In "The Stand," Stephen King designs a post-apocalyptic confrontation between good and evil. ABC leaps into May sweeps with an ambitious, eight-hour visualization of King's expansive 1978 novel, scripted by the author. While it's no "V," it's not bad; the mini probably would have played better at six hours but should sustain the interest of King fans, who number in the millions, and may pick up some non-King followers.

It takes patience to survive Stephen King's occasionally creepy miniseries on ABC.

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"I was lost in the corn, then I heard the geetar," said Stu in Stephen King's the Stand (BBC1). Couldn't have put it better myself Stu, though other critical foodstuffs come to mind, too - baloney, old cod, or even a dog's dinner. Stu has survived the bio-engineered superflu ravaging America and in his dreams has found his way to Mother Abigail's homestead, a sort of psychic rendezvous for the forces of good. The rival attraction, playing in the night-time cinemas of those with lower moral fibre, is the Dark Man, a satanic figure with a taste for blue denim and glow-in-the-dark contact lenses.

Clipping found in Daily News published in New York, New York on 5/8/1994. THE STAND 1994

STEPHEN KING'S THE STAND" DOESN'T offer much insight into the epic struggle of good and evil, but it does answer lesser questions like, What ever happened to Molly Ringwald?

We turn to Calvin Klein for jeans, John Deere for tractors, Miss Manners for etiquette, Jimmy Dean for sausage . . . and Stephen King for terror.Judged by that standard, King fails to deliver with The Stand, a miniseries version of his best-selling novel debuting tonight at 9 on ABC (WFTV-Channel 9) and continuing at […]