TV & VIDEO - Aug. 16, 1988

Documentary maker Judy Chaikin has just reached an agreement with Warner Bros. TV to tell the story of blacklisted Hollywood writer Michael Wilson in a made-for-TV movie. No network has bought the unfinished project, however. The deal grew out of Chaikin’s much acclaimed documentary about the entertainment industry’s Communist scare of the 1950s, “Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist.” Wilson, a writer who worked on such classics as “Bridge on the River Kwai” and “Lawrence of Arabia” but who remained uncredited and disgraced was forced to live in exile in Europe. The documentary, which premiered last fall, is being repeated by KCET-TV (Channel 28) on Wednesday at 4 p.m.