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Sales are By MIKE CIDONI Gannett News Service Reporter Video '86 brought life and death to nearly every industry camp. For tapes: 8-millimeter's popularity exploded. By September, the format accounted for nearly 28 percent of all VCR sales revenues. Despite Beta's bargain basement prices, it bit 8- millimeter's dust. For discs: LaserDisc's eight-year wait for success finally paid off.

Thanks to the popularity of the similar compact disc, the laser videodisc found a niche with both audio and videophiles. For prices: CBS-Fox and HBOCannon announced the end of the $80 ceiling for new top tapes. CBS-Fox will deliver "Aliens" and "'The Fly" at $89.98 and some of HBO-Cannon's releases will fly straight to $99.95 in 1987's Tuesday Continued from Page 12E with singer Helen Reddy. 20 Love Connection 12 Nightline 25 62 T.J. Hooker Hooker investigates the death of a woman he found floating in a tidal pool.

(1 10 min.) (28 Austin City Limits "Legends of Bluegrass With Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley, Jim and Jesse, and Mac Wiseman" In stereo. (1 hr.) 29 Sportsline 50 Late Show Host: Joan Rivers. Scheduled: Stephanie Beacham Pee-wee Herman. In stereo. (1 hr.) 56 Kentucky: The Ultimate E.

questrian Trial America's leading e- questrians and international contenders compete in dressage, cross-country endurance and stadium jumping. (1 30 min.) (HBO) Movie "Spies Like Us" (1985) Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd. Two federal employees, who want to move up in the world, are given what they think is a great spy mission, when they're actually expendable decoys for the real operatives. 'PG' (1 44 min.) MO Movie "Sinful Davey" (1969) John Hurt, Pamela Franklin. In the 19th century, a young Scotsman finds his efforts to emulate his highwayman father's lifestyle thwarted by love.

(1 35 min.) MAX Movie "White Nights" (1985) Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines. After his plane crashes in Siberia, a Russian who defected to the west seeks freedom with the help an American who left the United States during the Vietnam War. In stereo. 'PG13' (2 15 min.) DIS Movie "Genevieve" (1954) John Gregson, Dinah Sheridan. Two English couples pit their wits and determination against each other to win a cross-country antique car race.

(1 26 min.) NSH Fandango Interview: Razzy Bailey. In stereo. SHO 1 Movie "Enemy Mine" (1985) Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett Jr. A space pilot and his half-human, half-reptilian enemy must put aside their differences in order to survive on a desolate planet. In stereo.

'PG-13' (1 48 min.) ART Musical Interludes Organist Diane Bish performs Rheinberger Concerto in major for Organ and Orchestra. 11:35 7 Nightline Movie "Strike Force" (1975) Cliff Gorman, Donald Blakely. A special unit of law enforcement agents, combining the best talents of police from SUNDAY Dec. 28, 1986 naughty first The tape Best $19.95. less family theater.

end stroying screen to a Karate The Box their thriller Rutger victims to Beta, quarter. good news? Many pre-recorded prices fell, with one of the year's Picture Oscar nominees down to You can now own "Witness" for than it would have cost to take a of four to see it in a first-run For theatrical film producers: An to worries that home video is detheir box office revenues. Big takes rebounded in 1986, thanks great degree to "The Kid Part II" and "Star Trek IV: Voyage office stiffs also recouped some of theatrical losses. "The Hitcher," a with C. Thomas Howell and Hauer, annihilated more viewing on tapes than on big screens.

So federal to local levels, is set up to attack the problem of organized crime. (1 30 min.) 12:00 2 Movie "The Thin Man Goes Home" (1944) William Powell, Myrna Loy. While visiting his parents, Nick discovers a dead body and Nora helps him find the killer. (2 hrs.) ESPN SportsCenter (10 Movie "G-Men" (1935) James Cagney, Ann Dvorak. Despite the criminal influence in his background, a man joins the FBI to fight the forces of syndicate crime.

(2 hrs.) (20 Tales Of The Unexpected 12 29 Nightlife Host: David Brenner. Scheduled: actor John Houseman. In stereo. 42 Magnum, P.I. USA Dragnet NIC Donna Reed Nashville Now CBN Burns And Allen ART Oliver Twist In an effort to spare Oliver from Fagin, Nancy turns informer.

(Part 5 of 6) (1 hr.) 12:05 7 Entertainment Tonight Interview with singer Helen Reddy. 12:30 4 Nightlife Host: David Brenner. Scheduled: actor John Houseman. In stereo. 5 29 Late Night With David Letterman From January 1986: Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon and "Entertainment Tonight" co-host Mary Hart make appearances; also, small town news.

In stereo. (1 hr.) TBS Portrait Of America: Colorado Featured: transportation; mining; American Indian, Ben Nighthorse Campbell. (1 hr.) ESPN College Basketball AlabamaBirmingham Classic, Championship Game, from Birmingham, Ala. (Sameday tape) (2 hrs.) (20 Movie "Forbidden Knowledge" (1971) Angie Dickinson, Anthony Quinn. A lady in jeopardy leads police officers to a syndicate leader who is involved in a construction scandal.

(1 30 min.) (2 Charlie's Angels 50 The Judge USA Edge Of Night NIC Mister Ed CBN Best Of Groucho Everybody's Money Matters 12:35 7 Movie 12:40 (25) 62 Movie "Cover Girls" (1977) Cornelia Sharpe, Jayne Kennedy. Two American secret agents are assigned to capture and return a mob-connected embezzler. (1 20 min.) 1:00 Movie "Sam Cade" (1972) Glenn Ford, Edgar Buchanan. Cade learns of a proposed contract killing by the syndicate and discovers nice to CDs did Daryl Hannah in "Clan of the Cave Bear," Kevin Bacon in "Quicksilver." All-time hits: Five of the 10 bestselling home video movies were released in 1986, with "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" and Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" joining the prestigious million-plus sales club. Here are the 10 all-time movie tapes.

1. "Beverly Hills Cop" 2. "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" 3. "Raiders of the Lost Ark" 4. "Sleeping Beauty" 5.

"Purple Rain" 6. "Rambo: First Blood Part IT" 7. "Back to the Future" 8. "Ghostbusters" 9. "Return of the Jedi" 10.

"The Empire Strikes Back" that a wartime crony is planning to murder him. (2 hrs.) 42 Movie "A Night At The Opera" (1935) Marx Brothers, Allan Jones. A group of zany shipboard stowaways totally disrupts an opera company while in Italy. (2 hrs.) 50 Comedy Classics 50 Nova A report on the pros and cons of a billion-dollar hydroelectric project in Sri Lanka designed to provide irrigation for remote farming districts in this island republic. (1 hr.) USA Wrestling NIC My Three Sons DIS Movie "Scott Of The Antarctic" (1948) John Mills, Derek Bond.

One of the most heroic exploits in British history, the ill-fated expedition to the South Pole, is undertaken by a dynamic explorer. (2 hrs.) Jack Benny ART Swan Lake The Bolshoi Ballet production of Tchaikovsky's dance classic. Natalia Bessmertnova and Alexander Bogatyrev dance the principal roles. Host: Gene Kelly. (2 30 min.) 1:05 4 Late Night With David Letterman From January 1986: Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon and "Entertainment Tonight" co-host Mary Hart make appearances; also, small town news.

In stereo. (1 hr.) 1:10 MO Movie "The Rosebud Beach Hotel" (1984) Colleen Camp, Peter Scolari. An enterprising couple puts a run-down seaside resort on the road to financial recovery by hiring prostitutes who double as bellhops. 'R' (1 27 min.) 1:15 HBO Movie "Gymkata" (1985) Kurt Thomas, Tetchie Agbayani. On a mission to secure a military site in a remote eastern Asian country, an American agent employs his martial arts and gymnastic skills.

'R' (1 30 min.) 1:20 SHO Heartbreak House Tony award winners Rex Harrison and Rosemary Harris star with Amy Irving in this satirical comedy about the battle of the sexes in pre-World War England. Based on a play by George Bernard Shaw. (2 hrs.) 1:30 5 Movie "Artists And Models" (1955) Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis. An artist lands a position creating comic strips. (2 hrs.) Movie "The Stooge" (1953) Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis.

A' singer decides that he needs his partner to be a success. (2 30 min.) (12 News 29 Mary Tyler Moore 50 Movie "Across The Pacific" (1942) Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor. During World War I1, a spy plots to blow up the Panama Canal. THE TIMES HERALD Tempered Tub Enclosure heat treated to increase strength. A new level of safety for your family -TEMPERED GLASS is 4-6 times stronger than regular glass of the same thickness-resistant to thermal and impact shock.

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In stereo. CBN Dobie Gillis 1:50 Movie "Used Cars" (1980) Kurt Russell, Jack Warden. After the owner of a bankrupt car shop dies, his employees try to cover up his demise to prevent his wealthy cardealer brother from inheriting the business. 'R' (1 53 min.) 2:00 2 News 25 Gene Charlie's Scott Angels 60 Mandela A profile of South African civil rights activist Winnie Mandela focusing on her efforts to change South Africa's practice of apartheid and the enforced separation from her husband Nelson, imprisoned since 1962 for his political beliefs. (1 hr.) 62 Soul Beat USA Auto Racing Sears Point Shootout (1 hr.) NIC I Spy NSH Crook And Chase CBN 700 Club 2:05 4 Falcon Crest 2:30 2) Maude ESPN Sports Center 62 Oh My Son NSH ACE Nominees A look at the nominees for the Academy of Cable Excellence National Awards.

In stereo. 2:50 (HBO) Movie "Beer" (1985) Loretta Swit, Rip Torn. Madison Avenue takes it on the chin as an ad executive hires three average Joe's for a campaign to pump up the sales of Norbecker Beer. 'R' (1 22 min.) 3:00 (2 Nightwatch ESPN College Basketball AlabamaBirmingham Classic, Championship Game, from Birmingham, Ala. (2 hrs.) Odd Couple 29 Night Moves Both Sides Now MO Movie "Soldier Of Orange" (1979) Rutger Hauer, Jeroen Krabbe.

Six classmates at a Dutch university go their separate ways when war breaks out in Europe. (Subtitled) 'R' (2 45 min.) USA Motoworld NIC Route 66 DIS Movie Henry's Full House" (1952) Marilyn Monroe, Dale Robertson. Five of O'Henry's short stories: "The Clarion Call," "The Last Leaf," "The Ransom Of Red Chief," "The Cops And The Anthem" and "The Gift Of The Magi." (2 hrs.) NSH Money Mania Movie "Kansas Pacific" (1953) Sterling Hayden, Eve Miller. In 1860, a band of Southern rebels attempts to block construction of the Kansas-Pacific Railroad. (1 30 min.) LIF Investment Advisory 3:05 4 Love Boat 3:25 SHO Movie "The Breakfast Club" (1985) Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald.

Five teen-agers converge at an all-day detention session and make strides toward mutual understanding and respect. 'R' (1 37 min.) 3:30 5 Hawaii Five-0 WGN INN News 29 Night Ride ART Musical Interludes Organist Diane Bish performs Rheinberger Concerto in major for Organ and Orchestra. 3:45 MAX Movie Show 4:00 TBS Lucy Show 7 Kelly And Company Featured: Tony Bennett; Paul Begouin, "The Ralph Nader of David Eisenhower. (1 hr.) WGN Movie "The Dark Corner" (1946) Lucille Ball, Mark Stevens. A pretty secretary helps to exonerate her detective boss from suspicion of murder.

(2 hrs.) 56 Living Planet: A Portrait Of The Earth An examination of human influence on the environment, including a survey of the effects of acid rain and the depletion of rain forests. (1 hr.) USA Movie "Silence" (1974) Will Geer, Ellen Geer. A traumatized autistic child runs away into the woods, where he meets up with a hermit who gives him the help he needs. (2 hrs.) NIC Movie "Private Buckaroo" (1942) Andrews Sisters, Joe E. Lewis.

A big-time band stages an Army camp show during wartime. (2 hrs.) LIF Investment Advisory 4:05 4 Guns Of Will Sonnett 4:15 (HBO) Sneak Preview 4:30 5 Happy Days Get Smart 29 Night Walk 62 Discover Australia MAX Movie "The Ballad Of Cable Hogue" (1970) Jason Robards, Stella Stevens. Abandoned by his partners, a wizened old prospector sets up a prosperous way station and plots revenge. 'R' (2 hrs.) CBN Movie "My Outlaw Brother" (1951) Mickey Rooney, Robert Stack. An Easterner discovers that his brother is the leader of a gang of outlaws out West.

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