Picks and Pans Review: Friendly Fire

UPDATED 10/20/1980 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 10/20/1980 at 01:00 AM EDT

ABC (8-11 p.m. ET)

Carol Burnett and Ned Beatty were stunning in one of last year's best TV movies as the embittered Midwestern parents of a Gl killed by a U.S. artillery round in Vietnam. Sam Waterston carefully underplays the journalist investigating their situation in the Emmy award-winning drama based on C.D.B. Bryan's 1976 book. (Repeat)