TV & VIDEO - Dec. 2, 1988

Lorimar said this week that it will make no more changes in its controversial “Midnight Caller” episode focusing on AIDS. But AIDS organizations say the NBC show, which airs Dec. 13, still sends out a damaging message. At a press conference in San Francisco Thursday, Pat Christen, director of public policy for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, said the “producers failed to address our most significant concerns and objections about the script.” But Lorimar defended the episode, noting that it no longer depicts a bisexual man recklessly spreading the disease. Instead, the producers said, the man is portrayed as someone who refuses to accept the fact that he has the disease, and therefore will not change his promiscuous ways.