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NBC. mF^k gether on a half-hour spe­ Previously, customers had to cial next week to try to uncover call Cox during business hours By James Endrst •VL #2: • wit new evidence in an Eastern Iowa to order a movie or special The Hartford Courant murder. event. Customers who do not itting down for a chat with ***•••* "Who Killed Tom Mather" will have a touch-tone phone must Phil Donahue seems a bit air Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. still call the office to order. unnatural. Wouldn't walk­ KCRG was approached by Ce­ The new procedure became ef­ ing and talking be more like it? dar County authorities to help fective last week. After 25 years of "Donahue" re-create the murder of Thomas shows — dashing up and down Mather of Springdale, according studio aisles, mike in hand — it Perot, talk-show host? Johnny Carson (left) was Phil Donahue's guest on Feb. 6, 1970. to Dean Bunting, KCRG news di­ just seems more appropriate. rector. Ross Perot certainly made the But on this afternoon, the recent presidential campaign a much copied town-meeting for­ gate studio audience of 1 million mood of the 56-year-old talk CHANNEL COMMENT lot more entertaining than it show host is relaxed. Today's off- mat of "Donahue" was exactly people, 19 Emmy awards, Dona­ might have been. Now, CNBC what viewers were looking for. hue says, "Twenty-five years lat­ the-air topic: "Donahue: The Mather, 32, was killed in Sep­ has offered the former presiden­ 25th Anniversary," a two-hour "I brought to the experience er, boy, I'll tell you what — it's tial candidate .a chance to guest been an odyssey." tember 1991 at his rural Spring- special Sunday. three or four years of hosting a dale home, allegedly by a myste­ host the cable network's Satur­ Donahue begins — blue eyes radio show," says Donahue, "so And he's not through yet, rious intruder. The only witness, day night "Talk Live." focused like tractor beams be­ I knew what lit up the phones." though he says, "I won't do this Mather's wife, Dawn, escaped to No word yet if Perot will ac­ hind those famous frames — to The topics, the TV memories, in my 60s." (He turns 57 in De­ call the Cedar County sheriff, ac­ cept. reminisce about his ground­ come spilling out of him: "Reli­ cember). cording to her statement. gion; my husband doesn't kiss breaking syndicated program, He's got a contract that runs "Authorities have a lot of good Ike's replacement the first issue-driven, audience- me anymore; the sex has gone till the end of '94 and he says, information on the case, but participation TV talk show. out of our marriage; . . . can the he's "more pumped" than ever they don't have any truly credi­ Charlie Robinson, who played "We were born in Dayton, principal search my son's locker; about the show, happy to be ble witnesses," Bunting said. court clerk Mac Robinson on Ohio," he begins, "with no band lesbian nuns. alive and doing so well after 25 "They're looking to get the case NBC's "Night Court," will be­ and no desk and no couch with "Our first rating book was years. out before the public again and come a regular on CBS' "Love & what was essentially a very visu­ through the roof." So what is his idea of the per­ are hoping new witnesses will War." ally dull show." And yet success didn't come fect "Donahue" show? He thinks come forward. Robinson plays Abe, brother That was 1967 and "The Phil anywhere near overnight. While about it, A wry grin works its "We're just trying to find a of the departed bartender Ike Donahue Show" had a two-year the heartland embraced the for­ way across his face. way to solve this case." Johnson. John Hancock, who mat, big-city markets weren't played Ike, died of a heart attack contract. "The pope elopes," he an­ "We had no hype, no main me­ buying. last month. Brother Abe's tem­ swers, "the happy couple on New way to order PPV perament is a decided contrast dia connection. We didn't even "This has been a snail-like stage." have clout with our own (televi­ process," says Donahue. "It took There's a new way for Cox Ca­ to teddy-bear Ike. sion) group," he says. "We had us 10 years, for example, to do It's an idea that can only be ble's Pay-Per-View customers to A special "Love & War" epi­ no access to stars and were what Oprah did in less than greeted with laughter. order programming. Customers sode in remembrance of Johnson forced to rely on issues." one." "Bet you'd watch," he says. now can order pay-per-view pro­ is scheduled to air Monday. As it turned out, the now After 6,000 shows, an aggre­ I.A. Times-Washington Post Service gramming 24 hours a day by di­ Cindy Cullen Chapman aling 395-9498 from a touch-tone Gazette arts/entertainment editor Jacksons': Mini-series ends with 1984 Victory Tour' From page 1T Quality, programmable received a phone call from a singer on Motown says de Passe, "and since we dealt with everyone named Bobby Taylor," de Passe says. 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