TELEVISION: THE BEST TELEVISION OF 1997

1 FOX'S SUNDAY-NIGHT LINEUP Everyone talks about NBC and Thursday, but the best night for television right now is Sunday, when you can watch The Simpsons, King of the Hill and The X-Files all in a row on Fox. The Simpsons is still the cleverest comedy on TV, and King of the Hill creates a world with far more specificity than any live-action sitcom. Both are smarter, funnier and, in fact, more human than Friends or Seinfeld. Meanwhile, The X-Files draws from a bottomless well of inspiration. Two cartoons and a sci-fi show--why are these better than the programs supposedly about...