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From: The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Date: 20021004
Author:MIKE DUFFY, KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS

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New spin on old family affairs By MIKE DUFFY, KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS Date: 10-04-2002, Friday Section: GO! Edtion: All Editions.=.Two Star B. Two Star P. One Star B

"The Forsyte Saga," 9 p.m. Sunday, WNET/Channel 13

The best new family drama on television this fall?

It's a smashing 21st century version of a fabulous 19th century story, "The Forsyte Saga," novelist John Galsworthy's classic British tale of a powerful Victorian family that has all the positive character traits - arrogance and vanity being chief among them.

And let's not forget ...

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