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Randy Quaid and Patti LuPone star in LBJ: The Early Years (NBC Sunday at 8 p.m.), a new three-hour TV movie (illustrated on the cover) about the life of Lyndon Baines Johnson and his wife Lady Bird, spanning the years between 1934 to his inauguration as President following the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
The Man With the Golden Gun (ABC Sunday at 9 p.m.), the ninth James Bond film, is virtually interchangeable with its predecessors, except that the double-entendres seem broader than ever. This time Roger Moore, as Agent 007, takes on professional killer Christopher Lee (in the title role). At stake is a device that harnesses the sun’s rays.
You Ruined My Life, the “Disney Sunday Movie” (ABC at 7 p.m.), stars Soleil Moon Frye as a Las Vegas youngster transformed into a lady by her maverick math teacher (Paul Reiser).
Convicted: A Mother’s Story (NBC Monday at 9 p.m.) stars Ann Jillian as a convicted embezzler struggling to hold her family together while serving a prison sentence.
Tonight’s the Night (ABC Monday at 9 p.m.), another new TV movie, stars Ed Marinaro and Max Gail as a couple of guys who try to meet women in a flashy L.A. nightspot.
The Wide Net, the first of Eudora Welty’s short stories to be adapted as a film, premieres on “American Playhouse” on Channel 28 Monday at 9 p.m. Barry Tubb and Kyra Sedgwick star as newlyweds living in the South during the Depression.
Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story (CBS Tuesday at 9 p.m.), stars Dorian Harewood in the true story of a young black Dallas County engineer sentenced to life imprisonment for an armed robbery he did not commit.
Where Eagles Dare (airing in two parts on Channel 5, Wednesday and Thursday at 8 p.m.) is a threadbare reworking of “The Guns of Navarone” with Richard Burton playing a British officer whose company is assigned to free an American officer held captive in a German castle during World War II. Clint Eastwood and Mary Ure co-star.
One of Hitchcock’s finest, North by Northwest (Channel 13 Thursday at 8 p.m.), fulfilled the master of suspense’s dream of filming on Mt. Rushmore. Cary Grant stars as one of Hitchcock’s typically innocent heroes, mistaken for a spy and chased all over the country. Eva Marie Saint co-stars.
D.C. Cab (Channel 13 Friday at 8 p.m.), a warm, rambunctious comedy about a struggling Washington cab company, finds a wet-behind-the-ears kid (Adam Baldwin) caught up in unexpected nonstop chaos when he signs on as a driver. Among his new cohorts: Gary Busey, Mr. T, Max Gail and Marsha Warfield.
Max Dugan Returns (Channel 11 Friday at 9 p.m.) stars Marsha Mason as a struggling widowed schoolteacher with a teen-age son (Matthew Broderick) and Jason Robards as her ne’er-do-well father, who turns up after a 28-year absence to upset her life--and her budding romance with cop Donald Sutherland. There’s very little connection with reality in what has to be one of Neil Simon’s lesser efforts, which relies heavily on making everyone incredibly charming.
There’s more grit than consistent credibility in The Pope of Greenwich Village (Channel 5 Saturday at 8 p.m.), but Mickey Rourke is terrific as a would-be slick Manhattan operator undone by his loyalty to his screwed-up cousin (Eric Roberts). There’s a great supporting cast that includes Daryl Hannah and Geraldine Page. The film is based on the Vincent Patrick novel.
Linda Lavin stars in the new TV movie A Place to Call Home (CBS Saturday at 9 p.m.) as an American woman who moves with 11 children to a remote Australian sheep ranch.
Selected evening cable fare: Twice in a Lifetime (Z Sunday at 7, Wednesday at 9); Out of Africa (Sunday at 8 on HBO and SelecTV, Showtime Monday at 8, Cinemax Tuesday at 8); Comfort and Joy (Bravo Sunday at 9); Falasha: Exile of the Black Jews (Bravo Monday at 7:30); Gun Crazy (Z Tuesday at 7:30); Soft Skin (Bravo Wednesday at 6:30); The Ballad of Narayama (Bravo Thursday at 8); Picnic at Hanging Rock (AE Friday at 9); The Purple Rose of Cairo (Z Saturday at 6:30).
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