John Shea (10/89 Do You Know the Muffin Man)
Excerpt from Ellensburg Daily Record 10/21/89: John Shea | Do You Know the Muffin Man?
Dawber and Shea lend weight to abuse saga
by Robert DiMatteo
The deeply troubling subject of child abuse is addressed with forthrightly in the made-for-TV movie Do You Know the Muffin Man? (CBS, Oct. 22). John Shea and Pam Dawber star as police officer Roger Dollison and his wife, Kendra, who unexpectedly discover that their son Teddy (Brian Bonsall) and other children who attend the neighborhood day care center have been victims of sexual abuse.
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Excerpt from New York Magazine 10/23/89: John Shea
Television: Young and Innocent
John Leonard
Do You Know the Muffin Man? (Sunday, October 22; 9 to 11 p.m.; CBS) doesn't avert its head. You will not have seen on network television-not even in the TV movie version a couple of seasons ago of Kellerman's When the Bough Breaks--so many children so vilely used, so numbed and inward, so trapped in shame, disbelieved by so many adults, tormented by their peers, ridiculed on cross-examination by a defense attorney.
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John Shea plays Roger Dollison, a cop who seeks hard evidence to put away the creatures--old friends, he thought--who raped his four-year-old son. Pam Dawber is his wife, Kendra, mother of Teddy (Brian Bonsall) and Sancy (Stephen Dorff).
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