Video: Murder,They Both Wrote AT MOTHER'S REQUEST

They Both Wrote AT MOTHER'S REQUEST CBS; Sunday and Tuesday, Jan. 4 and 6, 9 p.m. EST

Getting tired of wholesome TV families? Sick of adorable, wisecracking children? Up to here with Cosby? Well, meet the Schreuder family. Mother is a divorced Manhattan social climber who badgers her young daughter into tears with trivial school lessons, locks her less favored son out of the house for days, and schemes to get money from her rich but miserly father in Utah. One summer she sends her two teenage boys, a pair of grungy rejects from the Dead End Kids, to stay with Gramps and steal his loot. But when he discovers the treachery and cuts off the flow of...

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