By BILL HAYDEN
Gannett News Service

Since the demise so many television seasons ago of Rod Serling's "Night Gallery," there's been a
veritable dearth of ghost stories during the network's prime-time hours. And if ever there was a
night that screams out for spooks, ghosties, spirits and phantams to scare, disquiet, shock and generally frighten, it is the eve of All Saints' Day. So after the trick or treaters have gone,
turn down the lights and settle in for a haunting — in all meanings of the word — almost gothic tale of romance, "The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan," CBS, tonight at 8 p.m.

Based on David Williams' novel "Second Sight," this two-hour drama skillfully treads the fragile limits of reality to make the paranormal disturbingly real for the audience. Director Frank de Felitta has avoided the use of special effects to hold viewers' interest, wisely depending on a sustained illusion of multiple realities instead.

Lindsay Wagner, in one of her most convincing acting jobs yet, plays a woman with an unshakeable belief in the triumph of love; even when faced with the infidelity of her husband (played by Alan Feinstein). It is in an attempt to patch up their now-shaky marriage and regain her confidence that Feinstein has purchased a Victorian house in the country they can move to from Manhattan while still being within commuting distance of his job.

Far from easing Wagner's hurt and confusion, the new setting seems to Feinstein to be adding to
her anxiety over the meaning of love and devotion. It seems that as she throws herself into restoring the old house, she finds herself drawn more and more to its attic and an exquisite
antique lace gown. Slipping the dress on, she is transported back into a past peopled with the house's earlier inhabitants. In this turn of the century world, she meets a young artist
(Marc Singer), who is broken-hearted over the accidental death of his bride.

When she returns to the present, neither Wagner nor the audience is sure whether she has been
dreaming or actually did travel into time. Feinstein thinks she's imagining the whole affair to get back at him for his marital infidelity.

Wagner, however, is convinced the events are happening. Soon, she's spending more and more time
with Singer. In researching the house's history, she learns that he was murdered 80 years earlier. She embarks on a desperate race with fate to save her true love's life, returning
once more to the past in an attempt to prevent his eventual death.