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Movie: "Stolen Babies" ★★★. Mary Tyler Moore is outstanding in a decidedly change-of-pace role as sinister Tennessee-orphanage manager Georgia Tann in this fact-based 1993 TV-drama, which originally aired on cable. Lea Thompson ("Back to the Future") plays crusading social worker Annie Beales, who investigates Tann's suspicious practices.—8 PM ●3/28/94

Series Debut. Debut: Mary Tyler Moore returns to series TV as the prickly editor in chief of a Big Apple tabloid. It's the kind of newspaper that, co-executive producer Kim Moses says, "always tells the truth, [but] just screams it a little bit louder." The ensemble drama casts Moore as Louise Felcott, who rides herd on a scrappy New York Reporter staff that includes managing editor Mitch Cotter (Joe Morton), columnist Jack Reilly (Gregory Harrison), reporter Angela Villanova (Melinda Kankaredea) and gossip doyenne Nan Chase (Madeline Kahn). In the first edition, Reilly smokes out an insurance scam involving the fire department. Amato: Anthony DeSando. (1:00)