Picks and Pans Review: The Adventures of Pollyanna

UPDATED 04/12/1982 at 01:00 AM EST • Originally published 04/12/1982 at 01:00 AM EST

CBS (8-9 p.m. ET)

English actress Patsy Kensit is the adolescent optimist and Shirley Jones the prim aunt she begins to unstarch in a first-rate Disney children's TV film based on the characters in Eleanor H. Porter's classic book. Hayley Mills and Jane Wyman played the roles in Disney's 1960 original.