TV SHOWS CENTERING ON A DISABLED CHARACTER
Across
- 6. girl with paralyzed brother starts talking with God as he appears to her as different people
- 8. about the working relationship between Assistant District Attorney Tess Kaufman (Marlee Matlin), a prosecutor very sensitive to the rights of the accused, and gruff, hard-nosed Det. Dicky Cobb, an old-school "bust-the-punks" cop. These two are assigned together bec. Cobb knows sign language, & Tess is deaf
- 9. federal undercover agt. has paraplegic contact who provides a communication link to the agent's handler.
- 10. loosely based on actual experience of Sue Thomas, a deaf woman whose lip-reading skille landed her a job with an elite surveillance team at the FBI
Down
- 1. show with once=feared head of a Mexican meth cartel now mute & wheelchair bound due to a stroke induced by his hated rival
- 2. SF police chief is shot & paralyzed; wheelchair bound, forced to retire, he is hired by SFPD as a consultant with an investigative team of his own choosing
- 3. comedy about the family of a teenager with cerebral palsy as the central focus
- 4. comedy of middle-aged woman in AA who has a paraplegic ex-stuntman whom she eventually marries
- 5. man blinded by toxic waste which also enhanced his remaining senses becomes a costumed acrobatic martial arts crime fighter
- 7. inj 1820s CA the son of a wealthy family must assume a masked identity to defeat the corrupt Spanish gov't; his deaf & dumb manservant, confidant & accomplice, he is the only one aware of his master's 2 identities