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Narrated by Eddie Albert. AFTERNOON 4:30 HBO AMERICAN BODYBUILD ING CHAMPIONSHIPS Highlights of the popular and very muscular “Mr. America” contest feature a competition between female bodybuilders and a mixed pairs flexing exhi bition. EVENING 8:00 G 09 CD NFL FOOTBALL New England Patriots at Houston Oilers 11:00© WRESTLING 11:35 0 © COLLEGE FOOTBALL '80 Weekly highlights of key contests scheduled during the 1980 NCAA season are pre sented. 12:35© COLLEGE FOOTBALL ’80 Weekly highlights of key con tests scheduled during the 1980 NCAA season are pre sented. AFTERNOON 3:00© ★★★★ “Barefoot In The Park" (1967) Robert Redford, Jane Fonda. Problems arise when an extroverted young bride tries to settle into her law yer husband’s conservative life style. EVENING 7:00O © ★★★ “The Champ” (1979) Jon Voight, Faye Duna way. A down-and-out boxer attempts a comeback when his estranged, wealthy wife chal lenges him for custody of their young son. 7:30 HBO “Yanks” (1979) Richard Gere, Vanessa Redgrave, Wil liam Devane. Several American soldiers become involved in romantic affairs while stationed in England during World War II. (R-2 hrs., 18 min.) 8:00 GO© ★★Vz “Ice Castles” (1979) Lynn-Holly Johnson, Robby Benson. A promising young figure skater and her boyfriend find sudden success hard to cope with when she is chosen to train for pre-Olympic competition. © ★ ★★ “Having Babies” (1976) Desi Arnaz Jr., Adrienne Barbeau. Four diverse couples decide to enroll in natural child birth classes. 10:00 HBO “Lawrence Of Arabia” (1962) Peter O’Toole, Alec Guinness. A member of the British general staff leads the Arabs in a revolt against the Turks, resulting in the birth of the Arabian kingdom. (G-3 hrs., 26 min.) 11:00 0 ★★★ “God Is My Co- Pilot” (1945) Dennis Morgan, Dane Clark. Col. Robert E. Scott has action-packed adventures while flying with Claire Chennault during World War II. Hollywood pair reunited United Press International HOLLYWOOD — For the first time in 46 years, Janet Gaynor and her former leading man, Lew Ayres, will be reunited on fitm — for an episode of “Love Boat.” Gaynor and Ayres starred as ro mantic couples in the original “State Fair” and “The Servant’s Entr ance.” United Press International NEW YORK — The guard isn’t brutal — just candid. “This is a room for the night,” he tells a new inmate—frightened and barely out of his teens — as he slams the cell door for the manda tory 15-hour lockup in isolation at Scully State Prison. "Prison is when they unlock it.” That’s the opening scene of “Scared Straight” — the CBS spe cial movie slated for airing tonight (Nov. 6) — and prime time televi sion may never be the same. The film, by producer Arnold Shapiro who created the original documentary about a group of crime-bound teen-agers taken to a New Jersey prison for a look at pris on life as it really is, may be the most powerful drama ever to hit the tube. Certainly it will be the most controv ersial. The young inmate of the opening scene isn’t around for long. Repe atedly gang-raped by inmates who trade him back and forth for cigaret tes, he hangs himself and sets the plot in motion. A group of hardened prisoners, shocked in spite of themselves at the senseless death, go to the war den and plead for a program in which they literally can scare cocky, street-smart juvenile delinquents into going straight. What follows is a gut-wrenching look into the lives of prison-bound kids and their families and into a prison system that brutalizes, de humanizes and kills the very souls of those who are sent there. Homosexual rape is rampant be cause it is rampant in prison, but it’s never before been so thoroughly explored on the television screen. Some wiH complain that such subject matter has no place on tele vision, but daily headlines prove that its cause certainly has a grow ing place in the street and “Scared Straight” is vitally important to any one who cares about that fact. “It’s not science fiction,” Shapiro said from his Los Angeles office. “It’s real. The prisoners do every thing possible to indicate to the kids that they are not heroes — that they’re losers, that if they were so smart they wouldn’t be in prison. “There are no tough guys in pris on. Everything from Jimmy Cagney movies on has promoted that idea — but in this program the prisoners present an image so despicable as to end that idea — to open kids’ eyes and make them think.” Kids aren’t the only ones made to think, because “Scared Straight” is no ordinary prison movie. One touch of stereotype would have ruined it. That Shapiro and script writer T.S. Young — of “China Syn drome” credit — could keep such dark brutality so artistically pure is something of a cinematic miracle. Stan Shaw is incandescent in his role as the prime mover in the prog ram, a massive black convict who wipes the smirk off the face of one youngster brought to confront him with the message, “You think you’re bad? You are looking at 190 pounds of murder—and you’re in my house now.” "Masterpiece” isn’t a word often used in connection with television movies, but it fits “Scared Straight” in the truest sense of its meaning. For Shapiro, it’s more than just another acclaimed film credit. It’s almost a crusade. "I see the main purpose of the film’s achievement as beginning di alogues — be they between war dens and convicts, teachers and students or parents and kids,” he said. “With communication, you usually have progress. If this film results in even one prison program getting started, we couldn’t even measure the good it would do. “If it induces one kid into turning around or dropping out of the gang. You can’t walk in a prison for three hours and come away the way you were when you went in. It’s just not possible.” The same thing heartily can be said about viewing the film.