Picks and Pans Review: The Home Front

UPDATED 10/13/1980 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 10/13/1980 at 01:00 AM EDT

CBS (10-11 p.m. ET)

The wartime '40s are not so much memorialized as trivialized in this understandably unsold pilot. Jean Simmons, Craig Stevens and Dane Witherspoon are among those trying to keep their upper lips stiff in a plot about stateside sacrifices that moves as subtly as a Sherman tank.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11