THE BURNING BED (NBC). Farrah Fawcett proved she could act, and television proved it could do an "issue drama" without preaching, simplifying or sentimentalizing, in this gripping TV movie about a woman who takes incendiary revenge on her brutal husband.
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (Showtime). Jessica Lange was a sizzling Maggie and Rip Torn an offbeat Big Daddy in this lively and well-directed (by Jack Hofsiss) classic. TV's finest posthumous tribute to Tennessee Williams.
CONCEALED ENEMIES (PBS). Alger Hiss, the alleged spy; Whittaker Chambers, his accuser; and Congressman Richard Nixon, the investigator. These were the true- life protagonists of...
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