WASHINGTON - In the first scene of 'Scruples' (repeating on CBS tonight and tomorrow night from 8 to 11), Lindsay Wagner, as Billy, goes aloft in a helicopter with a silver treasure box containing her husband's ashes.

"Goodbye, darling," she says, listlessly, pouring the ashes out of a window as she flies over their vast oceanside estate.

Should you sign up for two nights of 'Scruples,' a schlock novel by Judith Krantz made into a schlock miniseries?

You should be wary of a cast led by the Bionic Woman. Aside from an undeniable talent for wearing slit skirts and upper thigh-high bathing suits, Lindsay Wagner walks through her role as owner of Scruples, a posh Rodeo Drive boutique in Beverly Hills. As a woman supposedly governed by her appetites, Wagner is at the least innapropriate -- to flog your somnolent senses.

Seconds after Billy has disposed of the ashes, she's in bed with her helicopter chauffeur, toasting her departed husband with champagne. He would "applaud" her undiminished spark, she says.

'Scruples' is one tease after another.

The scene abrubtly shifts with the toast. Unlike the book, there are no love scenes -- graphic or otherwise.

Judy Flander