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SALON'S TV PICKS FOR
WEEKEND, NOV. 6-8, 1998
BY JOYCE MILLMAN

S E R I E S

Buddy and Bob visit the Playboy Mansion in the line of duty on Buddy Faro (9 p.m. Fri., CBS). On Homicide: Life on the Street (10 p.m. Fri., NBC), the squad teams up with the FBI after several people are poisoned. The new family series Little Men (8 p.m. Sat., PAX) portrays Louisa May Alcott's tomboy-turned-schoolmistress heroine, Jo March, as a sort of Dr. Quinn of rural 19th century Massachusetts. David Spade hosts Saturday Night Live (11:30 p.m. Sat., NBC), with music from Eagle Eye Cherry. Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger provide the voices for their cartoon selves on The Simpsons (8 p.m. Sun., Fox). Homer becomes their personal assistant, in case you were wondering. The season opener of The X-Files (9 p.m. Sun., Fox) continues the story line of last season's finale (and the "X-Files" movie): An FBI panel dismisses Mulder's account of his adventures in Antarctica, Mulder's ex-partner (and ex-wife?), Diana (Mimi Rogers), is still hanging around and so is the mutated black-oil life form. The accused beheader goes on trial on The Practice (10 p.m. Sun., ABC).

S P E C I A L S

Wynonna in Concert (9:30 p.m. Fri., PAX) finds the mighty-voiced Ms. Judd before an audience at Disney Studios in Orlando, Fla. Whoopi Goldberg plays a computer scientist who time travels back to King Arthur's court in the year 589 in the new Disney TV movie A Knight in Camelot (7 p.m. Sun., ABC). Costarring Michael York and Amanda Donohoe as Arthur and Guinevere. In the new cable movie Babylon 5: The River of Souls (8 p.m. Sun., TNT), the crew is caught in the middle when an archaeologist (Ian McShane) steals a relic from a race called the Soul Hunters, who capture souls at the moment of death. The relic contains a lot of angry souls and when they escape, hoo boy. Martin Sheen costars as a Soul Hunter. The new cable movie A Soldier's Sweetheart (8 p.m. Sun., Showtime) stars Georgina Cates as a girl who follows her boyfriend (Skeet Ulrich) to Vietnam. Kiefer Sutherland also stars in this adaptation of a Tim O'Brien story. Cicely Tyson stars in the miniseries Mama Flora's Family (9 p.m. Sun., CBS), based on Alex Haley's last novel about several generations of an African-American family. With Queen Latifah, Blair Underwood and Mario Van Peebles. Chris Noth returns as his Law & Order character, Det. Mike Logan, in the new TV movie Exiled (9 p.m. Sun., NBC). When last heard from, Logan was walking a beat on Staten Island as punishment for punching out a creepy councilman. Actually, Noth was exiled from the show in a salary dispute. All is forgiven now, apparently. The movie has Logan catching a homicide case that results in him investigating a cop in his old precinct, which leads to a reunion with his old partner, Det. Briscoe (Jerry Orbach). Costarring Benjamin Bratt, Sam Waterston, S. Epatha Merkesron and Dann Florek.

S P O R T S

Hockey:
Red Wings at Coyotes (8 p.m. Fri., ESPN)

Football:
Bengals at Jaguars; Colts at Dolphins; Raiders at Ravens; Bills at Jets in HDTV (1 p.m. Sun., CBS)
Falcons at Patriots; Lions at Eagles; Saints at Vikings; Giants at Cowboys; Rams at Bears (1 p.m. Sun., Fox)
Chiefs at Seahawks; Chargers at Broncos (4 p.m. Sun., CBS)
Panthers at 49ers; Redskins at Cardinals (4 p.m. Sun., Fox)
Oilers at Buccaneers (8:15 p.m. Sun., ESPN)

T A L K

Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Queen Latifah
David Letterman (CBS) P. J. Harvey
Jay Leno (NBC) Courtney Thorne-Smith
Chris Rock (HBO)Affirmative-action foe Ward Connerly
Charlie Rose (PBS) John Updike
Politically Incorrect (ABC) Todd Rundgren, Daisy Fuentes
Conan O'Brien (NBC) David Spade, Fred Savage
SALON | Nov. 6, 1998

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