace Zabriskie. Gaby: Penelope Milford. [Ch. 66 is advising viewer discretion.]
4:00 pm, April 29, 1989, TV Guide
11
AMERICAN PLAYHOUSE; (CC)---Drama; 2 hrs.
"The Thin Blue Line" is the first TV showing of Errol Morris's critically acclaimed 1988 film about a Texas murder case.
7:00 pm, May 24, 1989, TV Guide
7
MOVIE (CC)---Drama; 2 hrs. ** 63126
"Wife, Mother, Murderer." (Made for TV; 1991) Judith Light plays an enigmatic schemer from Alabama named Marie Hilley, whose plots and crimes are recounted from 1975 to '87 in this fact-based teleplay.
8:00 pm, November 10, 1991, TV Guide
2
AMERICAN STORY (CC); 60 min. 1905
A report on the circumstances surrounding the 1989 murder of a South Carolina police chief, including news footage; reenactments of the crime and subsequent trial; and interviews with the accused couple.
9:00 am, May 30, 1991, TV Guide
5
MOVIE---Crime Drama; 2 hrs. ** 29506
"Cry in the Wild: The Taking of Peggy Ann," a fact-based 1991 TV-movie, reconstructs the manhunt for a crazed backwoodsman (David Morse) who abducted a 17-year-old (Megan Follows) in Shade Gap, Pa., in 1966. Anderson: David Soul. Ruegg: Dion Anderson. Jamieson: Tom Atkins. Mitulski: Travis Swords. Bradnick: Jack Kehler. Carol Jean: Taylor Fry.
8:00 pm, May 6, 1991, TV Guide
5
MOVIE---Drama; 2 hrs. ** 21966
"Deadly Medicine." (Made for TV; 1991) a fact-based story of a Texas pediatrician (Veronica Hamel) and a nurse (Susan Ruttan) suspected of multiple infanticides.
8:00 pm, November 11, 1991, TV Guide
5
EXPOSE 9268
Scheduled: A January report on organized crime profiles former mobster Michael Franzese; and a February segment on the murders of homeless children in Rio de Janeiro.
7:00 pm, May 26, 1991, TV Guide
7
MOVIE (CC)---Drama; 2 hrs. ** 83390
"False Arrest." (Made for TV; 1991), a fact-based crime story about an affluent Phoenix homemaker and businesswoman (Donna Mills) charged with plotting two brutal murders. Ron Lukezic: Robert Wagner. Det. Dan Ryan: Steven Bauer. Martin Busey: Lane Smith. Arnie Merrill: Lewis Van Bergen. [Concludes Wednesday at this time.]
8:00 pm, November 3, 1991, TV Guide
9
FATAL PASSIONS---Documentary; 2 hrs.
Profiles of six people who murdered or attempted to murder someone close to them. Included: a man who shot his girlfriend, leaving her paralyzed; a teenager who killed his father, claiming the father abused him and his mother.
11:30 pm, March 5, 1989, TV Guide
50
FRIDAY THE 13th---Thriller; 60 min.
A wax figure of Lizzie Borden in a carnival exhibit takes on a sinister cast when headless bodies start turning up. Ryan: John D. LeMay.
11:00 pm, March 4, 1989, TV Guide
7
MOVIE---Drama; 2 hrs. ** 45133
"Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer." (Made for TV; 1983) George Segal is a Manhattan detective in this re-creation of the manhunt in the 1972 murder that inspired Judith Rossner's "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" (filmed in 1977 with Diane Keaton). Logan: Shelley Hack. Belden: Alan North.
11:00 pm, December 7, 1991, TV Guide
9
LAURIE DANN: THE UNTOLD STORY; 60 min.
Rick Rosenthal provides new insights into the May 1988 elementary-school shooting tragedy in Winnetka, Ill., with exclusive interviews.
7:00 pm, May 3, 1989, TV Guide
50
MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH; 2 hrs.
A report on convicted murderer William Thomas Zeigler, whoŐs on Florida's death row. Zeigler claimed his wife Eunice was killed when she walked in on a robbery. The state contended that Zeigler staged a fake robbery and killed his wife for a large insurance policy.
1:30 am, March 5, 1989, TV Guide
2
MOVIE (CC)---Drama; 2 hrs. ***8861
A disturbing family psychodrama. This fact-based 1991 TV-movie casts Michele Lee as a widowed storekeeper from Baltimore with two sons: a sensitive 16-year-old named Anthony (Corin Nemec); and his older brother Johnny (Rick Schroder), a rebellious lawbreaker whom his mother had kicked out a year ago. Now, Johnny comes marching home again, triggering old fears, new anxieties---and violence.
8:00 pm, November 10, 1991, TV Guide
7
20/20 (CC);---Downs/ Walters; 60 min. 83392
Scheduled: A San Diego murder trial that evolved from what producer Janice Tomlin describes as "one of the bitterest divorce battles, certainly in [the cityŐs] history." The accused: Betty Broderick, charged in the 1989 deaths of her ex-husband and his new wife.
9:00 pm, November 8, 1991, TV Guide
2
48 HOURS (CC); 60 min.
"Trial and Error" profiles people who claim theyŐve been wrongly convicted of a crime. Among them: Joe Giarrtano, who was on death row for murder before being granted a conditional pardon by Virginia governor L. Douglas Wilder in February.
9:00 pm, April 24, 1991, TV Guide
5
HARD COPY--- Newsmagazine; 5380
Scheduled: A segment on a man investigating his girlfriend's death.
6:00 pm, April 25, 1991, TV Guide
5
HARD COPY--- Newsmagazine; 2679
Scheduled: A segment on a rock video that was mistaken for footage of a murder.
6:00 pm, March 5, 1991, TV Guide
50
MISSING/REWARD (CC) ---777250
Cases include searches for people missing in Rhode Island and Texas; the murder of a California woman.
9:00 pm, March 24, 1991, TV Guide
11
NEW EXPLORERS (CC) 3959
"Profile in Terror" shows how a South Carolina murder case was solved using computers, lasers and a "psychological profile." Bill Kurtis is the program host.
7:30 pm, May 29, 1991, TV Guide
2
PERFECT CRIMES (CC); 60 min. 7175
Real crimes unraveled by small details are recreated: a doctor and her partner (Lisa Hartman, Bruce Greenwood) fake the doctor's murder for insurance money; a man (Dennis Farina) seeks to rid himself of his wife, his girlfriend (Khrystyne Haje) and his blackmailer.
7:00 pm, December 8, 1991, TV Guide
5
REAL LIFE (CC); 60 min.
Scheduled: An expanded edition includes a profile of Jean Harris, the former headmistress who was sentenced in 1981 to 15 years to life for the murder of the "Scarsdale Diet Doctor."
7:00 pm, April 21, 1991, TV Guide
32
REPORTERS; 60 min.
Scheduled: A segment on serial killing; a follow-up report on a British father of three who says he will undergo a sex-change operation. [Time approximate after basketball.]
9:00 pm, March 4, 1989, TV Guide
2
WEST 57th (CC)---Newsmagazine; 60 min.
Scheduled: A report on Leonard Peltier, a Sioux Indian serving two consecutive life sentences at Leavenworth Penitentiary for the 1976 murders of two FBI agents. The segment includes talks with Peltier; his lawyer William Kunstler who, according to producer James Stolz, feels that Peltier did not get a fair trial.
9:00 pm, April 29, 1989, TV Guide
66
MOVIE---Drama; 2 hrs. ** 6523527
"Savage Attraction." (Australian; 1983) Fact-based story of a teen-ager's nightmarish odyssey through Europe with her violently unstable husband. Christine: Kerry Mack. Walter: Ralph Schicha. Mrs. Lewis: Judy Nunn.
7:00 pm, November 11, 1991, TV Guide
2
MOVIE---Crime Drama; 90 min. **
"They Only Come Out at Night." (1975) Fact-based TV-movie about a Los Angeles homicide investigator (Jack Warden) seeking the murderer of several elderly women. Tallchief: Charles Ynfante. Helen: Madeleine Thornton-Sherwood. Baylor: Joe Mantell. Rudd: Dick Dinman. Mrs. Eichman: Lili Valenty. Receptionist: Barbara Luna.
3:30 am, March 5, 1989, TV Guide
2
MOVIE (CC)---Drama; 2 hrs. ***4681
"In a Child's Name, Part 1." (Made for TV; 1991) A hideous crime and its distressing aftermath are re-created in this fact-based, two part movie, which down-plays violence in favor of psychological drama.
8:00 pm, November 17, 1991, TV Guide
2
MOVIE (CC)---Drama; 2 hrs. ***1703
"In a ChildŐs Name, Part 2." (Made for TV; 1991) The movie concludes as courtroom dramas embroil a sociopath (Michael Ontkean), on trial for murder, and his sister-in-law (Valerie Bertinelli) whoŐs seeking guardianship of his son.
8:00 pm, November 19, 1991, TV Guide
2
MOVIE (CC)---Drama; 2 hrs. ***4681
"In a ChildŐs Name, Part 1." (Made for TV; 1991) Part 1 revolves around three main characters: Teresa Taylor, a vivacious, newleywed mother; her husband Kenneth, a twice-divorced dentist whose winning ways mask violent mood swings and a shadowy past; and TeresaŐs feisty sister, whose resolve binds her family during the murder investigation that envelopes them in 1984.
8:00 pm, November 17, 1991, TV Guide
9
MOVIE---Western; 2 hrs. ** 23775
"Gore VidalŐs Billy the Kid." (Made for Cable; 1989) Routine retelling of the saga of the outlaw (Val Klimer) and his friend-turned-nemesis Pat Garrett (Duncan Regehr). Gov. Wallace: Wilford Brimley. Charlie: Ned Vaughn.
7:00 pm, May 26, 1991, TV Guide
66
MOVIE---Western B&W; 2 hrs. ***8201048
"The Return of Frank James," (1940) Fritz Lang directed this moody, ahistoric sequel to "Jesse James," wit**enry Fonda in the title role as the vengeful outlaw.
6:00 pm, March 3, 1991, TV Guide
66
MOVIE---Western B&W; 2 hrs. **** 2564574
"Jesse James," (1939) Elaborately produced version of the Missouri badman's (Tyrone Power) career of vengeance against the railroad. Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly.
4:00 pm, March 3, 1991, TV Guide
50
MOVIE---Crime Drama; 2 hrs. 30 min. ** H
"The Boston Strangler." (1968) Tony Curtis and Henry Fonda in a semidocumentary account of the mass-murder case that rocked Boston in the early 1960s. Filmed on location. DiNatale: George Wynter.
7:00 pm, March 9, 1989, TV Guide
5
HARD COPY--- Newsmagazine; 8875
Scheduled: A segment on serial murderer John Wayne Gacy.
6:30 pm, May 29, 1991, TV Guide
11
NEW EXPLORERS (CC); 6621
Microscopist Walter C. McCrone is the focus of "Mystery Through the Lens," about how the science was used to investigate the Atlanta child-murders of the early '80s and in probing the authenticity of a Manet painting.
7:30 pm, March 27, 1991, TV Guide
2
MOVIE---Drama; 2 hrs. ***3889
"Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Smart Story." (Made for TV; 1991), a steamy, fact-based scenario of illicit sex and murder-for-hire involving a high-school teacher (Helen Hunt) and a student (Chad Allen). (Repeat).
8:00 pm, April 21, 1992, TV Guide
2
48 HOURS (CC); 60 min. 2869
"Have You Seen Them?" journeys to Springfield, Mo., to follow the search for Sherrill Levitt, her daughter Suzie Streeter and Suzie's friend Stacy McCall, all of whom disappeared in June from LevittŐs home "without a trace," according to reporter Richard Schlessinger.
9:00 pm, September 2, 1992, TV Guide
7
20/20 (CC)---Downs/Walters; 60 min. 59297
A 1988 Tom Jarriel story on the strangulation of Dallas resident Peggy Railey. Also: in a 1989 segment, correspondent John Stossel surveys ethics and honesty in America, including honesty tests in which money is dumped out of an armored truck; wallets are dropped.
9:00 pm, September 4, 1992, TV Guide