TV2: AT SUNDAY REPUBLICAN, Prime time Get out 3-Ds 'Brotherhood TODAY "Super Bowl XXIII" (5 p.m., NBC) is telecast live from Miami's Joe Robbie Stadium, as the AFC champion Cincinnati Bengals take on the NFC champion (and vored) San Francisco 49ers. Their previous Super Bowl matchup in 1982 (San Francisco 26, Cincinnati 21) was the highest-rated ever. Dick Enberg does the play-byplay, Merlin Olsen the analysis; also on NBC's team for pre-game (3 p.m.) and post-game shows are Ahmad Rashad, Paul Maguire, Gayle Gardner and Miami Dol-' phins head coach Don Shula. For non-football fans, the show comes alive at half-time with the first national 3D telecast. The NFL has produced a 12-minute show (filled with "music and magic," according to NBC Sports executive producer Michael Weisman) designed to be watched with special 3D glasses (about 20 million of which are being distributed by Coca-Cola, having been originally made for the 3D "Moonlighting" episode that was killed by.
last year's writers' strike); a 45-second 3D Diet co*ke commercial is also included. Weisman is also hyping the pre-game show with a "talent challenge" to showcase NFL players' off-the-field performing skills. Robert Mitchum and Peter Strauss plus David Morse and Connie Sellecca the behind-scenes credits are equally impressive, with Stirling Silliphant Enforcer," "'The Killer as executive producer and Marvin J. Chomsky the as producer-director. Tonight's opening chapter introI duces Strauss and Morse as Saul Grisman and Chris Kilmoonie, respectively, orphans raised as brothers and trained as intelligence agents by their surrogate father, CIA genius John Eliot (Mitchum).
When both become assassination targets, they deduce that Eliot is behind the plot and seek out Saul's ex-lover, Israeli Mossad agent Erika Bernstein (Sellecca), for help. Tomorrow's conclusion (9 p.m.)* involves revelations of Eliot's power games, his retired rival (M. Emmet Walsh) and more kidnappings, ambushes Throughout the '80s, the net-' work that broadcast the Super Bowl has traditionally used its stratospheric ratings. to launch new series: "The A-Team" and last year's "'The Wonder Years" are among the successful series that began with this platform. NBC departs from the practice to begin a two-night TV-movie called "Brotherhood of the Based on a novel by Rambo creator David Morrell, "Brotherhood" is a complex -hour spy story that stars miniseries veterans Robert Mitchum and Peter picks for of GAgE 'Super Bowl'; Rose' follows TOMORROW Two of public television's most prestigious projects debut tonight: "War and Peace in the Nuclear Age" (8 p.m., most PBS stations) and "Secret Intelligence" (9 p.m., most stations).
Ironically programmed the same night: a repeat of the highest-rated TV-movie of all time, 1983's nuclear-holocaust nightmare "The Day After" (9 p.m., ABC). At a budget of $7.5 million spent over five years, the 13-part documentary "War and Peace" is one of the most expensive and ambitious projects ever tackled by public TV. It traces the development of nuclear weapons, the evolution of nuclear strategy and associated world politics through both histori- GENIUS Scientist, adventurer, charmer, safecracker Richard P. Feynman recounts his adventures, including the search for an obscure Asian country, in "The Last Journey of a Genius," a profile of the 1965 Nobel Prize-winning physicist filmed shortly before his death, on "Nova" Tuesday night at 8 on PBS. cal footage and interviews with key American, Soviet, European and Asian figures involved.
"Secret Intelligence" traces the history of American espionage in four weekly installments hosted by former CBS journalist Bill Kurtis. Again, archival footage is used along with interviews with six former directors of the Central Intelligence Agency, including the late William Casey (his last TV interview). "The Day After" a frightening depiction of the aftermath of a nuclear explosion in Lawrence, Kansas stars Jason Robards, JoBeth Williams, Steve Guttenberg, John Cullum and John Lithgow. Written by Edward Hume, it was highly controversial on its premiere and continues to be pro- vocative: Director Nicholas Meyer has protested the network's excising of 20 minutes from the original cut (the home video version, incidentally, runs even longer). Eight more individuals were inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame on Jan.
8 in ceremonies in Los Angeles: Jack Benny, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Red Skelton, Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, David L. Wolper and David Susskind. The four living recipients (Burns, Skelton, Wolper, Brinkley) attended the black-tie event, being telecast by Fox (8 p.m.). Benny is honored for his "unique comedy personality separate from the generous man he Burns and Allen, for creating "through love and laughter broadcasting's most enduring comic Huntley and Brinkley, for setting "the standard for informative, intelligent and respected broadcast journalism." TUESDAY "Studio 5B" (9 p.m., ABC) takes a page from "Broadcast News," then spins off in a direction of its own. This new series, previewing after the high-rated "Roseanne" before moving to Sundays on Jan.
29, is set in the high-pressure world of morning network television. "Studio 5B" is also the name of the TV program in competition with "Today," "Good Morning America" and "CBS This Morning." Kerrie Keane stars as the cool, elegant and ruthless anchorwoman; George Grizzard the veteran journalist whose career is winding down with the morning drama, big-city yuppies playing power (and sexual) politics in the glamorous world of television. WEDNESDAY vies of last season, yet it finished first in the ratings when telecast last June 27. This ensemble drama about student nurses and hospital administrators is the second medical series this season to be produced by "Dynasty" baron Aaron Spelling is also from his production company). As the series debuts (10 p.m., NBC), the concept has undergone some retooling, but the cast is largely the same: Suzanne Pleshette stars as Chris Broderick, the director of student nurses at Los Angeles' fictional Wilshire Community.
Hospital who moves into Nightingale Hall where the students reside. Barry Newman (remember plays hospital chief of staff Garrett Braden; Susan Walters and Chelsea Field, Fran Bennett and Kristy Swanson also reprise roles from the movie. New to the cast are Kim Ulrich, Roxann Biggs. and Taylor. In this first episode, Walters' charac- "Nightingales" was one of the most critically drubbed TV-mo- 1 LIBERATED Newly widowed Lady Slane (Dame Wendy Hiller) finds she's free to choose her own lifestyle and Mr.
Bucktrout (Maurice Denham, left) and Mr. Fitzgeorge (Harry Andrews) play two new friends she finds in the three-part "All Passions Spent" on "Masterpiece Theater" tonight at 9 on 57. PI ter threatens to pull out of the witness protection program that provided her with a new identity in exchance for testimony against an organized crime figure. THURSDAY NBC was widely criticized last season for spinning off "The Cosby Show's" Lisa Bonet into an ill-conceived college-dorm sitcom called "A Different World." 'Nevertheless, "Cosby" and "World" continue to pack a one-two punch and together remain the single highest-rated hour on TV (at 8 and 8:30 p.m.). Cosby has agreed to return for a sixth season this fall, ensuring NBC's dominance of Thursday programming again; assuming "World" holds its audience and continues to improve in quality, it too should be renewed.
The new factor in the NBC equation is Brandon Tartikoff's announcement last week that CarseyWerner Productions, which. produces "Cosby" and "World" (as well as ABC's hit has been signed to create a new show. FRIDAY The third edition of "People Magazine on TV" (8 p.m., CBS) features a potpourri of celebrity interviews and "real people" stories. Jane Wallace, late of "West 57th," is the host for this special. Bette Midler talks about her rise to movie stardom and her latest film "Beaches," which she coproduced; Leslie Nielsen is profiled with a special eye toward his abrupt career shift from serious to comedic roles, notably with the recent release "The Naked and 72 Market Street, which doubles as a Los Angeles address and the name of the restaurant located there, is the subject of a report.
Liza Minnelli and Dudley Moore (who starred in two "Arthur" movies together) are among the coowners. Among the other stories: Len Sims, chief criminal investigator for the U.S. Bureau of Land Man-' agement in Nevada, attempting to save wild mustangs from massacre; the gold-mining Richardson family being evicted from their wilderness home in northern California's Klamath National Forest; and mothers who have left home and adopted new identities to save their children from abuse by spouses. SATURDAY "Spenser: For Hire" may be gone, but the character of Hawk lives on in the new series "A Man Called Hawk" (9 p.m., ABC), which network officials are claiming is the first TV series to be filmed on location in Washington, D.C., Avery Brooks re-creates his role (originally from the mind of "Spenser" writer Robert B. Parker) as the mysterious character who often aided Spenser in Boston.
For- this one-hour drama, Hawk returns to his hometown of Washington and, says a studio spokesman, "continues to be a man of mystery, for hire to whomever needs him as long as the job does not cross over his own line of 1 A.
