Thursday, July 3, 1997_|_BY JOYCE MILLMAN
S P E C I A L S Tonight's highlights of the Greatest Episodes of All Time Marathon (beginning 10 p.m., Nick at Nite) are the I Love Lucy (10 p.m.) where she crushes grapes in an Italian vineyard and a two-part St. Elsewhere (11 p.m., midnight) that flashes back to the founding of the hospital. S P O R T S Wimbledon tennis: Women's Semifinals (10 a.m., NBC). WNBA: L.A. Stars at Cleveland Rockers (7:30 p.m., ESPN). S E R I E S Seinfeld (9 p.m., NBC) reruns the episode where Kramer rents out a chest of drawers as a hotel for Japanese tourists, and how many times is this one going to be on? A mother searches for her missing son on a repeat of 48 Hours (10 p.m., CBS). On a rerun of ER (10 p.m., NBC), the new chief of staff institutes patient quotas for each doctor and Benton and HIV-positive Jeanie clash over whether she should continue working at the hospital. Turning Point (10 p.m., ABC) reruns a Barbara Walters report on efforts to curb drunk driving. P.O.V. (10 p.m., PBS) presents "Passin' It On," a 1993 profile of former New York City Black Panther leader Dhoruba Bin Wahad. T A L K David Letterman (CBS) has a new show featuring Tim Robbins and comedian Sarah Silverman. Everything else is a rerun: John Cusack on Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated); Robin Williams and Billy Crystal on Jay Leno (NBC); Jack Lemmon on Tom Snyder (CBS); Scott Thompson and Andrew Sullivan on Politically Incorrect (ABC); and Lisa Kudrow and Silverchair on Conan O'Brien (NBC). E T C. Robert Mitchum, who died Tuesday at the age of 79, is so locked in our
memories as one of the great movie tough guys that it's easy to overlook
his TV work. Mitchum made his long-overdue TV debut in 1982 as a washed-up
private eye in the made-for-TV mystery "One Shoe Makes it Murder." He gave
one of his finest performances in ABC's 18-hour 1983 miniseries "The Winds
of War" as American Naval officer "Pug" Henry, and he also starred in the 1988
sequel "War and Remembrance." Among Mitchum's other TV movies were 1985's
"The Hearst and Davies Affair," in which he played William Randolph Hearst,
and 1983's "A Killer in the Family," which found him in top "Cape
Fear"-style menacing form as a man who cons his sons (James Spader, Eric
Stoltz) into busting him out of prison and then takes them on a murder
spree. He also appeared in a two-part episode of the action series "The
Equalizer" in 1987. Mitchum's weirdest TV assigment, however, was the very
short-lived 1990 NBC sitcom "A Family for Joe," in which he played a
homeless man who posed as the grandfather of four orphaned children (one of
whom was played by a pre-"Natural Born Killers" Juliette Lewis). His
best-known TV appearance was behind the camera, though -- as the voice of
the "Beef: It's What's for Dinner" commercials. We will hoist a burger in
his honor.
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