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H A L L O W E E N There's so much Halloween TV this year, it's scary. Biography (8 p.m. EST/9 PST Fri., A&E) unearths a rerun about Boris Karloff. It Wouldn't Be Halloween Without It (Part One): Carrie (8:05 p.m. Fri., TBS). It Wouldn't Be Halloween Without It (Part Two): It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (8 p.m. Fri., CBS). It Wouldn't Be Halloween Without It (Part Three): The Rocky Horror Picture Show (9 p.m. Fri., VH1). Adam's alien abductors return to Earth to try to find him -- on Halloween night -- on The Visitor (8 p.m. Fri., Fox). Frank Black gets no treats on Halloween, only strange visions of his youth, on Millennium (9 p.m. Fri., Fox). Saturday Night Live (11:30 p.m. Sat., NBC) has a compilation show of Halloween and horror skits from years past. The miniseries House of Frankenstein 1997 (9 p.m. Sun., NBC) stars Adrian Pasdar ("Profit") as a detective pursuing vampires, werewolves and a modern-day Frankenstein monster from the streets of Los Angeles to the Arctic Circle. S P E C I A L S There's a new "Wonderful World of Disney" production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella (7 p.m. Sun., ABC), but you probably know that already because this thing has been hyped to the hilt. The rainbow-hued cast features Brandy ("Moesha") in the title role, Whitney Houston (in a really unflattering wig) as her Fairy Godmother, Bernadette Peters as her mean stepmother, Paolo Montalban as the Prince and Jason Alexander, Whoopi Goldberg and Natalie Deselle in various other roles. This is not a remake of Disney's "Cinderella," but rather the TV musical done in 1957 with Julie Andrews and in 1965 with Lesley Ann Warren. For little girls of all ages. Big boys will probably prefer Eastwood on Eastwood (8 p.m. Sun, TNT), a profile based on Richard Schickel's "Clint Eastwood: A Biography," narrated by John Cusack. Oprah Winfrey is the producer and star of the new TV movie Before Women Had Wings (9 p.m. Sun., ABC), about a woman who helps an abused girl (Tina Majorino) cope in 1960s Florida. Ellen Barkin plays the girl's violent mother. S P O R T S Basketball: Bulls at Celtics (8 p.m. Fri., TNT); Jazz at Lakers (10:30 p.m. Fri., TNT). Football: Raiders at Panthers or regional action (1 p.m. Sun., NBC); Redskins at Bears or regional action (1 p.m. Sun., Fox); Cowboys at 49ers or regional action (4 p.m. Sun., Fox); Lions at Packers (8 p.m. Sun., ESPN). T A L K Friday: David Letterman (CBS) has Naomi Campbell, Bobby Brown and Stupid Human Tricks; Oprah Winfrey and Sheryl Crow guest on Jay Leno (NBC); Charlie Rose (PBS) is scheduled to do an hour with John Hope Franklin of the President's Advisory Board on the Race Initiative; Dan Cortese and Wynonna are panelists on Politically Incorrect (ABC); Conan O'Brien (NBC) features David Hyde Pierce and Delbert McClinton.
S E R I E S Dateline NBC (9 p.m. Fri., NBC) has a sure-fire sweeps winner: a report on railroad crossing accidents that includes "staged collisions and dramatic pictures of close calls." Homicide (10 p.m. Fri., NBC) wraps up the current three-parter that has fans of the show hopping mad over the writers' apparent amnesia about what Pembleton and G. are all about. On 20/20 (10 p.m. Fri., ABC), Barbara Walters interviews the parents of the boy accused of the rape-murder of another boy who was selling candy door-to-door for a school fund-raiser. The Pretender (8 p.m. Sat., NBC) begins its new season, as does Profiler (10 p.m. Sat., NBC). Homer buys a gun on The Simpsons (8 p.m. Sun., Fox). The X-Files (9 p.m. Sun., Fox) has its season opener and guess what? Mulder ain't dead. N E W S E R I E S Sleepwalkers (9 p.m. Sat., NBC) replaces "Dark Skies" as the
filling in NBC's "Thrillogy" sandwich. Bruce Greenwood ("Nowhere Man")
stars as the founder of an unorthodox sleep-disturbance clinic in which
dream researchers hook up to your brain waves and actually enter your
dreams to find out what's eating you. There's lots of symbolism for
armchair Jungians to puzzle out, but it's hard to tell where the show is
going: How many variations on the your-dreams-can-kill-you theme can there
be? Still, with "X-Files" veteran David Nutter as one of the producers, it
may at least be fun finding out. One drawback of the pilot episode:
Greenwood is a little too stiff as the secretly tormented
neurophysiologist. It's not until the poignant last scene that he lets
himself go and you get a sense of how good he is at playing complicated,
conflicted heroes.
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