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FOCUS ON FANTASY AND NIGHTMARES

February 8, 1986

"Time Flyer," airing at 7 p.m. on Channels 7, 3, 10 and 42, is the second installment of ABC's "The Disney Sunday Movie," and it is far more worthy of the Disney moniker than was the premiere, "Help Wanted: Kids," in terms of being pleasurable family entertainment.

Originally shown on Disney's pay TV channel under the title "The Blue Yonder," "Time Flyer" concerns an 11-year-old boy (Huckleberry Fox) who has his head in the clouds, dreaming of flying and of his grandfather, who was killed trying to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1927.

Wholesome fantasy is replaced by painful reality in "Child's Cry," the CBS movie Sunday at 9 p.m. (Channels 2 and 8). The story by Jonathan B. Rintels Jr. and Norman Strum cleverly employs the framework of a courtroom mystery, but not for the typical murder story. They're dealing instead with child abuse.

LEE MARGULIES







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