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Success .- doesn't’

unnoticed: at. ‘the: ‘big. three
networks That's why

vatiatlons of old hits: pop up.
: "as new: ‘gerles: on: this ‘fall's

prime-time .. TV. ‘schedule. »

7 unexpected hit'on NBC, has -

begotten q ‘whole new line of

shows: ABC has Hardcastle ©

"~and McCormick; NBC has
’ Rousters and Manimal.

*- All the. series, Ike their.
parent, feature a group of ©
“eccentrics who. 7
become — vigilantes when ~
. they decide that crime can’t -
. be defeated by working

lovable"

within. the law.

The A‘Team has a group
of misfit Vietnam veterans;
Hardecaatle has an crazed |
ex-judge and a racing car
‘driver; -Rousters, | the.

" descendents of Wyatt Earp -

roe

” The. ‘A-Team, last season's

into any ‘nttigbér of animals

to. fight the bad guys."

‘ Sinailarly Hotel, 'a. new:

{ABC ‘series. starring Bette - .

-Davia: ‘and ‘ James ‘Brolin,
. could be retitled Son of Love’

* Boat or Fantasy ] Island. It’s:
- set in ai opulent hotel and ia

ready-made for inserting.
_ big-name. guest ‘stars who —

: drop by to have a problem

solved —. ‘the formuta’ that

worked for the other, older
_ Series. It’s no: coineldence

SHADES OF HART ‘TO
Hart . to’. Hart, . the

‘Robert. Wagner, inspired
the creation of last season's

similarly. handsome couple.

involved ‘in. intrigue on:

~ NBC's: Remington Steele. ”
“The family has: yet":

. the.new shows,
~ all previewed recently to TV

“angel ‘Kate. jackson) and
CLA-type Bruce Boxleitner.

Night-time: soaps - “have”

become another’ ‘staple: of: - “promising --dramag’: “this

ihe schedule, Jed ‘by the:

_Sunaway success of. Dallas, .
which - -Set ° the | tone’. ‘for: network

Dynasty, Falcon - Crest. and:

‘Knot's Landing. 2 0". 7:

‘Two new suds ate among
the a2 series premiering this
fall. Navy; which ‘doean’t ..

_ yet have a” pilot: ‘episade

available, | stars ‘Denhis

Weaver as the commander:
Of a naval base who is

raising - three ” daughters:

alone.

The other, The: ‘Yellow
Rose, is possibly thie best.of .
ich were

writers‘ from across North’
_America. .

The Yellow Rose, a
beautifully-shot eple about a:
working ranch--in- Texas,
stars Sam Elliott, Dagid

‘when they aren’t . bounty.

who work in a carnival”

hunting. The silliest of all is

VANCOUVER (CP) — An ‘octogenarian

-amoker who never develope lung: cancer.
could be just a lucky. crap shooter. .

~ ~The game he may be playing is genetic
“dice” and cancer. researchers now are

trying to determine just how many losidg
sets of snake eyes he can:throw. , ;

-According to the current model, "the

smoker’s dice are cigarettes, and when-he

- throws: the two that crap shooters call -
_ snake eyes, a special gene in one of his.
cells becomes cancerous. When he has’

thrown snake eyes enough times, all the -

Tequired genes are cancerous and the cell _

starts.down the road that leads to a tumor

- and: eventually to death.
The special genes are called proto
- oncogenes — or just oncogenes if they are =

in their cancer-causing form — and are the ©
central topic in the second annual Terry

-Fox Cancer Conference under way. this

weeks at:the Ualverally of | B.C,
‘Molecular "“blologista” “believe the”
oncogenes do their ‘dastardly deeds by

“coding” for errant proteins-that in turn

Mimic some cellular command such a5 the

command to divide.
- But major discoveries have a habit of

producing major questions that, weren’t~

apparent before, and oncogene research is
no exception.

_A QUESTION OF ODDS

For the smoker, the question could be be
how many ofa cell’s genes have to become
oncogenes and what are the odds that they

‘another addition this year:
CBS's: Scarecrow and Mrs.
- King, about -the heroic
Manimal,. in which a_ exploits of a - divorced |
Srinninologist turns himself” housewife (former Charlie’ 8.

- Smokers shoot

* Soul, Cybill Shepherd and”.
Susan - Anspach, | who:
‘portray members of a:hot- -
‘blooded family struggling to.
key thelr : aselons in”

craps |

4 MRenoarcher Alan Bernstein, ‘af ‘the ee
Ontario Cancer Institute, sald hé believes

the answer to the first part of the: question.
is “several,” and that the answer to the

” gecond part is simply’ ‘unknown, ”. cee
‘The result, however; isa’ “model” for —
lung smoking and eancer. that appears to

answer --the riddle posed «by. the
octogenarian smoker.

Bernstein’ said each - cigarette. could * ‘

carry a small chance that its carcinogens ©
will cause one of the proto oncogenes to

‘change to an active oncogene. Further -
Interest could be added to the game if it

proves easier to convert some genes ‘than ©
others."

i (8 gay, it took three genes anil the odds
against converting the first one are one in“

- ,amillion, but the chances of (converting).

the second were one in 10 and the. third

en smereane in to, then you might argue that .

ou threw anake eyes on the first one the’
“other. two. ‘were inevitably going ‘to

. happen,” Bernstein said.

“However, you could look at it another
way and figure that if-there is-an equal
chance of changing each ‘gene, then.a’
emoker who quits has a good chance not to
change the genes that are left. =~

“He might have one or two. that ‘are ©

changed, but if he can avoid changing the

others then he has about the same chance
of developing lung cancer as a non-
smoker,’”’ .

New mothers . who are. given infant.

_ formula samples when they leave the

hospital do not breast-feed as long as those
who. aren't. given samplee, Montreal
researchers have found.

The researchers, headed. by Dr. Yves
Bergevin of:

’ The practice of giving away eamples,

. compliments of formula manufacturers, is. *

common acrose Canada and in m many ather
countries, the researchers say.

No one, however, has evet' tried to find =

out whether’ this form of - promotion
actually has an effect on how long mothers
breast-feed or on. when. they introduce
their‘infants to solid'foods, ;

‘First-time mothers and those with only

high ‘school education. or less, were —

- particularly influenced by the free

" samples, the researchers found. =
- Among first-time mothers, 80 percent of

those who didn’t receive samples were still

’. breast-feeding one month after leaving —
‘hospital, compared with 70 per cent of

those given samples. .
Among the mothers ‘with high. school :
education or less, only 67 per cent of those

-who had received samples were still

breast-feeding at one month, compared

". with 79 per cent of the mothers who hadn't

received samples. -, :

Similarly, the researchers found, when
less-educated mothers or
mothers received.samples, they were

twice as likely to introduce thelr bables to.

solid foods by the end of the second month.

* Even among well-educated mothers and...

those with other children, the same
pattems emerged,. with free formula
samples appearing to lead to a shorter
average breast-feeding period and a more
rapid introduction of solid foods.

The researchers say Canadian health
- professionals will have to weigh the ‘ “rinks |

and benefita of this form of advertising and

‘decide whether or not they should allow

the practice to continue in their hospitals. "

A group of Toronto doctors |s achieving

McGill - University, 7
interviewed 212 mothers who received ~
formula samples on leaving hospital and

_ 19 mothers who didn’t. -

first-time *

remarkable progress in controlllig ane of |
the most : :deadly aspects’ of intestinal
cancers — * metastasis or spread, to the
liver. -

The researchers have found that. qore .

than 80 per cent of liver metastases can be .

__ stabilized.or” reversed’ by ‘standard .
, chemotherapy combined. with, intensive. ;
_ heat applied: ‘directly to. the tumor, : o "3

localized heat ié produced by radio: waves’ V.

‘focused on the tumor. © et

Ina trial that has been goling on for'two*

7 yeara, Dr. Rudy Falk and his co:workers._
_'at Toronto General Hospital are. finding.
“that 93 per cent of patients with liver
Metastases live for more than six months,
“with some. surviving for up to-two years. th
Before ‘the use of the combined —

treatment, leas than 50 per cent of patients
‘with’ liver. metastases survived ‘for, vaix..

months, Falk says in a report’ in: ‘The ,
Medial Post.': *

The. ‘temperature rise nrodueed by the

radio-wave treatment is about two degrees .

centigrade. in the metestasized.tumor °°
itself; while the patient's.
~ temperature risea by only about one-halfa |

overall

degree: a

Tumor. cells are more heai-sensitive

- than normal cells, Falk notes, and poor at.
* dissipating extra heat because thé blood -

flow through a tumor is usually limited.
The hyperthermia also allows a 28-40 50-

_ per-cent reduction in the dosage of antl-
cancer drugs needed to stop the tumor...
. from growing, so slde-effects from the
- drugs are substantially reduced, ae
“Quite a few people have no side-effects. ,

That is why most of our peaple are. being :
treated as out-patients,” Falk says, -

Burning of the skin due to the radio- -

waves éccurs in only one treatment out of ;
1000.

The researchers say that while they _
have applied the combined technique only ..
~to advanced cancer cases involving tumor

metastases, the method could also be.

- applied to primary tumors, destroying . -

moat or all of a breast tumor, for example, ..

“and reduelng the need for extedive be

aurgery.

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Hamner, the creator of The.
‘Waltong, thé.‘ series *.

introduces Thomas Byrd as
~~ an aspiring ‘singer in’ the”.
US. South in.the 1950s. -

-— Bay .City . Blues: |

, Although. “10: pilot” was.

available, this. series comes
from the - creative group

-behind Hilt Street Blues and -

is qne of the most expensive
- ever, at $900,000 a episode,”

: It involves: a minor. league -

baseball téam and ‘various |
hangers-on.”

—For LOVE AND Honor:.
A well-acted and | ‘written ©” .

drama that Took at: ‘the’

‘contemporiy” aad

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ratings with good programs: ; “ critically-acclaimed ”.
_ like Hill Street: Blues, Fame
‘and St: Elsewhere, 00° 5! =
NBC's .. other. “Hopetula,

‘another. former’ Charlie’s.
» Angel, Shelley Hack, Like
Trauma. Centre, - «
counterpart on ABC, both
" feature airborne -deotors

Aly. |

--TV enters ‘the computer -

age with the CBS-series
Whiz Kids, a sort of 19603
' Hardy Boys about a

“teenaged high-tech genius
“and his buddies. who use a
“computer - named Ralf to’

> solve crimes, - ;
The final drama is
_ Lottery, an ABC series
about two.

“ayes of
Paratroopers” Ang - 8 : boot .

but.
; lowly-rated ‘SL. Elsewhere...

CBS, which already has.”
Trapper John, “M:D.,. adds .-
“ Cutter. to Houston, © with

their

.dashingly :
“handsome men who set out

‘turnaround from last season -
, when 13° of 29: “Hew “Bhows ™ :
were. ‘half-hour’ Situation: -
. laboratory

comedies, Networks . have

‘opted instead for the hour-
long dramas in the hopes -
they, will :reclaim the
younger, urban market that .
has.
, ’ increasingly to pay-TV and
“ pratising medicine on the

been..." turning

independent stations..
There... was — no-. -pilot

; available but After Mashis

expected-to-be the best -of

the new sitcom lot, largely
‘because of the record of its

creators. and writers,
including Larry Gelbart ‘and
Burt: Metcalfe, | who were
both involved in - the.
original. °

The comedy Is set in the .

post: “Korean: war period ina
veteran's.”

area.

2 'Mr. ‘Stith, : af on
‘a®; Comedy which ‘also had no 11
impossibly: of

old... ‘Black genie.
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reverse:
bachelors hire a dumb but ©

~ bospital. in beautiful “blonde as their

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py-cat series. :

Missouri. -Rectealig thet “ii
- orginal roles. are. J

Cdinger),”.

pilot, “sounds...

hokey... Tt “is -- about an

orangutan, -who- through’ a”
: "mild-mannered:
weatherman. coe

aceldent -:
acquires an IQ-of 256 and
goes. on to. become a
presidential advisor.

’ But-it, too, has producers: .

with a history of turning out
quality sitcoms:. -Stan
Daniels and Ed Weinberger,
-the people behind TVHE

Mary Tyler’ Moore’ Show:

and Taxi.

- MAKES A DISMAL LOT

Based on thelr premiere
episedes, the rest of the so-

called comedies are a
- their kids’ and conveniently

dismal lot. The wors has to
be We Got It Made, which Is
Three’s Company _- in
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amie ;
sHarry, -
(Sherman. Potter) Be :

young”

‘ style,

aoe a

There are overtones of

“who :

another. successful sitcom -

-~ Diff’rent ‘Strokes — in ~~
ABC's Webster. Both havea . :
black. child . adopted by. ~

affluent white parents.

‘Social relevance is’ the. te
‘two 8!

_ Yemalning sitcoms: It’s ‘Not. .-
-Easy. and Yes, But I'm = |

avowed aim “of

Married, both on ABC, The

‘former is about a divorced . : .

couple who share custody of

live across the street from
each: other; the latter,

starring Madelaine Kahn,
19805 _—

looks at infidelity,

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