Picks and Pans Review: My Body, My Child

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

ABC (9-11 p.m. ET)

Oscar and Emmy winner Vanessa Redgrave is wasted as a shrill housewife who may be pregnant with a deformed child in a cliché-ridden, poorly directed melodrama about abortion. There's a great sense of relief when she makes her decision—mostly because she finally shuts up.