Once, when we were restless here at the SCANNER compound, we rented a 
bus and went en masse into New York to see the musical "Cats," which 
featured a bunch of actors running around in KISS makeup.

Afterward, we scratched our heads mightily.

"What's the big deal?" we asked ourselves.  "Why has this show become 
the world's longest-running musical?  If Andrew Lloyd Webber was 
going to make a musical from poems by T.S. Eliot, why didn't he do 
'The Waste Land on Broadway'?"

But what do we know?

"Cats" is the world's most popular musical.  And this week comes 
another hallmark:  The first "Cats" film, supervised by Andrew Lloyd 
Webber himself, and its debut on television, Monday evening on 
Channel 13.  On the next page, drama writer Peter Filichia has the 
story, including an interview with Elaine Page, one of the original 
stars of the musical.

Before we go, be award that the results of "That '70s Quiz" can be 
found in Sunday's Spotlight section.

Yours in TV,
STEVE HEDGPETH