Picks and Pans Review: The Marva Collins Story

UPDATED 11/30/1981 at 01:00 AM EST • Originally published 11/30/1981 at 01:00 AM EST

CBS (9-11 p.m. ET)

Cicely Tyson is brilliant in the true story of a remarkable Chicago teacher (subject of a 1978 PEOPLE story) who bucked the odds to start her own school and now turns "unteachable" ghetto kids into dazzling whizzes at reading, writing and arithmetic.