Blue Glow

Salon's TV picks for Monday, May 10, 1999

Published May 10, 1999 4:00PM (EDT)

Specials

Bernard Lefkowitz's bestseller Our Guys (9 p.m., ABC), about the 1989 coverup of a sexual assault on a mentally challenged girl by a group of high school jocks in Glen Ridge, N.J., becomes a TV movie. Heather Matarazzo ("Welcome to the Dollhouse") plays the victim; Ally Sheedy and Eric Stoltz are the investigators who uncovered the crime. The new cable movie Different (9 p.m., Lifetime) stars Annabeth Gish as a mentally challenged mother (are you detecting a pattern in tonight's docudramas?) whose own mother (Lynn Redgrave) challenges her for custody of her young daughter.

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Series

On 7th Heaven (8 p.m., WB), Matt uncovers something incriminating about Mary when he goes on patrol with a cop for extra credit. Dilbert (8 p.m., UPN) blows the lid off a workplace charity scam. On The King of Queens (8:30 p.m., CBS), Arthur moves out after an argument with Doug. Ally hires a male escort to make Greg jealous on Ally McBeal (9 p.m., Fox). Debra and Robert go swing dancing on Everybody Loves Raymond (9 p.m., CBS). Masterpiece Theatre (check local times, PBS) concludes its new adaptation of "Great Expectations." A freeway pileup endangers the life of one of the docs on the season finale of L.A. Doctors (10 p.m., CBS).

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Sports

NBA playoffs:

Knicks at Heat, Game 2 (7 p.m., TBS)

Pistons at Hawks, Game 2 (8 p.m., TNT)

Kings at Jazz, Game 2 (9:30 p.m., TBS)

Suns at Trail Blazers, Game 2 (10:30 p.m., TNT)

NHL playoffs:

Stars at Blues, Game 3 (7:30 p.m., ESPN)

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Talk

Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Wynonna

David Letterman (CBS) Janeane Garofalo, Jon Favreau

Jay Leno (NBC) Brendan Fraser, Portia de Rossi

Politically Incorrect (ABC) Maura Tierney, Bill Bellamy

Conan O'Brien (NBC) Pamela Anderson, Michael T. Weiss (rerun)


By Joyce Millman

Joyce Millman is a writer living in the Bay Area.

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