The Hours, starring Geena Davis, Melina Kanakaredes, and Kim Delaney, Saturdays at 9 on ABC
Geena Davis stars as Clarissa Vaughan, a harried New York publishing executive looking to pick up the pieces of her life after the death of a beloved friend. Meanwhile, in the 1950s, Laura Brown (Kim Delaney) contemplates suicide, and what the years ahead may hold for her. And, in 1929, famed author Virginia Woolf (Melina Kanakaredes) stands at the side of a river, considering whether to step into the waters and disappear forever. Then, zap! -- a freak electrical storm hits during all three eras. Each woman is struck by an errant bolt of lightning -- thus uniting them in heaven, under the tutelage of a renegade angel named Hap (Joe Pantoliano). Hap explains the trio's new mission: to travel through time together offering comfort to emotionally stunted women in various eras. In the pilot, Virginia befriends a high-school teacher (Nancy McKeon) in 1970s California -- and convinces her to leave her abusive husband (Tom Berenger) by reading her sections from To The Lighthouse. Meanwhile, Laura and Clarissa lay a trap for the teacher's lascivious boss: a swinging high-school principal (Jeffrey Tambor) who won't take no for an answer. Posing as a lesbian couple, Laura and Clarissa lure the principal to a motel for a promised rendezvous. He slides into the bed in the darkened room, only to find a room full of shocked schoolboard trustees, revealed when Hap "zaps" the lights on! Next stop: ancient Rome, where the trio offers counsel to a washerwoman (Kathy Baker) who's spending so much time helping a blind merchant that she's unable -- or unwilling -- to live a life of her own.
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