Television specials scheduled for this season bank heavily on entertainment, but not all entertainment iswell, entertainment. In the past week, for example, the networks have shown three specials that dealt with the plight of old people, the plight of a rape victim, and the plight of a family with a mongolian child.
CBS, in Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, had Melvyn Douglas shunted off to a nursing home by his grown children. ABC, in Johnny Belinda, showed Mia Farrow, in a waist-length wig, playing a deaf-mute who is raped and framed...
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