Picks and Pans Review: A Last Cry for Help

UPDATED 01/22/1979 at 01:00 AM EST • Originally published 01/22/1979 at 01:00 AM EST

ABC (9 p.m. ET)

Linda (Young Pioneers) Purl is convincing as a self-destructive girl in this harrowing look at teenage suicide. Not bubbly for once, Shirley Jones plays the imperceptive mother, and the now ubiquitous Tony Lo Bianco is good as a psychiatrist.

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