Tour de Spacey Television 2
Kevin Does Television

After "Wiseguy", there was no stopping Kevin. After a small appearance on "Crime Story" in 1987, he began working on a TV miniseries which aired in 1988. It is considered one of his best television roles.

Two years later, he co-starred in a MFTV movie as a social worker who helps a teen-age boy deal with more than just his illness.

The Murder of Mary Phagan

In 1988, this miniseries aired as a true story. In Atlanta in 1913, a 13-year-old girl is murdered in the clothing manufacturing plant where she works. The factory manager, a Jewish man named Leo Frank (Peter Gallagher), is convicted and sentenced to hang. Georgia Governor John Slaton (Jason Robards) suspects that Frank may have been railroaded by public desire for revenge. Kevin is a local psychiatrist who, after coming "out of the bottle", helps try to clear his name.

Wes Brent
Wade
When You Remember Me

Two years later in 1990, Kevin was Wade in this fact-based story of Mike Mills, a teen with muscular dystrophy, who is placed in a state nursing home by his destitute single mother. There he must contend with being the only young person in the clinic and with an abusive head nurse. Mike fights for the rights of the patients in the home. Wade is the social worker who helps Mike in his fight for his rights and for his life.

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