Article: The New Heights Of `Twin Peaks'; ABC's Risky Drama Series

We're not in Kansas any more. We don't even seem to be in Los Angeles. We're in Twin Peaks, a mythical Northwestern city of about 50,000 population where mists rise eerily from forests primeval and bad boys thrown into jail howl like wolves in the night.

"Twin Peaks," the television show, is not on any network's fall schedule. But ABC has ordered seven episodes of this rather unprecedented serialized drama and will probably air the show's two-hour pilot sometime between now and January. In terms of provocative novelty, "Twin Peaks" easily out-dazzles all the new network shows that will be premiering over the next few weeks.

The cold-but-alluring oddness of it can be traced directly to ...

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