Picks and Pans Review: Small and Frye

UPDATED 03/07/1983 at 01:00 AM EST • Originally published 03/07/1983 at 01:00 AM EST

CBS (8:30-9 p.m. ET)

Lily Tomlin's The Incredible Shrinking Woman may have inspired this comedy series, though there is very little about it that seems inspired at all. Darren McGavin stars as a Sam Spade-type detective whose partner (Jack Blessing) dwindles to a mere 6 inches in height following a laboratory accident. (Premiere)