Picks and Pans Review: Act of Love

UPDATED 09/29/1980 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 09/29/1980 at 01:00 AM EDT

NBC (9-11 p.m. ET)

Ron Howard breaks out of Happy Days as a young man who kills a brother paralyzed in an auto accident. But what could have been riveting drama, based on a real 1973 mercy killing in New Jersey, becomes pretentious philosophizing.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25